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20202026
most citedULTRA: Unleash LLMs' Potential for Event Argument Extraction through Hierarchical Modeling and Pair-wise Self-Refinement

4 citations · 11 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2026

TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Lu Wang

Personalized large language models (PLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their ability to align outputs with individual's needs and preferences. However, they still strug…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs Really Need 10+ Thoughts for "Find the Time 1000 Days Later"? Towards Structural Understanding of LLM Overthinking

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Anhad Mohananey, Alexandra Chronopoulou +5

Models employing long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning have shown superior performance on complex reasoning tasks. Yet, this capability introduces a critical and often overlooked i…

cs.AI2025

LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?

Kaijian Zou, Aaron Xiong, Yunxiang Zhang +6

Competitive programming problems are increasingly used to evaluate the coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) due to their complexity and ease of verification. Yet, cu…

cs.CL2025

Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang +5

Large reasoning models exhibit long chain-of-thought reasoning with complex strategies such as backtracking and self-verification. Yet, these capabilities typically require resourc…

cs.CL2025

Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang +5

Large reasoning models (LRMs) can do complex reasoning via long chain-of-thought (CoT) involving cognitive strategies such as backtracking and self-correction. Recent studies sugge…

cs.CL2025

PRIME: Large Language Model Personalization with Cognitive Dual-Memory and Personalized Thought Process

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Nick Beauchamp, Lu Wang

Large language model (LLM) personalization aims to align model outputs with individuals' unique preferences and opinions. While recent efforts have implemented various personalizat…

cs.CL2024

Narrative-of-Thought: Improving Temporal Reasoning of Large Language Models via Recounted Narratives

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Nick Beauchamp, Lu Wang

Reasoning about time and temporal relations is an integral aspect of human cognition, essential for perceiving the world and navigating our experiences. Though large language model…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

ULTRA: Unleash LLMs' Potential for Event Argument Extraction through Hierarchical Modeling and Pair-wise Self-Refinement

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Carter Blum, Temma Choji +2

Structural extraction of events within discourse is critical since it avails a deeper understanding of communication patterns and behavior trends. Event argument extraction (EAE),…

cs.CL2023

MOKA: Moral Knowledge Augmentation for Moral Event Extraction

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Winston Wu, Nick Beauchamp +1

News media often strive to minimize explicit moral language in news articles, yet most articles are dense with moral values as expressed through the reported events themselves. How…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

All Things Considered: Detecting Partisan Events from News Media with Cross-Article Comparison

Yujian Liu, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Kaijian Zou +3

Public opinion is shaped by the information news media provide, and that information in turn may be shaped by the ideological preferences of media outlets. But while much attention…

cs.CL2023

Crossing the Aisle: Unveiling Partisan and Counter-Partisan Events in News Reporting

Kaijian Zou, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Winston Wu +2

News media is expected to uphold unbiased reporting. Yet they may still affect public opinion by selectively including or omitting events that support or contradict their ideologic…

cs.CL2023

You Are What You Annotate: Towards Better Models through Annotator Representations

Naihao Deng, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Siyang Liu +3

Annotator disagreement is ubiquitous in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. There are multiple reasons for such disagreements, including the subjectivity of the task, difficul…

cs.CL2022

Late Fusion with Triplet Margin Objective for Multimodal Ideology Prediction and Analysis

Changyuan Qiu, Winston Wu, Xinliang Frederick Zhang +1

Prior work on ideology prediction has largely focused on single modalities, i.e., text or images. In this work, we introduce the task of multimodal ideology prediction, where a mod…

cs.CL2022

Generative Entity-to-Entity Stance Detection with Knowledge Graph Augmentation

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Nick Beauchamp, Lu Wang

Stance detection is typically framed as predicting the sentiment in a given text towards a target entity. However, this setup overlooks the importance of the source entity, i.e., w…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

POLITICS: Pretraining with Same-story Article Comparison for Ideology Prediction and Stance Detection

Yujian Liu, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, David Wegsman +2

Ideology is at the core of political science research. Yet, there still does not exist general-purpose tools to characterize and predict ideology across different genres of text. T…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

SimSR: Simple Distance-based State Representation for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Hongyu Zang, Xin Li, Mingzhong Wang

This work explores how to learn robust and generalizable state representation from image-based observations with deep reinforcement learning methods. Addressing the computational c…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

CliniQG4QA: Generating Diverse Questions for Domain Adaptation of Clinical Question Answering

Xiang Yue, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Ziyu Yao +2

Clinical question answering (QA) aims to automatically answer questions from medical professionals based on clinical texts. Studies show that neural QA models trained on one corpus…

cs.CL2020

COUGH: A Challenge Dataset and Models for COVID-19 FAQ Retrieval

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Heming Sun, Xiang Yue +2

We present a large, challenging dataset, COUGH, for COVID-19 FAQ retrieval. Similar to a standard FAQ dataset, COUGH consists of three parts: FAQ Bank, Query Bank and Relevance Set…