Liam Liang Ding (丁亮)

• May 2026: 🎉 Eight papers about {self-improvement, diffusion agent, agent eval., model editing, controllable gen., zeroth-order optimizer, multimodal evaluation} of foundation models are accepted by ICML 2026 and ACL 2026 (2 main, 3 findings, 1 workshop), respectively.
• Mar. 2026: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.
• Jan. 2026: Three papers about RLHF (adv. clipping), RAG (efficient reranking), and multimodal (ambiguity) of language models are accepted by AAAI 2026, WWW 2026, and CPAL 2026 respectively.
• Sept. 2025: Three papers about {adversarial robustness, compression, self-evolution learning on forgetting} of language models are accepted by NeurIPS 2025, congrats to my students and coauthors.
• Aug. 2025: 🎉 Six papers about {knowledge editing, dynamic KV caching, safety, agent-initialization, agent-early-exiting} of language models are accepted by EMNLP 2025, congrats to my interns and coauthors.
• Aug. 2025: Invited to serve as the Senior PC (meta reviewer) for AAAI 2026.
• Jul. 2025: I have been elevated to an IEEE Senior Member.
• Jul. 2025: One paper about Healthcare Copilot is accepted by Nature Partner Journal npj Artificial Intelligence.
• Jun. 2025: One paper about contrastive decoding for code generation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
• May 2025: 🎉 Six papers about {enhancing in-context learning, domain alignment, multilingual synchronization, multimodal reasoning, multi-agent, and eye-tracking-based intervention} of language models are accepted by ACL 2025, congrats to my interns and coauthors.
• May 2025: Two papers about multimodality (retrieval-augmented perception) and RLHF (mitigating reward hacking) of language models are accepted by ICML 2025, with one oral, congrats to my interns.
• Apr. 2025: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025 and EMNLP 2025.
• Mar. 2025: Two papers about {human-centric autoML system & mixture-of-experts compression} for foundation models are accepted by Nature Partner Journal npj Artificial Intelligence and Transactions on Machine Learning Research, respectively.
• Mar. 2025: One paper about recursively summarizing in building long memory in LLMs is accepted by Neurocomputing.
• Feb. 2025: Two papers about medical language models are accepted by Neurocomputing and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, respectively.
• Jan. 2025: A paper about improving the lexical choice of non-autoregressive translation is accepted by Computer Speech & Language.
• Dec. 2024: Two papers about {multimodal benchmark on high-resolution images and complex reasoning} of language models are accepted by AAAI 2025, congrats to my interns.
• Nov. 2024: Three papers about {distillation for translation, jailbreak defense, translation evaluation} of language models are accepted by COLING 2025, congrats to my interns.
• Oct. 2024: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for NAACL 2025.
• Oct. 2024: One survey about efficient training of large models is accepted by ACM Computing Surveys, check out the [paper]&[media coverage by 新智元].
• Sept. 2024: One Paper about mitigating reward hacking in RLHF is accepted by NeurIPS 2024, congrats to my intern Yuchun.
• Sept. 2024: Four Papers about {catastrophic forgetting, distillation for CodeGen, speech modality expansion, and watermark} of language models are accepted by EMNLP 2024, congrats to my interns and coauthors.
• Sept. 2024: One paper about data augmentation for multilabel classification is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
• Aug. 2024: One paper about understanding multimodal alignment for MLLM is accepted by ACM ToMM.
• Jul. 2024: One paper about multimodal fusion for MLLM is accepted by ACM MM 2024.
• Jul. 2024: One paper about an orthogonal optimizer for MoE is accepted by ECAI 2024.
• Dec. 2023: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for EMNLP 2024.
• May. 2024: 🎉 Ten papers about {alignment, in-context learning, compression, evaluation, safety, and downstream adaptations} of language models are accepted by ACL 2024.
• Mar. 2024: One paper about sparse graph Transformer is accepted by Neural Networks.
• Mar. 2024: Two papers about {prompt transfer tuning & sheared backpropagation tuning of foundation models} are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and CVPR 2024, respectively.
• Feb. 2024: Two papers about {prompt bias in LMs and multimodal translation dataset} are accepted by COLING 2024.
• Dec. 2023: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for NAACL 2024, ACL 2024, & EACL 2024.
• Dec. 2023: Two papers about {Seq2Seq LM pretraining & alleviating exposure bias for DiffModel} are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and AAAI 2024, respectively.
• Oct. 2023: One paper about training LM with adaptive sharpness-aware optimizer is accepted by Neural Networks.
• Oct. 2023: Five Papers about {high (data & model) efficiency, cross-modal alignment in speech translation, LLM quantization, and ChatGPT for machine translation} are accepted by EMNLP 2023, congrats to my interns and coauthors.
