Yifei Huang
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Adaptive Causal Coordination Detection for Online Harm Campaigns: A Framework Study with Semi-Supervised Labeling
Yi Han | Wen Ding | Xuanjing Chen | Zhiguo Tao | Lifan Sun | Zichen Yuan | Yifei Huang
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
Yi Han | Wen Ding | Xuanjing Chen | Zhiguo Tao | Lifan Sun | Zichen Yuan | Yifei Huang
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
ACCD detects coordinated online harm campaigns by combining adaptive causal temporal scoring, semi-supervised account classification, and stability validation. On a filtered Twitter IRA task, it improves account-level coordination screening over correlation and fixed-parameter CCM baselines, while reducing manual labeling and runtime.
Can MLLMs Read the Room? A Multimodal Benchmark for Assessing Deception in Multi-Party Social Interactions
Caixin Kang | Yifei Huang | Liangyang Ouyang | Mingfang Zhang | Ruicong Liu | Yoichi Sato
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Caixin Kang | Yifei Huang | Liangyang Ouyang | Mingfang Zhang | Ruicong Liu | Yoichi Sato
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Despite their advanced reasoning capabilities, state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrably lack a core component of human intelligence: the ability to ‘read the room’ and assess deception in complex social interactions. To rigorously quantify this failure, we introduce a new task, Multimodal Interactive Deception Assessment (MIDA), and present a novel multimodal dataset providing synchronized video and text with verifiable ground-truth labels for every statement. We establish a comprehensive benchmark evaluating 12 state-of-the-art open- and closed-source MLLMs, revealing a significant performance gap: even powerful models like GPT-4o struggle to distinguish truth from falsehood reliably. Our analysis of failure modes indicates that these models fail to effectively ground language in multimodal social cues and lack the ability to model what others know, believe, or intend, highlighting the urgent need for novel approaches to building more perceptive and trustworthy AI systems. To take a step forward, we design a Social Chain-of-Thought (SoCoT) reasoning pipeline and a Dynamic Social Epistemic Memory (DSEM) module. Our framework yields performance improvement on this challenging task, demonstrating a promising new path toward building MLLMs capable of genuine human-like social reasoning.
JAMER: Project-Level Code Framework Dataset and Benchmark on Professional Game Engines
Jianwen Sun | Chuanhao Li | Zizhen Li | Yukang Feng | Fanrui Zhang | Yifei Huang | Yu Dai | Kaipeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jianwen Sun | Chuanhao Li | Zizhen Li | Yukang Feng | Fanrui Zhang | Yifei Huang | Yu Dai | Kaipeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Current AI-driven game development has made substantial progress in asset generation, gameplay design, and web-based game coding, yet project-level code engineering on professional game engines remains largely unexplored due to the absence of large-scale datasets and deterministic evaluation methods. We present JamSet and JamBench, the first project-level game code framework dataset and benchmark built on a professional game engine. Our key insight is that Game Jam competitions, community events where developers build complete games under tight time constraints, yield thousands of open-source projects suitable for this purpose. Building on the Godot engine’s text-based format and headless execution mode, we design a deterministic verification pipeline from file integrity to runtime behavior collection, distilling 8,133 verified projects from over 240,000 repositories. Of these, 300 manually verified projects form JamBench; the rest constitute JamSet. JamBench defines theme-driven generation and code completion tasks, evaluated through a pipeline combining compilation pass rates, Structural Completeness Score (SCS), and Behavioral Alignment Score (BAS). Evaluation of 9 frontier models reveals a capability cliff as project scale increases, with runtime pass rates dropping from 80.4% on small projects to 5.7% on large ones(Task2a). Code Agents improve compilation rates yet yield no gains in runtime behavioral quality, indicating that the bottleneck lies in architectural design rather than syntactic correctness. Experiments validate JamSet as effective training data. All data and code are publicly available.
MeepleLM: A Virtual Playtester Simulating Diverse Subjective Experiences
Zizhen Li | Chuanhao Li | Yibin Wang | Jianwen Sun | Yukang Feng | Jiaxin Ai | Fanrui Zhang | Mingzhu Sun | Yifei Huang | Kaipeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zizhen Li | Chuanhao Li | Yibin Wang | Jianwen Sun | Yukang Feng | Jiaxin Ai | Fanrui Zhang | Mingzhu Sun | Yifei Huang | Kaipeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent advancements have expanded the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in board games from playing agents to creative co-designers. However, a critical gap remains: current systems lack the capacity to offer constructive critique grounded in the emergent user experience. Bridging this gap is fundamental for harmonizing Human-AI collaboration, as it empowers designers to refine their creations via external perspectives while steering models away from biased or unpredictable outcomes. Automating this evaluation presents two challenges: inferring the latent dynamics connecting static rules to gameplay without an explicit engine, and modeling the subjective heterogeneity of diverse player groups. To address these, we curate a comprehensive dataset of 1,727 structurally corrected rulebooks and 150K reviews selected via rigorous quality scoring and facet-aware sampling. We augment this data with Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) reasoning to explicitly bridge the causal gap between written rules and player experience. We further distill distinct player personas and introduce MeepleLM, a specialized model that internalizes persona-specific reasoning patterns to accurately simulate the subjective feedback of diverse player archetypes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MeepleLM significantly outperforms latest commercial models (e.g., GPT-5.1, Gemini3-Pro) in community alignment and critique quality, achieving a 70% preference rate in user studies assessing practical utility. MeepleLM serves as a reliable virtual playtester that provides experience-grounded feedback, offering a practical step towards audience-aligned Human-AI collaboration.
