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20222026
most citedA Survey on Neural Topic Models: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

117 citations · 150 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.CL2026

From Signals to Transfer: A Factorised Study of Probe-Based Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen +3

Probe-based uncertainty estimation (UE) has emerged as a prominent approach to detect hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by learning uncertainty from internal model sig…

cs.CL2026

Learning Uncertainty from Sequential Internal Dispersion in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen +1

Uncertainty estimation is a promising approach to detect hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). Recent approaches commonly depend on model internal states to estimate unce…

cs.AI2026

Towards Reliable Truth-Aligned Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Quang Minh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu +1

Uncertainty estimation (UE) aims to quantify uncertainty in large language model (LLM) outputs to flag potential hallucinations and support reliable deployment. However, UE metrics…

cs.CR2025

P2P: A Poison-to-Poison Remedy for Reliable Backdoor Defense in LLMs

Shuai Zhao, Xinyi Wu, Shiqian Zhao +4

During fine-tuning, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly vulnerable to data-poisoning backdoor attacks, which compromise their reliability and trustworthiness. However, ex…

cs.CL2025

Unsupervised Hallucination Detection by Inspecting Reasoning Processes

Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu

Unsupervised hallucination detection aims to identify hallucinated content generated by large language models (LLMs) without relying on labeled data. While unsupervised methods hav…

cs.AI2025

Affective-ROPTester: Capability and Bias Analysis of LLMs in Predicting Retinopathy of Prematurity

Shuai Zhao, Yulin Zhang, Luwei Xiao +7

Despite the remarkable progress of large language models (LLMs) across various domains, their capacity to predict retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) risk remains largely unexplored.…

cs.CL2025

Read as You See: Guiding Unimodal LLMs for Low-Resource Explainable Harmful Meme Detection

Fengjun Pan, Xiaobao Wu, Tho Quan +1

Detecting harmful memes is crucial for safeguarding the integrity and harmony of online environments, yet existing detection methods are often resource-intensive, inflexible, and l…

cs.AI2025

SCOPE: Compress Mathematical Reasoning Steps for Efficient Automated Process Annotation

Huimin Xu, Xin Mao, Feng-Lin Li +4

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have demonstrated promising results in mathematical reasoning, but existing process annotation approaches, whether through human annotations or Monte C…

cs.CL2025

Aspect-Based Summarization with Self-Aspect Retrieval Enhanced Generation

Yichao Feng, Shuai Zhao, Yueqiu Li +3

Aspect-based summarization aims to generate summaries tailored to specific aspects, addressing the resource constraints and limited generalizability of traditional summarization ap…

cs.SE2025

CodeArena: A Collective Evaluation Platform for LLM Code Generation

Mingzhe Du, Anh Tuan Luu, Bin Ji +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have reshaped code generation by synergizing their exceptional comprehension of natural language and programming syntax, thereby substantially boosting…

cs.CL2025

Full-Step-DPO: Self-Supervised Preference Optimization with Step-wise Rewards for Mathematical Reasoning

Huimin Xu, Xin Mao, Feng-Lin Li +4

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) often struggles with long-chain mathematical reasoning. Existing approaches, such as Step-DPO, typically improve this by focusing on the first…

cs.CV2025

CutPaste&Find: Efficient Multimodal Hallucination Detector with Visual-aid Knowledge Base

Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Duc Anh Vu +3

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal reasoning capabilities, but they remain susceptible to hallucination, particularly object hallucination…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Jaccard Distance-based Conditional Contrastive Learning and Contextual Visual Augmentation

Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen +5

Previous research on multimodal entity linking (MEL) has primarily employed contrastive learning as the primary objective. However, using the rest of the batch as negative samples…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Curriculum Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning

Duc Anh Vu, Nguyen Tran Cong Duy, Xiaobao Wu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong in-context learning (ICL) abilities with a few demonstrations. However, one critical challenge is how to select demonstrations to eli…

cs.CV2024

Motion-aware Contrastive Learning for Temporal Panoptic Scene Graph Generation

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Yi Bin +3

To equip artificial intelligence with a comprehensive understanding towards a temporal world, video and 4D panoptic scene graph generation abstracts visual data into nodes to repre…

cs.CV2024

Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Video Temporal Grounding

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu +4

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moment…

cs.CL2024

Are LLMs Good Zero-Shot Fallacy Classifiers?

Fengjun Pan, Xiaobao Wu, Zongrui Li +1

Fallacies are defective arguments with faulty reasoning. Detecting and classifying them is a crucial NLP task to prevent misinformation, manipulative claims, and biased decisions.…

cs.CL2024

Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels

Chaoqun Liu, Qin Chao, Wenxuan Zhang +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance through supervised fine-tuning or in-context learning using gold labels. However, this paradigm is limited by…

cs.CV2024

MAMA: Meta-optimized Angular Margin Contrastive Framework for Video-Language Representation Learning

Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu +6

Data quality stands at the forefront of deciding the effectiveness of video-language representation learning. However, video-text pairs in previous data typically do not align perf…

cs.CL2024

Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Liangming Pan +2

Dynamic topic models track the evolution of topics in sequential documents, which have derived various applications like trend analysis and opinion mining. However, existing models…

cs.CV2024

Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Zhiyuan Hu, Xiaobao Wu +3

Seeking answers effectively for long videos is essential to build video question answering (videoQA) systems. Previous methods adaptively select frames and regions from long videos…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model

Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, Delvin Ce Zhang +2

Topic models have been evolving rapidly over the years, from conventional to recent neural models. However, existing topic models generally struggle with either effectiveness, effi…

cs.CL2024

KDMCSE: Knowledge Distillation Multimodal Sentence Embeddings with Adaptive Angular margin Contrastive Learning

Cong-Duy Nguyen, Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu +1

Previous work on multimodal sentence embedding has proposed multimodal contrastive learning and achieved promising results. However, by taking the rest of the batch as negative sam…

cs.CL2024

AKEW: Assessing Knowledge Editing in the Wild

Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang +1

Knowledge editing injects knowledge updates into language models to keep them correct and up-to-date. However, its current evaluations deviate significantly from practice: their kn…