Papers by Zhimin Tao
Active Domain Knowledge Acquisition with 100-Dollar Budget: Enhancing LLMs via Cost-Efficient, Expert-Involved Interaction in Sensitive Domains (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive level of general knowledge, but often struggle in highly specialized domains due to the lack of expert knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to actively engage domain experts within a fixed budget to enhance domain-specific LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves LLMs in highly specialized domains while adhering to budget constraints. |
Visual Interrogation of Attention-Based Models for Natural Language Inference and Machine Comprehension (D18-2)
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| Challenge: | Neural networks models have gained popularity due to their state-of-the-art performance but lack of interpretability hinders their deployment and refinement. |
| Approach: | They propose a visual analytic library that provides a user with a customizable visual anallytic environment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed visualization library provides an interactive environment in which the user can investigate and interrogate the relationships between input, model internals and output predictions. |
"Excuse me, may I say something..." CoLabScience, A Proactive AI Assistant for Biomedical Discovery and LLM-Expert Collaborations (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language models (LLMs) are reactive and respond only when prompted, limiting their effectiveness in collaborative settings. |
| Approach: | They introduce a proactive LLM assistant designed to enhance biomedical collaboration between AI systems and human experts through timely, context-aware interventions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines in intervention precision and collaborative task utility, highlighting the potential of proactive LLMs as intelligent scientific assistants. |