Papers by Xingwu Chen
TencentPretrain: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for Pre-training Models of Different Modalities (2023.acl-demo)
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Zhe Zhao, Yudong Li, Cheng Hou, Jing Zhao, Rong Tian, Weijie Liu, Yiren Chen, Ningyuan Sun, Haoyan Liu, Weiquan Mao, Han Guo, Weigang Gou, Taiqiang Wu, Tao Zhu, Wenhang Shi, Chen Chen, Shan Huang, Sihong Chen, Liqun Liu, Feifei Li, Xiaoshuai Chen, Xingwu Sun, Zhanhui Kang, Xiaoyong Du, Linlin Shen, Kimmo Yan
| 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. |
Breaking Contextual Inertia: Reinforcement Learning with Single-Turn Anchors for Stable Multi-Turn Interaction (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities when provided with full information in a single turn, yet they exhibit substantial vulnerability in multi-turn interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a generalizable training approach to stabilize multi-turn interactions by leveraging the model's intrinsic single-turn capabilities as stable internal anchors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms fine-tuning and abstention-based methods and exhibits strong cross-domain generalization. |
The Security Threat of Compressed Projectors in Large Vision-Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Mainstream VLPs have significant security implications, but their security implications have not been thoroughly examined. |
| Approach: | a study evaluates the security of visual language projectors by comparing them to uncompressed projector. |
| Outcome: | The evaluation reveals significant differences in security profiles between compressed and uncompressed projectors. |
QAVA: Query-Agnostic Visual Attack to Large Vision-Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Currently, large vision-language models are limited in their ability to provide correct answers for multimodal tasks . however, they can still provide correct responses for multiple images associated with a single image . a query-agnostic visual attack (QAVA) provides robust adversarial examples that generate incorrect responses to unspecified and unknown questions. |
| Approach: | They propose a query-agnostic visual attack to create adversarial examples that generate incorrect answers to unspecified and unknown questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves performance on images when the question is unknown compared to known target questions . |