• Sept. 2023: One paper about parameter-efficient knowledge distillation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
• Jul. 2023: Three papers about {cross-modal contrastive learning, knowledge alignment, and federated optimizer} of model training are accepted by ECAI 2023, IEEE TASLP, and TPAMI, respectively.
• May. 2023: 🎉 Nine papers about {training, evaluation, robustness, and downstream adaptation} of the large model are accepted by ACL 2023, two oral papers and one best paper nomination, congrats to my interns and coauthors.
• May. 2023: Two papers about GNN sparse training and healthcare dataset are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and Information Fusion, respectively.
• Apr. 2023: One paper about flatter optimization for fedML is accepted by ICML 2023 (oral).
• Mar. 2023: We release reports to better understand and harness the power of ChatGPT on language understanding (NLU), machine translation (MT), and MT evaluation. Enjoy it!
• Mar. 2023: 🥂 I lead the R&D of the Vega series Large Language Models (织女系列自然语言大模型), which won the 2022 Technology Golden Award ("京东集团技术金项奖", the highest tech award at JD.com, Inc.), see internal media coverage.
• Feb. 2023: One paper about knowledge-grounded multiview learning is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, congrats to my intern Qihuang.
• Jan. 2023: Invited to serve as the Session Chair for AAAI 2023.
• Jan. 2023: One paper about federated learning is accepted by ICLR 2023.
• Jan. 2023: One paper about dynamic contrastive distillation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, congrats to my intern Jun.
• Nov. 2022: One paper about memory-efficient pipeline parallelism of mixture-of-experts is accepted by IPDPS 2023, congrats to my intern Zheng.
• Nov. 2022: Invited talk at China National Computer Congress 2022 (CNCC'22), check out the schedule.
• Nov. 2022: One paper about simultaneous translation is accepted by AAAI 2023, congrats to my intern Hexuan.
• Oct. 2022: 🏆 Our Vega v2 got 1st place on one of the most difficult general language understanding leaderboards - SuperGLUE! Check out the tech report.
• Oct. 2022: Invited talk about Towards Efficient NLP Foundation Models -- Pretrain, Downstream Adaptation, and Beyond at Nankai Univ. and Univ. Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Oct. 2022: Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2022, congrats to my interns Qihuang and Shwai.
• Sep. 2022: 📖 Co-authored "White Paper on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content" is published, check out the [Chinese version]&[media coverage].
• Aug. 2022: Two papers are accepted by COLING 2022, congrats to my interns Changtong and Bing.
• Aug. 2022: 🥂 Our Project "Super Deep Learning of JD Explore Academy" won 2022 SAIL (Superior AI Leader/ 卓越人工智能引领者) Award Top30 at World Artificial Intelligence Conference, see media coverage.
• Jul. 2022: 🏆 Our Vega-MT ranked 1st (Chinese<=>English, German<=>English, Czech<=>English, English=>Russian), 2nd (Russian=>English, Japanese=>English), and 3rd (English=>Japanese) in General Translation Task in WMT 2022.
• Apr. 2022: One paper is accepted by NAACL 2022.
• Apr. 2022: One paper is accepted by SIGIR 2022, congrats to my interns Jun and Fei.
• Mar. 2022: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2022.
• Feb. 2022: Submitted Ph.D. thesis "Neural Machine Translation with Fully Information Transformation", containing sufficient (adequate translation) & efficient (fast translation) information transformation.
• Feb. 2022: One paper is accepted by ACL 2022.
• Jan. 2022: 🏆 Our Vega v1 got 1st place on The General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark! Check out the [tech report]&[media coverage].
• Dec. 2021: Invited to serve as the Area Chair for ACL 2022.
• Dec. 2021: Our Vega (织女) achieved the SOTA performance in two tasks @GLUE, surpassing human performance.
• Aug. 2021: Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2021 and its findings.
• Aug. 2021: We organize a course "Advanced topics of AI" at the School of Gifted Young, USTC. I am the lecturer of NLP part.
• Jul. 2021: 🏆 Ranked 1st in Swahili-English Speech Translation Task in IWSLT 2021.
• Jul. 2021: Two papers are accepted by IWSLT 2021.
• May. 2021: Three papers are accepted by ACL 2021 and its findings.
• Mar. 2021: Invited to serve as the Session Chair for SDM 2021
• Jan. 2021: Two papers are accepted by ICLR 2021.
• Jan. 2021: One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2021.
• Sept. 2020: One paper is accepted by COLING 2020.
• Sept. 2020: Two papers are accepted by WMT 2020.
• Sept. 2020: One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2020.
• Aug. 2020: 🏆 Ranked 2nd in German-English Chat Translation Task in WMT 2020.
• Apr. 2020: One paper is accepted by ACL 2020.
• Apr. 2019: 🏆 Ranked 1st in Finnish-English News Translation Task in WMT 2019.

