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  • Xueqi Cheng

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  • Text Matching as Image Recognition

    Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Shengxian Wan, Xueqi Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2016

    This model, which resembles the compositional hierarchies of patterns in image recognition, can successfully identify salient signals such as n-gram and n-term matchings and demonstrates its superiority against the baselines.

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  • A Deep Look into neural ranking models for information retrieval

    Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Yang Liu, Qingyao Ai, Hamed Zamani, Chen Henry Wu, W. Bruce Croft, +1 more

    Information Processing & Management · 2019

    A deep look into the neural ranking models from different dimensions is taken to analyze their underlying assumptions, major design principles, and learning strategies to obtain a comprehensive empirical understanding of the existing techniques.

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  • A Deep Architecture for Semantic Matching with Multiple Positional Sentence Representations

    Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Liang Pang, Xueqi Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2016

    This work presents a new deep architecture to match two sentences with multiple positional sentence representations, generated by a bidirectional long short term memory (Bi-LSTM).

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  • Bias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era

    Sunhao Dai, Chen Xu, Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu

    ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2024

    A comprehensive survey of existing works on emerging and pressing bias and unfairness issues in IR systems when the integration of LLMs is presented, and systematically delve into the specific bias and unfairness issues arising from three critical stages of LLMs integration into IR systems.

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  • SetRank

    Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Qingyao Ai, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng, Ji-Rong Wen

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2020

    A neural learning-to-rank model called SetRank is proposed which directly learns a permutation-invariant ranking model defined on document sets of any size and Experimental results showed that the SetRank significantly outperformed the baselines include the traditional learning- to-rank models and state-of-the-art Neural IR models.

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  • HalluciDoctor: Mitigating Hallucinatory Toxicity in Visual Instruction Data

    Qifan Yu, Juncheng Li, Longhui Wei, Liang Pang, Wentao Ye, Bosheng Qin, Siliang Tang, Qi Tian, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work presents a novel hallucination detection and elimination framework, HalluciDoctor, based on the cross-checking paradigm, and uses this framework to identify and eliminate hallucinations in the training data automatically, and indicates that spurious correlations arising from long-tail object cooccurrences contribute to hallucinations.

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  • Match-SRNN: Modeling the Recursive Matching Structure with Spatial RNN

    Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Jiafeng Guo, Liang Pang, Xueqi Cheng

    arXiv · 2016

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  • ReCoSa: Detecting the Relevant Contexts with Self-Attention for Multi-turn Dialogue Generation

    Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

    Experimental results on both Chinese customer services dataset and English Ubuntu dialogue dataset show that ReCoSa significantly outperforms baseline models, in terms of both metric-based and human evaluations.

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  • Search-in-the-Chain: Interactively Enhancing Large Language Models with Search for Knowledge-intensive Tasks

    Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM Web Conference (WWW) · 2024

    This paper proposes a novel framework named Search-in-the-Chain (SearChain) for the interaction between LLM and IR to solve the challenges and shows that SearChain outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on complex knowledge-intensive tasks including multi-hop Q&A, slot filling, fact checking, and long-form Q&A.

    122
  • Can Small Language Models be Good Reasoners for Sequential Recommendation?

    Yuling Wang, Changxin Tian, Binbin Hu, Yanhua Yu, Ziqi Liu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Liang Pang, +1 more

    ACM Web Conference (WWW) · 2024

    A novel Step-by-step knowLedge knowLedge fraMework for recommendation (SLIM) is proposed, paving a promising path for sequential recommenders to enjoy the exceptional reasoning capabilities of LLMs in a "slim" (i.e. resource-efficient) manner.

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  • LLMDet: A Third Party Large Language Models Generated Text Detection Tool

    Kangxi Wu, Liang Pang, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 · 2023

    LLMDet is a model-specific, secure, efficient, and extendable detection tool that can source text from specific LLMs, such as GPT-2, OPT, LLaMA, and others, that can effortlessly extend its detection capabilities to a new open-source model.

    88
  • A Study of MatchPyramid Models on Ad-hoc Retrieval

    Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

    arXiv · 2016

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  • Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval

    Yang Liu, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work introduces the answer sentence retrieval task for non-factoid Web queries, and investigates how this task can be effectively solved under a learning to rank framework, and designs two types of features, namely semantic and context features, beyond traditional text matching features.

