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20192026
most citedHow Can Large Language Models Help Humans in Design and Manufacturing?

29 citations · 101 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

cs.CL2026

Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model

Arash Ebrahim Abtahizadeh, Muna Aghamelu, Adil Ahmed +327

We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware. Muse Glimmer…

cs.SE2026

QuSema: Detecting Silent Bugs in Quantum Libraries via Quantum-knowledge-enhanced Agents

Yujin Song, Kaining Zhang, Qixin Zhang +3

Quantum libraries are now critical infrastructure for quantum algorithm development, yet their correctness remains difficult to test. Existing testing techniques mainly rely on fai…

cs.PL2026

Decompiling Quantum Assembly into Structured Programs

Pingchuan Ma, Zhantong Xue, Zongjie Li +6

Quantum compilers translate programs into native gates, insert SWAP gates to route interactions onto a device, and optimize the result. The output is quantum assembly, a flat gate…

cs.AI2026

Demistifying Data and Simulator Assumptions in Supervised Causal Discovery

Pingchuan Ma, Rui Ding, Bojun Huang +1

Supervised causal discovery learns to infer causal structure for a new dataset from training datasets paired with structural labels. These training pairs are typically simulated, m…

cs.SE2026

KQFuzz: Knowledge-Guided Fuzzing for Quantum Libraries via Large Language Models

Fuyuan Xia, Qixin Zhang, Chenhao Ying +5

As quantum computing continually improves, ensuring the reliability and correctness of quantum libraries has become increasingly critical. To this end, many LLM-based fuzzing appro…

cs.SE2026

AutoSpec: Safety Rule Evolution for LLM Agents via Inductive Logic Programming

Pingchuan Ma, Zhaoyu Wang, Zimo Ji +5

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate complex tasks by integrating language models with external tools and environments. However, their autonomy poses significant…

cs.CR2026

From Shield to Target: Denial-of-Service Attacks on LLM-Based Agent Guardrails

Yuguang Zhou, Xunguang Wang, Pingchuan Ma +3

LLM-based guardrails have emerged as a highly effective defense against prompt injection and jailbreak attacks in autonomous agents. However, we reveal that the very reasoning and…

cs.CY2026

WARBENCH: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Military Decision-Making

Zongjie Li, Chaozheng Wang, Yuchong Xie +2

Large Language Models are increasingly being considered for deployment in safety-critical military applications. However, current benchmarks suffer from structural blindspots that…

cs.SE2026

SkillReducer: Optimizing LLM Agent Skills for Token Efficiency

Yudong Gao, Zongjie Li, Yuanyuan Yuan +3

LLM-based coding agents rely on \emph{skills}, pre-packaged instruction sets that extend agent capabilities, yet every token of skill content injected into the context window incur…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Content Safety: Real-Time Monitoring for Reasoning Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

Xunguang Wang, Yuguang Zhou, Qingyue Wang +5

Large language models increasingly rely on explicit chain-of-thought reasoning to solve complex tasks, yet the safety of the reasoning process itself remains largely unaddressed. E…

cs.CR2026

Taming Various Privilege Escalation in LLM-Based Agent Systems: A Mandatory Access Control Framework

Zimo Ji, Daoyuan Wu, Wenyuan Jiang +5

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent systems are increasingly deployed for complex real-world tasks but remain vulnerable to natural language-based attacks that exploit over-priv…

cs.LG2026

Efficient Differentiable Causal Discovery via Reliable Super-Structure Learning

Pingchuan Ma, Qixin Zhang, Shuai Wang +1

Recently, differentiable causal discovery has emerged as a promising approach to improve the accuracy and efficiency of existing methods. However, when applied to high-dimensional…

cs.CR2025

Taxonomy, Evaluation and Exploitation of IPI-Centric LLM Agent Defense Frameworks

Zimo Ji, Xunguang Wang, Zongjie Li +6

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents with function-calling capabilities are increasingly deployed, but remain vulnerable to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks that hijack t…

cs.CL2025

A Good Plan is Hard to Find: Aligning Models with Preferences is Misaligned with What Helps Users

Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Yoo Yeon Sung +5

To assist users in complex tasks, LLMs generate plans: step-by-step instructions towards a goal. While alignment methods aim to ensure LLM plans are helpful, they train (RLHF) or e…

cs.SE2025

Digging Into the Internal: Causality-Based Analysis of LLM Function Calling

Zhenlan Ji, Daoyuan Wu, Wenxuan Wang +3

Function calling (FC) has emerged as a powerful technique for facilitating large language models (LLMs) to interact with external systems and perform structured tasks. However, the…

cs.SE2025

From Evaluation to Enhancement: Large Language Models for Zero-Knowledge Proof Code Generation

Zhantong Xue, Pingchuan Ma, Zhaoyu Wang +4

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are increasingly deployed in domains such as privacy-preserving authentication, verifiable computation, and secure finance. However, authoring ZK progr…

cs.AI2025

Measuring and Augmenting Large Language Models for Solving Capture-the-Flag Challenges

Zimo Ji, Daoyuan Wu, Wenyuan Jiang +3

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions are crucial for cybersecurity education and training. As large language models (LLMs) evolve, there is increasing interest in their ability to a…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

STShield: Single-Token Sentinel for Real-Time Jailbreak Detection in Large Language Models

Xunguang Wang, Wenxuan Wang, Zhenlan Ji +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that circumvent their safety mechanisms. While existing defense methods either suffer from ada…

cs.LG2024

Scalable Differentiable Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders with Skeleton Posterior (Extended Version)

Pingchuan Ma, Rui Ding, Qiang Fu +4

Differentiable causal discovery has made significant advancements in the learning of directed acyclic graphs. However, its application to real-world datasets remains restricted due…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

SelfDefend: LLMs Can Defend Themselves against Jailbreaking in a Practical Manner

Xunguang Wang, Daoyuan Wu, Zhenlan Ji +7

Jailbreaking is an emerging adversarial attack that bypasses the safety alignment deployed in off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) and has evolved into multiple categories: h…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Testing and Understanding Erroneous Planning in LLM Agents through Synthesized User Inputs

Zhenlan Ji, Daoyuan Wu, Pingchuan Ma +2

Agents based on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated effectiveness in solving a wide range of tasks by integrating LLMs with key modules such as planning, memory, and too…

cs.SE2024

How Multi-Modal LLMs Reshape Visual Deep Learning Testing? A Comprehensive Study Through the Lens of Image Mutation

Liwen Wang, Yuanyuan Yuan, Ao Sun +4

Visual deep learning (VDL) systems have shown significant success in real-world applications like image recognition, object detection, and autonomous driving. To evaluate the relia…

cs.LG2024

Eliminating Information Leakage in Hard Concept Bottleneck Models with Supervised, Hierarchical Concept Learning

Ao Sun, Yuanyuan Yuan, Pingchuan Ma +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) aim to deliver interpretable and interventionable predictions by bridging features and labels with human-understandable concepts. While recent CBMs…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

An Empirical Study on Large Language Models in Accuracy and Robustness under Chinese Industrial Scenarios

Zongjie Li, Wenying Qiu, Pingchuan Ma +6

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) in various domains. To better serve the large number of Chinese users, many commercial vendors in…