Tianci Xue (薛天赐)

Tianci Xue (薛天赐)

Hi, nice to e-meet you! I am an incoming PhD student at OSU under the supervision of Prof. Huan Sun. I obtain my master’s degree from Nanjing University. Previous, I am also a research intern at Blender NLP, UIUC, working with Prof. Heng Ji.

My research interests mainly include Alignment and Reasoning.

🔥 News

  • 2024.5: 🎉 Our paper “PACIT: Unlocking the Power of Examples for Better In-Context Instruction Tuning” is accepted by ACL 2024 Findings
  • 2024.4: 🎉 Joining the OSU NLP Group!
  • 2023.10: 🎉 Check out our three new papers

📝 Publications

ACL
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PACIT: Unlocking the Power of Examples for Better In-Context Instruction Tuning
Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Yixia Li, Yun Chen, Guanhua Chen

  • PACIT: a simple and effective in-context instruction tuning method, first verifies the provided example’s correctness, then uses this to generate a better response.
arXiv preprint
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Parameter-Efficient Tuning Helps Language Model Alignment
Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Heng Ji

  • MEET, a novel approach that incorporates parameter-efficient tuning to better optimize control tokens, thus benefitting controllable generation.
arXiv preprint
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RCOT: Detecting and Rectifying Factual Inconsistency in Reasoning by Reversing Chain-of-Thought
Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Heng Ji

  • RCoT, a novel method to improve LLMs’ reasoning abilities by automatically detecting and rectifying factual inconsistency in LLMs’ generated solutions.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 26/2654, Top 1%, in Kaggle Feedback Prize - English Language Learning 2022.12
  • The Second Prize, Top 2%, in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2021.11
  • The Second Prize, Top 5% in The National University Students Intelligent Car Race 2021.7
  • The Third Prize in Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition 2021.6
  • The First Prize Scholarship of Hubei University of Technology 2022
  • Outstanding Graduates of the School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology 2022

📖 Educations

  • 2024.09 - Present, Ph.D., The Ohio State University(OSU).
  • 2022.09 - 2024.06, Master, Nanjing University. Rank: 29/231
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Hubei University of Technology. Rank: 1/178

📌 Service

  • Review Assistant: Neurips 2023

💻 Internships

  • 2023.03 - Present, Intern at BLENDER NLP, UIUC.
  • 2023.07 - Present, Research Assistant at SUSTECH.