Papers by Yuan Zang

6 papers
Word-level Textual Adversarial Attacking as Combinatorial Optimization (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing word-level attack models are far from perfect because of unsuitable search space reduction methods and inefficient optimization algorithms.
Approach: They propose a novel adversarial adversarialist model that incorporates word substitution and particle swarm optimization to solve two problems separately.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves much higher success rates and crafts more high-quality adversarial examples as compared to baseline methods.
OpenAttack: An Open-source Textual Adversarial Attack Toolkit (2021.acl-demo)

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Challenge: Various attack models are distinct and implemented with different programming frameworks and settings, which hinders quick utilization and fair comparison of attack models.
Approach: They propose an open-source textual adversarial attack toolkit to solve these issues by combining 15 typical attack models into one toolkit.
Outcome: The proposed toolkit supports all attack types, multilinguality, and parallel processing.
Uncertainty-Aware Iterative Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for enhancing the performance of large language models require expensive manual annotations.
Approach: They propose an offline direct preference optimization method that collects preference pairs through iterative sampling and execution feedback to improve model confidence.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance on three reasoning tasks and shows a 3.6% improvement over the standard method.
SOAR: Supervision from Observation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Prior work assigns supervision based on outcome rewards or external reward models, but ignores environment observations, a critical source of learning.
Approach: They propose a supervision-based agentic reinforcement learning system that integrates environment observations as an explicit supervision signal.
Outcome: The proposed model improves performance on reasoning and deep research tasks while reducing erroneous and inefficient tool usage.
Try to Substitute: An Unsupervised Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Method Based on HowNet (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing unsupervised methods for word sense disambiguation cannot work for HowNet-based WSD because of its uniqueness.
Approach: They propose a method which exploits the masked language model task of pre-trained language models to conduct word sense disambiguation using a lexical knowledge base as the sense inventory.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves significantly better performance than baseline methods.

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