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20232026
most citedLearning to Poison Large Language Models for Downstream Manipulation

3 citations · 7 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CV2026

SpatialCORE: Confidence-Aware Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision--Language Models

Rafi Ibn Sultan, Xiangyu Zhou, Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury +4

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made remarkable progress across visual perception tasks, yet spatial reasoning remains a persistent weakness, especially for questions tha…

cs.AI2026

Towards Mitigating Deceptive Safety Alignment in Large Reasoning Models

Xiangyu Zhou, Saleh Zare Zade, Rafi Ibn Sultan +2

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) are commonly trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to improve their generation of chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning before producing final answers.…

cs.AI2026

Alignment of LRMs via Counter-Aligned Few-Shot Conversation Exposure

Xiangyu Zhou, Saleh Zare Zade, Dongxiao Zhu

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) rely on explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning and large context windows to achieve strong performance on complex tasks, but these features also in…

cs.CV2026

WalkGPT: Grounded Vision-Language Conversation with Depth-Aware Segmentation for Pedestrian Navigation

Rafi Ibn Sultan, Hui Zhu, Xiangyu Zhou +4

Ensuring accessible pedestrian navigation requires reasoning about both semantic and spatial aspects of complex urban scenes, a challenge that existing Large Vision-Language Models…

cs.LG2026

Attention Smoothing Is All You Need For Unlearning

Saleh Zare Zade, Xiangyu Zhou, Sijia Liu +1

Large Language Models are prone to memorizing sensitive, copyrighted, or hazardous content, posing significant privacy and legal concerns. Retraining from scratch is computationall…

cs.LG2025

Not All Tokens Are Meant to Be Forgotten

Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Saleh Zare Zade +3

Large Language Models (LLMs), pre-trained on massive text corpora, exhibit remarkable human-level language understanding, reasoning, and decision-making abilities. However, they te…

cs.LG2025

Automatic Calibration for Membership Inference Attack on Large Language Models

Saleh Zare Zade, Yao Qiang, Xiangyu Zhou +4

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have recently been employed to determine whether a specific text was part of the pre-training data of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, exi…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Generative LLM Powered Conversational AI Application for Personalized Risk Assessment: A Case Study in COVID-19

Mohammad Amin Roshani, Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various natural language tasks and are increasingly being applied in healthcare domains. This work demonstrates a…

cs.RO2024

Cross-Stage Sensorimotor Perception Scheduling and Sparse Map Encoding for Efficient Edge Embodied Navigation

Yaotian Liu, Sri Sai Rakesh Nakkilla, Xiangyu Zhou +2

Embodied agents must close a perception-to-action loop on embedded hardware under tight latency, memory, and energy budgets, making deployment a system-level co-design problem rath…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Learning to Poison Large Language Models for Downstream Manipulation

Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Saleh Zare Zade +4

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked significant achievements in language processing and reasoning capabilities. Despite their advancements, LLMs face vulnerabilit…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Hijacking Large Language Models via Adversarial In-Context Learning

Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Saleh Zare Zade +2

In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm leveraging LLMs for specific downstream tasks by utilizing labeled examples as demonstrations (demos) in the preconditi…