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20222026
most citedAlgorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models

13 citations · 18 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Segment-Level Coherence for Robust Harmful Intent Probing in LLMs

Xuanli He, Bilgehan Sel, Faizan Ali +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly exposed to adaptive jailbreaking, particularly in high-stakes Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) domains. Although…

cs.CR2026

Trojan-Speak: Bypassing Constitutional Classifiers with No Jailbreak Tax via Adversarial Finetuning

Bilgehan Sel, Xuanli He, Alwin Peng +2

Fine-tuning APIs offered by major AI providers create new attack surfaces where adversaries can bypass safety measures through targeted fine-tuning. We introduce Trojan-Speak, an a…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning with Backtracking Feedback

Bilgehan Sel, Vaishakh Keshava, Phillip Wallis +3

Addressing the critical need for robust safety in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly against adversarial attacks and in-distribution errors, we introduce Reinforcement Lear…

cs.CL2025

Backtracking for Safety

Bilgehan Sel, Dingcheng Li, Phillip Wallis +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks, but ensuring their safety and alignment with human values remains crucial. Current safe…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Can Plan Only If We Tell Them

Bilgehan Sel, Ruoxi Jia, Ming Jin

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in natural language processing and reasoning, yet their effectiveness in autonomous planning has been under…

cs.CL2024

Skin-in-the-Game: Decision Making via Multi-Stakeholder Alignment in LLMs

Bilgehan Sel, Priya Shanmugasundaram, Mohammad Kachuee +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in tasks such as summarization, arithmetic reasoning, and question answering. However, they encounter significant ch…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

A CMDP-within-online framework for Meta-Safe Reinforcement Learning

Vanshaj Khattar, Yuhao Ding, Bilgehan Sel +2

Meta-reinforcement learning has widely been used as a learning-to-learn framework to solve unseen tasks with limited experience. However, the aspect of constraint violations has no…

cs.AI2024

Safe and Balanced: A Framework for Constrained Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

Shangding Gu, Bilgehan Sel, Yuhao Ding +4

In numerous reinforcement learning (RL) problems involving safety-critical systems, a key challenge lies in balancing multiple objectives while simultaneously meeting all stringent…

cs.LG2024

Balance Reward and Safety Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning: A Perspective of Gradient Manipulation

Shangding Gu, Bilgehan Sel, Yuhao Ding +4

Ensuring the safety of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is crucial for its deployment in real-world applications. Nevertheless, managing the trade-off between reward and safety during e…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

A Human-on-the-Loop Optimization Autoformalism Approach for Sustainability

Ming Jin, Bilgehan Sel, Fnu Hardeep +1

This paper outlines a natural conversational approach to solving personalized energy-related problems using large language models (LLMs). We focus on customizable optimization prob…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models

Bilgehan Sel, Ahmad Al-Tawaha, Vanshaj Khattar +2

Current literature, aiming to surpass the "Chain-of-Thought" approach, often resorts to external modi operandi involving halting, modifying, and then resuming the generation proces…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

On Solution Functions of Optimization: Universal Approximation and Covering Number Bounds

Ming Jin, Vanshaj Khattar, Harshal Kaushik +2

We study the expressibility and learnability of convex optimization solution functions and their multi-layer architectural extension. The main results are: \emph{(1)} the class of…