Biography
I received my Master Degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (in Boston). I was a member of Northeastern NLP Group and worked with Prof. Lu Wang (now at UMich). I'm also privileged to work with Prof. Lifu Huang from Virginia Tech (now at UC Davis).
I'm generally interested in natural language processing, machine learning and generative models. I am currently working on evaluating and enhancing the trustworthiness, reasoning, and creativity of LLMs and VLMs, with applications in NLP and Multimodal scenarios. For core natural language processing (NLP) problems, I have been working on coherent and controllable long text generation and summarization. I'm open to potential collaborations and feel free to drop me an email.
Selected Publications
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When 'YES' Meets 'BUT': Can Large Models Comprehend Contradictory Humor Through Comparative Reasoning?
Tuo Liang*, Zhe Hu*, Jing Li, Hao Zhang, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Disheng Liu, Jeirui Peng, Jing Ma, Yu Yin
[*equal contribution]
ArXiv 2025
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- When Words Outperform Vision: VLMs Can Self-Improve Via Text-Only Training For Human-Centered Decision Making Zhe Hu, Jing Li, Yu Yin
ArXiv 2025
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- Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition Juncheng Wang, Chao Xu, Cheng Yu, Lei Shang, Zhe Hu, Shujun Wang, Liefeng Bo
CVPR 2025
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- Debate-to-Write: A Persona-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Diverse Argument Generation Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Jing Li, Yu Yin
COLING 2025, short paper
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- Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions Zhe Hu*, Tuo Liang*, Jing Li, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Jing Ma, Yu Yin
[*equal contribution]
NeurIPS 2024, Oral
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- VIVA 
 : A Benchmark for Vision-Grounded Decision-Making with Human Values
Zhe Hu, Yixiao Ren, Jing Li, Yu Yin
EMNLP 2024
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- AMERICANO: Argument Generation with Discourse-driven Decomposition and Agent Interaction Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Yin
INLG 2024
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- MOCHA: A Multi-Task Training Approach for Coherent Text Generation from Cognitive Perspective Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Lifu Huang
EMNLP 2022, short paper
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- PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generation Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu, Lifu Huang
ACL 2022
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- Controllable Dialogue Generation with Disentangled Multi-grained Style Specification and Attribute Consistency Reward Zhe Hu*, Zhiwei Cao*, Hou Pong Chan, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Jinsong Su, Hua Wu
[*equal contribution]
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) 2022
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- Context-Aware Interaction Network for Question Matching Zhe Hu, Zuohui Fu, Yu Yin, Gerard de Melo
EMNLP 2021, short paper
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- An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization Eva Sharma*, Luyang Huang*, Zhe Hu*, Lu Wang
[*equal contribution]
EMNLP 2019
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- Argument Generation with Retrieval, Planning, and Realization Xinyu Hua, Zhe Hu, Lu Wang
ACL 2019
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Education
- M.Sc in Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
- B.Eng in Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
Teaching
- Serve as Teaching Assistance
- TA of COMP 5423 - Natural Language Processing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024 Fall
- TA of COMP 1433 - Introduction to Data Analytics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024 Spring
Services
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer:
- ACL ARR
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2024: COLM, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI, COLING, CoNLL, NLPCC
- 2023: ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, CoNLL, EMNLP NewSum workshop
- 2022: EMNLP, AAAI
- 2021: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, AAAI
- 2020: ACL, EMNLP
- 2019: EMNLP NewSum workshop