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Junlang Qian

8 accepted papers

2026

Fine-Grained Activation Steering: Steering Less, Achieving More

ICLR 2026poster

Activation steering has emerged as a cost-effective paradigm for modifying large language model (LLM) behaviors. Existing methods typically intervene at the block level, steering the bundled activations of selected attention heads, feedforward networks, or residual streams. However, we reveal that b…

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2026

VIA SCORE TO PERFORMANCE: EFFICIENT HUMAN-CONTROLLABLE LONG SONG GENERATION WITH BAR-LEVEL SYMBOLIC NOTATION

ICASSP 2026poster

Song generation is regarded as the most challenging problem in music AIGC; nonetheless, existing approaches have yet to fully overcome four persistent limitations: controllability, generalizability, perceptual quality, and duration. We argue that these shortcomings stem primarily from the prevailing…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Human Motion Grounding with Test-Time Training

AAAI 2026technical

Understanding complex human activities demands the ability to decompose motion into fine-grained, semantic-aligned sub-actions. This motion grounding process is crucial for behavior analysis, embodied AI and virtual reality. Yet, most existing methods rely on dense supervision with predefined action

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2025

Logit Separability-Driven Samples and Multiple Class-Related Words Selection for Advancing In-Context Learning

NAACL 2025long

Effective organization of in-context learning (ICL) demonstrations is key to improving the quality of large language model (LLM) responses. To create better sample-label pairs that instruct LLM understanding, we introduce logit separability, a criterion to assess the clarity of both samples and clas…

2024

EDEntail: An Entailment-based Few-shot Text Classification with Extensional Definition

NAACL 2024findings

Few-shot text classification has seen significant advancements, particularly with entailment-based methods, which typically use either class labels or intensional definitions of class labels in hypotheses for label semantics expression. In this paper, we propose EDEntail, a method that employs exten…

2024

LLMs Learn Task Heuristics from Demonstrations: A Heuristic-Driven Prompting Strategy for Document-Level Event Argument Extraction

ACL 2024long

In this study, we explore in-context learning (ICL) in document-level event argument extraction (EAE) to alleviate the dependency on large-scale labeled data for this task. We introduce the Heuristic-Driven Link-of-Analogy (HD-LoA) prompting tailored for the EAE task. Specifically, we hypothesize an…

2024

UniBias: Unveiling and Mitigating LLM Bias through Internal Attention and FFN Manipulation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various tasks using the in-context learning (ICL) paradigm. However, their effectiveness is often compromised by inherent bias, leading to prompt brittleness—sensitivity to design settings such as example selection, order, and…

2024

Unveiling and Manipulating Prompt Influence in Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Prompts play a crucial role in guiding the responses of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the intricate role of individual tokens in prompts, known as input saliency, in shaping the responses remains largely underexplored. Existing saliency methods either misalign with LLM generation objectives…