Selected Publications

You can find a full list of my papers on my Google Scholar.

• A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems
  Zixuan Ke, Fangkai Jiao, Yifei Ming, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Austin Xu, Do Xuan Long, Minzhi Li, Chengwei Qin, Peifeng Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Shafiq Joty. Preprint.
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• Unicorn: Text-Only Data Synthesis for Vision Language Model Training
  Xiaomin Yu, Pengxiang Ding, Wenjie Zhang, Siteng Huang, Songyang Gao, Chengwei Qin, Kejian Wu, Zhaoxin Fan, Ziyue Qiao, Donglin Wang. Preprint.
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• StructTest: Benchmarking LLMs’ Reasoning through Compositional Structured Outputs
  Hailin Chen*, Fangkai Jiao*, Mathieu Ravaut*, Nawshad Farruque*, Xuan Phi Nguyen*, Chengwei Qin, Manan Dey, Bosheng Ding, Caiming Xiong, Shafiq Joty, Yingbo Zhou. Preprint.
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• A Comprehensive Survey of Contamination Detection Methods in Large Language Models
  Mathieu Ravaut*, Bosheng Ding*, Fangkai Jiao, Hailin Chen, Xingxuan Li, Ruochen Zhao, Chengwei Qin, Caiming Xiong, Shafiq Joty. Preprint. [Paper]

• Learning Auxiliary Tasks Improves Reference-Free Hallucination Detection in Open-Domain Long-Form Generation
  Chengwei Qin, Wenxuan Zhou, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, Nanshu Wang, Tengyu Xu, Alexander Radovic, Eryk Helenowski, Arya Talebzadeh, Aditya Tayade, Sinong Wang, Shafiq Joty, Han Fang, Hao Ma. ACL 25 [Paper]

• Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: Assessment and Enhancement
  Ruirui Chen, Weifeng Jiang, Chengwei Qin, Cheston Tan. ACL 25 [Paper]

• Beyond Output Matching: Bidirectional Alignment for Enhanced In-Context Learning
  Chengwei Qin*, Wenhan Xia*, Fangkai Jiao, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Bosheng Ding, Ruirui Chen, Shafiq Joty. ACL 25 [Paper]

• Relevant or Random: Can LLMs Truly Perform Analogical Reasoning?
  Chengwei Qin*, Wenhan Xia*, Tan Wang*, Fangkai Jiao, Yuchen Hu, Bosheng Ding, Ruirui Chen, Shafiq Joty. ACL 25 [Paper]

• In-Context Learning with Iterative Demonstration Selection
  Chengwei Qin, Aston Zhang, Chen Chen, Anirudh Dagar, Wenming Ye. EMNLP 24
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• Learning Planning-based Reasoning by Trajectories Collection and Process Reward Synthesizing
  Fangkai Jiao, Chengwei Qin, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F Chen, Shafiq Joty. EMNLP 24
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• LLM-Based Multi-Hop Question Answering with Knowledge Graph Integration in Evolving Environments
  Ruirui Chen, Weifeng Jiang, Chengwei Qin, Ishaan Singh Rawal, Cheston Tan, Dongkyu Choi, Bo Xiong, Bo Ai. EMNLP 24
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• Self-Taught Recognizer: Toward Unsupervised Adaptation for Speech Foundation Models
  Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Chengwei Qin, Pin-Yu Chen, Eng Siong Chng, Chao Zhang. NeurIPS 24
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• Chain of LoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models via Residual Learning
  Wenhan Xia*, Chengwei Qin*, Elad Hazan. ICML 24 Workshop on LLMs and Cognition
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• Data Augmentation using Large Language Models: Data Perspectives, Learning Paradigms and Challenges
  Bosheng Ding*, Chengwei Qin*, Ruochen Zhao*, Tianze Luo, Xinze Li, Guizhen Chen, Wenhan Xia, Junjie Hu, Anh Tuan Luu, Shafiq Joty. ACL 24
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• Lifelong Event Detection with Embedding Space Separation and Compaction
  Chengwei Qin, Ruirui Chen, Ruochen Zhao, Wenhan Xia, Shafiq Joty. NAACL 24
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• Is ChatGPT a General-Purpose Natural Language Processing Task Solver?
  Chengwei Qin, Aston Zhang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Jiaao Chen, Michihiro Yasunaga, Diyi Yang. EMNLP 23
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• Lifelong Sequence Generation with Dynamic Module Expansion and Adaptation
  Chengwei Qin, Chen Chen, Shafiq Joty. EMNLP 23
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• Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?
  Bosheng Ding*, Chengwei Qin*, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, Shafiq Joty, Boyang Li. ACL 23
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• Learning to Initialize: Can Meta Learning Improve Cross-task Generalization in Prompt Tuning?
  Chengwei Qin, Shafiq Joty, Qian Li, Ruochen Zhao. ACL 23
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• Verify-and-edit: A knowledge-enhanced chain-of-thought framework
  Ruochen Zhao, Xingxuan Li, Shafiq Joty, Chengwei Qin, Lidong Bing. ACL 23
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• Hearing Lips in Noise: Universal Viseme-Phoneme Mapping and Transfer for Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
  Yuchen Hu, Ruizhe Li, Chen Chen, Chengwei Qin, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng. ACL 23
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• Continual Few-shot Relation Learning via Embedding Space Regularization and Data Augmentation
  Chengwei Qin, Shafiq Joty. ACL 22
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• LFPT5: A Unified Framework for Lifelong Few-shot Language Learning Based on Prompt Tuning of T5
  Chengwei Qin, Shafiq Joty. ICLR 22
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