Exploring Multimodal Challenges in Toxic Chinese Detection: Taxonomy, Benchmark, and Findings (2025.findings-acl)
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Shujian Yang, Shiyao Cui, Chuanrui Hu, Haicheng Wang, Tianwei Zhang, Minlie Huang, Jialiang Lu, Han Qiu
| Challenge: | Recent studies show that character substitutions in toxic Chinese text can confuse state-of-the-art LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of 3 perturbation strategies and 8 specific approaches in Chinese text to assess if they can detect perturbed Chinese toxic contents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can detect perturbed Chinese text with 8 different approaches . the proposed model is compared with 9 other LLMs from the US and China . |
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