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  • Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies

    Liangming Pan, Michael Saxon, Wenda Xu, Deepak Nathani, Xinyi Wang, William Yang Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    A comprehensive review of techniques leveraging automated feedback to make LLM-based solutions more practical and deployable with minimal human feedback, including training-time, generation- time, and post-hoc correction.

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  • Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies

    Liangming Pan, Michael Saxon, Wenda Xu, Deepak Nathani, Xinyi Wang, William Yang Wang

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024

    An exhaustive review of the recent advances in correcting LLMs with automated feedback, categorizing them into training-time, generation-time, and post-hoc approaches and identifying potential challenges and future directions in this emerging field.

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  • Hyperbolic Visual Embedding Learning for Zero-Shot Recognition

    Shaoteng Liu, Jingjing Chen, Liangming Pan, Chong‐Wah Ngo, Tat‐Seng Chua, Yu–Gang Jiang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

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  • Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment

    Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    An attributed value encoder is utilized and the KG is partitioned into subgraphs to model the various types of attribute triples efficiently and achieves significant improvements in cross-lingual and monolingual datasets.

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  • KQA Pro: A Dataset with Explicit Compositional Programs for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base

    Shulin Cao, Jiaxin Shi, Liangming Pan, Lunyiu Nie, Yutong Xiang, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Bin He, +1 more

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2022

    Experimental results show that state-of-the-art KBQA methods cannot achieve promising results on KQA Pro as on current datasets, which suggests that K QA Pro is challenging and Complex KBZA requires further research efforts.

    154
  • Prerequisite Relation Learning for Concepts in MOOCs

    Liangming Pan, Chengjiang Li, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    This work proposes a representation learning-based method for learning latent representations of course concepts, and investigates how different features capture the prerequisite relations between concepts.

    137
  • Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions

    Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Yansong Feng, Tat‐Seng Chua, Min‐Yen Kan

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    A novel framework that first constructs a semantic-level graph for the input document and then encodes the semantic graph by introducing an attention-based GGNN (Att-GGNN) to perform joint training of content selection and question decoding is proposed.

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  • Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication between Experts and Laymen

    Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min‐Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    A new task of expertise style transfer is proposed and a manually annotated dataset is contributed with the goal of alleviating cognitive biases and improving the accuracy and expertise level of laymen descriptions using simple words.

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  • Recent Advances in Neural Question Generation

    Liangming Pan, Wenqiang Lei, Tat‐Seng Chua, Min‐Yen Kan

    arXiv · 2019

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  • Zero-shot Fact Verification by Claim Generation

    Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min‐Yen Kan, William Yang Wang

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2021

    QACG, a framework for training a robust fact verification model by using automatically generated claims that can be supported, refuted, or unverifiable from evidence from Wikipedia, is developed.

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  • Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation

    Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, W. Xiong, Min‐Yen Kan, William Yang Wang

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    This work proposes MQA-QG, an unsupervised framework that can generate human-like multi-hop training data from both homogeneous and heterogeneous data sources and shows that pretraining the QA system with the generated data would greatly reduce the demand for human-annotated training data.

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  • Zero-Shot Ingredient Recognition by Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Network

    Jingjing Chen, Liangming Pan, Zhipeng Wei, Xiang Wang, Chong‐Wah Ngo, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    Multi-relational GCN (graph convolutional network) is introduced that integrates ingredient hierarchy, attribute as well as co-occurrence for zero-shot ingredient recognition and sheds light on zero- shot ingredients recognition.

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  • Course Concept Extraction in MOOCs via Embedding-Based Graph Propagation

    Liangming Pan, Xiaochen Wang, Chengjiang Li, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang

    International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2017

    This paper proposes to learn latent representations for candidate concepts via an embedding-based method and develops a graph-based propagation algorithm to rank the candidate concepts based on the learned representations.

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  • AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge

    Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, Xie, Yuxi, Zhou, Ruiwen, Shuai Zhao, Yubo Ma, Du, Mingzhe, Rui Mao, +2 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper proposes AntiLeak-Bench, an automated anti-leakage benchmarking framework that significantly reduces the cost of benchmark maintenance to accommodate emerging LLMs and highlights that data contamination likely exists before LLMs' cutoff time.

