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6 papers

cs.AI2026

ReplicatorBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Replicability in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Bang Nguyen, Dominik Soós, Qian Ma +8

The literature has witnessed an emerging interest in AI agents for automated assessment of scientific papers. Existing benchmarks focus primarily on the computational aspect of thi…

cs.CR2026

Attacks Meet Interpretability (AmI) Evaluation and Findings

Qian Ma, Ziping Ye, Shagufta Mehnaz

To investigate the effectiveness of the model explanation in detecting adversarial examples, we reproduce the results of two papers, Attacks Meet Interpretability: Attribute-steere…

cs.HC2026

Learning Password Best Practices Through In-Task Instruction

Qian Ma, Yingfan Zhou, Shubhang Kaushik +6

Users often make security- and privacy-relevant decisions without a clear understanding of the rules that govern safe behavior. We introduce pedagogical friction, a design approach…

cs.CR2026

How to Backdoor the Knowledge Distillation

Chen Wu, Qian Ma, Prasenjit Mitra +1

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone in modern machine learning systems, celebrated for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a more e…

cs.LG2025

Vocabulary In-Context Learning in Transformers: Benefits of Positional Encoding

Qian Ma, Ruoxiang Xu, Yongqiang Cai

Numerous studies have demonstrated that the Transformer architecture possesses the capability for in-context learning (ICL). In scenarios involving function approximation, context…

cs.CR2025

Enhancing Adversarial Example Detection Through Model Explanation

Qian Ma, Ziping Ye

Adversarial examples are a major problem for machine learning models, leading to a continuous search for effective defenses. One promising direction is to leverage model explanatio…