Xiao, Min
TROVE: A Challenge for Fine-Grained Text Provenance via Source Sentence Tracing and Relationship Classification
Zhu, Junnan, Xiao, Min, Wang, Yining, Zhai, Feifei, Zhou, Yu, Zong, Chengqing
LLMs have achieved remarkable fluency and coherence in text generation, yet their widespread adoption has raised concerns about content reliability and accountability. In high-stakes domains such as healthcare, law, and news, it is crucial to understand where and how the content is created. To address this, we introduce the Text pROVEnance (TROVE) challenge, designed to trace each sentence of a target text back to specific source sentences within potentially lengthy or multi-document inputs. Beyond identifying sources, TROVE annotates the fine-grained relationships (quotation, compression, inference, and others), providing a deep understanding of how each target sentence is formed. To benchmark TROVE, we construct our dataset by leveraging three public datasets covering 11 diverse scenarios (e.g., QA and summarization) in English and Chinese, spanning source texts of varying lengths (0-5k, 5-10k, 10k+), emphasizing the multi-document and long-document settings essential for provenance. To ensure high-quality data, we employ a three-stage annotation process: sentence retrieval, GPT provenance, and human provenance. We evaluate 11 LLMs under direct prompting and retrieval-augmented paradigms, revealing that retrieval is essential for robust performance, larger models perform better in complex relationship classification, and closed-source models often lead, yet open-source models show significant promise, particularly with retrieval augmentation.
Merge, Ensemble, and Cooperate! A Survey on Collaborative Strategies in the Era of Large Language Models
Lu, Jinliang, Pang, Ziliang, Xiao, Min, Zhu, Yaochen, Xia, Rui, Zhang, Jiajun
The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ushered natural language processing (NLP) research into a new era. Despite their diverse capabilities, LLMs trained on different corpora exhibit varying strengths and weaknesses, leading to challenges in maximizing their overall efficiency and versatility. To address these challenges, recent studies have explored collaborative strategies for LLMs. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of this emerging research area, highlighting the motivation behind such collaborations. Specifically, we categorize collaborative strategies into three primary approaches: Merging, Ensemble, and Cooperation. Merging involves integrating multiple LLMs in the parameter space. Ensemble combines the outputs of various LLMs. Cooperation} leverages different LLMs to allow full play to their diverse capabilities for specific tasks. We provide in-depth introductions to these methods from different perspectives and discuss their potential applications. Additionally, we outline future research directions, hoping this work will catalyze further studies on LLM collaborations and paving the way for advanced NLP applications.
Deep Separable Spatiotemporal Learning for Fast Dynamic Cardiac MRI
Wang, Zi, Xiao, Min, Zhou, Yirong, Wang, Chengyan, Wu, Naiming, Li, Yi, Gong, Yiwen, Chang, Shufu, Chen, Yinyin, Zhu, Liuhong, Zhou, Jianjun, Cai, Congbo, Wang, He, Guo, Di, Yang, Guang, Qu, Xiaobo
Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an indispensable role in cardiac diagnosis. To enable fast imaging, the k-space data can be undersampled but the image reconstruction poses a great challenge of high-dimensional processing. This challenge leads to necessitate extensive training data in many deep learning reconstruction methods. This work proposes a novel and efficient approach, leveraging a dimension-reduced separable learning scheme that excels even with highly limited training data. We further integrate it with spatiotemporal priors to develop a Deep Separable Spatiotemporal Learning network (DeepSSL), which unrolls an iteration process of a reconstruction model with both temporal low-rankness and spatial sparsity. Intermediate outputs are visualized to provide insights into the network's behavior and enhance its interpretability. Extensive results on cardiac cine datasets show that the proposed DeepSSL is superior to the state-of-the-art methods visually and quantitatively, while reducing the demand for training cases by up to 75%. And its preliminary adaptability to cardiac patients has been verified through experienced radiologists' and cardiologists' blind reader study. Additionally, DeepSSL also benefits for achieving the downstream task of cardiac segmentation with higher accuracy and shows robustness in prospective real-time cardiac MRI.
