11 papers
Reading Between the Frames: Interpreting Implicit and Non-literal Meaning in Social Media Videos
Yang Wang, Yanan Ma, Yiqi Liu +7
Social media videos often communicate meanings that go beyond their visible actions, captions, or speech. A mundane clip may become humorous, ironic, or satire only through the int…
The Achilles' Heel of Angular Margins: A Chebyshev Polynomial Fix for Speaker Verification
Yang Wang, Yiqi Liu, Chenghao Xiao +1
Angular margin losses, such as AAM-Softmax, have become the de facto in speaker and face verification. Their success hinges on directly manipulating the angle between features and…
RIGOURATE: Quantifying Scientific Exaggeration with Evidence-Aligned Claim Evaluation
Joseph James, Chenghao Xiao, Yucheng Li +2
Scientific rigour tends to be sidelined in favour of bold statements, leading authors to overstate claims beyond what their results support. We present RIGOURATE, a two-stage multi…
Drivel-ology: Challenging LLMs with Interpreting Nonsense with Depth
Yang Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Chia-Yi Hsiao +4
We introduce Drivelology, a unique linguistic phenomenon characterised as "nonsense with depth" - utterances that are syntactically coherent yet pragmatically paradoxical, emotiona…
Adversarial Defence without Adversarial Defence: Enhancing Language Model Robustness via Instance-level Principal Component Removal
Yang Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Yizhi Li +3
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have driven substantial progress in natural language processing but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising concerns about their robust…
Crafting Customisable Characters with LLMs: A Persona-Driven Role-Playing Agent Framework
Bohao Yang, Dong Liu, Chenghao Xiao +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable ability to comprehend instructions and generate human-like text, enabling sophisticated agent simulation beyond basic behavior r…