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Publications (45)

cs.CL2024

Enhancing Small Medical Learners with Privacy-preserving Contextual Prompting

Xinlu Zhang, Shiyang Li, Xianjun Yang +3

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable medical expertise, but data privacy concerns impede their direct use in healthcare environments. Although offering improved data…

physics.flu-dyn2021

On explosive boiling of a multicomponent Leidenfrost drop

Sijia Lyu, Huanshu Tan, Yuki Wakata +4

The gasification of multicomponent fuel drops is relevant in various energy-related technologies. An interesting phenomenon associated with this process is the self-induced explosi…

cs.CL2025

Your thoughts tell who you are: Characterize the reasoning patterns of LRMs

Yida Chen, Yuning Mao, Xianjun Yang +7

Current comparisons of large reasoning models (LRMs) focus on macro-level statistics such as task accuracy or reasoning length. Whether different LRMs reason differently remains an…

cs.CL2025

Weak-to-Strong Jailbreaking on Large Language Models

Xuandong Zhao, Xianjun Yang, Tianyu Pang +4

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks - resulting in harmful, unethical, or biased text generations. However, existing jailbreaking methods are computati…

cs.CL2025

AlpaCare:Instruction-tuned Large Language Models for Medical Application

Xinlu Zhang, Chenxin Tian, Xianjun Yang +3

Instruction-finetuning (IFT) has become crucial in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with diverse human needs and has shown great potential in medical applications. However, pr…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Reasoning Gains: Mitigating General-Capability Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models

Hoang Phan, Xianjun Yang, Yuanshun Yao +6

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has delivered impressive gains in mathematical and multimodal reasoning and has become a standard post-training paradigm for c…