Aston Zhang

A Systematic Examination of Preference Learning through the Lens of Instruction-Following NAACL 2025 Caution for the Environment: Multimodal LLM Agents are Susceptible to Environmental Distractions ACL 2025 Law of the Weakest Link: Cross Capabilities of Large Language Models ICLR 2025 OS-Kairos: Adaptive Interaction for MLLM-Powered GUI Agents ACL 2025 Self-Generated Critiques Boost Reward Modeling for Language Models NAACL 2025 In-Context Learning with Iterative Demonstration Selection EMNLP 2024 You Only Look at Screens: Multimodal Chain-of-Action Agents ACL 2024 A Cheaper and Better Diffusion Language Model with Soft-Masked Noise EMNLP 2023 AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition ICLR 2023 Automated Few-Shot Classification with Instruction-Finetuned Language Models EMNLP 2023 Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models ICLR 2023 Is ChatGPT a General-Purpose Natural Language Processing Task Solver? EMNLP 2023 Learning Multimodal Data Augmentation in Feature Space ICLR 2023 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces ICLR 2023 Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition NeurIPS 2023 VCC: Scaling Transformers to 128K Tokens or More by Prioritizing Important Tokens NeurIPS 2023 Partial and Asymmetric Contrastive Learning for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Long-Tailed Recognition ICML 2022 Removing Batch Normalization Boosts Adversarial Training ICML 2022 Trap and Replace: Defending Backdoor Attacks by Trapping Them into an Easy-to-Replace Subnetwork NeurIPS 2022 A Unified Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Graph Neural Networks ICML 2021 Beyond Fully-Connected Layers with Quaternions: Parameterization of Hypercomplex Multiplications with $1/n$ Parameters ICLR 2021 CoCon: A Self-Supervised Approach for Controlled Text Generation ICLR 2021 G-PATE: Scalable Differentially Private Data Generator via Private Aggregation of Teacher Discriminators NeurIPS 2021 On Orthogonality Constraints for Transformers ACL 2021 Self-Instantiated Recurrent Units with Dynamic Soft Recursion NeurIPS 2021 ControlVAE: Controllable Variational Autoencoder ICML 2020 GluonCV and GluonNLP: Deep Learning in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing JMLR 2020 Poison Attacks against Text Datasets with Conditional Adversarially Regularized Autoencoder EMNLP 2020 Compositional De-Attention Networks NeurIPS 2019 Dive into Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2019 Dive into Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 2019 Lightweight and Efficient Neural Natural Language Processing with Quaternion Networks ACL 2019 Quaternion Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation IJCAI 2019 Simple and Effective Curriculum Pointer-Generator Networks for Reading Comprehension over Long Narratives ACL 2019 Entropy-Based Subword Mining with an Application to Word Embeddings NAACL 2018