Publications | Xiaobao Wu

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Preprints

2025

arxiv

Sailing AI by the Stars: A Survey of Learning from Rewards in Post-Training and Test-Time Scaling of Large Language Models

Xiaobao Wu

preprint, 2025

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@preprint{wu2025sailing,
  title = {Sailing AI by the Stars: A Survey of Learning from Rewards in Post-Training and Test-Time Scaling of Large Language Models},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02686},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02686},
}

Conference & Journal Papers

2025

ACL

AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge

Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Ruiwen Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Yubo Ma, Mingzhe Du, Rui Mao, Anh Tuan Luu, and William Yang Wang

In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{wu2025antileak,
  title = {AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Pan, Liangming and Xie, Yuxi and Zhou, Ruiwen and Zhao, Shuai and Ma, Yubo and Du, Mingzhe and Mao, Rui and Luu, Anh Tuan and Wang, William Yang},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13670.pdf},
}

ACL

RuleArena: A Benchmark for Rule-Guided Reasoning with LLMs in Real-World Scenarios

Ruiwen Zhou, Wenyue Hua, Liangming Pan, Sitao Cheng, Xiaobao Wu, En Yu, and William Yang Wang

In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{zhou2025rulearena,
  title = {RuleArena: A Benchmark for Rule-Guided Reasoning with LLMs in Real-World Scenarios},
  author = {Zhou, Ruiwen and Hua, Wenyue and Pan, Liangming and Cheng, Sitao and Wu, Xiaobao and Yu, En and Wang, William Yang},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08972},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.08972.pdf},
}

ACL Findings

Full-Step-DPO: Self-Supervised Preference Optimization with Step-wise Rewards for Mathematical Reasoning

Huimin Xu, Xin Mao, Feng-Lin Li, Xiaobao Wu^✉, Wang Chen, Wei Zhang, and Anh Tuan Luu^✉

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{xu2025fullstepdpo,
  title = {Full-Step-DPO: Self-Supervised Preference Optimization with Step-wise Rewards for Mathematical Reasoning},
  author = {Xu, Huimin and Mao, Xin and Li, Feng-Lin and Wu✉, Xiaobao and Chen, Wang and Zhang, Wei and Luu✉, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14356.pdf}
}

ACL Findings

Towards Storage-Efficient Visual Document Retrieval: An Empirical Study on Reducing Patch-Level Embeddings

Yubo Ma, Jinsong Li, Yuhang Zang, Xiaobao Wu, Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Yuhang Cao, Haodong Duan, Jiaqi Wang, Yixin Cao, and Aixin Sun

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{ma2025storage,
  title = {Towards Storage-Efficient Visual Document Retrieval: An Empirical Study on Reducing Patch-Level Embeddings},
  author = {Ma, Yubo and Li, Jinsong and Zang, Yuhang and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xiaoyi and Zhang, Pan and Cao, Yuhang and Duan, Haodong and Wang, Jiaqi and Cao, Yixin and Sun, Aixin},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025}
}

ACL Findings

Unlearning Backdoor Attacks for LLMs with Weak-to-Strong Knowledge Distillation

Shuai Zhao, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Meihuizi Jia, Yichao Feng, and Luu Anh Tuan

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{zhao2025unlearning,
  title = {Unlearning Backdoor Attacks for LLMs with Weak-to-Strong Knowledge Distillation},
  author = {Zhao, Shuai and Wu, Xiaobao and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Jia, Meihuizi and Feng, Yichao and Tuan, Luu Anh},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.14425}
}

ACL Findings

SCOPE: Compress Mathematical Reasoning Steps for Efficient Automated Process Annotation

Huimin Xu, Xin Mao, Fenglin Li, Xiaobao Wu^✉, Wang Chen, Wei Zhang, and Anh Tuan Luu^✉

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{xu2025scope,
  title = {SCOPE: Compress Mathematical Reasoning Steps for Efficient Automated Process Annotation},
  author = {Xu, Huimin and Mao, Xin and Li, Fenglin and Wu✉, Xiaobao and Chen, Wang and Zhang, Wei and Luu✉, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14419}
}

ACL Demo

CodeArena: A Collective Evaluation Platform for LLM Code Generation

Mingzhe Du, Anh Tuan Luu, Bin Ji, Xiaobao Wu, Dong Huang, Terry Yue Zhuo, Qian Liu, and See-Kiong Ng

In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstration Track (ACL Demo), 2025

