About me
I am Xiaocui Yang (杨晓翠). I am a member of NEU Data Mining group. NEU DM group belongs to Data Science and Big Data Technology Group led by Professor Ge Yu（于戈）.
Lab
Education
2019.09-2024.07, Ph.D, supervised by Prof. Daling Wang, Northeastern University (NEU), China
2021.10-2023.10, Visiting Ph.D (CSC), supervised by Prof. Soujanya Poria, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
2017.09-2019.07, Master, supervised by Prof. Daling Wang, Northeastern University (NEU), China
2013.09-2017.06, Bachelor, Shandong University of Science and Technology
Research
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Affective Computing, Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, …
I have published more than 30 papers in conferences/journals such as ACL, ACM MM, COLING, IEEE TMM, ICASSP, and so on, with 5 of them as the first author. And other papers are under review. If you are interested in discussing or collaborating with me, please contact me.
Publications
2026
Affective computing in the era of large language models: A survey from the nlp perspectivePaper
Yiqun Zhang1, Xiaocui Yang1, Xingle Xu, Zeran Gao, Yijie Huang, Shiyi Mu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Kaisong Song, Ge Yu.
KBS 2026, SQI-1.
CIRAG: Construction-Integration Retrieval and Adaptive Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering.Paper
Zili Wei, Yilin Wang, Xiaocui Yang📧, Zihan Wang, Weidong Bao, Shi Feng📧, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
Cat-MoD: Accelerating Multimodal Alignment via Caption Token Guided Asymmetric Mixture-of-Depths. (Paper coming)
Yijie Huang, Xiaocui Yang📧, Shi Feng📧, Wen Zhang, Kaisong Song, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
Resource-Limited Joint Multimodal Sentiment Reasoning and Classification via Chain-of-Thought Enhancement and Distillation.Paper.
Haonan Shangguan, Xiaocui Yang📧, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Ge Yu, Feiliang Ren.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
JX4MEI: Multimodal Semantically-Enhanced LLM for Joint Multimodal Emotion-Intent Explanation and Classification.(Paper coming).
Yijie Huang1, Xiaocui Yang1, Shi Feng📧, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Ning Yuan, Zhuoyue Jia, Wen Zhang.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
DR-HM: Distill-then-Reinforce Training with Cognition-Aware Data Synthesis for Harmful Meme Detection.(Paper coming).
Zihan Cheng, Jianxiang Ma, Xiaocui Yang📧, Peidong Wang, Wen Zhang, Shi Feng📧, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Mingfu Zhang.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
ES4R: Speech Encoding Based on Prepositive Affective Modeling for Empathetic Response Generation Paper.
Zhuoyue Gao, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Wen Zhang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
SAFE-QAQ: End-to-End Slow-Thinking Audio-Text Fraud Detection via Reinforcement LearningPaper.
Peidong Wang, Zhiming Ma, Xin Dai, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Wenxing Hu, Zhihao Wang, Mingjun Pan, Li Yuan, Daling Wang.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
GenPT: Beyond Self-Report for Reliable LLM Psychometrics via Generative Projective TestingPaper.
Ming Wang, Shuang Wu, Bixuan Wang, Lu Lin, Yuxin Chen, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Yufan Sun.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
Nature-Inspired Population-Based Evolution of Large Language ModelsPaper.
Yiqun Zhang, Peng Ye, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Shufei Zhang, Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Shuyue Hu.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
MTRouter: Cost-Aware Multi-Turn LLM Routing with History–Model Joint EmbeddingsPaper.
Yiqun Zhang, Hao Li, Zihan Wang, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Shuyue Hu.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model MergingsPaper.
Zijing Wang, Xingle Xu, Yongkang Liu, Yiqun Zhang, Peiqin Lin, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Hinrich Schütze.
ACL 2026, CCF-A.
DEEPMED: Building a Medical DeepResearch Agent via Multi-hop Med-Search Data and Turn-Controlled Agentic Training & Inference.Paper.
Zihan Wang, Hao Wang, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yiqun Zhang, Jinghao Lin, Haihua Yang, Xiaozhong Ji.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs.Paper.
Zijing Wang, Yongkang Liu, Mingyang Wang, Ercong Nie, Deyuan Chen, Zhengjie Zhao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze. .
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
MoLAN: A Unified Modality-Aware Noise Dynamic Editing Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis.Paper.
Xingle Xu, Yongkang Liu, Dexian Cai, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
NEAT: Neuron-Based Early Exit for Large Reasoning Models.Paper.
Kang Liu, Yongkang Liu, Xiaocui Yang, Peidong Wang, Wen Zhang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Daling Wang.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
RATION: Entropy-Driven Task-Adaptive Visual Attention Allocation Framework for Multimodal Reasoning.(Paper coming).
Xingle Xu, Fanheng Kong, Dexian Cai, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of ACL 2026, CCF-A.
From Parameter Dynamics to Risk Scoring: Quantifying Sample-Level Safety Degradation in LLM Fine-tuningPaper
Xiao Wang, Yifei Zhang, YongKang Liu, Xiaocui Yang, Zihan Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang.
ICML 2026, CCF-A.
PRISM: Prosody-Integrated Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Spoken Dialogue Paper.
