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Light Alignment Improves LLM Safety via Model Self-Reflection with a Single Neuron
Sicheng Shen, Mingyang Lv, Han Shen +7
The safety of large language models (LLMs) has increasingly emerged as a fundamental aspect of their development. Existing safety alignment for LLMs is predominantly achieved throu…
FireFly-P: FPGA-Accelerated Spiking Neural Network Plasticity for Robust Adaptive Control
Tenglong Li, Jindong Li, Guobin Shen +3
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically plausible learning mechanism through synaptic plasticity, enabling unsupervised adaptation without the computational overhead of…
Efficient LLM Safety Evaluation through Multi-Agent Debate
Dachuan Lin, Guobin Shen, Zihao Yang +3
Safety evaluation of large language models (LLMs) increasingly relies on LLM-as-a-judge pipelines, but strong judges can still be expensive to use at scale. We study whether struct…
Safety Instincts: LLMs Learn to Trust Their Internal Compass for Self-Defense
Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Haibo Tong +3
Ensuring Large Language Model (LLM) safety remains challenging due to the absence of universal standards and reliable content validators, making it difficult to obtain effective tr…
Bidirectional Intention Inference Enhances LLMs' Defense Against Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks
Haibo Tong, Dongcheng Zhao, Guobin Shen +4
The remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have raised significant safety concerns, particularly regarding "jailbreak" attacks that exploit adversarial prompts to…
DiverValue-Bench: A Benchmark and Fine-Tuning Framework for Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Human Values
Yao Liang, Dongcheng Zhao, Feifei Zhao +4
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse human values is essential for safe and effective deployment, yet existing benchmarks often overlook cultural and demographic vari…
Boosting the Robustness-Accuracy Trade-off of SNNs by Robust Temporal Self-Ensemble
Jihang Wang, Dongcheng Zhao, Ruolin Chen +2
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising direction for energy-efficient and brain-inspired computing, yet their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains poorly un…
Multi-Level Safety Continual Projection for Fine-Tuned Large Language Models without Retraining
Bing Han, Feifei Zhao, Dongcheng Zhao +4
While fine-tuning services drive the rapid expansion of task capabilities in large language models (LLMs), they are often accompanied by the degradation and reorganization of safet…
Hummingbird: A Smaller and Faster Large Language Model Accelerator on Embedded FPGA
Jindong Li, Tenglong Li, Ruiqi Chen +4
Deploying large language models (LLMs) on embedded devices remains a significant research challenge due to the high computational and memory demands of LLMs and the limited hardwar…
Alignment between Brains and AI: Evidence for Convergent Evolution across Modalities, Scales and Training Trajectories
Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Yiting Dong +2
Artificial and biological systems may evolve similar computational solutions despite fundamental differences in architecture and learning mechanisms -- a form of convergent evoluti…
C-VARC: A Large-Scale Chinese Value Rule Corpus for Value Alignment of Large Language Models
Ping Wu, Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao +6
Aligning LLMs with Chinese values requires culturally grounded resources that connect abstract values to concrete behavioral guidance. We introduce C-VARC, a Chinese Value Rule Cor…
PandaGuard: Systematic Evaluation of LLM Safety against Jailbreaking Attacks
Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Linghao Feng +8
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities but remain vulnerable to adversarial prompts known as jailbreaks, which can bypass safety alignment and elicit ha…
FireFly-T: High-Throughput Sparsity Exploitation for Spiking Transformer Acceleration with Dual-Engine Overlay Architecture
Tenglong Li, Jindong Li, Guobin Shen +3
Spiking transformers are emerging as a promising architecture that combines the energy efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with the powerful attention mechanisms of transf…
STEP: A Unified Spiking Transformer Evaluation Platform for Fair and Reproducible Benchmarking
Sicheng Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Linghao Feng +5
Spiking Transformers have recently emerged as promising architectures for combining the efficiency of spiking neural networks with the representational power of self-attention. How…
Biologically Inspired Spiking Diffusion Model with Adaptive Lateral Selection Mechanism
Linghao Feng, Dongcheng Zhao, Sicheng Shen +1
Lateral connection is a fundamental feature of biological neural circuits, facilitating local information processing and adaptive learning. In this work, we integrate lateral conne…
Enhancing Audio-Visual Spiking Neural Networks through Semantic-Alignment and Cross-Modal Residual Learning
Xiang He, Dongcheng Zhao, Yiting Dong +3
Humans interpret and perceive the world by integrating sensory information from multiple modalities, such as vision and hearing. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as brain-inspired c…
Pushing up to the Limit of Memory Bandwidth and Capacity Utilization for Efficient LLM Decoding on Embedded FPGA
Jindong Li, Tenglong Li, Guobin Shen +3
The extremely high computational and storage demands of large language models have excluded most edge devices, which were widely used for efficient machine learning, from being via…
: Enhanced Information Flow in Spiking Neural Networks with High Hardware Compatibility
Guobin Shen, Jindong Li, Tenglong Li +2
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold promise for energy-efficient, biologically inspired computing. We identify substantial informatio loss during spike transmission, linked to temp…
Harnessing Task Overload for Scalable Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models
Yiting Dong, Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass their safety mechanisms. Existing attack methods are fixed or specifically tailored for certain mode…
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Yiting Dong +2
As large language models (LLMs) become integral to various applications, ensuring both their safety and utility is paramount. Jailbreak attacks, which manipulate LLMs into generati…
Revealing Untapped DSP Optimization Potentials for FPGA-Based Systolic Matrix Engines
Jindong Li, Tenglong Li, Guobin Shen +3
Systolic architectures are widely embraced by neural network accelerators for their superior performance in highly parallelized computation. The DSP48E2s serve as dedicated arithme…
StressPrompt: Does Stress Impact Large Language Models and Human Performance Similarly?
Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao, Aorigele Bao +3
Human beings often experience stress, which can significantly influence their performance. This study explores whether Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit stress responses similar…
Brain-Inspired Stepwise Patch Merging for Vision Transformers
Yonghao Yu, Dongcheng Zhao, Guobin Shen +2
The hierarchical architecture has become a mainstream design paradigm for Vision Transformers (ViTs), with Patch Merging serving as the pivotal component that transforms a columnar…
FireFly-S: Exploiting Dual-Side Sparsity for Spiking Neural Networks Acceleration with Reconfigurable Spatial Architecture
Tenglong Li, Jindong Li, Guobin Shen +3
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with brain-inspired structure using discrete spikes instead of continuous activations, are gaining attention for their efficient processing on neuro…