| 2026 | EACL | Rethinking Prompt Optimizers: From Prompt Merits to Optimization. | Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Zijian Feng, Tianjiao Li, Chua Jia Jim Deryl, Lee Onn Mak, Gee Wah Ng, Kezhi Mao |
| 2025 | NAACL | Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction. | Junlang Qian, Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Zijian Feng, Zepeng Zhai, Kezhi Mao |
| 2025 | NAACL | Logit Separability-Driven Samples and Multiple Class-Related Words Selection for Advancing In-Context Learning. | Zixiao Zhu, Zijian Feng, Hanzhang Zhou, Junlang Qian, Kezhi Mao |
| 2024 | ACL | FreeCtrl: Constructing Control Centers with Feedforward Layers for Learning-Free Controllable Text Generation. | Zijian Feng, Hanzhang Zhou, Kezhi Mao, Zixiao Zhu |
| 2024 | ACL | LLMs Learn Task Heuristics from Demonstrations: A Heuristic-Driven Prompting Strategy for Document-Level Event Argument Extraction. | Hanzhang Zhou, Junlang Qian, Zijian Feng, Hui Lu, Zixiao Zhu, Kezhi Mao |
| 2024 | EACL | PromptExplainer: Explaining Language Models through Prompt-based Learning. | Zijian Feng, Hanzhang Zhou, Zixiao Zhu, Kezhi Mao |
| 2024 | ICLR | Unveiling and Manipulating Prompt Influence in Large Language Models. | Zijian Feng, Hanzhang Zhou, Zixiao Zhu, Junlang Qian, Kezhi Mao |
| 2024 | NAACL | EDEntail: An Entailment-based Few-shot Text Classification with Extensional Definition. | Zixiao Zhu, Junlang Qian, Zijian Feng, Hanzhang Zhou, Kezhi Mao |
| 2019 | ICSR | NLI2Code: Reusing Libraries with Natural Language Interface. | Qi Shen, Bing Xie, Yanzhen Zou, Zixiao Zhu, Shijun Wu |