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20202026
most citedOpenAttack: An Open-source Textual Adversarial Attack Toolkit

73 citations · 122 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

Stepped MoE: Segment-Level Routing with Configurable Inference Complexity

Arnav Kundu, Zhaoyang Xu, Bairu Hou +3

Training large language models (LLMs) is resource-intensive, and adapting them for diverse deployment scenarios with varying computational constraints remains challenging. While el…

cs.CL2026

CompliBench: Benchmarking LLM Judges for Compliance Violation Detection in Dialogue Systems

Jingbo Yang, Guanyu Yao, Bairu Hou +5

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as task-oriented agents in enterprise environments, ensuring their strict adherence to complex, domain-specific operationa…

cs.AI2026

Ares: Adaptive Reasoning Effort Selection for Efficient LLM Agents

Jingbo Yang, Bairu Hou, Wei Wei +2

Modern agents powered by thinking LLMs achieve high accuracy through long chain-of-thought reasoning but incur substantial inference costs. While many LLMs now support configurable…

cs.AI2025

WebDART: Dynamic Decomposition and Re-planning for Complex Web Tasks

Jingbo Yang, Bairu Hou, Wei Wei +2

Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming competent at straightforward web tasks, such as opening an item page or submitting a form, but still struggle with objectives that re…

cs.CL2025

ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Bairu Hou, Yang Zhang, Jiabao Ji +4

We present ThinkPrune, a simple yet effective method for pruning the thinking length for long-thinking LLMs, which has been found to often produce inefficient and redundant thinkin…

cs.CL2025

KVLink: Accelerating Large Language Models via Efficient KV Cache Reuse

Jingbo Yang, Bairu Hou, Wei Wei +2

We describe KVLink, an approach for efficient key-value (KV) cache reuse in large language models (LLMs). In many LLM applications, different inputs can share overlapping context,…

cs.CL2025

Instruction-Following Pruning for Large Language Models

Bairu Hou, Qibin Chen, Jianyu Wang +6

With the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs), structured pruning has become a widely used technique to learn efficient, smaller models from larger ones, delivering superi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Probabilistic Framework for LLM Hallucination Detection via Belief Tree Propagation

Bairu Hou, Yang Zhang, Jacob Andreas +1

This paper focuses on the task of hallucination detection, which aims to determine the truthfulness of LLM-generated statements. To address this problem, a popular class of methods…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Advancing the Robustness of Large Language Models through Self-Denoised Smoothing

Jiabao Ji, Bairu Hou, Zhen Zhang +7

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success, their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations, including recent jailbreak attacks, has raised considerab…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Defending Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks via Semantic Smoothing

Jiabao Ji, Bairu Hou, Alexander Robey +5

Aligned large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, which bypass the safeguards of targeted LLMs and fool them into generating objectionable content. While…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models

Alon Albalak, Yanai Elazar, Sang Michael Xie +11

A major factor in the recent success of large language models is the use of enormous and ever-growing text datasets for unsupervised pre-training. However, naively training a model…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Decomposing Uncertainty for Large Language Models through Input Clarification Ensembling

Bairu Hou, Yujian Liu, Kaizhi Qian +3

Uncertainty decomposition refers to the task of decomposing the total uncertainty of a predictive model into aleatoric (data) uncertainty, resulting from inherent randomness in the…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Certified Robustness for Large Language Models with Self-Denoising

Zhen Zhang, Guanhua Zhang, Bairu Hou +5

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in vast real-world applications, their vulnerabilities towards noisy inputs have significantly limited their uses,…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Improving Diffusion Models for Scene Text Editing with Dual Encoders

Jiabao Ji, Guanhua Zhang, Zhaowen Wang +4

Scene text editing is a challenging task that involves modifying or inserting specified texts in an image while maintaining its natural and realistic appearance. Most previous appr…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

TextGrad: Advancing Robustness Evaluation in NLP by Gradient-Driven Optimization

Bairu Hou, Jinghan Jia, Yihua Zhang +4

Robustness evaluation against adversarial examples has become increasingly important to unveil the trustworthiness of the prevailing deep models in natural language processing (NLP…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

PromptBoosting: Black-Box Text Classification with Ten Forward Passes

Bairu Hou, Joe O'Connor, Jacob Andreas +2

We describe PromptBoosting, a query-efficient procedure for building a text classifier from a neural language model (LM) without access to the LM's parameters, gradients, or hidden…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

Learning to Attack: Towards Textual Adversarial Attacking in Real-world Situations

Yuan Zang, Bairu Hou, Fanchao Qi +3

Adversarial attacking aims to fool deep neural networks with adversarial examples. In the field of natural language processing, various textual adversarial attack models have been…

cs.CL2020★ 73 cited

OpenAttack: An Open-source Textual Adversarial Attack Toolkit

Guoyang Zeng, Fanchao Qi, Qianrui Zhou +6

Textual adversarial attacking has received wide and increasing attention in recent years. Various attack models have been proposed, which are enormously distinct and implemented wi…