| 2026 | AAAI | RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection. | Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Shiping Ge, Yuchen Fu, Qing Gu |
| 2026 | ACL | Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs. | Zifeng Cheng, Lingyun Qian, Zhiwei Jiang, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Fei Shen, Ao Zhou, Qing Gu |
| 2026 | ACL | AEA: Adaptive Expert Allocation Improves Sentence Embeddings from Mixture-of-Experts LLM. | Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Qingfeng Qi, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Ao Zhou, Qing Gu |
| 2025 | ACL | Multi-Prompting Decoder Helps Better Language Understanding. | Zifeng Cheng, Zhaoling Chen, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu |
| 2025 | ACL | Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering. | Zifeng Cheng, Zhonghui Wang, Yuchen Fu, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Qing Gu |
| 2025 | ACL | Token Prepending: A Training-Free Approach for Eliciting Better Sentence Embeddings from LLMs. | Yuchen Fu, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Zhonghui Wang, Yafeng Yin, Zhengliang Li, Qing Gu |
| 2023 | AAAI | Controlling Class Layout for Deep Ordinal Classification via Constrained Proxies Learning. | Cong Wang, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu |
| 2023 | ACL | Improving Domain Generalization for Prompt-Aware Essay Scoring via Disentangled Representation Learning. | Zhiwei Jiang, Tianyi Gao, Yafeng Yin, Meng Liu, Hua Yu, Zifeng Cheng, Qing Gu |
| 2023 | ACL | Aggregating Multiple Heuristic Signals as Supervision for Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring. | Cong Wang, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu |
| 2023 | WWW | Learning Robust Multi-Modal Representation for Multi-Label Emotion Recognition via Adversarial Masking and Perturbation. | Shiping Ge, Zhiwei Jiang, Zifeng Cheng, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Qing Gu |
| 2021 | WWW | Learning from Graph Propagation via Ordinal Distillation for One-Shot Automated Essay Scoring. | Zhiwei Jiang, Meng Liu, Yafeng Yin, Hua Yu, Zifeng Cheng, Qing Gu |
| 2020 | COLING | A Symmetric Local Search Network for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction. | Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Hua Yu, Qing Gu |