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Nigel Collier

University of Cambridge, UK

30 papers at tracked venues · 19 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×16EMNLP ×9NAACL ×2AAAI ×1ICML ×1NeurIPS ×1

Frequent coauthors

Caiqi Zhang
×10
Tiancheng Hu
×8
Ehsan Shareghi
×6
Yinhong Liu
×6
Yijiang River Dong
×5
Xiaochen Zhu
×4
Zaiqiao Meng
×4
Ivan Vulic
×4
Zongqian Li
×4
Yixuan Su
×4
Ruihan Yang
×3
Chengzu Li
×3

Papers

  1. Confidence Estimation for LLMs in Multi-turn Interactions
    ACL 2026 ·
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Ruihan Yang
    ,
    Xiaochen Zhu
    ,
    Chengzu Li
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Yijiang River Dong
    ,
    Deqing Yang
    , Nigel Collier
  2. Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xiaochen Zhu
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Yizhou Chi
    ,
    Tom Stafford
    , Nigel Collier,
    Andreas Vlachos
  3. Failure Modes in Multi-Hop QA: The Weakest Link Effect and the Recognition Bottleneck
    ACL 2026 ·
    Meiru Zhang
    ,
    Zaiqiao Meng
    , Nigel Collier
  4. LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Xiaochen Zhu
    ,
    Chengzu Li
    , Nigel Collier,
    Andreas Vlachos
  5. Navigating the Alignment-Calibration Trade-off: A Pareto-Superior Frontier via Model Merging
    ACL 2026 ·
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Benjamin Minixhofer
    , Nigel Collier
  6. Privacy-R1: Privacy-Aware Multi-LLM Agent Collaboration via Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zheng Hui
    ,
    Yijiang River Dong
    ,
    Sanhanat Sivapiromrat
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
    , Nigel Collier
  7. Value of Information: A Framework for Human-Agent Communication
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yijiang River Dong
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Zheng Hui
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Ivan Vulic
    ,
    Andreea Bobu
    , Nigel Collier
  8. 500xCompressor: Generalized Prompt Compression for Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zongqian Li
    ,
    Yixuan Su
    , Nigel Collier
  9. Aligning with Logic: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving Logical Preference Consistency in Large Language Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yinhong Liu
    ,
    Zhijiang Guo
    ,
    Tianya Liang
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
    ,
    Ivan Vulic
    , Nigel Collier
  10. All Roads Lead to Rome: Graph-Based Confidence Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Chang Shu
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
    , Nigel Collier
  11. Conformity in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xiaochen Zhu
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Tom Stafford
    , Nigel Collier,
    Andreas Vlachos
  12. LoGU: Long-form Generation with Uncertainty Expressions
    ACL 2025 ·
    Ruihan Yang
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Zhisong Zhang
    ,
    Xinting Huang
    ,
    Sen Yang
    , Nigel Collier,
    Dong Yu
    ,
    Deqing Yang
  13. PT-MoE: An Efficient Finetuning Framework for Integrating Mixture-of-Experts into Prompt Tuning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zongqian Li
    ,
    Yixuan Su
    , Nigel Collier
  14. Prompt Compression for Large Language Models: A Survey
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zongqian Li
    ,
    Yinhong Liu
    ,
    Yixuan Su
    , Nigel Collier
  15. ReasonGraph: Visualization of Reasoning Methods and Extended Inference Paths
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zongqian Li
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
    , Nigel Collier
  16. Time to Revisit Exact Match
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Auss Abbood
    ,
    Zaiqiao Meng
    , Nigel Collier
  17. UNCLE: Benchmarking Uncertainty Expressions in Long-Form Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Ruihan Yang
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Zhisong Zhang
    ,
    Xinting Huang
    ,
    Dong Yu
    , Nigel Collier,
    Deqing Yang
  18. When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yijiang River Dong
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Yinhong Liu
    ,
    Ahmet Üstün
    , Nigel Collier
  19. iNews: A Multimodal Dataset for Modeling Personalized Affective Responses to News
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tiancheng Hu
    , Nigel Collier
  20. An Individualized News Affective Response Dataset
    ACL 2024 ·
    Tiancheng Hu
    , Nigel Collier
  21. BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zihao Fu
    ,
    Meiru Zhang
    ,
    Zaiqiao Meng
    ,
    Yannan Shen
    ,
    David L. Buckeridge
    , Nigel Collier
  22. Can LLM be a Personalized Judge?
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yijiang River Dong
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    , Nigel Collier
  23. Can We Instruct LLMs to Compensate for Position Bias?
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Meiru Zhang
    ,
    Zaiqiao Meng
    , Nigel Collier
  24. Fairer Preferences Elicit Improved Human-Aligned Large Language Model Judgments
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Han Zhou
    ,
    Xingchen Wan
    ,
    Yinhong Liu
    , Nigel Collier,
    Ivan Vulic
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
  25. LUQ: Long-text Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Fangyu Liu
    ,
    Marco Basaldella
    , Nigel Collier
  26. PiVe: Prompting with Iterative Verification Improving Graph-based Generative Capability of LLMs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jiuzhou Han
    , Nigel Collier,
    Wray L. Buntine
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
  27. Quantifying the Persona Effect in LLM Simulations
    ACL 2024 ·
    Tiancheng Hu
    , Nigel Collier
  28. TOAD: Task-Oriented Automatic Dialogs with Diverse Response Styles
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yinhong Liu
    ,
    Yimai Fang
    ,
    David Vandyke
    , Nigel Collier
  29. TopViewRS: Vision-Language Models as Top-View Spatial Reasoners
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chengzu Li
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Han Zhou
    , Nigel Collier,
    Anna Korhonen
    ,
    Ivan Vulic
  30. Unlocking Structure Measuring: Introducing PDD, an Automatic Metric for Positional Discourse Coherence
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yinhong Liu
    ,
    Yixuan Su
    ,
    Ehsan Shareghi
    , Nigel Collier