Rui Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University

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He is a co-director of the PSU Natural Language Processing Lab. His research interest lies in Trustworthy Human-Centered AI, LLM Agents, and AI for Science. He received an NSF CAREER Award, a Microsoft Research Award, an Amazon Research Award, an eBay Research Award, and a Cisco Research Award. He received B.S. degrees from both Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Michigan in 2015 and received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Yale University in 2020. He has done industry research internships at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Grammarly Research, and Google AI.  </div> <div class="row mb-3"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Research Interests</h2> I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. I work on both Science of LLMs and LLMs for Science, especially focusing on <br> <br> <ul> <li>Trustworthy Human-Centered AI (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.00947">VisOnlyQA</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/ReaLMistake">ReaLMistake</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/FairSumm">FairSumm</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/FaMeSumm">FameSumm</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/MACSum">MACSum</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/Summ-N">Summ<sup><i>N</i></sup></a>)</li> <li>LLM Agents (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.02818">Chain of Agents</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/XSemPLR">XSemPLR</a>, <a href="https://yale-lily.github.io/spider">Spider</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ryanzhumich/editsql">EditSQL</a>, <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/MultiHiertt">MultiHiertt</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04381.pdf">Hermes</a>)</li>  <li>AI for Scientific Discoveries and Research Activities (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGkMalkgD8&t=1s&ab_channel=PennAITech">AI for Nursing</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04381.pdf">Security</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02271.pdf">Healthcare</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.15317.pdf">Education</a>)</li> </ul> </div> <div id='news' class="row mb-3" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">News</h2> <div style="height: 300px; overflow-y: scroll;"> <ul id="news"> <li>1/2025: Two papers are accepted at ICLR 2025, and two papers are accepted at NAACL 2025. </li> <li>11/2024: We are organizing a workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization at EMNLP 2025.</li> <li>11/2024: Honored to be recognized as an Outstanding Area Chair at EMNLP 2024!</li> <li>11/2024: We received an NSF NAIRR Pilot grant to support our project on AI for Nursing. Thanks, NSF! <li>10/2024: We will present a tutorial on <a href="https://www.wenpengyin.org/publications/beyond-llm-scaling-emnlp24">Enhancing LLM Capabilities Beyond Scaling Up</a> and three papers on LLM self-correction, LLM deductive reasoning, and LLM for assisting research at EMNLP 2024.</li> <li>9/2024: One paper on multiagent collaboratoin for long-context tasks is accepted at NeurIPS 2024.</li> <li>9/2024: My NSF CAREER proposal <a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/qa-centering-people-advancing-artificial-intelligence-nsf-career-award">Trustworthy Human-Centered Summarization</a> is awarded!</li> <li>9/2024: Two papers are accepted at EMNLP 2024.</li> <li>9/2024: We received an award on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGkMalkgD8&t=1s&ab_channel=PennAITech">AI for Nursing</a>. Thanks, NIH and PennAITech! <li>9/2024: We received an Microsoft research award on <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ai-and-the-new-future-of-work/recipients/">AI and the New Future of Work</a>. Thanks, Microsoft! <li>8/2024: One survey paper on LLM self-correction is accepted at TACL 2024.</li> <li>7/2024: One paper on LLM error detection is accepted at COLM 2024.</li> <li>6/2024: Congratulations to Haoran for passing his Comprehensive Exam!</li> <li>6/2024: We are organizing a <a href="https://sites.psu.edu/csesummercamp2024/">CSE Summer Camp on Exploring AI with CS and Minecraft </a> for middle school students!</li> <li>5/2024: Two papers are accepted at ACL 2024.</li> <li>5/2024: Serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024 and EMNLP 2024.</li> <li>4/2024: Congratulations to Nan for passing his Comprehensive Exam!</li> <li>3/2024: Two papers on fairness of LLM summarization and LLM compression have been accepted to NAACL 2024.</li> <li>3/2024: We are organizing an <a href="https://ai4research.github.io/">AI for Research</a> workshop at IJCAI 2024. Please submit your work! <li>1/2024: One paper on text generation evalaution has been accepted to ICLR 2024.</li> <li>12/2023: I give a talk on <a href="">Fairness of LLMs on Summarization</a> at EMNLP 2023 NewSumm workshop.</li> <li>11/2023: I am a candidate for <a href="https://naacl.org/elections/2024/index.html">NAACL Board Member</a> to serve our community! Please cast your vote! </li> <li>11/2023: Congratulations to Sarkar for passing his Comprehensive Exam!</li> <li>10/2023: Three papers on factual medical summarization, parameter-efficient finetuning for sequence labeling, and LLM for programming education have been accepted to EMNLP 2023.