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Leyang Cui （崔乐阳）

I obtained my Ph.D. degree at Zhejiang University and Westlake University, advised by Prof. Yue Zhang. My research interests center on large language models—especially coding agents, agentic reinforcement learning, and strategies for mitigating hallucinations.

Looking for internship or collaboration? Drop me an email.

Email: nealcly.nlp AT gmail.com

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(*: Equal contribution, †: Corresponding author)

Preprints:

  1. Neuro-Symbolic Integration Brings Causal and Reliable Reasoning Proofs [PDF]
    2. Sen Yang, Xin Li, Leyang Cui, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

  2. Towards Robust Online Dialogue Response Generation [PDF]
    Leyang Cui, Fandong Meng, Yijin Liu, Jie Zhou, Yue Zhang

Conference Papers:

  1. Do Reasoning Models Show Better Verbalized Calibration? [PDF]
    2. Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan, Leyang Cui, Rob Voigt
    EMNLP 2025

  2. Lost in Literalism: How Supervised Training Shapes Translationese in LLMs [PDF]
    3. Yafu Li, Ronghao Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Huajian Zhang, Leyang Cui, Yongjing Yin, Tong Xiao, Yue Zhang
    ACL 2025

  3. Alleviating Hallucinations of Large Language Models through Induced Hallucinations [PDF]
    4. Yue Zhang, Leyang Cui†, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi
    Findings of NAACL 2025

  4. Collaborative Evaluation: Exploring the Synergy of Large Language Models and Humans for Open-ended Generation Evaluation [PDF]
    5. Qintong Li, Leyang Cui, Lingpeng Kong, Wei Bi
    COLING 2025

  5. Gated Slot Attention for Efficient Linear-Time Sequence Modeling
    6. Yu Zhang, Songlin Yang, Rui-Jie Zhu, Yue Zhang, Leyang Cui, Yiqiao Wang, Bolun Wang, Freda Shi, Bailin Wang, Wei Bi, Peng Zhou, Guohong Fu
    NeurIPS 2024

  6. Knowledge Verification to Nip Hallucination in the Bud
    7. Fanqi Wan, Xinting Huang, Leyang Cui, Xiaojun Quan, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi
    EMNLP 2024

  7. Not All Preference Pairs Are Created Equal: A Recipe for Annotation-Efficient Iterative Preference Learning
    8. Sen Yang, Leyang Cui†, Deng Cai, Xinting Huang, Shuming Shi, Wai Lam
    Findings of EMNLP 2024

  8. Selection-p: Self-Supervised Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression for Faithfulness and Transferability
    9. Tsz Ting Chung, Leyang Cui, Lemao Liu, Xinting Huang, Shuming Shi, Dit-Yan Yeung
    Findings of EMNLP 2024

  9. DETect: Deepfake Text Detection in the Wild
    10. Yafu Li, Qintong Li, Leyang Cui†, Wei Bi, Zhilin Wang, Longyue Wang, Linyi Yang, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang†
    ACL 2024

  10. Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Large Language Models with Self-Synthesized Rehearsal
    11. Jianheng Huang, Leyang Cui, Ante Wang, Chengyi Yang, Xinting Liao, Linfeng Song, Junfeng Yao, Jinsong Su
    ACL 2024

  11. GSM-Plus: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating the Robustness of LLMs as Mathematical Problem Solvers
    12. Qintong Li, Leyang Cui, Xueliang Zhao, Lingpeng Kong, Wei Bi
    ACL 2024

  12. Spotting AI’s Touch: Identifying LLM-Paraphrased Spans in Text
    13. Yafu Li, Zhilin Wang, Leyang Cui†, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang†
    Findings of ACL 2024

  13. Benchmarking and Improving Long-Text Translation with Large Language Models
    14. Zefeng Du, Wenxiang Jiao, Longyue Wang, Chenyang Lyu, Jianhui Pang, Leyang Cui, Kaiqiang Song, Derek F. Wong, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu
    Findings of ACL 2024

  14. Retrieval is Accurate Generation
    15. Bowen Cao, Deng Cai, Leyang Cui, Xuxin Cheng, Wei Bi, Yuexian Zou, Shuming Shi
    ICLR 2024

  15. NaRuto: Automatically Acquiring Planning Models from Narrative Texts
    16. Ruiqi Li, Leyang Cui, Songtuan Lin, Patrik Haslum
    AAAI 2024

  16. EDeR: Towards Understanding Dependency Relations Between Events
    17. Ruiqi Li, Patrik Haslum, Leyang Cui†
    EMNLP 2023

  17. RobustGEC: Robust Grammatical Error Correction Against Subtle Context Perturbation
    Yue Zhang, Leyang Cui†, Enbo Zhao, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi
    EMNLP 2023

