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cs.CL2025

BioVerge: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Study of Self-Evaluating Agents for Biomedical Hypothesis Generation

Fuyi Yang, Chenchen Ye, Mingyu Derek Ma +3

Hypothesis generation in biomedical research has traditionally centered on uncovering hidden relationships within vast scientific literature, often using methods like Literature-Ba…

cs.CL2025

Entropy-Based Adaptive Weighting for Self-Training

Xiaoxuan Wang, Yihe Deng, Mingyu Derek Ma +1

The mathematical problem-solving capabilities of large language models have become a focal point of research, with growing interests in leveraging self-generated reasoning paths as…

cs.CL2025

Inferring from Logits: Exploring Best Practices for Decoding-Free Generative Candidate Selection

Mingyu Derek Ma, Yanna Ding, Zijie Huang +3

Generative Language Models rely on autoregressive decoding to produce the output sequence token by token. Many tasks such as preference optimization, require the model to produce t…

cs.CL2025

Memorize and Rank: Elevating Large Language Models for Clinical Diagnosis Prediction

Mingyu Derek Ma, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yijia Xiao +4

Clinical diagnosis prediction models, when provided with a patient's medical history, aim to detect potential diseases early, facilitating timely intervention and improving prognos…

cs.CL2024

CLIMB: A Benchmark of Clinical Bias in Large Language Models

Yubo Zhang, Shudi Hou, Mingyu Derek Ma +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to clinical decision-making. However, their potential to exhibit bias poses significant risks to clinical equity. Currently, t…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MIRAI: Evaluating LLM Agents for Event Forecasting

Chenchen Ye, Ziniu Hu, Yihe Deng +4

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered LLM agents to autonomously collect world information, over which to conduct reasoning to solve complex problems.…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

CliBench: A Multifaceted and Multigranular Evaluation of Large Language Models for Clinical Decision Making

Mingyu Derek Ma, Chenchen Ye, Yu Yan +4

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), into the clinical diagnosis process offers significant potential to improve the efficiency…

cs.CL2024

Improving Event Definition Following For Zero-Shot Event Detection

Zefan Cai, Po-Nien Kung, Ashima Suvarna +6

Existing approaches on zero-shot event detection usually train models on datasets annotated with known event types, and prompt them with unseen event definitions. These approaches…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Decoding Susceptibility: Modeling Misbelief to Misinformation Through a Computational Approach

Yanchen Liu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Wenna Qin +5

Susceptibility to misinformation describes the degree of belief in unverifiable claims, a latent aspect of individuals' mental processes that is not observable. Existing susceptibi…

cs.CL2023

Mitigating Bias for Question Answering Models by Tracking Bias Influence

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiun-Yu Kao, Arpit Gupta +6

Models of various NLP tasks have been shown to exhibit stereotypes, and the bias in the question answering (QA) models is especially harmful as the output answers might be directly…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

STAR: Boosting Low-Resource Information Extraction by Structure-to-Text Data Generation with Large Language Models

Mingyu Derek Ma, Xiaoxuan Wang, Po-Nien Kung +3

Information extraction tasks such as event extraction require an in-depth understanding of the output structure and sub-task dependencies. They heavily rely on task-specific traini…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

Instructions as Backdoors: Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

Jiashu Xu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Fei Wang +2

We investigate security concerns of the emergent instruction tuning paradigm, that models are trained on crowdsourced datasets with task instructions to achieve superior performanc…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Parameter-Efficient Low-Resource Dialogue State Tracking by Prompt Tuning

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiun-Yu Kao, Shuyang Gao +4

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an important step in dialogue management to keep track of users' beliefs. Existing works fine-tune all language model (LM) parameters to tackle the…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Multi-hop Evidence Retrieval for Cross-document Relation Extraction

Keming Lu, I-Hung Hsu, Wenxuan Zhou +2

Relation Extraction (RE) has been extended to cross-document scenarios because many relations are not simply described in a single document. This inevitably brings the challenge of…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Can NLI Provide Proper Indirect Supervision for Low-resource Biomedical Relation Extraction?

Jiashu Xu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Muhao Chen

Two key obstacles in biomedical relation extraction (RE) are the scarcity of annotations and the prevalence of instances without explicitly pre-defined labels due to low annotation…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

DICE: Data-Efficient Clinical Event Extraction with Generative Models

Mingyu Derek Ma, Alexander K. Taylor, Wei Wang +1

Event extraction for the clinical domain is an under-explored research area. The lack of training data along with the high volume of domain-specific terminologies with vague entity…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Summarization as Indirect Supervision for Relation Extraction

Keming Lu, I-Hung Hsu, Wenxuan Zhou +2

Relation extraction (RE) models have been challenged by their reliance on training data with expensive annotations. Considering that summarization tasks aim at acquiring concise ex…

cs.CL2021

HyperExpan: Taxonomy Expansion with Hyperbolic Representation Learning

Mingyu Derek Ma, Muhao Chen, Te-Lin Wu +1

Taxonomies are valuable resources for many applications, but the limited coverage due to the expensive manual curation process hinders their general applicability. Prior works atte…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiao Sun, Mu Yang +5

We present EventPlus, a temporal event understanding pipeline that integrates various state-of-the-art event understanding components including event trigger and type detection, ev…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Implicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues

Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu +2

Discourse relation identification has been an active area of research for many years, and the challenge of identifying implicit relations remains largely an unsolved task, especial…

cs.CL2018★ 1 cited

Dual Memory Network Model for Biased Product Review Classification

Yunfei Long, Mingyu Ma, Qin Lu +2

In sentiment analysis (SA) of product reviews, both user and product information are proven to be useful. Current tasks handle user profile and product information in a unified mod…