† indicates intern/student under my supervision. ✉️ means corresponding author.

• Better, Faster: Harnessing Self-Improvement in Large Reasoning Models.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, Leszek Rutkowski, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026. (ICML 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Better, Faster: Harnessing Self-Improvement in Large Reasoning Models.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Wenjie Xuan, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026. (ICML 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• The Bitter Lesson of Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Workflows: A Comprehensive Reality Check.
  †Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding(co-first author), Kanjian Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 (ACL 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• AdaRubric: Task-Adaptive Rubrics for Reliable LLM Agent Evaluation and Reward Learning.
  Liang Ding
  Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models, 2026 (ACL 2026 Workshop).
  
• Reason-KE++: Aligning the Process, Not Just the Outcome, for Faithful LLM Knowledge Editing.
  †Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 (ACL 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Learning to Control Summaries with Score Ranking.
  †Hongye Liu, Liang Ding, and Ricardo Henao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 (ACL 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Universally Empowering Zeroth-Order Optimization via Adaptive Layer-wise Sampling.
  †Fei Wang, Li Shen, Liang Ding, Chao Xue, Ye Liu, and Changxing Ding.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 (ACL 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• REVEALER: Reinforcement-Guided Visual Reasoning for Element-Level Text-Image Alignment Evaluation.
  †Fulin Shi, Wenyi Xiao, Bin Chen, Liang Ding, and Leilei Gan.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026 (ACL 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Time-Frequency Token Advantage Clipping for Training Efficient Large Reasoning Model.
  †Rong Bao, Bo Wang, Hongyu Li, Riu Zheng, Xiao Wang, Leszek Rutkowski, Qi Zhang, Liang Ding✉️, and Dacheng Tao✉️
  The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026. (AAAI 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Rethinking the Hidden Risk of Reranking: Achieving Risk-aware Reranking with Information Gain for RAG with LLMs.
  Zhizhao Liu, Zhihua Wen, Zhiliang Tian, Zhen Huang, Miaorong Zhu, Zimian Wei, Yifu Gao, Liang Ding, and Dongsheng Li
  International World Wide Web Conference, 2026 (WWW 2026). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• MMA:Benchmarking Multi-ModalLarge Language Models in Ambiguity Contexts.
  Ru Wang, Selena Song, Yuquan Wang, Liang Ding, Mingming Gong, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, and Jiaxian Guo
  Conference on Parsimony and Learning, 2026 (CPAL 2026).
  
• "Short-length" Adversarial Training Helps LLMs Defend "Long-length" Jailbreak Attacks: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence.
  Shaopeng Fu, Liang Ding, Jingfeng Zhang, and Di Wang
  The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025 (NeurIPS 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Layer as Puzzle Pieces: Compressing Large Language Models through Layer Concatenation.
  †Fei Wang, Li Shen, Liang Ding, Chao Xue, Ye Liu, and Changxing Ding.
  The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025 (NeurIPS 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMs.
  †Jun Wang, Liang Ding(co-first author), Shuai Wang, Hongyu Li, Yong Luo, Huangxuan Zhao, Han Hu, and Bo Du.
  The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025 (NeurIPS 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Robust Knowledge Editing via Explicit Reasoning Chains for Distractor-Resilient Multi-Hop QA.
  †Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, and Dacheng Tao
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• DynamicKV: Task-Aware Adaptive KV Cache Compression for Long Context LLMs.
  †Xiabin Zhou, Wenbin Wang, Minyan Zeng, Jiaxian Guo, Xuebo Liu, Li Shen, Min Zhang, and Liang Ding✉️
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• AMIA: Automatic Masking and Joint Intention Analysis Makes LVLMs Robust Jailbreak Defenders.
  †Yuqi Zhang, Yuchun Miao, Zuchao Li, and Liang Ding✉️
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Chinese Toxic Language Mitigation via Sentiment Polarity Consistent Rewrites.
  Xintong Wang, Yixiao Liu, Jingheng Pan, Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, and Chris Biemann
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• AgentInit: Initializing LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems via Diversity and Expertise Orchestration for Effective and Efficient Collaboration.
  Chunhao Tian, Yutong Wang, Xuebo Liu, Zhexuan Wang, Liang Ding, Miao Zhang, and Min Zhang
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Runaway is Ashamed, But Helpful: On the Early-Exit Behavior of Large Language Model-based Agents in Embodied Environments.
  †Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding(co-first author), Siyi Cao, Xuebo Liu, Kanjian Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, and Dacheng Tao
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 (EMNLP 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Healthcare Copilot: Eliciting the Power of General LLMs for Medical Consultation.
  Zhiyao Ren, Yibing Zhan, Baosheng Yu, Liang Ding, and Dacheng Tao
  arXiv preprint, 2024. & npj Artificial Intelligence (Nature Partner Journal).
  
