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2025
[02 April 2025] PhD Thesis, University of Auckland (Qiming Bao) "Developing And Assessing Language Models For Logical Reasoning Over Natural Language" has been archived by University of Auckland Library [Thesis link].
[01 March 2025] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Timothy Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu) "Exploring Iterative Enhancement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models" has been accepted by AAAI/EAAI-25 [Paper link] [Source code].
2024
[22 August 2024] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Gaël Gendron, Alex Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Neset Tan, Yang Chen, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"Assessing and Enhancing the Robustness of Large Language Models with Task Structure Variations for Logical Reasoning" has been accepted by ICONIP-24 [Paper link] [Source code].
[16 May 2024] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Alex Peng, Zhenyun Deng, Wanjun Zhong, Gaël Gendron, Timothy Pistotti, Neşet Tan, Nathan Young, Yang Chen, Yonghua Zhu, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"Abstract Meaning Representation-Based Logic-Driven Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning" has been accepted by ACL Findings 2024 [#1 on the ReClor Leaderboard] [Paper link] [Source code].
[17 April 2024] Our paper (Gaël Gendron, Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock, Gillian Dobbie)
"Large Language Models Are Not Strong Abstract Reasoners" has been accepted by IJCAI 2024 [Paper link] [Source code and evaluation platform].
[15 March 2024] Our paper (Qianqian Qi, Qiming Bao*, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Jiamou Liu and Michael Witbrock)
"Enhancing Data Augmentation with Knowledge-Enriched Data Generation via Dynamic Prompt-Tuning Method" has been accepted by IJCNN 2024.
[15 March 2024] Our paper (Zhongsheng Wang, Jiamou Liu, Qiming Bao, Hongfei Rong, Jingfeng Zhang)
"ChatLogic: Integrating Logic Programming with Large Language Models for Multi-Step Reasoning" has been accepted by IJCNN 2024.
[05 March 2024] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Timothy Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu) "Exploring Iterative Enhancement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models" has been accepted by AGI@ICLR 2024 [Paper link] [Source code].
[05 March 2024] Our paper (Gaël Gendron, Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock, Gillian Dobbie)
"Large Language Models Are Not Strong Abstract Reasoners Yet" has been accepted by AGI@ICLR 2024 [Paper link] [Source code and evaluation platform].
[01 February 2024] Our paper (Zhongsheng Wang, Jiamou Liu, Qiming Bao, Hongfei Rong, Jingfeng Zhang)
"ChatLogic: Integrating Logic Programming with Large Language Models for Multi-step Reasoning" has been accepted by NucLeaR@AAAI 2024 [Paper link] [Source code].
2023
[20 September 2023] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Tim Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"Exploring Self-Reinforcement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models" [Paper link] [Source code].
[24 June 2023] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Gaël Gendron, Alex Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Neset Tan, Yang Chen, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"A Systematic Evaluation of Large Language Models on Out-of-Distribution Logical Reasoning Tasks" has been accepted by LLM@IJCAI'23 [Paper link] [Source code].
[24 June 2023] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Alex Peng, Zhenyun Deng, Wanjun Zhong, Gaël Gendron, Timothy Pistotti, Neşet Tan, Nathan Young, Yang Chen, Yonghua Zhu, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"Enhancing Logical Reasoning of Large Language Models through Logic-Driven Data Augmentation" has been accepted by LLM@IJCAI'23 [#1 on the ReClor Leaderboard] [Paper link] [Source code].
[10 April 2023] Our paper (Qianqian Qi, Qiming Bao*, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Jiamou Liu and Michael Witbrock)
"A Dynamic Prompt-tuning Method for Data Augmentation with Associated Knowledge" has been accepted by ICLR TinyPapers 2023 [Paper link].
[23 January 2023] Our paper (Neset Ozkan TAN, Trung Nguyen, Josh Bensemann, Alex Peng, Qiming Bao, Yang Chen, Mark Gahegan and Michael Witcbrock)
"Multi2Claim: Generating Scientific Claims from Multi-Choice Questions for Scientific Fact-Checking" has been accepted by EACL 2023 [Paper link].
[11 December 2022] Our paper (Neset Tan, Alex Peng, Joshua Bensemann, Qiming Bao, Tim Hartill, Mark Gahegan, and Michael Witbrock)
"Input-length-shortening and text generation via attention values" has been accepted by AAAI-EMC^2 2023 [Paper link].
2022
[19 December 2022] MSRA Invited Talk on Study Group on Reasoning, Knowledge, and Causality: Natural Language Processing and Reasoning
(Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock, Jiamou Liu)
Microsoft Research Asia Invited Talk 2022 [Invitation Letter] [Presentation Slide] [Recording]
[11 October 2022] Invited Talk: Multi-Step Deductive Reasoning Over Natural Language: An Empirical Study on Out-of-Distribution Generalisation (Qiming Bao, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Tim Hartill, Neşet Özkan Tan, Zhenyun Deng, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
Samsung AI Center Cambridge UK Invited Talk 2022 [Invitation Letter] [Presentation slide] [Recording]
[30 August 2022] Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing and Reasoning (Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) New Zealand North Chapter and IEEE New Zealand North Section SIGHT Group 2022 [Invitation Letter] [Presentation slide] [Recording]
[16 July 2022] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Alex Peng, Tim Hartill, Neset Tan, Zhenyun Deng, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu)
"Multi-Step Deductive Reasoning Over Natural Language: An Empirical Study on Out-of-Distribution Generalisation" has been accepted for presentation to the 2nd International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning and 16th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (IJCLR-NeSy 2022) [Paper link] [Source code and dataset] [Presentation recording].
[24 Feb 2022] Our paper (Nathan Young, Qiming Bao, Joshua Ljudo Bensemann and Michael J. Witbrock) "AbductionRules: Training Transformers to Explain Unexpected Inputs" has been accepted at the Findings of 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-22) [Paper link] [Source code and dataset].
2021
[13 Nov 2021] Our paper (Lin Ni, Qiming Bao, Xiaoxuan Li, Qianqian Qi, Paul Denny, Jim Warren, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu) "DeepQR: Neural-based Quality Ratings for Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Questions" has been accepted at Twelfth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AAAI/EAAI-22) [Paper link].
[15 July 2021] Our paper (Joshua Bensemann, Qiming Bao, Gaël Gendron, Tim Hartill and Michael Witbrock) "Relating Blindsight and AI: A Review" has been accepted at Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness [Paper link].
[20 January 2021] Our poster (Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu) "From Symbolic Logic Reasoning to Soft Reasoning: A Neural-Symbolic Paradigm" has been accepted at New Zealand Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Research (NZAIR 2021) [Poster link] [Source code].
2020
[04 Feb 2020] Our paper (Qiming Bao, Lin Ni and Jiamou Liu) "HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention" has been accepted at Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2020) [Paper link] [Source code] [Presentation slide] [Recording].
