GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Auto-Intent: Automated Intent Discovery and Self-Exploration for Large Language Model Web Agents
Authors: Jaekyeom Kim; Dong-Ki Kim; Lajanugen Logeswaran; Sungryull Sohn; Honglak Lee
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce Auto-Intent, a method to adapt a pre-trained large language model (LLM) as an agent for a target domain without direct fine-tuning, where we empirically focus on web navigation tasks. Our approach first discovers the underlying intents from target domain demonstrations unsupervisedly, in a highly compact form (up to three words). With the extracted intents, we train our intent predictor to predict the next intent given the agent’s past observations and actions. In particular, we propose a self-exploration approach where top-k probable intent predictions are provided as a hint to the pre-trained LLM agent, which leads to enhanced decision-making capabilities. Auto-Intent substantially improves the performance of GPT-3.5, 4 and Llama-3.1-70B, 405B agents on the large-scale real-website navigation benchmarks from Mind2Web and online navigation tasks from WebArena with its cross-benchmark generalization from Mind2Web.
See Detail Say Clear: Towards Brain CT Report Generation via Pathological Clue-driven Representation Learning
Authors: Chengxin Zheng; Junzhong Ji; Yanzhao Shi; Xiaodan Zhang; Liangqiong Qu
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Brain CT report generation is significant to aid physicians in diagnosing cranial diseases.Recent studies concentrate on handling the consistency between visual and textual pathological features to improve the coherence of report.However, there exist some challenges: 1) Redundant visual representing: Massive irrelevant areas in 3D scans distract models from representing salient visual contexts.2) Shifted semantic representing: Limited medical corpus causes difficulties for models to transfer the learned textual representations to generative layers. This study introduces a Pathological Clue-driven Representation Learning (PCRL) model to build cross-modal representations based on pathological clues and naturally adapt them for accurate report generation.Specifically, we construct pathological clues from perspectives of segmented regions, pathological entities, and report themes, to fully grasp visual pathological patterns and learn cross-modal feature representations. To adapt the representations for the text generation task, we bridge the gap between representation learning and report generation by using a unified large language model (LLM) with task-tailored instructions. These crafted instructions enable the LLM to be flexibly fine-tuned across tasks and smoothly transfer the semantic representation for report generation.Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms previous methods and achieves SoTA performance.Our code is available at https://github.com/Chauncey-Jheng/PCRL-MRG.
P-FOLIO: Evaluating and Improving Logical Reasoning with Abundant Human-Written Reasoning Chains
Authors: Simeng Han; Aaron Yu; Rui Shen; Zhenting Qi; Martin Riddell; Wenfei Zhou; Yujie Qiao; Yilun Zhao; Semih Yavuz; Ye Liu; Shafiq Joty; Yingbo Zhou; Caiming Xiong; Dragomir Radev; Rex Ying; Arman Cohan
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Existing methods on understanding the capabilities of LLMs in logical reasoning rely on binary entailment classification or synthetically derived rationales, which are not sufficient for properly assessing model’s capabilities. We present P-FOLIO, a human-annotated dataset consisting of diverse and complex reasoning chains for a set of realistic logical reasoning stories also written by humans. P-FOLIO is collected with an annotation protocol that facilitates humans to annotate well-structured natural language proofs for first-order logic reasoning problems in a step-by-step manner. The number of reasoning steps in P-FOLIO span from 0 to 20. We further use P-FOLIO to evaluate and improve large-language-model (LLM) reasoning capabilities. We evaluate LLM reasoning capabilities at a fine granularity via single-step inference rule classification, with more diverse inference rules of more diverse and higher levels of complexities than previous works. Given that a single model-generated reasoning chain could take a completely different path than the human-annotated one, we sample multiple reasoning chains from a model and use pass@k metrics for evaluating the quality of model-generated reasoning chains. We show that human-written reasoning chains significantly boost the logical reasoning capabilities of LLMs via many-shot prompting and fine-tuning. Furthermore, fine-tuning Llam3-7B on P-FOLIO improves the model performance by 10% or more on three other out-of-domain logical reasoning datasets.
