Zekun Wang
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2026
GLA: Grounding Large Language Models in Molecular Hierarchy for Chemical Understanding
Yingxu Li | Jingjie Zeng | Zekun Wang | Hongfei Lin | Liang Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yingxu Li | Jingjie Zeng | Zekun Wang | Hongfei Lin | Liang Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Conventional Euclidean geometries lead to structural distortion and entangle core pharmacophoric identities with peripheral groups. Existing molecule-language models, relying on linear or uniform encodings, often obscure the hierarchical organization of chemical semantics. To address this, we propose Geometric-Language Alignment (GLA), a framework integrating intrinsic molecular topology into large language models. GLA employs a mixed-curvature encoder that adaptively learns geometric representations through a gating mechanism. These representations are aligned with text via a dual-view contrastive objective and injected into a frozen language model. Experiments on cross-modal retrieval, captioning, and property prediction benchmarks show GLA consistently improves performance over baselines, suggesting that modeling geometric heterogeneity enhances the grounding between molecular structure and chemical language.
LOTUS: Evolving Multimodal Unlearning via Hyperbolic Entailment and Lorentz Transport
Zekun Wang | Jingjie Zeng | Yingxu Li | Hongfei Lin | Liang Yang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zekun Wang | Jingjie Zeng | Yingxu Li | Hongfei Lin | Liang Yang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) face critical privacy challenges due to the indiscriminate memorization of sensitive data. Existing unlearning methods, largely adapted from Euclidean paradigms, suffer from a geometric mismatch: they fail to disentangle specific instances from general concepts, causing catastrophic forgetting or unsafe substitution. We introduce LOTUS (Lorentz Transport for Unlearning Strategies), a framework for surgical semantic pruning within the Lorentz manifold. Leveraging hyperbolic geometry’s hierarchical nature, LOTUS employs an Inverted Entailment Cone Loss to sever the inheritance of sensitive concepts and a Lorentz Transport mechanism to align pruned features within the tangent space, ensuring compatibility with Euclidean backbones via a safety refusal prior. Experiments on MLLMU-Bench with LLaVA and Qwen show that LOTUS significantly outperforms baselines, effectively erasing targeted visual data while preserving general utility.
2025
Human-Inspired Obfuscation for Model Unlearning: Local and Global Strategies with Hyperbolic Representations
Zekun Wang | Jingjie Zeng | Yingxu Li | Liang Yang | Hongfei Lin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Zekun Wang | Jingjie Zeng | Yingxu Li | Liang Yang | Hongfei Lin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across various domains, largely due to training on massive datasets. However, this also raises growing concerns over the exposure of sensitive and private information, making model unlearning increasingly critical.However, existing methods often struggle to balance effective forgetting with maintaining model utility. In this work, we propose HyperUnlearn, a human-inspired unlearning framework. We construct two types of fuzzy data—local and global—to simulate forgetting, and represent them in hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces, respectively. Unlearning is performed on a model with frozen early layers to isolate forgetting and preserve useful knowledge.Experiments demonstrate that HyperUnlearn effectively forgets sensitive content while maintaining the model’s language understanding, fluency, and benchmark performance, offering a practical trade-off between forgetting and capability preservation.
Sheep’s Skin, Wolf’s Deeds: Are LLMs Ready for Metaphorical Implicit Hate Speech?
Jingjie Zeng | Liang Yang | Zekun Wang | Yuanyuan Sun | Hongfei Lin
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jingjie Zeng | Liang Yang | Zekun Wang | Yuanyuan Sun | Hongfei Lin
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Implicit hate speech has become a significant challenge for online platforms, as it often avoids detection by large language models (LLMs) due to its indirectly expressed hateful intent. This study identifies the limitations of LLMs in detecting implicit hate speech, particularly when disguised as seemingly harmless expressions in a rhetorical device. To address this challenge, we employ a Jailbreaking strategy and Energy-based Constrained Decoding techniques, and design a small model for measuring the energy of metaphorical rhetoric. This approach can lead to LLMs generating metaphorical implicit hate speech. Our research reveals that advanced LLMs, like GPT-4o, frequently misinterpret metaphorical implicit hate speech, and fail to prevent its propagation effectively. Even specialized models, like ShieldGemma and LlamaGuard, demonstrate inadequacies in blocking such content, often misclassifying it as harmless speech. This work points out the vulnerability of current LLMs to implicit hate speech, and emphasizes the improvements to address hate speech threats better.