| 2026 | AAAI | Sampling-Free Uncertainty Quantification via Hidden State Dynamics in Language Models. | Yixin Bu, Guanyun Zou, Renzhi Wang, Runze Xia, Cunjun Wang, Hongliang Dai, Xiaoqing Ma, Piji Li |
| 2026 | AAAI | VPN: Visual Prompt Navigation. | Shuo Feng, Zihan Wang, Yuchen Li, Rui Kong, Hengyi Cai, Shuaiqiang Wang, Gim Hee Lee, Piji Li, Shuqiang Jiang |
| 2026 | ACL | DUD: Decoupled Update Dynamics for Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models. | Yixin Bu, Runze Xia, Guanyun Zou, Yupeng Ji, Hongliang Dai, Haodong Liu, Piji Li |
| 2026 | ACL | CRISP: Compressing Redundancy in Chain-of-Thought via Intrinsic Saliency Pruning. | Yangsong Lan, Hongliang Dai, Piji Li |
| 2026 | ACL | Leveraging Label Semantics and Entity Description Generation for LLM-based Fine-grained Entity Typing. | Yingying Ma, Hongliang Dai, Xia Zhang, Piji Li |
| 2026 | ACL | ReFreeKV: Towards Threshold-Free KV Cache Compression. | Xuanfan Ni, Liyan Xu, Chenyang Lyu, Longyue Wang, Mo Yu, Lemao Liu, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou, Piji Li |
| 2026 | ACL | Language Reconstruction with Brain Predictive Coding from fMRI Data. | Congchi Yin, Ziyi Ye, Piji Li |
| 2026 | WWW | ToolBox-RL: Learning to Generalize Tool Use Across Massive Repositories. | Xinyan Shi, Renzhi Wang, Haodong Liu, Piji Li |
| 2026 | WWW | From Reasoning LLMs to BERT: A Two-Stage Distillation Framework for Search Relevance. | Runze Xia, Yupeng Ji, Yuxi Zhou, Haodong Liu, Teng Zhang, Piji Li |
| 2025 | AAAI | MDD-5k: A New Diagnostic Conversation Dataset for Mental Disorders Synthesized via Neuro-Symbolic LLM Agents. | Congchi Yin, Feng Li, Shu Zhang, Zike Wang, Jun Shao, Piji Li, Jianhua Chen, Xun Jiang |
| 2025 | ACL | Generating Diverse Training Samples for Relation Extraction with Large Language Models. | Zexuan Li, Hongliang Dai, Piji Li |
| 2025 | ACL | Improve Language Model and Brain Alignment via Associative Memory. | Congchi Yin, Yongpeng Zhang, Xuyun Wen, Piji Li |
| 2025 | CogSci | Improving Brain-to-Image Reconstruction via Fine-Grained Text Bridging. | Runze Xia, Shuo Feng, Renzhi Wang, Congchi Yin, Xuyun Wen, Piji Li |
| 2025 | EMNLP | M-BRe: Discovering Training Samples for Relation Extraction from Unlabeled Texts with Large Language Models. | Zexuan Li, Hongliang Dai, Piji Li |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Rethinking Cross-Subject Data Splitting for Brain-to-Text Decoding. | Congchi Yin, Qian Yu, Zhiwei Fang, Changping Peng, Piji Li |
| 2025 | ICANN | ViSMoE: Visual-Aware Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Embodied Referring Expression Grounding. | Shuo Feng, Piji Li |
| 2024 | ACL | CACL: Community-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Social Media Bot Detection. | Sirry Chen, Shuo Feng, Songsong Liang, Chen-Chen Zong, Jing Li, Piji Li |
| 2024 | ACL | Semantic are Beacons: A Semantic Perspective for Unveiling Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Knowledge Learning. | Renzhi Wang, Piji Li |
| 2024 | COLING | Characteristic AI Agents via Large Language Models. | Xi Wang, Hongliang Dai, Shen Gao, Piji Li |
| 2024 | ECAI | Segmentation-Driven Image Enhancement Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Yihong Liu, Zishang Chen, Yukang Cui, Piji Li |
| 2024 | EMNLP | LEMoE: Advanced Mixture of Experts Adaptor for Lifelong Model Editing of Large Language Models. | Renzhi Wang, Piji Li |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Decoding the Echoes of Vision from fMRI: Memory Disentangling for Past Semantic Information. | Runze Xia, Congchi Yin, Piji Li |
| 2024 | EMNLP | HELPD: Mitigating Hallucination of LVLMs by Hierarchical Feedback Learning with Vision-enhanced Penalty Decoding. | Fan Yuan, Chi Qin, Xiaogang Xu, Piji Li |
| 2024 | ICASSP | An Empirical Investigation of Domain Adaptation Ability for Chinese Spelling Check Models. | Xi Wang, Ruoqing Zhao, Hongliang Dai, Piji Li |
| 2024 | IJCNN | 5W1H Extraction With Large Language Models. | Yang Cao, Yangsong Lan, Feiyan Zhai, Piji Li |
| 2023 | AAAI | Feature-Level Debiased Natural Language Understanding. | Yougang Lyu, Piji Li, Yechang Yang, Maarten de Rijke, Pengjie Ren, Yukun Zhao, Dawei Yin, Zhaochun Ren |
| 2023 | ACL | Effidit: An Assistant for Improving Writing Efficiency. | Shuming Shi, Enbo Zhao, Wei Bi, Deng Cai, Leyang Cui, Xinting Huang, Haiyun Jiang, Duyu Tang, Kaiqiang Song, Longyue Wang, Chenyan Huang, Guoping Huang, Yan Wang, Piji Li |
| 2023 | ACL | Topic-Guided Self-Introduction Generation for Social Media Users. | Chunpu Xu, Jing Li, Piji Li, Min Yang |
