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AACL2026 Findings Edit Robustness Under Fine-Tuning in Text-to-Image Models

Feng He, Marco Valentino, Zhixue Zhao

BIB
@inproceedings{he2026editrobustness,
  title = {{Edit Robustness Under Fine-Tuning in Text-to-Image Models}},
  author = {He, Feng and Valentino, Marco and Zhao, Zhixue},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL 2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=bfeSYJnUNa#discussion}
}

AACL2026 Findings Think When Unsure: Leveraging Model Confidence to Decide When to Use Chain-of-Thought

Samuel Lewis-Lim, Xingwei Tan, Zhixue Zhao, Nikolaos Aletras

BIB
@inproceedings{lewislim2026think,
  title = {{Think When Unsure: Leveraging Model Confidence to Decide When to Use Chain-of-Thought}},
  author = {Lewis-Lim, Samuel and Tan, Xingwei and Zhao, Zhixue and Aletras, Nikolaos},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL 2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=I6R1yvcCFg#discussion}
}

AACL2026 Findings From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting LLMs on Character Counting Tasks

Ayan Datta, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler, Zhixue Zhao, Radhika Mamidi

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@inproceedings{datta2026counting,
  title = {{From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting LLMs on Character Counting Tasks}},
  author = {Datta, Ayan and Marreddy, Mounika and Mehler, Alexander and Zhao, Zhixue and Mamidi, Radhika},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL 2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=aGdiFNOK82}
}

ECIR2025 Do LLMs Provide Consistent Answers to Health-Related Questions Across Languages?

Ipek Baris Schlicht, Zhixue Zhao, Burcu Sayin, Lucie Flek, Paolo Rosso

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@inproceedings{schlicht2025consistent,
  title = {{Do LLMs Provide Consistent Answers to Health-Related Questions Across Languages?}},
  author = {Schlicht, Ipek Baris and Zhao, Zhixue and Sayin, Burcu and Flek, Lucie and Rosso, Paolo},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {15574},
  pages = {314--322},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-88714-7_30},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-88714-7_30}
}

TACL2024 Vol. 12 Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization.

George Chrysostomou, Zhixue Zhao, Miles Williams, Nikolaos Aletras.

BIB
@article{chrysostomou-etal-2024-investigating,
    title = "Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization",
    author = "Chrysostomou, George  and
      Zhao, Zhixue  and
      Williams, Miles  and
      Aletras, Nikolaos",
    journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "12",
    year = "2024",
    address = "Cambridge, MA",
    publisher = "MIT Press",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.64/",
    doi = "10.1162/tacl_a_00695",
    pages = "1163--1181"
}

NAACL 2024 Main (oral presentation) Comparing Explanation Faithfulness between Multilingual and Monolingual Fine-tuned Language Models.

Zhixue Zhao, Nikolaos Aletras

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@inproceedings{zhao-aletras-2024-comparing,
    title = "Comparing Explanation Faithfulness between Multilingual and Monolingual Fine-tuned Language Models",
    author = "Zhao, Zhixue  and
      Aletras, Nikolaos",
    editor = "Duh, Kevin  and
      Gomez, Helena  and
      Bethard, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.178/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.178",
    pages = "3226--3244"
}

JAMIA Vol.7 4(2024) The FAIR database: facilitating access to public health research literature.

Zhixue Zhao, James Thomas, Gregory Kell, Claire Stansfield, Mark Clowes, Sergio Graziosi, Jeff Brunton, Iain James Marshall, Mark Stevenson.

BIB
@article{zhao2024fair,
  title = {{The FAIR database: facilitating access to public health research literature}},
  author = {Zhao, Zhixue and Thomas, James and Kell, Gregory and Stansfield, Claire and Clowes, Mark and Graziosi, Sergio and Brunton, Jeff and Marshall, Iain James and Stevenson, Mark},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {JAMIA Open},
  volume = {7},
  number = {4},
  pages = {ooae139},
  doi = {10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae139},
  url = {https://academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/article/7/4/ooae139/7923185}
}

ReLM@AAAI24 Use ReAGent via Inseq ReAGent: A Model-agnostic Feature Attribution Method for Generative Language Models.

Zhixue Zhao, Boxuan Shan. 2024.

BIB
@misc{zhao2024reagent,
  title = {{ReAGent: A Model-agnostic Feature Attribution Method for Generative Language Models}},
  author = {Zhao, Zhixue and Shan, Boxuan},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2402.00794},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00794}
}

ACL 2023 Main [Oral (the 1st talk was ours)] Incorporating Attribution Importance for Improving Faithfulness Metrics.

Zhixue Zhao, Nikolaos Aletras

BIB
@inproceedings{zhao-aletras-2023-incorporating,
    title = "Incorporating Attribution Importance for Improving Faithfulness Metrics",
    author = "Zhao, Zhixue  and
      Aletras, Nikolaos",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.261/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.261",
    pages = "4732--4745"
}

EMNLP 2022 Findings On the Impact of Temporal Concept Drift on Model Explanations.

Zhixue Zhao, George Chrysostomou, Kalina Bontcheva, Nikolaos Aletras

BIB
@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2022-impact,
    title = "On the Impact of Temporal Concept Drift on Model Explanations",
    author = "Zhao, Zhixue  and
      Chrysostomou, George  and
      Bontcheva, Kalina  and
      Aletras, Nikolaos",
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.298/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.298",
    pages = "4039--4054"
}

Online Social Networks and Media 2022 Utilizing Subjectivity Level to Mitigate Identity Term Bias in Toxic Comments Classification.

Zhixue Zhao, Ziqi Zhang, Frank Hopfgartner

BIB
@article{zhao2022subjectivity,
  title = {{Utilizing Subjectivity Level to Mitigate Identity Term Bias in Toxic Comments Classification}},
  author = {Zhao, Zhixue and Zhang, Ziqi and Hopfgartner, Frank},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Online Social Networks and Media},
  volume = {29},
  pages = {100205},
  doi = {10.1016/j.osnem.2022.100205},
  url = {https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/186277/}
}

WWW2021 Companion A Comparative Study of Using Pre-trained Language Models for Toxic Comment Classification.

Zhixue Zhao, Ziqi Zhang, Frank Hopfgartner

BIB
@inproceedings{zhao2021comparative,
  title = {{A Comparative Study of Using Pre-trained Language Models for Toxic Comment Classification}},
  author = {Zhao, Zhixue and Zhang, Ziqi and Hopfgartner, Frank},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/3442442.3452313},
  url = {https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/173371/}
}

CICLing 2019 Detecting Toxic Content Online and the Effect of Training Data on Classification Performance.

Zhixue Zhao, Ziqi Zhang, Frank Hopfgartner

BIB
@misc{zhao2019detecting,
  title = {{Detecting Toxic Content Online and the Effect of Training Data on Classification Performance}},
  author = {Zhao, Zhixue and Zhang, Ziqi and Hopfgartner, Frank},
  year = {2019},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 872},
  doi = {10.29007/z5xk},
  url = {https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/XGmR}
}

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