Kun Wei
2026
Rotation Control Unlearning: Quantifying and Controlling Continuous Unlearning for LLM with The Cognitive Rotation Space
Xiang Zhang | Kun Wei | Xu Yang | Jiahua Li | Su Yan | Cheng Deng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Xiang Zhang | Kun Wei | Xu Yang | Jiahua Li | Su Yan | Cheng Deng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent, their security vulnerabilities have already drawn attention.Machine unlearning is introduced to seek to mitigate these risks by removing the influence of undesirable data. However, existing methods not only rely on the retained dataset to preserve model utility, but also suffer from cumulative catastrophic utility loss under continuous unlearning requests.To solve this dilemma, we propose a novel method, called Rotation Control Unlearning (RCU), which leverages the rotational salience weight of RCU to quantify and control the unlearning degree in the continuous unlearning process.The skew symmetric loss is designed to construct the existence of the cognitive rotation space, where the changes of rotational angle can simulate the continuous unlearning process.Furthermore, we design an orthogonal rotation axes regularization to enforce mutually perpendicular rotation directions for continuous unlearning requests, effectively minimizing interference and addressing cumulative catastrophic utility loss.Experiments on multiple datasets confirm that our continuous unlearning method without retained dataset achieves SOTA performance.
2024
Exploiting Intrinsic Multilateral Logical Rules for Weakly Supervised Natural Language Video Localization
Zhe Xu | Kun Wei | Xu Yang | Cheng Deng
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhe Xu | Kun Wei | Xu Yang | Cheng Deng
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Weakly supervised natural language video localization (WS-NLVL) aims to retrieve the moment corresponding to a language query in a video with only video-language pairs utilized during training. Despite great success, existing WS-NLVL methods seldomly consider the complex temporal relations enclosing the language query (e.g., between the language query and sub-queries decomposed from it or its synonymous query), yielding illogical predictions. In this paper, we propose a novel plug-and-play method, Intrinsic Multilateral Logical Rules, namely IMLR, to exploit intrinsic temporal relations and logical rules for WS-NLVL. Specifically, we formalize queries derived from the original language query as the nodes of a directed graph, i.e., intrinsic temporal relation graph (ITRG), and the temporal relations between them as the edges. Instead of directly prompting a pre-trained language model, a relation-guided prompting method is introduced to generate ITRG in a hierarchical manner. We customize four types of multilateral temporal logical rules (i.e., identity, inclusion, synchronization, and succession) from ITRG and utilize them to train our model. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our method on the Charades-STA and ActivityNet Captions datasets.
2023
The NPU-MSXF Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023 Speech-to-Speech Translation Task
Kun Song | Yi Lei | Peikun Chen | Yiqing Cao | Kun Wei | Yongmao Zhang | Lei Xie | Ning Jiang | Guoqing Zhao
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023)
Kun Song | Yi Lei | Peikun Chen | Yiqing Cao | Kun Wei | Yongmao Zhang | Lei Xie | Ning Jiang | Guoqing Zhao
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023)
This paper describes the NPU-MSXF system for the IWSLT 2023 speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) task which aims to translate from English speech of multi-source to Chinese speech. The system is built in a cascaded manner consisting of automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), and text-to-speech (TTS). We make tremendous efforts to handle the challenging multi-source input. Specifically, to improve the robustness to multi-source speech input, we adopt various data augmentation strategies and a ROVER-based score fusion on multiple ASR model outputs. To better handle the noisy ASR transcripts, we introduce a three-stage fine-tuning strategy to improve translation accuracy. Finally, we build a TTS model with high naturalness and sound quality, which leverages a two-stage framework, using network bottleneck features as a robust intermediate representation for speaker timbre and linguistic content disentanglement. Based on the two-stage framework, pre-trained speaker embedding is leveraged as a condition to transfer the speaker timbre in the source English speech to the translated Chinese speech. Experimental results show that our system has high translation accuracy, speech naturalness, sound quality, and speaker similarity. Moreover, it shows good robustness to multi-source data.