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20192025
most citedOvercoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Few-Shot Learning by Finding Flat Minima

14 citations · 31 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2025

REAL: Reading Out Transformer Activations for Precise Localization in Language Model Steering

Li-Ming Zhan, Bo Liu, Chengqiang Xie +2

Inference-time steering aims to alter a large language model's (LLM's) responses without changing its parameters, but a central challenge is identifying the internal modules that m…

cs.CL2025

GeoEdit: Geometric Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models

Yujie Feng, Liming Zhan, Zexin Lu +6

Regular updates are essential for maintaining up-to-date knowledge in large language models (LLMs). Consequently, various model editing methods have been developed to update specif…

cs.CV2024

GEMeX: A Large-Scale, Groundable, and Explainable Medical VQA Benchmark for Chest X-ray Diagnosis

Bo Liu, Ke Zou, Liming Zhan +7

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) combines computer vision and natural language processing to automatically answer clinical inquiries about medical images. However, curre…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Diversity-grounded Channel Prototypical Learning for Out-of-Distribution Intent Detection

Bo Liu, Liming Zhan, Yujie Feng +5

In the realm of task-oriented dialogue systems, a robust intent detection mechanism must effectively handle malformed utterances encountered in real-world scenarios. This study pre…

cs.CL2024

Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Reason-of-Select Distillation

Yujie Feng, Bo Liu, Xiaoyu Dong +4

An ideal dialogue system requires continuous skill acquisition and adaptation to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. Dialogue State Tracking (DST), vital in these systems, o…

cs.CL2024

VI-OOD: A Unified Representation Learning Framework for Textual Out-of-distribution Detection

Li-Ming Zhan, Bo Liu, Xiao-Ming Wu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety and reliability of deep neural networks in various applications. While there has been a growing focu…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Towards LLM-driven Dialogue State Tracking

Yujie Feng, Zexin Lu, Bo Liu +2

Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is of paramount importance in ensuring accurate tracking of user goals and system actions within task-oriented dialogue systems. The emergence of larg…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

How Good Are LLMs at Out-of-Distribution Detection?

Bo Liu, Liming Zhan, Zexin Lu +3

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection plays a vital role in enhancing the reliability of machine learning (ML) models. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a p…

cs.CL2023

Revisit Few-shot Intent Classification with PLMs: Direct Fine-tuning vs. Continual Pre-training

Haode Zhang, Haowen Liang, Liming Zhan +2

We consider the task of few-shot intent detection, which involves training a deep learning model to classify utterances based on their underlying intents using only a small amount…

cs.CL2022

New Intent Discovery with Pre-training and Contrastive Learning

Yuwei Zhang, Haode Zhang, Li-Ming Zhan +2

New intent discovery aims to uncover novel intent categories from user utterances to expand the set of supported intent classes. It is a critical task for the development and servi…

cs.CL2022

Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models for Few-shot Intent Detection: Supervised Pre-training and Isotropization

Haode Zhang, Haowen Liang, Yuwei Zhang +4

It is challenging to train a good intent classifier for a task-oriented dialogue system with only a few annotations. Recent studies have shown that fine-tuning pre-trained language…

cs.LG2021★ 14 cited

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Few-Shot Learning by Finding Flat Minima

Guangyuan Shi, Jiaxin Chen, Wenlong Zhang +2

This paper considers incremental few-shot learning, which requires a model to continually recognize new categories with only a few examples provided. Our study shows that existing…

cs.CL2021

Effectiveness of Pre-training for Few-shot Intent Classification

Haode Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Li-Ming Zhan +4

This paper investigates the effectiveness of pre-training for few-shot intent classification. While existing paradigms commonly further pre-train language models such as BERT on a…

cs.LG2021

Adaptation-Agnostic Meta-Training

Jiaxin Chen, Li-Ming Zhan, Xiao-Ming Wu +1

Many meta-learning algorithms can be formulated into an interleaved process, in the sense that task-specific predictors are learned during inner-task adaptation and meta-parameters…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Out-of-Scope Intent Detection with Self-Supervision and Discriminative Training

Li-Ming Zhan, Haowen Liang, Bo Liu +3

Out-of-scope intent detection is of practical importance in task-oriented dialogue systems. Since the distribution of outlier utterances is arbitrary and unknown in the training st…

cs.CV2021★ 10 cited

SLAKE: A Semantically-Labeled Knowledge-Enhanced Dataset for Medical Visual Question Answering

Bo Liu, Li-Ming Zhan, Li Xu +3

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) has tremendous potential in healthcare. However, the development of this technology is hindered by the lacking of publicly-available and…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Variational Metric Scaling for Metric-Based Meta-Learning

Jiaxin Chen, Li-Ming Zhan, Xiao-Ming Wu +1

Metric-based meta-learning has attracted a lot of attention due to its effectiveness and efficiency in few-shot learning. Recent studies show that metric scaling plays a crucial ro…