• Enhancing Input-Label Mapping in In-Context Learning with Contrastive Decoding.
  †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding✉️, Yuanxin Ouyang, Meng Fang, Yancheng Yuan, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• KaFT: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Boosting LLMs' Domain-specific Question-Answering Performance.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Edit Once, Update Everywhere: A Simple Framework for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Synchronization in LLMs.
  †Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• VisuoThink: Empowering LVLM Reasoning with Multimodal Tree Search.
  Yikun Wang, Siyin Wang, Qinyuan Cheng, Zhaoye Fei, Liang Ding, Qipeng Guo, Dacheng Tao, and Xipeng Qiu.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• AgentDropout: Dynamic Agent Elimination for Token-Efficient and High-Performance LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration.
  Zhexuan Wang, Yutong Wang, Xuebo Liu, Liang Ding, Miao Zhang, Jie Liu, and Min Zhang.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• CogSteer: Cognition-Inspired Selective Layer Intervention for Efficiently Steering Large Language Models.
  Xintong Wang, Jingheng Pan, Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Longqin Jiang, Xingshan Li, and Chris Biemann.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (ACL 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Retrieval-Augmented Perception: High-Resolution Image Perception Meets Visual RAG.
  †Wenbin Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Liang Ding✉️, Yingjie Wang, Li Shen, Yong Luo✉️, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025 (ICML 2025 oral). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• The Energy Loss Phenomenon in RLHF: A New Perspective on Mitigating Reward Hacking.
  †Yuchun Miao, Sen Zhang, Liang Ding, Yuqi Zhang, Lefei Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025 (ICML 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• OmniForce: On Human-Centered, Large Model Empowered and Cloud-Edge Collaborative AutoML System.
  JD Explore Academy
  JDEA system report & arXiv preprint, 2023. & npj Artificial Intelligence (Nature Partner Journal).
  
• Demystifying the Compression of Mixture-of-Experts Through a Unified Framework.
  †Shwai He, Daize Dong, Liang Ding, and Ang Li
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025 (TMLR 2025).
  
• Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in Large Language Models.
  †Qingyue Wang, Yanhe Fu, Yanan Cao, Shuai Wang, Zhiliang Tian, and Liang Ding
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & Neurocomputing, 2025. (CORE Rank B)
  (We proposed this strategy in 2023, which has recently become very popular in agent building and attracted lots of attention, e.g., on Y Combinator's Hacker News.)
  
• Fuzzy-Assisted Contrastive Decoding Improving Code Generation of Large Language Models.
  †Shuai Wang, Liang Ding, Yibing Zhan, Yong Luo, Shuai Liu, and Weiping Ding
  IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2025. (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Hypnos: A Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Anesthesiology.
  †Zhonghai Wang, Jie Jiang, Yibing Zhan, Bohao Zhou, Yanhong Li, Chong Zhang, Baosheng Yu, Liang Ding, Hua Jin, Jun Peng, Xu Lin, and Weifeng Liu
  Neurocomputing, 2025. (CORE Rank B)
  
• Benchmarking Medical LLMs on Anesthesiology: A Comprehensive Dataset in Chinese.
  Bohao Zhou, Yibing Zhan, Zhonghai Wang, Yanhong Li, Chong Zhang, Baosheng Yu, Liang Ding, Hua Jin, Weifeng Liu, Xiongbin Wang, and Dapeng Tao
  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2025 (IEEE TETCI 2025).
  
• Widening the Bottleneck of Lexical Choice for Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Siyou Liu, Weihua Luo, and Kaifu Zhang
  Computer Speech & Language, 2025 (Comput Speech Lang 2025). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Divide, Conquer and Combine: A Training-Free Framework for High-Resolution Image Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models.
  †Wenbin Wang, Liang Ding(co-first author), Minyan Zeng, Xiabin Zhou, Li Shen, Yong Luo, and Dacheng Tao
  The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. (AAAI 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Improving Complex Reasoning over Knowledge Graph with Logic-Aware Curriculum Tuning.
  †Tianle Xia, Liang Ding, Guojia Wan, Yibing Zhan, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao
  The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. (AAAI 2025). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Self-Evolution Knowledge Distillation for LLM-based Machine Translation.
  †Yuncheng Song, Liang Ding, Changtong Zan, and Shujian Huang.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025. (COLING 2025). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Intention Analysis Prompting Makes Large Language Models A Good Jailbreak Defender.
  †Yuqi Zhang, Liang Ding, Lefei Zhang, and Dacheng Tao
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025. (COLING 2025). (CORE Rank A)
  
• MQM-APE: Toward High-Quality Error Annotation Predictors with Automatic Post-Editing in LLM Translation Evaluators.
  †Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025. (COLING 2025). (CORE Rank A)
  
