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most citedFundamental Safety-Capability Trade-offs in Fine-tuning Large Language Models

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cs.CV2026

Can Vision-Language Models Reason about AI Edits in Images?

Darsha Udayanga, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das +1

Detection and localization of AI-tampered images are critical for trustworthy AI, yet modern generative models have made such manipulations increasingly difficult to identify. Whil…

cs.AI2025

Patching LLM Like Software: A Lightweight Method for Improving Safety Policy in Large Language Models

Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Ching-Yun Ko +3

We propose patching for large language models (LLMs) like software versions, a lightweight and modular approach for addressing safety vulnerabilities. While vendors release improve…

cs.LG2025

PEEL the Layers and Find Yourself: Revisiting Inference-time Data Leakage for Residual Neural Networks

Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Payel Das +2

This paper explores inference-time data leakage risks of deep neural networks (NNs), where a curious and honest model service provider is interested in retrieving users' private da…

stat.ML2025★ 1 cited

Fundamental Safety-Capability Trade-offs in Fine-tuning Large Language Models

Pin-Yu Chen, Han Shen, Payel Das +1

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on some task-specific datasets has been a primary use of LLMs. However, it has been empirically observed that this approach to enhancing ca…

cs.AI2024

Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors to Achieve Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew Riemer +4

There is a growing interest in training domain-expert LLMs that excel in specific technical fields compared to their general-purpose instruction-tuned counterparts. However, these…

cs.LG2024

SEAL: Safety-enhanced Aligned LLM Fine-tuning via Bilevel Data Selection

Han Shen, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das +1

Fine-tuning on task-specific data to boost downstream performance is a crucial step for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). However, previous studies have demonstrated that fi…

cs.AI2019

Toward A Neuro-inspired Creative Decoder

Payel Das, Brian Quanz, Pin-Yu Chen +2

Creativity, a process that generates novel and meaningful ideas, involves increased association between task-positive (control) and task-negative (default) networks in the human br…