Publications

(*) Equal Contribution. (†) Corresponding Author.

2026

  1. ArXiv
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    Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering
    Chak Tou Leong, Dingwei Chen, Heming Xia, Qingyu Yin, Sunbowen Lee, Jian Wang†, and Wenjie Li
    In ArXiv, 2026
    arXiv
  2. EACL
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    KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization
    Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, Chak Tou Leong, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjie Li, and Sujian Li
    In Findings of EACL, 2026
    arXiv

2025

  1. ArXiv
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    HauntAttack: When Attack Follows Reasoning as a Shadow
    Jingyuan Ma*, Rui Li*, Zheng Li, Junfeng Liu, Heming Xia, Lei Sha, and Zhifang Sui
    In ArXiv, 2025
    arXiv
  2. ArXiv
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    LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?
    Rui Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Po-Nien Kung, Heming Xia, Junfeng liu, Xiangwen Kong, Zhifang Sui, and Nanyun Peng
    In ArXiv, 2025
    arXiv Code Website
  3. ArXiv
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    Merlin’s Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in LLMs via Black-box Adversarial Prompting
    Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du†, Rui Li, Chak Tou Leong, Yongqi Li†, and Wenjie Li
    In ArXiv, 2025
    arXiv Code
  4. ArXiv
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    Reasoning Beyond Language: A Comprehensive Survey on Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
    Xinghao Chen*, Anhao Zhao*, Heming Xia, Xuan Lu, Hanlin Wang, Yanjun Chen, Wei Zhang, Jian Wang†, Wenjie Li, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    In ArXiv, 2025
    arXiv Paper List
  5. ArXiv
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    From Query to Logic: Ontology-Driven Multi-Hop Reasoning in LLMs
    Haonan Bian, Yutao Qi†, Rui Yang, Yuanxi Che, Jiaqian Wang, Heming Xia, and Ranran Zhen
    In ArXiv, 2025
    arXiv
  6. EMNLP
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    TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs
    Heming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang, Yongqi Li†, and Wenjie Li
    In EMNLP, 2025
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  7. EMNLP
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    SpecVLM: Enhancing Speculative Decoding of Video LLMs via Verifier-Guided Token Pruning
    Yicheng Ji*, Jun Zhang*, Heming Xia, Jinpeng Chen, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen, and Huan Li†
    In EMNLP, 2025
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  8. EMNLP
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    Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Temporal and Contextual Narratives in Image Sequences?
    Xiaochen Wang*, Heming Xia*, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Yixin Yang, Qingxiu Dong, Weiyao Luo, Yifan Pu, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, and Zhifang Sui†
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2025
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  9. ACL
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    Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models
    Rui Li, Jing Long, Muge Qi, Heming Xia, Lei Sha, Peiyi Wang, and Zhifang Sui†
    In ACL, Oral Presentation, 2025
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  10. ACL
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    How Far are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior Chain Simulation
    Rui Li, Heming Xia, Xinfeng Yuan, Qingxiu Dong, Lei Sha, Wenjie Li, and Zhifang Sui†
    In Findings of ACL, 2025
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  11. ACL
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    PEToolLLM: Towards Personalized Tool Learning in Large Language Models
    Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li†, Heming Xia, Fan Liu, Min Yang, and Wenjie Li
    In Findings of ACL, 2025
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  12. Tutorial
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    Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference
    Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Cunxiao Du, Qian Liu, and Wenjie Li
    In COLING, 2025
    Video Slides Website
  13. ICLR
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    SWIFT: On-the-Fly Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration
    Heming Xia, Yongqi Li†, Jun Zhang, Cunxiao Du, and Wenjie Li
    In ICLR, 2025
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2024

  1. EMNLP
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    AppBench: Planning of Multiple APIs from Various APPs for Complex User Instruction
    Hongru Wang*, Rui Wang*, Boyang Xue, Heming Xia, Jingtao Cao, Zeming Liu, Jeff Z. Pan†, and Kam-Fai Wong†
    In EMNLP, 2024
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  2. EMNLP
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    A Survey on In-context Learning
    Qingxiu Dong, Lei Li, Damai Dai, Ce Zheng, Jingyuan Ma, Rui Li, Heming Xia, Jingjing Xu, Zhiyong Wu, Baobao Chang, Xu Sun, Lei Li, and Zhifang Sui
    In EMNLP, 2024
    HTML Paper List 机器之心
  3. EMNLP
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    Enhancing Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models
    Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li†, Heming Xia, and Wenjie Li
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2024
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  4. EMNLP
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    Taking a Deep Breath: Enhancing Language Modeling of Large Language Models with Sentinel Tokens
    Weiyao Luo, Suncong Zheng, Heming Xia, Weikang Wang, Yan Lei, Tianyu Liu, Shuang Chen, and Zhifang Sui†
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2024
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  5. ACL
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    Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding
    Heming Xia, Zhe Yang, Qingxiu Dong, Peiyi Wang, Yongqi Li, Tao Ge, Tianyu Liu, Wenjie Li, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of ACL, 2024
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  6. ACL
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    Can Large Multimodal Models Uncover Deep Semantics Behind Images?
    Yixin Yang, Zheng Li, Qingxiu Dong, Heming Xia, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of ACL, 2024
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2023

  1. EMNLP
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    Speculative Decoding: Exploiting Speculative Execution for Accelerating Seq2seq Generation
    Heming Xia*, Tao Ge*†, Peiyi Wang, Si-Qing Chen, Furu Wei, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2023
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  2. EMNLP
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    ImageNetVC: Zero- and Few-Shot Visual Commonsense Evaluation on 1000 ImageNet Categories
    Heming Xia*, Qingxiu Dong*, Lei Li, Jingjing Xu, Tianyu Liu, Ziwei Qin, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2023
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  3. EMNLP
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    Bi-Drop: Enhancing Fine-tuning Generalization via Synchronous sub-net Estimation and Optimization
    Shoujie Tong*, Heming Xia*, Damai Dai, Runxin Xu, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of EMNLP, 2023
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  4. ACL
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    Enhancing Continual Relation Extraction via Classifier Decomposition
    Heming Xia, Peiyi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, and Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of ACL, 2023
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2022

  1. ACL
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    Premise-based Multimodal Reasoning: Conditional Inference on Joint Textual and Visual Clues
    Qingxiu Dong*, Ziwei Qin*, Heming Xia, Tian Feng, Shoujie Tong, Haoran Meng, Lin Xu, Zhongyu Wei, Weidong Zhan, Baobao Chang, Sujian Li, Tianyu Liu, and Zhifang Sui
    In ACL, 2022
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2021

  1. Phys. Rev. D
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    Improved deep learning techniques in gravitational-wave data analysis
    Heming Xia, Lijing Shao†, Junjie Zhao, and Zhoujian Cao
    In Phys. Rev. D 103, 2021
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