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Shengyu Mao

7 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Prompt Engineering: Robust Behavior Control in LLMs via Steering Target Atoms

ACL 2025long

Precise control over language model generation is vital for ensuring both safety and reliability. Although prompt engineering and steering are commonly used to intervene in model behaviors, the vast number of parameters in models often results in highly intertwined internal representations. This int…

2024

EasyEdit: An Easy-to-use Knowledge Editing Framework for Large Language Models

ACL 2024system demonstrations

Large Language Models (LLMs) usually suffer from knowledge cutoff or fallacy issues, which means they are unaware of unseen events or generate text with incorrect facts owing to outdated/noisy data. To this end, many knowledge editing approaches for LLMs have emerged – aiming to subtly inject/edit u…

2024

Editing Conceptual Knowledge for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Recently, there has been a growing interest in knowledge editing for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current approaches and evaluations merely explore the instance-level editing, while whether LLMs possess the capability to modify concepts remains unclear. This paper pioneers the investigation of edit…

2024

Effective Demonstration Annotation for In-Context Learning via Language Model-Based Determinantal Point Process

EMNLP 2024main

In-context learning (ICL) is a few-shot learning paradigm that involves learning mappings through input-output pairs and appropriately applying them to new instances. Despite the remarkable ICL capabilities demonstrated by Large Language Models (LLMs), existing works are highly dependent on large-sc…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

RaFe: Ranking Feedback Improves Query Rewriting for RAG

EMNLP 2024finding

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) techniques have evolved, query rewriting has been widely incorporated into the RAG system for downstream tasks like open-domain QA to enhance document retrieval by reformulating queries. Many works have attempted to improve…

2023

Knowledge Rumination for Pre-trained Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Previous studies have revealed that vanilla pre-trained language models (PLMs) lack the capacity to handle knowledge-intensive NLP tasks alone; thus, several works have attempted to integrate external knowledge into PLMs. However, despite the promising outcome, we empirically observe that PLMs may h…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

SPEECH: Structured Prediction with Energy-Based Event-Centric Hyperspheres

ACL 2023long

Event-centric structured prediction involves predicting structured outputs of events. In most NLP cases, event structures are complex with manifold dependency, and it is challenging to effectively represent these complicated structured events. To address these issues, we propose Structured Predictio…