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Zhou Yu

150 papers · 2017–2026 · 16 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (13) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (8) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (10) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (16) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (6) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (25) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (22) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) 🌱 Topic Pioneer πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (38) 🧬 Topic Evolution ⚑ Prolific Year (15) πŸ’Ž Century Club (145) ❓ The Questioner πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (569) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (9) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer

Conferences

EMNLP (40) ACL (25) AAAI (20) IJCNLP (15) NAACL (13) EACL (11) CVPR (7) AACL (4) IJCAI (4) ICCV (2) ICLR (2) ICML (2) INTERSPEECH (2) ACML (1) COLING (1) JMLR (1)

Top co-authors

Weiyan Shi (22) Yu Li (15) Kun Qian (15) Qingyang Wu (13) Maximillian Chen (9) Jun Yu (9) Xiao Yu (9) Mingyang Zhou (8) Dian Yu (7) Kathleen McKeown (7)

Research topics

Education (4) Differential Privacy (2) Privacy (1)

Keywords

dialogue system (30) dialog system (23) language model (14) reinforcement learning (12) large language model (11) transfer learning (8) task-oriented dialog (8) multi-task learning (8) few-shot learning (8) text generation (8) task-oriented dialogue (8) dialog generation (8) natural language understanding (7) pre-trained language model (7) dialogue state tracking (6) dialogue generation (6) neural network (6) data augmentation (6) question answering (6) text classification (5)

