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most citedAdvances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

16 citations · 18 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Preference Tuning as Spectral Update Reorganization

Peiyan Zhang, Haibo Jin, Liying Kang +1

Preference-based post-training is usually understood through endpoint behavior, yet the learned update that produces this behavior remains largely opaque. We study RLHF and related…

cs.AI2026

A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting

Peiyan Zhang, Jason Xin

Recent work shows that language models can transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in generated data during training. We ask whether a different activation-mediated chan…

cs.CL2026

Controlling Output Rankings in LLM-Based Search via Generative Engine Optimization

Haibo Jin, Ruoxi Chen, Peiyan Zhang +4

The way customers search for and choose products is changing with the rise of large language models (LLMs). LLM-based search, or generative engines, provides direct product recomme…

cs.CL2025

GUARD: Guideline Upholding Test through Adaptive Role-play and Jailbreak Diagnostics for LLMs

Haibo Jin, Ruoxi Chen, Peiyan Zhang +3

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integral to various domains, their potential to generate harmful responses has prompted significant societal and regulatory conc…

cs.LG2025

GuardVal: Dynamic Large Language Model Jailbreak Evaluation for Comprehensive Safety Testing

Peiyan Zhang, Haibo Jin, Liying Kang +1

Jailbreak attacks reveal critical vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) by causing them to generate harmful or unethical content. Evaluating these threats is particularly…

cs.CV2025

From Hallucinations to Jailbreaks: Rethinking the Vulnerability of Large Foundation Models

Haibo Jin, Peiyan Zhang, Peiran Wang +2

Large foundation models (LFMs) are susceptible to two distinct vulnerabilities: hallucinations and jailbreak attacks. While typically studied in isolation, we observe that defenses…

cs.CV2025

Reasoning Can Hurt the Inductive Abilities of Large Language Models

Haibo Jin, Peiyan Zhang, Man Luo +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress across domains, yet their ability to perform inductive reasoning - inferring latent rules from sparse examples - remains…

cs.AI2025★ 16 cited

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

Bang Liu, Xinfeng Li, Jiayi Zhang +45

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a transformative shift in artificial intelligence, paving the way for advanced intelligent agents capable of sophisticated…

cs.CL2024

REVOLVE: Optimizing AI Systems by Tracking Response Evolution in Textual Optimization

Peiyan Zhang, Haibo Jin, Leyang Hu +5

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the ability of LLM-based systems to perform complex tasks through natural language processing and to…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

JailbreakZoo: Survey, Landscapes, and Horizons in Jailbreaking Large Language and Vision-Language Models

Haibo Jin, Leyang Hu, Xinnuo Li +4

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) through developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has brought significant advancements acro…

cs.CV2023

Beyond Pixels: Exploring Human-Readable SVG Generation for Simple Images with Vision Language Models

Tong Zhang, Haoyang Liu, Peiyan Zhang +2

In the field of computer graphics, the use of vector graphics, particularly Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), represents a notable development from traditional pixel-based imagery. S…