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64 citations · 119 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

Representation Interventions Enable Lifelong Knowledge Memory Control in LLMs

Xuyuan Liu, Shengyu Chen, Xinshuai Dong +6

Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated content after being employed. Efficient and accurate knowledge updates without costly retraining are a major challe…

cs.CV2024

MAMA: Meta-optimized Angular Margin Contrastive Framework for Video-Language Representation Learning

Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu +6

Data quality stands at the forefront of deciding the effectiveness of video-language representation learning. However, video-text pairs in previous data typically do not align perf…

cs.CL2024

Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Liangming Pan +2

Dynamic topic models track the evolution of topics in sequential documents, which have derived various applications like trend analysis and opinion mining. However, existing models…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Topic Modeling as Multi-Objective Contrastive Optimization

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong +3

Recent representation learning approaches enhance neural topic models by optimizing the weighted linear combination of the evidence lower bound (ELBO) of the log-likelihood and the…

cs.CV2023

READ: Recurrent Adapter with Partial Video-Language Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning in Low-Resource Video-Language Modeling

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong +5

Fully fine-tuning pretrained large-scale transformer models has become a popular paradigm for video-language modeling tasks, such as temporal language grounding and video-language…

cs.CV2023

DemaFormer: Damped Exponential Moving Average Transformer with Energy-Based Modeling for Temporal Language Grounding

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong +3

Temporal Language Grounding seeks to localize video moments that semantically correspond to a natural language query. Recent advances employ the attention mechanism to learn the re…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Effective Neural Topic Modeling with Embedding Clustering Regularization

Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Thong Nguyen +1

Topic models have been prevalent for decades with various applications. However, existing topic models commonly suffer from the notorious topic collapsing: discovered topics semant…

cs.CL2023

Gradient-Boosted Decision Tree for Listwise Context Model in Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction

Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong +4

Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction (MRHP) aims to rank product reviews based on predicted helpfulness scores and has been widely applied in e-commerce via presenting customer…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Mitigating Data Sparsity for Short Text Topic Modeling by Topic-Semantic Contrastive Learning

Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, Xinshuai Dong

To overcome the data sparsity issue in short text topic modeling, existing methods commonly rely on data augmentation or the data characteristic of short texts to introduce more wo…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Certified Robustness Against Natural Language Attacks by Causal Intervention

Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Xinshuai Dong +3

Deep learning models have achieved great success in many fields, yet they are vulnerable to adversarial examples. This paper follows a causal perspective to look into the adversari…

cs.CL2021★ 30 cited

How Should Pre-Trained Language Models Be Fine-Tuned Towards Adversarial Robustness?

Xinhsuai Dong, Luu Anh Tuan, Min Lin +2

The fine-tuning of pre-trained language models has a great success in many NLP fields. Yet, it is strikingly vulnerable to adversarial examples, e.g., word substitution attacks usi…

cs.CL2021★ 64 cited

Towards Robustness Against Natural Language Word Substitutions

Xinshuai Dong, Anh Tuan Luu, Rongrong Ji +1

Robustness against word substitutions has a well-defined and widely acceptable form, i.e., using semantically similar words as substitutions, and thus it is considered as a fundame…