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most citedLLaVAR: Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-Rich Image Understanding

27 citations · 87 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction

Xinrui Shi, Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang

LLM agents are increasingly deployed in collaborative settings, yet long-term interaction may give rise to undesirable coordination. We study the emergence of collusion in a long-h…

cs.CL2026

The Illusion of Robustness: Aggregate Accuracy Hides Prediction Flips under Task-Irrelevant Context

Yanzhe Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo, Diyi Yang

As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they are increasingly deployed in context-rich settings where task inputs are often accompanied by long, partially irrelevant con…

cs.CR2026

Contextualized Privacy Defense for LLM Agents

Yule Wen, Yanzhe Zhang, Jianxun Lian +3

LLM agents increasingly act on users' personal information, yet existing privacy defenses remain limited in both design and adaptability. Most prior approaches rely on static or pa…

cs.CL2025

AutoMetrics: Approximate Human Judgements with Automatically Generated Evaluators

Michael J. Ryan, Yanzhe Zhang, Amol Salunkhe +3

Evaluating user-facing AI applications remains a central challenge, especially in open-ended domains such as travel planning, clinical note generation, or dialogue. The gold standa…

cs.AI2025

Real-Time Reasoning Agents in Evolving Environments

Yule Wen, Yixin Ye, Yanzhe Zhang +2

Agents in the real world must make not only logical but also timely judgments. This requires continuous awareness of the dynamic environment: hazards emerge, opportunities arise, a…

cs.CL2025

Generative Interfaces for Language Models

Jiaqi Chen, Yanzhe Zhang, Yutong Zhang +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly seen as assistants, copilots, and consultants, capable of supporting a wide range of tasks through natural conversation. However, most…

cs.CR2025

Searching for Privacy Risks in LLM Agents via Simulation

Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang

The widespread deployment of LLM-based agents is likely to introduce a critical privacy threat: malicious agents that proactively engage others in multi-turn interactions to extrac…

cs.SE2025

SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents

John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Carlos E. Jimenez +7

Despite recent progress in Language Models (LMs) for software engineering, collecting training data remains a significant pain point. Existing datasets are small, with at most 1,00…

cs.CV2025

EgoNormia: Benchmarking Physical Social Norm Understanding

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Yicheng Fu, Phil Cuvin +4

Human activity is moderated by norms; however, supervision for normative reasoning is sparse, particularly where norms are physically- or socially-grounded. We thus present EGONORM…

cs.CL2024

Attacking Vision-Language Computer Agents via Pop-ups

Yanzhe Zhang, Tao Yu, Diyi Yang

Autonomous agents powered by large vision and language models (VLM) have demonstrated significant potential in completing daily computer tasks, such as browsing the web to book tra…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Sketch2Code: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Interactive Web Design Prototyping

Ryan Li, Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang

Sketches are a natural and accessible medium for UI designers to conceptualize early-stage ideas. However, existing research on UI/UX automation often requires high-fidelity inputs…

cs.CL2024

Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data

William Held, Ella Li, Michael Ryan +3

Voice assistants, such as Siri and Google Assistant, typically model audio and text separately, resulting in lost speech information and increased complexity. Recent efforts to add…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

TRINS: Towards Multimodal Language Models that Can Read

Ruiyi Zhang, Yanzhe Zhang, Jian Chen +4

Large multimodal language models have shown remarkable proficiency in understanding and editing images. However, a majority of these visually-tuned models struggle to comprehend th…

cs.CL2024★ 17 cited

Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data

Ruibo Liu, Jerry Wei, Fangyu Liu +8

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and hig…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Design2Code: Benchmarking Multimodal Code Generation for Automated Front-End Engineering

Chenglei Si, Yanzhe Zhang, Ryan Li +3

Generative AI has made rapid advancements in recent years, achieving unprecedented capabilities in multimodal understanding and code generation. This can enable a new paradigm of f…

cs.CL2023★ 21 cited

A Dynamic LLM-Powered Agent Network for Task-Oriented Agent Collaboration

Zijun Liu, Yanzhe Zhang, Peng Li +2

Recent studies show that collaborating multiple large language model (LLM) powered agents is a promising way for task solving. However, current approaches are constrained by using…

cs.CV2023★ 27 cited

LLaVAR: Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-Rich Image Understanding

Yanzhe Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu +4

Instruction tuning unlocks the superior capability of Large Language Models (LLM) to interact with humans. Furthermore, recent instruction-following datasets include images as visu…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Bounding the Capabilities of Large Language Models in Open Text Generation with Prompt Constraints

Albert Lu, Hongxin Zhang, Yanzhe Zhang +2

The limits of open-ended generative models are unclear, yet increasingly important. What causes them to succeed and what causes them to fail? In this paper, we take a prompt-centri…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Auditing Gender Presentation Differences in Text-to-Image Models

Yanzhe Zhang, Lu Jiang, Greg Turk +1

Text-to-image models, which can generate high-quality images based on textual input, have recently enabled various content-creation tools. Despite significantly affecting a wide ra…

cs.CL2022

Robustness of Demonstration-based Learning Under Limited Data Scenario

Hongxin Zhang, Yanzhe Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang +1

Demonstration-based learning has shown great potential in stimulating pretrained language models' ability under limited data scenario. Simply augmenting the input with some demonst…

cs.CL2022

Continual Sequence Generation with Adaptive Compositional Modules

Yanzhe Zhang, Xuezhi Wang, Diyi Yang

Continual learning is essential for real-world deployment when there is a need to quickly adapt the model to new tasks without forgetting knowledge of old tasks. Existing work on c…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Leveraging Expert Guided Adversarial Augmentation For Improving Generalization in Named Entity Recognition

Aaron Reich, Jiaao Chen, Aastha Agrawal +2

Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems often demonstrate great performance on in-distribution data, but perform poorly on examples drawn from a shifted distribution. One way to eva…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based Regularization

Yufan Huang, Yanzhe Zhang, Jiaao Chen +2

Continual learning has become increasingly important as it enables NLP models to constantly learn and gain knowledge over time. Previous continual learning methods are mainly desig…