TRIP NEGOTIATOR: A Travel Persona-aware Reinforced Dialogue Generation Model for Personalized Integrative Negotiation in Tourism
Authors: Priyanshu Priya; Desai Vishesh Yasheshbhai; Ratnesh Kumar Joshi; Roshni Ramnani; Anutosh Maitra; Shubhashis Sengupta; Asif Ekbal
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: A sophisticated negotiation dialogue system for tourism should engage in negotiations beyond mere price considerations, encompassing various other aspects and amenities inherent in the tourism package. To ensure such tailored interaction, it is imperative to understand the intricacies of traveler preferences, constraints, and expectations. Incorporating these personality facets allows for customizing negotiation strategies, resulting in a more personalized and integrative experience. With this aim, we take a pivotal step in advancing automated dialogue systems for personalized integrative negotiation tasks. We develop DEAL, a pioneering Dialogue datasEt for personALized integrative negotiation task in the tourism domain. Further, we propose TRIP NEGOTIATOR, a novel Travel persona-aware Reinforced dIalogue generation model for Personalized iNtegrative nEGOTIATion within the tOuRism domain. TRIP NEGOTIATOR is built to discern the traveler’s persona and intent, systematically adjusts negotiation strategies, and directs the negotiation toward a pertinent phase to ensure effective negotiation. Through reinforcement learning with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), we guide TRIP NEGOTIATOR to generate coherent and diverse responses consistent with the traveler’s personality. Extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of TRIP NEGOTIATOR in generating personalized responses during negotiation.
Chain of Condition: Construct, Verify and Solve Conditions for Conditional Question Answering
Authors: Jiuheng Lin; Yuxuan Lai; Yansong Feng
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Conditional question answering (CQA) is an important task that aims to find probable answers and identify missing conditions. Existing approaches struggle with CQA due to two challenges: (1) precisely identifying necessary conditions and the logical relationship, and (2) verifying conditions to detect any that are missing. In this paper, we propose a novel prompting approach, Chain of condition, by first identifying all conditions and constructing their logical relationships explicitly according to the document, then verifying whether these conditions are satisfied, finally solving the logical expression to indicate any missing conditions and generating the answer accordingly. Experiments on two CQA benchmark datasets show our chain of condition outperforms existing prompting baselines, establishing a new state of the art. Furthermore, with only a few examples, our method can facilitate GPT-3.5-Turbo or GPT-4 to outperform all existing supervised models.
Two Tales of Persona in LLMs: A Survey of Role-Playing and Personalization
Authors: Yu-Min Tseng; Yu-Chao Huang; Teng-Yun Hsiao; Wei-Lin Chen; Chao-Wei Huang; Yu Meng; Yun-Nung Chen
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: The concept of *persona*, originally adopted in dialogue literature, has re-surged as a promising framework for tailoring large language models (LLMs) to specific context (*e.g.*, personalized search, LLM-as-a-judge). However, the growing research on leveraging persona in LLMs is relatively disorganized and lacks a systematic taxonomy. To close the gap, we present a comprehensive survey to categorize the current state of the field. We identify two lines of research, namely (1) *LLM Role-Playing*, where personas are assigned to LLMs, and (2) *LLM Personalization*, where LLMs take care of user personas. Additionally, we introduce existing methods for LLM personality evaluation. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first survey for role-playing and personalization in LLMs under the unified view of persona. We continuously maintain a paper collection to foster future endeavors.
ToxiCraft: A Novel Framework for Synthetic Generation of Harmful Information
Authors: Zheng Hui; Zhaoxiao Guo; Hang Zhao; Juanyong Duan; Congrui Huang
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: In different NLP tasks, detecting harmful content is crucial for online environments, especially with the growing influence of social media. However, previous research has two main issues: 1) a lack of data in low-resource settings, and 2) inconsistent definitions and criteria for judging harmful content, requiring classification models to be robust to spurious features and diverse. We propose Toxicraft, a novel framework for synthesizing datasets of harmful information to address these weaknesses. With only a small amount of seed data, our framework can generate a wide variety of synthetic, yet remarkably realistic, examples of toxic information. Experimentation across various datasets showcases a notable enhancement in detection model robustness and adaptability, surpassing or close to the gold labels.
Look Who’s Talking Now: Covert Channels From Biased LLMs
Authors: Daniel Silva; Frederic Sala; Ryan Gabrys
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Large language model-based steganography encodes hidden messages into model-generated tokens. The key tradeoff is between how much hidden information can be introduced and how much the model can be perturbed. To address this tradeoff, we show how to adapt strategies previously used for LLM watermarking to encode large amounts of information. We tackle the practical (but difficult) setting where we do not have access to the full model when trying to recover the hidden information. Theoretically, we study the fundamental limits in how much steganographic information can be inserted into LLM-created outputs. We provide practical encoding schemes and present experimental results showing that our proposed strategies are nearly optimal.
ValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactions
Authors: Chan Young Park; Shuyue Stella Li; Hayoung Jung; Svitlana Volkova; Tanu Mitra; David Jurgens; Yulia Tsvetkov
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: This study introduces ValueScope, a framework leveraging language models to quantify social norms and values within online communities, grounded in social science perspectives on normative structures. We employ ValueScope to dissect and analyze linguistic and stylistic expressions across 13 Reddit communities categorized under gender, politics, science, and finance. Our analysis provides a quantitative foundation confirming that even closely related communities exhibit remarkably diverse norms. This diversity supports existing theories and adds a new dimension to understanding community interactions. ValueScope not only delineates differences in social norms but also effectively tracks their evolution and the influence of significant external events like the U.S. presidential elections and the emergence of new sub-communities. The framework thus highlights the pivotal role of social norms in shaping online interactions, presenting a substantial advance in both the theory and application of social norm studies in digital spaces.
