Yiting Liu
2026
Linguistic Steganography via Self-Adjusting Asymmetric Number System
Yiting Liu | Chungen Xu | Fei Yang | Pan Zhang | Linlong Wang
Computational Linguistics, Volume 52, Issue 1 - March 2026
Yiting Liu | Chungen Xu | Fei Yang | Pan Zhang | Linlong Wang
Computational Linguistics, Volume 52, Issue 1 - March 2026
Linguistic steganography (stego) seeks to conceal secret information within natural language text. However, existing methods often struggle to balance stego text quality with embedding efficiency, largely due to limitations in generation strategies and coding mechanisms. We propose SA-ANS, a self-adaptive linguistic steganography framework based on a self-adjusting Asymmetric Numeral System. SA-ANS allows user-specified embedding rates and uses probabilistic coding with adaptive candidate selection, dynamically tailoring the token pool to the language model’s probability distribution. This design produces fluent, semantically coherent stego text while preserving statistical indistinguishability from natural language. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets, evaluated across embedding efficiency, linguistic quality, statistical similarity, robustness to steganalysis, and human judgment, show that SA-ANS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating both effectiveness and practicality.
2022
Think Beyond Words: Exploring Context-Relevant Visual Commonsense for Diverse Dialogue Generation
Yiting Liu | Liang Li | Beichen Zhang | Qingming Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Yiting Liu | Liang Li | Beichen Zhang | Qingming Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Commonsense knowledge has been widely considered for building intelligent open-domain dialogue agents, aiming to generate meaningful and diverse responses. Previous works in this field usually lack the ability to effectively obtain and utilize auxiliary commonsense from the external visual world. In this paper, we argue that exploiting logical information in images related to context can be effective to enrich and steer the generation process. In view of this, we propose VICTOR, a context-relevant VIsual Commonsense enhanced dialogue generaTOR for generating coherent and informative responses. To obtain the associated visual commonsense, we devise a novel approach that expands topic words on the knowledge graph and maps them into daily scenarios. During the generation, the model adopts multimodal fusion mechanism to integrate visual and textual information, and adaptively combine their decoding distributions for better response generation. The experimental results on two public datasets show that our proposed method outperforms the latest competitive methods in terms of coherence and diversity.