Publications

2025

NeurIPS
Bidirectional Representations Augmented Autoregressive Biological Sequence Generation
Xiang Zhang*, Jiaqi Wei*, Zijie Qiu, Sheng Xu, Zhi Jin, Nanqing Dong, Zhiqiang Gao, Siqi Sun
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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NeurIPS
Retrieval is not Enough: Enhancing RAG Reasoning through Test-Time Critique and Optimization
Jiaqi Wei*, Hao Zhou*, Xiang Zhang*, Zijie Qiu, Sheng Xu, Zhi Jin, Nanqing Dong, Zhiqiang Gao, Siqi Sun
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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ACL
A Complexity Analysis of Prompt Search Space in LLMs
Xiang Zhang*, Juntai Cao*, Jiaqi Wei, Chengyu You, Dujian Ding
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
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ICML
Curriculum Learning for Biological Sequence Prediction: The Case of De Novo Sequencing
Xiang Zhang*, Jiaqi Wei*, Sheng Xu, Zijie Qiu, Nanqing Dong, Zhiqiang Gao, Siqi Sun
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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ICML
Universal Biological Sequence Reranking for Improved De Novo Peptide Sequencing
Zijie Qiu*, Jiaqi Wei*, Xiang Zhang*, Sheng Xu, Zhi Jin, Zhiqiang Gao, Nanqing Dong, Siqi Sun
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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NewSum
Multi2: Multi-Agent Test-Time Scalable Framework for Multi-Document Processing
Juntai Cao*, Xiang Zhang*, Raymond Li, Jiaqi Wei, Chuyuan Li, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini
5th New Frontiers in Summarization Workshop at EMNLP (NewSumm), 2025
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JOSH
Multiprocessor scheduling with testing: Improved approximation algorithms and numerical experiments
Mingyang Gong*, Jing Fan*, Guohui Lin*, Bin Su*, Zihan Su*, Xiang Zhang*
Journal of Scheduling (JOSH), 2025
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Nature Comms
π-PrimeNovo: An Accurate and Efficient Non-Autoregressive Deep Learning Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing
Xiang Zhang*, Tianze Ling*, Zhi Jin*, Sheng Xu*, Zhiqiang Gao, Boyan Sun, Zijie Qiu, Nanqing Dong, Guangshuai Wang, Guibin Wang, Leyuan Li, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Fuchu He, Wanli Ouyang, Cheng Chang, Siqi Sun
Nature Communications, 2025
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2024

AAAI
ContraNovo: A Contrastive Learning Approach to Enhance De Novo Peptide Sequencing
Zhi Jin*, Sheng Xu*, Xiang Zhang*, Tianze Ling, Nanqing Dong, Wanli Ouyang, Zhiqiang Gao, Cheng Chang, Siqi Sun
38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
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2023

EMNLP
Don't Trust GPT When Your Question Is Not In English: A Study of Multilingual Abilities and Types of LLMs
Xiang Zhang*, Senyu Li*, Bradley Hauer, Ning Shi, Grzegorz Kondrak
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
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EACL
Bridging the Gap Between BabelNet and HowNet: Unsupervised Sense Alignment and Sememe Prediction
Xiang Zhang, Ning Shi, Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak
17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2023
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2022

EMNLP
Improving HowNet-Based Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with Translation
Xiang Zhang, Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak
Findings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022
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NeurIPS
A Character Level Length Control Algorithm for Non-Autoregressive Sentence Summarization
Puyuan Liu, Xiang Zhang, Lili Mou
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
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