Yang Cao
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2026
SLIM: Stealthy Low-Coverage Black-Box Watermarking via Latent-Space Confusion Zones
Hengyu WU | Yang Cao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Hengyu WU | Yang Cao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Training data is a critical and often proprietary asset in Large Language Model (LLM) development, motivating the use of data watermarking to embed model-transferable signals for usage verification. We identify low coverage as a vital yet largely overlooked requirement for practicality, as individual data owners typically contribute only a minute fraction of massive training corpora. Prior methods fail to maintain stealthiness, verification feasibility, or robustness when only one or a few sequences can be modified. To address these limitations, we introduce SLIM, a framework enabling per-user data provenance verification under strict black-box access. SLIM leverages intrinsic LLM properties to induce a Latent-Space Confusion Zone by training the model to map semantically similar prefixes to divergent continuations. This manifests as localized generation instability, which can be reliably detected via hypothesis testing. Experiments demonstrate that SLIM achieves ultra-low coverage capability, strong black-box verification performance, and great scalability while preserving both stealthiness and model utility, offering a robust solution for protecting training data in modern LLM pipelines.
FreeChunker: A Cross-Granularity Chunking Framework
Zhang Wenxuan | Yuan-Hao Jiang | Yang Cao | Yonghe Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhang Wenxuan | Yuan-Hao Jiang | Yang Cao | Yonghe Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Chunking strategies significantly impact the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Existing methods operate within fixed-granularity paradigms that rely on static boundary identification, limiting their adaptability to diverse query requirements. This paper presents FreeChunker, a Cross-Granularity Encoding Framework that fundamentally transforms the traditional chunking paradigm: the framework treats sentences as atomic units and shifts from static chunk segmentation to flexible retrieval supporting arbitrary sentence combinations. This paradigm shift not only significantly avoids the computational overhead required for semantic boundary detection, but also enhances adaptability to complex queries. Experimental evaluation on LongBench V2 demonstrates that FreeChunker possesses significant advantages in both retrieval performance and time efficiency compared to existing chunking methods. The pre-trained models and codes are available at https://github.com/mazehart/FreeChunker.
APPSI-139: A Parallel Corpus of English Application Privacy Policy Summarization and Interpretation
Pengyun Zhu | Qiheng Sun | Long Wen | Yanbo Wang | Yang Cao | Junxu Liu | Deyi Xiong | Jinfei Liu | Zhibo Wang | Kui Ren
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Pengyun Zhu | Qiheng Sun | Long Wen | Yanbo Wang | Yang Cao | Junxu Liu | Deyi Xiong | Jinfei Liu | Zhibo Wang | Kui Ren
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Privacy policies are essential for users to understand how service providers handle their personal data. However, these documents are often long and complex, as well as filled with technobabble and legalese, causing users to unknowingly accept terms that may even contradict the law. While summarizing and interpreting these privacy policies is crucial, there is a lack of high-quality English parallel corpus optimized for legal clarity and readability. To address this issue, we introduce APPSI-139, a high-quality English privacy policy corpus meticulously annotated by domain experts, specifically designed for summarization and interpretation tasks. The corpus includes 139 English privacy policies, 15,692 rewritten parallel corpora, and 36,351 fine-grained annotation labels across 11 data practice categories. Concurrently, we propose TCSI-pp-V2, a hybrid privacy policy summarization and interpretation framework that employs an alternating training strategy and coordinates multiple expert modules to effectively balance computational efficiency and accuracy. Experimental results show that the hybrid summarization system built on APPSI-139 corpus and the TCSI-pp-V2 framework outperform large language models, such as GPT-4o and LLaMA-3-70B, in terms of readability and reliability. The source code and dataset are available at https://github.com/EnlightenedAI/APPSI-139.
2025
CODEMENV: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Code Migration
Keyuan Cheng | Xudong Shen | Yihao Yang | Tengyue Wang | Yang Cao | Muhammad Asif Ali | Hanbin Wang | Lijie Hu | Di Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Keyuan Cheng | Xudong Shen | Yihao Yang | Tengyue Wang | Yang Cao | Muhammad Asif Ali | Hanbin Wang | Lijie Hu | Di Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in handling a wide range of tasks within the software engineering domain, but their ability to perform code migration—adapting code to different environments—remains underexplored. In this work, we propose a novel benchmark, : Code Migration Across Environment, designed to evaluate LLMs’ performance in handling code migration tasks. The benchmark comprises 922 data points across 19 Python and Java packages, offering three tasks to systematically evaluate code migration: identifying version-incompatible functions, determining function changes, and adapting code to target environments. Experimental evaluation of across seven LLMs revealed an average pass@1 rate of 26.50%, with GPT-4o performing best at 43.84%. We highlight our key findings as follows: (i) LLMs are more familiar with newer function versions, making them better at migrating legacy code, and (ii) a logical inconsistency where LLMs sometimes identify irrelevant function changes for the target migration environment.