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Publications (27)

cs.CL2024

Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs Agent based on Theory of Mind in Guandan: A Multi-Player Cooperative Game under Imperfect Information

Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Tianyu Shi +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown success in handling simple games with imperfect information and enabling multi-agent coordination, but their ability to facilitate practical…

cs.CL2025

XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models

Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim, Hongchuan Zeng +14

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer mental states in others, is pivotal for human social cognition. Existing evaluations of ToM in LLMs are largely limited to English, negle…

cs.CL2025

CritiCal: Can Critique Help LLM Uncertainty or Confidence Calibration?

Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Tianshi Zheng +7

Accurate confidence calibration in Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for safe use in high-stakes domains, where clear verbalized confidence enhances user trust. Traditional…

cs.CL2025

InteGround: On the Evaluation of Verification and Retrieval Planning in Integrative Grounding

Cheng Jiayang, Qianqian Zhuang, Haoran Li +4

Grounding large language models (LLMs) in external knowledge sources is a promising method for faithful prediction. While existing grounding approaches work well for simple queries…

cs.CL2024

Privacy in Large Language Models: Attacks, Defenses and Future Directions

Haoran Li, Yulin Chen, Jinglong Luo +9

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the ability to effectively tackle various downstream NLP tasks and unify these tasks into generative pipe…

cs.CL2024

ECon: On the Detection and Resolution of Evidence Conflicts

Cheng Jiayang, Chunkit Chan, Qianqian Zhuang +7

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has significantly influenced the quality of information in decision-making systems, leading to the prevalence of AI-generated content and c…

cs.CL2024

NegotiationToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind on Negotiation Surrounding

Chunkit Chan, Cheng Jiayang, Yauwai Yim +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked substantial interest and debate concerning their potential emergence of Theory of Mind (ToM) ability. Theory of mind evaluations currently…

cs.CL2023

Lion: Adversarial Distillation of Proprietary Large Language Models

Yuxin Jiang, Chunkit Chan, Mingyang Chen +1

The practice of transferring knowledge from a sophisticated, proprietary large language model (LLM) to a compact, open-source LLM has garnered considerable attention. Previous work…

cs.CL2023

DiscoPrompt: Path Prediction Prompt Tuning for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

Chunkit Chan, Xin Liu, Jiayang Cheng +4

Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition (IDRR) is a sophisticated and challenging task to recognize the discourse relations between the arguments with the absence of discourse conn…

cs.AI2025

DixitWorld: Evaluating Multimodal Abductive Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Multi-Agent Dixit Gameplay

Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Qing Zong +6

Multimodal abductive reasoning--the generation and selection of explanatory hypotheses from partial observations--is a cornerstone of intelligence. Current evaluations of this abil…

cs.CL2025

Towards Agentic RAG with Deep Reasoning: A Survey of RAG-Reasoning Systems in LLMs

Yangning Li, Weizhi Zhang, Yuyao Yang +17

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lifts the factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs) by injecting external knowledge, yet it falls short on problems that demand multi-step inf…

cs.CL2024

Constrained Reasoning Chains for Enhancing Theory-of-Mind in Large Language Models

Zizheng Lin, Chunkit Chan, Yangqiu Song +1

Theory-of-Mind (ToM) ability possessed by Large Language Models (LLMs) has been shown to be limited. Most existing methods for improving ToM in LLMs adopt zero-shot prompting, and…

cs.CL2024

PrivLM-Bench: A Multi-level Privacy Evaluation Benchmark for Language Models

Haoran Li, Dadi Guo, Donghao Li +7

The rapid development of language models (LMs) brings unprecedented accessibility and usage for both models and users. On the one hand, powerful LMs achieve state-of-the-art perfor…

cs.CL2026

SessionIntentBench: A Multi-task Inter-session Intention-shift Modeling Benchmark for E-commerce Customer Behavior Understanding

Yuqi Yang, Weiqi Wang, Baixuan Xu +13

Session history is a common way of recording user interacting behaviors throughout a browsing activity with multiple products. For example, if an user clicks a product webpage and…

cs.CL2025

Structuring the Unstructured: A Systematic Review of Text-to-Structure Generation for Agentic AI with a Universal Evaluation Framework

