Xing Wang (王 星)

E-mail: xingwsuda@gmail.com

Biography

  • Xing Wang is a senior researcher at Tencent AI Lab. His research interests include large language models, multimodal sign language translation, neural/statistical machine translation, and biomedical NLP. He has published over 40 papers in conferences and journals, including ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, etc.  He served as Area Chair for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and ICLR.

Selected Publication

(full list, Google Scholar, * denotes corresponding author )

Large Language Model

  • Zicheng Lin, Tian Liang, Jiahao Xu, Xing Wang, Ruilin Luo, Chufan Shi, Siheng Li, Yujiu Yang, Zhaopeng Tu. Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability. arixv 2025. (pdf)[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Zhaopeng Tu, Xing Wang, Xingyu Chen, Zhijie Wang, Jiahao Xu, Tian Liang, Wenxiang Jiao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Rui Wang. RaSA: Rank-Sharing Low-Rank Adaptation. ICLR 2025. (pdf)[code]
  • Jen-tse Huang, Eric John Li, Man Ho LAM, Tian Liang, Wenxuan Wang, Youliang Yuan, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Michael Lyu. Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments. ICLR 2025. (pdf)[code]
  • Jiahui Li, Yongchang Hao, Haoyu Xu, Xing Wang*, Yu Hong. Exploiting the Index Gradients for Optimization-Based Jailbreaking on Large Language Models. COLING 2025. (pdf)[code]
  • Xiaolin Xing, Zhiwei He, Haoyu Xu, Xing Wang*, Rui Wang, Yu Hong. Evaluating Knowledge-based Cross-lingual Inconsistency in Large Language Models. arxiv 2024. (pdf)[code]
  • Xinming Hou, Mingming Yang, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang*, Zhaopeng Tu, Wayne Xin Zhao. CoAct: A Global-Local Hierarchy for Autonomous Agent Collaboration. arxiv 2024. (pdf)[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Binglin Zhou, Hongkun Hao, Aiwei Liu, Xing Wang*, Zhaopeng Tu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Rui Wang. Can Watermarks Survive Translation? On the Cross-lingual Consistency of Text Watermark for Large Language Models. ACL 2024. (pdf)[code]
  • Tian Liang, Zhiwei He, Jen-tse Huang, Wenxuan Wang, Wenxiang Jiao, Rui Wang, Yujiu Yang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Xing Wang*. Leveraging Word Guessing Games to Assess the Intelligence of Large Language Models. arxiv 2023. (pdf)[code]
  • Tian Liang, Zhiwei He, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang*, Yan Wang, Rui Wang, Yujiu Yang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi. Encouraging Divergent Thinking in Large Language Models through Multi-Agent Debate. EMNLP 2024. (pdf)[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Tian Liang, Wenxiang Jiao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Rui Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Xing Wang. Exploring Human-Like Translation Strategy with Large Language Models. Transaction of ACL 2024. (pdf)[code]{media coverage}
  • Wenxiang Jiao, Jen-tse Huang, Wenxuan Wang, Zhiwei He, Tian Liang, Xing Wang, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu. ParroT: Translating during Chat using Large Language Models tuned with Human Translation and Feedback. Findings of EMNLP 2023. (pdf)[code]
  • Wenxiang Jiao, Wenxuan Wang, Jen-tse Huang, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu. Is ChatGPT A Good Translator? A Preliminary Study. arxiv 2023. (pdf)[code]{media coverage}

Neural Machine Translation

  • Tian Liang, Xing Wang*, Mingming Yang, Yujiu Yang, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu. Addressing Entity Translation Problem via Translation Difficulty and Context Diversity. Findings of ACL 2024.[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Xing Wang*, Wenxiang Jiao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Rui Wang, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu. Improving Machine Translation with Human Feedback: An Exploration of Quality Estimation as a Reward Model. NAACL 2024. (pdf)[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Xing Wang, Rui Wang, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu. Bridging the Data Gap between Training and Inference for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2022. (pdf)[code]
  • Zhiwei He, Xing Wang*, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi and Rui Wang. Tencent AI Lab - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Low-Resource Translation System for the WMT22 Translation Task . WMT 2022. (pdf)[code]
  • Wenxuan Wang, Wenxiang Jiao, Yongchang Hao, Xing Wang, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu, Michael Lyu. Understanding and Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Pretraining for Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2022. (pdf)
  • Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Michael Lyu and Irwin King. Self-training Sampling with Monolingual Data Uncertainty for Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2021. (pdf)[code]
  • Yongchang Hao, Shilin He, Wenxiang Jiao, Zhaopeng Tu, Michael Lyu, Xing Wang. Multi-Task Learning with Shared Encoder for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation. NAACL 2021. (pdf)[code]
  • Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Shilin He, Irwin King, Michael Lyu and Zhaopeng Tu. Data Rejuvenation: Exploiting Inactive Training Examples for Neural Machine Translation. EMNLP 2020. (pdf)[code]
  • Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang. Translating Phrases in Neural Machine Translation. EMNLP 2017. (pdf)
  • Xing Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Zhaopeng Tu, Hang Li, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang. Neural Machine Translation Advised by Statistical Machine Translation. AAAI 2017. (pdf)