</li> <li>10/2023: One paper on semantic parsing for security standard documents has been accepted to USENIX Security 2024.</li> <li>8/2023: Welcome Ryo and Xiaoxin joining our lab!</li> <li>8/2023: Congratulations to Yusen for passing his Comprehensive Exam!</li> <li>7/2023: Serve as a Tutorial Chair for NAACL 2024 and an Area Chair for EMNLP 2023, NeurIPS 2023, and AACL 2023.</li> <li>2/2023: Our <a href="https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/teams/evoquerbot-taskbot-challenge-2">EvoquerBOT</a> team is participating in the <a href="https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/ten-university-teams-selected-for-alexa-prize-taskbot-challenge-2">Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2</a>. "Alexa, Let's work together"!</li> <li>2/2023: Please join us on <a href="https://twitter.com/knowledgenlp/status/1623904412539183104">the panel on Knowledge, NLP, and LLM</a> at the AAAI 2023 workshop on Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP! <li>1/2023: This semester I am teaching <a href="587.html">CSE 587 Deep Learninig for Natural Language Processing</a>. <li>12/2022: Give talks at University of Pennsylvania and Penn State CSE Semniar on <a href="talk_sp_llm.pdf">Semantic Parsing in the Era of Large Language Models</a>.</li> <li>11/2022: Congratulations to Jason for winning the CAFE AI Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis!</li> <li>10/2022: Three papers on semantic parsing and structured knowledge accepted in EMNLP 2022.</li> <li>8/2022: Give invited talks at Amazon, The University of Tokyo, PSU REU Seminar, and MLNLP Seminar on <a href="talk_contrastive_ner.pdf">Contrastive Learning for NLP: A Case Study in Few-shot Named Entity Recognition</a>.</li> <li>[Tutorial@NAACL2022] We are presenting a tutorial on <a href="https://contrastive-nlp-tutorial.github.io/">Contrastive Data and Learning for Natural Language Processing</a> at NAACL 2022 with Yangfeng Ji, Yue Zhang, Rebecca Passonneau.</li> <li>[Workshop@NAACL2022] We are co-organizing the Workshop on <a href="https://suki-workshop.github.io/">Structured and Unstructured Knowledge Integration (SUKI)</a> at NAACL 2022.</li> <li>[Workshop@NAACL2022] We are co-organizing the Workshop on <a href="https://mia-workshop.github.io/">Multilingual Information Access (MIA)</a> at NAACL 2022.</li> <li>6/2022: Congratulations to Yusen and Sarkar on winning the Dr. Tse-Yun Feng Graduate Student Award (outstanding RA award in the CSE department)!</li> <li>5/2022: Congratulations to graduate students starting their research internships at Amazon and Microsoft!</li> <li>3/2022: Four papers accepted in ACL 2022 on Long-Text Summarization, Few-shot NER, Numerical Reasoning in Tables and Text. Congratulations to Yusen, Sarkar, Yilun, and all co-authors!</li> <li>1/2022: Welcome Haoran joining our lab!</li> <li>9/2021: Two papers accepted in Findings of EMNLP 2021. Congratulations to Yusen and all the co-authors!</li> <li>8/2021: Welcome Yusen, Nan, and Sarkar joining our lab!</li> <li>5/2021: Two papers (1 long and 1 long Findings) are accepted at ACL 2021.</li> <li>4/2021: Receive an <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/program-updates/2020-amazon-research-awards-recipients-announced">Amazon Research Award</a> to work on Conversational QA systems over Tables. Thanks Amazon!</li> <li>3/2021: DART is accepted at NAACL 2021.</li> <li>3/2021: Serving as an Area Chair in Summarization Track for EMNLP 2021 and NLPCC 2021.</li> <li>1/2021: SCoRe is accepted at ICLR 2021.</li> <li>12/2020: Serving as an Area Chair in Summarization Track for NAACL 2021.</li> <li>10/2020: Talk at UPenn CLunch.</li> <li>11/2020: We are organizing the workshop on <a href="https://intex-sempar.github.io/">Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing (IntEx-SemPar 2020) </a> located with EMNLP 2020. Please submit your work!</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id='news' class="row mb-3" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Media</h2>  <ul id="news"> <li>1/2025. Google Research Blog: <a href="https://research.google/blog/chain-of-agents-large-language-models-collaborating-on-long-context-tasks">Chain of Agents: Large language models collaborating on long-context tasks</a></li> <li>12/2024. Daily Papers: <a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2412.09722">GReaTer: Gradients over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers</a></li> <li>12/2024. Daily Papers: <a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2412.00947">VisOnlyQA: Large Vision Language Models Still Struggle with Visual Perception of Geometric Information</a></li> <li>10/2024. PSU News: <a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/qa-centering-people-advancing-artificial-intelligence-nsf-career-award">Q&A: Centering people, advancing artificial intelligence with NSF CAREER award</a></li> <li>7/2024. PennAITech: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGkMalkgD8&t=1s&ab_channel=PennAITech">Task-Oriented Multimodal Conversational AI for Assisting Seniors with Daily Tasks</a></li> <li>2/2024. PSU News: <a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/information-sciences-and-technology/story/improving-efficiency-reliability-ai-medical-summarization">Improving efficiency, reliability of AI medical summarization tools</a></li> <li>9/2021. PSU News: <a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/academics/story/two-faculty-members-receive-amazon-research-awards">Two faculty