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26 Dec 2024: We’re Engaged!
I’m thrilled to share that I got engaged to Yue Zhang. This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter in our lives, and we couldn’t be happier. Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this journey—we look forward to the adventures ahead!

Sep 2024
Our team (I am the Team Leader) has been selected as one of the 10 teams for the Amazon Trusted AI Challenge.

July 2024
Received a 4,000 USD research award from OpenAI.

Feb 2024
I will be a Research Intern at Tencent AI Lab (Seattle) in May 2024

Feb 2024
Invited Reviewer for ACM MM 2024.

Jan 2024
Invited to serve on the review committee for the track LC10 - Information Extraction, Knowledge Extraction, and Text Mining at LREC-COLING 2024.

Jan 2024
Invited Reviewer for ICML 2024.

Nov 2023
FaithScore for LVLM hallucinations evaluation is out. Use our tool for any multimodal open-ended questions!

Sep 2023
Invited Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing and ICLR 2024.

Aug 2023
Invited Emergency Reviewer for EMNLP 2023.

March 2023
Invited Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023.

February 2023
Invited Reviewer for IEEE TCSVT.

January 2023
Invited Reviewer for ICML 2023.

January 2023
Invited Reviewer for IEEE TMM.

October 2022
Invited Reviewer for Information Sciences.

July 2022
Invited Reviewer for NeurIPS 2022 and ACM MM 2022.

April 2022
I win the ACM SIGIR 2022 Student Travel Grant.

August 2021
I will be as a Research Intern at Alibaba DAMO Academy in Aug. 2021, supervised by Zhongzhou Zhao

Liqiang Jing (CN: 井立强) 

Email:  jingliqiang6 AT gmail.com
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Liqiang Jing is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Dallas supervised by Prof. Xinya Du. He received the Master degree in the School of Computer Science and Technology from Shandong University in 2023 (advised by Prof. Xuemeng Song and Prof. Liqiang Nie) and the Bachelor degree in the School of Computer Science and Information from Hefei University of Technology in 2020. His research interests include multimodal learning and natural language processing. Now, he is very interested in Evaluation and Alignment for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs)/Large Language Models (LLMs), and LLMs/LVLMs as Agents for Real-world Tasks.

I am happy to chat and discuss potential collaborations. Please feel free to reach out to me via Email (jingliqiang6 AT gmail.com).
- If you are looking for research opportunities in Professor Du's Lab, please contact Professor Xinya Du.
- If you are a researcher and want to collaborate/talk with me, please contact me directly.

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Aug. 2023 - present
Advisor: Xinya Du
Shandong University
Master in Computer Technology, Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023
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Advisor: Xuemeng Song
Co-Advisor: Liqiang Nie
Hefei University of Technology
Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology, Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2020
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Experiences

Research Intern, Tencent America AI Lab, Bellevue, America, May. 2024 -- Aug 2024
Advisor: Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu
Research Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Hangzhou, China, May. 2022 -- Jan. 2023
Advisor: Zhongzhou Zhao
AIR (Alibaba Innovative Research) Project Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Hangzhou, China, Aug. 2021 -- Jan. 2022
Advisor: Zhongzhou Zhao

Papers


* indicates equal contribution. † indicates that I am a project leader or co-leader.

Preprints:


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FGAIF: Aligning Large Vision-Language Models with Fine-grained AI Feedback.
Liqiang Jing & Xinya Du
Arxiv   • Codes&Data   

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DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents to Becoming Data Science Experts?
Liqiang Jing, Zhehui Huang, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Hongming Zhang, Xinya Du & Dong Yu
Arxiv (HuggingFace #1 Paper of the day)   • Codes&Data   

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FIHA: Autonomous Hallucination Evaluation in Vision-Language Models with Davidson Scene Graphs.
Bowen Yan*, Zhengsong Zhang*, Liqiang Jing*, Eftekhar Hossain & Xinya Du
Arxiv   • Codes&Data   

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Learning to Generate Research Idea with Dynamic Control.
Ruochen Li, Liqiang Jing, Chi Han, Jiawei Zhou & Xinya Du
Arxiv   • Codes&Data   
In the Year of 2025:


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Defeasible Visual Entailment: Benchmark, Evaluator, and Reward-Driven Optimization.
Yue Zhang, Liqiang Jing & Vibhav Gogate
AAAI 2025   • Codes&Data   

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Fine-grained and Explanable Factuality Evaluation for Multimodal Summarization.
Yue Zhang, Jingxuan Zuo & Liqiang Jing
AAAI 2025   • Codes&Data   

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Sentiment-enhanced Graph-based Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogue.
Kun Ouyang, Liqiang Jing†, Xuemeng Song, Meng Liu, Yupeng Hu & Liqiang Nie
IEEE TMM   • Codes&Data   
In the Year of 2024:


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Debiasing Multimodal Sarcasm Detection with Contrastive Learning.
Mengzhao Jia, Can Xie & Liqiang Jing
AAAI 2024   • Codes&Data   

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Knowledge-enhanced Memory Model for Emotional Support Conversation.
Mengzhao Jia, Qianglong Chen, Liqiang Jing, Dawei Fu & Renyu Li
AAAI 2024   • Codes&Data   