Multimodal (Speech/Sign) Language Translation

  • Jinhui Ye, Xing Wang, Wenxiang Jiao, Junwei Liang, Hui Xiong. Improving Gloss-free Sign Language Translation by Reducing Representation Density. NeurIPS 2024. (arxiv)[code]
  • Zhengsheng Guo, Zhiwei He, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Zhaopeng Tu, Yong Xu, Min Zhang. Unsupervised Sign Language Translation and Generation. Findings of ACL 2024. (arxiv)[code]
  • Yichao Du, Zhengsheng Guo, Jinchuan Tian, Zhirui Zhang, Xing Wang, Jianwei Yu, Zhaopeng Tu, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen. The MineTrans Systems for IWSLT 2023 Offline Speech Translation and Speech-to-Speech Translation Tasks. IWSLT 2023. (pdf)[code]
  • Jinhui Ye, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang*, Zhaopeng Tu, Hui Xiong. Cross-modality Data Augmentation for End-to-End Sign Language Translation. Findings of EMNLP 2023. (arxiv)[code]
  • Jinhui Ye, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang*, Zhaopeng Tu. Scaling Back-Translation with Domain Text Generation for Sign Language Gloss Translation. EACL 2023. (arxiv)[code]

Biomedical NLP

  • Jinghang Gu, Emmanuele Chersoni, Xing Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou. LitCovid ensemble learning for COVID-19 multi-label classification. Database 2022. (html)[code] [impact factor: 4.462]
  • Jinghang Gu, Rong Xiang, Xing Wang, Jing Li, Wenjie Li, Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou and Chu-Ren Huang. Multi-probe attention neural network for COVID-19 semantic indexing. BMC Bioinformatics 2022. (html)[code] [impact factor: 3.169]
  • Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu and Shuming Shi. Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for the WMT21 Biomedical Translation Task. WMT 2021. (pdf)
  • Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang and Shuming Shi. Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for the WMT20 Biomedical Translation Task. WMT 2020. (pdf)[code]

Talk

  • Invited Talk at School of Computer Science & Technology of Soochow University, 2022/09
  • Invited Talk at 2022 Tencent Academic and Industrial Conference, 2022/06

Shared Task

  • IWSLT 2023
    • Speech-to-Speech Translation: ranked No.1 for the end-to-end English to Chinese task. (project page)
  • WMT 2022
    • General Translation: ranked No.1 for the extremely low-resource task Livonian-English. (project page)
  • WMT 2021
    • Biomedical Translation: ranked No.1 for the German/French/Spanish-English tasks.
    • News Translation: ranked No.1 for the Chinese-English task, ranked No.2 for the German-English task.
  • WMT 2020
    • Biomedical Translation: ranked No.1 for the German-English task, ranked No.3 for the English-German task. (project page, system report)
    • News Translation: ranked No.2 for the Chinese-English task, ranked No.2 for the English-Chinese task. (system report)
    • Chats Translation: ranked No.2 for the German-English task. (system report)

Experience

Project

Research Intern (co-supervised)

  • Jie Hao (PhD student from Florida State University, 2018/07 - 2019/05)
  • Shilin He (PhD student from Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019/04 - 2019/06)
  • Wenxiang Jiao (PhD student from Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019/09 - 2021/08)
  • Yongchang Hao (Undergraduate student from Soochow University, 2020/02 - 2021/07)
  • Jiaqing Zhang (Master student from University of Florida, 2020/08 - 2021/08)
  • Zhiwei He (Undergraduate student from South China University of Technology, PhD student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021/03 - present)
  • Jinhui Ye (Undergraduate student from South China University of Technology, Master student from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), 2021/08 - 2022/09)
  • Tian Liang (Master student from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, 2022/03 - 2024/05) Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program 2022-2023
  • Zhengsheng Guo (Master student Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2022/03-2023/08)
  • Junjie Yu (PhD student from Soochow University, 2021/05 - 2024/06)
  • Xiaolin Xing (Master student from Soochow University, 2023/06 - 2024/06)
  • Haoyu Xu (Master student from Soochow University, 2023/06 - present)
  • Jiahui Li (Master student from Soochow University, 2023/06 - present)
  • Zicheng Lin (Master student from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, 2024/06 - present)

Professional Service

  • Area Chair: ACL(2024), EMNLP(2024), NAACL(2024), CCL(2024), ICLR(2025).
  • Conference PC Member or Reviewer: ACL, ACL ARR, NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI, COLING, CCL, NLPCC, CWMT.
  • Journal Reviewer: Artificial Intelligence, Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Neurocomputing, Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
*Last updated on 2025/01/24.