Wenbo Yu
Author directory2026
CHILLGuard: Towards Fine-Grained Chinese LLM Safety Guardrail with Scalable Data Construction and Model-aware Preference Alignment
Wenbo Yu | Bohua Wang | Hao Fang | Kuofeng Gao | Jingru Zeng | Xiaochen Yang | Tianyi Zhang | Xiaoxiao Ma | Jiawei Kong | Hao Wu | Bin Chen | Shu-Tao Xia | Min Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Wenbo Yu | Bohua Wang | Hao Fang | Kuofeng Gao | Jingru Zeng | Xiaochen Yang | Tianyi Zhang | Xiaoxiao Ma | Jiawei Kong | Hao Wu | Bin Chen | Shu-Tao Xia | Min Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Malicious content generated from large language models (LLMs) could pose severe safety risks and ethical concerns. While existing LLM safety guardrails excel in English or multilingual settings, they lack adaptation to Chinese-specific regulatory policies, cultural context, and linguistic nuances, failing to support fine-grained risk classification for diverse deployment needs. In this paper, we introduce a 5-macro, 31-micro category fine-grained risk taxonomy for Chinese scenarios, and build CHILLGuard: a dedicated Chinese LLM content safety guardrail. To address the critical scarcity of high-quality annotated Chinese safety data, we propose a scalable multi-stage data construction pipeline: we expand multi-source corpus via retrieval-augmented generation, generate implicit harmful samples through prompt engineering rewriting, and refine high-quality data via multi-model voting-based label calibration. Based on this, we build CHILLGuardTrain, a large-scale training set with 405,007 samples, and CHILLGuardTest, a rigorously curated annotated test set with 51,745 samples. We then train CHILLGuard on CHILLGuardTrain under a generator-classifier collaborative framework via Model-aware Direct Preference Optimization. Extensive experiments under multiple settings demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of CHILLGuard, e.g., a 15.92% relative improvement of F1 score over Qwen3Guard-8B-Strict on our benchmark. We release our resources at https://github.com/cswbyu/CHILLGuard.
Beyond Literal Mapping: Benchmarking and Improving Non-Literal Translation Evaluation
Yanzhi Tian | Cunxiang Wang | Zeming Liu | Heyan Huang | Wenbo Yu | Dawei Song | Jie Tang | Yuhang Guo
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yanzhi Tian | Cunxiang Wang | Zeming Liu | Heyan Huang | Wenbo Yu | Dawei Song | Jie Tang | Yuhang Guo
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced Machine Translation (MT), applying them to linguistically complex domains-such as Social Network Services, literature etc. In these scenarios, translations often require handling non-literal expressions, leading to the inaccuracy of MT metrics. To systematically investigate the reliability of MT metrics, we first curate a meta-evaluation dataset focused on non-literal translations, namely MENT. MENT encompasses four non-literal translation domains and features source sentences paired with translations from diverse MT systems, with 7,530 human-annotated scores on translation quality. Experimental results reveal the inaccuracies of traditional MT metrics and the limitations of LLM-as-a-Judge, particularly the knowledge cutoff and score inconsistency problem. To mitigate these limitations, we propose RATE, a novel agentic translation evaluation framework, centered by a reflective Core Agent that dynamically invokes specialized sub-agents. Experimental results indicate the efficacy of RATE, achieving an improvement of at least 3.2 points in combined system- and segment-level correlation with human judgments compared with current methods. Further experiments demonstrate the robustness of RATE to general-domain MT evaluation. Code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/BITHLP/RATE.