Shen Yan
2026
Detecting AI-Generated Content on Social Media with Multi-modal Language Models
Chenyang Yang | Shen Yan | Yibo Yang | Litao Hu | Yuchen Liu | Yuan Zeng | Hanchao Yu | Yinan Zhu | Sumedha Singla | Brian Vanover | Huijun Qian | Zihao Wang | Fujun Liu | Aashu Singh | Jianyu Wang | Xuewen Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Chenyang Yang | Shen Yan | Yibo Yang | Litao Hu | Yuchen Liu | Yuan Zeng | Hanchao Yu | Yinan Zhu | Sumedha Singla | Brian Vanover | Huijun Qian | Zihao Wang | Fujun Liu | Aashu Singh | Jianyu Wang | Xuewen Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Generative AI has enabled the creation of photorealistic images and videos that are increasingly disseminated on social media, often used for spam, misinformation, manipulation, and fraud. Existing AI-generated content (AIGC) detection methods face challenges including poor generalization to new generation models, reliance on single modalities, and lack of interpretable explanations. We present our pipeline that mitigates these issues by continuously curating diverse multi-modal social media data and training a compact vision-language model for detection and explanation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art detection performance on public benchmarks and demonstrates robust detection and explanation capabilities on internal social media datasets across multiple platforms. We deployed our model for post recommendation on social media platforms and observed positive downstream impacts on user engagement, demonstrating that it is feasible to perform effective AIGC detection in dynamic, real-world social media environments.
2018
Word-based Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
Shen Yan | Leonard Dahlmann | Pavel Petrushkov | Sanjika Hewavitharana | Shahram Khadivi
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
Shen Yan | Leonard Dahlmann | Pavel Petrushkov | Sanjika Hewavitharana | Shahram Khadivi
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
In this paper, we empirically investigate applying word-level weights to adapt neural machine translation to e-commerce domains, where small e-commerce datasets and large out-of-domain datasets are available. In order to mine in-domain like words in the out-of-domain datasets, we compute word weights by using a domain-specific and a non-domain-specific language model followed by smoothing and binary quantization. The baseline model is trained on mixed in-domain and out-of-domain datasets. Experimental results on En → Zh e-commerce domain translation show that compared to continuing training without word weights, it improves MT quality by up to 3.11% BLEU absolute and 1.59% TER. We have also trained models using fine-tuning on the in-domain data. Pre-training a model with word weights improves fine-tuning up to 1.24% BLEU absolute and 1.64% TER, respectively.