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Yiran Liu

10 accepted papers

2026

HEV Generative Sandbox: A Framework for Assessing Domain-Specific Social Risks Through Human-LLM Simulation

AAAI 2026technical

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in specialized domains introduces significant societal and compliance risks, including bias amplification, misinformation propagation, and privacy violations. These risks predominantly emerge from the dynamic interactions between LLMs and humans in specific con

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2026

Stationary and Clustering Transformer Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval

AAAI 2026technical

Unsupervised cross-modal hashing has gained significant attention for efficient retrieval between heterogeneous modalities through encoding data into the unified binary representations, offering low storage cost and fast response. However, the constraints of existing methods persist in bridging the

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2025

A2Seek: Towards Reasoning-Centric Benchmark for Aerial Anomaly Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

While unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-area, high-altitude coverage for anomaly detection, they face challenges such as dynamic viewpoints, scale variations, and complex scenes. Existing datasets and methods, mainly designed for fixed ground-level views, struggle to adapt to these conditio…

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2024

Beyond Euclidean: Dual-Space Representation Learning for Weakly Supervised Video Violence Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

While numerous Video Violence Detection (VVD) methods have focused on representation learning in Euclidean space, they struggle to learn sufficiently discriminative features, leading to weaknesses in recognizing normal events that are visually similar to violent events (i.e., ambiguous violence). In…

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2024

Bias and Volatility: A Statistical Framework for Evaluating Large Language Model's Stereotypes and the Associated Generation Inconsistency

NeurIPS 2024poster

We present a novel statistical framework for analyzing stereotypes in large language models (LLMs) by systematically estimating the bias and variation in their generation. Current evaluation metrics in the alignment literature often overlook the randomness of stereotypes caused by the inconsistent g…

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2024

Causality Based Front-door Defense Against Backdoor Attack on Language Models

ICML 2024poster

We have developed a new framework based on the theory of causal inference to protect language models against backdoor attacks. Backdoor attackers can poison language models with different types of triggers, such as words, sentences, grammar, and style, enabling them to selectively modify the decisio…

2024

Rethinking the Development of Large Language Models from the Causal Perspective: A Legal Text Prediction Case Study

AAAI 2024technical

While large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance on a wide range of NLP tasks, most of them fail to learn the causality from correlation, which disables them from learning rationales for predicting. Rethinking the whole developing process of LLMs is of great urgency as they are adop…

2023

TRM-UAP: Enhancing the Transferability of Data-Free Universal Adversarial Perturbation via Truncated Ratio Maximization

ICCV 2023poster

Aiming at crafting a single universal adversarial perturbation (UAP) to fool CNN models for various data samples, universal attack enables a more efficient and accurate evaluation for the robustness of CNN models. Early universal attacks craft UAPs depending on data priors. For more practical applic…

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2023

Tuna: Instruction Tuning using Feedback from Large Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

Instruction tuning of open-source large language models (LLMs) like LLaMA, using direct outputs from more powerful LLMs such as Instruct-GPT and GPT-4, has proven to be a cost-effective way to align model behaviors with human preferences. However, the instruction-tuned model has only seen one respon…

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