← Search

Shumin Deng

38 accepted papers

2026

InnoGym: Benchmarking the Innovation Potential of AI Agents

ICLR 2026poster

LLMs and Agents have achieved impressive progress in code generation, mathematical reasoning, and scientific discovery. However, existing benchmarks primarily measure correctness, overlooking the diversity of methods behind solutions. True innovation depends not only on producing correct answers but…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

KnowPilot: Your Knowledge-Driven Copilot for Domain Tasks

AAAI 2026technical

Despite the rapid advancement of generative agents, their deployment in real world industry scenarios often encounters challenges due to a lack of domain-specific knowledge. To address this gap, we present KnowPilot: a Domain-Specific Knowledge Augmented Agent System. KnowPilot is an open-source f

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Despite their remarkable capabilities, Large Language Model (LLM) struggle to effectively leverage historical interaction information in dynamic and complex environments. Memory systems enable LLMs to move beyond stateless interactions by introducing persistent information storage, retrieval, and ut…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

VPI-Bench: Visual Prompt Injection Attacks for Computer-Use Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) with full system access enable powerful task automation but pose significant security and privacy risks due to their ability to manipulate files, access user data, and execute arbitrary commands. While prior work has focused on browser-based agents and HTML-level attacks,…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Automating Steering for Safe Multimodal Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked powerful cross-modal reasoning abilities, but also raised new safety concerns, particularly when faced with adversarial multimodal inputs. To improve the safety of MLLMs during inference, we introduce a modular and adaptive inf

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…

2025

CaKE: Circuit-aware Editing Enables Generalizable Knowledge Learners

EMNLP 2025

Knowledge Editing (KE) enables the modification of outdated or incorrect information in large language models (LLMs). While existing KE methods can update isolated facts, they often fail to generalize these updates to multi-hop reasoning tasks that rely on the modified knowledge. Through an analysis

2025

DnA-Eval: Enhancing Large Language Model Evaluation through Decomposition and Aggregation

COLING 2025main

The acceleration of Large Language Models (LLMs) research has opened up new possibilities for evaluating generated text. Though LLMs serve as scalable and economical evaluators, how reliable these evaluators is still under-explored. Prior research efforts in the meta-evaluation of LLMs as judges lim…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

Exploring Model Kinship for Merging Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Model merging has become one of the key technologies for enhancing the capabilities and efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs). The open-source community has driven model evolution by iteratively merging existing models. However, a principled understanding of the expected gains and underlying fa

2025

FlipAttack: Jailbreak LLMs via Flipping

ICML 2025poster

This paper proposes a simple yet effective jailbreak attack named FlipAttack against black-box LLMs. First, from the autoregressive nature, we reveal that LLMs tend to understand the text from left to right and find that they struggle to comprehend the text when the perturbation is added to the left…

2025

How Do LLMs Acquire New Knowledge? A Knowledge Circuits Perspective on Continual Pre-Training

ACL 2025finding

Despite exceptional capabilities in knowledge-intensive tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) face a critical gap in understanding how they internalize new knowledge, particularly how acquired knowledge becomes structurally embedded in their neural computations. We address this issue through the lens…

2025

KnowAgent: Knowledge-Augmented Planning for LLM-Based Agents

NAACL 2025findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet they fall short when tackling more sophisticated challenges, especially when interacting with environments through generating executable actions. This inadequacy primarily stems from the lack of built-in a…

2025

MLLM can see? Dynamic Correction Decoding for Hallucination Mitigation

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently exhibit hallucination phenomena, but the underlying reasons remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis and find that, although MLLMs incorrectly generate the objects in the final output, they are actually able to reco…

2025

ReLearn: Unlearning via Learning for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Current unlearning methods for large language models usually rely on reverse optimization to reduce target token probabilities. However, this paradigm disrupts the subsequent tokens prediction, degrading model performance and linguistic coherence. Moreover, existing evaluation metrics overemphasize…

2024

Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent endeavors towards directly using large language models (LLMs) as agent models to execute interactive planning tasks have shown commendable results. Despite their achievements, however, they still struggle with brainless trial-and-error in global planning and generating hallucinatory actions i…

2024

Detoxifying Large Language Models via Knowledge Editing

ACL 2024long

This paper investigates using knowledge editing techniques to detoxify Large Language Models (LLMs). We construct a benchmark, SafeEdit, which covers nine unsafe categories with various powerful attack prompts and equips comprehensive metrics for systematic evaluation. We conduct experiments with se…

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

Exploring Collaboration Mechanisms for LLM Agents: A Social Psychology View

ACL 2024long

As Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems are increasingly employed in intricate social environments, a pressing query emerges: *Can these NLP systems mirror human-esque collaborative intelligence, in a multi-agent society consisting of multiple large language models (LLMs)?* This paper probes th…

2024

Knowledge Circuits in Pretrained Transformers

NeurIPS 2024poster

The remarkable capabilities of modern large language models are rooted in their vast repositories of knowledge encoded within their parameters, enabling them to perceive the world and engage in reasoning. The inner workings of how these models store knowledge have long been a subject of intense inte…

2024

Knowledge Mechanisms in Large Language Models: A Survey and Perspective

EMNLP 2024finding

Understanding knowledge mechanisms in Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for advancing towards trustworthy AGI. This paper reviews knowledge mechanism analysis from a novel taxonomy including knowledge utilization and evolution. Knowledge utilization delves into the mechanism of memorization, c…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2024

When Do Program-of-Thought Works for Reasoning?