Unraveling the Truth: Do VLMs really Understand Charts? A Deep Dive into Consistency and Robustness
Authors: Srija Mukhopadhyay; Adnan Qidwai; Aparna Garimella; Pritika Ramu; Vivek Gupta; Dan Roth
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Chart question answering (CQA) is a crucial area of Visual Language Understanding. However, the robustness and consistency of current Visual Language Models (VLMs) in this field remain under-explored. This paper evaluates state-of-the-art VLMs on comprehensive datasets, developed specifically for this study, encompassing diverse question categories and chart formats. We investigate two key aspects: 1) the models’ ability to handle varying levels of chart and question complexity, and 2) their robustness across different visual representations of the same underlying data. Our analysis reveals significant performance variations based on question and chart types, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses of current models. Additionally, we identify areas for improvement and propose future research directions to build more robust and reliable CQA systems. This study sheds light on the limitations of current models and paves the way for future advancements in the field.
Fine-Tuning Language Models on Multiple Datasets for Citation Intention Classification
Authors: Zeren Shui; Petros Karypis; Daniel S. Karls; Mingjian Wen; Saurav Manchanda; Ellad B. Tadmor; George Karypis
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Citation intention Classification (CIC) tools classify citations by their intention (e.g., background, motivation) and assist readers in evaluating the contribution of scientific literature. Prior research has shown that pretrained language models (PLMs) such as SciBERT can achieve state-of-the-art performance on CIC benchmarks. PLMs are trained via self-supervision tasks on a large corpus of general text and can quickly adapt to CIC tasks via moderate fine-tuning on the corresponding dataset. Despite their advantages, PLMs can easily overfit small datasets during fine-tuning. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning (MTL) framework that jointly fine-tunes PLMs on a dataset of primary interest together with multiple auxiliary CIC datasets to take advantage of additional supervision signals. We develop a data-driven task relation learning (TRL) method that controls the contribution of auxiliary datasets to avoid negative transfer and expensive hyper-parameter tuning. We conduct experiments on three CIC datasets and show that fine-tuning with additional datasets can improve the PLMs’ generalization performance on the primary dataset. PLMs fine-tuned with our proposed framework outperform the current state-of-the-art models by 7% to 11% on small datasets while aligning with the best-performing model on a large dataset.
TransferCVLM: Transferring Cross-Modal Knowledge for Vision-Language Modeling
Authors: Dongha Choi; Jung-jae Kim; Hyunju Lee
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Recent large vision-language multimodal models pre-trained with huge amount of image-text pairs show remarkable performances in downstream tasks. However, the multimodal pre-training has limitations in terms of resources and training time when it comes to obtaining new models that surpass existing models. To overcome these issues, we propose TransferCVLM, a method of efficient knowledge transfer that integrates pre-trained uni-modal models (and cross-modal fusion-encoder) into a combined vision-language model (CVLM), without pre-training the CVLM with large amount of multimodal data, and then for each task application, fine-tunes the CVLM and transfers the multimodal knowledge of a teacher vision-language model to the CVLM by using knowledge distillation techniques. We demonstrate that 1) the fine-tuned CVLM performs comparable to other vision-language models of similar size, that 2) the multimodal knowledge transfer consistently enhances the CVLM, and the knowledge-transferred CVLM composed of large-size unimodal models outperforms the teacher multimodal model in most of downstream tasks, and that 3) TransferCVLM can also be used for model compression when using small-size unimodal models. We estimate that the training of TransferCVLM takes only 6% of pre-training of other vision-language models. Our code is available at https://github.com/DMCB-GIST/TransferCVLM.
Fast Streaming Transducer ASR Prototyping via Knowledge Distillation with Whisper
Authors: Iuliia Thorbecke; Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez; Esaú Villatoro-tello; Shashi Kumar; Pradeep Rangappa; Sergio Burdisso; Petr Motlicek; Karthik Pandia D S; Aravind Ganapathiraju
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: The training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with little to no supervised data remains an open question. In this work, we demonstrate that streaming Transformer-Transducer (TT) models can be trained from scratch in consumer and accessible GPUs in their entirety with pseudo-labeled (PL) speech from foundational speech models (FSM). This allows training a robust ASR model just in one stage and does not require large data and computational budget compared to the two-step scenario with pre-training and fine-tuning. We perform a comprehensive ablation on different aspects of PL-based streaming TT models such as the impact of (1) shallow fusion of n-gram LMs, (2) contextual biasing with named entities, (3) chunk-wise decoding for low-latency streaming applications, and (4) TT overall performance as the function of the FSM size. Our results demonstrate that TT can be trained from scratch without supervised data, even with very noisy PLs. We validate the proposed framework on 6 languages from CommonVoice and propose multiple heuristics to filter out hallucinated PLs.
