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Rui Mao

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

28 papers at tracked venues · 17 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×8AAAI ×5ICDM ×5EMNLP ×3ACM MM ×2CIKM ×1ICLR ×1IJCAI ×1NAACL ×1SIGIR ×1

Frequent coauthors

Erik Cambria
×19
Xulang Zhang
×5
Gianmarco Mengaldo
×4
Tiesunlong Shen
×3
Jian Zhang
×3
Haoran Luo
×3
Qika Lin
×3
Tan Yue
×3
Dongyan Zhao
×3
Keane Ong
×3
Deeksha Varshney
×3
Sriram Ranga
×2

Papers

  1. Are Language Models Any Good at Density Modeling?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Sriram Ranga
    ,
    Sai Shashank Bedampeta
    , Rui Mao,
    Anupam Chattopadhyay
  2. CLER: Improving Multimodal Financial Reasoning by Cross-MLLM Error Reflection
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Shuangyan Deng
    ,
    Zhongsheng Wang
    , Rui Mao,
    Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu
    ,
    Jiamou Liu
  3. LLMdoctor: Token-Level Flow-Guided Preference Optimization for Efficient Test-Time Alignment of Large Language Models
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Tiesunlong Shen
    , Rui Mao,
    Jin Wang
    ,
    Heming Sun
    ,
    Jian Zhang
    ,
    Xuejie Zhang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  4. LexGenius: An Expert-Level Benchmark for Large Language Models in Legal General Intelligence
    ACL 2026 ·
    Wenjin Liu
    ,
    Haoran Luo
    ,
    Xin Feng
    ,
    Xiang Ji
    ,
    Lijuan Zhou
    , Rui Mao,
    Jiapu Wang
    ,
    Shirui Pan
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  5. MAPS: Multi-Agent Personality Shaping for Collaborative Reasoning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Jian Zhang
    ,
    Zhiyuan Wang
    ,
    Zhangqi Wang
    ,
    Fangzhi Xu
    ,
    Qika Lin
    ,
    Lingling Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
    ,
    Jun Liu
  6. MAXS: Meta-Adaptive Exploration with LLM Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jian Zhang
    ,
    Zhiyuan Wang
    ,
    Zhangqi Wang
    ,
    Yu He
    ,
    Haoran Luo
    ,
    Li Yuan
    ,
    Lingling Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Qika Lin
    ,
    Jun Liu
  7. Prompt-R1: Collaborative Automatic Prompting Framework via End-to-end Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Wenjin Liu
    ,
    Haoran Luo
    ,
    Xueyuan Lin
    ,
    Haoming Liu
    ,
    Tiesunlong Shen
    ,
    Jiapu Wang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
  8. RefleXNet: Targeted Self-Reflection for Accurate Chest X-ray Reporting
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Xin Mei
    , Rui Mao,
    Xiaoyan Cai
    ,
    Libin Yang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  9. AnaFig: A Human-Aligned Dataset for Scientific Figure Analysis
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Tan Yue
    ,
    Xuzhao Shi
    , Rui Mao,
    Zilong Song
    ,
    Zonghai Hu
    ,
    Dongyan Zhao
  10. AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xiaobao Wu
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    Ruiwen Zhou
    ,
    Shuai Zhao
    ,
    Yubo Ma
    ,
    Mingzhe Du
    , Rui Mao,
    Anh Tuan Luu
    ,
    William Yang Wang
  11. Can a Large Language Model be a Gaslighter?
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Wei Li
    ,
    Luyao Zhu
    ,
    Yang Song
    ,
    Ruixi Lin
    , Rui Mao,
    Yang You
  12. Combining LLM-Generated Knowledge Graphs with RAG for Financial Sentiment Extraction
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Zihao Huang
    ,
    Kelvin Du
    ,
    Xulang Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
  13. Deriving Strategic Market Insights with Large Language Models: A Benchmark for Forward Counterfactual Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Keane Ong
    , Rui Mao,
    Deeksha Varshney
    ,
    Paul Pu Liang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
    ,
    Gianmarco Mengaldo
  14. F2TEval: Human-Aligned Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for Figure-to-Text Task
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Tan Yue
    , Rui Mao,
    Zilong Song
    ,
    Zonghai Hu
    ,
    Dongyan Zhao
  15. Flow-guided Direct Preference Optimization for Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Trees
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Tiesunlong Shen
    , Rui Mao,
    Jin Wang
    ,
    Xuejie Zhang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  16. QAEval: Mixture of Evaluators for Question-Answering Task Evaluation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tan Yue
    , Rui Mao,
    Xuzhao Shi
    ,
    Shuo Zhan
    ,
    Zuhao Yang
    ,
    Dongyan Zhao
  17. The Plagiarism Singularity Conjecture
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Sriram Ranga
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
    ,
    Anupam Chattopadhyay
  18. Towards Robust ESG Analysis Against Greenwashing Risks: Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Keane Ong
    , Rui Mao,
    Deeksha Varshney
    ,
    Erik Cambria
    ,
    Gianmarco Mengaldo
  19. Evaluating Vision Language Models in Detecting Learning Engagement
    ICDM 2024 ·
    Jayant Teotia
    ,
    Xulang Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
  20. Explainable Stock Price Movement Prediction using Contrastive Learning
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Kelvin Du
    , Rui Mao,
    Frank Xing
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  21. Investigating the Role of Metaphors in Human-AI Conversation and Engagement
    ICDM 2024 ·
    Pragati Maheshwary
    ,
    Qiawen Liu
    , Rui Mao
  22. Medical Report Generation via Multimodal Spatio-Temporal Fusion
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Xin Mei
    , Rui Mao,
    Xiaoyan Cai
    ,
    Libin Yang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  23. MetaPro 2.0: Computational Metaphor Processing on the Effectiveness of Anomalous Language Modeling
    ACL 2024 · Rui Mao,
    Kai He
    ,
    Claudia Ong
    ,
    Qian Liu
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  24. SenticVec: Toward Robust and Human-Centric Neurosymbolic Sentiment Analysis
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xulang Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
  25. Sentiment Analysis on Climate Change for Sustainable Investment
    ICDM 2024 ·
    Keane Ong
    , Rui Mao,
    Deeksha Varshney
    ,
    Ranjan Satapathy
    ,
    Erik Cambria
    ,
    Gianmarco Mengaldo
  26. Understanding Public Perception Towards Weather Disasters Through the Lens of Metaphor
    IJCAI 2024 · Rui Mao,
    Qika Lin
    ,
    Qiawen Liu
    ,
    Gianmarco Mengaldo
    ,
    Erik Cambria
  27. Understanding the Hidden State of Language Models from the Perspective of Sentiment Analysis
    ICDM 2024 ·
    Kaicheng Xue
    ,
    Xulang Zhang
    , Rui Mao,
    Erik Cambria
  28. Vanessa: Visual Connotation and Aesthetic Attributes Understanding Network for Multimodal Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Luwei Xiao
    , Rui Mao,
    Xulang Zhang
    ,
    Liang He
    ,
    Erik Cambria