Publications

rLLM: A Framework for Post-Training Language Agents

Sijun Tan, Michael Luo, Colin Cai, Tarun Venkat, Kyle Montgomery, Aaron Hao, Tianhao Wu, Arnav Balyan, Manan Roongta, Chenguang Wang, Li Erran Li, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica.

In Notion 2025.

Humanity’s Last Exam

Long Phan, Wenjin Zhang, Nick Crispino, Chenguang Wang, Daofeng Li, Jiawei Shen, Kyle Montgomery, Hannah Szlyk, Ting Wang, Summer Yue, Alexandr Wang, Dan Hendrycks, many others.

In arXiv preprint 2025.

AGENTVIGIL: Generic Black-Box Red-teaming for Indirect Prompt Injection against LLM Agents

Zhun Wang, Vincent Siu, Zhe Ye, Tianneng Shi, Yuzhou Nie, Xuandong Zhao, Chenguang Wang, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2025 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).

COSMIC: Generalized Refusal Direction Identification in LLM Activations

Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, Zihao Yu, Sam Pan, Zhun Wang, Yang Liu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang.

In The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).

Predicting Task Performance with Context-aware Scaling Laws

Kyle Montgomery, David Park, Jianhong Tu, Michael Bendersky, Beliz Gunel, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang.

In ACL workshop 2025.

MLAN: Language-Based Instruction Tuning Improves Zero-Shot Generalization of Multimodal Large Language Models

Jianhong Tu*, Zhuohao Ni*, Nicholas Crispino, Zihao Yu, Michael Bendersky, Beliz Gunel, Ruoxi Jia, Xin Liu, Lingjuan Lyu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang.

In ACL workshop 2025.

JudgeBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Judges

Sijun Tan*, Siyuan Zhuang*, Kyle Montgomery*, William Y. Tang, Alejandro Cuadron, Chenguang Wang, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica.

In The International Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

Preference Poisoning Attacks on Reward Model Learning

Junlin Wu, Jiongxiao Wang, Chaowei Xiao, Chenguang Wang, Ning Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik.

In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2025).

Re-Tuning: Overcoming the Compositionality Limits of Large Language Models with Recursive Tuning

Eric Pasewark*, Kyle Montgomery*, Kefei Duan, Dawn Song, and Chenguang Wang.

In The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).

Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners

Nicholas Crispino, Kyle Montgomery, Fankun Zeng, Dawn Song, and Chenguang Wang.

In The Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).

Measuring Vision-Language STEM Skills of Neural Models

Jianhao Shen, Ye Yuan, Srbuhi Mirzoyan, Ming Zhang, and Chenguang Wang.

In The Twelfth International Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).

Measuring Social Norms of Large Language Models

Ye Yuan, Kexin Tang, Jianhao Shen, Ming Zhang, and Chenguang Wang.

In 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).

Benchmarking Zero-Shot Robustness of Multimodal Foundation Models: A Pilot Study

Chenguang Wang, Ruoxi Jia, Xin Liu, and Dawn Song.

In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024 Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision).

Evaluating Large Language Models in an Emerging Domain: A Pilot Study in Decentralized Finance

Joshua Carter Pearlson, Xiaoyuan Liu, Chengsong Huang, Kripa Ann George, Dawn Song, and Chenguang Wang.

In The Twelfth International Conf. on Learning Representations DPFM Workshop (ICLR 2024 DPFM Workshop).

Enhancing Global Estimation of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations by Including Geophysical a Priori Information in Deep Learning

Siyuan Shen, Chi Li, Aaron van Donkelaar, Nathan Jacobs, Chenguang Wang, Randall V. Martin.

In ACS ES&T Air (ACS ES&T Air 2024).

CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models

Zhiyuan Yu, Yuhao Wu, Ning Zhang, Chenguang Wang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Chaowei Xiao.

In Proc. of the 40th International Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).

Practical Membership Inference Attacks Against Large-Scale Multi-Modal Models: A Pilot Study

Myeongseob Ko, Ming Jin, Chenguang Wang, Ruoxi Jia.

In International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023).

DeepStruct: Pretraining of language models for structure prediction

Chenguang Wang*, Xiao Liu*, Zui Chen*, Haoyun Hong, Jie Tang, and Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022).

Joint language semantic and structure embedding for knowledge graph completion

Jianhao Shen, Chenguang Wang*, Linyuan Gong, and Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2022 Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022).

IELM: An Open Information Extraction Benchmark for Pre-Trained Language Models

Chenguang Wang, Xiao Liu and Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2022 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).

PALT: Parameter-Lite Transfer of Language Models for Knowledge Graph Completion

Jianhao Shen, Chenguang Wang*, Ye Yuan, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, Koushik Sen, Ming Zhang* and Dawn Song*.

In Proc. 2022 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).

Benchmarking Language Models for Code Syntax Understanding

Da Shen, Xinyun Chen*, Chenguang Wang*, Koushik Sen and Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2022 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).