• On Efficient Training of Large-Scale Deep Learning Models: A Literature Review.
  Li Shen, Yan Sun, Zhiyuan Yu, Liang Ding, Xinmei Tian, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 (ACM CSUR 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• InfoRM: Mitigating Reward Hacking in RLHF via Information-Theoretic Reward Modeling.
  †Yuchun Miao, Sen Zhang, Liang Ding, Rong Bao, Lefei Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024 (NeurIPS 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Large Language Model Tuning.
  †Hongyu Li, Liang Ding✉️, Meng Fang, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024 (EMNLP 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Learning from Imperfect Data: Towards Efficient Knowledge Distillation of Autoregressive Language Models for Text-to-SQL.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Kunfeng Chen, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024 (EMNLP 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Self-Powered LLM Modality Expansion for Large Speech-Text Models.
  Tengfei Yu, Xuebo Liu, Zhiyi Hou, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024 (EMNLP 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Context-Aware Watermark with Semantic Balanced Green-red Lists for Large Language Models.
  Yuxuan Guo, Zhiliang Tian, Yiping Song, Tianlun Liu, Liang Ding, and Dongsheng Li.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024 (EMNLP 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• SpliceMix: A Cross-scale and Semantic Blending Augmentation Strategy for Multi-label Image Classification.
  Lei Wang, Yibing Zhan, Leilei Ma, Dapeng Tao, Liang Ding, and Chen Gong
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2024 (TMM 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Can Linguistic Knowledge Improve Multimodal Alignment in Vision-Language Pretraining?.
  †Fei Wang, Liang Ding✉️, Jun Rao, Ye Liu, Li Shen, and Changxing Ding✉️.
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2024 (ACM ToMM 2024). (CORE Rank B)
  
• WisdoM: Improving Multimodal Sentiment Analysis by Fusing Contextual World Knowledge.
  †Wenbin Wang, Liang Ding(co-first author), Li Shen, Yong Luo✉️, Han Hu, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2024. & ACM Multimedia, 2024 (ACM MM 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Diversifying the Mixture-of-Experts Representation for Language Models with Orthogonal Optimizer.
  †Boan Liu, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, Keqin Peng, Yu Cao, Dazhao Cheng✉️, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 (ECAI 2024). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Uncertainty Aware Learning for Language Model Alignment.
  †Yikun Wang, Rui Zheng, Liang Ding✉️, Qi Zhang, Dahua Lin, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Revisiting Demonstration Selection Strategies in In-Context Learning.
  †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding✉️, Yancheng Yuan✉️, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, Yuanxin Ouyang, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Revisiting Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Li Shen, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• DB-LLM: Accurate Dual-Binarization for Efficient LLMs.
  †Hong Chen, Chengtao Lv, Liang Ding, Haotong Qin, Xiabin Zhou, Yifu Ding, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• OOP: Object-Oriented Programming Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models.
  †Shuai Wang, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, Yong Luo✉️, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Error Analysis Prompting Enables Human-Like Translation Evaluation in Large Language Models.
  †Qingyu Lu, †Baopu Qiu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang, Tom Kocmi, and Dacheng Tao.
  Technical report & arXiv preprint, 2023. & Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  (🎁A present for the MT evaluation community to better understand and harness the powerful ChatGPT)
  
• Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models with Instruction Contrastive Decoding.
  Xintong Wang, Jingheng Pan, Liang Ding✉️, and Chris Biemann✉️.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• ROSE Doesn't Do That: Boosting the Safety of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models with Reverse Prompt Contrastive Decoding.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• POMP: Probability-driven Meta-graph Prompter for LLMs in Low-resource Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation.
  †Shilong Pan, Zhiliang Tian, Liang Ding, Zhen Huang, Zhihua Wen, and Dongsheng Li.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Speech Sense Disambiguation: Tackling Homophone Ambiguity in End-to-End Speech Translation.
  Tengfei Yu, Xuebo Liu, Liang Ding, Kehai Chen, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Exploring Sparsity in Graph Transformers.
  Chuang Liu, Yibing Zhan, Xueqi Ma, Liang Ding, Dapeng Tao, Jia Wu, Wenbin Hu, and Bo Du.
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & Neural Networks, 2024 (Neural Netw 2024). (CORE Rank A)
  
• PANDA: Prompt Transfer Meets Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Model Adaptation.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024 (TKDE 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Sheared Backpropagation for Finetuning Foundation Models.
  Zhiyuan Yu, Li Shen, Liang Ding, Xinmei Tian, Yixin Chen, and Dacheng Tao.
  IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2024. (CVPR 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Take Care of Your Prompt Bias! Investigating and Mitigating Prompt Bias in Factual Knowledge Extraction.
  †Ziyang Xu, †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding✉️, Dacheng Tao, and Xiliang Lu.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024. (COLING 2024). (CORE Rank A)
  
