activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CL2026

Steering LLMs for Culturally Localized Generation

Simran Khanuja, Hongbin Liu, Shujian Zhang +4

LLMs are deployed globally, yet produce responses biased towards cultures with abundant training data. Existing cultural localization approaches such as prompting or post-training…

cs.CL2025

MUSIC: MUlti-Step Instruction Contrast for Multi-Turn Reward Models

Wenzhe Li, Shujian Zhang, Wenxuan Zhou +5

Evaluating the quality of multi-turn conversations is crucial for developing capable Large Language Models (LLMs), yet remains a significant challenge, often requiring costly human…

cs.CL2025

Fantastic Reasoning Behaviors and Where to Find Them: Unsupervised Discovery of the Reasoning Process

Zhenyu Zhang, Shujian Zhang, John Lambert +6

Despite the growing reasoning capabilities of recent large language models (LLMs), their internal mechanisms during the reasoning process remain underexplored. Prior approaches oft…

cs.CL2025

Eliciting Behaviors in Multi-Turn Conversations

Jing Huang, Shujian Zhang, Lun Wang +3

Identifying specific and often complex behaviors from large language models (LLMs) in conversational settings is crucial for their evaluation. Recent work proposes novel techniques…

cs.CL2024

T-REG: Preference Optimization with Token-Level Reward Regularization

Wenxuan Zhou, Shujian Zhang, Lingxiao Zhao +1

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been crucial in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values. Traditionally, RLHF involves generating responses to…

cs.LG2024

Instructional Segment Embedding: Improving LLM Safety with Instruction Hierarchy

Tong Wu, Shujian Zhang, Kaiqiang Song +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to security and safety threats, such as prompt injection, prompt extraction, and harmful requests. One major cause of these vulnerabili…