Papers

Sparse4DGS: 4D Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-Frame Dynamic Scene Reconstruction AAAI 2026
SRSplat: Feed-Forward Super-Resolution Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images AAAI 2026
FormGym: Doing Paperwork with Agents EACL 2026
SAGE : A Top-Down Bottom-Up Knowledge-Grounded User Simulator for Multi-turn Agent Evaluation EACL 2026
Semantic Volume: Quantifying and Detecting Both External and Internal Uncertainty in LLMs AAAI 2026
Self-Classification Enhancement and Correction for Weakly Supervised Object Detection IJCAI 2025
Bottom-Up Synthesis of Knowledge-Grounded Task-Oriented Dialogues with Iteratively Self-Refined Prompts NAACL 2025
PAPILLON: Privacy Preservation from Internet-based and Local Language Model Ensembles NAACL 2025
Bringing Pedagogy into Focus: Evaluating Virtual Teaching Assistants’ Question-Answering in Asynchronous Learning Environments EMNLP 2025
Neural Networks Perform Sufficient Dimension Reduction AAAI 2025
ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning ICLR 2025
AutoSpec: An Agentic Framework for Automatically Drafting Patent Specification EMNLP 2025
Growing a Twig to Accelerate Large Vision-Language Models ICCV 2025
Learning and Evaluating Factual Clarification Question Generation Without Examples ACL 2025
ConFit v2: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Hypothetical Resume Embedding and Runner-Up Hard-Negative Mining ACL 2025
Program Synthesis Dialog Agents for Interactive Decision-Making AACL 2025
Probability-Density-aware Semi-supervised Learning AAAI 2025
A General Framework for Inference-time Scaling and Steering of Diffusion Models ICML 2025
Program Synthesis Dialog Agents for Interactive Decision-Making IJCNLP 2025
Using Adaptive Empathetic Responses for Teaching English NAACL 2024
Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve through Interactive Demonstrations NAACL 2024
Random Forest Weighted Local FrΓ©chet Regression with Random Objects JMLR 2024
SPD-DDPM: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models in the Symmetric Positive Definite Space AAAI 2024
ParaGuide: Guided Diffusion Paraphrasers for Plug-and-Play Textual Style Transfer AAAI 2024
MultiPA: A Multi-task Speech Pronunciation Assessment Model for Open Response Scenarios INTERSPEECH 2024
Do Models Explain Themselves? Counterfactual Simulatability of Natural Language Explanations ICML 2024
VarBench: Robust Language Model Benchmarking Through Dynamic Variable Perturbation EMNLP 2024
TinyStyler: Efficient Few-Shot Text Style Transfer with Authorship Embeddings EMNLP 2024
A Fairness-Driven Method for Learning Human-Compatible Negotiation Strategies EMNLP 2024
EDEN: Empathetic Dialogues for English Learning EMNLP 2024
Parallel Structures in Pre-training Data Yield In-Context Learning ACL 2024
Getting Serious about Humor: Crafting Humor Datasets with Unfunny Large Language Models ACL 2024
LocalRQA: From Generating Data to Locally Training, Testing, and Deploying Retrieval-Augmented QA Systems ACL 2024
ProLex: A Benchmark for Language Proficiency-oriented Lexical Substitution ACL 2024
ACE: A LLM-based Negotiation Coaching System EMNLP 2024
DECOR: Improving Coherence in L2 English Writing with a Novel Benchmark for Incoherence Detection, Reasoning, and Rewriting EMNLP 2024
MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail Optimization CVPR 2024
The Mirrored Influence Hypothesis: Efficient Data Influence Estimation by Harnessing Forward Passes CVPR 2024
LIONs: An Empirically Optimized Approach to Align Language Models EMNLP 2024
Stateful Memory-Augmented Transformers for Efficient Dialogue Modeling EACL 2024
DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI EACL 2024
On the Relation between Sensitivity and Accuracy in In-Context Learning EMNLP 2023
Mixture of Soft Prompts for Controllable Data Generation EMNLP 2023
AutoReply: Detecting Nonsense in Dialogue with Discriminative Replies EMNLP 2023
Sociocultural Norm Similarities and Differences via Situational Alignment and Explainable Textual Entailment EMNLP 2023
End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions EMNLP 2023
State Value Generation with Prompt Learning and Self-Training for Low-Resource Dialogue State Tracking ACML 2023
Prompt-Based Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy Planning EMNLP 2023
FastKASSIM: A Fast Tree Kernel-Based Syntactic Similarity Metric EACL 2023
Learning a Better Initialization for Soft Prompts via Meta-Learning IJCNLP 2023
Pre-Finetuning for Few-Shot Emotional Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2023
Social Influence Dialogue Systems: A Survey of Datasets and Models For Social Influence Tasks EACL 2023
Learning a Better Initialization for Soft Prompts via Meta-Learning AACL 2023
MIGA: A Unified Multi-Task Generation Framework for Conversational Text-to-SQL AAAI 2023
Adaptive Hierarchy-Branch Fusion for Online Knowledge Distillation AAAI 2023
KRLS: Improving End-to-End Response Generation in Task Oriented Dialog with Reinforced Keywords Learning EMNLP 2023
PRESTO: A Multilingual Dataset for Parsing Realistic Task-Oriented Dialogs EMNLP 2023
Prompting Large Language Models With Answer Heuristics for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering CVPR 2023
ANetQA: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Fine-Grained Compositional Reasoning Over Untrimmed Videos CVPR 2023
Building Persona Consistent Dialogue Agents with Offline Reinforcement Learning EMNLP 2023
PLACES: Prompting Language Models for Social Conversation Synthesis EACL 2023
DIONYSUS: A Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization ACL 2023
Controllable Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Generation through Prompting ACL 2023
GrounDialog: A Dataset for Repair and Grounding in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogues for Language Learning ACL 2023
Stabilized In-Context Learning with Pre-trained Language Models for Few Shot Dialogue State Tracking EACL 2023
Effective Unsupervised Constrained Text Generation based on Perturbed Masking ACL 2022
Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue AACL 2022
Memformer: A Memory-Augmented Transformer for Sequence Modeling AACL 2022
Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension ACL 2022
CGIM: A Cycle Guided Interactive Learning Model for Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue COLING 2022
Unsupervised Vision-and-Language Pre-Training via Retrieval-Based Multi-Granular Alignment CVPR 2022
Affective Idiosyncratic Responses to Music EMNLP 2022
