‘*’ = equal contribution; ‘#’ = student/intern collaborator.
Senior Area Chair: EMNLP’25, ACL Rolling Review.
Area Chair: ACL Rolling Review.
Reviewer/PC Member: ACL, EMNLP (outstanding ‘21), NAACL-HLT, EACL, COLING, ICLR, CVPR, ACL Rolling Review, ACM TALLIP, TACL, IEEE T-PAMI.
2025
GLOV: Guided Large Language Models as Implicit Optimizers for Vision Language Models.
TMLR 2025
Jehanzeb Mirza#, Mengjie Zhao, Zhuoyuan Mao, Sivan Doveh, Wei Lin, Paul Gavrikov, Michael Dorkenwald, Shiqi Yang, Saurav Jha, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Horst Possegger, Rogerio Feris, Leonid Karlinsky, James Glass
Mining Your Own Secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores For Continual Personalization Of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models.
ICLR 2025
Saurav Jha, Shiqi Yang, Masato Ishii, Mengjie Zhao, Christian Simon, Jehanzeb Mirza, Dong Gong, Lina Yao, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
Vinabench: Benchmark for faithful and consistent visual narratives.
CVPR 2025
Silin Gao, Sheryl Mathew, Li Mi, Sepideh Mamooler, Mengjie Zhao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Syrielle Montariol, Antoine Bosselut
OKG: On-the-Fly Keyword Generation in Sponsored Search Advertising.
COLING 2025 Industry Track
Zhao Wang, Briti Gangopadhyay, Mengjie Zhao, Shingo Takamatsu
Cross-Modal Learning for Music-to-Music-Video Description Generation.
RepL4NLP-2025
Zhuoyuan Mao, Mengjie Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Zhi Zhong, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji
Deepresonance: Enhancing multimodal music understanding via music-centric multi-way instruction tuning.
Preprint 2025
Zhuoyuan Mao, Mengjie Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji
2024
OpenMU: Your Swiss Army Knife for Music Understanding.
Preprint 2024
Mengjie Zhao, Zhi Zhong, Zhuoyuan Mao, Shiqi Yang, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Shusuke Takahashi, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji
Visual Echoes: A Simple Unified Transformer for Audio-Visual Generation.
Preprint 2024
Shiqi Yang, Zhi Zhong, Mengjie Zhao, Shusuke Takahashi, Masato Ishii, Takashi Shibuya, Yuki Mitsufuji.
On the Language Encoder of Contrastive Cross-modal Models.
In ACL 2024 (Findings)
Mengjie Zhao, Junya Ono, Zhi Zhong, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Takashi Shibuya, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji
Few-shot Dialogue Strategy Learning for Motivational Interviewing via Inductive Reasoning.
In ACL 2024 (Findings)
Zhouhang Xie, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Mengjie Zhao, Yoshinori Maeda, Keiichi Yamada, Hiromi Wakaki, Julian McAuley
DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion.
In ACL 2024
Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Mengjie Zhao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Antoine Bosselut
Unveiling Code Pre-Trained Models: Investigating Syntax and Semantics Capacities.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Wei Ma, Shangqing Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Xiaofei Xie, Wenhan Wang, Qiang Hu, Jie Zhang, Yang Liu
2023
Towards reporting bias in visual-language datasets: bimodal augmentation by decoupling object-attribute association.
Preprint 2023
Qiyu Wu#, Mengjie Zhao, Yutong He, Lang Huang, Junya Ono, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji
2022
LMTurk: Few-Shot Learners as Crowdsourcing Workers.
In NAACL 2022 (Findings)
Mengjie Zhao, Fei Mi, Yasheng Wang, Minglei Li, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Hinrich Schütze
Modular and Parameter-Efficient Multimodal Fusion with Prompting.
In ACL 2022 (Findings)
Sheng Liang, Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze
Using Lexical and Semantic Program Features to form Generic Code Representation.
In IEEE/ACM MSR 2022
Wei Ma*, Mengjie Zhao*, Ezekiel Soremekun, Qiang Hu, Jie Zhang, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Yves Le Traon
2021
Discrete and Soft Prompting for Multilingual Models.
In EMNLP 2021
Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze
A Closer Look at Few-Shot Crosslingual Transfer: The Choice of Shots Matters.
In ACL 2021
Mengjie Zhao*, Yi Zhu*, Ehsan Shareghi, Ivan Vulić, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen, Hinrich Schütze
2020
Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models.
In EMNLP 2020
Mengjie Zhao*, Tao Lin*, Fei Mi, Martin Jaggi, Hinrich Schütze
Quantifying the Contextualization of Word Representations with Semantic Class Probing.
In EMNLP 2020 (Findings)
Mengjie Zhao, Philipp Dufter, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Hinrich Schütze
Continual Learning for Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialog Systems.
In EMNLP 2020 (Findings)
Fei Mi, Liangwei Chen, Mengjie Zhao, Minlie Huang, Boi Faltings
Multilingual Embeddings Jointly Induced from Contexts and Concepts: Simple, Strong and Scalable.
In Preprint 2020.
Philipp Dufter, Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze
2019
A Multilingual BPE Embedding Space for Universal Sentiment Lexicon Induction.
In ACL 2019
Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze
2018
Embedding Learning Through Multilingual Concept Induction.
In ACL 2018
Philipp Dufter, Mengjie Zhao, Martin Schmitt, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze