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Wendi Cui

7 accepted papers

2025

Gradient-guided Attention Map Editing: Towards Efficient Contextual Hallucination Mitigation

NAACL 2025findings

In tasks such as summarization and open-book question answering (QA), Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently experience “contextual hallucination”, where they generate irrelevant or incorrect responses despite having access to accurate information in the input. This issue often stems from the model…

2025

Heuristic-based Search Algorithm in Automatic Instruction-focused Prompt Optimization: A Survey

ACL 2025finding

Recent advances in Large Language Models(LLMs) have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing(NLP) tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central to guiding model outputs. While manual methods (e.g., “chain-of-thought,” “step-by-step” prompts) can be effec…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SEE: Strategic Exploration and Exploitation for Cohesive In-Context Prompt Optimization

ACL 2025long

Designing optimal prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) is a complex and resource-intensive task, often requiring substantial human expertise. Existing approaches typically separate the optimization of prompt instructions and in-context learning examples, leading to incohesive, suboptimal results…

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2025

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in image-conditioned text generation; however, hallucinated outputs–text that misaligns with the visual input–pose a major barrier to their use in safety-critical applications. We introduce ConfLVLM, a conf

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2024

Divide-Conquer-Reasoning for Consistency Evaluation and Automatic Improvement of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024industry

Evaluating the quality and consistency of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant, yet unresolved challenge for industry research. We propose , an automated framework for evaluating and improving the consistency of LLM-generated texts using a divide-conquer-reasoning appro…

2024

Survival of the Safest: Towards Secure Prompt Optimization through Interleaved Multi-Objective Evolution

EMNLP 2024industry

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities; however, the optimization of their prompts has historically prioritized performance metrics at the expense of crucial safety and security considerations. To overcome this shortcoming, we introduce “Survival of the Safest” (), an…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Synthetic Knowledge Ingestion: Towards Knowledge Refinement and Injection for Enhancing Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) are proficient in capturing factual knowledge across various domains. However, refining their capabilities on previously seen knowledge or integrating new knowledge from external sources remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel synthetic knowledg…