Zhuang Li

Zhuang Li

Zhuang is a Lecturer at RMIT University.

Publications

My name is highlighted as Z Li. Symbols: ✦ first or co-first author; ‡ senior author.

Refereed Conference Papers

2026

  1. L Zheng, X Zhang, S He, F Li, C Teng, J Yang, D Ji, Z Li. “Are Emotion and Rhetoric Neurons in LLM? Neuron Recognition and Adaptive Masking for Emotion-Rhetoric Prediction Steering.” To appear in ACL 2026 (Oral). [CORE A*] ‡

  2. M-V Nguyen, F Shiri, Z Li, K Verspoor. “How Robust Are Large Language Models for Clinical Numeracy? An Empirical Study on Numerical Reasoning Abilities in Clinical Contexts.” To appear in Findings of ACL 2026. [CORE A*]

  3. V T Pham, L Qu, Z Li, G Haffari. “Evidence-based Distributional Alignment for Large Language Models.” To appear in Findings of ACL 2026. [CORE A*]

  4. S Ma, Z Li, J A Taylor. “Landsat30-AU: A Vision-Language Dataset for Australian Landsat Imagery.” AAAI 2026. [CORE A*]

  5. A Q Tang, X Zhang, M N Dinh, Z Li. “ARQUSUMM: Argument-aware Quantitative Summarization of Online Conversations.” AAAI 2026. [CORE A*]

2025

  1. S Lin, C Teng, F Li, D Ji, L Qu, Z Li. “DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement.” EMNLP 2025 (Oral). [CORE A*] ‡ — Outstanding Paper Award (one of seven such awards among 3,200+ accepted papers).

  2. X Wu, F Li, X Mao, X Zhang, L Zheng, Y Peng, C Teng, D Ji, Z Li. “EVOREFUSE: Evolutionary Prompt Optimization for Evaluation and Mitigation of LLM Over-Refusal to Pseudo-Malicious Instructions.” NeurIPS 2025. [CORE A*] ‡

  3. X Wu, X Mao, F Li, X Zhang, X Li, C Teng, D Ji, Z Li. “TRIDENT: Enhancing Large Language Model Safety with Tri-Dimensional Diversified Red-Teaming Data Synthesis.” ACL 2025. [CORE A*] ‡

  4. Z Li, Y Hua, T-T Vu, H Zhan, L Qu, G Haffari. “SCAR: Data Selection via Style Consistency-Aware Response Ranking for Efficient Instruction-Tuning of Large Language Models.” ACL 2025. [CORE A*] ✦

  5. A Q Tang, X Zhang, M N Dinh, Z Li. “QQSUM: A Novel Task and Model of Quantitative Query-Focused Summarization for Review-based Product Question Answering.” ACL 2025. [CORE A*]

  6. V T Pham, L Qu, Z Li, S Sharma, G Haffari. “SurveyPilot: An Agentic Framework for Automated Human Opinion Collection from Social Media.” ACL 2025 (Oral). [CORE A*]

  7. T Feng, L Qu, N Tandon, Z Li, X Kang, R Haffari. “From Corpora to Causality: Unveiling Causal Comprehension in Large Language Models.” ACL 2025 (Oral). [CORE A*]

  8. S Purkayastha, Z Li, A Lauscher, L Qu, I Gurevych. “LazyReview: A Dataset for Uncovering Lazy Thinking in NLP Peer Reviews.” ACL 2025. [CORE A*]

  9. V T Pham, Z Li, L Qu, G Haffari. “CultureInstruct: Curating Multi-Cultural Instructions at Scale.” NAACL 2025. [CORE A*]

  10. S Huang, W MacLean, X Kang, Q Xu, Z Li, X Yuan, G Haffari, L Qu. “NAP²: A Benchmark for Naturalness and Privacy-Preserving Text Rewriting by Learning from Human.” Findings of EMNLP 2025. [CORE A*]

