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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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Venues

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

Frequent coauthors

Tat-Seng Chua
×22
Wenxuan Zhang
×10
See-Kiong Ng
×9
Chen Huang
×7
Wenqiang Lei
×7
Weixiang Zhao
×7
Yanyan Zhao
×7
Bing Qin
×7
Ting Liu
×7
Jiahe Guo
×6
Yulin Hu
×6
An Zhang
×6

Papers

  1. Beyond Static Personas: Situational Personality Steering for Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zesheng Wei
    ,
    Mengxiang Li
    ,
    Zilei Wang
    , Yang Deng
  2. CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Mengfan Li
    ,
    Xuanhua Shi
    , Yang Deng
  3. DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yiwen Gao
    ,
    Ruochen Zhao
    , Yang Deng,
    Wenxuan Zhang
  4. Do LLMs Really Know What They Don't Know? Internal States Mainly Reflect Knowledge Recall Rather Than Truthfulness
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chi Seng Cheang
    ,
    Hou Pong Chan
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    , Yang Deng
  5. Do Retrieval Augmented Language Models Know When They Don't Know?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Youchao Zhou
    ,
    Heyan Huang
    ,
    Yicheng Liu
    ,
    Rui Dai
    ,
    Xinglin Wang
    ,
    Xingchen Zhang
    ,
    Shumin Shi
    , Yang Deng
  6. Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xubo Lin
    ,
    Zezhi Deng
    ,
    Shihao Wang
    ,
    Grace Hui Yang
    , Yang Deng
  7. E2EDev: Benchmarking Large Language Models in End-to-End Software Development Task
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jingyao Liu
    ,
    Chen Huang
    ,
    Zhizhao Guan
    ,
    Wenqiang Lei
    , Yang Deng
  8. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Step-Level Transitions for LLM Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shuai Zhen
    ,
    Yanhua Yu
    ,
    Ruopei Guo
    ,
    Nan Cheng
    , Yang Deng
  9. Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-Based Reranking
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Chuang Li
    ,
    Weida Liang
    ,
    Hengchang Hu
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Haizhou Li
    , Yang Deng
  10. MHSafeEval: Role-Aware Interaction-Level Evaluation of Mental Health Safety in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Suhyun Lee
    ,
    Palakorn Achananuparp
    ,
    Neemesh Yadav
    ,
    Ee-Peng Lim
    , Yang Deng
  11. On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Yichen Zhang
    ,
    Yingshuo Wang
    , Yang Deng,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Xuda Zhi
    ,
    Yongbo Huang
    ,
    Hao He
    ,
    Wanxiang Che
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Ting Liu
  12. RecToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Theory of Mind in LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Mengfan Li
    ,
    Xuanhua Shi
    , Yang Deng
  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
    ,
    Xingyu Sui
    ,
    Jiahe Guo
    ,
    Yulin Hu
    , Yang Deng,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Xuda Zhi
    ,
    Yongbo Huang
    ,
    Hao He
    ,
    Wanxiang Che
    ,
    Ting Liu
    ,
    Bing Qin
  15. AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Jiahe Guo
    ,
    Yulin Hu
    , Yang Deng,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Xingyu Sui
    ,
    Xinyang Han
    ,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Ting Liu
  16. Aligning Large Language Models for Faithful Integrity Against Opposing Argument
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yong Zhao
    , Yang Deng,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  17. Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Yulin Hu
    , Yang Deng,
    Jiahe Guo
    ,
    Xingyu Sui
    ,
    Xinyang Han
    ,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Ting Liu
  18. Browsing Like Human: A Multimodal Web Agent with Experiential Fast-and-Slow Thinking
    ACL 2025 ·
    Haohao Luo
    ,
    Jiayi Kuang
    ,
    Wei Liu
    ,
    Ying Shen
    ,
    Jian Luan
    , Yang Deng
  19. Chain of Strategy Optimization Makes Large Language Models Better Emotional Supporter
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Xingyu Sui
    ,
    Xinyang Han
    , Yang Deng,
    Yulin Hu
    ,
    Jiahe Guo
    ,
    Libo Qin
    ,
    Qianyun Du
    ,
    Shijin Wang
    ,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Ting Liu
  20. ChatCRS: Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Chuang Li
    , Yang Deng,
    Hengchang Hu
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Haizhou Li
  21. EvoWiki: Evaluating LLMs on Evolving Knowledge
    ACL 2025 ·
    Wei Tang
    ,
    Yixin Cao
    , Yang Deng,
    Jiahao Ying
    ,
    Bo Wang
    ,
    Yizhe Yang
    ,
    Yuyue Zhao
    ,
    Qi Zhang
    ,
    Xuanjing Huang
    ,
    Yu-Gang Jiang
    ,
    Yong Liao
  22. FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hongzhan Lin
    , Yang Deng,
    Yuxuan Gu
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Jing Ma
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  23. From Personas to Talks: Revisiting the Impact of Personas on LLM-Synthesized Emotional Support Conversations
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Shenghan Wu
    ,
    Yimo Zhu
    ,
    Wynne Hsu
    ,
    Mong-Li Lee
    , Yang Deng
  24. Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Hao Li
    ,
    Chenghao Yang
    ,
    An Zhang
    , Yang Deng,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  25. How to Enable Effective Cooperation Between Humans and NLP Models: A Survey of Principles, Formalizations, and Beyond
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chen Huang
    , Yang Deng,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Jiancheng Lv
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Jimmy Huang
  26. Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey
    ACL 2025 ·
    Moxin Li
    ,
    Yong Zhao
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Shuaiyi Li
    ,
    Wenya Xie
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    , Yang Deng
  27. LightPROF: A Lightweight Reasoning Framework for Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Tu Ao
    ,
    Yanhua Yu
    ,
    Yuling Wang
    , Yang Deng,
    Zirui Guo
    ,
    Liang Pang
    ,
    Pinghui Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Xiao Zhang
    ,
    Zhen Cai
  28. MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Yulin Hu
