Papers by Yuxuan Xiong
Neural Topic Modeling with Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Training (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances on deep generative models have attracted significant interest in neural topic modeling. |
| Approach: | They propose an adversarial-neural topic model which uses Dirichlet prior to capture the semantic patterns in latent topics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform competing models on unsupervised/supervised topic modeling and text classification. |
SocialEval: Evaluating Social Intelligence of Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Jinfeng Zhou, Yuxuan Chen, Yihan Shi, Xuanming Zhang, Leqi Lei, Yi Feng, Zexuan Xiong, Miao Yan, Xunzhi Wang, Yaru Cao, Jianing Yin, Shuai Wang, Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang
| Challenge: | Existing work on LLMs does not address their social intelligence (SI) and their discrepancy with humans. |
| Approach: | They propose a script-based bilingual SI benchmark that integrates outcome-oriented goal achievement evaluation and process-oriented interpersonal ability evaluation by manually crafting narrative scripts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on a script-based bilingual evaluation paradigm that integrates outcome- and process-oriented evaluation by manually crafting narrative scripts. |
LLM Sensitivity Evaluation Framework for Clinical Diagnosis (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on the sensitivity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to irrelevant contexts neglect the importance of key information. |
| Approach: | They investigate the sensitivity of large language models to key medical information by introducing different perturbation strategies to investigate their sensitivity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are based on three LLMs, namely GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude3 and LLaMA2-7b, and demonstrate their reliability and sensitivity to medical information. |
WebSRC: A Dataset for Web-Based Structural Reading Comprehension (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Using a web page and a question, a machine can't understand the contents of web pages. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel dataset for web-based structural reading comprehension that consists of 400K question-answer pairs and a dataset of 6.4K web pages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset consists of 400K question-answer pairs, collected from 6.4K web pages with corresponding HTML source code, screenshots, and metadata. |
Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation (2026.acl-long)
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Hengyuan Zhang, Shiping Yang, Xiao Liang, Chenming Shang, Yuxuan Jiang, Chaofan Tao, Jing Xiong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Ruobing Xie, Angel X. Chang, Ngai Wong
| Challenge: | Existing studies show that stronger models are not always optimal teachers, suggesting a mismatch between the teacher’s output and the student’s learning ability. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that routes each prompt to its optimal teacher via a query-level router that jointly considers the student models’ learnability and teacher models’ response quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines on six benchmarks including instruct tuning and math reasoning settings. |
Neural Topic Modeling with Bidirectional Adversarial Training (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that neural topic models for automatic topic extraction avoid complicated mathematical derivations for model inference. |
| Approach: | They propose a bidirectional adversarial topic model which uses a generator and an encoder to infer topic distribution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines and competitive models in three benchmark corpora. |