Yuhang Wang


2025

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KG-FPQ: Evaluating Factuality Hallucination in LLMs with Knowledge Graph-based False Premise Questions
Yanxu Zhu | Jinlin Xiao | Yuhang Wang | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Recent studies have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to being misled by false premise questions (FPQs), leading to errors in factual knowledge, known as factuality hallucination. Existing benchmarks that assess this vulnerability primarily rely on manual construction, resulting in limited size and lack of expandability. In this work, we introduce an automated, scalable pipeline to create FPQs based on knowledge graphs (KGs). The first step is to modify true triplets extracted from KGs to create false premises. Subsequently, utilizing the state-of-the-art capabilities of GPTs, we generate semantically rich FPQs. Based on the proposed method, we present a comprehensive benchmark, the Knowledge Graph-based False Premise Questions (KG-FPQ), which contains approximately 178k FPQs across three knowledge domains, at six levels of confusability, and in two task formats. Using KG-FPQ, we conduct extensive evaluations on several representative LLMs and provide valuable insights. The KG-FPQ dataset and code are available at https://github.com/yanxuzhu/KG-FPQ.

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QueryAttack: Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models Using Structured Non-natural Query Language
Qingsong Zou | Jingyu Xiao | Qing Li | Zhi Yan | Yuhang Wang | Li Xu | Wenxuan Wang | Kuofeng Gao | Ruoyu Li | Yong Jiang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in the field of natural language processing. Unfortunately, LLMs face significant security and ethical risks. Although techniques such as safety alignment are developed for defense, prior researches reveal the possibility of bypassing such defenses through well-designed jailbreak attacks. In this paper, we propose QueryAttack, a novel framework to examine the generalizability of safety alignment. By treating LLMs as knowledge databases, we translate malicious queries in natural language into structured non-natural query language to bypass the safety alignment mechanisms of LLMs. We conduct extensive experiments on mainstream LLMs, and the results show that QueryAttack not only can achieve high attack success rates (ASRs), but also can jailbreak various defense methods. Furthermore, we tailor a defense method against QueryAttack, which can reduce ASR by up to 64% on GPT-4-1106. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/QueryAttack-334B.

2024

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CDEval: A Benchmark for Measuring the Cultural Dimensions of Large Language Models
Yuhang Wang | Yanxu Zhu | Chao Kong | Shuyu Wei | Xiaoyuan Yi | Xing Xie | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP

As the scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has dramatically enhanced their capabilities, there has been a growing focus on the alignment problem to ensure their responsible and ethical use. While existing alignment efforts predominantly concentrate on universal values such as the HHH principle, the aspect of culture, which is inherently pluralistic and diverse, has not received adequate attention. This work introduces a new benchmark, CDEval, aimed at evaluating the cultural dimensions of LLMs. CDEval is constructed by incorporating both GPT-4’s automated generation and human verification, covering six cultural dimensions across seven domains. Our comprehensive experiments provide intriguing insights into the culture of mainstream LLMs, highlighting both consistencies and variations across different dimensions and domains. The findings underscore the importance of integrating cultural considerations in LLM development, particularly for applications in diverse cultural settings. This benchmark serves as a valuable resource for cultural studies in LLMs, paving the way for more culturally aware and sensitive models.

2023

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Towards Alleviating the Object Bias in Prompt Tuning-based Factual Knowledge Extraction
Yuhang Wang | Dongyuan Lu | Chao Kong | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Many works employed prompt tuning methods to automatically optimize prompt queries and extract the factual knowledge stored in Pre-trained Language Models. In this paper, we observe that the optimized prompts, including discrete prompts and continuous prompts, exhibit undesirable object bias. To handle this problem, we propose a novel prompt tuning method called MeCoD consisting of three modules: Prompt Encoder, Object Equalization and Biased Object Obstruction. Experimental results show that MeCoD can significantly reduce the object bias and at the same time improve accuracy of factual knowledge extraction.