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This is Jiateng Liu (刘嘉腾). I'm currently a second year MS student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) instructed by Prof. Heng Ji. Before that, I got my bachelor degree in computer science from Zhejiang University.

I am deeply interested in Natural Language Processing and its applications, with a particular focus on the alignment between language and other modalities such as video, audio, and multi-sensory inputs. I believe that language will not only play a central role in the high-level control processes executed by humans, but also as a supervisory signal for extracting features from other modalities to achieve more effective modality fusion. Previously, I have conducted research on knowledgeable Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring that current LLMs are safe enough for storing and modifying knowledge to serve as a robust backbone for related applications. I am also deeply concerned about the social impact of language technologies; I have worked on detecting and explaining propaganda from social media platforms to aviod our people being misled by disinformation.

I'm looking for a Ph.D position in 2025 Fall!

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Publications

A Language First Approach for Procedure Planning [Paper] [Code]
Accepted as a Findings paper on ACL23
Jiateng Liu*, Sha Li*, Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Heng Ji

MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback [Paper] [Code]
Xingyao Wang, Zihan Wang, Jiateng Liu, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Hao Peng, Heng Ji

If LLM Is the Wizard, Then Code Is the Wand: A Survey on How Code Empowers Large Language Models to Serve as Intelligent Agents [Paper]
Ke Yang*, Jiateng Liu*, John Wu, Chaoqi Yang, Yi R. Fung, Sha Li, Zixuan Huang, Xu Cao, Xingyao Wang, Yiquan Wang, Heng Ji, Chengxiang Zhai

CurveCloudNet: Processing Point Clouds with 1D Structure [Paper]
Colton Stearns, Jiateng Liu, Davis Rempe, Despoina Paschalidou, Jeong Joon Park, Sebastien Mascha, Leonidas J. Guibas

EVEDIT: Event-based Knowledge Editing for Deterministic Knowledge Propagation [Paper]
Jiateng Liu , Pengfei Yu, Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Zixuan Zhang, Ruhi Sarikaya, Kevin Small, Heng Ji

Knowledge overshadowing causes amalgamated hallucination in large language models [Paper]
Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Jiateng Liu, Pengfei Yu, Yi R Fung, Jing Li, Manling Li, Heng Ji

PropaInsight: Toward Deeper Understanding of Propaganda in Terms of Techniques, Appeals, and Intent [Paper]
Jiateng Liu, Lin Ai, Zizhou Liu, Payam Karisani, Zheng Hui, May Fung, Preslav Nakov, Julia Hirschberg, Heng Ji

Research Intern experience

Nov 2022 - March 2023 [Stanford University]

  • Research Intern.
  • Mentor: Prof. Leonidas Guibas, Prof. Yanchao Yang, Colton Stearns
  • Focus: 3D reconstruction with curve data

June 2022 - Dec 2022 [University of Illinois Urbana Champaign]

  • Research Intern.
  • Mentor: Prof. Heng Ji, Sha Li, Manling Li
  • Focus: Language side approaches for Procedure Planning

June 2022 - Dec 2022 [Zhejiang University]

  • Research Intern.
  • Mentor: Prof. Mingli Song, Prof. Zunlei Feng, Ya Zhao
  • Focus: Make Transformers efficient

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021 [Zhejiang University]

  • Research Intern.
  • Mentor: Prof. Zicheng Liu, Prof. Mingli Song
  • Focus: 3D Human mesh reconstruction

Assistanship

2023.8 - 2023.12
Teaching assistant for CS440 at UIUC.

2023.12 - now
Research assistant of Prof. Heng Ji.