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most citedCausal Prompting: Debiasing Large Language Model Prompting based on Front-Door Adjustment

5 citations · 13 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.SE2026

IR2Solve: Structured Intermediate Representations for Cost-Efficient Optimization Autoformulation

Penglin Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Jungang Xu +2

Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver-ready formulations, but direct code generation is brittle: schema, indexing, and seman…

cs.AI2026

HiMe: Real-Time Self-Hosted Personal Agent Platform for Health Insights with Wearable Devices

Wei Liu, Siya Qi, Linhai Zhang +2

Traditional approaches to wearable health signal analysis, such as smartwatches, are constrained by rigid analytical frameworks and limited personalisation. The emergence of LLM ag…

cs.CL2026

EDIT: Evidence-Diagnosed Intervention Training for Rule-Faithful LLM Grading

Zhihao Wu, Linhai Zhang, Taiyi Wang +4

Reliable rubric grading requires more than accurate score prediction. Each judgement must be grounded in the mark scheme and evidence from the student answer. Existing credit-assig…

cs.CL2026

MAP: A Meta-Cognitive Autonomous Intelligent Agents Framework for Complex Persuasion

Dingyi Zhang, Ziqing Zhuang, Linhai Zhang +2

Persuasive dialogue generation plays a vital role in decision-making, negotiation, counseling, and behavior change, yet it remains a challenging problem. In complex persuasion wher…

cs.LG2026

Test-Time Personalization: A Diagnostic Framework and Probabilistic Fix for Scaling Failures

Linhai Zhang, Yulan He

Existing approaches to LLM personalization focus on constructing better personalized models or inputs, while treating inference as a single-shot process. In this work, we study Tes…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Meta-Reasoning: Metacognitive Consolidation for Self-Improving LLM Reasoning

Ziqing Zhuang, Linhai Zhang, Jiasheng Si +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, and as existing approaches for enhancing LLM reasoning continue to mature, increasing attention has sh…

cs.CL2025

Slow Tuning and Low-Entropy Masking for Safe Chain-of-Thought Distillation

Ziyang Ma, Qingyue Yuan, Linhai Zhang +1

Previous chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation methods primarily focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Small Language Models (SLMs) by utilizing high-quality rationales…

cs.CL2025

Explainable Depression Detection in Clinical Interviews with Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Linhai Zhang, Ziyang Gao, Deyu Zhou +1

Depression is a widespread mental health disorder, and clinical interviews are the gold standard for assessment. However, their reliance on scarce professionals highlights the need…

cs.CL2025

PROPER: A Progressive Learning Framework for Personalized Large Language Models with Group-Level Adaptation

Linhai Zhang, Jialong Wu, Deyu Zhou +1

Personalized large language models (LLMs) aim to tailor their outputs to user preferences. Recent advances in parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods have highlighted the ef…

cs.CL2025

SynGraph: A Dynamic Graph-LLM Synthesis Framework for Sparse Streaming User Sentiment Modeling

Xin Zhang, Qiyu Wei, Yingjie Zhu +3

User reviews on e-commerce platforms exhibit dynamic sentiment patterns driven by temporal and contextual factors. Traditional sentiment analysis methods focus on static reviews, f…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

RGAR: Recurrence Generation-augmented Retrieval for Factual-aware Medical Question Answering

Sichu Liang, Linhai Zhang, Hongyu Zhu +3

Medical question answering requires extensive access to specialized conceptual knowledge. The current paradigm, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), acquires expertise medical kno…

cs.CL2025

CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation

Zhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang +3

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by encouraging step-by-step reasoning in natural language. However, leveraging a latent continuous space for…

cs.CL2024

SCOPE: Optimizing Key-Value Cache Compression in Long-context Generation

Jialong Wu, Zhenglin Wang, Linhai Zhang +3

Key-Value (KV) cache has become a bottleneck of LLMs for long-context generation. Despite the numerous efforts in this area, the optimization for the decoding phase is generally ig…

cs.CL2024

Fine-grainedly Synthesize Streaming Data Based On Large Language Models With Graph Structure Understanding For Data Sparsity

Xin Zhang, Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou +1

Due to the sparsity of user data, sentiment analysis on user reviews in e-commerce platforms often suffers from poor performance, especially when faced with extremely sparse user d…

cs.CL2024

Causal Walk: Debiasing Multi-Hop Fact Verification with Front-Door Adjustment

Congzhi Zhang, Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou

Conventional multi-hop fact verification models are prone to rely on spurious correlations from the annotation artifacts, leading to an obvious performance decline on unbiased data…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Causal Prompting: Debiasing Large Language Model Prompting based on Front-Door Adjustment

Congzhi Zhang, Linhai Zhang, Jialong Wu +2

Despite the notable advancements of existing prompting methods, such as In-Context Learning and Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Models (LLMs), they still face challenges relate…

cs.CL2024

DINER: Debiasing Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Multi-variable Causal Inference

Jialong Wu, Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou +1

Though notable progress has been made, neural-based aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) models are prone to learn spurious correlations from annotation biases, resulting in poor…

cs.CL2024

STAR: Constraint LoRA with Dynamic Active Learning for Data-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Linhai Zhang, Jialong Wu, Deyu Zhou +1

Though Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the powerful capabilities of few-shot learning through prompting methods, supervised training is still necessary for complex r…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

SEE-Few: Seed, Expand and Entail for Few-shot Named Entity Recognition

Zeng Yang, Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying named entities based on only few labeled instances. Current few-shot NER methods focus on leveraging existing datasets i…