Qing ZONG 宗晴

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About me 👩‍🎓

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Yangqiu Song. Prior to my postgraduate studies, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) in 2024. During my undergraduate study, I did research under the guidance of Prof. Baotian Hu.

Research Interest 💡

I’m mainly interested in the research of Natural Language Processing.

• Trustworthy AI
• Confidence Calibration
• Multimodal Learning

Publications 📝

You can also find my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

[Published]

• ComparisonQA: Evaluating Factuality Robustness of LLMs Through Knowledge Frequency Control and Uncertainty
  Qing Zong, Zhaowei Wang, Tianshi Zheng, Xiyu Ren, Yangqiu Song
  Findings of Conference on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025.
  [paper][code]
• TILFA: A unified framework for text, image, and layout fusion in argument mining
  Qing Zong, Zhaowei Wang, Baixuan Xu, Tianshi Zheng, Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y Wong, Simon See
  The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining 2023.
  [paper][code]
• Revisiting Epistemic Markers in Confidence Estimation: Can Markers Accurately Reflect Large Language Models’ Uncertainty?
  Jiayu Liu, Qing Zong, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song
  Conference on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025. (short)
  [paper][code]
• The Curse of CoT: On the Limitations of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning
  Tianshi Zheng, Yixiang Chen, Chengxi Li, Chunyang Li, Qing Zong, Haochen Shi, Baixuan Xu, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y Wong, Simon See
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2025.
  [paper][code]
• AbsInstruct: Eliciting Abstraction Ability from LLMs through Explanation Tuning with Plausibility Estimation
  Zhaowei Wang, Wei Fan, Qing Zong, Hongming Zhang, Sehyun Choi, Tianqing Fang, Xin Liu, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, Simon See
  Conference on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024.
  [paper][code]
• KnowComp Submission for WMT23 Sign Language Translation Task
  Baixuan Xu, Haochen Shi, Tianshi Zheng, Qing Zong, Weiqi Wang, Zhaowei Wang, Yangqiu Song
  The 8th Conference on Machine Translation 2023.
  [paper][code]
• Glyph Features Matter: A Multimodal Solution for EvaHan in LT4HALA2022
  Wei Xinyuan, Liu Weihao, Qing Zong, Zhang Shaoqing, Baotian Hu
  The Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages 2022.
  [paper]

[Under Review]

• CritiCal: Can Critique Help LLM Uncertainty or Confidence Calibration?
  Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Tianshi Zheng, Chunyang Li, Baixuan Xu, Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang, Zhaowei Wang, Chunkit Chan, Yangqiu Song
  [paper][code]
• CostBench: Evaluating Multi-Turn Cost-Optimal Planning and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments for LLM Tool-Use Agents
  Jiayu Liu, Cheng Qian, Zhaochen Su, Qing Zong, Shijue Huang, Bingxiang He, Yi R. (May) Fung
  [paper][code]
• AutoSchemaKG: Autonomous Knowledge Graph Construction through Dynamic Schema Induction from Web-Scale Corpora
  Jiaxin Bai, Wei Fan, Qi Hu, Qing Zong, Chunyang Li, Hong Ting Tsang, Hongyu Luo, Yauwai Yim, Haoyu Huang, Xiao Zhou, Feng Qin, Tianshi Zheng, Xi Peng, Xin Yao, Huiwen Yang, Leijie Wu, Yi Ji, Gong Zhang, Renhai Chen, Yangqiu Song
  [paper][code]
• SessionIntentBench: A Multi-task Inter-session Intention-shift Modeling Benchmark for E-commerce Customer Behavior Understanding
  Yuqi Yang, Weiqi Wang, Baixuan Xu, Wei Fan, Qing Zong, Chunkit Chan, Zheye Deng, Xin Liu, Yifan Gao, Changlong Yu, Chen Luo, Yang Li, Zheng Li, Qingyu Yin, Bing Yin, Yangqiu Song
  [paper]
• Prospect Theory Fails for LLMs: Revealing Instability of Decision-Making under Epistemic Uncertainty
  Rui Wang, Qihan Lin, Jiayu Liu, Qing Zong, Tianshi Zheng, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song
  [paper][code]
• DixitWorld: Evaluating Multimodal Abductive Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Multi-Agent Dixit Gameplay
  Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Baixuan Xu, Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song
  [paper][code]

Awards 🏆

• 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award in EMNLP 2025
• 2024-2028 Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme, HKPFS, in HKUST (HKD $28,100 per month)
• 2024 RedBird PhD Award Program in HKUST (HKD $40,000)
• 2024 Outstanding Graduate Award in HITsz
• 2023,2021 National Scholarship * 2 (Rank 1.7\%, 0.6\% in HITsz separately)
• 2023 Sailvan Times Computing Star Scholarship (Top 0.6% in HITsz)
• 2023,2022,2021 First-class Academic Scholarship * 3 (Rank 2.4\%, 0.2\%, 0.7\% in HITsz separately)
• 2022 The National Special Prize and the Best Innovation Award in the 12th National College Students E-commerce “Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship” Challenge (Rank 9 among 133,729 Teams)
• 2022 Provincial 1st Prize in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• 2022 Honorable Mention Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• 2022 “Excellent Student Model” Honorary Title (Rank 0.2% in HITsz)
• 2022 “Excellent Student Leader Model” Honorary Title

Education 🎓

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, 2024 - now

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Technology, 2020 - 2024

Jiangsu Tianyi High School

• High School Diploma in Science, 2017 - 2020

Contact me! ✉️

You can reach me at qzong@cse.ust.hk