Publications

2026

Format as Nuisance: Intervention-Inspired Cross-Format Distillation for Knowledge Conflicts
Yue Yu, Wang Luo, Shenghao Ye, Zepeng Bao, Jiacheng Liu, Yongqi Li, Wenxin Tang, Tieyun Qian.
EMNLP 2026 Oral
Debiasing LLMs in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks via Information-Gain Guided Front-Door Adjustment
Xin Miao, Yongqi Li, Hankun Kang, Mayi Xu, Jintao Wen, Yuanyuan Zhu, Ming Zhong, Jiawei Jiang, Tieyun Qian.
DASFAA 2026
Recursive Short-to-Long Generalization for Multi-hop Reasoning
Mayi Xu, Ke Sun, Jianhao Chen, Qiankun Pi, Guixin Su, Yunfeng Ning, Yongqi Li, Yuanyuan Zhu, Ming Zhong, Jiawei Jiang, Tieyun Qian.
SIGIR 2026 Code
Understanding Generalization in Role-Playing Models via Information Theory
Yongqi Li, Hao Lang, Fei Huang, Tieyun Qian, Yongbin Li.
ACL 2026 Findings Code Benchmark
Controlling Multimodal Conversational Agents with Coverage-Enhanced Latent Actions
Yongqi Li, Hao Lang, Tieyun Qian, Yongbin Li.
ACL 2026 Code

A Survey on Training-free Alignment of Large Language Models
Birong Pan, Yongqi Li, Weiyu Zhang, Wenpeng Lu, Mayi Xu, Shen Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhu, Ming Zhong, Tieyun Qian.
EMNLP 2025 Findings
Enhancing Relation Extraction via Supervised Rationale Verification and Feedback
Yongqi Li, Xin Miao, Shen Zhou, Mayi Xu, Yuyang Ren, Tieyun Qian.
AAAI 2025 Oral · 4.6% Code
Strong Empowered and Aligned Weak Mastered Annotation for Weak-to-Strong Generalization
Yongqi Li, Xin Miao, Mayi Xu, Tieyun Qian.
AAAI 2025 Code
Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition
Yongqi Li, Shen Zhou, Xiaohu Li, Xin Miao, Jintao Wen, Mayi Xu, Jianhao Chen, Birong Pan, Hankun Kang, Yuanyuan Zhu, Ming Zhong, Tieyun Qian.
ACL 2025 Code Benchmark Collection

Prompting Large Language Models for Counterfactual Generation: An Empirical Study
Yongqi Li, Mayi Xu, Xin Miao, Shen Zhou, Tieyun Qian.
LREC-COLING 2024
An Ensemble-of-Experts Framework for Rehearsal-free Continual Relation Extraction
Shen Zhou, Yongqi Li, Xin Miao, Tieyun Qian.
ACL 2024 Findings Code
Episodic Memory Retrieval from LLMs: A Neuromorphic Mechanism to Generate Commonsense Counterfactuals for Relation Extraction
Xin Miao, Yongqi Li, Shen Zhou, Tieyun Qian.
ACL 2024 Findings
Adaption-of-Thought: Learning Question Difficulty Improves Large Language Models for Reasoning
Mayi Xu, Yongqi Li, Ke Sun, Tieyun Qian.
EMNLP 2024 Code

Cold-start Multi-hop Reasoning by Hierarchical Guidance and Self-verification
Mayi Xu, Ke Sun, Yongqi Li, Tieyun Qian.
ECML/PKDD 2023 Code
Generating Commonsense Counterfactuals for Stable Relation Extraction
Xin Miao, Yongqi Li, Tieyun Qian.
EMNLP 2023 Code
Type-Aware Decomposed Framework for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition
Yongqi Li, Yu Yu, Tieyun Qian.
EMNLP 2023 Findings Code