Robots-Dont-Cry: Understanding Falsely Anthropomorphic Utterances in Dialog Systems EMNLP 2022
Just Fine-tune Twice: Selective Differential Privacy for Large Language Models EMNLP 2022
Focus! Relevant and Sufficient Context Selection for News Image Captioning EMNLP 2022
Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue IJCNLP 2022
ErAConD: Error Annotated Conversational Dialog Dataset for Grammatical Error Correction NAACL 2022
Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with a Unified Knowledge Representation NAACL 2022
Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems NAACL 2022
Selective Differential Privacy for Language Modeling NAACL 2022
Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems’ Quality with Context-Aware Item Meta-Information NAACL 2022
Clean or Annotate: How to Spend a Limited Data Collection Budget NAACL 2022
Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems NAACL 2021
TextGAIL: Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Text Generation AAAI 2021
A Student-Teacher Architecture for Dialog Domain Adaptation Under the Meta-Learning Setting AAAI 2021
ChainCQG: Flow-Aware Conversational Question Generation EACL 2021
Alternating Recurrent Dialog Model with Large-scale Pre-trained Language Models EACL 2021
MIDAS: A Dialog Act Annotation Scheme for Open Domain HumanMachine Spoken Conversations EACL 2021
UC2: Universal Cross-Lingual Cross-Modal Vision-and-Language Pre-Training CVPR 2021
LEGOEval: An Open-Source Toolkit for Dialogue System Evaluation via Crowdsourcing ACL 2021
On the Generation of Medical Dialogs for COVID-19 ACL 2021
PRAL: A Tailored Pre-Training Model for Task-Oriented Dialog Generation ACL 2021
The R-U-A-Robot Dataset: Helping Avoid Chatbot Deception by Detecting User Questions About Human or Non-Human Identity ACL 2021
HERALD: An Annotation Efficient Method to Detect User Disengagement in Social Conversations ACL 2021
Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems ACL 2021
Discovering Dialogue Slots with Weak Supervision ACL 2021
SocAoG: Incremental Graph Parsing for Social Relation Inference in Dialogues ACL 2021
SocAoG: Incremental Graph Parsing for Social Relation Inference in Dialogues IJCNLP 2021
Discovering Dialogue Slots with Weak Supervision IJCNLP 2021
Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems IJCNLP 2021
HERALD: An Annotation Efficient Method to Detect User Disengagement in Social Conversations IJCNLP 2021
The R-U-A-Robot Dataset: Helping Avoid Chatbot Deception by Detecting User Questions About Human or Non-Human Identity IJCNLP 2021
PRAL: A Tailored Pre-Training Model for Task-Oriented Dialog Generation IJCNLP 2021
On the Generation of Medical Dialogs for COVID-19 IJCNLP 2021
LEGOEval: An Open-Source Toolkit for Dialogue System Evaluation via Crowdsourcing IJCNLP 2021
Perception Score: A Learned Metric for Open-ended Text Generation Evaluation AAAI 2021
ACAT-G: An Interactive Learning Framework for Assisted Response Generation AAAI 2021
Leveraging Slot Descriptions for Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Dialogue StateTracking NAACL 2021
GOLD: Improving Out-of-Scope Detection in Dialogues using Data Augmentation EMNLP 2021
Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems EMNLP 2021
Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking via Cross-Task Transfer EMNLP 2021
KERS: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Recommendation Dialog Systems with Multiple Subgoals EMNLP 2021
Attribute Alignment: Controlling Text Generation from Pre-trained Language Models EMNLP 2021
Refine and Imitate: Reducing Repetition and Inconsistency in Persuasion Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstration EMNLP 2021
Beyond User Self-Reported Likert Scale Ratings: A Comparison Model for Automatic Dialog Evaluation ACL 2020
End-to-End Trainable Non-Collaborative Dialog System AAAI 2020
Understanding User Resistance Strategies in Persuasive Conversations EMNLP 2020
Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Consider Multiple Appropriate Responses under the Same Context AAAI 2020
Structured Attention for Unsupervised Dialogue Structure Induction EMNLP 2020
Filling Conversation Ellipsis for Better Social Dialog Understanding AAAI 2020
Importance-Aware Learning for Neural Headline Editing AAAI 2020
MOSS: End-to-End Dialog System Framework with Modular Supervision AAAI 2020
ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations EMNLP 2020
INSPIRED: Toward Sociable Recommendation Dialog Systems EMNLP 2020
Data Annealing for Informal Language Understanding Tasks EMNLP 2020
Paraphrase Augmented Task-Oriented Dialog Generation ACL 2020
Augmenting Non-Collaborative Dialog Systems with Explicit Semantic and Strategic Dialog History ICLR 2020
A Multi-Persona Chatbot for Hotline Counselor Training EMNLP 2020
SAS: Dialogue State Tracking via Slot Attention and Slot Information Sharing ACL 2020
Domain Adaptive Dialog Generation via Meta Learning ACL 2019
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations EMNLP 2019
How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems EMNLP 2019
Dependency Parsing for Spoken Dialog Systems EMNLP 2019
Deep Modular Co-Attention Networks for Visual Question Answering CVPR 2019
Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion AAAI 2019
Unsupervised Dialog Structure Learning NAACL 2019
Dependency Parsing for Spoken Dialog Systems IJCNLP 2019
How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems IJCNLP 2019
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations IJCNLP 2019
Building Task-Oriented Visual Dialog Systems Through Alternative Optimization Between Dialog Policy and Language Generation IJCNLP 2019
ActivityNet-QA: A Dataset for Understanding Complex Web Videos via Question Answering AAAI 2019
Building Task-Oriented Visual Dialog Systems Through Alternative Optimization Between Dialog Policy and Language Generation EMNLP 2019
Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good ACL 2019
Cross-Lingual Cross-Platform Rumor Verification Pivoting on Multimedia Content EMNLP 2018
Sentiment Adaptive End-to-End Dialog Systems ACL 2018
Rethinking Diversified and Discriminative Proposal Generation for Visual Grounding IJCAI 2018
Open-Ended Long-form Video Question Answering via Adaptive Hierarchical Reinforced Networks IJCAI 2018
A Visual Attention Grounding Neural Model for Multimodal Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
Multi-Modal Factorized Bilinear Pooling With Co-Attention Learning for Visual Question Answering ICCV 2017
Learning Conversational Systems that Interleave Task and Non-Task Content IJCAI 2017