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most citedMetaIE: Distilling a Meta Model from LLM for All Kinds of Information Extraction Tasks

3 citations · 8 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CL2026

Mind2Dialogue: Training Human-Aware Language Models by Simulating User Mental States

Zixuan Wang, Yufan Zhou, Jinzhou Tang +16

As language models become more capable, long-term collaboration in learning, reasoning, and decision-making calls for a deeper understanding of the people they serve. Yet training…

cs.AI2026

Can LLMs Discover Scientific Laws in Real and Parallel Worlds?

Yiming Huang, Ziche Liu, Zhuohang Wu +12

Scientific law discovery has long been central to scientific progress, proceeding through iterative cycles of generating hypotheses, testing them against empirical evidence, and re…

cs.CL2026

BOOKMARKS: Efficient Active Storyline Memory for Role-playing

Letian Peng, Ziche Liu, Yiming Huang +4

Memory systems are critical for role-playing agents (RPAs) to maintain long-horizon consistency. However, existing RPA memory methods (e.g., profiling) mainly rely on incremental s…

cs.CL2026

Simulating Organized Group Behavior: New Framework, Benchmark, and Analysis

Xinkai Zou, Yiming Huang, Zhuohang Wu +5

Simulating how organized groups (e.g., corporations) make decisions (e.g., responding to a competitor's move) is essential for understanding real-world dynamics and could benefit r…

cs.IR2026

How Well Does Generative Recommendation Generalize?

Yijie Ding, Zitian Guo, Jiacheng Li +8

A widely held hypothesis for why generative recommendation (GR) models outperform conventional item ID-based models is that they generalize better. However, there is few systematic…

cs.CL2026

Codified Finite-state Machines for Role-playing

Letian Peng, Yupeng Hou, Kun Zhou +1

Modeling latent character states is crucial for consistent and engaging role-playing (RP) with large language models (LLMs). Yet, existing prompting-based approaches mainly capture…

cs.CL2026

Deriving Character Logic from Storyline as Codified Decision Trees

Letian Peng, Kun Zhou, Longfei Yun +2

Role-playing (RP) agents rely on behavioral profiles to act consistently across diverse narrative contexts, yet existing profiles are largely unstructured, non-executable, and weak…

cs.CL2026

Codified Foreshadowing-Payoff Text Generation

Longfei Yun, Kun Zhou, Yupeng Hou +2

Foreshadowing and payoff are ubiquitous narrative devices through which authors introduce commitments early in a story and resolve them through concrete, observable outcomes. Howev…

cs.AI2026

C-World: A Computer Use Agent Environment Creator

Ziqiao Xi, Shuang Liang, Qi Liu +9

To close the gap between LLM-based agents and humans in planning and reasoning, agents need large-scale, diverse environments for continuous learning -- yet building such environme…

cs.AI2025

A Tale of LLMs and Induced Small Proxies: Scalable Small Language Models for Knowledge Mining

Sipeng Zhang, Longfei Yun, Zilong Wang +2

At the core of Deep Research is knowledge mining, the task of extracting structured information from massive unstructured text in response to user instructions. Large language mode…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

The Price of Format: Diversity Collapse in LLMs

Longfei Yun, Chenyang An, Zilong Wang +2

Instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) employ structured templates, such as role markers and special tokens, to enforce format consistency during inference. However, we ide…

cs.CL2025

Bidirectional LMs are Better Knowledge Memorizers? A Benchmark for Real-world Knowledge Injection

Yuwei Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Shangbin Feng +5

Despite significant advances in large language models (LLMs), their knowledge memorization capabilities remain underexplored, due to the lack of standardized and high-quality test…

cs.CL2025

Codifying Character Logic in Role-Playing

Letian Peng, Jingbo Shang

This paper introduces Codified Profiles for role-playing, a novel approach that represents character logic as structured, executable functions for behavioral decision-making. Each…

cs.AI2025

Memorize or Generalize? Evaluating LLM Code Generation with Code Rewriting

Lizhe Zhang, Wentao Chen, Li Zhong +3

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional code generation capabilities. However, there is a growing debate whether LLMs are mostly doing memorization (i.e…

cs.CL2025

UltraGen: Extremely Fine-grained Controllable Generation via Attribute Reconstruction and Global Preference Optimization

Longfei Yun, Letian Peng, Jingbo Shang

Fine granularity is an essential requirement for controllable text generation, which has seen rapid growth with the ability of LLMs. However, existing methods focus mainly on a sma…

cs.CL2025

Cuckoo: An IE Free Rider Hatched by Massive Nutrition in LLM's Nest

Letian Peng, Zilong Wang, Feng Yao +1

Massive high-quality data, both pre-training raw texts and post-training annotations, have been carefully prepared to incubate advanced large language models (LLMs). In contrast, f…

cs.CL2025

Linear Correlation in LM's Compositional Generalization and Hallucination

Letian Peng, Chenyang An, Shibo Hao +2

The generalization of language models (LMs) is undergoing active debates, contrasting their potential for general intelligence with their struggles with basic knowledge composition…

cs.CL2024

Correlation and Navigation in the Vocabulary Key Representation Space of Language Models

Letian Peng, Chenyang An, Jingbo Shang

Language model (LM) decoding is based on the next-token prediction (NTP) probability distribution. For neural LMs (e.g., Transformer-based), NTP distribution is essentially a softm…

cs.CL2024

Text Grafting: Near-Distribution Weak Supervision for Minority Classes in Text Classification

Letian Peng, Yi Gu, Chengyu Dong +2

For extremely weak-supervised text classification, pioneer research generates pseudo labels by mining texts similar to the class names from the raw corpus, which may end up with ve…

cs.CL2024

Incubating Text Classifiers Following User Instruction with Nothing but LLM

Letian Peng, Jingbo Shang

In this paper, we aim to generate text classification data given arbitrary class definitions (i.e., user instruction), so one can train a small text classifier without any human an…

cs.CL2024

Quantifying and Optimizing Global Faithfulness in Persona-driven Role-playing

Letian Peng, Jingbo Shang

Persona-driven role-playing (PRP) aims to build AI characters that can respond to user queries by faithfully sticking with all persona statements. Unfortunately, existing faithfuln…

cs.AI2024

Learn from Failure: Fine-Tuning LLMs with Trial-and-Error Data for Intuitionistic Propositional Logic Proving

Chenyang An, Zhibo Chen, Qihao Ye +6

Recent advances in Automated Theorem Proving have shown the effectiveness of leveraging a (large) language model that generates tactics (i.e. proof steps) to search through proof s…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

MetaIE: Distilling a Meta Model from LLM for All Kinds of Information Extraction Tasks

Letian Peng, Zilong Wang, Feng Yao +2

Information extraction (IE) is a fundamental area in natural language processing where prompting large language models (LLMs), even with in-context examples, cannot defeat small LM…

cs.CL2024

Answer is All You Need: Instruction-following Text Embedding via Answering the Question

Letian Peng, Yuwei Zhang, Zilong Wang +4

This work aims to build a text embedder that can capture characteristics of texts specified by user instructions. Despite its tremendous potential to deploy user-oriented embedding…