Papers by Xinyan Gao
SKEP: Sentiment Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | sentiment knowledge is ignored in sentiment analysis, despite its use in pretraining. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sentiment knowledge to learn a unified sentiment representation for multiple sentiment analysis tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms strong pre-training baseline on three kinds of sentiment tasks. |
UNIMO: Towards Unified-Modal Understanding and Generation via Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing pre-training methods focus on single-modal tasks or multi-modal ones . large-scale pre- training has drawn much attention in both the community of Compute Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). |
| Approach: | They propose a UNIfied-MOdal pre-training architecture which can adapt to both single-modal and multi-modal understanding and generation tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can learn more generalizable representations with rich non-paired single-modal data. |
HiddenDetect: Detecting Jailbreak Attacks against Multimodal Large Language Models via Monitoring Hidden States (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on posthoc alignment techniques, but the underlying safety mechanisms within LVLMs remain unexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a tuning-free framework that leverages internal activations to enhance safety. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting jailbreak attacks against large vision-language models. |
Enhancing Local Feature Extraction with Global Representation for Neural Text Classification (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for text classification learn long dependency by deeply stacking or hybrid modeling. |
| Approach: | They propose a global-based local feature extraction architecture with global information incorporated into the local feature extractor. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture outperforms the previous best models on eight benchmark datasets. |
UNIMO-2: End-to-End Unified Vision-Language Grounded Learning (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for vision-language pre-training can only learn from aligned image-caption data and rely heavily on expensive regional features. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end unified-modal pre-training framework for joint learning . they propose to conduct grounded learning on both images and texts via a sharing grounded space . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves visual and visual semantic alignment on images and texts. |