• 3AM: An Ambiguity-Aware Multimodal Machine Translation Dataset.
  Xinyu Ma, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Jun Rao, Bei Li, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024. (COLING 2024). (CORE Rank A)
  
• E2S2: Encoding-Enhanced Sequence-to-Sequence Pretraining for Language Understanding and Generation.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024 (TKDE 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Multi-step Denoising Scheduled Sampling: Towards Alleviating Exposure Bias for Diffusion Models.
  Zhiyao Ren, Yibing Zhan, Liang Ding, Gaoang Wang, Chaoyue Wang, Zhongyi Fan, and Dacheng Tao.
  The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. (AAAI 2024). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• AdaSAM: Boosting Sharpness-Aware Minimization with Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum for Training Deep Neural Networks.
  Hao Sun, Li Shen, Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Shixiang Chen, Jingwei Sun, Jing Li, Guangzhong Sun, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2023. & Neural Networks, 2023 (Neural Netw 2023). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Self-Evolution Learning for Mixup: Enhance Data Augmentation on Few-Shot Text Classification Tasks.
  Haoqi Zheng, Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Zhiliang Tian, Xin Niu, Changjian Wang, Dongsheng Li, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 (EMNLP 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Merging Experts into One: Improving Computational Efficiency of Mixture of Experts.
  †Shwai He, Run-Ze Fan, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, Tianyi Zhou✉️, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 (EMNLP 2023 oral). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• PromptST: Abstract Prompt Learning for End-to-End Speech Translation.
  †Tengfei Yu, Liang Ding, Xuebo Liu, Kehai Chen, Meishan Zhang, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 (EMNLP 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Zero-shot Sharpness-Aware Quantization for Pre-trained Language Models.
  Miaoxi Zhu, Qihuang Zhong, Li Shen, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 (EMNLP 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Towards Making the Most of ChatGPT for Machine Translation.
  †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding✉️, Qihuang Zhong, Li Shen, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, Yuanxin Ouyang, and Dacheng Tao.
  Technical report & arXiv preprint, 2023. & Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 (EMNLP 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  (🎁A present for the MT community to better understand and harness the powerful ChatGPT)
  
• Using Self-Supervised Dual Constraint Contrastive Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval.
  Xintong Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Liang Ding, Sanyuan Zhao, Chris Biemann.
  The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 (ECAI 2023). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Unified Instance and Knowledge Alignment Pretraining for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.
  Juhua Liu, †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Hua Jin, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2021. & IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023 (TASLP 2023).
  
• Efficient Federated Learning via Local Adaptive Amended Optimizer with Linear Speedup.
  Yan Sun, Li Shen, Hao Sun, Liang Ding, and Dacheng Tao.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023 (TPAMI 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Self-Evolution Learning for Discriminative Language Model Pretraining.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding(co-first author), Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Revisiting Token Dropping Strategy in Efficient BERT Pretraining.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Token-Level Self-Evolution Training for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning.
  †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding(co-first author), Qihuang Zhong, Yuanxin Ouyang, Wenge Rong, Zhang Xiong, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  (best paper nomination)
  
• PAD-Net: An Efficient Framework for Dynamic Networks.
  †Shwai He, Liang Ding✉️, Daize Dong, Boan Liu, Fuqiang Yu, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Toward Human-Like Evaluation for Natural Language Generation with Error Analysis.
  †Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding(co-first author), Liping Xie, Kanjian Zhang, Derek F. Wong, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023 oral). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• CASN: Class-Aware Score Network for Textual Adversarial Detection.
  †Rong Bao, Rui Zheng, Liang Ding, Qi Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Divide, Conquer, and Combine: Mixture of Semantic-Independent Experts for Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking.
  †Qingyue Wang, Liang Ding, Yanan Cao, Yibing Zhan, Zheng Lin, Shi Wang, Dacheng Tao, and Li Guo.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023 oral). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Unsupervised Dense Retrieval with Relevance-Aware Contrastive Pre-Training.
  †Yibin Lei, Liang Ding✉️, Yu Cao, Changtong Zan, Andrew Yates, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• TransGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Translationese.
  Tao Fang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Runzhe Zhan, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 (ACL 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Comprehensive Graph Gradual Pruning for Sparse Training in Graph Neural Networks.
  †Chuang Liu, Xueqi Ma, Yibing Zhan, Liang Ding, Dapeng Tao, Bo Du, Wenbin Hu, and Danilo Mandic.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023 (TNNLS 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• A Perioperative Risk Assessment Dataset with Multi-View Data Based on Online Accelerated Pairwise Comparison.
  Xinyao Li, Yibing Zhan, Yanhua Zhao, Yiqiang Wu, Liang Ding, Yuanyuan Li, Dapeng Tao, and Hua Jin.
  Information Fusion, 2023 (Inf Fusion 2023). (CORE Rank B)
  
• Dynamic Regularized Sharpness Aware Minimization in Federated Learning: Approaching Global Consistency and Smooth Landscape.
  Yan Sun, Li Shen, Shixiang Chen, Liang Ding, and Dacheng Tao.
  International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023. (ICML 2023 oral). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• On Efficient Training of Large-Scale Deep Learning Models: A Literature Review.
  Li Shen, Yan Sun, Zhiyuan Yu, Liang Ding, Xinmei Tian, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2023.
  
