publications

2025

1. 

   TMLR

   The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?

   Paper|Project Page

   Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Yipeng Kang, and 12 more authors

   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025

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2. 

   EMNLP

   Understanding and Leveraging the Expert Specialization of Context Faithfulness in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

   Paper|GitHub

   Jun Bai, Minghao Tong, Yang Liu, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

   Code

3. 

   EMNLP

   Reinforced Query Reasoners for Reasoning-intensive Retrieval Tasks

   Paper|GitHub|Project Page

   Xubo Qin, Jun Bai, Jiaqi Li, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

   Code Website

4. 

   EMNLP-F

   Adaptive Preference Optimization with Uncertainty-aware Utility Anchor

   Paper

   Xiaobo Wang, Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, and 2 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

5. 

   arXiv

   Make an Offer They Can’t Refuse: Grounding Bayesian Persuasion in Real-World Dialogues without Pre-Commitment

   Paper

   Buwei He, Yang Liu, Zhaowei Zhang, and 5 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.13387, 2025
6. Native Parallel Reasoner: Reasoning in Parallelism via Self-Distilled Reinforcement Learning

   Paper|GitHub

   Tong Wu, Yang Liu, Jun Bai, and 6 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07461, 2025

   Code
7. BEDA: Belief Estimation as Probabilistic Constraints for Performing Strategic Dialogue Acts

   Paper

   Hengli Li, Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen, and 8 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24885, 2025

8. 

   ACL

   Look Both Ways and No Sink: Converting LLMs into Text Encoders without Training

   Paper

   Ziyong Lin, Haoyi Wu, Shu Wang, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025
9. ReflectEvo: Improving Meta Introspection of Small LLMs by Learning Self-Reflection

   Paper|GitHub

   Jiaqi Li, Xinyi Dong, Yang Liu, and 6 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025

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10. 

    ICML

    TokenSwift: Lossless Acceleration of Ultra Long Sequence Generation

    Paper|GitHub|Project Page

    Tong Wu, Junzhe Shen, Zixia Jia, and 2 more authors

    In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

    Code Website

2024

1. Varying Sentence Representations via Condition-Specified Routers

   Paper

   Ziyong Lin, Quansen Wang, Zixia Jia, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

2. 

   ACL-F

   LangSuit·E: Planning, Controlling and Interacting with Large Language Models in Embodied Text Environments

   Paper|GitHub

   Zixia Jia, Mengmeng Wang, Baichen Tong, and 2 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024

   Code
3. Combining Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Label Classification Tasks with Partial Labels

   Paper

   Zixia Jia, Junpeng Li, Shichuan Zhang, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

1. Semi-automatic Data Enhancement for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision from Large Language Models

   Paper

   Junpeng Li, Zixia Jia, and Zilong Zheng

   In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2. 

   ACL

   Modeling Instance Interactions for Joint Information Extraction with Neural High-Order Conditional Random Field

   Paper

   Zixia Jia, Zhaohui Yan, Wenjuan Han, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023
3. DAMO-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 2: A Unified Retrieval-augmented System for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition

   Paper

   Zeqi Tan, Shen Huang, Zixia Jia, and 7 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), 2023

2022

1. Span-based Semantic Role Labeling with Argument Pruning and Second-order Inference

   Paper

   Zixia Jia, Zhaohui Yan, Haoyi Wu, and 1 more author

   Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
2. SHARP: Search-Based Adversarial Attack for Structured Prediction

   Paper

   Liwen Zhang, Zixia Jia, Wenjuan Han, and 2 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, 2022
3. ITA: Image-Text Alignments for Multi-Modal Named Entity Recognition

   Paper

   Xinyu Wang, Min Gui, Yong Jiang, and 5 more authors

   In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022, 2022
4. An Empirical Study of Pipeline vs. Joint Approaches to Entity and Relation Extraction

   Paper

   Zhaohui Yan, Zixia Jia, and Kewei Tu

   In Proceedings of AACL-IJCNLP 2022, 2022

2021

1. Structural Knowledge Distillation: Tractably Distilling Information for Structured Predictor

   Paper

   Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Zhaohui Yan, and 6 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021
2. Enhanced Universal Dependency Parsing with Automated Concatenation of Embeddings

   Paper

   Xinyu Wang, Zixia Jia, Yong Jiang, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task, 2021

2020

1. Semi-supervised Semantic Dependency Parsing using CRF Autoencoders

   Paper

   Zixia Jia, Youmi Ma, Jiong Cai, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020