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most citedInstructions as Backdoors: Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

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cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Decoding Susceptibility: Modeling Misbelief to Misinformation Through a Computational Approach

Yanchen Liu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Wenna Qin +5

Susceptibility to misinformation describes the degree of belief in unverifiable claims, a latent aspect of individuals' mental processes that is not observable. Existing susceptibi…

cs.CL2023

Mitigating Bias for Question Answering Models by Tracking Bias Influence

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiun-Yu Kao, Arpit Gupta +6

Models of various NLP tasks have been shown to exhibit stereotypes, and the bias in the question answering (QA) models is especially harmful as the output answers might be directly…

cs.SI2023

MIDDAG: Where Does Our News Go? Investigating Information Diffusion via Community-Level Information Pathways

Mingyu Derek Ma, Alexander K. Taylor, Nuan Wen +9

We present MIDDAG, an intuitive, interactive system that visualizes the information propagation paths on social media triggered by COVID-19-related news articles accompanied by com…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

STAR: Boosting Low-Resource Information Extraction by Structure-to-Text Data Generation with Large Language Models

Mingyu Derek Ma, Xiaoxuan Wang, Po-Nien Kung +3

Information extraction tasks such as event extraction require an in-depth understanding of the output structure and sub-task dependencies. They heavily rely on task-specific traini…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

Instructions as Backdoors: Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

Jiashu Xu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Fei Wang +2

We investigate security concerns of the emergent instruction tuning paradigm, that models are trained on crowdsourced datasets with task instructions to achieve superior performanc…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Parameter-Efficient Low-Resource Dialogue State Tracking by Prompt Tuning

Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiun-Yu Kao, Shuyang Gao +4

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is an important step in dialogue management to keep track of users' beliefs. Existing works fine-tune all language model (LM) parameters to tackle the…