  18. Non-autoregressive Text Editing with Copy-aware Latent Alignments
    Yu Zhang*, Yue Zhang*, Leyang Cui, Guohong Fu
    EMNLP 2023

  19. LogiCoT: Logical Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning
    Hanmeng Liu, Zhiyang Teng, Leyang Cui, Chaoli Zhang, Qiji Zhou, Yue Zhang
    Findings of EMNLP 2023

  20. Explicit Syntactic Guidance for Neural Text Generation
    Yafu Li, Leyang Cui†, Jianhao Yan, Yongjing Yin, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang†
    ACL 2023, Best Paper Nomination (1.6%)

  21. Enhancing Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Explanations
    Yuejiao Fei, Leyang Cui†, Sen Yang, Wai Lam, Zhenzhong Lan, Shuming Shi
    ACL 2023

  22. Uni-Encoder: A Fast and Accurate Response Selection Paradigm for Generation-Based Dialogue Systems
    Chiyu Song, Hongliang He, Haofei Yu, Pengfei Fang, Leyang Cui, Zhenzhong Lan
    Findings of ACL 2023

  23. Cross-domain Generalization for AMR Parsing
    Xuefeng Bai, Sen Yang, Leyang Cui, Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang
    EMNLP 2022

  24. Multi-Granularity Optimization for Non-Autoregressive Translation
    Yafu Li, Leyang Cui†, Yongjing Yin, Yue Zhang†
    EMNLP 2022

  25. FactMix: Using a Few Labeled In-domain Examples to Generalize to Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition
    Linyi Yang, Lifan Yuan, Leyang Cui, Wenyang Gao, Yue Zhang
    COLING 2022

  26. Investigating Non-local Features for Neural Constituency Parsing
    Leyang Cui*, Sen Yang*, Yue Zhang
    ACL 2022

  27. Challenges to Open-Domain Constituency Parsing
    Sen Yang, Leyang Cui, Ruoxi Ning, Di Wu, Yue Zhang
    Findings of ACL 2022

  28. Knowledge Enhanced Fine-tuning for Better Handling Unseen Entities in Dialogue Generation
    Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang
    EMNLP 2021

  29. Solving Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis as a Text Generation Task
    Jian Liu, Zhiyang Teng, Leyang Cui, Hanmeng Liu, Yue Zhang
    EMNLP 2021

  30. Template-based Named Entity Recognition Using BART
    Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Jian Liu, Sen Yang, Yue Zhang
    Findings of ACL 2021

  31. On Commonsense Cues in BERT for Solving Commonsense Tasks
    Leyang Cui, Sijie Cheng, Yu Wu, Yue Zhang
    Findings of ACL 2021

  32. Natural Language Inference in Context Investigating Contextual Reasoning over Long Texts
    Hangmeng Liu, Leyang Cui, Jian Liu, Yue Zhang
    AAAI 2021

  33. MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning
    Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie Liu, Yue Zhang, Ming Zhou
    ACL 2020

  34. What Have We Achieved on Text Summarization?
    Dandan Huang*, Leyang Cui*, Sen Yang*, Guangsheng Bao, Kun Wang, Jun Xie, Yue Zhang
    EMNLP 2020

  35. Making the Best Use of Review Summary for Sentiment Analysis
    Sen Yang*, Leyang Cui*, Jun Xie, Yue Zhang
    COLING 2020

  36. Does Chinese BERT Encode Word Structure?
    Yile Wang, Leyang Cui, Yue Zhang
    COLING 2020

  37. LogiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Machine Reading Comprehension with Logical Reasoning
    Jian Liu, Leyang Cui, Hanmeng Liu, Dandan Huang, Yile Wang, Yue Zhang
    IJCAI 2020

  38. Evaluating Commonsense in Pre-trained Language Models
    Xuhui Zhou, Yue Zhang, Leyang Cui, Dandan Huang
    AAAI 2020

  39. Hierarchically-Refined Label Attention Network for Sequence Labeling
    Leyang Cui, Yue Zhang
    EMNLP 2019

Journal Papers:

  1. Siren's Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models [PDF]
    2. Yue Zhang, Yafu Li, Leyang Cui†, Deng Cai, Lemao Liu, Tingchen Fu, Xinting Huang, Enbo Zhao, Yu Zhang, Yulong Chen, Longyue Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Wei Bi, Freda Shi, Shuming Shi
    Computational Linguistics

  2. LogiQA 2.0—An Improved Dataset for Logical Reasoning in Natural Language Understanding
    Hanmeng Liu, Jian Liu, Leyang Cui, Zhiyang Teng, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Yue Zhang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023

  3. Label Attention Network for Structured Prediction
    Leyang Cui*, Yafu Li*, Yue Zhang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2022

  4. Improving Skip-gram Embeddings Using BERT
    Yile Wang, Leyang Cui, Yue Zhang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021

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