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  • Attacking Open-domain Question Answering by Injecting Misinformation

    Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Min‐Yen Kan, William Yang Wang

    International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL) · 2023

    The necessity of building a misinformation-aware QA system that integrates question-answering and misinformation detection in a joint fashion is discussed, with experiments showing that QA models are vulnerable to even small amounts of evidence contamination brought by misinformation.

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  • Towards Verifiable Generation: A Benchmark for Knowledge-aware Language Model Attribution

    Xinze Li, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Yubo Ma, Aixin Sun

    arXiv · 2023

    A new task of Knowledge-aware Language Model Attribution (KaLMA) is defined that improves upon three core concerns with conventional attributed LMs, and a new ``Conscious Incompetence" setting is proposed considering the incomplete knowledge repository.

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  • Exploring Question-Specific Rewards for Generating Deep Questions

    Yuxi Xie, Liangming Pan, Dongzhe Wang, Min‐Yen Kan, Yansong Feng

    International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2020

    This work designs three different rewards that target to improve the fluency, relevance, and answerability of generated questions and finds that optimizing on question-specific rewards generally leads to better performance in automatic evaluation metrics.

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  • CausalEval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models

    Longxuan Yu, Delin Chen, Siheng Xiong, Qingyang Wu, Dawei Li, Zhikai Chen, Xiaoze Liu, Liangming Pan

    Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL) · 2025

    A comprehensive review of research aimed at enhancing LMs for causal reasoning, coupled with an empirical evaluation of current models and methods, and assess the performance of current LMs and various enhancement methods on a range of causal reasoning tasks.

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  • FOLLOWUPQG: Towards Information-Seeking Follow-up Question Generation

    Yan Meng, Liangming Pan, Yixin Cao, Min‐Yen Kan

    arXiv · 2023

    This work constructs FOLLOWUPQG, a dataset of over 3K real-world tuples collected from a Reddit forum providing layman-friendly explanations for open-ended questions, and evaluates current question generation models on their efficacy for generating follow-up questions.

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  • SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation

    Zijun Yao, Weijian Qi, Liangming Pan, Shulin Cao, Linmei Hu, Weichuan Liu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2025

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  • MMLONGBENCH-DOC: Benchmarking Long-context Document Understanding with Visualizations

    Yixin Cao, Yuhang Zang, Meiqi Chen, Meiqi Chen, Yizhu Jiao, Xinze Li, Xinze Li, Ziyu Liu, +8 more

    neural information processing systems · 2024

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  • KQA Pro: A Large Diagnostic Dataset for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base.

    Jiaxin Shi, Shulin Cao, Liangming Pan, Yutong Xiang, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Hanwang Zhang, Bin He

    arXiv · 2020

    This work introduces KQA Pro, a large-scale dataset for Complex KBQA, and generates questions, SPARQLs, and functional programs with recursive templates and paraphrase the questions by crowdsourcing, giving rise to around 120K diverse instances.

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  • How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?

    Jiaran Ye, Zijun Yao, Zhidian Huang, Liangming Pan, Jinxin Liu, Yushi Bai, Amy Xin, Weichuan Liu, +3 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    This paper studies how implicit multi-hop reasoning emerges by training transformers from scratch in a controlled symbolic environment, revealing a three-stage developmental trajectory: early memorization, followed by in-distribution generalization, and eventually cross-distribution generalization.

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  • Understanding the Interplay between Parametric and Contextual Knowledge for Large Language Models

    Sitao Cheng, Liangming Pan, Xunjian Yin, Xinyi Wang, William Yang Wang

    arXiv · 2024

    The results show that LLMs tend to suppress their PK when contextual information is available, even when it is complementary or irrelevant, revealing a key vulnerability in LLMs, raising concerns about their reliability in knowledge-intensive tasks.

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  • Resource Mention Extraction for MOOC Discussion Forums

    Ya-Hui An, Liangming Pan, Min‐Yen Kan, Qiang Dong, Yan Fu

    IEEE Access · 2019

    This work proposes the novel problem of learning resource mention identification in MOOC forums, i.e., to identify resource mentions in discussions and classify them into pre-defined resource types, and identifies two major challenges that hinder the applications of sequence tagging models to the task.

