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most citedBe Careful about Poisoned Word Embeddings: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Embedding Layers in NLP Models

11 citations · 34 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.CO2026

On a classical zero-sum invariant II: Disproof of a long-standing conjecture

Alfred Geroldinger, Guoqing Wang, Wenkai Yang

For a nontrivial finite abelian group , let be the smallest integer such that every zero-sum free sequence over of length at least has the following…

cs.AI2026

Certified Multi-Turn Robustness for LLM Safety via Compositional Bounds and Safety Persistence

Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Wenkai Yang +9

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreak attacks that progressively manipulate conversation context. Existing certified robustness methods are limited to…

math.NT2026

On a classical zero-sum invariant

Alfred Geroldinger, Wenkai Yang

Let be a nontrivial, finite abelian group. Then is the smallest integer such that every zero-sum free sequence over of length at least has the foll…

cs.AI2026

DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao +30

Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification. While recent parallel drafters efficiently propose lo…

cs.CL2026

DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

DeepSeek-AI, Anyi Xu, Bangcai Lin +315

We present a preview version of DeepSeek-V4 series, including two strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models -- DeepSeek-V4-Pro with 1.6T parameters (49B activated) and DeepSe…

cs.CL2025

DeepCritic: Deliberate Critique with Large Language Models

Wenkai Yang, Jingwen Chen, Yankai Lin +1

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving, providing accurate feedback and scalable oversight on their outputs becomes an urgent and critical problem. Leveraging LLMs as…

cs.CL2025

Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning

Wenkai Yang, Shuming Ma, Yankai Lin +1

Recent studies have shown that making a model spend more time thinking through longer Chain of Thoughts (CoTs) enables it to gain significant improvements in complex reasoning task…

cs.CL2024

Super(ficial)-alignment: Strong Models May Deceive Weak Models in Weak-to-Strong Generalization

Wenkai Yang, Shiqi Shen, Guangyao Shen +5

Superalignment, where humans act as weak supervisors for superhuman models, has become a crucial problem with the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent work has…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Exploring Backdoor Vulnerabilities of Chat Models

Yunzhuo Hao, Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin

Recent researches have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to a security threat known as Backdoor Attack. The backdoored model will behave well in normal cases…

cs.CR2024★ 8 cited

Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents

Wenkai Yang, Xiaohan Bi, Yankai Lin +3

Driven by the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-based agents have been developed to handle various real-world applications, including finance, healthcare, and…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Distilling Rule-based Knowledge into Large Language Models

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Jie Zhou +1

Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible performance in completing various real-world tasks. The current paradigm of knowledge learning for LLMs is mainly based on learni…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Towards Codable Watermarking for Injecting Multi-bits Information to LLMs

Lean Wang, Wenkai Yang, Deli Chen +5

As large language models (LLMs) generate texts with increasing fluency and realism, there is a growing need to identify the source of texts to prevent the abuse of LLMs. Text water…

cs.CL2023

Communication Efficient Federated Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Adapter

Yi Liu, Xiaohan Bi, Lei Li +3

Federated Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (Fed-MNMT) has emerged as a promising paradigm for institutions with limited language resources. This approach allows multiple ins…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Fine-Tuning Deteriorates General Textual Out-of-Distribution Detection by Distorting Task-Agnostic Features

Sishuo Chen, Wenkai Yang, Xiaohan Bi +1

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is crucial for the safe deployment of natural language processing (NLP) models. Though existing methods, especially those based on the st…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Integrating Local Real Data with Global Gradient Prototypes for Classifier Re-Balancing in Federated Long-Tailed Learning

Wenkai Yang, Deli Chen, Hao Zhou +3

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed learning paradigm that involves multiple clients training a global model collaboratively in a data privacy-preserving manne…

cs.LG2023

When to Trust Aggregated Gradients: Addressing Negative Client Sampling in Federated Learning

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Guangxiang Zhao +3

Federated Learning has become a widely-used framework which allows learning a global model on decentralized local datasets under the condition of protecting local data privacy. How…

cs.CL2022

Expose Backdoors on the Way: A Feature-Based Efficient Defense against Textual Backdoor Attacks

Sishuo Chen, Wenkai Yang, Zhiyuan Zhang +2

Natural language processing (NLP) models are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which poses a newly arisen threat to NLP models. Prior online backdoor defense methods for…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

RAP: Robustness-Aware Perturbations for Defending against Backdoor Attacks on NLP Models

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Peng Li +2

Backdoor attacks, which maliciously control a well-trained model's outputs of the instances with specific triggers, are recently shown to be serious threats to the safety of reusin…

cs.LG2021

Well-classified Examples are Underestimated in Classification with Deep Neural Networks

Guangxiang Zhao, Wenkai Yang, Xuancheng Ren +3

The conventional wisdom behind learning deep classification models is to focus on bad-classified examples and ignore well-classified examples that are far from the decision boundar…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

Be Careful about Poisoned Word Embeddings: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Embedding Layers in NLP Models

Wenkai Yang, Lei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang +3

Recent studies have revealed a security threat to natural language processing (NLP) models, called the Backdoor Attack. Victim models can maintain competitive performance on clean…