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@inproceedings{du2025codearena,
  title = {CodeArena: A Collective Evaluation Platform for LLM Code Generation},
  author = {Du, Mingzhe and Luu, Anh Tuan and Ji, Bin and Wu, Xiaobao and Huang, Dong and Zhuo, Terry Yue and Liu, Qian and Ng, See-Kiong},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstration Track (ACL Demo)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01295}
}

ICML

KBQA-o1: Agentic Knowledge Base Question Answering with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Haoran Luo, Yikai Guo, Qika Lin, Xiaobao Wu, Xinyu Mu, Wenhao Liu, Meina Song, Yifan Zhu, Luu Anh Tuan, and others

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

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@inproceedings{luo2025kbqa-o1,
  title = {KBQA-o1: Agentic Knowledge Base Question Answering with Monte Carlo Tree Search},
  author = {Luo, Haoran and Guo, Yikai and Lin, Qika and Wu, Xiaobao and Mu, Xinyu and Liu, Wenhao and Song, Meina and Zhu, Yifan and Tuan, Luu Anh and others},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18922},
}

NAACL

Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Jaccard Distance-based Conditional Contrastive Learning and Contextual Visual Augmentation

Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu^✉, Thong Thanh Nguyen, Khoi Le, Viet Anh Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu^✉

In Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2025

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@inproceedings{nguyen2025enhancing,
  title = {Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Jaccard Distance-based Conditional Contrastive Learning and Contextual Visual Augmentation},
  author = {Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Wu✉, Xiaobao and Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Le, Khoi and Nguyen, Viet Anh and Luu✉, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14166}
}

TMLR

A Survey of Recent Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Large Language Models

Shuai Zhao, Meihuizi Jia, Zhongliang Guo, Leilei Gan, Xiaoyu Xu, Xiaobao Wu^✉, Jie Fu, Yichao Feng, Fengjun Pan, and Anh Tuan Luu^✉

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025

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@article{zhao2025survey,
  title = {A Survey of Recent Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Large Language Models},
  author = {Zhao, Shuai and Jia, Meihuizi and Guo, Zhongliang and Gan, Leilei and Xu, Xiaoyu and Wu✉, Xiaobao and Fu, Jie and Feng, Yichao and Pan, Fengjun and Luu✉, Anh Tuan},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=wZLWuFHxt5},
  year = {2025},
  issn = {2835-8856}
}

AAAI

Motion-aware Contrastive Learning for Temporal Panoptic Scene Graph Generation

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Yi Bin, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Anh Tuan Luu

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

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@inproceedings{nguyen2025motion,
  title = {Motion-aware Contrastive Learning for Temporal Panoptic Scene Graph Generation},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Wu, Xiaobao and Bin, Yi and Nguyen, Cong-Duy T and Ng, See-Kiong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07160},
}

AAAI

Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Video Temporal Grounding

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu, Zhiyuan Hu, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Anh Tuan Luu

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

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@inproceedings{nguyen2025multi,
  title = {Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Video Temporal Grounding},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Bin, Yi and Wu, Xiaobao and Hu, Zhiyuan and Nguyen, Cong-Duy T and Ng, See-Kiong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07157},
}

SAC

Curriculum Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning

Duc Anh Vu, Nguyen Tran Cong Duy, Xiaobao Wu, Hoang Minh Nhat, Du Mingzhe, Nguyen Thanh Thong, and Anh Tuan Luu

In ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing conference (SAC), 2025

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@inproceedings{vu2025curriculum,
  title = {Curriculum Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning},
  author = {Vu, Duc Anh and Duy, Nguyen Tran Cong and Wu, Xiaobao and Nhat, Hoang Minh and Mingzhe, Du and Thong, Nguyen Thanh and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing conference (SAC)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.18126},
}

COLING

Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels

Chaoqun Liu, Qin Chao, Wenxuan Zhang, Xiaobao Wu, Boyang Li, Anh Tuan Luu, and Lidong Bing

In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025

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@inproceedings{liu2025zero,
  title = {Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels},
  author = {Liu, Chaoqun and Chao, Qin and Zhang, Wenxuan and Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Boyang and Luu, Anh Tuan and Bing, Lidong},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12425},
}

2024

NeurIPS

FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model

Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, Delvin Ce Zhang, William Yang Wang, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

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@inproceedings{wu2024fastopic,
  title = {FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Nguyen, Thong and Zhang, Delvin Ce and Wang, William Yang and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.17978},
}

EMNLP

AKEW: Assessing Knowledge Editing in the Wild

Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

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@inproceedings{wu2024akew,
  title = {AKEW: Assessing Knowledge Editing in the Wild},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Pan, Liangming and Wang, William Yang and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.18909},
}

EMNLP

Are LLMs Good Zero-shot Fallacy Classifiers?