AAAI 2024technical

In the realm of embodied artificial intelligence, the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) play a pivotal role. Although there are effective methods like program-of-thought prompting for LLMs which uses programming language to tackle complex reasoning tasks, the specific impact of…

Cited by 28SourcePDFScholar
2023

Editing Large Language Models: Problems, Methods, and Opportunities

EMNLP 2023long main

Despite the ability to train capable LLMs, the methodology for maintaining their relevancy and rectifying errors remains elusive. To this end, the past few years have witnessed a surge in techniques for editing LLMs, the objective of which is to alter the behavior of LLMs \textbf{efficiently} withi…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

From Sky to the Ground: A Large-scale Benchmark and Simple Baseline Towards Real Rain Removal

ICCV 2023poster

Learning-based image deraining methods have made great progress. However, the lack of large-scale high-quality paired training samples is the main bottleneck to hamper the real image deraining (RID). To address this dilemma and advance RID, we construct a Large-scale High-quality Paired real rain be…

Cited by 33PDFcodeScholar
2023

Multimodal Analogical Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs

ICLR 2023poster

Analogical reasoning is fundamental to human cognition and holds an important place in various fields. However, previous studies mainly focus on single-modal analogical reasoning and ignore taking advantage of structure knowledge. Notably, the research in cognitive psychology has demonstrated that i…

2023

Reasoning with Language Model Prompting: A Survey

ACL 2023long

Reasoning, as an essential ability for complex problem-solving, can provide back-end support for various real-world applications, such as medical diagnosis, negotiation, etc. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge research on reasoning with language model prompting. We introduce…

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…

2022

Decoupling Knowledge from Memorization: Retrieval-augmented Prompt Learning

NeurIPS 2022accept

Prompt learning approaches have made waves in natural language processing by inducing better few-shot performance while they still follow a parametric-based learning paradigm; the oblivion and rote memorization problems in learning may encounter unstable generalization issues. Specifically, vanilla…

2022

Differentiable Prompt Makes Pre-trained Language Models Better Few-shot Learners

ICLR 2022poster

Large-scale pre-trained language models have contributed significantly to natural language processing by demonstrating remarkable abilities as few-shot learners. However, their effectiveness depends mainly on scaling the model parameters and prompt design, hindering their implementation in most real…

2022

Good Visual Guidance Make A Better Extractor: Hierarchical Visual Prefix for Multimodal Entity and Relation Extraction

NAACL 2022findings

Multimodal named entity recognition and relation extraction (MNER and MRE) is a fundamental and crucial branch in information extraction. However, existing approaches for MNER and MRE usually suffer from error sensitivity when irrelevant object images incorporated in texts. To deal with these issues…

2022

LightNER: A Lightweight Tuning Paradigm for Low-resource NER via Pluggable Prompting

COLING 2022main

Most NER methods rely on extensive labeled data for model training, which struggles in the low-resource scenarios with limited training data. Existing dominant approaches usually suffer from the challenge that the target domain has different label sets compared with a resource-rich source domain, wh…

2022

Molecular Contrastive Learning with Chemical Element Knowledge Graph

AAAI 2022technical

Molecular representation learning contributes to multiple downstream tasks such as molecular property prediction and drug design. To properly represent molecules, graph contrastive learning is a promising paradigm as it utilizes self-supervision signals and has no requirements for human annotations.…

2022

OntoProtein: Protein Pretraining With Gene Ontology Embedding

ICLR 2022poster

Self-supervised protein language models have proved their effectiveness in learning the proteins representations. With the increasing computational power, current protein language models pre-trained with millions of diverse sequences can advance the parameter scale from million-level to billion-leve…

2021

Contrastive Triple Extraction with Generative Transformer

AAAI 2021technical

Triple extraction is an essential task in information extraction for natural language processing and knowledge graph construction. In this paper, we revisit the end-to-end triple extraction task for sequence generation. Since generative triple extraction may struggle to capture long-term dependencie…

2021

Document-level Relation Extraction as Semantic Segmentation

IJCAI 2021poster

Document-level relation extraction aims to extract relations among multiple entity pairs from a document. Previously proposed graph-based or transformer-based models utilize the entities independently, regardless of global information among relational triples. This paper approaches the problem by pr…

2021

Drop Redundant, Shrink Irrelevant: Selective Knowledge Injection for Language Pretraining

IJCAI 2021poster

Previous research has demonstrated the power of leveraging prior knowledge to improve the performance of deep models in natural language processing. However, traditional methods neglect the fact that redundant and irrelevant knowledge exists in external knowledge bases. In this study, we launched an…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2021

MLBiNet: A Cross-Sentence Collective Event Detection Network

ACL 2021long

We consider the problem of collectively detecting multiple events, particularly in cross-sentence settings. The key to dealing with the problem is to encode semantic information and model event inter-dependency at a document-level. In this paper, we reformulate it as a Seq2Seq task and propose a Mul…

2021

OntoED: Low-resource Event Detection with Ontology Embedding

ACL 2021long

Event Detection (ED) aims to identify event trigger words from a given text and classify it into an event type. Most current methods to ED rely heavily on training instances, and almost ignore the correlation of event types. Hence, they tend to suffer from data scarcity and fail to handle new unseen…

2020

Bridging Text and Knowledge with Multi-Prototype Embedding for Few-Shot Relational Triple Extraction

COLING 2020main

Current supervised relational triple extraction approaches require huge amounts of labeled data and thus suffer from poor performance in few-shot settings. However, people can grasp new knowledge by learning a few instances. To this end, we take the first step to study the few-shot relational triple…

Cited by 56SourcePDFScholar