Haiqin Yang | 杨海钦

About

I am a full professor at Shenzhen Technology University, with research interests in

Large Language Models (LLMs)/GenAI Basics: New architecture exploration, modular efficiency, agentic AI, AI safety, etc.; and
GenAI + X: Data analytics, affective computing, and education, etc.

Before that, he worked in R&D at IDEA, Ping An Life, etc. He has also served as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and as an assistant professor in the Department of Computing, where he was the deputy director of the Deep Learning Research and Application Centre at Hang Seng Management selected. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, under the supervision of Prof. Irwin King and Prof. Michael R. Lyu.

He received the 2018 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) Young Researcher Award and was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the Most Influential Scholar Award for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI several times. His publications are in Google Scholar or DBLP.

His team is recruiting Research Assistants, Ph.D. candidates, and Postdoctoral researchers. If you are interested in joining, please email him an email: haiqin[dot]yang[at]gmail[dot]com or yanghaiqin[at]sztu[dot]edu[dot]cn.

News

Jan 11, 2026	Glad to serve different roles for ACL ARR’26, ICML’26, IJCAI’26, UAI’26.
Jan 08, 2026	Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLP was both accepted by ECAL 2025 (main conference). Congratulations to my collaborators!”
Aug 28, 2025	Glad to be invited to serve as an Area Chair for ICLR’26
Aug 22, 2025	Intrinsic Evaluation of Unlearning Using Parametric Knowledge Traces and Let‘s Play Across Cultures: A Large Multilingual, Multicultural Benchmark for Assessing Language Models’ Understanding of Sports were both accepted by EMNLP 2025 (main conference). Congratulations to my collaborators!”
Jul 15, 2025	Glad to start serving as Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR)

Selected Publications

EMNLP

Let’s Play Across Cultures: A Large Multilingual, Multicultural Benchmark for Assessing Language Models’ Understanding of Sports

Kumar Singh, Nishant Kumar, Akash Ghosh, and 9 more authors

In EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, Nov. 4 - Nov. 9, 2025, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/EMNLP/Sports,
  author = {unit Kumar Singh and Kumar, Nishant and Ghosh, Akash and Pasad, Kunal and Soni, Khushi and Jaishwal, Manisha and Saha, Sriparna and Alfarozi, Syukron Abu Ishaq and Abagissa, Asres Temam and Pasupa, Kitsuchart and Yang, Haiqin and Moreno, Jos{\'{e}} G.},
  editor = {},
  title = {Let's Play Across Cultures: {A} Large Multilingual, Multicultural
                    Benchmark for Assessing Language Models' Understanding of Sports},
  booktitle = {{EMNLP} 2025, Suzhou, China, Nov. 4 - Nov. 9, 2025},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {},
  year = {2025},
}

EMNLP

Intrinsic Evaluation of Unlearning Using Parametric Knowledge Traces

Yihuai Hong, Lei Yu, Haiqin Yang, and 2 more authors

In EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, Nov. 4 - Nov. 9, 2025, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/EMNLP/Unlearning,
  author = {Hong, Yihuai and Yu, Lei and Yang, Haiqin and Ravfogel, Shauli and Geva, Mor},
  editor = {},
  title = {Intrinsic Evaluation of Unlearning Using Parametric Knowledge Traces},
  booktitle = {{EMNLP} 2025, Suzhou, China, Nov. 4 - Nov. 9, 2025},
  pages = {},
  publisher = {},
  year = {2025},
}

ACL

PARSQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL through SQL Parsing and Reasoning

Yaxun Dai, Haiqin Yang, Hao Mou, and 1 more author

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1, 2025, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/acl/DaiYMC25,
  author = {Dai, Yaxun and Yang, Haiqin and Mou, Hao and Chao, Pingfu},
  editor = {Che, Wanxiang and Nabende, Joyce and Shutova, Ekaterina and Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher},
  title = {{PARSQL:} Enhancing Text-to-SQL through {SQL} Parsing and Reasoning},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, {ACL} 2025,
                    Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1, 2025},
  pages = {661--681},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.37/},
  timestamp = {Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:13:54 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/acl/DaiYMC25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

NAACL

Task-wrapped Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Min Zeng, Haiqin Yang, Xi Chen, and 1 more author