members receive Amazon Research Awards</a></li> </ul>  </div> <div id='publications' class="row mb-3" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Publications </h2>  <h4>2025</h4> <div class='paper_title'> GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ryo Kamoi, Bo Pang, Yusen Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Rui Zhang<br /> <i>ICLR 2025</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09722">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/GreaTer">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Nan Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Alexander Fabbri, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro, Rui Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu<br /> <i>ICLR 2025</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06206">[paper]</a> <a href="">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> From Lazy to Prolific: Tackling Missing Labels in Open Vocabulary Extreme Classification by Positive-Unlabeled Sequence Learning </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Haoran Ranran Zhang, Bensu U莽ar, Soumik Dey, Hansi Wu, Binbin Li, Rui Zhang<br /> <i>NAACL 2025 - Findings</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.08981">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Coverage-based Fairness in Multi-document Summarization </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Haoyuan Li, Yusen Zhang, Rui Zhang, Snigdha Chaturvedi<br /> <i>NAACL 2025</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.08795">[paper]</a> <a href="">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <h4>2024</h4> <div class='paper_title'> VisOnlyQA: Large Vision Language Models Still Struggle with Visual Perception of Geometric Information </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Rui Zhang<br /> <i>Preprint</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.00947">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/VisOnlyQA">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Verbosity ≠ Veracity: Demystify Verbosity Compensation Behavior of Large Language Models </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Rui Zhang<br /> <i>Preprint</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07858">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/VerbosityLLM">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Direct-Inverse Prompting: Analyzing LLMs' Discriminative Capacity in Self-Improving Generation </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Jihyun Janice Ahn, Ryo Kamoi, Lu Cheng, Rui Zhang, Wenpeng Yin <br /> <i>Preprint</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.11017">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Chain of Agents: Large Language Models Collaborating on Long-Context Tasks </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Ruoxi Sun, Yanfei Chen, Tomas Pfister, Rui Zhang, Sercan 脰. Ar谋k<br /> <i>NeurIPS 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.02818">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> When Can LLMs Actually Correct Their Own Mistakes? A Critical Survey of Self-Correction of LLMs </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Jiawei Han, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>TACL 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01297">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Evaluating LLMs at Detecting Errors in LLM Responses </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ryo Kamoi, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Renze Lou, Jihyun Janice Ahn, Yilun Zhao, Xiaoxin Lu, Nan Zhang, Yusen Zhang, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Sujeeth Reddy Vummanthala, Salika Dave, Shaobo Qin, Arman Cohan, Wenpeng Yin, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>COLM 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03602.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/ReaLMistake">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Fair Abstractive Summarization of Diverse Perspectives </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Yixin Liu, Alexander Fabbri, Junru Liu, Ryo Kamoi, Xiaoxin Lu, Caiming Xiong, Jieyu Zhao, Dragomir Radev, Kathleen McKeown, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>NAACL 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07884.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/fairsumm">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Pruning as a Domain-specific LLM Extractor </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Nan Zhang, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Wei Cheng, Runxue Bao, Rui Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Haifeng Chen <br /> <i>NAACL 2024 - Findings</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06275">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/D-Pruner">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> MT-Ranker: Reference-free Machine Translation Evaluation by Inter-system Ranking </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ibraheem Muhammad Moosa, Rui Zhang, Wenpeng Yin <br /> <i>ICLR 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17099.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/ibraheem-moosa/mt-ranker">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> DocMath-Eval: Evaluating Math Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in Understanding Long and Specialized Documents </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yilun Zhao, Yitao Long, Hongjun Liu, Linyong Nan, Lyuhao Chen, Ryo Kamoi, Yixin Liu, Xiangru Tang, Rui Zhang, Arman Cohan <br /> <i>ACL 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.09805.