Publications

Last updated: June 2026. Latest papers: Google Scholar
‡ indicating corresponding author; * indicating equal contribution.

Manuscripts

• [M6] Daeyong Kwon, Qiyu Wu, Shinobu Kuriya, Junghyun Koo, Shuyang Cui, Zhi Zhong, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji. “MusTBENCH: Benchmarking and Advancing Temporal Grounding in Music LLMs”, manuscript. [Project]
• [M5] Zhongtao Miao, Qiyu Wu, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “GRC: Unifying Reasoning-Driven Generation, Retrieval and Compression”, manuscript.
• [M2] Qiyu Wu, Shuyang Cui, Satoshi Hayakawa, Wei-Yao Wang, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji. “MCA: Modality Composition Awareness for Robust Composed Multimodal Retrieval”, manuscript.

Conference Papers

• [C17] Silin Gao, Hao Zhao, Zeming Chen, Sepideh Mamooler, Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya, Qiyu Wu, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Li Mi, Syrielle Montariol, Antoine Bosselut. “DynaVieW: Schema-Guided World Modeling for Understanding Hierarchical Visual Dynamics”, ICML 2026.
• [C16] Shaomu Tan, Ryosuke Mitani, Ritvik Choudhary, Qiyu Wu, Toshiyuki Sekiya, Christof Monz. “Remedy-R: Generative Reasoning for Machine Translation Evaluation without Error Annotations”, ACL 2026.
• [C15] Shuyang Cui, Zhi Zhong, Qiyu Wu, Zachary Novack, et al. “BREAK-THE-BEAT! Controllable MIDI-to-Drum Audio Synthesis”, ICASSP 2026.
• [C14] Seungheon Doh, Junghyun Koo, Marco A Martinez-Ramirez, Woosung Choi, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Qiyu Wu, Juhan Nam, Yuki Mitsufuji. “LLM2Fx-Tools: Tool Calling For Music Post-Production”, ICLR 2026.
• [C13] Wei-Yao Wang, Kazuya Tateishi, Qiyu Wu, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji. “VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder”, ICLR 2026.
• [C12] Zhuoyuan Mao, Mengjie Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji. “DeepResonance: Enhancing Multimodal Music Understanding via Music-centric Multi-way Instruction Tuning”, EMNLP 2025 Main.
• [C11] Zhongtao Miao, Qiyu Wu, Masaaki Nagata, and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “Improving Word Alignment Using Semi-Supervised Learning”, ACL 2025 Findings.
• [C10] Qiyu Wu, Masaaki Nagata, Zhongtao Miao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “Word Alignment as Preference for Machine Translation”, EMNLP 2024 Main, Oral.
• [C9] Guangyi Liu, Yu Wang, Zeyu Feng, Qiyu Wu, Liping Tang, Yuan Gao, Zhen Li, Shuguang Cui, Julian McAuley, Eric P. Xing, Zichao Yang, Zhiting Hu. “Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding”, ICML 2024.
• [C8] Zhongtao Miao, Qiyu Wu, Kaiyan Zhao, Zilong Wu, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “Enhancing Cross-lingual Sentence Embedding for Low-resource Languages with Word Alignment”, NAACL 2024 Findings.
• [C7] Kaiyan Zhao*, Qiyu Wu*, Xin-Qiang Cai, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “Leveraging Multi-lingual Positive Instances in Contrastive Learning to Improve Sentence Embedding”, EACL 2024 Main.
• [C6] Shiwen Wu, Qiyu Wu, Honghua Dong, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou. “Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution”, VLDB 2024 Research Track.
• [C5] Qiyu Wu, Masaaki Nagata, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “WSPAlign: Word Alignment Pre-training via Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Span Prediction”, ACL 2023 Main.
• [C4] Qiyu Wu, Chongyang Tao, Tao Shen, Can Xu, Xiubo Geng and Daxin Jiang. “PCL: Peer-Contrastive Learning with Diverse Augmentations for Unsupervised Sentence Embeddings”, EMNLP 2022 Main.
• [C3] Qiyu Wu*, Chen Xing*, Yatao Li, Guolin Ke, Di He and Tie-Yan Liu. “Taking Notes on the Fly Helps Language Pre-Training”, ICLR 2021.
• [C2] Hao Liu*, Qiyu Wu*, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xinjiang Lu, Dejing Dou and Hui Xiong. “Community-Aware Multi-Task Transportation Demand Prediction”, AAAI 2021.
• [C1] Dechuan Yang*, Qiyu Wu*, Wei Chen, Tengjiao Wang, Zhen Qiu, Di Liu and Yingbao Cui. “Stance Detection with Stance-Wise Convolution Network”, NLPCC 2020.

Journal Papers

• [J2] Yuting Tang, Xin-Qiang Cai, Yao-Xiang Ding, Qiyu Wu, Guoqing Liu, Masashi Sugiyama. “Reinforcement Learning from Bagged Reward”, Transactions on Machine Learning Research; ICML 2026 Poster Track.
• [J1] Yutao Xie, Qiyu Wu, Wei Chen and Tengjiao Wang. “Stable Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Sentence Embeddings With Pseudo-Siamese Mutual Learning”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) 30 (2022): 3046-3059.

Workshop Papers

• [W4] Zhuoyuan Mao, Mengjie Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Zhi Zhong, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji. “Cross-Modal Learning for Music-to-Music-Video Description Generation”, RepL4NLP 2025.
• [W3] Kaiyan Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Zhongtao Miao, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “Prompt Tuning Can Simply Adapt Large Language Models to Text Encoders”, RepL4NLP 2025.
• [W2] Qiyu Wu, Mengjie Zhao, Yutong He, Lang Huang, Junya Ono, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji. “Towards Reporting Bias in Visual-language Datasets: Bi-modal Data Augmentation by Decoupling Object-attribute Association”, ICCV 2025 Workshop on Multimodal Representation and Retrieval.
• [W1] Qiyu Wu, Zilong Wu, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. “SGA: Scene Graph Alignment for Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation”, KDD 2024 Workshop HI-AI.