Fengjun Pan^#, Xiaobao Wu^#, Zongrui Li, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

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@inproceedings{pan2024fallacy,
  title = {Are LLMs Good Zero-shot Fallacy Classifiers?},
  author = {Pan#, Fengjun and Wu#, Xiaobao and Li, Zongrui and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15050},
}

EMNLP

Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Zhiyuan Hu, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

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@inproceedings{nguyen2024encoding,
  title = {Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Hu, Zhiyuan and Wu, Xiaobao and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Ng, See-Kiong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19723},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)}
}

AIR

A Survey on Neural Topic Models: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu

Artificial Intelligence Review (AIR), 2024

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@article{wu2024survey,
  title = {A Survey on Neural Topic Models: Methods, Applications, and Challenges},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Nguyen, Thong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence Review (AIR)},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10661-7},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Springer}
}

ACL Demo

Towards the TopMost: A Topic Modeling System Toolkit

Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstration Track (ACL Demo), 2024

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@inproceedings{wu2024topmost,
  title = {Towards the TopMost: A Topic Modeling System Toolkit},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Pan, Fengjun and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstration Track (ACL Demo)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06908.pdf},
}

AAAI

On the Affinity, Rationality, and Diversity of Hierarchical Topic Modeling

Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, Thong Nguyen, Yichao Feng, Chaoqun Liu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

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@inproceedings{wu2024traco,
  title = {On the Affinity, Rationality, and Diversity of Hierarchical Topic Modeling},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Pan, Fengjun and Nguyen, Thong and Feng, Yichao and Liu, Chaoqun and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14113.pdf},
}

ACL Findings

Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Liangming Pan, Thong Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

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@inproceedings{wu2024dynamic,
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  title = {Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Pan, Liangming and Nguyen, Thong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.17957},
}

ECCV

Meta-optimized Angular Margin Contrastive Framework for Video-Language Representation Learning

Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Zhiyuan Hu, Khoi Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Luu Anh Tuan

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

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@inproceedings{nguyen2024meta,
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  title = {Meta-optimized Angular Margin Contrastive Framework for Video-Language Representation Learning},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong and Bin, Yi and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Hu, Zhiyuan and Le, Khoi and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Ng, See-Kiong and Tuan, Luu Anh},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03788},
}

AAAI

READ-PVLA: Recurrent Adapter with Partial Video-Language Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning in Low-Resource Video-Language Modeling

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Khoi M Le, Zhiyuan Hu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Anh Tuan Luu

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

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@inproceedings{nguyen2024read,
  title = {READ-PVLA: Recurrent Adapter with Partial Video-Language Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning in Low-Resource Video-Language Modeling},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Le, Khoi M and Hu, Zhiyuan and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Ng, See-Kiong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  volume = {38},
  number = {17},
  pages = {18824--18832},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06950},
}

ICLR

Topic Modeling as Multi-Objective Contrastive Optimization

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, and Anh Tuan Luu

In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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@inproceedings{nguyen2024topic,
  title = {Topic Modeling as Multi-Objective Contrastive Optimization},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Nguyen, Cong-Duy T and Ng, See-Kiong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=HdAoLSBYXj}
}

NAACL

KDMCSE: Knowledge Distillation Multimodal Sentence Embeddings with Adaptive Angular margin Contrastive Learning

Cong-Duy Nguyen, Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024

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@inproceedings{nguyen2024kdmcse,
  title = {KDMCSE: Knowledge Distillation Multimodal Sentence Embeddings with Adaptive Angular margin Contrastive Learning},
  author = {Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Nguyen, Thong and Wu, Xiaobao and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17486}
}

2023

ICML

Effective Neural Topic Modeling with Embedding Clustering Regularization

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Thong Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

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@inproceedings{wu2023effective,
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  organization = {PMLR},
  title = {Effective Neural Topic Modeling with Embedding Clustering Regularization},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Nguyen, Thong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04217},
}

AAAI Oral Presentation

Infoctm: A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Cross-lingual Topic Modeling

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Thong Nguyen, Chaoqun Liu, Liang-Ming Pan, and Anh Tuan Luu

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

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@inproceedings{wu2023infoctm,
  oral = {true},
  title = {Infoctm: A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Cross-lingual Topic Modeling},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Nguyen, Thong and Liu, Chaoqun and Pan, Liang-Ming and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  volume = {37},
  pages = {13763--13771},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03544},
}

