Is the MMI Criterion Necessary for Interpretability? Degenerating Non-causal Features to Plain Noise for Self-Rationalization. - Wei Liu 144; Zhiying Deng; Zhongyu Niu; Jun Wang 018; Haozhao Wang; YuanKai Zhang; Ruixuan Li 001 (NeurIPS, 2024)

Breaking Free from MMI: A New Frontier in Rationalization by Probing Input Utilization. - Wei Liu; Zhiying Deng; Zhongyu Niu; Jun Wang; Haozhao Wang; Zhigang Zeng; Ruixuan Li 001 (ICLR, 2025)

Exploring Practical Gaps in Using Cross Entropy to Implement Maximum Mutual Information Criterion for Rationalization. - Wei Liu 144; Zhiying Deng; Zhongyu Niu; Jun Wang 018; Haozhao Wang; Ruixuan Li 001 (Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2025)

Adversarial Cooperative Rationalization: The Risk of Spurious Correlations in Even Clean Datasets. - Wei Liu 144; Zhongyu Niu; Lang Gao; Zhiying Deng; Jun Wang 018; Haozhao Wang; Ruixuan Li 001 (CoRR, 2025)