collaborators

18 papers

cs.LG2026

The Strongest Teacher Is Not Always the Best Teacher: Student-Centric Answer Selection

Zhengyu Hu, Zheyuan Xiao, Linxin Song +10

LLM training increasingly relies on teacher-generated supervision, from synthetic responses to reasoning traces and tool-use demonstrations. Current practice often chooses the high…

cs.CR2026

CyberChainBench: Can AI Agents Secure Smart Contracts Against Real-World On-Chain Vulnerabilities?

Jintao Huang, Fengqing Jiang, Radha Poovendran +1

We present CyberChainBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-based agents on smart contract security across three complementary tasks: vulnerability detection, exploit generation, an…

cs.CV2026

Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent

Wenliang Zhong, Rob Barton, Lucas Goncalves +7

Unifying image clustering across different clustering scenarios remains challenging due to fundamental gaps among tasks. We introduce a Guideline-Driven Image Clustering Agent, the…

cs.CR2026

BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?

Fengqing Jiang, Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li +3

The convergence of LLM-powered research assistants and AI-based peer review systems creates a critical vulnerability: fully automated publication loops where AI-generated research…

cs.AI2026

JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will

Yuetai Li, Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu +21

Current benchmarks for occupational AI agents are scoped primarily by economic values, telling a replacement story. We introduce JobBench, which evaluates AI agents on the workflow…

cs.DC2026

TierCheck: Tiered Checkpointing for Fault Tolerance in Large Language Model Training

Shujie Han, Feng Jiang, Patrick P. C. Lee +5

Large Language Model (LLM) training is frequently interrupted by a heterogeneous spectrum of failures, from common GPU crashes to catastrophic cluster-wide outages. Existing checkp…