Hi! I am I am currently under a joint PhD programme between Alibaba DAMO Academy and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Luu Anh Tuan. During my PhD, I collaborated extensively with Dr. Wenxuan Zhang and Dr. Lidong Bing. Before that, I got my Master of Engineering degree and Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honours at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

My research interests include Low-resource Natural Language Processing, Multilingual and Multimodal Large Language Models.

Open-Sourced Projects

• SeaLLMs-Audio: Large Audio-Language Models for Southeast Asia
  Chaoqun Liu, Mahani Aljunied, Guizhen Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Weiwen Xu, Yu Rong, Wenxuan Zhang. [Project Page] [Model] [DEMO] [Code]

• Babel - Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers
  Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Jiahao Ying, Mahani Aljunied, Zhaodonghui Li, Lidong Bing, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Rong, Deli Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang.
  [Project Page] [Model] [Code] [Technical Report]

• SeaLLMs 3: Open Foundation and Chat Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages
  Wenxuan Zhang, Hou Pong Chan, Yiran Zhao, Mahani Aljunied, Jianyu Wang, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Zhiqiang Hu, Weiwen Xu, Yew Ken Chia, Xin Li, Lidong Bing
  NAACL 2025 System Demostration [Project Page] [Model] [DEMO] [Code] [Technical Report]

• SeaLLMs – Large Language Models for Southeast Asia
  Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Mahani Aljunied, Zhiqiang Hu, Chenhui Shen, Yew Ken Chia, Xingxuan Li, Jianyu Wang, Qingyu Tan, Liying Cheng, Guanzheng Chen, Yue Deng, Sen Yang, Chaoqun Liu, Hang Zhang, Lidong Bing
  ACL 2024 System Demostration [Project Page] [Model] [DEMO] [Code] [Technical Report]

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

• Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models
  Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Yiran Zhao, Anh Tuan Luu, Lidong Bing
  NAACL 2025 [Paper][Code]

• SeaExam and SeaBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Local Multilingual Questions in Southeast Asia
  Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jiahao Ying, Mahani Aljunied, Anh Tuan Luu, Lidong Bing
  Findings of NAACL 2025 [Paper][Code]

• Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels
  Chaoqun Liu, Qin Chao, Wenxuan Zhang, Xiaobao Wu, Boyang Li, Anh Tuan Luu, Lidong Bing
  COLING 2025 [Paper][Code]

• Zero-Shot Text Classification via Self-Supervised Tuning
  Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Guizhen Chen, Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, Chip Hong Chang, Lidong Bing
  Findings of ACL 2023 [Paper][Code][Model]

Awards

• Alibaba Talent Programme Full Scholarship, 2021-2025.
• MediaTek 2019 Mission in Action Q3 winner.
• Research Scholarship under the EDB Joint Industry Postgraduate Programme(JIP) (2015-2017).
• Dean’s list (2012-2013 & 2013-2014) (Top 5% in the academic year).
• Ministry of Education (MOE) PRC Scholarship (SM3) (2011-2015).