collaborators

7 papers

cs.CR2026

MIRAGE: Protecting against Malicious Image Editing via False Moderation

Anshul Nasery, Ramnath Kumar, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

The proliferation of AI-powered image editing systems raises serious concerns because it allows personal images to be arbitrarily manipulated at scale, with minimal effort, and a l…

cs.LG2026

DualEval: Joint Model-Item Calibration for Unified LLM Evaluation

Aaron J. Li, Hao Huang, Youngmin Park +6

Current LLM evaluation relies on two complementary but often disconnected signals: static benchmarks with objective correctness labels and arena-style preference data that better r…

cs.LG2026

Do Prompt-Elicited Trajectories Reflect Training-Time Reward Hacking? A Systematic Study on Monitoring Training-Time Reward Hacking in Code Generation

Lichen Li, Hengguang Zhou, Yijun Liang +2

Reward hacking in code generation, where models exploit evaluation loopholes to obtain high reward without correctly solving the intended task, poses a critical challenge for Reinf…

cs.IR2026

Closing the Auto-Research Loop: An AI Co-Scientist for Production Search Ranking

Liwei Wu, Cho-Jui Hsieh

We present an AI Co-Scientist framework that closes the research loop for the production search-ranking system of a large online travel platform -- pairing LLM agents with direct c…

cs.CL2026

APEX: Automated Prompt Engineering eXpert with Dynamic Data Selection

Fei Wang, Si Si, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

Large Language Models are highly sensitive to prompt formulation, necessitating automatic prompt optimization to unlock their full potential. While evolutionary algorithms have eme…

cs.AI2026

Cycle-Consistent Search: Question Reconstructability as a Proxy Reward for Search Agent Training

Sohyun An, Shuibenyang Yuan, Hayeon Lee +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown strong potential for optimizing search agents in complex information retrieval tasks. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on gold…