Papers by Zhiqing Cui
ReflectDiffu: Reflect between Emotion-intent Contagion and Mimicry for Empathetic Response Generation via a RL-Diffusion Framework (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for empathetic dialogue generation neglect the intricate interplay between emotion and intent, leading to suboptimal controllability of empathy. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates emotion contagion and intent mimicry to enhance empathetic response generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models in relevance, controllability, and informativeness. |
Augur: Modeling Covariate Causal Associations in Time Series via Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising avenue for time series forecasting . existing approaches face limitations such as marginalized role in model architectures and lack of interpretability. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that exploits LLM causal reasoning to discover and use directed causal associations among covariates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves predictive accuracy while yielding transparent, traceable reasoning about variable interactions. |