ACL

Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning

Liangming Pan, Xiaobao Wu, Xinyuan Lu, Anh Tuan Luu, William Yang Wang, Min-Yen Kan, and Preslav Nakov

In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023

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@inproceedings{pan2023fact,
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  title = {Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning},
  author = {Pan, Liangming and Wu, Xiaobao and Lu, Xinyuan and Luu, Anh Tuan and Wang, William Yang and Kan, Min-Yen and Nakov, Preslav},
  year = {2023},
  address = {Toronto, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.386},
  pages = {6981--7004},
}

EMNLP Findings

DemaFormer: Damped Exponential Moving Average Transformer with Energy-Based Modeling for Temporal Language Grounding

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See Kiong Ng, and Anh Luu

In Findings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023

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@inproceedings{nguyen2023demaformer,
  booktitle = {Findings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  title = {DemaFormer: Damped Exponential Moving Average Transformer with Energy-Based Modeling for Temporal Language Grounding},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Ng, See Kiong and Luu, Anh},
  pages = {3635--3649},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.235.pdf}
}

ACL Findings

Gradient-Boosted Decision Tree for Listwise Context Model in Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, Zhen Hai, Lidong Bing, and Anh Tuan Luu

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023

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@inproceedings{nguyen2023gradient,
  title = {Gradient-Boosted Decision Tree for Listwise Context Model in Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong Thanh and Wu, Xiaobao and Dong, Xinshuai and Nguyen, Cong-Duy T and Hai, Zhen and Bing, Lidong and Luu, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.106.pdf}
}

ACL Findings

Zero-Shot Text Classification via Self-Supervised Tuning

Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Guizhen Chen, Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, Chip Hong Chang, and Lidong Bing

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023

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@inproceedings{liu2023zero,
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  title = {Zero-Shot Text Classification via Self-Supervised Tuning},
  author = {Liu, Chaoqun and Zhang, Wenxuan and Chen, Guizhen and Wu, Xiaobao and Luu, Anh Tuan and Chang, Chip Hong and Bing, Lidong},
  pages = {1743--1761},
  year = {2023},
}

2022

EMNLP

Mitigating Data Sparsity for Short Text Topic Modeling by Topic-Semantic Contrastive Learning

Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, and Xinshuai Dong

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

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@inproceedings{wu2022mitigating,
  title = {Mitigating Data Sparsity for Short Text Topic Modeling by Topic-Semantic Contrastive Learning},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Luu, Anh Tuan and Dong, Xinshuai},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates},
  pages = {2748--2760},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.176},
}

EMNLP

Adaptive Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Transformer for Review Helpfulness Predictions

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Anh-Tuan Luu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Zhen Hai, and Lidong Bing

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

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@inproceedings{nguyen2022adaptive,
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  title = {Adaptive Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Transformer for Review Helpfulness Predictions},
  author = {Nguyen, Thong and Wu, Xiaobao and Luu, Anh-Tuan and Nguyen, Cong-Duy and Hai, Zhen and Bing, Lidong},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.686.pdf}
}

2021

ACL Findings

Discovering Topics in Long-tailed Corpora with Causal Intervention

Xiaobao Wu, Chunping Li, and Yishu Miao

In Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wu2021discovering,
  title = {Discovering Topics in Long-tailed Corpora with Causal Intervention},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Chunping and Miao, Yishu},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {Findings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address = {Online},
  pages = {175--185},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.15},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.15},
}

2020

EMNLP

Short Text Topic Modeling with Topic Distribution Quantization and Negative Sampling Decoder

Xiaobao Wu, Chunping Li, Yan Zhu, and Yishu Miao

In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wu2020short,
  title = {Short Text Topic Modeling with Topic Distribution Quantization and Negative Sampling Decoder},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Chunping and Zhu, Yan and Miao, Yishu},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  address = {Online},
  pages = {1772--1782},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.138.pdf},
}

NLPCC Oral Presentation

Learning Multilingual Topics with Neural Variational Inference

Xiaobao Wu, Chunping Li, Yan Zhu, and Yishu Miao

In International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC), 2020

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wu2020learning,
  oral = {true},
  title = {Learning Multilingual Topics with Neural Variational Inference},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Chunping and Zhu, Yan and Miao, Yishu},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC)},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-60450-9_66},
}

2019

IJCNN

Short Text Topic Modeling with Flexible Word Patterns

Xiaobao Wu, and Chunping Li

In ijcnn, 2019

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wu2019short,
  title = {Short Text Topic Modeling with Flexible Word Patterns},
  author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Chunping},
  year = {2019},
  booktitle = ijcnn,
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8852366/},
}