    , Yang Deng,
    Tongtong Wu
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Jiahe Guo
    ,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Ting Liu
  29. PEARL: Towards Permutation-Resilient LLMs
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Liang Chen
    ,
    Li Shen
    , Yang Deng,
    Xiaoyan Zhao
    ,
    Bin Liang
    ,
    Kam-Fai Wong
  30. Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yifei Yuan
    ,
    Zahra Abbasiantaeb
    ,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
    , Yang Deng
  31. Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yifei Yuan
    ,
    Zahra Abbasiantaeb
    , Yang Deng,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
  32. The Rise of Parameter Specialization for Knowledge Storage in Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yihuai Hong
    ,
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Wei Tang
    , Yang Deng,
    Yu Rong
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
  33. Think Both Ways: Teacher-Student Bidirectional Reasoning Enhances MCQ Generation and Distractor Quality
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yimiao Qiu
    , Yang Deng,
    Quanming Yao
    ,
    Zhimeng Zhang
    ,
    Zhiang Dong
    ,
    Chang Yao
    ,
    Jingyuan Chen
  34. Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access
    SIGIR 2025 · Yang Deng,
    Moxin Li
    ,
    Liang Pang
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Wai Lam
  35. When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Jiahe Guo
    , Yang Deng,
    Tongtong Wu
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Yulin Hu
    ,
    Xingyu Sui
    ,
    Yanyan Zhao
    ,
    Wanxiang Che
    ,
    Bing Qin
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Ting Liu
  36. Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhiyu Yang
    ,
    Shuo Wang
    ,
    Yukun Yan
    , Yang Deng
  37. Ask-before-Plan: Proactive Language Agents for Real-World Planning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xuan Zhang
    , Yang Deng,
    Zifeng Ren
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  38. Beyond Persuasion: Towards Conversational Recommender System with Credible Explanations
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Peixin Qin
    ,
    Chen Huang
    , Yang Deng,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  39. Broadening the View: Demonstration-augmented Prompt Learning for Conversational Recommendation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Huy Dao
    , Yang Deng,
    Dung D. Le
    ,
    Lizi Liao
  40. CLAMBER: A Benchmark of Identifying and Clarifying Ambiguous Information Needs in Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Tong Zhang
    ,
    Peixin Qin
    , Yang Deng,
    Chen Huang
    ,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Junhong Liu
    ,
    Dingnan Jin
    ,
    Hongru Liang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  41. Chain-of-Exemplar: Enhancing Distractor Generation for Multimodal Educational Question Generation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Haohao Luo
    , Yang Deng,
    Ying Shen
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  42. Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Shuaiyi Li
    , Yang Deng,
    Deng Cai
    ,
    Hongyuan Lu
    ,
    Liang Chen
    ,
    Wai Lam
  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,
    Yong Zhao
    ,
    Moxin Li
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  44. Experience as Source for Anticipation and Planning: Experiential Policy Learning for Target-driven Recommendation Dialogues
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Huy Dao
    , Yang Deng,
    Khanh-Huyen Bui
    ,
    Dung D. Le
    ,
    Lizi Liao
  45. Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    An Zhang
    , Yang Deng,
    Yankai Lin
    ,
    Xu Chen
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  46. Large Language Model Powered Agents in the Web
    WWW 2024 · Yang Deng,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Yankai Lin
    ,
    Xu Chen
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  47. On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
    ACL 2024 · Yang Deng,
    Xuan Zhang
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Yifei Yuan
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  48. Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents
    ICLR 2024 · Yang Deng,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Wai Lam
    ,
    See-Kiong Ng
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  49. STYLE: Improving Domain Transferability of Asking Clarification Questions in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yue Chen
    ,
    Chen Huang
    , Yang Deng,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Dingnan Jin
    ,
    Jia Liu
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  50. Selective Annotation via Data Allocation: These Data Should Be Triaged to Experts for Annotation Rather Than the Model
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chen Huang
    , Yang Deng,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Jiancheng Lv
    ,
    Ido Dagan
  51. Self-chats from Large Language Models Make Small Emotional Support Chatbot Better
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhonghua Zheng
    ,
    Lizi Liao
    , Yang Deng,
    Libo Qin
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
  52. Strength Lies in Differences! Improving Strategy Planning for Non-collaborative Dialogues via Diversified User Simulation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Tong Zhang
    ,
    Chen Huang
    , Yang Deng,
    Hongru Liang
    ,
    Jia Liu
    ,
    Zujie Wen
    ,
    Wenqiang Lei
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  53. Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhonghua Zheng
    ,
    Lizi Liao
    , Yang Deng,
    Ee-Peng Lim
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
  54. Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents
    SIGIR 2024 · Yang Deng,
    Lizi Liao
    ,
    Zhonghua Zheng
    ,
    Grace Hui Yang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  55. Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yifei Yuan
    , Yang Deng,
    Anders Søgaard
    ,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
  56. WatME: Towards Lossless Watermarking Through Lexical Redundancy
    ACL 2024 ·
    Liang Chen
    ,
    Yatao Bian
    , Yang Deng,
    Deng Cai
    ,
    Shuaiyi Li
    ,
    Peilin Zhao
    ,
    Kam-Fai Wong