Weixiang Zhao 赵伟翔

Hi, I’m a Ph.D. student in Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval (SCIR), at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT, China). My advisor is Prof. Yanyan Zhao and Prof. Bing Qin. My research interests include emotional dialogue systems, textual sentiment analysis and natural language processing.

Education

• Sept 2021 - Jul 2026 (Expected). Ph.D student in SCIR, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. Advisor: Prof. Yanyan Zhao and Prof. Bing Qin.
• Sept 2017 - Jul 2021. B.Sc. in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University.

Main Publications

1. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, Bing Qin. Don’t Lose Yourself! Empathetic Response Generation via Explicit Self-Other Awareness. ACL 2023 (Findings). [paper] [repo]
2. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Shilong Wang, Bing Qin. TransESC: Smoothing Emotional Support Conversation via Turn-Level State Transition. ACL 2023 (Findings). [paper] [repo]
3. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Zhuojun Li, Bing Qin. Knowledge-Bridged Causal Interaction Network for Causal Emotion Entailment. AAAI 2023. [paper] [repo]
4. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, Bing Qin. CauAIN: Causal Aware Interaction Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversations. IJCAI 2022. [paper] [repo]
5. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin. MuCDN: Mutual Conversational Detachment Network for Emotion Recognition in Multi-Party Conversations. COLING 2022. [paper] [repo]
6. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, Bing Qin. An Aspect-Centralized Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Classification. NLPCC 2021. [paper] [repo]
7. Xin Lu, Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Zhentao Zhang, Junjie Wen. A Topic-Enhanced Approach for Emotion Distribution Forecasting in Conversations. ICASSP 2023. [paper] [repo]
8. Wenjia Yi, Yanyan Zhao, Jianhua Yuan, Weixiang Zhao, Bing Qin Improving Affective Event Classification with Multi-Perspective Knowledge Injection. CCL 2023. [paper]
9. Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, Weixiang Zhao, Yijian Tian, Bing Qin. Review of Emotional Dialogue Techniques. Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software 2022 (in Chinese). [paper]

Preprints

1. Weixiang Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yulin Hu, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Xuanyu Zhang, Qing Yang, Dongliang Xu, Wanxiang Che. SAPT: A Shared Attention Framework for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language Models. arXiv:2401.08295. [paper]
2. Weixiang Zhao, Zhuojun Li, Shilong Wang, Yang Wang, Yulin Hu, Yanyan Zhao, Chen Wei, Bing Qin. Both Matter: Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models without Compromising the General Intelligence. arXiv:2402.10073. [paper]
3. Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu, Shilong Wang, Yanpeng Tong, Bing Qin. Is ChatGPT Equipped with Emotional Dialogue Capabilities? arXiv:2304.09582. [paper]

Experiences

• Nov 2020 - Mar 2021. Intern. Data, E-Commerce, ByteDance, Beijing, China.
• Jan 2020 - Feb 2020. Research Intern. Peer Logic Lab, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, The U.S.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Student Paper, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2022
• Second-Class Fresh-PhD Fellowship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2021
• Excellent Thesis, Northeastern University, 2021
• National Scholarship, 2018&2019