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Xinwei Wu

8 accepted papers

2026

Finding the Translation Switch: Discovering and Exploiting the Task-Initiation Features in LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit strong translation abilities, even without task-specific fine-tuning. However, the internal mechanisms governing this innate capability remain largely opaque. To demystify this process, we leverage Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) and introduce a novel frame

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2025

CONTRANS: Weak-to-Strong Alignment Engineering via Concept Transplantation

COLING 2025main

Ensuring large language models (LLM) behave consistently with human goals, values, and intentions is crucial for their safety but yet computationally expensive. To reduce the computational cost of alignment training of LLMs, especially for those with a huge number of parameters, and to reutilize lea…

2025

DiplomacyAgent: Do LLMs Balance Interests and Ethical Principles in International Events?

EMNLP 2025

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) across various domains has made their safety a critical priority. Inspired by think-tank decision-making philosophy, we propose DiplomacyAgent, an LLM-based multi-agent system for diplomatic position analysis. With DiplomacyAgent, we are able

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2025

Towards a Unified Paradigm of Concept Editing in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Concept editing aims to control specific concepts in large language models (LLMs) and is an emerging subfield of model editing. Despite the emergence of various editing methods in recent years, there remains a lack of rigorous theoretical analysis and a unified perspective to systematically understa

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2024

Exploring Multilingual Concepts of Human Values in Large Language Models: Is Value Alignment Consistent, Transferable and Controllable across Languages?

EMNLP 2024finding

Prior research has revealed that certain abstract concepts are linearly represented as directions in the representation space of LLMs, predominantly centered around English. In this paper, we extend this investigation to a multilingual context, with a specific focus on human values-related concepts…

2024

IRCAN: Mitigating Knowledge Conflicts in LLM Generation via Identifying and Reweighting Context-Aware Neurons

NeurIPS 2024poster

It is widely acknowledged that large language models (LLMs) encode a vast reservoir of knowledge after being trained on mass data. Recent studies disclose knowledge conflicts in LLM generation, wherein outdated or incorrect parametric knowledge (i.e., encoded knowledge) contradicts new knowledge pro…

2024

Mitigating Privacy Seesaw in Large Language Models: Augmented Privacy Neuron Editing via Activation Patching

ACL 2024findings

Protecting privacy leakage in large language models remains a paramount challenge. In this paper, we reveal Privacy Seesaw in LLM privacy safeguarding, a phenomenon where measures to secure specific private information inadvertently heighten exposure risks for other privacy. Through comprehensive an…

2023

DEPN: Detecting and Editing Privacy Neurons in Pretrained Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Pretrained language models have learned a vast amount of human knowledge from large-scale corpora, but their powerful memorization capability also brings the risk of data leakage. Some risks may only be discovered after the model training is completed, such as the model memorizing a specific phone n…

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