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VK-G2T: Vision and Context Knowledge Enhanced Gloss2Text.
Liqiang Jing, Xuemeng Song, Xinxing Zu, Na Zheng, Zhongzhou Zhao & Liqiang Nie
ICASSP 2024   • Codes&Data   

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A Unified Hallucination Mitigation Framework for Large Vision-Language Models.
Yue Chang*, Liqiang Jing*, Xiaopeng Zhang* & Yue Zhang
TMLR   • Codes&Data   

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FaithScore: Fine-grained Evaluations of Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models.
Liqiang Jing, Ruosen Li, Yunmo Chen & Xinya Du
EMNLP 2024   • Codes&Data   
In the Year of 2023:


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Vision Enhanced Generative Pre-trained Language Model for Multimodal Sentence Summarization.
Liqiang Jing, Yiren Li, Junhao Xu, Yongcan Yu, Pei Shen & Xuemeng Song
Machine Intelligence Research   • Codes&Data   

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Mutual-enhanced Incongruity Learning Network for Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection.
Yang Qiao, Liqiang Jing†, Xuemeng Song, Xiaolin Chen, Lei Zhu & Liqiang Nie
AAAI 2023 (Oral)   • Codes&Data   

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Adapting Generative Pretrained Language Model for Open-domain Multimodal Sentence Summarization.
Dengtian Lin, Liqiang Jing†, Xuemeng Song, Meng Liu, Teng Sun & Liqiang Nie
ACM SIGIR 2023 (Oral)   • Codes&Data   

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Dual Consistency-enhanced Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis towards COVID-19 Tweets.
Teng Sun, Liqiang Jing, Yinwei Wei, Xuemeng Song, Zhiyong Cheng & Liqiang Nie
IEEE TKDE   • Codes&Data   

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Multi-source Semantic Graph-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generation.
Liqiang Jing, Xuemeng Song, Kun Ouyang, Mengzhao Jia & Liqiang Nie
ACL 2023   • Codes&Data   

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Stylized Data-to-Text Generation: A Case Study in the E-Commerce Domain.
Liqiang Jing, Xuemeng Song, Xuming Lin, Zhongzhou Zhao, Wei Zhou & Liqiang Nie
ACM TOIS   • Codes&Data   

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Multimodal Dialog Systems with Dual Knowledge-enhanced Generative Pretrained Language Model.
Xiaolin Chen, Xuemeng Song, Liqiang Jing, Shuo Li, Linmei Hu & Liqiang Nie
ACM TOIS   • Codes&Data   

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General Debiasing for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis.
Teng Sun, Juntong Ni, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Jing, Yinwei Wei & Liqiang Nie
ACM MM 2023   • Codes&Data   
In the Year of 2022:


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V2P: Vision-to-Prompt based Multi-Modal Product Summary Generation.
Xuemeng Song, Liqiang Jing, Dengtian Lin, Zhongzhou Zhao, Haiqing Chen & Liqiang Nie
ACM SIGIR 2022 (Oral)   • Codes&Data   

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Counterfactual Reasoning for Out-of-distribution Multimodal Sentiment Analysis.
Teng Sun, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Jing, Yiran Cui, Xuemeng Song & Liqiang Nie
ACM MM 2022 (Award Recommendation, Oral)   • Codes&Data   

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CI-OCM: Counterfactural Inference towards Unbiased Outfit Compatibility Modeling.
Liqiang Jing, Minghui Tian, Xiaolin Chen, Teng Sun, Weili Guan & Xuemeng Song
ACM MM 2022   • Codes&Data   

Talks

Evaluating Hallucination in LVLMs on AGI Super Summit hosted by SuperAGI. Feb, 2024.   
Slides
ACM MM 2022 Oral on Counterfactual Reasoning for Out-of-distribution Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Oct, 2022.   
Slides
ACM MCFR 2022 on CI-OCM: Counterfactual Inference towards Unbiased Outfit Compatibility Modeling. Oct, 2022.   
Slides
ACM SIGIR 2022 Oral on V2P: Vision-to-Prompt based Multi-Modal Product Summary Generation. Jul, 2022.   
Slides

Patent

Text generation methods and devices (applying) CN202211048016.0   
Text generation methods and devices (applying) CN202211158537.1   
A knowledge-guided multi-source information fusion method for predicting blast furnace gas (applying) CN202210606561.0   
Adaptive deployment methods, systems, devices and storage media of transmission inspection terminals CN202211146873.4   

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2024, CS 4375 Introduction to Machine Learning, University of Texas at Dallas

Fall 2023, CS 6320 Natural Language Processing, University of Texas at Dallas

Spring 2021, Machine Learning, Shandong University

Professional Services

Invited Reviewer for Conferences:
    2022: ACM MM Workshop, NeurIPS;
    2023: ICML, NeurIPS, EMNLP;
    2024: ICLR, ICML, LREC, COLING, ACM MM.
Invited Reviewer for Journals:
     Information Sciences, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TASLP, Neurocomputing.

Honors

Researcher Access Program Award, OpenAI, 2024

Outstanding Graduate Student, Shandong University, 2022

ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2022

Excellent Graduate, Hefei University of Technology, 2020

National Encouragement Scholarship, 2017, 2018, 2019

First Class Scholarship, Hefei University of Technology, 2018, 2019



Last Update, Oct 2024.