Reasoning Paths Optimization: Learning to Reason and Explore From Diverse Paths
Authors: Yew Ken Chia; Guizhen Chen; Weiwen Xu; Anh Tuan Luu; Soujanya Poria; Lidong Bing
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Advanced models such as OpenAI o1 exhibit impressive problem-solving capabilities through step-by-step reasoning. However, they may still falter on more complex problems, making errors that disrupt their reasoning paths. We attribute this to the expansive solution space, where each step has the risk of diverging into mistakes. To enhance language model reasoning, we introduce a specialized training framework called Reasoning Paths Optimization (RPO), which enables learning to reason and explore from diverse paths. Our approach encourages favorable branches at each reasoning step while penalizing unfavorable ones, enhancing the model’s overall problem-solving performance. Reasoning Paths Optimization does not rely on large-scale human-annotated rationales or outputs from closed-source models, making it scalable and data-efficient. We focus on multi-step reasoning tasks, such as math word problems and science-based exam questions. The experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances the reasoning performance of large language models, with up to 3.1% and 4.3% improvement on GSM8K and MMLU (STEM) respectively. Our data and code can be found at https://reasoning-paths.github.io.
Uncertainty Calibration for Tool-Using Language Agents
Authors: Hao Liu; Zi-Yi Dou; Yixin Wang; Nanyun Peng; Yisong Yue
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: There is increasing interest in equipping language models with the ability to leverage external tools for complex, goal-oriented tasks. However, interacting with external tools introduces inherent uncertainties due to imperfections and misalignments between the tools’ outputs and the agents’ internal models, often leading to suboptimal outcomes. We thus study the problem of tool-use calibration in language agents, and identify prompt design and execution trace selection as two primary areas that suffer from miscalibration. We then propose ProbeCal, which recalibrates the internal probabilities of tool-using language agents to better reflect the actual effectiveness of tool, and enables a more appropriate selection of prompts and execution paths. We empirically show that ProbeCal can significantly and consistently improve off-the-shelf language models in tool-using applications.
Personalized Video Comment Generation
Authors: Xudong Lin; Ali Zare; Shiyuan Huang; Ming-Hsuan Yang; Shih-Fu Chang; Li Zhang
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Generating personalized responses, particularly in the context of video, poses a unique challenge for language models. This paper introduces the novel task of Personalized Video Comment Generation (PVCG), aiming to predict user comments tailored to both the input video and the user’s comment history, where the user is unseen during the model training process. Unlike existing video captioning tasks that ignores the personalization in the text generation process, we introduce PerVidCom, a new dataset specifically collected for this novel task with diverse personalized comments from YouTube. Recognizing the limitations of existing captioning metrics for evaluating this task, we propose a new automatic metric based on Large Language Models (LLMs) with few-shot in-context learning, named FICL-Score, specifically measuring quality from the aspects of emotion, language style and content relevance. We verify the proposed metric with human evaluations. We establish baselines using prominent Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), analyze their performance discrepancies through extensive evaluation, and identifies directions for future improvement on this important task. Our research opens up a new direction of personalizing MLLMs and paves the way for future research.
Solving for X and Beyond: Can Large Language Models Solve Complex Math Problems with More-Than-Two Unknowns?
Authors: Kuei-Chun Kao; Ruochen Wang; Cho-Jui Hsieh
Venue: EMNLP 2024 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024)

Abstract: Large Language Models have demonstrates remarkable performance in solving math problems, a hallmark of human intelligence.Despite high success rates on current benchmarks, however, these often feature simple problems with only one or two unknowns, which do not sufficiently challenge their reasoning capacities. This paper introduces a novel benchmark, BeyondX, designed to address these limitations by incorporating problems with multiple unknowns. Recognizing the challenges in proposing multi-unknown problems from scratch, we developed BeyondX using an innovative automated pipeline that progressively increases complexity by expanding the number of unknowns in simpler problems. Empirical study on BeyondX reveals that the performance of existing LLMs, even those fine-tuned specifically on math tasks, significantly decreases as the number of unknowns increases - with a performance drop of up to 70% observed in GPT-4. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Formulate-and-Solve strategy, a generalized prompting approach that effectively handles problems with an arbitrary number of unknowns. Our findings reveal that this strategy not only enhances LLM performance on the BeyondX benchmark but also provides deeper insights into the computational limits of LLMs when faced with more complex mathematical challenges.