About me

  • Education: I’m a Ph.D. student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China.
  • Advisor: Prof. Ruixuan Li

Research

  • Theory: Causality, information theory.
  • Applications: Interpretability, natural language processing

  • My recent research has been concentrating on various issues related to large language models and causal theory. I am looking for collaboration partners, and interested individuals are welcome to contact me.

Publications

Notes: “$\Delta$” means primarily recommended for reading.

  • $^\Delta$ Is the MMI Criterion Necessary for Interpretability? Degenerating Non-causal Features to Plain Noise for Self-Rationalization. paper code
    Wei Liu, Zhiying Deng, Zhongyu Niu, Jun Wang, Haozhao Wang, YuanKai Zhang, Ruixuan Li
    Conference: NeurIPS 2024.

  • Decoupling Representation and Knowledge for Few-Shot Intent Classification and Slot Filling.
    Jie Han, Yixiong Zou, Haozhao Wang, Jun Wang, Wei Liu, Yao Wu, Tao Zhang, Ruixuan Li.
    Conference: AAAI 2024.

  • Enhancing the Rationale-Input Alignment for Self-explaining Rationalization. paper code
    Wei Liu, Haozhao Wang, Jun Wang, Zhiying Deng, YuanKai Zhang, Cheng Wang, Ruixuan Li
    Conference: ICDE 2024.

  • $^\Delta$ D-Separation for Causal Self-Explanation. (NeurIPS 2023) paper code
    Wei Liu, Jun Wang, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Zhiying Deng, Yuankai Zhang, Yang Qiu

  • $^\Delta$ Decoupled Rationalization with Asymmetric Learning Rates: A Flexible Lipschitz Restraint. (KDD 2023) paper code
    Wei Liu, Jun Wang, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Yang Qiu, YuanKai Zhang, Jie Han, Yixiong Zou

  • MGR: Multi-generator Based Rationalization. (ACL 2023, Oral, Top 4%) paper code
    Wei Liu, Haozhao Wang, Jun Wang, Ruixuan Li, Xinyang Li, Yuankai Zhang, Yang Qiu

  • Multi-view Multi-aspect Neural Networks for Next-Basket Recommendation. (SIGIR 2023)
    Zhiying Deng, Jianjun Li, Zhiqiang Guo, Wei Liu, Li Zou, Guohui Li

  • FR: Folded Rationalization with a Unified Encoder (NeurIPS 2022) paper code video
    Wei Liu, Haozhao Wang, Jun Wang, Ruixuan Li, Chao Yue, Yuankai Zhang

Service

Great reviewer of ACL ARR December.