    13
  • Hashtag-Guided Low-Resource Tweet Classification

    Shizhe Diao, Sedrick Scott Keh, Liangming Pan, Zhiliang Tian, Yan Song, Tong Zhang

    ACM Web Conference (WWW) · 2023

    Experiments show that HashTation achieves significant improvements on seven low-resource tweet classification tasks, in which only a limited amount of training data is provided, showing that automatically enriching tweets with model-generated hashtags could significantly reduce the demand for large-scale human-labeled data.

    11
  • Long Context vs. RAG: Strategies for Processing Long Documents in LLMs

    Xinze Li, Yushi Bai, Bowen Jin, Fengbin Zhu, Liangming Pan, Yixin Cao

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2025

    This half-day tutorial offers a unified, beginner-friendly introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Long Context methods, equipping IR researchers and practitioners with actionable guidelines for processing long documents in LLMs.

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  • Towards Temporal-Aware Multi-Modal Retrieval Augemented Generation in Finance

    Fengbin Zhu, Junfeng Li, Liangming Pan, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Chao Wang, Huanbo Luan, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2025

    This work introduces FINTMMBench, the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating temporal-aware multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in finance, and proposes a novel TMMHybridRAG method, which first leverages a multi-modal LLM to convert data from other modalities into textual format and then incorporates temporal information in each node when constructing graphs and dense indexes.

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  • MAF: Multi-Aspect Feedback for Improving Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Deepak Nathani, David Wang, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2023

    6
  • Ingredient-enriched Recipe Generation from Cooking Videos

    Jianlong Wu, Liangming Pan, Jingjing Chen, Yu–Gang Jiang

    International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · 2022

    A framework that introduces ingredient recognition module which uses the copy mechanism to fuse the predicted ingredient information into the generated sentence is proposed which achieves the promising performances on both YouCookII and Cooking-COIN datasets.

    5
  • KQA Pro: A Large-Scale Dataset with Interpretable Programs and Accurate SPARQLs for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base

    Jiaxin Shi, Shulin Cao, Liangming Pan, Yutong Xiang, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Hanwang Zhang, Bin He

    arXiv · 2020

    5
  • COrAL: Order-Agnostic Language Modeling for Efficient Iterative Refinement

    Xie, Yuxi, Goyal, Anirudh, Wu, Xiaobao, Yin, Xunjian, Xu Xiao, Min‐Yen Kan, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang

    arXiv · 2024

    Context-Wise Order-Agnostic Language Modeling (COrAL) is proposed, which incorporates iterative refinement directly into the LLM architecture while maintaining computational efficiency and introduces sliding blockwise order-agnostic decoding, which performs multi-token forward prediction and backward reconstruction within context windows.

    3
  • Domain Specific Cross-Lingual Knowledge Linking Based on Similarity Flooding

    Liangming Pan, Zhigang Wang, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This paper proposes an unsupervised framework for cross-lingual knowledge linking on specific domains, different from traditional methods, and evaluates the proposed method on two knowledge linking tasks to find English-Chinese knowledge links.

    3
  • RiMOM results for OAEI 2016.

    Zhang Yan, Hailong Jin, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li

    OM@ISWC · 2016

    The overall framework of RiMOM (RiMOM), which is designed for large-scale and cross-lingual instance matching task specially, is described and an extended version, which provides support for cross-lingual instance matching in a supervised or an unsupervised way is proposed.

    3
  • Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Propositional Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models

    D. Chen, Qiyao Yan, Chenpeng Wang, Liangming Pan

    arXiv · 2026

    These findings show that pretrained LLMs solve propositional reasoning through a structured, layer-organized process that recurs across models, rule categories, and reasoning hops.

    2
  • Doolittle: Benchmarks and Corpora for Academic Writing Formalization

    Shizhe Diao, Yongyu Lei, Liangming Pan, Tianqing Fang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Sedrick Scott Keh, Min‐Yen Kan, Tong Zhang

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2023

    This work forms this language refinement task as a formal text style transfer task which transfers informal-academic text to formal-academic and contributes a large-scale non-parallel dataset for this purpose.

