Naihao Deng | University of Michigan

Naihao(Neo) Deng

PhD student
Computer Science of Engineering
University of Michigan
dnaihao@umich.edu

(* indicates equal contribution)

Papers

TRL@ACL 2025	Table as Thought: Exploring Structured Thoughts in LLM Reasoning Zhenjie Sun, Naihao Deng, Haofei Yu, Jiaxuan You [arXiv]
TRL@ACL 2025	"This is My SQL, Are You With Me?" A Consensus-Based Multi-Agent System for Text-to-SQL Tasks Hanchen Xia, Feng Jiang, Naihao Deng, Cunxiang Wang, Guojiang Zhao, Rada Mihalcea, Yue Zhang [arXiv]
ACL 2025 Findings TRL@ACL 2025	Rethinking Table Instruction Tuning Naihao Deng, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv] [Data] [Code] [Model] [Project Page]
ACL 2025 Findings	Chumor 2.0: Towards Better Benchmarking Chinese Humor Understanding from 弱智吧 (Ruo Zhi Ba) Ruiqi He, Yushu He, Longju Bai, Jiarui Liu, Zhenjie Sun, Zenghao Tang, He Wang, Hanchen Xia, Rada Mihalcea, Naihao Deng [arXiv] [Data] [Code] [Leaderboard] [Project Page]
ACL 2025 Findings	CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation Naihao Deng, Kapotaksha Das, Rada Mihalcea, Vitaliy Popov, Mohamed Abouelenien [arXiv] [Code]
	Chumor 1.0: A Truly Funny and Challenging Chinese Humor Understanding Dataset from Ruo Zhi Ba Ruiqi He, Yushu He, Longju Bai, Jiarui Liu, Zhenjie Sun, Zenghao Tang, He Wang, Hanchen Xia, Naihao Deng [arXiv] [Data]
ACL 2024 Findings	Tables as Texts or Images: Evaluating the Table Reasoning Ability of LLMs and MLLMs Naihao Deng, Zhenjie Sun, Ruiqi He, Aman Sikka, Yulong Chen, Lin Ma, Yue Zhang, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv] [Data]
LREC-COLING 2024	Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, ..., Naihao Deng et al. [arXiv]
EMNLP 2023 Findings	You Are What You Annotate: Towards Better Models through Annotator Representations Naihao Deng, Siyang Liu, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Winston Wu, Lu Wang, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv] [Project Page] [Data] [Code/Script]
EMNLP 2023	Enhancing Long-form Text Generation in Mental Health with Task-adaptive Tokenization Siyang Liu, Naihao Deng, Sahand Sabour, Yilin Jia, Minlie Huang, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv] [Code/Script]
EMNLP 2023 Findings ToM@ICML 2023	Hi-ToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Higher-Order Theory of Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models Yufan Wu, Yinghui He, Yilin Jia, Rada Mihalcea, Yulong Chen, Naihao Deng [arXiv] [Project Page] [Data] [Data + Code/Script]
IJCNLP-AACL 2023	Adaptable Claim Rewriting with Offline Reinforcement Learning for Effective Misinformation Discovery Ashkan Kazemi, Artem Abzaliev, Naihao Deng, Rui Hou, Davis Liang, Scott A. Hale, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv]
	EASE: An Easily-Customized Annotation System Powered by Efficiency Enhancement Mechanisms Naihao Deng, Yikai Liu, Mingye Chen*, Winston Wu, Siyang Liu, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang, Rada Mihalcea [arXiv]
COLING 2022	Recent Advances in Text-to-SQL: A Survey of What We Have and What We Expect Naihao Deng, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang [Conference] [arXiv] [Project Page] [BibText] @inproceedings{deng-etal-2022-recent, title = "Recent Advances in Text-to-{SQL}: A Survey of What We Have and What We Expect", author = "Deng, Naihao and Chen, Yulong and Zhang, Yue", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics", month = oct, year = "2022", address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea", publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.190", pages = "2166--2187", }
COLING 2022	WildQA: In the Wild Video Question Answering Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Pingxuan Huang*, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea [Conference] [arXiv] [Project Page] [Data + Code/Script] [BibText] @inproceedings{castro-etal-2022-wild, title = "In-the-Wild Video Question Answering", author = "Castro, Santiago and Deng, Naihao and Huang, Pingxuan and Burzo, Mihai and Mihalcea, Rada", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics", month = oct, year = "2022", address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea", publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.496", pages = "5613--5635", }
NLP Perspective @LREC 2022	Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender across NLP Tasks Laura Biester, Vanita Sharma, Ashkan Kazemi, Naihao Deng, Steven Wilson, Rada Mihalcea [Workshop] [Code/Script] [BibText] @inproceedings{biester-etal-2022-analyzing, title = "Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender across {NLP} Tasks", author = "Biester, Laura and Sharma, Vanita and Kazemi, Ashkan and Deng, Naihao and Wilson, Steven and Mihalcea, Rada", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP @LREC2022", month = jun, year = "2022", address = "Marseille, France", publisher = "European Language Resources Association", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlperspectives-1.2", pages = "10--19", }
NLP4Prog @ACL 2021	Prefix-to-SQL: Text-to-SQL Generation from Incomplete User Questions Naihao Deng, Shuaichen Chang, Peng Shi, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang [arXiv] [BibText] @misc{deng2021prefixtosql, title={Prefix-to-SQL: Text-to-SQL Generation from Incomplete User Questions}, author={Naihao Deng and Shuaichen Chang and Peng Shi and Tao Yu and Rui Zhang}, year={2021}, eprint={2109.13066}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }

Hosted Challenges

INLG 2022 Challenge

DialogSum Challenge: Results of the Dialogue Summarization Shared Task
Yulong Chen*, Naihao Deng*, Yang Liu, Yue Zhang
[Conference] [arXiv] [Video] [BibText]

INLG 2022 Challenge

The Cross-lingual Conversation Summarization Challenge
Yulong Chen*, Ming Zhong*, Xuefeng Bai*, Naihao Deng, Jing Li, Xianchao Zhu, Yue Zhang
[Conference] [arXiv] [BibText]