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Wenxuan Zhang (张雯轩)

Contact: isakzhang [at] gmail.com
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I will join SUTD as an Assistant Professor in early 2025. I am actively looking for highly motivated PhD students (2025 Fall) / Research Assistants / Visiting students, check out this page on how to get involved. (*: equal contribution, ☨: corresponding author / major supervision)

Recent Preprints

  • [NEW] SeaLLMs 3: Open Foundation and Chat Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages
    Wenxuan Zhang*, Hou Pong Chan*, Yiran Zhao*, Mahani Aljunied*, Jianyu Wang*, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Zhiqiang Hu, Weiwen Xu, Yew Ken Chia, Xin Li, Lidong Bing
    arXiv:2407.19672 [paper] [project page]
  • Auto-Arena: Automating LLM Evaluations with Agent Peer Battles and Committee Discussions
    Ruochen Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Yew Ken Chia, Deli Zhao, Lidong Bing
    arXiv:2405.20267 [paper] [project page]
  • Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models
    Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Yiran Zhao, Anh Tuan Luu, Lidong Bing
    arXiv:2403.10258 [paper] [code]

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

  • Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels
    Chaoqun Liu, Qin Chao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Xiaobao Wu, Boyang Li, Anh Tuan Luu, Lidong Bing
    COLING 2025 [paper] [code]
  • How do Large Language Models Handle Multilingualism?
    Yiran Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Guizhen Chen, Kenji Kawaguchi, Lidong Bing
    NeurIPS 2024 [paper] [data&code]
  • On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
    Yang Deng*, Xuan Zhang*, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
    ACL 2024 [paper] [code]
  • SeaLLMs -- Large Language Models for Southeast Asia
    Xuan-Phi Nguyen*, Wenxuan Zhang*, Xin Li*, Mahani Aljunied*, Qingyu Tan, Liying Cheng, Guanzheng Chen, Yue Deng, Sen Yang, Chaoqun Liu, Hang Zhang, Lidong Bing
    ACL 2024 System Demostration [paper] [code] [demo]
  • Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models
    Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing
    ICLR 2024 [paper] [data&code]
    Top 3% cited papers at ICLR 2024 (as of Dec 2024)
  • Plug-and-Play Policy Planner for Large Language Model Powered Dialogue Agents
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Wai Lam, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua
    ICLR 2024 [paper] [data&code]
  • Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reality Check
    Wenxuan Zhang*, Yue Deng*, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing
    Findings of NAACL 2024 [paper] [data&code]
  • M3Exam: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multilevel Benchmark for Examining Large Language Models
    Wenxuan Zhang, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Chang Gao, Yew Ken Chia, Lidong Bing
    NeurIPS 2023 (Datasets and Benchmarks) [paper] [data&code]
  • From Clozing to Comprehending: Retrofitting Pre-trained Language Model to Pre-trained Machine Reader
    Weiwen Xu, Xin Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Meng Zhou, Wai Lam, Luo Si, Lidong Bing.
    NeurIPS 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • SOUL: Towards Sentiment and Opinion Understanding of Language
    Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
    EMNLP 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • Knowledge-enhanced Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Emotional Support Conversations
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yifei Yuan, Wai Lam.
    ACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • Product Question Answering in E-Commerce: A Survey
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam.
    ACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • Bidirectional Generative Framework for Cross-domain Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
    Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
    ACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • Easy-to-Hard Learning for Information Extraction
    Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Wai Lam, Lidong Bing.
    Findings of ACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • Zero-Shot Text Classification via Self-Supervised Tuning
    Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Guizhen Chen, Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, Chip Hong Chang, Lidong Bing.
    Findings of ACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • A Unified Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-goal Conversational Recommender Systems
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Weiwen Xu, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua, Wai Lam
    TOIS 2023 [paper] [data&code]
  • A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges
    Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
    TKDE 2022 [paper] [resources]
  • PACIFIC: Towards Proactive Conversational Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data in Finance
    Yang Deng, Wenqiang Lei, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua.
    EMNLP 2022 [paper] [data&code]
  • UniGDD: A Unified Generative Framework for Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue
    Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam
    ACL 2022 [paper] [data&code]
  • User Satisfaction Estimation with Sequential Dialogue Act Modeling in Goal-oriented Conversational Systems
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng, Helen Meng
    WWW 2022 [paper]
  • Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation
    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
    EMNLP 2021 [paper] [data&code]
    Top 2% cited papers at EMNLP 2021 (as of Dec 2024)
  • Cross-lingual Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Aspect Term Code-Switching
    Wenxuan Zhang, Ruidan He, Haiyun Peng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
    EMNLP 2021 [paper] [data&code]
  • Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Question Answering Forums
    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
    Findings of EMNLP 2021 [paper] [code]
  • Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
    Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam.
    ACL 2021 [paper] [code]
  • Top 3% cited papers at ACL 2021 (as of Dec 2024)

  • AnswerFact: Fact Checking in Product Question Answering
    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Jing Ma, Wai Lam.
    EMNLP 2020 [paper] [data]
  • Multi-hop Inference for Question-driven Summarization
    Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam.
    EMNLP 2020 [paper] [code]
  • Answer Ranking for Product-Related Questions via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling
    Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam.
    SIGIR 2020 [arXiv]
  • Review-guided Helpful Answer Identification in E-commerce
    Wenxuan Zhang, Wai Lam, Yang Deng, Jing Ma.
    WWW 2020 [paper] [code]
  • Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
    Xin Li, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang and Wai Lam.
    W-NUT@EMNLP 2019 [paper] [code]