Unleashing Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Textual Representation Guided Reasoning
Jiacheng Hua | Yishu Yin | Yuhang Wu | Tai Wang | Yifei Huang | Miao Liu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jiacheng Hua | Yishu Yin | Yuhang Wu | Tai Wang | Yifei Huang | Miao Liu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with 3D spatial reasoning, as they fail to construct structured abstractions of the 3D environment depicted in video inputs. To bridge this gap, drawing inspiration from cognitive theories of allocentric spatial reasoning, we investigate how to enable MLLMs to model and reason over text-based spatial representations of video. Specifically, we introduce Textual Representation of Allocentric Context from Egocentric Video (TRACE), a prompting method that induces MLLMs to generate text-based representations of 3D environments as intermediate reasoning traces for more accurate spatial question answering. TRACE encodes meta-context, camera trajectories, and detailed object entities to support structured spatial reasoning over egocentric videos. Extensive experiments on VSI-Bench and OST-Bench demonstrate that TRACE yields notable and consistent improvements over prior prompting strategies across a diverse range of MLLM backbones, spanning different parameter scales and training schemas. We further present ablation studies to validate our design choices, along with detailed analyses that probe the bottlenecks of 3D spatial reasoning in MLLMs.
2025
MAGRET: Machine-generated Text Detection with Rewritten Texts
Yifei Huang | Jiuxin Cao | Hanyu Luo | Xin Guan | Bo Liu
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Yifei Huang | Jiuxin Cao | Hanyu Luo | Xin Guan | Bo Liu
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
With the quick advancement in text generation ability of Large Language Mode(LLM), concerns about the misuse of machine-generated content have grown, raising potential violations of legal and ethical standards. Some existing studies concentrate on detecting machine-generated text in open-source models using in-model features, but their performance on closed-source large models is limited. This limitation occurs because, in the closed-source model detection, the only reference that can be obtained is the texts, which may differ significantly due to random sampling. In this paper, we demonstrate that texts generated by the same model can align both semantically and statistically under similar prompts, facilitating effective detection and traceability. Specifically, we fine-tune a BERT encoder through contrastive learning to achieve semantic alignment in randomly generated texts from the same model. Then, we propose a method called Machine-Generated Text Detection with Rewritten Texts, which designed several prompt refactoring methods and used them to request rewritten text from LLMs. Semantic and statistical relationships between rewritten and original texts provide a basis for detection and traceability. Finally, we expanded the text dataset with multi-parameter random sampling and verified the performance of MAGRET on three text-generated datasets. Experimental results show that previous methods struggle with closed-source model detection, while our approach significantly outperforms baseline methods in this regard. It also shows MagRet’s stable performance in detection and tracing tasks across various randomly sampled texts.
2023
Pretraining Language Models with Text-Attributed Heterogeneous Graphs
Tao Zou | Le Yu | Yifei Huang | Leilei Sun | Bowen Du
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Tao Zou | Le Yu | Yifei Huang | Leilei Sun | Bowen Du
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
In many real-world scenarios (e.g., academic networks, social platforms), different types of entities are not only associated with texts but also connected by various relationships, which can be abstracted as Text-Attributed Heterogeneous Graphs (TAHGs). Current pretraining tasks for Language Models (LMs) primarily focus on separately learning the textual information of each entity and overlook the crucial aspect of capturing topological connections among entities in TAHGs. In this paper, we present a new pretraining framework for LMs that explicitly considers the topological and heterogeneous information in TAHGs. Firstly, we define a context graph as neighborhoods of a target node within specific orders and propose a topology-aware pretraining task to predict nodes involved in the context graph by jointly optimizing an LM and an auxiliary heterogeneous graph neural network. Secondly, based on the observation that some nodes are text-rich while others have little text, we devise a text augmentation strategy to enrich textless nodes with their neighbors’ texts for handling the imbalance issue. We conduct link prediction and node classification tasks on three datasets from various domains. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our approach over existing methods and the rationality of each design. Our code is available at https://github.com/Hope-Rita/THLM.
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- Yukang Feng 2
- Chuanhao Li 2
- Zizhen Li 2
- Jianwen Sun 2
- Fanrui Zhang 2
- Kaipeng Zhang 2
- Jiaxin Ai 1
- Jiuxin Cao 1
- Xuanjing Chen 1
- Yu Dai 1
- Wen Ding 1
- Bowen Du 1
- Xin Guan 1
- Yi Han 1
- Jiacheng Hua 1
- Caixin Kang 1
- Bo Liu 1
- Miao Liu 1
- Ruicong Liu 1
- Hanyu Luo 1
- Liangyang Ouyang 1
- Yoichi Sato 1
- Leilei Sun 1
- Lifan Sun 1
- Mingzhu Sun 1
- Zhiguo Tao 1
- Tai Wang 1
- Yibin Wang 1
- Yuhang Wu 1
- Yishu Yin 1
- Le Yu 1
- Zichen Yuan 1
- Mingfang Zhang 1
- Tao Zou 1