Publications

Publications on this page are updated sporadically.

2026

Hongao Zhu, Muxiaoqiao Xu, Yikang Liu, Siyuan Song, Yuxia Wang, Byung-Doh Oh, Hai Hu. (2026). A Systematic Analysis of the Predictive Power of LM Surprisal in Reading Chinese. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04898. [pdf]

Yi-Chien Lin, Hongao Zhu, William Schuler. (2026). Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and fMRI Data More Poorly when Dimensionality Expansion is Controlled. To appear in EMNLP 2026. [pdf] [code]

Yikang Liu, Yeting Shen, Hongao Zhu, Lilong Xu, Zhiheng Qian, Siyuan Song, Kejia Zhang, Jialong Tang, Pei Zhang, Baosong Yang, Rui Wang, Hai Hu. (2026). A Systematic Assessment of Language Models with Linguistic Minimal Pairs in Chinese. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 14, 755–771. [ACL anthology] [pdf] [data] [models]

Siyuan Song, Zhiheng Qian, Yunhao Zhang, Linyang He, Xiaozhe Ji, Yingxin Lin, Hongao Zhu, Chongtian Shao, Chuhan Lang, Luan Li, Rui Wang, Renfen Hu, Shaonan Wang, Hai Hu. (2026). The First ChineseBabyLM Challenge: Training Data-Efficient and Cognitively Plausible Language Models for Chinese. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10745. [pdf] [data] [evaluation]

Qingwen Zhao*, Hongao Zhu*, Yunqi He, Rui Wang, Aijun Huang, Hai Hu. (2026). LLMs for Automatic Annotation of Mandarin Narrative Transcripts. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17205. [pdf] (*equal contribution)

2025

Hongao Zhu, Lei Lei. (2025). Detecting Authorship Between Generative AI Models and Humans: A Burrows’s Delta Approach. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqaf048. [pdf]

Byung-Doh Oh, Hongao Zhu, William Schuler. (2025). The Inverse Scaling Effect of Pre-Trained Language Model Surprisal Is Not Due to Data Leakage. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. [ACL anthology] [pdf] [data]