2024

  1. Y Chai, Z Li, J Liu, L Chen, F Li, D Ji, C Teng. “Compositional Generalization for Multi-label Text Classification: A Data-Augmentation Approach.” AAAI 2024. [CORE A*] ✦

  2. T Feng, L Qu, Z Li, H Zhan, Y Hua, G Haffari. “IMO: Greedy Layer-Wise Sparse Representation Learning for Out-of-Distribution Text Classification with Pre-trained Models.” ACL 2024. [CORE A*]

  3. Z Zeng, S Liu, L Sha, Z Li, K Yang, S Liu, D Gašević, G Chen. “Detecting AI-Generated Sentences in Human-AI Collaborative Hybrid Texts: Challenges, Strategies, and Insights.” IJCAI 2024, AI for Social Good Track. [CORE A*]

  4. M D Vu, H Wang, Z Li, J Chen, S Zhao, Z Xing, C Chen. “GPTVoiceTasker: Advancing Multi-step Mobile Task Efficiency Through Dynamic Interface Exploration and Learning.” UIST 2024. [CORE A*]

  5. H Zhan, Z Li, X Kang, T Feng, Y Hua, L Qu, Y Ying, M R Chandra. “RENOVI: A Benchmark Towards Remediating Norm Violations in Socio-Cultural Conversations.” Findings of NAACL 2024. [CORE A*]

  6. Z Li, L Haroutunian, R Tumuluri, P Cohen, G Haffari. “Improving Cross-Domain Low-Resource Text Generation through LLM Post-Editing: A Programmer-Interpreter Approach.” Findings of EACL 2024. [CORE A] ✦

  7. H Zhan, Y Wang, Z Li, T Feng, Y Hua, S Sharma, L Qu, I Zukerman. “Let’s Negotiate! A Survey of Negotiation Dialogue Systems.” Findings of EACL 2024. [CORE A]

  8. J Liu, B Li, Z Li, Y Chai, F Li, C Teng, D Ji. “Generative Dialogue Sentiment and Act Recognition with Feature Denoising and Set Prediction.” NLPCC 2024.

  9. D Mollá, Q Xu, Z Zeng, Z Li. “Overview of the 2024 ALTA Shared Task: Detect Automatic AI-Generated Sentences for Human-AI Hybrid Articles.” ALTA 2024 Shared Task.

2023

  1. Z Li, L Qu, P R Cohen, R V Tumuluri, G Haffari. “The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Human and Machine Translations for Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Active Learning.” ACL 2023. [CORE A*] ✦

  2. Z Li, Y Chai, T Y Zhuo, L Qu, G Haffari, F Li, D Ji, Q H Tran. “FACTUAL: A Benchmark for Faithful and Consistent Textual Scene Graph Parsing.” Findings of ACL 2023. [CORE A*] ✦

  3. T Hu, Z Li, X Jin, L Qu, X Zhang. “TMID: A Comprehensive Real-world Dataset for Trademark Infringement Detection in E-Commerce.” EMNLP 2023, Industry Track. [CORE A*] ✦

  4. M D Vu, H Wang, Z Li, G Haffari, Z Xing, C Chen. “Voicify your UI: Towards Android App Control with Voice Commands.” PACM IMWUT 7(1), 2023. [CORE A*] ✦

  5. H Zhan, Z Li, Y Wang, L Luo, T Feng, X Kang, Y Hua, L Qu, L K Soon. “SocialDial: A Benchmark for Socially-Aware Dialogue Systems.” SIGIR 2023, Resource Track. [CORE A*]

  6. T Y Zhuo, Z Li, Y Huang, F Shiri, W Wang, G Haffari, Y-F Li. “On Robustness of Prompt-based Semantic Parsing with Large Pre-trained Language Model: An Empirical Study on Codex.” EACL 2023. [CORE A]

  7. Z Li, G Haffari. “Active Learning for Multilingual Semantic Parser.” Findings of EACL 2023. [CORE A] ✦

  8. L Haroutunian, Z Li, L Galescu, P Cohen, R Tumuluri, G Haffari. “Reranking for Natural Language Generation from Logical Forms: A Study based on Large Language Models.” AACL 2023.

