Yongyi Huang
Author directory2026
Is the Future Predictable? Modeling Future Predictability for Reliable Temporal Reasoning
Yongyi Huang | Huaping Zhang | Wenyao Cui | Qiuchi Li | Lei Li | Baohua Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yongyi Huang | Huaping Zhang | Wenyao Cui | Qiuchi Li | Lei Li | Baohua Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable when reasoning about the future. Existing models often overlook the difference among future states, committing to specific answers even when the queried facts are inherently volatile. To capture this challenge, we introduce ChronoRegime, a future-oriented temporal reasoning task that requires models to determine whether historical temporal evidence justifies commitment to a future answer. Furthermore, we propose Confidence-Aware Temporal Reasoning (CTR), a framework that estimates query predictability from temporal dynamics and regulates answer commitment accordingly. Rather than performing unconditional forecasting, CTR commits only when the reconstructed evidence supports the target future state. Across multiple LLMs, CTR improves strict overall accuracy by 6.7 percentage points and reduces hallucination rates by 18.4 percentage points on average over the plain QA baseline. These results demonstrate that explicit predictability assessment is an effective mechanism for safer and more reliable temporal reasoning under future uncertainty.
2023
PsyAttention: Psychological Attention Model for Personality Detection
Baohua Zhang | Yongyi Huang | Wenyao Cui | Zhang Huaping | Jianyun Shang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Baohua Zhang | Yongyi Huang | Wenyao Cui | Zhang Huaping | Jianyun Shang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Work on personality detection has tended to incorporate psychological features from different personality models, such as BigFive and MBTI. There are more than 900 psychological features, each of which is helpful for personality detection. However, when used in combination, the application of different calculation standards among these features may result in interference between features calculated using distinct systems, thereby introducing noise and reducing performance. This paper adapts different psychological models in the proposed PsyAttention for personality detection, which can effectively encode psychological features, reducing their number by 85%. In experiments on the BigFive and MBTI models, PysAttention achieved average accuracy of 65.66% and 86.30%, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art methods, indicating that it is effective at encoding psychological features.