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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Simplifying Flow Matching Transformations with Low-Rank Mixture Models

Liam A. Kruse, Houjun Liu, Alexandros E. Tzikas +2

Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal de…

cs.CR2026

SecureForge: Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities in LLM-Generated Code via Prompt Optimization

Houjun Liu, Lisa Einstein, John Yang +5

LLM coding agents now generate code at an unprecedented scale, yet LLM-generated code introduces cybersecurity vulnerabilities into codebases without human involvement. Even when f…

cs.RO2026

Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures

Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu +7

Deploying visuomotor robots at scale is challenging due to the potential for anomalous failures to degrade performance, cause damage, or endanger human life. Bimanual manipulators…

cs.LG2026

Thoughtbubbles: an Unsupervised Method for Parallel Thinking in Latent Space

Houjun Liu, Shikhar Murty, Christopher D. Manning +1

Current approaches for scaling inference-time compute in transformers train them to emit explicit chain-of-thought tokens before producing an answer. While these methods are powerf…

cs.CL2025

ASTPrompter: Preference-Aligned Automated Language Model Red-Teaming to Generate Low-Perplexity Unsafe Prompts

Amelia F. Hardy, Houjun Liu, Allie Griffith +3

Existing LLM red-teaming approaches prioritize high attack success rate, often resulting in high-perplexity prompts. This focus overlooks low-perplexity attacks that are more diffi…

cs.AI2025

Alto: Orchestrating Distributed Compound AI Systems with Nested Ancestry

Deepti Raghavan, Keshav Santhanam, Muhammad Shahir Rahman +7

Compound AI applications chain together subcomponents such as generative language models, document retrievers, and embedding models. Applying traditional systems optimizations such…