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> FinanceMATH: Knowledge-Intensive Math Reasoning in Finance Domains </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yilun Zhao, Hongjun Liu, Yitao Long, Rui Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan <br /> <i>ACL 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.09797.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> LLMs assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Jiangshu Du, Yibo Wang, Wenting Zhao, Zhongfen Deng, Shuaiqi Liu, Renze Lou, Henry Peng Zou, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Nan Zhang, Mukund Srinath, Haoran Ranran Zhang, Vipul Gupta, Yinghui Li, Tao Li, Fei Wang, Qin Liu, Tianlin Liu, Pengzhi Gao, Congying Xia, Chen Xing, Jiayang Cheng, Zhaowei Wang, Ying Su, Raj Sanjay Shah, Ruohao Guo, Jing Gu, Haoran Li, Kangda Wei, Zihao Wang, Lu Cheng, Surangika Ranathunga, Meng Fang, Jie Fu, Fei Liu, Ruihong Huang, Eduardo Blanco, Yixin Cao, Rui Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Wenpeng Yin <br /> <i>EMNLP 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.16253">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> FOLIO: Natural Language Reasoning with First-Order Logic </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Simeng Han, Hailey Schoelkopf, Yilun Zhao, Zhenting Qi, Martin Riddell, Wenfei Zhou, James Coady, David Peng, Yujie Qiao, Luke Benson, Lucy Sun, Alex Wardle-Solano, Hannah Szabo, Ekaterina Zubova, Matthew Burtell, Jonathan Fan, Yixin Liu, Brian Wong, Malcolm Sailor, Ansong Ni, Linyong Nan, Jungo Kasai, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Alexander R. Fabbri, Wojciech Kryscinski, Semih Yavuz, Ye Liu, Xi Victoria Lin, Shafiq Joty, Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Rex Ying, Arman Cohan, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>EMNLP 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00840">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Yale-LILY/FOLIO">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Enhancing LLM Capabilities Beyond Scaling Up </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Wenpeng Yin, Muhao Chen, Rui Zhang, Ben Zhou, Fei Wang, Dan Roth <br /> <i>Tutorial at EMNLP 2024 </i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-tutorials.1.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://www.wenpengyin.org/publications/beyond-llm-scaling-emnlp24">[website]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Large Language Models for Mathematical Reasoning: Progresses and Challenges </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Janice Ahn, Rishu Verma, Renze Lou, Di Liu, Rui Zhang, Wenpeng Yin <br /> <i>EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00157.pdf">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Veiled Pathways: Investigating Covert and Side Channels within GPU Uncore </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yuanqing Miao, Yingtian Zhang, Dinghao Wu, Danfeng Zhang, Gang Tan, Rui Zhang, Mahmut Kandemir <br /> <i>MICRO 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="">[paper]</a> <a href="">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <h4>2023</h4> <div class='paper_title'> FaMeSumm: Investigating and Improving Faithfulness of Medical Summarization </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Nan Zhang, Yusen Zhang, Wu Guo, Prasenjit Mitra, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>EMNLP 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02271.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/FaMeSumm">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Unified Low-Resource Sequence Labeling by Sample-Aware Dynamic Sparse Finetuning </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Peng Shi, Wenpeng Yin, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>EMNLP 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.03748.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/FISH-DIP">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Generating Code-Tracing Questions for Introductory Programming Courses </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Aysa Xuemo Fan, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Luc Paquette, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>Findings of EMNLP 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.15317.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> XSemPLR: Cross-Lingual Semantic Parsing in Multiple Natural Languages and Meaning Representations </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhiguo Wang, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>ACL 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04085.