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Mengnan Du

37 papers at tracked venues · 21 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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ACL ×8EMNLP ×7AAAI ×4EACL ×4ICLR ×4ICML ×3ICDM ×2NAACL ×2CIKM ×1CVPR ×1WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Dong Shu
×9
Mingyu Jin
×7
Haiyan Zhao
×6
Fan Yang
×5
Ninghao Liu
×5
Yongfeng Zhang
×5
Xuansheng Wu
×4
Bo Shen
×4
Ali Payani
×4
Zirui Liu
×4
Yu-Neng Chuang
×3
Ruixiang Tang
×3

Papers

  1. AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yongliang Miao
    ,
    Yangyang Liang
    , Mengnan Du
  2. AdaptiveK: Complexity-Driven Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable Language Model Representations
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yifei Yao
    ,
    Hanrong Zhang
    , Mengnan Du
  3. DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router
    EACL 2026 ·
    Minghao Guo
    ,
    Qingcheng Zeng
    ,
    Xujiang Zhao
    ,
    Yanchi Liu
    ,
    Wenchao Yu
    , Mengnan Du,
    Haifeng Chen
    ,
    Wei Cheng
  4. Denoising Concept Vectors with Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Language Model Steering
    EACL 2026 ·
    Haiyan Zhao
    ,
    Xuansheng Wu
    ,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Bo Shen
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
    , Mengnan Du
  5. FaithLM: Towards Faithful Explanations for Large Language Models
    EACL 2026 ·
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Guanchu Wang
    ,
    Chia-Yuan Chang
    ,
    Ruixiang Tang
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Andrew Wen
    , Mengnan Du,
    Xuanting Cai
    ,
    Vladimir Braverman
    ,
    Xia Hu
  6. FinCall-Surprise: A Large Scale Multi-modal Benchmark for Earning Surprise Prediction
    ACL 2026 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Yanguang Liu
    ,
    Huopu Zhang
    , Mengnan Du
  7. FinChart-Bench: Benchmarking Financial Chart Comprehension in Vision-Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Haoyang Yuan
    ,
    Yuchen Wang
    ,
    Yanguang Liu
    ,
    Huopu Zhang
    , Mengnan Du
  8. Fine-Grained Interpretation of Political Opinions in Large Language Models
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Jingyu Hu
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
    , Mengnan Du,
    Weiru Liu
  9. KnowThyself: An Agentic Assistant for LLM Interpretability
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Suraj Prasai
    , Mengnan Du,
    Ying Zhang
    ,
    Fan Yang
  10. LLM Agents in Law: Taxonomy, Applications, and Challenges
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shuang Liu
    ,
    Ruijia Zhang
    ,
    Ruoyun Ma
    ,
    Yujia Deng
    ,
    Lanyi Zhu
    ,
    Jiayu Li
    ,
    Zelong Li
    ,
    Zhibin Shen
    , Mengnan Du
  11. SAE-FiRE: Enhancing Earnings Surprise Predictions Through Sparse Autoencoder Feature Selection
    ACL 2026 ·
    Huopu Zhang
    ,
    Yanguang Liu
    ,
    Miao Zhang
    ,
    Zirui He
    , Mengnan Du
  12. SAGE: An Agentic Explainer Framework for Interpreting SAE Features in Language Models
    EACL 2026 ·
    Jiaojiao Han
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    , Mengnan Du
  13. A Survey on Sparse Autoencoders: Interpreting the Internal Mechanisms of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Xuansheng Wu
    ,
    Haiyan Zhao
    ,
    Daking Rai
    ,
    Ziyu Yao
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
    , Mengnan Du
  14. Beyond Input Activations: Identifying Influential Latents by Gradient Sparse Autoencoders
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Xuansheng Wu
    ,
    Haiyan Zhao
    , Mengnan Du,
    Ninghao Liu
  15. Beyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Haiyan Zhao
    ,
    Heng Zhao
    ,
    Bo Shen
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Fan Yang
    , Mengnan Du
  16. Comparative Analysis of Demonstration Selection Algorithms for In-Context Learning in Large Language Models (Student Abstract)
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Dong Shu
    , Mengnan Du
  17. Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Tianze Yang
    ,
    Yucheng Shi
    , Mengnan Du,
    Xuansheng Wu
    ,
    Qiaoyu Tan
    ,
    Jin Sun
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
  18. Data-centric NLP Backdoor Defense from the Lens of Memorization
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Zhizhi Wang
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    , Mengnan Du,
    Juan Zhai
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
  19. Feature Extraction and Steering for Enhanced Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zihao Li
    ,
    Xu Wang
    ,
    Yuzhe Yang
    ,
    Ziyu Yao
    ,
    Haoyi Xiong
    , Mengnan Du