Wen Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Zhuoyue Gao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Interspeech 2026, CCF-B.
Can llms beat humans in debating? a dynamic multi-agent framework for competitive debate Paper.
Yiqun Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Kaisong Song.
ICASSP 2026, CCF-B.
2025
A Two-Stage Full Fine-Tuning and LLM Post-processing Framework for MCABSA Paper
Deyuan Chen, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Zihan Cheng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang
ACM MM 2025, CCF-A.
Advancing Referring Image Segmentation with Bidirectional Feature Enhancement and Adaptive Multimodal Fusion Paper.
Wen Qu, Xiao Li, Xiaocui Yang, Yonggong Ren.
Neurocomputing, SCI-Q2.
Adaptive Persona Context Modulation for Personalized Emotional Support Conversation Paper.
Hongkai Wang, Xiaocui Yang📧, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang.
PRICAI 2025, CCF-C.
Language Models as Continuous Self-evolving Data Engineers. Paper, Code.
Peidong Wang, Ming Wang, Zhiming Ma, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Kaisong Song.
EMNLP 2025, CCF-B.
MM-InstructEval: Zero-shot evaluation of (Multimodal) Large Language Models on multimodal reasoning tasks.Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Daling Wang, Yang Li, Qi Sun, Yifei Zhang, Xiaoming Fu, Soujanya Poria.
Information Fusion, SCI-Q1, Top.
Pixel-Level Reasoning Segmentation via Multi-turn Conversations. Paper, Code.
Dexian Cai1, Xiaocui Yang1, Yongkang Liu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Soujanya Poria.
The 63st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), CCF-A.
Muse: A Multimodal Conversational Recommendation Dataset with Scenario-Grounded User Profiles. Paper, Code.
Zihan Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
AnnaAgent: Dynamic Evolution Agent Systerm with Multi-Session Memory for Realistic Seeker Simulation. Paper.
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Lin Wu, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yuxin Chen, Bixuan Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
SemanticCamo: Jailbreaking Large Language Models through Semantic Camouflage. (Paper coming).
Jihui Yan, Xiaocui Yang📧, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang, Yinzhi Zhao.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) (Finds of ACL 2025), CCF-A.
Is mamba effective for time series forecasting? Paper, Code.
Zihan Wang, Fanheng Kong, Shi Feng, Ming Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Han Zhao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Neurocomputing, JCR-Q1.
Generative Emotion Cause Explanation in Multimodal Conversations.Paper, Code.
Lin Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2025), CCF-B.
TOOL-ED: Enhancing Empathetic Response Generation with the Tool Calling Capability of LLM. Paper, Code.
Huiying Cao, Yiqun Zhang, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang.
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025), CCF-B.
2024
A Persona-Aware Chain-of-Thought Learning Framework for Personalized Dialogue Response Generation. Paper.
Yameng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiaocui Yang.
CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing(NLPCC-2024), CCF-C.
Consistency Guided Knowledge Retrieval and Denoising in LLMs for Zero-shot Document-level Relation Triplet Extraction. Paper, Code.
Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Rong Tong , Kun Zhang and Soujanya Poria.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW-2024), CCF-A.
Few-Shot Multimodal Named Entity Recognition based on Mutlimodal Causal Intervention Graph. Paper.
Feihong Lu, Xiaocui Yang, Qian Li, Qingyun Sun, Ke Jiang, Cheng Ji, and Jianxin Li.
LREC-COLING 2024 (COLING 2024), CCF-B.
PAPER: A Persona-Aware Chain-of-Thought Learning Framework for Personalized Dialogue Response Generation.
Yameng Li, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Xiaocui Yang.
The 13th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, (NLPCC 2024), CCF-C.
2023
Few-shot Multimodal Sentiment Analysis based on Multimodal Probabilistic Fusion Prompts. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
2023 ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2023), CCF-A.
Few-shot Joint Multimodal Aspect-Sentiment Analysis Based on Generative Multimodal Prompt. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Qi Sun, Wenfang Wu, Yifei Zhang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023) (Finds of ACL 2023), CCF-A.
Multiple Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Paper.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Pengfei Hong and Soujanya Poria.
2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), CCF-B.
Uncertainty Guided Label Denoising for Document-level Distant Relation Extraction. Paper, Code.
Qi Sun, Kun Huang, Xiaocui Yang, Pengfei Hong, Kun Zhang and Soujanya Poria.
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), CCF-A.
2021
Multimodal Sentiment Detection Based on Multi-channel Graph Neural Networks. Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang and Daling Wang.
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021), CCF-A.
SINN: A speaker influence aware neural network model for emotion detection in conversations.Paper.
Shi Feng, Jia Wei, Daling Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Zhenfei Yang, Yifei Zhang and Ge Yu.
World Wide Web, 2021 (WWWJ 2021), CCF-B.
2020
Image-Text Multimodal Emotion Classification via Multi-View Attentional Network.Paper, Code.
Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang and Yifei Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020 (TMM 2020), SCI-1，CCF-B.
Academic and Social Services
Conference/Journal Reviewer
- ACL, ACM MM, ACMMM, EMNLP, COLING, ICASSP, NLPCC, etc.