A plug-and-play synthetic data deep learning for undersampled magnetic resonance image reconstruction
Xiao, Min, Wang, Zi, Guo, Jiefeng, Qu, Xiaobo
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in modern medical diagnostic but suffers from prolonged scan time. Current deep learning methods for undersampled MRI reconstruction exhibit good performance in image de-aliasing which can be tailored to the specific k-space undersampling scenario. But it is very troublesome to configure different deep networks when the sampling setting changes. In this work, we propose a deep plug-and-play method for undersampled MRI reconstruction, which effectively adapts to different sampling settings. Specifically, the image de-aliasing prior is first learned by a deep denoiser trained to remove general white Gaussian noise from synthetic data. Then the learned deep denoiser is plugged into an iterative algorithm for image reconstruction. Results on in vivo data demonstrate that the proposed method provides nice and robust accelerated image reconstruction performance under different undersampling patterns and sampling rates, both visually and quantitatively.
CFSum: A Coarse-to-Fine Contribution Network for Multimodal Summarization
Xiao, Min, Zhu, Junnan, Lin, Haitao, Zhou, Yu, Zong, Chengqing
Multimodal summarization usually suffers from the problem that the contribution of the visual modality is unclear. Existing multimodal summarization approaches focus on designing the fusion methods of different modalities, while ignoring the adaptive conditions under which visual modalities are useful. Therefore, we propose a novel Coarse-to-Fine contribution network for multimodal Summarization (CFSum) to consider different contributions of images for summarization. First, to eliminate the interference of useless images, we propose a pre-filter module to abandon useless images. Second, to make accurate use of useful images, we propose two levels of visual complement modules, word level and phrase level. Specifically, image contributions are calculated and are adopted to guide the attention of both textual and visual modalities. Experimental results have shown that CFSum significantly outperforms multiple strong baselines on the standard benchmark. Furthermore, the analysis verifies that useful images can even help generate non-visual words which are implicitly represented in the image.
Semi-Supervised Matrix Completion for Cross-Lingual Text Classification
Xiao, Min (Temple University) | Guo, Yuhong (Temple University)
Cross-lingual text classification is the task of assigning labels to observed documents in a label-scarce target language domain by using a prediction model trained with labeled documents from a label-rich source language domain. Cross-lingual text classification is popularly studied in natural language processing area to reduce the expensive manual annotation effort required in the target language domain. In this work, we propose a novel semi-supervised representation learning approach to address this challenging task by inducing interlingual features via semi-supervised matrix completion. To evaluate the proposed learning technique, we conduct extensive experiments on eighteen cross language sentiment classification tasks with four different languages. The empirical results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach, and show it outperforms a number of related cross-lingual learning methods.
A Novel Two-Step Method for Cross Language Representation Learning
Xiao, Min, Guo, Yuhong
Cross language text classification is an important learning task in natural language processing. A critical challenge of cross language learning lies in that words of different languages are in disjoint feature spaces. In this paper, we propose a two-step representation learning method to bridge the feature spaces of different languages by exploiting a set of parallel bilingual documents. Specifically, we first formulate a matrix completion problem to produce a complete parallel document-term matrix for all documents in two languages, and then induce a cross-lingual document representation by applying latent semantic indexing on the obtained matrix. We use a projected gradient descent algorithm to solve the formulated matrix completion problem with convergence guarantees. The proposed approach is evaluated by conducting a set of experiments with cross language sentiment classification tasks on Amazon product reviews. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed learning approach outperforms a number of comparison cross language representation learning methods, especially when the number of parallel bilingual documents is small.
Semi-Supervised Kernel Matching for Domain Adaptation
Xiao, Min (Temple University) | Guo, Yuhong (Temple University)
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised kernel matching method to address domain adaptation problems where the source distribution substantially differs from the target distribution. Specifically, we learn a prediction function on the labeled source data while mapping the target data points to similar source data points by matching the target kernel matrix to a submatrix of the source kernel matrix based on a Hilbert Schmidt Independence Criterion. We formulate this simultaneous learning and mapping process as a non-convex integer optimization problem and present a local minimization procedure for its relaxed continuous form. Our empirical results show the proposed kernel matching method significantly outperforms alternative methods on the task of across domain sentiment classification.