Papers by Liqun Chen

13 papers
Contextualized Perturbation for Textual Adversarial Attack (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing techniques for generating adversarial examples are driven by local heuristic rules that are agnostic to the context, resulting in unnatural and ungrammatical outputs.
Approach: They propose a ContextuaLized AdversaRial Example generation model that generates fluent and grammatical outputs through a mask-then-infill procedure.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baseline models in terms of attack success rate, textual similarity, fluency and grammaticality.
ℛ3: Advertisement Compliance ℛectification via Group-ℛelative Experience Extractor and Curriculum ℛeinforcement (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing methods of content moderation are infeasible due to over-editing and compromise the advertiser’s original semantic intent.
Approach: They propose a framework to harmonize compliance with original intent preservation that integrates a data-driven framework and a curriculum to enforce compliance while maximizing semantic consistency.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on industrial datasets and on online A/B testing on industrial video.
TencentPretrain: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for Pre-training Models of Different Modalities (2023.acl-demo)

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Challenge: Several pre-training models of different modalities are showing a rising trend of homogeneity in their model structures.
Approach: They propose a toolkit that supports pre-training models of different modalities.
Outcome: The proposed toolkit can match the performance of the original implementations on text, vision, and audio benchmarks.
RAVEN++: Pinpointing Fine-Grained Violations in Advertisement Videos with Active Reinforcement Reasoning (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models have improved the detection of non-compliant content, but critical gaps persist in fine-grained understanding, explainability, and generalization.
Approach: They propose a framework that combines active reinforcement learning, fine-grained violation understanding and progressive multi-stage training.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms general-purpose LLMs and specialized models in fine-grained violation understanding, explainability, and generalization.
SpanPredict: Extraction of Predictive Document Spans with Neural Attention (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: identifying predictive text in clinical notes can be as important as the predictions themselves . identifying specific content in clinical note descriptions may illuminate previously unknown risk factors .
Approach: They propose a method for identifying predictive text in clinical notes . they use linear attention to formalize the problem as predictive extraction .
Outcome: The proposed model preserves differentiability and allows scalable inference via stochastic gradient descent.
The GaoYao Benchmark: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Multilingual and Multicultural Abilities of Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing multilingual evaluation benchmarks neglect cultural nuances and lack language coverage in subjective tasks.
Approach: They propose a framework that categorizes evaluation tasks into three cultural layers and nine cognitive sub-layers.
Outcome: The proposed framework surpasses prior coverage by up to 111% on 20+ LLMs.
AICA-Bench: Holistically Examining the Capabilities of VLMs in Affective Image Content Analysis (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent studies have focused on factual correctness, semantic grounding, visual reasoning, or multimodal large language models.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to assess AICA, which integrates perception, reasoning, and generation into a unified framework.
Outcome: The proposed framework corrects intensity errors and significantly enhances descriptive depth.
Improving Text Generation with Student-Forcing Optimal Transport (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is used to train models, but during testing, the model is conditioned on previously generated tokens, resulting in exposure bias.
Approach: They propose to use optimal transport to match the sequences generated in MLE and test modes to reduce exposure bias.
Outcome: The proposed method is validated on machine translation, text summarization, and text generation tasks.
SSR-A: Spatial- and Semantic-Aware Instructions and Curriculum Reinforcement for Advertisement Compliant Rectification (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing methods to fix non-compliant images suffer from over-editing, destroying original intent and perceptual similarity.
Approach: They propose a framework for the minimalist rectification of non-compliant image ads.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both compliance and preservation of visual and commercial consistency.
Improving Textual Network Embedding with Global Attention via Optimal Transport (P19-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods for learning textual network embeddings are noisy and sparse.
Approach: They propose to use text-based attention parsing to learn context-aware network embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in a number of domains.
ARGUS: Policy-Adaptive Ad Governance via Evolving Reinforcement with Adversarial Umpiring (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing regulatory policies create label inconsistencies and reasoning ambiguities in historical datasets.
Approach: They propose a policy-adaptive governance system that enables evolving reinforcement through multi-agent adversarial umpiring.
Outcome: The proposed system outperforms fine-tuning baselines on industrial and public datasets . it enables evolving reinforcement through multi-agent adversarial umpiring .
Towards Generating Long and Coherent Text with Multi-Level Latent Variable Models (P19-1)

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Challenge: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have received much attention as an end-to-end architecture for text generation with latent variables.
Approach: They propose to leverage several multi-level structures to learn a variational autoencoder model for generating long, and coherent text.
Outcome: The proposed model produces more coherent and less repetitive long text compared to baselines and mitigates posterior collapse issue.

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