4 papers
RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection
Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang +5
Embedding-as-a-Service (EaaS) is an effective and convenient deployment solution for addressing various NLP tasks. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that EaaS is vulnerable t…
Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
Zifeng Cheng, Jinwei Gan, Zhiwei Jiang +5
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across many generation tasks. Nevertheless, effectively aligning them with desired behaviors remains a significant…
Token Prepending: A Training-Free Approach for Eliciting Better Sentence Embeddings from LLMs
Yuchen Fu, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang +4
Extracting sentence embeddings from large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction, as LLMs have demonstrated stronger semantic understanding capabilities. Previous studies…
Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering
Zifeng Cheng, Zhonghui Wang, Yuchen Fu +4
Extracting sentence embeddings from large language models (LLMs) is a practical direction, as it requires neither additional data nor fine-tuning. Previous studies usually focus on…