Papers by Zeyu Gao
Composable Text Controls in Latent Space with ODEs (2023.emnlp-main)
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Guangyi Liu, Zeyu Feng, Yuan Gao, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang, Junwei Bao, Xiaodong He, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li, Zhiting Hu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to composable text operations often require plug-and-play . a single LM can perform arbitrary text operation composition in the latent space . |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient approach for composable text operations in the latent space of text . they connect pretrained LMs to the laten space and adapt them to the space . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on existing methods in the latent space of text. |
HiGen: Hierarchy-Aware Sequence Generation for Hierarchical Text Classification (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Hierarchical text classification is a complex subtask under multi-label text classification . the relevance of document sections can vary based on the hierarchy level, necessitating a dynamic document representation. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-generation-based framework that uses language models to encode dynamic text representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses existing methods while handling data and mitigating class imbalance. |
Audio Jailbreak: An Open Comprehensive Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Audio-Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Zirui Song, Qian Jiang, Mingxuan Cui, Mingzhe Li, Lang Gao, Zeyu Zhang, Zixiang Xu, Yanbo Wang, Guangxian Ouyang, Zhenhao Chen, Xiuying Chen
| Challenge: | a recent study evaluated large audio-language models against jailbreak attacks . a new benchmark is being developed to evaluate LAM safety against jailbreaking attacks based on temporal and semantic nature of speech . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate LAM jailbreak vulnerabilities in adversarial audio prompts . they use a dataset of 1,495 adversarials to evaluate their performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates state-of-the-art LAMs against jailbreak attacks . it demonstrates that even small, semantically preserved perturbations can reduce safety . |
DecompileBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Decompilers in Real-World Scenarios (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on syntactic correctness through synthetic micro-benchmarks or subjective human ratings, despite semantic fidelity and usability. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enables effective evaluation of decompilers in reverse engineering workflows . they compare six industrial-strength decompils and six recent LLM-powered approaches . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms commercial tools in code understandability despite lower functionality correctness . it shows that it can transform human-centric reverse engineering workflows . |
Virtual Compiler Is All You Need For Assembly Code Search (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Using a large dataset, we find that assembly code search is a significant task for reverse engineers. |
| Approach: | They propose to train a Large Language Model (LLM) to emulate a general compiler. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model surpasses the baseline by 26%. |
Towards Objective Fine-tuning: How LLMs’ Prior Knowledge Causes Potential Poor Calibration? (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled powerful domain-specific applications through supervised fine-tuning. |
| Approach: | They propose a cognition-aware framework that applies targeted learning strategies according to the model’s prior knowledge to improve calibration. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves calibration while maintaining performance, achieving an average 57% reduction in ECE compared to standard fine-tuning in Llama3-8B. |
Personal Information Leakage Detection in Conversations (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | 4.5 billion dollars will be invested in conversational assistants (chatbots) by 2021, according to Opus Research 2 . Among diverse types of chatbots, Google Duplex represents the kind of AI personal assistants that act on behalf of people to perform simple tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to protect personal information by warning users of detected suspicious sentences . they propose to use a constrained alignment problem to perform an alignment optimization problem . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform baseline models on the behavior of personalized chit-chat dialogue systems. |