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/XSemPLR">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> MACSum: Controllable Summarization with Mixed Attributes </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Yang Liu, Ziyi Yang, Yuwei Fang, Yulong Chen, Dragomir Radev, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>TACL 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05041">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/MACSum">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> ConEntail: An Entailment-based Framework for Universal Zero and Few Shot Classification with Supervised Contrastive Pretraining </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ranran Haoran Zhang, Aysa Xuemo Fan, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>EACL 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07587">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/ConEntail">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Hermes: Unlocking Security Analysis of Cellular Network Protocols by Synthesizing Finite State Machines from Natural Language Specifications </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar, Kai Tu, Tianwei Wu, Zhezheng Song, Weixuan Wang, Mujtahid Al-Islam Akon, Rui Zhang, Syed Rafiul Hussain <br /> <i>USENIX Security 2024</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04381.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/SyNSec-den/hermes-spec-to-fsm">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Selective Annotation Makes Language Models Better Few-Shot Learners </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Hongjin Su, Jungo Kasai, Chen Henry Wu, Weijia Shi, Tianlu Wang, Jiayi Xin, Rui Zhang, Mari Ostendorf, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A. Smith, Tao Yu <br /> <i>ICLR 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01975">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/HKUNLP/icl-selective-annotation">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <h4>2022</h4> <div class='paper_title'> XRICL: Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning for Cross-lingual Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Peng Shi, Rui Zhang, He Bai, Jimmy Lin <br /> <i>Findings of EMNLP 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13693.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Impavidity/XRICL">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> ReasTAP: Injecting Table Reasoning Skills During Pre-training via Synthetic Reasoning Examples </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yilun Zhao, Linyong Nan, Zhenting Qi, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev <br /> <i>EMNLP 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12374">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Yale-LILY/ReasTAP">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> UnifiedSKG: Unifying and Multi-Tasking Structured Knowledge Grounding with Text-to-Text Language Models </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tianbao Xie, Chen Henry Wu, Peng Shi, Ruiqi Zhong, Torsten Scholak, Michihiro Yasunaga, Chien-Sheng Wu, Ming Zhong, Pengcheng Yin, Sida I Wang, Victor Zhong, Bailin Wang, Chengzu Li, Connor Boyle, Ansong Ni, Ziyu Yao, Dragomir Radev, Caiming Xiong, Lingpeng Kong, Rui Zhang, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer, Tao Yu <br /> <i>EMNLP 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05966">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/hkunlp/unifiedskg">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Summ<sup><i>N</i></sup>: A Multi-Stage Summarization Framework for Long Input Dialogues and Documents </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang, Ansong Ni, Ziming Mao, Chen Henry Wu, Chenguang Zhu, Budhaditya Deb, Ahmed H. Awadallah, Dragomir Radev, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>ACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10150">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/Summ-N">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> CONTaiNER: Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Contrastive Learning </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Arzoo Katiyar, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>ACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07589">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/CONTaiNER">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> MultiHiertt: Numerical Reasoning over Multi Hierarchical Tabular and Textual Data </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yilun Zhao, Yunxiang Li, Chenying Li, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>ACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.454">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/psunlpgroup/MultiHiertt">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> DYLE: Dynamic Latent Extraction for Abstractive Long-Input Summarization </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Ziming Mao, Chen Henry Wu, Ansong Ni, Yusen Zhang, Rui Zhang, Tao Yu, Budhaditya Deb, Chenguang Zhu, Ahmed H. Awadallah, Dragomir Radev <br /> <i>ACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08168">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Yale-LILY/DYLE">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Contrastive Data and Learning for Natural Language Processing </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Yangfeng Ji, Yue Zhang, Rebecca J. Passonneau <br /> <i>Tutorial at NAACL 2022 </i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-tutorials.6/">[paper]</a> <a href="https://contrastive-nlp-tutorial.github.io/">[website]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> MIA 2022 Shared Task: Evaluating Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for 16 Diverse Languages </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Akari Asai, Shayne Longpre, Jungo Kasai, Chia-Hsuan Lee, Rui Zhang, Junjie Hu, Ikuya Yamada, Jonathan H Clark, Eunsol Choi <br /> <i>Workshop on Multilingual Information Access (MIA) at NAACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00758">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/mia-workshop/MIA-Shared-Task-2022">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models </div> <div class='paper_rest'> with many authors in the BIG-bench Team<br /> <i>TMLR 2023</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04615">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/google/BIG-bench">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model </div> <div class='paper_rest'> with many authors in the BigScience Research Workshop<br /> <i>Preprint</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100">[paper]</a> <a href="https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> FeTaQA: Free-form Table Question Answering </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Linyong Nan, Chiachun Hsieh, Ziming Mao, Xi Victoria Lin, Neha Verma, Rui Zhang, Wojciech Kry艣ci艅ski, Nick Schoelkopf, Riley Kong, Xiangru Tang, Murori Mutuma, Ben Rosand, Isabel Trindade, Renusree Bandaru, Jacob Cunningham, Caiming Xiong, Dragomir Radev <br /> <i>TACL 2022</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.00369.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Yale-LILY/FeTaQA">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <h4>2021</h4> <div class='paper_title'> Structured in Space, Randomized in Time: Leveraging Dropout in RNNs for Efficient Training </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Anup Sarma, Sonali Singh, Huaipan Jiang, Rui Zhang, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Chita R. Das <br /> <i>NeurIPS 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.12089.pdf">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> An Exploratory Study on Long Dialogue Summarization: What Works and What's Next </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yusen Zhang*, Ansong Ni*, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Budhaditya Deb, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Dragomir Radev <br /> *: Equal Contribution <br /> <i>Findings of EMNLP 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04609.pdf">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Adaku Uchendu, Zeyu Ma, Thai Le, Rui Zhang, Dongwon Lee <br /> <i>Findings of EMNLP 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.13296.pdf">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Yanda Chen, Chris Kedzie, Suraj Nair, Petra Galuscakova, Rui Zhang, Douglas Oard, Kathleen McKeown <br /> <i>ACL 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02293.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/yandachen/Low-resource-CLSS">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Logic-Consistency Text Generation from Semantic Parses </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Chang Shu*, Yusen Zhang*, Xiangyu Dong, Peng Shi, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang <br /> *: Equal Contribution <br /> <i>Findings of ACL 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.388.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Ciaranshu/relogic">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> DART: Open-Domain Structured Data Record to Text Generation </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Linyong Nan, Dragomir Radev, Rui Zhang, Amrit Rau, Abhinand Sivaprasad, Chiachun Hsieh, Xiangru Tang, Aadit Vyas, Neha Verma, Pranav Krishna, Yangxiaokang Liu, Nadia Irwanto, Jessica Pan, Faiaz Rahman, Ahmad Zaidi, Murori Mutuma, Yasin Tarabar, Ankit Gupta, Tao Yu, Yi Chern Tan, Xi Victoria Lin, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Nazneen Fatema Rajani <br /> <i>NAACL 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02871">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/Yale-LILY/dart">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> SCoRe: Pre-Training for Context Representation in Conversational Semantic Parsing </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu,Rui Zhang, Oleksandr Polozov, Christopher Meek, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah <br /> <i>ICLR 2021</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=oyZxhRI2RiE">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <h4>2020 and before</h4> <div class='paper_title'> ESPRIT: Explaining Solutions to Physical Reasoning Tasks </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Nazneen Fatema Rajani*, Rui Zhang*, Yi Chern Tan, Stephan Zheng, Jeremy Weiss, Aadit Vyas, Abhijit Gupta, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Dragomir Radev <br /> *: Equal Contribution <br /> <i>ACL 2020</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.00730.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/salesforce/esprit">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> MATERIALizing Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Snapshot </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Petra Galuscakova, Douglas Oard, Joe Barrow, Suraj Nair, Shing Han-Chin, Elena Zotkina, Ramy Eskander, Rui Zhang <br /> <i>LREC 2020 Workshop on CLSSTS</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="">[paper]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Editing-Based SQL Query Generation for Cross-Domain Context-Dependent Questions </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Tao Yu, He Yang Er, Sungrok Shim, Eric Xue, Xi Victoria Lin, Tianze Shi, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>EMNLP 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00786.