Publications

Structure vs. Chaos: Asymmetric Entropic Optimization for Enforcing Instruction Hierarchy

Tianxiao Huang, Xinwei Liu, Zitong Shi, Yuxin Wu, Xuan Chen, Liangtao Zheng, Yixuan Tang^*, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung

The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

Detecting Half-Truths

Yixuan Tang, Anthony K. H. Tung

The Oxford Handbook of Misinformation and Disinformation 2026

Debating the Unspoken: Role-Anchored Multi-Agent Reasoning for Half-Truth Detection

Yixuan Tang, Yirui Zhang, Hang Feng, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2026

Reasoning Hijacking: The Fragility of Reasoning Alignment in Large Language Models

Yuansen Liu, Yixuan Tang^*, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026

Fine-Grained Data Ordering Improves Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Xiaomeng Hu, Yixuan Tang^*, Haoze Li, Hao Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhanming Shen, Yiming Zhang, Haobo Wang, Junbo Zhao

Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026

Criterion-Specific Evidence for Long-Form Analogy Evaluation

Yixuan Tang, Yirui Zhang, Zitong Shi, Yuansen Liu, Anthony K. H. Tung

Proceedings of the 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges (INLG GenChal) 2026

SPARROW: Scalable Taxonomy Induction via Structure-Preserving Partitioning and Constraint-Guided Merging

Yirui Zhang, Yixuan Tang^*, Yandong Sun, Mong-Li Lee, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2026

BAT: Target-Instance-Free Data Preparation Synthesis via LLM-Driven Tree Search

Congcong Ge, Yachuan Liu, Yixuan Tang, Yifan Zhu, Yaofeng Tu, Yunjun Gao

International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2026

Bridging the Pose-Semantic Gap: A Cascade Framework for Text-Based Person Anomaly Search

Zequn Xie, Guijin Luo, Chuxin Wang, Sihang Cai, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Yixuan Tang^*

Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026

Iterative Self-Correction for Text-Driven Person Re-Identification with Large Vision-Language Models

Guijin Luo, Zequn Xie, Sihang Cai, Chuxin Wang, Zhou Zhao, Yixuan Tang^*

Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026

Group-aware Multiscale Ensemble Learning for Test-Time Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Kai Tang, Yixuan Tang^*, Tianyi Chen, Haokai Xu, Qiqi Luo, Jin Guang Zheng, Zhixin Zhang, Gang Chen, Haobo Wang

Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026

Asking the Right Questions: Ontology-Grounded Interpretable Embeddings for Biomedical Text

Yixuan Tang, Zhenghong Lin, Yandong Sun, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee, Anthony K. H. Tung

Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2026

A-TMA: Decoupling State-Aware Memory Failures in Long-Term Agent Memory

Zitong Shi, Yixuan Tang^*, Anthony K. H. Tung

2026

Preprint

The Missing Parts: Augmenting Fact Verification with Half Truth Detection

Yixuan Tang, Jincheng Wang, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

MPCG: Multi-Round Persona-Conditioned Generation for Modeling the Evolution of Misinformation with LLMs

Chong Jun Rong Brian, Yixuan Tang^*, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

Uncovering the Bigger Picture: Comprehensive Event Understanding via Diverse News Retrieval

Yixuan Tang, Yuanyuan Shi, Yiqun Sun, Anthony K. H. Tung

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

A General Framework for Producing Interpretable Semantic Text Embeddings

Yiqun Sun, Qiang Huang, Yixuan Tang, Anthony K. H. Tung, Jun Yu

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025

Contextualized Speech Recognition: Rethinking Second-Pass Rescoring with Generative Large Language Models

Yixuan Tang, Anthony K. H. Tung

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2024

QALinkPlus: Text Enrichment with Q&A Data

Yandong Sun, Yixuan Tang^*, Anthony K. H. Tung^*

IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2023

SQuAD-SRC: A Dataset for Multi-Accent Spoken Reading Comprehension

Yixuan Tang, Anthony K. H. Tung

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2023

Combining Machine Learning with a Rule-Based Algorithm to Detect and Identify Related Entities of Documented Adverse Drug Reactions on Hospital Discharge Summaries

Hui Xing Tan, Chun Hwee Desmond Teo, Pei San Ang, Wei Ping Celine Loke, Mun Yee Tham, Siew Har Tan, Bee Leng Sally Soh, Pei Qin Belinda Foo, Zheng Jye Ling, Wei Luen James Yip, Yixuan Tang, Jisong Yang, Kum Hoe Anthony Tung, Sreemanee Raaj Dorajoo

Drug Safety 2022

Do Multi-Hop Question Answering Systems Know How to Answer the Single-Hop Sub-Questions?

Yixuan Tang, Hwee Tou Ng, Anthony K. H. Tung

Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2021

Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions in Discharge Summaries of Electronic Medical Records using Readpeer

Yixuan Tang, Jisong Yang, Pei San Ang, Sreemanee Raaj Dorajoo, Belinda Foo, Sally Soh, Siew Har Tan, Mun Yee Tham, Qing Ye, Lynette P. Shek, Cynthia Sung, Anthony K. H. Tung

International Journal of Medical Informatics 2019

QALink: Enriching Text Documents with Relevant Q&A Site Contents

Yixuan Tang, Weilong Huang, Qi Liu, Anthony K. H. Tung, Xiaoli Wang, Jisong Yang, Beibei Zhang

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2017