activity
20202026
most citedTowards Making the Most of Multilingual Pretraining for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

3 citations · 11 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

23 papers

cs.CL2026

VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free Adaptation

Yixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan +6

Multimodal large language models have advanced rapidly, yet most remain English-centric, as scaling multilingual multimodal instruction tuning is limited by the scarcity and high c…

cs.CL2026

GIFT: Guided Fine-Tuning and Transfer for Enhancing Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Zhiwen Ruan, Yichao Du, Jianjie Zheng +6

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tu…

cs.CL2026

FinSafetyBench: Evaluating LLM Safety in Real-World Financial Scenarios

Yutao Hou, Yihan Jiang, Yuhan Xie +5

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in financial scenarios. However, they may produce harmful outputs, including facilitating illegal activities or unethical beha…

cs.CL2026

Representation-Guided Parameter-Efficient LLM Unlearning

Zeguan Xiao, Lang Mo, Yun Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) often memorize sensitive or harmful information, necessitating effective machine unlearning techniques. While existing parameter-efficient unlearning m…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating Memory Capability in Continuous Lifelog Scenario

Jianjie Zheng, Zhichen Liu, Zhanyu Shen +6

Nowadays, wearable devices can continuously lifelog ambient conversations, creating substantial opportunities for memory systems. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on on…

cs.CL2026

Modeling LLM Unlearning as an Asymmetric Two-Task Learning Problem

Zeguan Xiao, Siqing Li, Yong Wang +4

Machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs) aims to remove targeted knowledge while preserving general capability. In this paper, we recast LLM unlearning as an asymmetric…

cs.AI2026

SPPO: Sequence-Level PPO for Long-Horizon Reasoning Tasks

Tianyi Wang, Yixia Li, Long Li +6

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is central to aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks with verifiable rewards. However, standard token-level PPO struggles in th…

cs.CL2025

G2: Guided Generation for Enhanced Output Diversity in LLMs

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, Yefeng Liu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse natural language processing tasks. However, these models exhibit a critical limitation in outp…

cs.CL2025

Unveiling Over-Memorization in Finetuning LLMs for Reasoning Tasks

Zhiwen Ruan, Yun Chen, Yutao Hou +3

The pretrained large language models (LLMs) are finetuned with labeled data for better instruction following ability and alignment with human values. In this paper, we study the le…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs with Expectation of Aggregated Internal Belief

Zeguan Xiao, Diyang Dou, Boya Xiong +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of natural language tasks, but often exhibit overconfidence and generate plausible yet incorrect a…

cs.CL2025

Beyond the Surface: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Alignment with Human via Internal Representations

Peng Lai, Jianjie Zheng, Sijie Cheng +4

The growing scale of evaluation tasks has led to the widespread adoption of automated evaluation using LLMs, a paradigm known as "LLM-as-a-judge". However, improving its alignment…

cs.CL2025

Towards Bridging the Reward-Generation Gap in Direct Alignment Algorithms

Zeguan Xiao, Yun Chen, Guanhua Chen +1

Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs), such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Simple Preference Optimization (SimPO), have emerged as efficient alternatives to Reinforcement…

cs.CL2025

Toward Automated Robustness Evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning

Yutao Hou, Zeguan Xiao, Fei Yu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various reasoning-intensive tasks. However, these models exhibit unexpected brittleness, often failing on…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation

Yixia Li, Boya Xiong, Guanhua Chen +1

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the safe deployment of neural networks. Existing CLIP-based approaches perform OOD detection by devising novel scoring functions…

cs.CL2024

MiLoRA: Harnessing Minor Singular Components for Parameter-Efficient LLM Finetuning

Hanqing Wang, Yixia Li, Shuo Wang +2

Efficient finetuning of large language models (LLMs) aims to adapt the LLMs with reduced computational and memory cost. Previous LoRA-based approaches initialize the low-rank matri…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Distract Large Language Models for Automatic Jailbreak Attack

Zeguan Xiao, Yan Yang, Guanhua Chen +1

Extensive efforts have been made before the public release of Large language models (LLMs) to align their behaviors with human values. However, even meticulously aligned LLMs remai…

cs.CL2023

StyleBART: Decorate Pretrained Model with Style Adapters for Unsupervised Stylistic Headline Generation

Hanqing Wang, Yajing Luo, Boya Xiong +2

Stylistic headline generation is the task to generate a headline that not only summarizes the content of an article, but also reflects a desired style that attracts users. As style…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

PACIT: Unlocking the Power of Examples for Better In-Context Instruction Tuning

Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Yixia Li +2

Instruction tuning enhances the instruction following ability of large language models by finetuning with supervised instruction data. Previous work proposes in-context instruction…

cs.CL2023

Multilingual Sentence Transformer as A Multilingual Word Aligner

Weikang Wang, Guanhua Chen, Hanqing Wang +2

Multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multilingual word alignment induction. However, these methods usually start from mBERT or XLM-R. I…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Towards Making the Most of Multilingual Pretraining for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Guanhua Chen, Shuming Ma, Yun Chen +4

This paper demonstrates that multilingual pretraining and multilingual fine-tuning are both critical for facilitating cross-lingual transfer in zero-shot translation, where the neu…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation with Multilingual Pretrained Encoders

Guanhua Chen, Shuming Ma, Yun Chen +5

Previous work mainly focuses on improving cross-lingual transfer for NLU tasks with a multilingual pretrained encoder (MPE), or improving the performance on supervised machine tran…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of a Pretrained Cross-Lingual Language Model

Juntao Li, Ruidan He, Hai Ye +3

Recent research indicates that pretraining cross-lingual language models on large-scale unlabeled texts yields significant performance improvements over various cross-lingual and l…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Accurate Word Alignment Induction from Neural Machine Translation

Yun Chen, Yang Liu, Guanhua Chen +2

Despite its original goal to jointly learn to align and translate, prior researches suggest that Transformer captures poor word alignments through its attention mechanism. In this…