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/ryanzhumich/editsql">[code]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> CoSQL: A Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Towards Cross-Domain Natural Language Interfaces to Databases </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, He Yang Er, Suyi Li, Eric Xue, Bo Pang, Xi Victoria Lin, Yi Chern Tan, Tianze Shi, Zihan Li, Youxuan Jiang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Sungrok Shim, Tao Chen, Alexander Fabbri, Zifan Li, Luyao Chen, Yuwen Zhang, Shreya Dixit, Vincent Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Walter Lasecki and Dragomir Radev<br/> <i>EMNLP 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05378">[paper]</a> <a href="https://yale-lily.github.io/cosql">[dataset and leaderboard]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Improving Low-Resource Cross-lingual Document Retrieval by Reranking with Deep Bilingual Representations </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Caitlin Westerfield, Sungrok Shim, Garrett Bingham, Alexander Fabbri, Neha Verma, William Hu, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>ACL 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.03492.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z1hxAWoxUm3cnpt1NBfpm1AX57ZdcRr2p4cVdfpUs4A/edit?usp=sharing">[slides]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> This Email Could Save Your Life: Introducing the Task of Email Subject Line Generation </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Joel Tetreault<br /> <i>ACL 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.03497.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/ryanzhumich/AESLC">[dataset]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> SParC: Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing in Context </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Yi Chern Tan, Xi Victoria Lin, Suyi Li, Heyang Er, Irene Li, Bo Pang, Tao Chen, Emily Ji, Shreya Dixit, David Proctor, Sungrok Shim, Jonathan Kraft, Vincent Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>ACL 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02285.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://yale-lily.github.io/sparc">[dataset and leaderboard]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Surprise Languages: Rapid-Response Cross-Language IR </div> <div class='paper_rest'> with Douglas W. Oard, Petra Galuscakova, Kathleen McKeown, Dragomir Radev and many authors<br /> <i>EVIA 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings14/pdf/evia/04-EVIA2019-EVIA-OardD.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> ScisummNet: A Large Annotated Corpus and Content-Impact Models for Scientific Paper Summarization with Citation Networks </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Michihiro Yasunaga, Jungo Kasai, Rui Zhang, Alexander Fabbri, Irene Li, Dan Friedman, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>AAAI 2019</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01716.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/~myasu/projects/scisumm_net/">[dataset]</a></span> </div> <br>  <div class='paper_title'> Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Kai Yang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Dongxu Wang, Zifan Li, James Ma, Irene Li, Qingning Yao, Shanelle Roman, Zilin Zhang, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>EMNLP 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.08887.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://yale-lily.github.io/spider">[dataset and leaderboard]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> SyntaxSQLNet: Syntax Tree Networks for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Task </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu, Michihiro Yasunaga, Kai Yang, Rui Zhang, Dongxu Wang, Zifan Li, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>EMNLP 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05237">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/taoyds/syntaxSQL">[code]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Neural Coreference Resolution with Deep Biaffine Attention by Joint Mention Detection and Mention Clustering </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Michihiro Yasunaga, Bing Xiang, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>ACL 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04893.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Improving Text-to-SQL Evaluation Methodology </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Li Zhang, Karthik Ramanathan, Sesh Sadasivam, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>ACL 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.09029.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/jkkummerfeld/text2sql-data">[code]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> TypeSQL: Knowledge-based Type-Aware Neural Text-to-SQL Generation </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Tao Yu, Zifan Li, Zilin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>NAACL 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.09769.