Beyond

Selected Publications

PrePrint

Mitigating Context Interference for Reliable and Efficient Search Agents

Keywords: Context Engineering, Search Agents.

preprint.

Boyang Xue, Bin Wu, Shuofei Qiao, Sheng Wang, Rui Wang, Yiming Du, Hongru WANG, Jeff Z. Pan, Emine Yilmaz, Kam-Fai Wong, Aldo Lipani

ReliableMath: Benchmark of Reliable Mathematical Reasoning on Large Language Models

Keywords: LLM Reliability, Mathematical Reasoning.

preprint. [Repo]

Boyang Xue, Qi Zhu, Rui Wang, Sheng Wang, Hongru Wang, Fei Mi, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, Kam-Fai Wong

DAST: Difficulty-Aware Self-Training on Large Language Models

Keywords: Self-Training.

preprint. [Repo]

Boyang Xue* ...

Harnessing the Reasoning Economy: A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models

Keywords: Efficient Reasoning, Survey.

preprint. [Repo]

Rui Wang*, Hongru Wang*, Boyang Xue*, Jianhui Pang, Shudong Liu, Yi Chen, Jiahao Qiu, Derek Fai Wong, Heng Ji, Kam-Fai Wong.

Journal

Bayesian Neural Network Language Modeling for Speech Recognition

Keywords: Bayesian Modeling, Speech Recognition.

IEEE/ACM Transactions of Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), vol. 30, page. 2900-2917, 2022. [Code]

Boyang Xue, Shoukang Hu, Junhao Xu, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng.

Conference

UAlign: Leveraging Uncertainty Estimations for Factuality Alignment on Large Language Models

Keywords: Uncertainty Estimation, Factuality Alignment.

in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. [Code]

Boyang Xue, Fei Mi, Qi Zhu, Hongru Wang, Rui Wang, Sheng Wang, Erxin Yu, Xuming Hu, Kam-Fai Wong.

Self-DC: When to retrieve and When to generate? Self Divide-and-Conquer for Compositional Unknown Questions

Keywords: Tool Learning.

in Proceedings of theNations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2025.

Hongru Wang*, Boyang Xue*, Baohang Zhou, Tianhua Zhang, Cunxiang Wang, Guanhua Chen, Huimin Wang, Kam-fai Wong.

MlingConf: A Comprehensive Study of Multilingual Confidence Estimation on Large Language Models

Keywords: Multilingual LLM, Confidence Estimation.

in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. [Code]

Boyang Xue*, Hongru Wang*, Rui Wang, Sheng Wang, Zezhong Wang, Yiming Du, Bin Liang, Wenxuan Zhang, Kam-Fai Wong

AppBench: Planning of Multiple APIs from Various APPs for Complex User Instruction

Keywords: Tool Learning.

in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024. [Code]

Hongru Wang, Rui Wang, Boyang Xue, Heming Xia, Jingtao Cao, Zeming Liu, Jeff Z. Pan, Kam-Fai Wong

PRoLoRA: Partial Rotation Empowers More Parameter-Efficient LoRA

Keywords: Parameter-Efficient.

in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024.

Sheng Wang, Boyang Xue, Jiacheng Ye, Jiyue Jiang, Liheng Chen, Lingpeng Kong, Chuan Wu.

Improving Factual Consistency for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems via Knowledge Enhancement and Alignment

Keywords: Dialogue System, Factual Consistency.

in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023. [Code]

Boyang Xue, Weichao Wang, Hongru Wang, Fei Mi, Rui Wang, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Kam-Fai Wong.

UniRetriever: Multi-task Candidates Selection for Various Context-Adaptive Conversational Retrieval

Keywords: Retrieval Augmentation.

in Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024.

Hongru Wang, Boyang Xue, Baohang Zhou, Rui Wang, Fei Mi, Weichao Wang, Yasheng Wang, Kam-Fai Wong.

Bayesian Transformer Language Models for Speech Recognition

Keywords: Bayesian Adaptation, Disordered Speech Recognition.

in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference of Acoustic, Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021. [Code]

Boyang Xue, Jianwei Yu, Junhao Xu, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Zi Ye, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng.

Patent

Deep Learning based Patient-Specific Fetal Heart Rate Detection System on FECG (一种基于深度学习和特异性矫正在fecg上胎儿心率检测系统) Chinese Patent Granted in 2020, CN112826513B. [Code]

Boyang XUE, Cheng Cheng.

Contest

Wireless Charging based Energy-Efficient Smart Cars National Grand Prize in the 14th NXP Cup National University Intelligent Car Race, 2019, Served as Programmer & Team Leader. [Video|Code]

Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling (APMCM) Second Prize in the 19th APMCM, 2019, Served as Team Leader.

Beacon based Smart Cars for Tracking and Competition First Prize in the 13th NXP Cup National University Intelligent Car Race, 2018, Served as Programmer & Team Leader.