    2
  • A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Prerequisite Relations in Multi-Modal Food Recipes

    Liangming Pan, Jingjing Chen, Shaoteng Liu, Chong‐Wah Ngo, Min‐Yen Kan, Tat‐Seng Chua

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2020

    This work proposes a simple-yet-effective two-stage framework to automatically construct the prerequisite tree for a recipe by utilizing a trained classifier to detect pairwise prerequisite relations that fuses multi-modal features as input.

    2
  • Predicting Concept-Based Research Trends with Rhetorical Framing

    Jifan Yu, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Xiaoping Du

    Communications in computer and information science · 2018

    2
  • LEDOM: Reverse Language Model

    Xunjian Yin, Sitao Cheng, Yuxi Xie, Xinyu Hu, Li Lin, Xinyi Wang, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang, +1 more

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2026

    This work trains LEDOM, an open-source purely reverse autoregressive language model, and finds it develops capabilities distinct from forward models, including abductive inference, question synthesis, and natural resolution of the reversal curse.

    1
  • Position: AI/ML Influencers Have a Place in the Academic Process

    Iain Weissburg, Mehir Arora, Wang, Xinyi, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang

    arXiv · 2024

    1
  • Modeling What-to-ask and How-to-ask for Answer-unaware Conversational Question Generation

    Xuan Long, Bowei Zou, Shafiq Joty, Tran Tai, Liangming Pan, Nancy F. Chen, Ai Ti Aw

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2023

    1
  • Boosting to Build a Large-Scale Cross-Lingual Ontology

    Zhigang Wang, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Shuangjie Li, Mingyang Li, Jie Tang

    Communications in computer and information science · 2016

    This paper proposes a cross-lingually boosting approach to iteratively reinforce the performance of ontology building and instance matching, and outputs an ontology containing over 3,520,000 English instances, 800,000 Chinese instances, and over 150,000 cross-lingsual instance alignments.

    1
  • Does Steering Break Your Model? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Suite for LLM Steering Methods

    Haotian Yang, Huikang Jiang, Yucheng Wu, Wenjie Jiang, Chenpeng Wang, Yibin Lou, Liangming Pan

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Large Reasoning Models: A Survey of Training, Inference, and Failures

    Yi Na Hu, Jiaqi Gu, Ruxin Wang, Zijun Yao, Hao Peng, Xiaobao Wu, Jianhui Chen, Muhan Zhang, +1 more

    2026

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  • Opening the Black Box: A Survey on the Mechanisms of Multi-Step Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Liangming Pan, Jason Liang, Jiaran Ye, Minglai Yang, Xinyuan Lu, Fengbin Zhu

    arXiv · 2026

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  • HOLMES: Evaluating Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in LLMs

    Yucheng Wu, Jundong Xu, Mingzhen Ju, Yue Yu, Chenpeng Wang, Haoxuan Li, Liangming Pan

    arXiv · 2026

    HOLMES (Higher-Order Logic Meets real-world Explainable Symbolic reasoning), the first real-world benchmark for higher-order symbolic reasoning in LLMs, is introduced, revealing that high final-answer accuracy can mask shortcut reasoning in conflict-resolution settings, while performance drops sharply under scope-conditioned and compositional reasoning.

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  • Towards Temporal-Aware Multi-Modal Retrieval Augmented Generation in Finance

    Fengbin Zhu, Li, Junfeng, Liangming Pan, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Chao Wang, Huanbo Luan, Tat‐Seng Chua

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2025

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  • InductionBench: LLMs Fail in the Simplest Complexity Class

    Wenyue Hua, Tyler Wong, Fei Sun, Liangming Pan, Adam Jardine, William Yang Wang

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2025

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  • AKEW: Assessing Knowledge Editing in the Wild

    Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu

    arXiv · 2024

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  • Causally Estimating the Sensitivity of Neural NLP Models to Spurious Features

    Yunxiang Zhang, Liangming Pan, Samson Tan, Min‐Yen Kan

    arXiv · 2021

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