  20. From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zeru Shi
    ,
    Kai Mei
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Yongye Su
    ,
    Chaoji Zuo
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Yujie Ren
    ,
    Zirui Liu
    , Mengnan Du,
    Dong Deng
    ,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  21. Improving LLM Reasoning through Interpretable Role-Playing Steering
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Anyi Wang
    ,
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Yifan Wang
    ,
    Yunpu Ma
    , Mengnan Du
  22. Invisible Backdoor Attack against Self-supervised Learning
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Hanrong Zhang
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Boheng Li
    ,
    Fulin Lin
    ,
    Tingxu Han
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Chenlu Zhan
    , Mengnan Du,
    Hongwei Wang
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
  23. Language Ranker: A Metric for Quantifying LLM Performance Across High and Low-Resource Languages
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zihao Li
    ,
    Yucheng Shi
    ,
    Zirui Liu
    ,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
    , Mengnan Du
  24. Large Vision-Language Model Alignment and Misalignment: A Survey Through the Lens of Explainability
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Haiyan Zhao
    ,
    Jingyu Hu
    ,
    Weiru Liu
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Lu Cheng
    , Mengnan Du
  25. Massive Values in Self-Attention Modules are the Key to Contextual Knowledge Understanding
    ICML 2025 ·
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Kai Mei
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Mingjie Sun
    ,
    Ruixiang Tang
    , Mengnan Du,
    Zirui Liu
    ,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  26. NPC-TAG: Node Prompts for Classification on Text Attributed Graphs with LLMs
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Uras Varolgunes
    , Mengnan Du,
    Dantong Yu
  27. Physics-Informed Attention-Enhanced Fourier Neural Operator for Solar Magnetic Field Extrapolations
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Jinghao Cao
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Mengnan Du,
    Haimin Wang
    ,
    Bo Shen
  28. SAE-SSV: Supervised Steering in Sparse Representation Spaces for Reliable Control of Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zirui He
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Bo Shen
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Yongfeng Zhang
    , Mengnan Du
  29. AI Driven Online Advertising: Market Design, Generative AI, and Ethics
    WWW 2024 ·
    Fengxiang He
    , Mengnan Du,
    Aris Filos-Ratsikas
    ,
    Lu Cheng
    ,
    Qingquan Song
    ,
    Min Lin
    ,
    John Vines
  30. Data-Centric Explainable Debiasing for Improving Fairness in Pre-trained Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yingji Li
    , Mengnan Du,
    Rui Song
    ,
    Xin Wang
    ,
    Ying Wang
  31. Enhancing Fairness in In-Context Learning: Prioritizing Minority Samples in Demonstrations
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Jingyu Hu
    , Mengnan Du
  32. Explaining Time Series via Contrastive and Locally Sparse Perturbations
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Zichuan Liu
    ,
    Yingying Zhang
    ,
    Tianchun Wang
    ,
    Zefan Wang
    ,
    Dongsheng Luo
    , Mengnan Du,
    Min Wu
    ,
    Yi Wang
    ,
    Chunlin Chen
    ,
    Lunting Fan
    ,
    Qingsong Wen
  33. LawLLM: Law Large Language Model for the US Legal System
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Haoran Zhao
    ,
    Xukun Liu
    ,
    David Demeter
    , Mengnan Du,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  34. Secure Your Model: An Effective Key Prompt Protection Mechanism for Large Language Models
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Ruixiang Tang
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Xuanting Cai
    , Mengnan Du,
    Xia Hu
  35. Strategic Demonstration Selection for Improved Fairness in LLM In-Context Learning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jingyu Hu
    ,
    Weiru Liu
    , Mengnan Du
  36. TVE: Learning Meta-attribution for Transferable Vision Explainer
    ICML 2024 ·
    Guanchu Wang
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Fan Yang
    , Mengnan Du,
    Chia-Yuan Chang
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Zirui Liu
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Xuanting Cai
    ,
    Xia Hu
  37. The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Qinkai Yu
    ,
    Dong Shu
    ,
    Haiyan Zhao
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Yanda Meng
    ,
    Yongfeng Zhang
    , Mengnan Du