• Can ChatGPT Understand Too? A Comparative Study on ChatGPT and Fine-tuned BERT.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Technical report & arXiv preprint, 2023.
  (🎁A present for the NLU community to better understand and harness the powerful ChatGPT)
  
• Gapformer: Graph Transformer with Graph Pooling for Node Classification.
  †Chuang Liu, Yibing Zhan, Xueqi Ma, Liang Ding, Dapeng Tao, Jia Wu, and Wenbin Hu.
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 (IJCAI 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Prompt-Learning for Cross-Lingual Relation Extraction.
  †Chiaming Hsu, †Changtong Zan, Liang Ding✉️, Longyue Wang, Xiaoting Wang, Weifeng Liu, Fu Lin, and Wenbin Hu.
  IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023 (IJCNN 2023). (CORE Rank B)
  
• Knowledge Graph Augmented Network Towards Multi-View Representation Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, Hua Jin, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023 (TKDE 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Dynamic Contrastive Distillation for Image-Text Retrieval.
  †Jun Rao, Liang Ding(co-first author), Shuhan Qi, Meng Fang, Yang Liu, Li Shen, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023 (TMM 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• FedSpeed: Larger Local Interval, Less Communication Round, and Higher Generalization Accuracy.
  Yan Sun, Li Shen, Tiansheng Huang, Liang Ding, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023. (ICLR 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Improving Simultaneous Machine Translation with Monolingual Data.
  †Hexuan Deng, Liang Ding, Xuebo Liu, Meishan Zhang, Dacheng Tao, and Min Zhang.
  The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023. (AAAI 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• MPipeMoE: Memory Efficient MoE for Pre-trained Models with Adaptive Pipeline Parallelism.
  †Zheng Zhang, Donglin Yang, Yaqi Xia, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao, Xiaobo Zhou, and Dazhao Cheng.
  IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, 2023. (IPDPS 2023). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Parameter-Efficient and Student-Friendly Knowledge Distillation.
  †Jun Rao, Xv Meng, Liang Ding, Shuhan Qi, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022. & IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023 (TMM 2023). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Bag of Tricks for Effective Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation: A Case Study on GLUE.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding(co-first author), Keqin Peng, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, Li Shen, Yibing Zhan, and Dacheng Tao.
  Technical report & arXiv preprint, 2023.
  
• Toward Efficient Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation via Self-Evolution: A Case Study on SuperGLUE.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding(co-first author), Yibing Zhan, Yu Qiao, Yonggang Wen, Li Shen, Juhua Liu, Baosheng Yu, Bo Du, Yixin Chen, Xinbo Gao, Chunyan Miao, Xiaoou Tang, and Dacheng Tao.
  Technical report & arXiv preprint, 2022.
  
• Original or Translated? On the Use of Parallel Data for Translation Quality Estimation.
  †Baopu Qiu, Liang Ding, Di Wu, Lin Shang, Yibing Zhan, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022.
  
• Improving Sharpness-Aware Minimization with Fisher Mask for Better Generalization on Language Models.
  †Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Li Shen, Peng Mi, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022 (EMNLP 2022). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• SparseAdapter: An Easy Approach for Improving the Parameter-Efficiency of Adapters.
  †Shwai He, Liang Ding✉️, Daize Dong, Miao Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022 (EMNLP 2022). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Vega-MT: The JD Explore Academy Translation System for WMT22.
  †Changtong Zan, †Keqin Peng, Liang Ding✉️(co-first author), Baopu Qiu, Boan Liu, Shwai He, Qingyu Lu, Zheng Zhang, Chuang Liu, Weifeng Liu, Yibing Zhan, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Machine Translation, 2022 (WMT 2022).
  (Among all constrained high-resource tracks, Vega-MT won 7 champions, 2 runners-up, and 1 third place w.r.t BLEU, and won 8 champions and 2 runners-up w.r.t COMET.)
  
• On the Complementarity between Pre-Training and Random-Initialization for Resource-Rich Machine Translation.
  †Changtong Zan, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, Yu Cao, Weifeng Liu✉️, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022 (COLING 2022). (CORE Rank A)
  
• A Contrastive Cross-Channel Data Augmentation Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.
  †Bing Wang, Liang Ding✉️, Qihuang Zhong, Ximing Li, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022 (COLING 2022). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Bridging Cross-Lingual Gaps During Leveraging the Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Pretraining for Text Generation and Understanding.
  †Changtong Zan, Liang Ding✉️, Li Shen, Yu Cao, Weifeng Liu✉️, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022.
  