2022

  1. Z Li, L Qu, Q Xu, T Wu, T Zhan, G Haffari. “Variational Autoencoder with Disentanglement Priors for Low-Resource Task-Specific Natural Language Generation.” EMNLP 2022. [CORE A*] ✦

  2. T Wu, M Caccia, Z Li, Y-F Li, G Qi, G Haffari. “Pretrained Language Model in Continual Learning: A Comparative Study.” ICLR 2022. [CORE A*]

  3. F Shiri, T Y Zhuo, Z Li, V Nguyen, S Pan, W Wang, R Haffari, Y-F Li. “Paraphrasing Techniques for Maritime QA System.” FUSION 2022. [CORE C] ✦

2021

  1. Z Li, L Qu, G Haffari. “Total Recall: A Customized Continual Learning Method for Neural Semantic Parsers.” EMNLP 2021. [CORE A*] ✦

  2. Z Li, L Qu, S Huang, G Haffari. “Few-Shot Semantic Parsing for New Predicates.” EACL 2021. [CORE A] ✦

  3. S Huang, Z Li, L Qu, L Pan. “On Robustness of Neural Semantic Parsers.” EACL 2021. [CORE A]

2020

  1. Z Li, L Qu, G Haffari. “Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey.” COLING 2020. [CORE B] ✦

2016

  1. Z Li, L Qu, Q Xu, M Johnson. “Unsupervised Pre-training with Seq2Seq Reconstruction Loss for Deep Relation Extraction Models.” ALTA 2016. [CORE C] ✦

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. A Joshi, R Dabre, D Kanojia, Z Li, H Zhan, G Haffari, D Dippold. “Natural Language Processing for Dialects of a Language: A Survey.” ACM Computing Surveys, 2025.

  2. S Qu, W Wang, X Zhou, H Zhan, Z Li, L Qu, L Luo, Y-F Li, G Haffari. “Scalable Frame-based Construction of Sociocultural Norm Bases for Socially Aware Dialogues.” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2025.

  3. X Kang, L Qu, L-K Soon, Z Li, A Trakic. “Automating IRAC Analysis in Malaysian Contract Law using a Semi-Structured Knowledge Base.” Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2025.

Preprints and Manuscripts under Review

  1. S Ma, Z Li, S Li, X Xu, R Zhu, T Boston, J A Taylor. “EO-Gym: A Multimodal, Interactive Environment for Earth Observation Agents.” arXiv preprint, 2026.

  2. Y Hua, L Qu, Z Li, H Xue, F D Salim, G Haffari. “RIDE: Enhancing Large Language Model Alignment through Restyled In-Context Learning Demonstration Exemplars.” arXiv:2502.11681, 2025.

  3. Y Hua, Z Li, L Luo, K A Satriadi, T Feng, H Zhan, L Qu, S Sharma. “SADAS: A Dialogue Assistant System towards Remediating Norm Violations in Bilingual Socio-Cultural Conversations.” arXiv:2402.01736, 2024.

  4. A Lozhkov, R Li, L B Allal, F Cassano, J Lamy-Poirier, N Tazi, A Tang, et al. (including Z Li). “StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation.” arXiv:2402.19173, 2024.

Patents and Theses

  1. Z Li, G Haffari, R Tumuluri, P R Cohen. “System and Method for Active Learning Based Multilingual Semantic Parser.” US Patent 12,548,554, granted 2026.

  2. Z Li, R Tumuluri, G Haffari. “System and Method of Programmer-Interpreter Approach for Large Language Model Post-Editing.” US Patent Application 18/756,077, filed 2025.

  3. Z Li. Semantic Parsing in Limited Resource Conditions. PhD thesis, Monash University, 2023.

  4. Z Li. Representation Learning for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction. Master’s thesis, Australian National University, 2015.