Ercong Nie

According to our database, Ercong Nie authored at least 42 papers between 2023 and 2026.

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2026

Memory-R2: Fair Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon Memory-Augmented LLM Agents.

Sikuan Yan, Ahmed Bahloul, Ercong Nie, Susanna Schwarzmann, Riccardo Trivisonno, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma

CoRR, May, 2026

ChunkFT: Byte-Streamed Optimization for Memory-Efficient Full Fine-Tuning.

Yongkang Liu, Zijing Wang, Mengjie Zhao, Ercong Nie, Mingyang Wang, Qian Li, Feiliang Ren, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, May, 2026

PyraVid: Hierarchical Multimodal Memory for Long-Horizon Video Reasoning.

Sikuan Yan, Sicheng Dong, Haotong Wang, Ercong Nie, Yilun Liu, Jinhe Bi, Yingjie Xu, Susanna Schwarzmann, Riccardo Trivisonno, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma

CoRR, May, 2026

DiM\textsuperscript{3}: Bridging Multilingual and Multimodal Models via Direction- and Magnitude-Aware Merging.

Zijing Wang, Mingyang Wang, Ercong Nie, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Mengjie Zhao, Daling Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, May, 2026

Automatic In-Domain Exemplar Construction and LLM-Based Refinement of Multi-LLM Expansions for Query Expansion.

Minghan Li, Ercong Nie, Siqi Zhao, Tongna Chen, Huiping Huang, Guodong Zhou

CoRR, February, 2026

PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs.

Zijing Wang, Yongkang Liu, Mingyang Wang, Ercong Nie, Deyuan Chen, Zhengjie Zhao, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, January, 2026

SAD: A Large-Scale Strategic Argumentative Dialogue Dataset.

Yongkang Liu, Jiayang Yu, Mingyang Wang, Yiqun Zhang, Ercong Nie, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, January, 2026

Dual-layer prompt ensembles: Leveraging system- and user-level instructions for robust LLM-based query expansion and rank fusion.

Minghan Li, Ercong Nie, Huiping Huang, Xinxuan Lv, Guodong Zhou

Inf. Fusion, 2026

Locate, steer, and improve: A practical survey of actionable mechanistic interpretability in large language models.

Hengyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Zunhai Su, Yiwei Wang, Qianli Wang, Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Xufeng Duan, Qibo Xue, Zeping Yu, Chenming Shang, Xiao Liang, Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Chaofan Tao, Zhengwu Liu, Senjie Jin, Zhiheng Xi, Dongdong Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou, Tao Gui, Ruobing Xie, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Hinrich Schütze, Xuanjing Huang, Qi Zhang, Ngai Wong

Comput. Sci. Rev., 2026

2025

Beyond Over-Refusal: Scenario-Based Diagnostics and Post-Hoc Mitigation for Exaggerated Refusals in LLMs.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Yinuo Sun, Chenxuan Zhao, William LaCroix, Michael Färber

CoRR, October, 2025

Query Expansion in the Age of Pre-trained and Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey.

Minghan Li, Xinxuan Lv, Junjie Zou, Tongna Chen, Chao Zhang, Suchao An, Ercong Nie, Guodong Zhou

CoRR, September, 2025

A Survey of Long-Document Retrieval in the PLM and LLM Era.

Minghan Li, Miyang Luo, Tianrui Lv, Yishuai Zhang, Siqi Zhao, Ercong Nie, Guodong Zhou

CoRR, September, 2025

Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning.

Sikuan Yan, Xiufeng Yang, Zuchao Huang, Ercong Nie, Zifeng Ding, Zonggen Li, Xiaowen Ma, Hinrich Schütze, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma

CoRR, August, 2025

CoDAE: Adapting Large Language Models for Education via Chain-of-Thought Data Augmentation.

Shuzhou Yuan, William LaCroix, Hardik Ghoshal, Ercong Nie, Michael Färber

CoRR, August, 2025

Hateful Person or Hateful Model? Investigating the Role of Personas in Hate Speech Detection by Large Language Models.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Mario Tawfelis, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Michael Färber

CoRR, June, 2025

XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models.

Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim, Hongchuan Zeng, Zhiying Zou, Xinyuan Cheng, Zhifan Sun, Zheye Deng, Kawai Chung, Yuzhuo Ao, Yixiang Fan, Cheng Jiayang, Ercong Nie, Ginny Y. Wong, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Simon See, Yangqiu Song

CoRR, June, 2025

LLM in the Loop: Creating the ParaDeHate Dataset for Hate Speech Detoxification.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Lukas Kouba, Ashish Yashwanth Kangen, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Michael Färber

CoRR, June, 2025

Look Within or Look Beyond? A Theoretical Comparison Between Parameter-Efficient and Full Fine-Tuning.

Yongkang Liu, Xingle Xu, Ercong Nie, Zijing Wang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Qian Li, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, May, 2025

XCOMPS: A Multilingual Benchmark of Conceptual Minimal Pairs.

Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Sukru Samet Dindar, Arsalan Firoozi, Adrian Florea, Van Nguyen, Corentin Puffay, Riki Shimizu, Haotian Ye, Jonathan Brennan, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Nima Mesgarani

CoRR, February, 2025

Language Model Re-rankers are Steered by Lexical Similarities.

Lovisa Hagström, Ercong Nie, Ruben Halifa, Helmut Schmid, Richard Johansson, Alexander Junge

CoRR, February, 2025

Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Bolei Ma, Michael Färber

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2025

LLM in the Loop: Creating the ParaDeHate Dataset for Hate Speech Detoxification.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Lukas Kouba, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Michael Färber

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Decomposed Prompting: Probing Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in Large Language Models.

Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Mechanistic Understanding and Mitigation of Language Confusion in English-Centric Large Language Models.

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

Tracing Multilingual Factual Knowledge Acquisition in Pretraining.

Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Felicia Körner, Ercong Nie, Barbara Plank, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

BMIKE-53: Investigating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing with In-Context Learning.

Ercong Nie, Bo Shao, Mingyang Wang, Zifeng Ding, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Large Language Models as Neurolinguistic Subjects: Discrepancy between Performance and Competence.

Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Nima Mesgarani, Jonathan Brennan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Lost in Multilinguality: Dissecting Cross-lingual Factual Inconsistency in Transformer Language Models.

Mingyang Wang, Heike Adel, Lukas Lange, Yihong Liu, Ercong Nie, Jannik Strötgen, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Large Language Models as Neurolinguistic Subjects: Identifying Internal Representations for Form and Meaning.

Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Nima Mesgarani, Jonathan Brennan

CoRR, 2024

Decomposed Prompting: Unveiling Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in English-Centric Large Language Models.

Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, Hinrich Schütze

CoRR, 2024

Team MGTD4ADL at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Leveraging (Sentence) Transformer Models with Contrastive Learning for Identifying Machine-Generated Text.

Huixin Chen, Jan Büssing, David Rügamer, Ercong Nie

Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2024

A Unified Data Augmentation Framework for Low-Resource Multi-domain Dialogue Generation.

Yongkang Liu, Ercong Nie, Shi Feng, Zheng Hua, Zifeng Ding, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track, 2024

ToPro: Token-Level Prompt Decomposition for Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling Tasks.

Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Decoding Probing: Revealing Internal Linguistic Structures in Neural Language Models Using Minimal Pairs.

Linyang He, Peili Chen, Ercong Nie, Yuanning Li, Jonathan R. Brennan

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

GNNavi: Navigating the Information Flow in Large Language Models by Graph Neural Network.

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Michael Färber, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

From Classification to Generation: Insights into Crosslingual Retrieval Augmented ICL.

Xiaoqian Li, Ercong Nie, Sheng Liang

CoRR, 2023

Crosslingual Retrieval Augmented In-context Learning for Bangla.

Xiaoqian Li, Ercong Nie, Sheng Liang

CoRR, 2023

Baby's CoThought: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Compact Models.

Zheyu Zhang, Han Yang, Bolei Ma, David Rügamer, Ercong Nie

CoRR, 2023

Cross-Lingual Constituency Parsing for Middle High German: A Delexicalized Approach.

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, 2023

Is Prompt-Based Finetuning Always Better than Vanilla Finetuning? Insights from Cross-Lingual Language Understanding.

Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2023), 2023

Unleashing the Multilingual Encoder Potential: Boosting Zero-Shot Performance via Probability Calibration.

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Cross-Lingual Retrieval Augmented Prompt for Low-Resource Languages.

Ercong Nie, Sheng Liang, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023