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most citedA Unified Evaluation of Textual Backdoor Learning: Frameworks and Benchmarks

24 citations · 119 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2025

RLPR: Extrapolating RLVR to General Domains without Verifiers

Tianyu Yu, Bo Ji, Shouli Wang +9

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) demonstrates promising potential in advancing the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, its success remains largely confine…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang +22

Dense process rewards have proven a more effective alternative to the sparse outcome-level rewards in the inference-time scaling of large language models (LLMs), particularly in ta…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Free Process Rewards without Process Labels

Lifan Yuan, Wendi Li, Huayu Chen +6

Different from its counterpart outcome reward models (ORMs), which evaluate the entire responses, a process reward model (PRM) scores a reasoning trajectory step by step, providing…

cs.CL2024

The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning

Bingxiang He, Ning Ding, Cheng Qian +10

Understanding alignment techniques begins with comprehending zero-shot generalization brought by instruction tuning, but little of the mechanism has been understood. Existing work…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees

Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang +12

We introduce Eurus, a suite of large language models (LLMs) optimized for reasoning. Finetuned from Mistral-7B and CodeLlama-70B, Eurus models achieve state-of-the-art results amon…

cs.CL2024

Controllable Preference Optimization: Toward Controllable Multi-Objective Alignment

Yiju Guo, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan +9

Alignment in artificial intelligence pursues the consistency between model responses and human preferences as well as values. In practice, the multifaceted nature of human preferen…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards

Huayu Chen, Guande He, Lifan Yuan +3

User intentions are typically formalized as evaluation rewards to be maximized when fine-tuning language models (LMs). Existing alignment methods, such as Direct Preference Optimiz…

cs.CL2024★ 10 cited

Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents

Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan +4

Large Language Model (LLM) agents, capable of performing a broad range of actions, such as invoking tools and controlling robots, show great potential in tackling real-world challe…

cs.CL2023

Examining LLMs' Uncertainty Expression Towards Questions Outside Parametric Knowledge

Genglin Liu, Xingyao Wang, Lifan Yuan +2

Can large language models (LLMs) express their uncertainty in situations where they lack sufficient parametric knowledge to generate reasonable responses? This work aims to systema…

cs.CL2023★ 22 cited

UltraFeedback: Boosting Language Models with Scaled AI Feedback

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding +9

Learning from human feedback has become a pivot technique in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, acquiring vast and premium human feedback is bot…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

CRAFT: Customizing LLMs by Creating and Retrieving from Specialized Toolsets

Lifan Yuan, Yangyi Chen, Xingyao Wang +3

Large language models (LLMs) are often augmented with tools to solve complex tasks. By generating code snippets and executing them through task-specific Application Programming Int…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback

Xingyao Wang, Zihan Wang, Jiateng Liu +4

To solve complex tasks, large language models (LLMs) often require multiple rounds of interactions with the user, sometimes assisted by external tools. However, current evaluation…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Revisiting Out-of-distribution Robustness in NLP: Benchmark, Analysis, and LLMs Evaluations

Lifan Yuan, Yangyi Chen, Ganqu Cui +6

This paper reexamines the research on out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness in the field of NLP. We find that the distribution shift settings in previous studies commonly lack adequ…

cs.CL2023

From Adversarial Arms Race to Model-centric Evaluation: Motivating a Unified Automatic Robustness Evaluation Framework

Yangyi Chen, Hongcheng Gao, Ganqu Cui +10

Textual adversarial attacks can discover models' weaknesses by adding semantic-preserved but misleading perturbations to the inputs. The long-lasting adversarial attack-and-defense…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

A Close Look into the Calibration of Pre-trained Language Models

Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui +2

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) may fail in giving reliable estimates of their predictive uncertainty. We take a close look into this problem, aiming to answer two questions: (1…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

FactMix: Using a Few Labeled In-domain Examples to Generalize to Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition

Linyi Yang, Lifan Yuan, Leyang Cui +2

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) is imperative for entity tagging in limited resource domains and thus received proper attention in recent years. Existing approaches for few…

cs.LG2022★ 24 cited

A Unified Evaluation of Textual Backdoor Learning: Frameworks and Benchmarks

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Bingxiang He +3

Textual backdoor attacks are a kind of practical threat to NLP systems. By injecting a backdoor in the training phase, the adversary could control model predictions via predefined…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

Bridge the Gap Between CV and NLP! A Gradient-based Textual Adversarial Attack Framework

Lifan Yuan, Yichi Zhang, Yangyi Chen +1

Despite recent success on various tasks, deep learning techniques still perform poorly on adversarial examples with small perturbations. While optimization-based methods for advers…