Papers by Wanlong Yu
AGD: Adversarial Game Defense Against Jailbreak Attacks in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Shilong Pan, Zhiliang Tian, Zhen Huang, Wanlong Yu, Zhihua Wen, Xinwang Liu, Kai Lu, Minlie Huang, Dongsheng Li
| Challenge: | Existing defenses, including post-training alignment and prompt engineering, struggle with adaptability to out-of-distribution (OOD) attacks. |
| Approach: | They propose an adversarial game-based defense method that dynamically adjusts LLMs’ internal representations to achieve a balanced trade-off between helpfulness and harmlessness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves LLMs’ safety over all baselines. |
Annotations Are Not All You Need: A Cross-modal Knowledge Transfer Network for Unsupervised Temporal Sentence Grounding (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on temporal sentence grounding rely on expensive video-query paired annotations . despite this, there are no ground-truth annotations in the current work . |
| Approach: | They propose to use paired video-query and segment boundary annotations to generate temporal sentence grounding without training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing unsupervised methods and beats supervised ones on two challenging datasets. |
CTTA-T: Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Text Understanding via Teacher-Student with a Domain-aware and Generalized Teacher (2026.acl-long)
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Tianlun Liu, Zhiliang Tian, Zhen Huang, Xingzhi Zhou, Wanlong Yu, Tianle Liu, Feng Liu, Dongsheng Li
| Challenge: | Existing models for text understanding fail to adapt to domain shifts in real-world applications . current models do not improve themselves as they are applied to new domains . |
| Approach: | They propose a continual test-time adaptation framework that adapts to evolving domains . they propose accumulating domains and a refine-then-filter framework to calibrate teacher predictions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model excels in a teacher-student framework adaptable to evolving domains. |
Towards Robust Temporal Activity Localization Learning with Noisy Labels (2024.lrec-main)
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Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Xiang Fang, Jianfeng Dong, Pan Zhou, Guoshun Nan, Keke Tang, Wanlong Fang, Yu Cheng
| Challenge: | Existing methods for temporal activity localization are expensive and difficult to satisfy due to subjective labeling. |
| Approach: | They propose a new TAL setting where a TAL model should be robust to mixed training data with noisy moment boundaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is significantly more robust to noisy training data than existing methods. |