CS PhD Student @ UIUC | YangyiChen6666 [AT] gmail.com
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A Single Transformer for Scalable Vision-Language Modeling [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Xingyao Wang*, Hao Peng, Heng Ji
TMLR
SaySelf: Teaching LLMs to Express Confidence with Self-Reflective Rationales [paper]
Tianyang Xu*, Shujin Wu*, Shizhe Diao, Xiaoze Liu, Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen+, Jing Gao+
EMNLP
Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents [paper]
Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Yizhe Zhang, Yunzhu Li, Hao Peng, Heng Ji
ICML
Measuring and Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models [paper]
Yangyi Chen, Karan Sikka, Michael Cogswell, Heng Ji, Ajay Divakaran.
NAACL
R-Tuning: Instructing Large Language Models to Say `I Don’t Know’ [paper]
Hanning Zhang*, Shizhe Diao*, Yong Lin*, Yi R. Fung, Qing Lian, Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Heng Ji, Tong Zhang.
NAACL (Oral & Outstanding Paper Award)
DRESS: Instructing Large Vision-Language Models to Align and Interact with Humans via Natural Language Feedback [paper]
Yangyi Chen, Karan Sikka, Michael Cogswell, Heng Ji, Ajay Divakaran
CVPR
MINT: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-Turn Interaction with Tools and Language Feedback [paper]
Xingyao Wang*, Zihan Wang*, Jiateng Liu, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Hao Peng, Heng Ji.
ICLR
CRAFT: Customizing LLMs by Creating and Retrieving from Specialized Toolsets [paper]
Lifan Yuan*, Yangyi Chen*, Xingyao Wang, Yi R. Fung, Hao Peng, Heng Ji.
ICLR
ViStruct: Visual Structural Knowledge Extraction via Curriculum Guided Code-Vision Representation [paper]
Yangyi Chen, Xingyao Wang, Manling Li, Derek Hoiem, Heng Ji.
EMNLP (Oral)
Beat LLMs at Their Own Game: Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection via Querying ChatGPT [paper]
Biru Zhu, Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Yangyi Chen, Chong Fu, Bingxiang He, Yangdong Deng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Ming Gu.
EMNLP (Short)
Revisiting Out-of-distribution Robustness in NLP: Benchmark, Analysis, and LLMs Evaluations [paper]
Lifan Yuan, Yangyi Chen, Ganqu Cui, Hongcheng Gao, Fangyuan Zou, Xingyi Cheng, Heng Ji, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
NeurIPS (Dataset and Benchmark Track)
Removing Backdoors in Pre-trained Models by Regularized Continual Pre-training [paper]
Biru Zhu*, Ganqu Cui*, Yangyi Chen, Yujia Qin, Lifan Yuan, Chong Fu, Yangdong Deng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Ming Gu.
TACL
A Close Look into the Calibration of Pre-trained Language Models [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Lifan Yuan*, Ganqu Cui, Zhiyuan Liu, Heng Ji.
ACL
From Adversarial Arms Race to Model-centric Evaluation: Motivating a Unified Automatic Robustness Evaluation Framework [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Hongcheng Gao*, Ganqu Cui*, Lifan Yuan, Dehan Kong, Hanlu Wu, Ning Shi, Bo Yuan, Longtao Huang, hui xue, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Heng Ji.
ACL (Findings)
Bridge the Gap Between CV and NLP! A Gradient-based Textual Adversarial Attack Framework [paper]
Lifan Yuan*, Yichi Zhang*, Yangyi Chen, Wei Wei.
ACL (Findings)
Why Should Adversarial Perturbations be Imperceptible? Rethink the Research Paradigm in Adversarial NLP [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Hongcheng Gao*, Ganqu Cui, Fanchao Qi, Longtao Huang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
EMNLP
Textual Backdoor Attacks Can Be More Harmful via Two Simple Tricks [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Fanchao Qi*, Hongcheng Gao, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
EMNLP (Short)
Moderate-fitting as a Natural Backdoor Defender for Pre-trained Language Models [paper]
Biru Zhu*, Yujia Qin*, Ganqu Cui, Yangyi Chen, Weilin Zhao, Chong Fu, Yangdong Deng, Zhiyuan Liu, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Maosong Sun, Ming Gu.
NeurIPS
A Unified Evaluation of Textual Backdoor Learning: Frameworks and Benchmarks [paper]
Ganqu Cui*, Lifan Yuan*, Bingxiang He, Yangyi Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
NeurIPS (Dataset and Benchmark Track) (Spotlight)
Exploring the Universal Vulnerability of Prompt-based Learning Paradigm [paper]
Lei Xu, Yangyi Chen, Ganqu Cui, Hongcheng Gao, Zhiyuan Liu.
NAACL (Findings)
Mind the Style of Text! Adversarial and Backdoor Attacks Based on Text Style Transfer [paper]
Fanchao Qi*, Yangyi Chen*, Xurui Zhang, Mukai Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
EMNLP (Oral)
Multi-granularity Textual Adversarial Attack with Behavior Cloning [paper]
Yangyi Chen*, Jin Su*, Wei Wei.
EMNLP (Oral)
ONION: A Simple and Effective Defense Against Textual Backdoor Attacks [paper]
Fanchao Qi*, Yangyi Chen*, Mukai Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
EMNLP (Short & Oral)
Hidden Killer: Invisible Textual Backdoor Attacks with Syntactic Trigger [paper]
Fanchao Qi*, Mukai Li*, Yangyi Chen*, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Yasheng Wang, Maosong Sun.
ACL (Oral)
Automatic Construction of Sememe Knowledge Bases via Dictionaries [paper]
Fanchao Qi, Yangyi Chen, Fengyu Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiao Chen, Maosong Sun.
ACL (Findings)