Wei Lu
Professor
Works on natural language processing and large language models, directing the BREATHE lab.
Wei Lu's lab at NTU works on large language models and data management & big data. 11 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP. 4 PhD students. 8 alumni, most often to Alibaba and ByteDance.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 73%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 8 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models4 papers
- language3 papers
- Data management & big data2 papers
- directing0 papers
- language processing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- ICLR (T1)Difficulty-Diversity Collaborative Filtering for Data-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICLR (T1)PEAR: Phase Entropy Aware Reward for Efficient Reasoning
20251 paper
- EMNLP (T1)Through the Valley: Path to Effective Long CoT Training for Small Language Models
20238 papers
- ACL (T1)Contextual Distortion Reveals Constituency: Masked Language Models are Implicit Parsers
- ACL (T1)Learning Multi-Step Reasoning by Solving Arithmetic Tasks
- ACL FindingsLeveraging Training Data in Few-Shot Prompting for Numerical Reasoning
- ACL (T1)One Network, Many Masks: Towards More Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
- ACL FindingsSampling Better Negatives for Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition
- ACL FindingsTab-CoT: Zero-shot Tabular Chain of Thought
- ACL (T1)Tell2Design: A Dataset for Language-Guided Floor Plan Generation
- EMNLP (T1)Unraveling Feature Extraction Mechanisms in Neural Networks
Where alumni went8 listed, 83% to industry
Industry 5Academia 1
Most often to
- Alibaba
- ByteDance
- Huawei
Also to
- University of Cambridge
Apply to NTUFall 2027
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Computing and Data Science PhD
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