11 papers
New Terms, New Toxicity: Consensus-based Chinese Neologism Toxicity Detection via Search-Augmented LLMs
Shiyao Cui, QingLin Zhang, Di Wang +7
Neologisms, emerging terms in meaning or form, can serve as new vehicles for toxic expression, like "country girl" as a stigmatizing label targeting feminism. Such toxic neologisms…
Safe Alone, Unsafe Together: Safeguarding Against Implicit Toxicity When Benign Images Combine
Jiaxian Lv, Shiyao Cui, Yingkang Wang +3
Multi-image content has become an increasingly prevalent form of visual communication in social media, giving rise to a new safety issue, multi-image implicit toxicity (MIIT), wher…
SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents
Jianshuo Dong, Sheng Guo, Hao Wang +6
Search agents connect LLMs to the Internet, enabling them to access broader and more up-to-date information. However, this also introduces a new threat surface: unreliable search r…
EVA: Editing for Versatile Alignment against Jailbreaks
Yi Wang, Hongye Qiu, Yue Xu +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities but remain vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, where adversaries exploit te…
Stop Before You Fail: Operational Capability Boundaries for Mitigating Unproductive Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models
Qingjie Zhang, Yujia Fu, Yang Wang +5
Current answering paradigms for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often fail to account for the fact that some questions may lie beyond the model's operational capability boundary, lea…
The Side Effects of Being Smart: Safety Risks in MLLMs' Multi-Image Reasoning
Renmiao Chen, Yida Lu, Shiyao Cui +6
As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) acquire stronger reasoning capabilities to handle complex, multi-image instructions, this advancement may pose new safety risks. We stud…