Yue Xu


2024

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LinkPrompt: Natural and Universal Adversarial Attacks on Prompt-based Language Models
Yue Xu | Wenjie Wang
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Prompt-based learning is a new language model training paradigm that adapts the Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to downstream tasks, which revitalizes the performance benchmarks across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Instead of using a fixed prompt template to fine-tune the model, some research demonstrates the effectiveness of searching for the prompt via optimization. Such prompt optimization process of prompt-based learning on PLMs also gives insight into generating adversarial prompts to mislead the model, raising concerns about the adversarial vulnerability of this paradigm. Recent studies have shown that universal adversarial triggers (UATs) can be generated to alter not only the predictions of the target PLMs but also the prediction of corresponding Prompt-based Fine-tuning Models (PFMs) under the prompt-based learning paradigm. However, UATs found in previous works are often unreadable tokens or characters and can be easily distinguished from natural texts with adaptive defenses. In this work, we consider the naturalness of the UATs and develop LinkPrompt, an adversarial attack algorithm to generate UATs by a gradient-based beam search algorithm that not only effectively attacks the target PLMs and PFMs but also maintains the naturalness among the trigger tokens. Extensive results demonstrate the effectiveness of LinkPrompt, as well as the transferability of UATs generated by LinkPrompt to open-sourced Large Language Model (LLM) Llama2 and API-accessed LLM GPT-3.5-turbo. The resource is available at https://github.com/SavannahXu79/LinkPrompt.

2010

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The Noisier the Better: Identifying Multilingual Word Translations Using a Single Monolingual Corpus
Reinhard Rapp | Michael Zock | Andrew Trotman | Yue Xu
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access

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A Voting Mechanism for Named Entity Translation in English–Chinese Question Answering
Ling-Xiang Tang | Shlomo Geva | Andrew Trotman | Yue Xu
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access

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A Boundary-Oriented Chinese Segmentation Method Using N-Gram Mutual Information
Ling-Xiang Tang | Shlomo Geva | Andrew Trotman | Yue Xu
CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing

2008

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Text Mining Based Query Expansion for Chinese IR
Zhihan Li | Yue Xu | Shlomo Geva
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Web-Based Query Translation for English-Chinese CLIR
Chengye Lu | Yue Xu | Shlomo Geva
International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2008: Special Issue on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Question Answering