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29 - May 4, 2025, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/naacl/ZengYCG25,
  author = {Zeng, Min and Yang, Haiqin and Chen, Xi and Guo, Yike},
  editor = {Chiruzzo, Luis and Ritter, Alan and Wang, Lu},
  title = {Task-wrapped Continual Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {NAACL}
                    2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29 - May 4, 2025},
  pages = {3173--3183},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.174},
  doi = {10.18653/V1/2025.FINDINGS-NAACL.174},
  timestamp = {Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:29:01 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/naacl/ZengYCG25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

IEEE TKDE

Natural Language Interfaces for Tabular Data Querying and Visualization: A Survey

Weixu Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yuanfeng Song, and 6 more authors

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2024

DOI Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/tkde/ZhangWSWTQCWY24,
  author = {Zhang, Weixu and Wang, Yifei and Song, Yuanfeng and Wei, Victor Junqiu and Tian, Yuxing and Qi, Yiyan and Chan, Jonathan H. and Wong, Raymond Chi{-}Wing and Yang, Haiqin},
  title = {Natural Language Interfaces for Tabular Data Querying and Visualization:
                    {A} Survey},
  journal = {{IEEE} Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.},
  volume = {36},
  number = {11},
  pages = {6699--6718},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2024.3400824},
  doi = {10.1109/TKDE.2024.3400824},
  timestamp = {Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:09:14 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/tkde/ZhangWSWTQCWY24.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

EMNLP

Dissecting Fine-Tuning Unlearning in Large Language Models

Yihuai Hong, Yuelin Zou, Lijie Hu, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024, Miami, FL, USA, November 12-16, 2024, 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/emnlp/HongZHZ0Y24,
  author = {Hong, Yihuai and Zou, Yuelin and Hu, Lijie and Zeng, Ziqian and Wang, Di and Yang, Haiqin},
  editor = {Al{-}Onaizan, Yaser and Bansal, Mohit and Chen, Yun{-}Nung},
  title = {Dissecting Fine-Tuning Unlearning in Large Language Models},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
                    Language Processing, {EMNLP} 2024, Miami, FL, USA, November 12-16,
                    2024},
  pages = {3933--3941},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.228},
  doi = {10.18653/V1/2024.EMNLP-MAIN.228},
  timestamp = {Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:06:13 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/emnlp/HongZHZ0Y24.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

ACL

A Unified One-Step Solution for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

Junxian Zhou, Haiqin Yang, Yuxuan He, and 2 more authors

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/acl/ZhouYHMY23,
  author = {Zhou, Junxian and Yang, Haiqin and He, Yuxuan and Mou, Hao and Yang, Junbo},
  editor = {Rogers, Anna and Boyd{-}Graber, Jordan L. and Okazaki, Naoaki},
  title = {A Unified One-Step Solution for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {ACL} 2023,
                    Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023},
  pages = {12249--12265},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.777},
  doi = {10.18653/V1/2023.FINDINGS-ACL.777},
  timestamp = {Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:56:50 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/acl/ZhouYHMY23.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

IJCAI

Progressive Open-Domain Response Generation with Multiple Controllable Attributes

Haiqin Yang, Xiaoyuan Yao, Yiqun Duan, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021, Virtual Event / Montreal, Canada, 19-27 August 2021, 2021

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/YangYDSZZ21,
  author = {Yang, Haiqin and Yao, Xiaoyuan and Duan, Yiqun and Shen, Jianping and Zhong, Jie and Zhang, Kun},
  editor = {Zhou, Zhi{-}Hua},
  title = {Progressive Open-Domain Response Generation with Multiple Controllable
                    Attributes},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial
                    Intelligence, {IJCAI} 2021, Virtual Event / Montreal, Canada, 19-27
                    August 2021},
  pages = {3279--3285},
  publisher = {ijcai.org},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/451},
  doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2021/451},
  timestamp = {Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:43:28 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ijcai/YangYDSZZ21.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

IEEE TNNLS

Effective Data-Aware Covariance Estimator From Compressed Data

Xixian Chen, Haiqin Yang, Shenglin Zhao, and 2 more authors

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., 2020

DOI Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/tnn/ChenYZLK20,
  author = {Chen, Xixian and Yang, Haiqin and Zhao, Shenglin and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin},
  title = {Effective Data-Aware Covariance Estimator From Compressed Data},
  journal = {{IEEE} Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.},
  volume = {31},
  number = {7},
  pages = {2441--2454},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2929106},
  doi = {10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2929106},
  timestamp = {Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:05:03 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/tnn/ChenYZLK20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}