Xiaoqun Liu


2026

Eye movement offers valuable insights into human visual attention during assessment of machine-generated texts, yet existing research and resources in this area are limited. To bridge this gap, we introduce Gaze Responses for Evaluating AI Texts (GREAT), a comprehensive dataset capturing human eye-movement features during screen reading of passages generated by large language models (LLMs). The dataset includes raw eye-movement recordings, reading-time measurements, and post-reading evaluations for LLM-generated passage pairs, alongside rigorous validation metrics. The collected eye-movement features demonstrate strong explanatory power in predicting text quality. When integrated with negative log-likelihood (NLL), a commonly used metric for evaluating text quality, it substantially enhances model performance across all standard statistical criteria. These findings demonstrate that eye-movement can act as an effective source of information that complements probabilistic metrics, for the task of automatic text quality assessment. The full dataset and some processing code are publicly available at https://github.com/qwurd231/GREAT.

2025

Large language models (LLMs) are widely adapted for downstream applications through fine-tuning, a process named customization. However, recent studies have identified a vulnerability during this process, where malicious samples can compromise the robustness of LLMs and amplify harmful behaviors. To address this challenge, we propose an adaptive data curation approach allowing any text to be curated to enhance its effectiveness in counteracting harmful samples during customization. To avoid the need for additional defensive modules, we further introduce a comprehensive mitigation framework spanning the lifecycle of the customization process: before customization to immunize LLMs against future compromise attempts, during customization to neutralize risks, and after customization to restore compromised models. Experimental results demonstrate a significant reduction in compromising effects, achieving up to a 100% success rate in generating safe responses. By combining adaptive data curation with lifecycle-based mitigation strategies, this work represents a solid step forward in mitigating compromising risks and ensuring the secure adaptation of LLMs.