Papers by Zhiyu Xie
TwiUSD: A Benchmark Dataset and Structure-Aware LLM Framework for User Stance Detection (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for political user-level stance detection rely on noisy heuristics or distant supervision. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale, expert-annotated benchmark for political user-level stance detection with explicit social network structure that integrates user content and followee signals. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines in terms of quality and reliability. |
MT-Video-Bench: A Holistic Video Understanding Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Turn Dialogues (2026.findings-acl)
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Yaning Pan, Qianqian Xie, Guohui Zhang, Zekun Moore Wang, Yongqian Wen, Yuanxing Zhang, Haoxuan Hu, Zhiyu Pan, Yibing Huang, Zhidong Gan, Yonghong Lin, An Ping, Shihao Li, Yanghai Wang, Tianhao Peng, Jiaheng Liu
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation benchmarks for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) focus on single-turn question answering, overlooking the complexity of multi-turn dialogues in real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a video understanding benchmark for MLLMs in multi-turn dialogues that assesses six core competencies that focus on perceptivity and interactivity. |
| Outcome: | The MT-Video-Bench evaluates 1,000 multi-turn dialogues from diverse domains and reveals significant performance discrepancies and limitations in handling multi-turned video dialogues. |
AMPERE: AMR-Aware Prefix for Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction Model (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing generation-based EAE models focus on problem re-formulation and prompt design without incorporating additional information that has been shown to be effective for classification-based models. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate AMR into generation-based EAE models by generating AMR-aware prefixes for every layer of the generation model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates AMR-aware prefixes for every layer of the generation model and improves the generation. |
LLM-Based Dialogue Labeling for Multiturn Adaptive RAG (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Zhiyu Chen, Biancen Xie, Sidarth Srinivasan, Manikandarajan Ramanathan, Rajashekar Maragoud, Qun Liu
| Challenge: | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models integrate large language models with external knowledge retrieval . however, building multi-turn RAG-based chatbots for real-world customer service requires additional complexities. |
| Approach: | They propose methods to automatically generate labels for adaptive retrieval components using real customer-agent dialogue data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates labels for components using real customer-agent dialogue data. |
TextEE: Benchmark, Reevaluation, Reflections, and Future Challenges in Event Extraction (2024.findings-acl)
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Kuan-Hao Huang, I-Hung Hsu, Tanmay Parekh, Zhiyu Xie, Zixuan Zhang, Prem Natarajan, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng, Heng Ji
| Challenge: | Recent studies suggest that event extraction evaluations may not accurately reflect the true performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a standardized, fair, and reproducible benchmark for event extraction . they use standardized scripts and splits for 16 datasets spanning eight domains . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that they struggle to achieve satisfactory performance. |
Manual Evaluation Matters: Reviewing Test Protocols of Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (2021.findings-acl)
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Tianyu Gao, Xu Han, Yuzhuo Bai, Keyue Qiu, Zhiyu Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou
| Challenge: | Distantly supervised relation extraction (RE) has attracted much attention in the past few years . previous methods to evaluate models manually or directly on autolabeled data have produced inaccurate evaluations . |
| Approach: | They propose to use distant supervision to generate large-scale autolabeled data . they build manually-annotated test sets for two DS-RE datasets and evaluate models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method produces 53% wrong labels at the entity pair level in the popular NYT10 dataset. |