Wenxuan Zhang (张雯轩)

wxzhang [at] sutd.edu.sg

SUTD Assistant Professor
Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design

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(*: equal contribution, ☨: corresponding author / major supervision)

Recent Preprints

• Babel - Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers
  Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Jiahao Ying, Mahani Aljunied, Zhaodonghui Li, Lidong Bing, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Rong, Deli Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang☨
  arXiv 2503.00865 [paper] [project page] [open models]

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

• [NEW] The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
  Yuxin Chen*, Yiran Zhao*, Yang Zhang, An Zhang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Shafiq Joty, Junnan Li, Tat-Seng Chua, Michael Qizhe Shieh☨, Wenxuan Zhang☨
  NeurIPS 2025 [paper] [code]
• The Rise of Parameter Specialization for Knowledge Storage in Large Language Models
  Yihuai Hong, Yiran Zhao, Wei Tang, Yang Deng, Yu Rong, Wenxuan Zhang☨
  NeurIPS 2025 [paper] [code]
• Reframe Your Life Story: Interactive Narrative Therapist and Innovative Moment Assessment with Large Language Models
  Yi Feng, Jiaqi Wang, Wenxuan Zhang, Zhuang Chen, Yutong Shen, Xiyao Xiao, Minlie Huang, Liping Jing, Jian Yu
  EMNLP 2025 [paper] [code]
• Disentangling Language and Culture for Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models
  Jiahao Ying, Wei Tang, Yiran Zhao, Yixin Cao, Yu Rong, Wenxuan Zhang☨
  ACL 2025 [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
  ACL 2025 [paper] [project page]
• Pruning General Large Language Models into Customized Expert Models
  Yirao Zhao, Guizhen Chen, Kenji Kawaguchi, Lidong Bing, Wenxuan Zhang☨
  ACL-Findings 2025 [paper] [code]
• JsonTuning: Towards Generalizable, Robust, and Controllable Instruction Tuning
  Chang Gao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Guizhen Chen, Wai Lam
  ACL-Findings 2025 [paper] [data&code]
• Assessing Judging Bias in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Study
  Qian Wang, Zhanzhi Lou, Zhenheng Tang, Nuo Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang, Dawn Song, Bingsheng He
  COLM 2025 [paper] [code]
• Understanding and Enhancing Safety Mechanisms of LLMs via Safety-Specific Neuron
  Yiran Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang, Yuxi Xie, Anirudh Goyal, Kenji Kawaguchi, Michael Shieh
  ICLR 2025 [paper] [data&code]
• 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
  NAACL 2025 System Demostration [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
  NAACL 2025 [paper] [code]
• AdaMergeX: Cross-Lingual Transfer with Large Language Models via Adaptive Adapter Merging
  Yiran Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang☨, Huiming Wang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Lidong Bing
  NAACL 2025 [paper] [data&code]
• 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]