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/taoyds/typesql">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Addressee and Response Selection in Multi-Party Conversations with Speaker Interaction RNNs </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Honglak Lee, Lazaros Polymenakos, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>AAAI 2018</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.04005.pdf">[paper]</a> <a href="https://github.com/ryanzhumich/sirnn">[code]</a> </span> </div> <br>  <div class='paper_title'> Graph-based Neural Multi-Document Summarization </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Michihiro Yasunaga, Rui Zhang, Kshitijh Meelu, Ayush Pareek, Krishnan Srinivasan, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>CoNLL 2017</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K/K17/K17-1045.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> <br>  <div class='paper_title'> Effects of Creativity and Cluster Tightness on Short Text Clustering </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Reed Coke, Rui Zhang, Xiangyi Ye, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>ACL 2016</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-1062.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> <br> <div class='paper_title'> Dependency Sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks for Modeling Sentences and Documents </div> <div class='paper_rest'> Rui Zhang, Honglak Lee, Dragomir Radev<br /> <i>NAACL 2016</i>   <span style="font-size: 15px"> <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N16/N16-1177.pdf">[paper]</a></span> </div> </div> <div id='teaching' class="row mb-3" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Teaching</h2> <a href="442.html">CMPSC 442 Artificial Intelligence</a>, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2021. <br> <a href="448.html">CMPSC 448 Machine Learning</a>, Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020. <br> <a href="587.html">CSE 587 Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing</a>, Spring 2023, Spring 2022. <br> </div> <div id='talks' class="row" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Recent Talks</h2> Gradient-based Prompt Optimization for LLM Reasoning <ul> <li>eBay Tech Talk. Dec, 2024.</li> </ul> How Can LLMs Help Peer Review? <ul> <li>LLM for Science Birds-of-a-Feather. NAACL 2024. June, 2024.</li> </ul> Are Large Language Models Fair Summarizers? <ul> <li>New Frontiers in Summarization workshop at EMNLP 2023. Dec, 2023.</li> </ul> Trustworthy Human-Centered Summarization <ul> <li>eBay. June, 2023.</li> <li>Cisco. June, 2023.</li> </ul> Semantic Parsing in the Era of Large Language Models <ul> <li>Penn State CSE Faculty Seminar. Dec, 2022.</li> <li>University of Pennsylvania. CLunch - Penn NLP. Oct, 2022.</li> </ul> Contrastive Learning for Natural Language Processing <ul> <li>Amazon AWS. August, 2022.</li> <li>MLNLP Seminar. July, 2022.</li> <li>Penn State NSF REU Site: Machine Learning in Cybersecurity. July, 2022.</li> <li>The University of Tokyo. July, 2022.</li> </ul>  </div> <div id='workshopandtutorial' class="row" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Workshop and Tutorial</h2> <ul> <li>EMNLP 2025 workshop: <a href="">New Frontiers in Summarization</a></li> <li>EMNLP 2024 tutorial: <a href="https://www.wenpengyin.org/publications/beyond-llm-scaling-emnlp24">Enhancing LLM Capabilities Beyond Scaling Up</a></li> <li>IJCAI 2024 workshop: <a href="https://ai4research.github.io/">AI for Research</a></li> <li> NAACL 2022 tutorial: <a href="https://contrastive-nlp-tutorial.github.io/">Contrastive Data and Learning for Natural Language Processing</a></li> <li> NAACL 2022 workshop: <a href="https://suki-workshop.github.io/">Structured and Unstructured Knowledge Integration (SUKI)</a></li> <li> NAACL 2022 workshop: <a href="https://mia-workshop.github.io/">Multilingual Information Access (MIA)</a></li> <li> EMNLP 2020 workshop: <a href="https://intex-sempar.github.io/">Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing (IntEx-SemPar)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id='service' class="row" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Service</h2> <ul> <li>Tutorial Chair: NAACL 2025, NAACL 2024</li> <li>Area Chair: COLING 2025, NeurIPS 2024, EMNLP 2024, EMNLP 2023, NeurIPS 2023, AACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, NLPCC 2022, NAACL 2021, EMNLP 2021, NLPCC 2021</li> <li>Conference Reviewer: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLM, AAAI, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICASSP</li> <li>Journal Action Editor: TMLR</li> <li>Journal Reviewer: JAIR, TPAMI, TACL, TKDE, TALLIP</li> </ul> </div> <div id='outreach' class="row" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Outreach</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://sites.psu.edu/csesummercamp2024/">2024 CSE Summer Camp for Middle School Students</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yb4lshsTsXkczT5MUCINA">ACL Year-Round Mentorship</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1S6ep00aE4&ab_channel=ACLYear-RoundMentorship">Applying for a PhD in NLP</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id='funding' class="row" style="scroll-margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <h2 style="color:#002D62;">Funding</h2>  We thank NSF, NIH and PennAITech, Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, and Cisco for their supports.  </div> <div align=center> <a href="https://clustrmaps.com/site/1bv14" title="Visit tracker"><img src="//clustrmaps.com/map_v2.png?cl=ffffff&w=300&t=m&d=9-N_pTsoHAo-57spLu08VyrKU8allsHazVYjXZicZcw&co=2d78ad&ct=ffffff" /></a> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="copyright" > &copy Rui Zhang 2/2025 </div> </body> </html>

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