Publications

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• Text Grafting: Near-Distribution Weak Supervision for Minority Classes in Text Classification.
  Letian Peng, Yi Gu, Chengyu Dong, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2024.

• Multi-step Problem Solving Through a Verifier: An Empirical Analysis on Model-induced Process Supervision.
  Zihan Wang, Yunxuan Li, Yuexin Wu, Liangchen Luo, Le Hou, Hongkun Yu, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP (Findings) 2024.

• Evaluating the Smooth Control of Attribute Intensity in Text Generation with LLMs.
  Shang Zhou, Feng Yao, Chengyu Dong, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  ACL (Findings) 2024.

• Answer is all you need: Instruction-following text embedding via answering the question.
  Letian Peng*, Yuwei Zhang*, Zilong Wang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  ACL 2024.

• Learn from Failure: Fine-Tuning LLMs with Trial-and-Error Data for Intuitionistic Propositional Logic Proving.
  Chenyang An*, Zhibo Chen*, Qihao Ye, Emily First, Letian Peng, Jiayun Zhang, Zihan Wang, Sorin Lerner, Jingbo Shang.
  ACL 2024.

• How Few Davids Improve One Goliath: Federated Learning in Resource-Skew Edge Computing Environments.
  Jiayun Zhang, Shuheng Li, Haiyu Huang, Zihan Wang, Xiaohan Fu, Dezhi Hong, Rajesh K. Gupta, Jingbo Shang.
  WWW 2024.

• Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation.
  Zi Lin*, Zihan Wang*, Yongqi Tong, Yangkun Wang, Yuxin Guo, Yujia Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP (Findings) 2023. Dataset

• Less than One-shot: Named Entity Recognition via Extremely Weak Supervision.
  Letian Peng, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP (Findings) 2023.

• ClusterLLM: Large Language Models as a Guide for Text Clustering.
  Yuwei Zhang, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2023. Github

• Debiasing Made State-of-the-art: Revisiting the Simple Seed-based Weak Supervision for Text Classification.
  Chengyu Dong, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2023.

• Goal-Driven Explainable Clustering via Language Descriptions.
  Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, Ruiqi Zhong.
  EMNLP 2023. Github

• Single-cell analysis of chromatin accessibility in the adult mouse brain.
  Songpeng Zu, Yang Eric Li, Kangli Wang, Ethan J. Armand, Sainath Mamde, Maria Luisa Amaral, Yuelai Wang, Andre Chu, Yang Xie, Michael Miller, Jie Xu, Zhaoning Wang, Kai Zhang, Bojing Jia, Xiaomeng Hou, Lin Lin, Qian Yang, Seoyeon Lee, Bin Li, Samantha Kuan, Hanqing Liu, Jingtian Zhou, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Jacinta Lucero, Julia Osteen, Michael Nunn, Kimberly A. Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Zizhen Yao, Hongkui Zeng, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, M. Margarita Behrens, Joseph R. Ecker, Allen Wang, Sebastian Preissl, Bing Ren.
  Nature, 2023 Dec; 624(7991):378-389.

• A Comparative Atlas of Single-cell Chromatin Accessibility in the Human Brain.
  Yang Eric Li, Sebastian Preissl, Michael Miller, Nicholas D Johnson, Zihan Wang, Henry Jiao, Chenxu Zhu, Zhaoning Wang, Yang Xie, Olivier Poirion, Colin Kern, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Wei Tian, Kimberly Siletti, Nora Emerson, Julia Osteen, Jacinta Lucero, Lin Lin, Qian Yang, Quan Zhu, Nathan Zemke, Sarah Espinoza, Anna Marie Yanny, Julie Nyhus, Nick Dee, Tamara Casper, Nadiya Shapovalova, Daniel Hirschstein, Rebecca D Hodge, Sten Linnarsson, Trygve Bakken, Boaz Levi, C Dirk Keene, Jingbo Shang, Ed Lein, Allen Wang, M Margarita Behrens, Joseph R Ecker, Bing Ren.
  Science, 2023 Oct; 382(6667)

• A Benchmark on Extremely Weakly Supervised Text Classification: Reconcile Seed Matching and Prompting Approaches.
  Zihan Wang*, Tianle Wang*, Dheeraj Mekala, Jingbo Shang.
  ACL (Findings) 2023.   Github

• WOT-Class: Weakly Supervised Open-world Text Classification.
  Tianle Wang, Zihan Wang, Weitang Liu, Jingbo Shang.
  CIKM 2023.

• WavSpA: Wavelet Space Attention for Boosting Transformers' Long Sequence Learning Ability.
  Yufan Zhuang, Zihan Wang, Fangbo Tao, Jingbo Shang.
  arXiv:2210.01989.

• WeDef: Weakly Supervised Backdoor Defense for Text Classification.
  Lesheng Jin, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2022.

• Formulating Few-shot Fine-tuning Towards Language Model Pre-training: A Pilot Study on Named Entity Recognition.
  Zihan Wang, Kewen Zhao, Zilong Wang, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP (Findings) 2022.   Github

• WeDef: Weakly Supervised Backdoor Defense for Text Classification.
  Lesheng Jin*, Zihan Wang*, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2022.   Github

• Learning Adaptive Axis Attentions in Fine-tuning: Beyond Fixed Sparse Attention Patterns.
  Zihan Wang, Jiuxiang Gu, Jason Kuen, Handong Zhao, Vlad I Morariu, Ruiyi Zhang, Ani Nenkova, Tong Sun and Jingbo Shang.
  ACL (Findings) 2022.

• "Average" Approximates "First Principal Component"? An Empirical Analysis on Representations from Neural Language Models.
  Zihan Wang, Chengyu Dong, Jingbo Shang.
  EMNLP 2021.   Github

• UCPhrase: Unsupervised Context-aware Quality Phrase Tagging.
  Xiaotao Gu*, Zihan Wang*, Zhenyu Bi, Yu Meng, Liyuan Liu, Jiawei Han, Jingbo Shang
  KDD 2021.   Github   Presentation slides for KDD

• X-Class: Text Classification with Extremely Weak Supervision.
  Zihan Wang, Dheeraj Mekala, Jingbo Shang.
  NAACL 2021.   Github   Presentation slides for NAACL   Blog

• Extending Multilingual BERT to Low-Resource Languages.
  Zihan Wang*, Karthikeyan K*, Stephen Mayhew, Dan Roth.
  EMNLP Findings 2020.   CogComp Website

• CatE: Category-Name Guided Word Embedding.
  Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Guangyuan Wang, Zihan Wang, Chao Zhang, Jiawei Han.
  WWW 2020.   Github

• Raw-to-End Name Entity Recognition in Social Media.
  Liyuan Liu, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, Dandong Yin, Heng Ji, Xiang Ren, Shaowen Wang, Jiawei Han.
  arXiv:1908.05344.   Github

• TopicMine: User-Guided Topic Mining by Category-Oriented Embedding.
  Yu Meng, Jiaxin Huang, Zihan Wang, Chenyu Fan, Guangyuan Wang, Chao Zhang, Jingbo Shang, Lance Kaplan, Jiawei Han.
  KDD 2019 Demo.

• Cross-Lingual Ability of Multilingual BERT: An Empirical Study.
  Karthikeyan K*, Zihan Wang*, Stephen Mayhew, Dan Roth.
  ICLR 2020.   Cogcomp Website   Blog

• CrossWeigh: Training Named Entity Tagger from Imperfect Annotations.
  Zihan Wang*, Jingbo Shang*, Liyuan Liu*, Lihao Lu, Jiacheng Liu, and Jiawei Han.
  EMNLP 2019.   Github   Blog