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Tieyun Qian

20 accepted papers

2026

Format as a Prior: Quantifying and Analyzing Bias in LLMs for Heterogeneous Data

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in applications that require processing information from heterogeneous formats, including texts, tables, infoboxes, and knowledge graphs. However, systematic biases toward particular formats may undermine LLMs

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2026

Privacy-protected Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations and outdated or incomplete knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is proposed to address these issues by integrating external knowledge like that in knowledge graphs (KGs) into LLMs. However, leveraging private KGs in RAG systems

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2025

A Survey on Training-free Alignment of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) aims to ensure their outputs adhere to human values, ethical standards, and legal norms. Traditional alignment methods often rely on resource-intensive fine-tuning (FT), which may suffer from knowledge degradation and face challenges in scenarios where t

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2025

Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition

ACL 2025long

Vision-language models (VLMs) aligned with general human objectives, such as being harmless and hallucination-free, have become valuable assistants of humans in managing visual tasks. However, people with diversified backgrounds have different cognition even in the same situation. Consequently, they…

2025

CAVGAN: Unifying Jailbreak and Defense of LLMs via Generative Adversarial Attacks on their Internal Representations

ACL 2025finding

Security alignment enables the Large Language Model (LLM) to gain the protection against malicious queries, but various jailbreak attack methods reveal the vulnerability of this security mechanism. Previous studies have isolated LLM jailbreak attacks and defenses. We analyze the security protection…

2025

Enhancing Relation Extraction via Supervised Rationale Verification and Feedback

AAAI 2025technical

Despite the rapid progress that existing automated feedback methods have made in correcting the output of large language models (LLMs), these methods cannot be well applied to the relation extraction (RE) task due to their designated feedback objectives and correction manner. To address this problem…

2025

Strong Empowered and Aligned Weak Mastered Annotation for Weak-to-Strong Generalization

AAAI 2025technical

The super-alignment problem of how humans can effectively supervise super-human AI has garnered increasing attention. Recent research has focused on investigating the weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) scenario as an analogy for super-alignment. This scenario examines how a pre-trained strong mode…

2024

Adaption-of-Thought: Learning Question Difficulty Improves Large Language Models for Reasoning

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have shown excellent capability for solving reasoning problems. Existing approaches do not differentiate the question difficulty when designing prompting methods for them. Clearly, a simple method cannot elicit sufficient knowledge from LLMs to answer a hard question. Me…

2024

An Ensemble-of-Experts Framework for Rehearsal-free Continual Relation Extraction

ACL 2024findings

Continual relation extraction (CRE) aims to continuously learn relations in new tasks without forgetting old relations in previous tasks.Current CRE methods are all rehearsal-based which need to store samples and thus may encounter privacy and security issues.This paper targets rehearsal-free contin…

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2024

Depression Detection in Clinical Interviews with LLM-Empowered Structural Element Graph

NAACL 2024long

Depression is a widespread mental health disorder affecting millions globally. Clinical interviews are the gold standard for assessing depression, but they heavily rely on scarce professional clinicians, highlighting the need for automated detection systems. However, existing methods only capture pa…

2024

Episodic Memory Retrieval from LLMs: A Neuromorphic Mechanism to Generate Commonsense Counterfactuals for Relation Extraction

ACL 2024findings

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved satisfactory performance in counterfactual generation. However, confined by the stochastic generation process of LLMs, there often are misalignments between LLMs and humans which hinder LLMs from handling complex tasks like relation extraction. As a result,…

2024

Implanting LLM’s Knowledge via Reading Comprehension Tree for Toxicity Detection

ACL 2024findings

Toxicity detection plays a crucial role in maintaining the peace of the society. Existing methods can be roughly categorized as small language model (SLM) based and large language model (LLM) based. However, due to the limitation of SLMs on general knowledge and the potential embedded bias in LLMs d…

2024

Prompting Large Language Models for Counterfactual Generation: An Empirical Study

COLING 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in a wide range of natural language understanding and generation tasks. However, their ability to generate counterfactuals has not been examined systematically. To bridge this gap, we present a comprehensive evaluation framework on various t…

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2023

Mimicking the Thinking Process for Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Prompts and Paraphrasing

IJCAI 2023poster

Emotion recognition in conversation, which aims to predict the emotion for all utterances, has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. It is a challenging task since the recognition of the emotion in one utterance involves many complex factors, such as the conversational cont…

2023

On the Strength of Sequence Labeling and Generative Models for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

ACL 2023findings

Generative models have achieved great success in aspect sentiment triplet extraction tasks. However, existing methods ignore the mutual informative clues between aspect and opinion terms and may generate false paired triplets. Furthermore, the inherent limitations of generative models, i.e., the tok…