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most citedAttention Tracker: Detecting Prompt Injection Attacks in LLMs

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cs.CR2026

Adaptive Co-Serving LLM Watermarking on Modern Inference Engines

Kieu Dang, Phung Lai, Ching-Yun Ko +1

Large language model (LLM) watermarking is important for ownership verification and intellectual property protection. However, existing approaches focus on algorithmic design while…

cs.AI2026

EvoFlux: Inference-Time Evolution of Executable Tool Workflows for Compact Agents

Kushal Raj Bhandari, Ling Yue, Ching-Yun Ko +4

Small language models (1.5B-4B parameters) offer low-cost, low-latency tool use but often produce plausible plans that fail during execution due to unavailable tools, missing argum…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

From Static Templates to Dynamic Runtime Graphs: A Survey of Workflow Optimization for LLM Agents

Ling Yue, Kushal Raj Bhandari, Ching-Yun Ko +6

Large language model (LLM)-based systems are becoming increasingly popular for solving tasks by constructing executable workflows that interleave LLM calls, information retrieval,…

cs.CR2026

Steering Externalities: Benign Activation Steering Unintentionally Increases Jailbreak Risk for Large Language Models

Chen Xiong, Zhiyuan He, Pin-Yu Chen +2

Activation steering is a practical post-training model alignment technique to enhance the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs). Prior to deploying a model as a service, develope…

cs.LG2026

vLLM Hook v0: A Plug-in for Programming Model Internals on vLLM

Ching-Yun Ko, Pin-Yu Chen

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) models are deployed on inference engines to optimize runtime efficiency and resource allocation, particularly for transformer-based large langua…

cs.LG2026

Learning Rate Matters: Vanilla LoRA May Suffice for LLM Fine-tuning

Yu-Ang Lee, Ching-Yun Ko, Pin-Yu Chen +1

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is the prevailing approach for efficient large language model (LLM) fine-tuning. Building on this paradigm, recent studies have proposed alternative init…

cs.LG2025

EARL: Entropy-Aware RL Alignment of LLMs for Reliable RTL Code Generation

Jiahe Shi, Zhengqi Gao, Ching-Yun Ko +1

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in hardware design automation, particularly in using natural language to synthesize Register…

cs.AI2025

Patching LLM Like Software: A Lightweight Method for Improving Safety Policy in Large Language Models

Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Ching-Yun Ko +3

We propose patching for large language models (LLMs) like software versions, a lightweight and modular approach for addressing safety vulnerabilities. While vendors release improve…

cs.CL2025

Can Memory-Augmented Language Models Generalize on Reasoning-in-a-Haystack Tasks?

Payel Das, Ching-Yun Ko, Sihui Dai +3

Large language models often expose their brittleness in reasoning tasks, especially while executing long chains of reasoning over context. We propose MemReasoner, a new and simple…

cs.CL2025

STAR: Spectral Truncation and Rescale for Model Merging

Yu-Ang Lee, Ching-Yun Ko, Tejaswini Pedapati +3

Model merging is an efficient way of obtaining a multi-task model from several pretrained models without further fine-tuning, and it has gained attention in various domains, includ…

cs.CV2024

Understanding and Improving Training-Free AI-Generated Image Detections with Vision Foundation Models

Chung-Ting Tsai, Ching-Yun Ko, I-Hsin Chung +2

The rapid advancement of generative models has introduced serious risks, including deepfake techniques for facial synthesis and editing. Traditional approaches rely on training cla…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Attention Tracker: Detecting Prompt Injection Attacks in LLMs

Kuo-Han Hung, Ching-Yun Ko, Ambrish Rawat +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various domains but remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious inputs manipulate the model into ignoring origin…

cs.LG2024

Large Language Models can be Strong Self-Detoxifiers

Ching-Yun Ko, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das +6

Reducing the likelihood of generating harmful and toxic output is an essential task when aligning large language models (LLMs). Existing methods mainly rely on training an external…