• [10/2024] 5 papers from my group have been accepted to SoCal NLP Symposium 2024.

• [9/2024] Three papers on hallucination interpretability, cross-modal unlearning, and adversarial attacks have been accepted to EMNLP Findings.

• [9/2024] I am honored to serve as a senior area chair for NAACL 2025 and area chair for ICLR 2025.

• [7/2024] Our paper on Personalized Conversational Information Retrieval has been accepted at CIKM 2024.

• [7/2024] IllusionVQA has been accepted at COLM.

• [5/2024] Excited that 5 papers (on Summarization Safety Alignment, Bias in Text-to-Image Generation, Misogyny Benchmark, Text Re-ranking, Temporal QA) are accepted to ACL 2024 or ACL Findings.

• [5/2024] Our work “Cross-Task Defense: Instruction-Tuning LLMs for Content Safety” has been accepted to NAACL TrustNLP 2024 workshop.

• [3/2024] I am honored to serve as a senior area chair for EMNLP 2024.

• [3/2024] Our paper Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Question Answering with Masked Self-training has been accepted at TACL 2024.

• [2/2024] My PhD students Yu Fu (1st year) and Erfan Shayegani (2nd year) will be interning at Microsoft Research this summer. Congrats!

Welcome to UCR NLP Lab!

Lab Members

Director

Yue Dong, assistant professor of computer science and engineering

PhD Students

• Yu Fu, since Fall 2023

• Erfan Shayegani (co-advise with Prof. Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh), since Summer 2023

• Haz Sameen Shahgir, Fall 2024

• G M Shahariar Shibli, Fall 2024

Publications

2024

[32] Mechanisms of non-factual hallucinations in language models

Yu Lei, Meng Cao, JCK Cheung, Yue Dong

EMNLP 2024 Findings

[31] Adversarial Attacks on Parts of Speech: An Empirical Study in Text-to-Image Generation

GM Shahariar, Jia Chen, Jiachen Li, Yue Dong

EMNLP 2024 Findings

[30] Cross-Modal Safety Alignment: Is textual unlearning all you need?

Trishna Chakraborty, Erfan Shayegani, Zikui Cai, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, M Salman Asif, Yue Dong, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Chengyu Song

EMNLP 2024 Findings

[29] How to Leverage Personal Textual Knowledge for Personalized Conversational Information Retrieval

Fengran Mo, Longxiang Zhao, Kaiyu Huang, Yue Dong, Degen Huang, Jian-Yun Nie

CIKM 2024

[28] IllusionVQA: A Challenging Optical Illusion Dataset for Vision Language Models

Haz Sameen Shahgir, Khondker Salman Sayeed, Abhik Bhattacharjee, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Yue Dong, Rifat Shahriyar

Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2024

[27] Cross-task defense: Instruction-tuning LLMs for content safety

Yu Fu, Wen Xiao, Jia Chen, Jiachen Li, Evangelos Papalexakis, Aichi Chien, Yue Dong

TrustNLP Workshop @ NAACL 2024

[26] Safety Alignment in NLP Tasks: Weakly Aligned Summarization as an In-Context Attack

• [Spring 2024] CS 173 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing

• [Winter 2024] CS 222 - Natural Language Processing

• [Spring 2023] CS 173 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing

• [Winter 2023] CS 260 - Seminar in Natural Language Processing

Lead-organizer

• ACL 2024 Tutorial on Vulnerabilities of Large Language Models to Adversarial Attacks

• EMNLP 2023 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization

Co-organizer

• NeurIPS 2024 workshop on [Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV)]

• NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-III)

• KDD 2023 tutorial on Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models

• NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-II)

• EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization

Invited talks

• [11/2023] Exploring Safety in Large Language Models YouTube 40:30 mins | News

  • 80th Annual Convention of Jiaotong University Alumni Association in SoCal (交通大学南加州校友会80周年庆), Los Angeles, CA, US

• [11/04/2023] AI and Large Language Models

  • UCR Family Day/Homecoming seminar, Riverside CA, US

• [08/2023] Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models

  • KDD Tutorial, Long Beach, CA, US

Fundings:

• NSF CISE MSI, Co-PI, Jan. 2025- Dec. 2027

• UTCRS, Co-PI, June 2024 - June 2025

• Regents Faculty Fellowship grant, PI, July 2023 - June 2025

• UCR OASIS Internal Funding Awards, PI, June 2023 - June 2024

Academic Awards:

• Best Paper Award, Southern California NLP Symposium, 2023

• Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS D) - Accepted, 2018-2019

• [ Best Paper Award ] at Canadian conference on artificial intelligence

• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS D) - Accepted, 2017-2018

• FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship - Declined (rank first in all 2016 applicants in mathematics), 2016

• FRQNT Master’s Research Scholarship, 2016

• NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - CGS Master’s, 2015

• University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, 2015 - 2016

• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), Summer 2014

• Dean’s Merit Scholarships - Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, 2014

• University of Ottawa Women’s Summer Research Award, Summer 2013

• University of Ottawa Work/Study Research Award, Summer 2012