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cs.CL2026

Analyzing Bias in False Refusal Behavior of Large Language Models for Hate Speech Detoxification

Kyuri Im, Shuzhou Yuan, Michael Färber

While large language models (LLMs) have increasingly been applied to hate speech detoxification, the prompts often trigger safety alerts, causing LLMs to refuse the task. In this s…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Over-Refusal: Scenario-Based Diagnostics and Post-Hoc Mitigation for Exaggerated Refusals in LLMs

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Yinuo Sun +3

Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce false refusals, declining benign requests that contain terms resembling unsafe queries. We address this challenge by introducing two…

cs.CL2025

CoDAE: Adapting Large Language Models for Education via Chain-of-Thought Data Augmentation

Shuzhou Yuan, William LaCroix, Hardik Ghoshal +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed as AI tutors due to their scalability and potential for personalized instruction. However, off-the-shelf LLMs often underperf…

cs.CL2025

Hateful Person or Hateful Model? Investigating the Role of Personas in Hate Speech Detection by Large Language Models

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Mario Tawfelis +3

Hate speech detection is a socially sensitive and inherently subjective task, with judgments often varying based on personal traits. While prior work has examined how socio-demogra…

cs.CL2025

LLM in the Loop: Creating the ParaDeHate Dataset for Hate Speech Detoxification

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Lukas Kouba +4

Detoxification, the task of rewriting harmful language into non-toxic text, has become increasingly important amid the growing prevalence of toxic content online. However, high-qua…

cs.CL2025

Can Hallucinations Help? Boosting LLMs for Drug Discovery

Shuzhou Yuan, Zhan Qu, Ashish Yashwanth Kangen +1

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), plausible but factually inaccurate text, are often viewed as undesirable. However, recent work suggests that such outputs may hold c…

cs.CL2024

Graph-Guided Textual Explanation Generation Framework

Shuzhou Yuan, Jingyi Sun, Ran Zhang +4

Natural language explanations (NLEs) are commonly used to provide plausible free-text explanations of a model's reasoning about its predictions. However, recent work has questioned…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Decomposed Prompting: Probing Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in Large Language Models

Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma +4

Probing the multilingual knowledge of linguistic structure in LLMs, often characterized as sequence labeling, faces challenges with maintaining output templates in current text-to-…

cs.CL2024

GNNavi: Navigating the Information Flow in Large Language Models by Graph Neural Network

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Michael Färber +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong In-Context Learning (ICL) capabilities when prompts with demonstrations are used. However, fine-tuning still remains crucial to further…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Bolei Ma +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess outstanding capabilities in addressing various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the sheer size of these models poses challenge…

cs.CL2024

ToPro: Token-Level Prompt Decomposition for Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling Tasks

Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan +4

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied to multilingual pretrained language models for zero-shot cross-lingual understanding. However, most previous studies primarily f…