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Yang Deng

Singapore Management University, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore

56 papers at tracked venues · 40 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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ACL ×23EMNLP ×13AAAI ×6SIGIR ×5ICLR ×2NAACL ×2NeurIPS ×2WWW ×2ECIR ×1

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Weixiang Zhao
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Yifei Yuan
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Mengfan Li
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Chuang Li
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Haohao Luo
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Chen Huang
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Liang Chen
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Tong Zhang
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Zhonghua Zheng
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Zesheng Wei
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Papers

  1. Beyond Static Personas: Situational Personality Steering for Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zesheng Wei
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  2. CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Mengfan Li
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  3. DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yiwen Gao
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  4. Do LLMs Really Know What They Don't Know? Internal States Mainly Reflect Knowledge Recall Rather Than Truthfulness
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chi Seng Cheang
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  5. Do Retrieval Augmented Language Models Know When They Don't Know?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Youchao Zhou
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  6. Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xubo Lin
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  7. E2EDev: Benchmarking Large Language Models in End-to-End Software Development Task
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jingyao Liu
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  8. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Step-Level Transitions for LLM Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shuai Zhen
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  9. Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-Based Reranking
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Chuang Li
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  10. MHSafeEval: Role-Aware Interaction-Level Evaluation of Mental Health Safety in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Suhyun Lee
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  11. On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  12. RecToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Theory of Mind in LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Mengfan Li
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  13. Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational AI
    AAAI 2026 · Yang Deng
  14. Trade-offs in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative and Adaptive Reasoning over Foundational Capabilities
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  15. AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  16. Aligning Large Language Models for Faithful Integrity Against Opposing Argument
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yong Zhao
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  17. Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  18. Browsing Like Human: A Multimodal Web Agent with Experiential Fast-and-Slow Thinking
    ACL 2025 ·
    Haohao Luo
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  19. Chain of Strategy Optimization Makes Large Language Models Better Emotional Supporter
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  20. ChatCRS: Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Chuang Li
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  21. EvoWiki: Evaluating LLMs on Evolving Knowledge
    ACL 2025 ·
    Wei Tang
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  22. FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hongzhan Lin
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  23. From Personas to Talks: Revisiting the Impact of Personas on LLM-Synthesized Emotional Support Conversations
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Shenghan Wu
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  24. Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Hao Li
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  25. How to Enable Effective Cooperation Between Humans and NLP Models: A Survey of Principles, Formalizations, and Beyond
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chen Huang
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  26. Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey
    ACL 2025 ·
    Moxin Li
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  27. LightPROF: A Lightweight Reasoning Framework for Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Tu Ao
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  28. MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  29. PEARL: Towards Permutation-Resilient LLMs
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Liang Chen
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  30. Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yifei Yuan
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  31. Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yifei Yuan
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  32. The Rise of Parameter Specialization for Knowledge Storage in Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yihuai Hong
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  33. Think Both Ways: Teacher-Student Bidirectional Reasoning Enhances MCQ Generation and Distractor Quality
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yimiao Qiu
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  34. Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access
    SIGIR 2025 · Yang Deng
  35. When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
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  36. Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhiyu Yang
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  37. Ask-before-Plan: Proactive Language Agents for Real-World Planning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xuan Zhang
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  38. Beyond Persuasion: Towards Conversational Recommender System with Credible Explanations
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Peixin Qin
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  39. Broadening the View: Demonstration-augmented Prompt Learning for Conversational Recommendation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Huy Dao
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  40. CLAMBER: A Benchmark of Identifying and Clarifying Ambiguous Information Needs in Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Tong Zhang
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  41. Chain-of-Exemplar: Enhancing Distractor Generation for Multimodal Educational Question Generation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Haohao Luo
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  42. Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Shuaiyi Li
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  43. Don't Just Say "I don't know"! Self-aligning Large Language Models for Responding to Unknown Questions with Explanations
    EMNLP 2024 · Yang Deng
  44. Experience as Source for Anticipation and Planning: Experiential Policy Learning for Target-driven Recommendation Dialogues
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Huy Dao
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  45. Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    An Zhang
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  46. Large Language Model Powered Agents in the Web
    WWW 2024 · Yang Deng
  47. On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
    ACL 2024 · Yang Deng
  48. Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents
    ICLR 2024 · Yang Deng
  49. STYLE: Improving Domain Transferability of Asking Clarification Questions in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yue Chen
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  50. Selective Annotation via Data Allocation: These Data Should Be Triaged to Experts for Annotation Rather Than the Model
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chen Huang
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  51. Self-chats from Large Language Models Make Small Emotional Support Chatbot Better
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhonghua Zheng
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  52. Strength Lies in Differences! Improving Strategy Planning for Non-collaborative Dialogues via Diversified User Simulation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Tong Zhang
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  53. Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhonghua Zheng
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  54. Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents
    SIGIR 2024 · Yang Deng
  55. Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yifei Yuan
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  56. WatME: Towards Lossless Watermarking Through Lexical Redundancy
    ACL 2024 ·
    Liang Chen
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