Fine-mixing: Mitigating Backdoors in Fine-tuned Language Models

Zhiyuan Zhang, Lingjuan Lyu, Xingjun Ma, Chenguang Wang and Xu Sun.

In Proc. 2022 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).

Protecting intellectual property of language generation APIs with lexical watermark

Xuanli He, Qiongkai Xu, Lingjuan Lyu, Fangzhao Wu, and Chenguang Wang.

In Proc. 2022 AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022).

Improving representation of the AOD to PM2.5 relationship with a convolutional neural network

Siyuan Shen, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Nathan Jacobs, and Chenguang Wang.

In Proc. 2022 Advancing Earth and Space Science (AGU 2022).

Zero-shot information extraction as a unified text-to-triple translation

Chenguang Wang, Xiao Liu, Zui Chen, Haoyun Hong, Jie Tang, and Dawn Song.

In Proc. 2021 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021).

Language models are open knowledge graphs

Chenguang Wang, Xiao Liu, and Dawn Song.

In arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11967 (arXiv 2020).

GluonCV and GluonNLP: Deep learning in computer vision and natural language processing

Jian Guo, He He, Tong He, Leonard Lausen, Mu Li, Haibin Lin, Xingjian Shi, Chenguang Wang, Junyuan Xie, Aston Zhang, Hang Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Zhongyue Zhang, and Shuai Zheng.

In Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR 2020).

PoD: Positional dependency-based word embedding for aspect term extraction

Yichun Yin, Chenguang Wang, and Ming Zhang.

In Proc. 2020 Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020).

Transformer on a diet

Chenguang Wang, Zihao Ye, Aston Zhang, Zheng Zhang, and Alexander Smola.

In arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06170 (arXiv 2020).

Language models with Transformers

Chenguang Wang, Mu Li, and Alexander Smola.

In arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09408 (arXiv 2019).

From shallow to deep language representations: Pre-training, fine-tuning, and beyond

Aston Zhang, Haibin Lin, Chenguang Wang, Mu Li, and Alexander Smola.

In Proc. 2019 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf.on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019).

Co-occurrent features in semantic segmentation

Hang Zhang, Han Zhang, Chenguang Wang, and Junyuan Xie.

In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019).

Unsupervised meta-path selection for similarity measure on heterogeneous information networks

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Haoran Li, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In Proc. 2018 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2018).

Distant meta-path similarities for text-based heterogeneous information networks

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Haoran Li, Yizhou Sun, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In Proc. 2017 ACM Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017).

Crowd-in-the-loop: A hybrid approach for annotating semantic roles

Chenguang Wang, Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Fei Xia, and Anbang Xu.

In Proc. 2017 Conf. on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017).

Active learning for black-box semantic role labeling with neural factors

Chenguang Wang, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li.

In Proc. 2017 Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017).

Semi-supervised learning over heterogeneous information networks by ensemble of meta-graph guided random walks

He Jiang, Yangqiu Song, Chenguang Wang, Ming Zhang, and Yizhou Sun.

In Proc. 2017 Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017).

Towards re-defining relation understanding in financial domain

Chenguang Wang, Doug Burdick, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, and Huaiyu Zhu.

In Proc. of 2017 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data Workshop (SIGMOD 2017 Workshop).

HINE: Heterogeneous information network embedding

Yuxin Chen, and Chenguang Wang.

In Proc. 2017 Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017).

World knowledge as indirect supervision for document clustering

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Ahmed El-Kishky, Dan Roth, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD 2016).

RelSim: Relation similarity search in schema-rich heterogeneous information networks

Chenguang Wang, Yizhou Sun, Yanglei Song, Jiawei Han, Yangqiu Song, Lidan Wang, and Ming Zhang.

In Proc. 2016 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM 2016)".

Text classification with heterogeneous information network kernels

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Haoran Li, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In Proc. 2016 AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016).

KnowSim: A document similarity measure on structured heterogeneous information networks

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Haoran Li, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In Proc. of 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM 2015).

Constrained information-theoretic tripartite graph clustering to identify semantically similar relations

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Dan Roth, Chi Wang, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, and Ming Zhang.

In Proc. 2015 Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015).

Incorporating world knowledge to document clustering via heterogeneous information networks

Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Ahmed El-Kishky, Dan Roth, Ming Zhang, and Jiawei Han.

In Proc. 2015 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015).

Spectral label refinement for noisy and missing text labels

Yangqiu Song, Chenguang Wang, Ming Zhang, Hailong Sun, and Qiang Yang.

In Proc. 2015 AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015).

Measuring domain influence in heterogeneous networks

Quan Liu, Chenguang Wang, and Ming Zhang.

In Proc. 2014 ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining Workshop on Diffusion Networks and Cascade Analytics (WSDM 2014 Workshop).

Paraphrasing adaptation for web search ranking

Chenguang Wang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, and Ming Zhang.

In Proc. 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013).

ENGtube: An integrated subtitle environment for ESL

Chi-Ho Li, Shujie Liu, Chenguang Wang, and Ming Zhou.

In MT Summit XIII: the Thirteenth Machine Translation Summit (MTSummit 2011).