Papers by Yuxi Ma
SHARP: Unlocking Interactive Hallucination via Stance Transfer in Role-Playing LLMs (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on social interactions neglect hallucination while struggling with poor generalizability and implicit character fidelity judgments. |
| Approach: | They propose a generalizable and explicit paradigm for uncovering interactive patterns of Large Language Models across diverse worldviews by defining interactive hallucination through stance transfer and SHARP, a benchmark built by extracting relations from commonsense knowledge graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm is generalizable and explicit and demonstrates its effectiveness and stability. |
FACT-E: Causality-Inspired Evaluation for Trustworthy Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models generate explanations that appear coherent while containing unfaithful intermediate steps. |
| Approach: | They propose a causality-inspired framework for evaluating CoT quality using controlled perturbations as an instrumental signal to separate genuine step-to-step dependence from bias-driven artifacts. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on GSM8K, MATH, and CommonsenseQA show that FACT-E improves reasoning-trajectory selection and yields stronger in-context learning exemplars. |
PersLEARN: Research Training through the Lens of Perspective Cultivation (2023.acl-demo)
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Yu-Zhe Shi, Shiqian Li, Xinyi Niu, Qiao Xu, Jiawen Liu, Yifan Xu, Shiyu Gu, Bingru He, Xinyang Li, Xinyu Zhao, Zijian Zhao, Yidong Lyu, Zhen Li, Sijia Liu, Lin Qiu, Jinhao Ji, Lecheng Ruan, Yuxi Ma, Wenjuan Han, Yixin Zhu
| Challenge: | PersLEARN is a tool designed to facilitate the cultivation of scientific perspectives . junior researchers struggle to identify the perspectives reflected in the literature and struggle to develop their own viewpoints. |
| Approach: | They propose a tool to facilitate the cultivation of scientific perspectives by interacting with a prompt-based model and allowing students to develop their own perspectives explicitly. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool outperforms baseline approaches across multiple domains of literature from different perspectives. |
REFLEX: Self-Refining Explainable Fact-Checking via Verdict-Anchored Style Control (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for automated fact-checking often overlook deceptive misinformation styles in generated explanations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that explicitly controls reasoning style by anchoring explanations to the predicted verdict. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art under LLaMA-series models with 465 samples. |
AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge (2025.acl-long)
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Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Ruiwen Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Yubo Ma, Mingzhe Du, Rui Mao, Anh Tuan Luu, William Yang Wang
| Challenge: | Existing studies solve this challenge by updating benchmarks with newly collected data, but they fail to guarantee contamination-free evaluation as the newly collected knowledge may contain pre-existing knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose an automated anti-leakage benchmarking framework that builds and updates benchmarks without human labor instead of using newly collected data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly reduces the cost of benchmark maintenance to accommodate emerging LLMs. |
CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to reduce hallucinations in large language models are inaccurate and inaccuracies in the generated feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that helps LLMs determine whether to utilize multiple generated feedback responses and how to identify the most useful ones. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments show that the proposed method outperforms baselines on encyclopedic and commonsense knowledge QA tasks. |