Papers by Xiyuan Yang

7 papers
Defending against Indirect Prompt Injection by Instruction Detection (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Indirect Prompt Injection attacks can be exploited by LLMs that are embedded with external data.
Approach: They propose a detection-based approach that leverages the behavioral states of LLMs to identify potential IPI attacks.
Outcome: The proposed approach reduces the success rate of attacks to 0.03% on the BIPIA benchmark.
CItruS: Chunked Instruction-aware State Eviction for Long Sequence Modeling (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies have found that information relevant to the next token prediction task accumulates in the hidden representations of just a few tokens.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates attention preferences useful for a downstream task into the eviction process of hidden states.
Outcome: The proposed method performs better on comprehension and retrieval tasks while preserving language modeling perplexity.
MCGA: A Multi-task Classical Chinese Literary Genre Audio Corpus (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced Chinese Classical Studies (CCS) but the audio dimension of CCS remains underexplored due to a lack of high-quality, domain-specific audio corpora.
Approach: They propose a 119-hour audio corpus comprising 22,000 audio samples to bridge this gap . it encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks .
Outcome: The proposed corpus encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT), Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC), Spoken Question Answering ( SQA), Speech Understanding (SU), and Speech Reasoning (SR).
One for All: Update Parameterized Knowledge Across Multiple Models with Once Edit (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for modifying large language models focus on individual models, resulting in errors and hallucinations.
Approach: They propose an ensemble-based approach that employs a plug-in model as the editing module and a dynamic weight mechanism to enhance its effectiveness.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms existing methods while achieving superior editing efficiency.
Measuring Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Content Generation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: generative AI has created a new way to generate content with humans . varying degrees of human contribution in content generation poses significant challenges for the delineation of originality .
Approach: They propose a framework to measure human contribution in AI-assisted content generation by calculating mutual information between human input and AI-aided output relative to self-information of AI-assist output.
Outcome: The proposed measure discriminates between varying degrees of human contribution across multiple creative domains and is validated in real-world applications.
EngiBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Engineering Problem Solving (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks focus on well-defined or abstract reasoning and fail to capture real-world engineering problems.
Approach: They propose a hierarchical benchmark to evaluate large language models on engineering problems.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well under well-defined conditions and is based on three levels of difficulty and covers diverse engineering subfields.
Learning Dynamic Context Augmentation for Global Entity Linking (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing collective entity linking methods are expensive and often lack local context information.
Approach: They propose a dynamic context-augmented inference model that can be used to make collective inference.
Outcome: The proposed model can cope with different local EL models with different learning settings, base models, decision orders and attention mechanisms.

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