Zheye Deng, Chunkit Chan, Tianshi Zheng +3

The evolution of AI systems toward agentic operation and context-aware retrieval necessitates transforming unstructured text into structured formats like tables, knowledge graphs,…

cs.AI2026

MultivationBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Sequential Motivation Reasoning

Kawai Chung, Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim +12

The paper introduces MultivationBench, a benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on their ability to reason about evolving human motivations across sequential visual…

#multimodal reasoning#motivation inference#sequential reasoning#visual narratives
cs.CR2024

Simulate and Eliminate: Revoke Backdoors for Generative Large Language Models

Haoran Li, Yulin Chen, Zihao Zheng +4

With rapid advances, generative large language models (LLMs) dominate various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks from understanding to reasoning. Yet, language models' inheren…

cs.CL2024

EventGround: Narrative Reasoning by Grounding to Eventuality-centric Knowledge Graphs

Cheng Jiayang, Lin Qiu, Chunkit Chan +3

Narrative reasoning relies on the understanding of eventualities in story contexts, which requires a wealth of background world knowledge. To help machines leverage such knowledge,…

cs.CL2025

INFERENCEDYNAMICS: Efficient Routing Across LLMs through Structured Capability and Knowledge Profiling

Haochen Shi, Tianshi Zheng, Weiqi Wang +6

Large Language Model (LLM) routing is a pivotal technique for navigating a diverse landscape of LLMs, aiming to select the best-performing LLMs tailored to the domains of user quer…

cs.CL2024

Text-Tuple-Table: Towards Information Integration in Text-to-Table Generation via Global Tuple Extraction

Zheye Deng, Chunkit Chan, Weiqi Wang +5

The task of condensing large chunks of textual information into concise and structured tables has gained attention recently due to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and…

cs.CL2023

StoryAnalogy: Deriving Story-level Analogies from Large Language Models to Unlock Analogical Understanding

Cheng Jiayang, Lin Qiu, Tsz Ho Chan +9

Analogy-making between narratives is crucial for human reasoning. In this paper, we evaluate the ability to identify and generate analogies by constructing a first-of-its-kind larg…

cs.CL2024

Persona Knowledge-Aligned Prompt Tuning Method for Online Debate

Chunkit Chan, Cheng Jiayang, Xin Liu +7

Debate is the process of exchanging viewpoints or convincing others on a particular issue. Recent research has provided empirical evidence that the persuasiveness of an argument is…

cs.AI2025

LLM-Hanabi: Evaluating Multi-Agent Gameplays with Theory-of-Mind and Rationale Inference in Imperfect Information Collaboration Game

Fangzhou Liang, Tianshi Zheng, Chunkit Chan +2

Effective multi-agent collaboration requires agents to infer the rationale behind others' actions, a capability rooted in Theory-of-Mind (ToM). While recent Large Language Models (…

cs.IR2025

From Web Search towards Agentic Deep Research: Incentivizing Search with Reasoning Agents

Weizhi Zhang, Yangning Li, Yuanchen Bei +20

Information retrieval is a cornerstone of modern knowledge acquisition, enabling billions of queries each day across diverse domains. However, traditional keyword-based search engi…

cs.CL2024

CANDLE: Iterative Conceptualization and Instantiation Distillation from Large Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Chunyang Li +9

The sequential process of conceptualization and instantiation is essential to generalizable commonsense reasoning as it allows the application of existing knowledge to unfamiliar s…

cs.CL2024

ChatGPT Evaluation on Sentence Level Relations: A Focus on Temporal, Causal, and Discourse Relations

Chunkit Chan, Jiayang Cheng, Weiqi Wang +4

This paper aims to quantitatively evaluate the performance of ChatGPT, an interactive large language model, on inter-sentential relations such as temporal relations, causal relatio…

cs.CL2023

Self-Consistent Narrative Prompts on Abductive Natural Language Inference

Chunkit Chan, Xin Liu, Tsz Ho Chan +4

Abduction has long been seen as crucial for narrative comprehension and reasoning about everyday situations. The abductive natural language inference (NLI) task has been propos…