Papers by Xiang Long

7 papers
VerilogLAVD: LLM-Aided Pattern Generation for Verilog CWE Detection (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing static analysis tools focus on functional correctness and depend heavily on manual rules.
Approach: They propose a framework that generates executable Traversal Detection Patterns (TDPs) to help detect hardware vulnerabilities.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves the F1 score by 133% compared to LLM-based methods.
Ciron: a New Benchmark Dataset for Chinese Irony Detection (2020.lrec-1)

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Challenge: Automatic Chinese irony detection often lacks labeled benchmark datasets . despite its pervasive nature, irony is a trope whose actual meaning differs from what is literally enunciated.
Approach: They propose to use a Chinese benchmark dataset for automatic Chinese irony detection to provide a benchmark for machine learning models.
Outcome: The proposed dataset includes more than 8.7K posts, collected from Weibo, a micro blogging platform.
Automated Peer Reviewing in Paper SEA: Standardization, Evaluation, and Analysis (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to review scientific papers are limited by their content or quality . SEA is a framework for automated scientific review, but its contents are generic or partial.
Approach: They propose a framework for automated scientific review using large language models . they propose to use a standardized review dataset to fine-tune an LLM to generate high-quality reviews.
Outcome: The proposed framework can generate high-quality reviews from standardized datasets and improves on the existing feedback mechanisms.
UCS: Estimating Unseen Coverage for Improved In-Context Learning (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing selection methods prioritize heuristic notions of relevance or diversity and provide limited insight into the coverage of a demonstration set.
Approach: They propose a training-free, subset-level coverage prior that is unrevealed by a model-consistent embedding and a Smoothed Good-Turing estimator to estimate the number of unrevelled clusters within a candidate subset.
Outcome: Experiments on multiple intent-classification and reasoning benchmarks show that augmenting strong baselines with UCS improves ICL accuracy by 2-6% under the same selection budget.
Affection Driven Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis (2020.lrec-1)

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Challenge: Existing deep neural network models lack mechanisms to highlight important sentiment terms.
Approach: They propose a method to incorporate affective knowledge into deep neural network models by mapping affective influence vectors to an affective impact value and integrating them into long-term memory models to highlight affective terms.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves on three large datasets by 1.0% to 1.5% on the benchmark datasets.
Low Resource Style Transfer via Domain Adaptive Meta Learning (2022.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing unsupervised text style transfer methods suffer from performance degradation when fine-tuning the model in new domains.
Approach: They propose a domain adaptive meta-learning approach with an adversarial style training approach for better content preservation and style transfer.
Outcome: The proposed approach generalizes well on unseen low-resource domains against ten strong baselines.
FormNetV2: Multimodal Graph Contrastive Learning for Form Document Information Extraction (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches that extend the mask language modeling to other modalities require careful multi-task tuning, complex reconstruction target designs, or additional pre-training data.
Approach: They propose a centralized multimodal graph contrastive learning strategy to unify self-supervised pre-training for all modalities in one loss.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on FUNSD, CORD, SROIE and Payment benchmarks with a more compact model size.

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