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  • Neural Retrievers are Biased Towards LLM-Generated Content

    Sunhao Dai, Yuqi Zhou, Liang Pang, Weihao Liu, Xiaolin Hu, Yong Liu, Xiao Zhang, Gang Wang, +1 more

    ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 2024

    A quantitative evaluation of IR models in scenarios where both human-written and LLM-generated texts are involved indicates that neural retrieval models tend to rank LLM-generated documents higher, and proposes a plug-and-play debiased constraint for the optimization objective to mitigate the source bias.

    76
  • Modeling Topical Relevance for Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation

    Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang, Hongshen Chen, Zhuoye Ding, Dawei Yin

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    A new model, named STAR-BTM, is proposed, which significantly outperforms several state-of-the-art methods, in terms of both metric-based and human evaluations.

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  • Adaptive Information Seeking for Open-Domain Question Answering

    Yunchang Zhu, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

    A novel adaptive information-seeking strategy for open-domain question answering, namely AISO is proposed, which outperforms all baseline methods with predefined strategies in terms of both retrieval and answer evaluations.

    44
  • HAS-QA: Hierarchical Answer Spans Model for Open-Domain Question Answering

    Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Lixin Su, Xueqi Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A new probabilistic formulation of OpenQA is proposed, based on a three-level hierarchical structure, i.e.,~the question level, the paragraph level and the answer span level, and a Hierarchical Answer Spans Model (HAS-QA) is designed to capture each probability.

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  • LightPROF: A Lightweight Reasoning Framework for Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph

    Tu Ao, Yanhua Yu, Yuling Wang, Yang Deng, Zirui Guo, Liang Pang, Pinghui Wang, Tat‐Seng Chua, +2 more

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2025

    A novel Lightweight and efficient Prompt learning-ReasOning Framework for KGQA (LightPROF), which leverages the full potential of LLMs to tackle complex reasoning tasks in a parameter-efficient manner and shows significant advantages in terms of input token count and reasoning time.

    39
  • MatchZoo: A Toolkit for Deep Text Matching

    Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Jianpeng Hou, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng

    arXiv · 2017

    38
  • Transductive Learning for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

    Fei Xiao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Yan Wang, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

    This paper proposes a novel transductive learning approach, based on a retrieval-based context-aware style representation, which involves top-K relevant sentences in the target style in the transfer process and outperforms several strong baselines.

    33
  • Transformation Driven Visual Reasoning

    Xin Hong, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    A novel transformation driven visual reasoning task, where the target is to infer the corresponding single-step or multi-step transformation, represented as a triplet or a sequence of triplets, respectively, which will boost the development of machine visual reasoning.

    32
  • A Survey of Generative Search and Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models

    Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Liang Pang, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie, Xiangnan He, +1 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the emerging paradigm in information systems and summarize the developments in generative search and recommendation from a unified perspective, and abstracts a unified framework for the generative paradigm.

    31
  • Match-Ignition

    Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng

    Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management · 2021

    The main idea is to plug the well-known PageRank algorithm into the Transformer, to identify and filter both sentence and word level noisy information in the matching process, and to show that Match-Ignition efficiently captures important sentences and words, to facilitate the long-form text matching process.

    28
  • Invisible Relevance Bias: Text-Image Retrieval Models Prefer AI-Generated Images

    Shicheng Xu, Danyang Hou, Liang Pang, Jingcheng Deng, Jun Xu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2024

    The proposed debiasing method is applied to retroactively identify the causes of the invisible relevance bias, revealing that the AI-generated images induce the image encoder to embed additional information into their representation, which makes the retriever estimate a higher relevance score.

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  • SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinement

    Zenghao Duan, Yuxin Tian, Zhiyi Yin, Liang Pang, Jingcheng Deng, Zihao Wei, Shicheng Xu, Yuyao Ge, +1 more

    arXiv · 2026

    SkillAttack is introduced, a red-teaming framework that dynamically verifies skill vulnerability exploitability through adversarial prompting, and outperforms all baselines by a wide margin, revealing that even well-intended skills pose serious security risks under realistic agent interactions.

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