| 2023 | CIKM | Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Disentanglement. | Wenjie Zhou, Piji Li, Zhaoyang Han, Xiaozhen Lu, Juan Li, Zhaochun Ren, Zhe Liu |
| 2023 | CogSci | Confident Slot Iterative Learning for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking. | Qingyue Wang, Yanan Cao, Piji Li, Yanhe Fu, Zheng Lin, Cong Cao, Shi Wang, Li Guo |
| 2023 | EACL | Bridging the Gap between Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning for Commonsense Generation. | Haoran Yang, Yan Wang, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Wai Lam, Chen Xu |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Multi-Source Multi-Type Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation for Dialogue Generation. | Xuanfan Ni, Hongliang Dai, Zhaochun Ren, Piji Li |
| 2023 | EMNLP | InfoDiffusion: Information Entropy Aware Diffusion Process for Non-Autoregressive Text Generation. | Renzhi Wang, Jing Li, Piji Li |
| 2023 | ICANN | Vulnerability Analysis of Continuous Prompts for Pre-trained Language Models. | Zhicheng Li, Yundi Shi, Xuan Sheng, Changchun Yin, Lu Zhou, Piji Li |
| 2023 | ICASSP | Seri: Sketching-Reasoning-Integrating Progressive Workflow for Empathetic Response Generation. | Guanqun Bi, Yanan Cao, Piji Li, Yuqiang Xie, Fang Fang, Zheng Lin |
| 2023 | ICASSP | Ancient Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Distant Supervision. | Shuo Feng, Piji Li |
| 2023 | ICASSP | Multi-Layer Feature Division Transferable Adversarial Attack. | Zikang Jin, Changchun Yin, Piji Li, Lu Zhou, Liming Fang, Xiangmao Chang, Zhe Liu |
| 2023 | WWW | CTRLStruct: Dialogue Structure Learning for Open-Domain Response Generation. | Congchi Yin, Piji Li, Zhaochun Ren |
| 2022 | AAAI | Knowledge Bridging for Empathetic Dialogue Generation. | Qintong Li, Piji Li, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen |
| 2022 | ACL | "Is Whole Word Masking Always Better for Chinese BERT?": Probing on Chinese Grammatical Error Correction. | Yong Dai, Linyang Li, Cong Zhou, Zhangyin Feng, Enbo Zhao, Xipeng Qiu, Piji Li, Duyu Tang |
| 2022 | ACL | Event Transition Planning for Open-ended Text Generation. | Qintong Li, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Zhaochun Ren, Yuxuan Lai, Lingpeng Kong |
| 2022 | COLING | uChecker: Masked Pretrained Language Models as Unsupervised Chinese Spelling Checkers. | Piji Li |
| 2022 | COLING | Slot Dependency Modeling for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue State Tracking. | Qingyue Wang, Yanan Cao, Piji Li, Yanhe Fu, Zheng Lin, Li Guo |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Understanding Social Media Cross-Modality Discourse in Linguistic Space. | Chunpu Xu, Hanzhuo Tan, Jing Li, Piji Li |
| 2022 | IJCNN | Decoupled Extractive Summarization as Graph Nodes Pruning. | Hanwei Wang, Piji Li, Yanan Cao, Ruipeng Jia, Wang Hai-long, Li Yang-chun |
| 2022 | QRS | A Survey on Backdoor Attack and Defense in Natural Language Processing. | Xuan Sheng, Zhaoyang Han, Piji Li, Xiangmao Chang |
| 2022 | SIGIR | COSPLAY: Concept Set Guided Personalized Dialogue Generation Across Both Party Personas. | Chen Xu, Piji Li, Wei Wang, Haoran Yang, Siyun Wang, Chuangbai Xiao |
| 2021 | AAAI | Generating Diversified Comments via Reader-Aware Topic Modeling and Saliency Detection. | Wei Wang, Piji Li, Hai-Tao Zheng |
| 2021 | ACL | A Training-free and Reference-free Summarization Evaluation Metric via Centrality-weighted Relevance and Self-referenced Redundancy. | Wang Chen, Piji Li, Irwin King |
| 2021 | ACL | Tail-to-Tail Non-Autoregressive Sequence Prediction for Chinese Grammatical Error Correction. | Piji Li, Shuming Shi |
| 2021 | ACL | CLINE: Contrastive Learning with Semantic Negative Examples for Natural Language Understanding. | Dong Wang, Ning Ding, Piji Li, Haitao Zheng |
| 2021 | EACL | Non-Autoregressive Text Generation with Pre-trained Language Models. | Yixuan Su, Deng Cai, Yan Wang, David Vandyke, Simon Baker, Piji Li, Nigel Collier |
| 2021 | ECIR | Consistency and Coherency Enhanced Story Generation. | Wei Wang, Piji Li, Hai-Tao Zheng |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Contrastive Representation Learning for Exemplar-Guided Paraphrase Generation. | Haoran Yang, Wai Lam, Piji Li |
| 2021 | WSDM | Abstractive Opinion Tagging. | Qintong Li, Piji Li, Xinyi Li, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2020 | AAAI | Relevance-Promoting Language Model for Short-Text Conversation. | Xin Li, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Wai Lam |
| 2020 | AAAI | Storytelling from an Image Stream Using Scene Graphs. | Ruize Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Piji Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang |
| 2020 | ACL | Exclusive Hierarchical Decoding for Deep Keyphrase Generation. | Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, Irwin King |
| 2020 | ACL | Rigid Formats Controlled Text Generation. | Piji Li, Haisong Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Shuming Shi |
| 2020 | COLING | Keep it Consistent: Topic-Aware Storytelling from an Image Stream via Iterative Multi-agent Communication. | Ruize Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Ying Cheng, Piji Li, Haijun Shan, Ji Zhang, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang |
| 2020 | ECAI | A Neural Topical Expansion Framework for Unstructured Persona-Oriented Dialogue Generation. | Minghong Xu, Piji Li, Haoran Yang, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Jun Ma |
| 2020 | EMNLP | Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning. | Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King |
| 2019 | AAAI | Generating Distractors for Reading Comprehension Questions from Real Examinations. | Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu |
| 2019 | AAAI | Abstractive Text Summarization by Incorporating Reader Comments. | Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Piji Li, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan |
| 2019 | AAAI | A Unified Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Prediction. | Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam |
| 2019 | ACL | Interconnected Question Generation with Coreference Alignment and Conversation Flow Modeling. | Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu |
| 2019 | EMNLP | How to Write Summaries with Patterns? Learning towards Abstractive Summarization through Prototype Editing. | Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Piji Li, Zhangming Chan, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Semi-supervised Text Style Transfer: Cross Projection in Latent Space. | Mingyue Shang, Piji Li, Zhenxin Fu, Lidong Bing, Dongyan Zhao, Shuming Shi, Rui Yan |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Tackling Long-Tailed Relations and Uncommon Entities in Knowledge Graph Completion. | Zihao Wang, Kwun Ping Lai, Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam |
| 2019 | NAACL | An Integrated Approach for Keyphrase Generation via Exploring the Power of Retrieval and Extraction. | Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Irwin King |
| 2019 | WWW | Persona-Aware Tips Generation? | Piji Li, Zihao Wang, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam |
| 2018 | EMNLP | QuaSE: Sequence Editing under Quantifiable Guidance. | Yi Liao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Shuming Shi, Wai Lam, Tong Zhang |
| 2018 | IJCAI | A Question Type Driven Framework to Diversify Visual Question Generation. | Zhihao Fan, Zhongyu Wei, Piji Li, Yanyan Lan, Xuanjing Huang |
| 2018 | IJCAI | Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformation. | Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Wai Lam, Zhimou Yang |
| 2017 | AAAI | Salience Estimation via Variational Auto-Encoders for Multi-Document Summarization. | Piji Li, Zihao Wang, Wai Lam, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing |
| 2017 | EMNLP | Reader-Aware Multi-Document Summarization: An Enhanced Model and The First Dataset. | Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam |
| 2017 | EMNLP | Cascaded Attention based Unsupervised Information Distillation for Compressive Summarization. | Piji Li, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing, Weiwei Guo, Hang Li |
| 2017 | EMNLP | Deep Recurrent Generative Decoder for Abstractive Text Summarization. | Piji Li, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing, Zihao Wang |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation. | Piji Li, Zihao Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam |
| 2017 | WSDM | Social Collaborative Viewpoint Regression with Explainable Recommendations. | Zhaochun Ren, Shangsong Liang, Piji Li, Shuaiqiang Wang, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2017 | WSDM | Summarizing Answers in Non-Factoid Community Question-Answering. | Hongya Song, Zhaochun Ren, Shangsong Liang, Piji Li, Jun Ma, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2015 | ACL | Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization via Phrase Selection and Merging. | Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Yi Liao, Wai Lam, Weiwei Guo, Rebecca J. Passonneau |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Reader-Aware Multi-Document Summarization via Sparse Coding. | Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam, Hang Li, Yi Liao |