Publications
31 papers and preprints, 9 patents. Citation counts live on Google Scholar.
Machine learning & NLP
JudgeRank: Leveraging Large Language Models for Reasoning-Intensive Reranking
Improving LLM Reasoning through Scaling Inference Computation with Collaborative Verification
Parameter-Efficient Detoxification with Contrastive Decoding
Marvista: Exploring the Design of a Human-AI Collaborative News Reading Tool
Testing Cross-Database Semantic Parsers With Canonical Utterances
Char2Subword: Extending the Subword Embedding Space Using Robust Character Compositionality
CoCo: Controllable Counterfactuals for Evaluating Dialogue State Trackers
Explaining and Improving Model Behavior with k Nearest Neighbor Representations
AvgOut: A Simple Output-Probability Measure to Eliminate Dull Responses
Automatically Learning Data Augmentation Policies for Dialogue Tasks
Deleter: Leveraging BERT to Perform Unsupervised Successive Text Compression
Adversarial Over-Sensitivity and Over-Stability Strategies for Dialogue Models
Detecting Linguistic Characteristics of Alzheimer's Dementia by Interpreting Neural Models
An Exploratory Study of Cell Growth and Division Data
Mathematics
Non-adjacent triples of cells in a triangular grid: proofs of three conjectured generating functions
The first descent in a standard Young tableau of shape (n,n,n)
Three short proofs of Mathar's 2014 conjecture for OEIS A002627
A short proof of Mathar's 2020 recurrence conjecture for the generalized-Stirling sequence A001711
A short proof of Mathar's 2013 recurrence conjecture for the Laguerre sequence A025166
Improved Upper Bounds on the Pebbling Numbers of the Blanuša Snarks
A short proof of Mathar's 2016 recurrence conjecture for OEIS A176677
A short proof of Mathar's 2013 recurrence conjecture for the Meixner sequence A214615
A Proof of Bala's General-m Representation of the Harmonic Numbers
Patents
Systems and methods for question answering with diverse knowledge sources
Tong Niu, Shafiq Rayhan Joty, Yingbo Zhou, Semih Yavuz, Wenting Zhao, Ye Liu
Systems and methods for large language model reasoning
Zhenwen Liang, Ye Liu, Tong Niu, Yingbo Zhou, Semih Yavuz
Systems and methods for a k-nearest neighbor based mechanism of natural language processing models
Nazneen Rajani, Tong Niu, Wenpeng Yin
Tong Niu, Shafiq Rayhan Joty, Ye Liu, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou, Semih Yavuz
Systems and methods for text generation with vocabulary detoxification
Tong Niu, Yingbo Zhou, Silvio Savarese, Semih Yavuz, Caiming Xiong
Systems and methods for cross-lingual transfer in natural language processing
Tong Niu, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong
Systems and methods for a collaborative reading assistance tool
Chien-Sheng Wu, Xiang Chen, Tong Niu, Caiming Xiong
Systems and methods for unsupervised paraphrase generation
Tong Niu, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong
Systems and methods for unsupervised autoregressive text compression
Tong Niu, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher
Books
Left and Right: The Conjoined Brothers
World's first graded Chinese reader series (300-word level).
A top-selling English grammar book written in Chinese.