Papers by Jiawei Kong
Your Language Model Can Secretly Write Like Humans: Contrastive Paraphrase Attacks on LLM-Generated Text Detectors (2025.emnlp-main)
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Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Tianqu Zhuang, Yixiang Qiu, Kuofeng Gao, Bin Chen, Shu-Tao Xia, Yaowei Wang, Min Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing methods to detect large language models (LLMs) generated for plagiarism use paraphrases to rewrite them to evade detection. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free method that effectively fools text detectors using off-the-shelf LLMs by rewriting them to evade detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method deceives text detectors using off-the-shelf LLMs by rewriting them to produce human-like sentences that are less discernible by detectors. |
Retrievals Can Be Detrimental: Unveiling the Backdoor Vulnerability of Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Retrieval-augmented diffusion models (RDMs) have been developed to enhance performance with reduced parameters. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate retrieval-augmented diffusion models with Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that enhances performance with reduced parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves outstanding attack effects while maintaining benign utility. |
DPN-LE: Dual Personality Neuron Localization and Editing for Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Lifan Zheng, Xue Yang, Jiawei Chen, Chenyan WU, Jingyuan Zhang, Fanheng Kong, Xinyi Zeng, Xiang Chen, Yu Tian
| Challenge: | Current methods for editing personality traits in large language models can change personalities but reduce performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel paradigm for personality editing that locates and edits LLM neurons and enables competitive personality control at inference time. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on LLaMA-3-8B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-7B-instruct show that the proposed approach can improve performance and improve performance. |
SampleMix: A Sample-wise Pre-training Data Mixing Strategy by Coordinating Data Quality and Diversity (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiangyu Xi, Deyang Kong, Jian Yang, Jiawei Yang, Zhengyu Chen, Wei Wang, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye
| Challenge: | Existing methods for pretraining data mixing for large language models neglect significant inter-domain overlaps and commonalities, failing to control the global diversity of the constructed training dataset. |
| Approach: | They propose a sample-wise data mixture approach that performs global cross-domain sampling by systematically evaluating the quality and diversity of each sample. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exceeds existing domain-based methods in multiple downstream tasks and perplexity assessments. |