• BLISS: Robust Sequence-to-Sequence Learning via Self-Supervised Input Representation.
  †Zheng Zhang, Liang Ding✉️, Dazhao Cheng✉️, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022.
  
• Redistributing Low-Frequency Words: Making the Most of Monolingual Data in Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Shuming Shi, Dacheng Tao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 (ACL 2022). (CORE Rank A*)
  (Full meta-score paper)
  
• Where Does the Performance Improvement Come From? - A Reproducibility Concern about Image-Text Retrieval.
  †Jun Rao, Fei Wang, Liang Ding✉️, Shuhan Qi, Yibing Zhan, Weifeng Liu✉️, and Dacheng Tao.
  ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR 2022). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Interpretable Proof Generation via Iterative Backward Reasoning.
  Hanhao Qu, Yu Cao, Jun Gao, Liang Ding, and Ruifeng Xu.
  Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 (NAACL 2022). (CORE Rank A)
  
• Fine-tuning Global Model via Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Non-IID Federated Learning.
  †Lin Zhang, Li Shen, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao, and Lingyu Duan.
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022 (CVPR 2022). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Improving Neural Machine Translation by Denoising Training.
  Liang Ding, Keqin Peng, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2022.
  
• SLUA: A Super Lightweight Unsupervised Word Alignment Model via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning.
  Di Wu, Liang Ding, Shuo Yang, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2021. & The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2022 (IWSLT 2022).
  
• Improving Neural Machine Translation by Bidirectional Training.
  Liang Ding, Di Wu, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 (EMNLP 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• On the Complementarity between Pre-training and Back-Translation.
  Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao, Shuming Shi, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 (EMNLP 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• The USYD-JD Speech Translation System for IWSLT2021.
  Liang Ding, Di Wu, and Dacheng Tao.
  The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2021 (IWSLT 2021).
  (Winning submission out of 42 teams to Sw-En speech translation, exceeding the 2nd place by more than 10 BLEU points)
  
• Self-Guided Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation.
  Lei Zhou, Liang Ding, Kevin Duh, Shinji Watanabe, Ryohei Sasano, and Koichi Takeda.
  The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2021 (IWSLT 2021).
  
• Rejuvenating Low-Frequency Words: Making the Most of Parallel Data in Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 (ACL 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Progressive Multi-Granularity Training for Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Dacheng Tao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 (ACL 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• On the Copying Behaviors of Pre-Training for Neural Machine Translation.
  Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S. Chao, Shuming Shi, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 (ACL 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Bridging the Gap between Clean Data Training and Real World Inference for Spoken Language Understanding.
  Di Wu, Liang Ding, Yiren Chen, and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2021.
  
• Understanding and Improving Lexical Choice in Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F Wong, Dacheng Tao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  The International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021 (ICLR 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Understanding and Improving Encoder Layer Fusion in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning.
  Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F Wong, Liang Ding, Lidia S Chao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  The International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021 (ICLR 2021). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Towards Efficiently Diversifying Dialogue Generation via Embedding Augmentation.
  Yu Cao, Liang Ding, Zhiliang Tian, and Meng Fang.
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2021 (ICASSP 2021). (CORE Rank B)
  
• Context-Aware Cross-Attention for Non-Autoregressive Translation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Di Wu, Dacheng Tao, and Zhaopeng Tu.
  The International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020 (COLING 2020). (CORE Rank A)
  
• SlotRefine: A Fast Non-Autoregressive Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling.
  Di Wu, Liang Ding, Fan Lu, and Jian Xie.
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020 (EMNLP 2020). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Self-Attention with Cross-Lingual Position Representation.
  Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, and Dacheng Tao.
  The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 (ACL 2020). (CORE Rank A*)
  
• Zero-Shot Translation Quality Estimation with Explicit Cross-Lingual Patterns.
  Lei Zhou, Liang Ding, and Koichi Takeda.
  The Conference on Machine Translation, 2020 (WMT 2020).
  
• Tencent AI Lab machine translation systems for the WMT20 chat translation task.
  Longyue Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xing Wang, Li Ding, Liang Ding, and Shuming Shi.
  The Conference on Machine Translation, 2020 (WMT 2020).
  
• The University of Sydney's Machine Translation System for WMT19.
  Liang Ding and Dacheng Tao.
  The Conference on Machine Translation, 2019 (WMT 2019).
  (Winning submission to Fi-En translation task, exceeding Microsoft Research by more than 1.1 BLEU points)
  
• Recurrent Graph Syntax Encoder for Neural Machine Translation.
  Liang Ding and Dacheng Tao.
  arXiv preprint, 2019.