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20232026
most citedFrom GPT-4 to Gemini and Beyond: Assessing the Landscape of MLLMs on Generalizability, Trustworthiness and Causality through Four Modalities

3 citations · 11 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CL2026

Representational alignment yields generalizable safety in language models

Lingyu Li, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang +1

Aligning large language models (LLMs) is essential for their safe deployment. Current alignment methods mainly optimize observable responses, yet models remain vulnerable when the…

cs.AI2026

Long-Term Simulation Exposes Cognitive-Developmental Risks in AI Companions

Kaicheng Shen, Lingyu Li, Wen Wu +3

AI companions powered by large language models increasingly interact with cognition-developing users, including children and adolescents, creating risks that may accumulate over ti…

cs.AI2026

PseudoBench: Measuring How Agentic Auto-Research Fuels Pseudoscience

Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Huacan Liu +5

As Large Language Model based agents enter autonomous scientific research, their ability to resist pseudoscience becomes increasingly important. Otherwise, such systems may rapidly…

cs.CL2026

SentGuard: Sentence-Level Streaming Guardrails for Large Language Models

Jiaqi Yu, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang +4

Large language models increasingly stream long, reasoning-intensive responses in real time, making when to moderate as critical as whether to moderate. Existing guardrails fall int…

cs.CL2026

Towards Context-Invariant Safety Alignment for Large Language Models

Yixu Wang, Yang Yao, Xin Wang +4

Preference-based post-training aligns LLMs with human intent, yet safety behavior often remains brittle. A model may refuse a harmful request in a standard prompt but comply when t…

cs.CL2026

Mechanistic Origin of Moral Indifference in Language Models

Lingyu Li, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang

Existing behavioral alignment techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs) often neglect the discrepancy between surface compliance and internal unaligned representations, leaving L…

cs.LG2026

From Sparse Decisions to Dense Reasoning: A Multi-attribute Trajectory Paradigm for Multimodal Moderation

Tianle Gu, Kexin Huang, Lingyu Li +6

Safety moderation is pivotal for identifying harmful content. Despite the success of textual safety moderation, its multimodal counterparts remain hindered by a dual sparsity of da…

cs.CR2026

OpenRT: An Open-Source Red Teaming Framework for Multimodal LLMs

Xin Wang, Yunhao Chen, Juncheng Li +7

The rapid integration of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into critical applications is increasingly hindered by persistent safety vulnerabilities. However, existing red-te…

cs.CL2025

Evolve the Method, Not the Prompts: Evolutionary Synthesis of Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs

Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Juncheng Li +5

Automated red teaming frameworks for Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly sophisticated, yet many still formulate attack optimization primarily in the prompt space…

cs.CR2025

GhostEI-Bench: Do Mobile Agents Resilience to Environmental Injection in Dynamic On-Device Environments?

Chiyu Chen, Xinhao Song, Yunkai Chai +7

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents to navigate mobile graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Operating in dynamic on-device ecosystems, which i…

cs.AI2025

Dr. Bench: A Multidimensional Evaluation for Deep Research Agents, from Answers to Reports

Yang Yao, Yixu Wang, Yuxuan Zhang +9

As an embodiment of intelligence evolution toward interconnected architectures, Deep Research Agents (DRAs) systematically exhibit the capabilities in task decomposition, cross-sou…

cs.CR2025

StolenLoRA: Exploring LoRA Extraction Attacks via Synthetic Data

Yixu Wang, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang +1

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods like LoRA have transformed vision model adaptation, enabling the rapid deployment of customized models. However, the compactness of L…

cs.CV2025

FreezeVLA: Action-Freezing Attacks against Vision-Language-Action Models

Xin Wang, Jie Li, Zejia Weng +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are driving rapid progress in robotics by enabling agents to interpret multimodal inputs and execute complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their…

cs.AI2025

AgenticEval: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models

Yixu Wang, Xin Wang, Yang Yao +5

The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into high-stakes domains necessitates reliable safety and compliance evaluation. However, existing static benchmarks are ill-e…

cs.CL2025

LinguaSafe: A Comprehensive Multilingual Safety Benchmark for Large Language Models

Zhiyuan Ning, Tianle Gu, Jiaxin Song +8

The widespread adoption and increasing prominence of large language models (LLMs) in global technologies necessitate a rigorous focus on ensuring their safety across a diverse rang…

cs.AI2025

The Other Mind: How Language Models Exhibit Human Temporal Cognition

Lingyu Li, Yang Yao, Yixu Wang +3

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, they exhibit certain cognitive patterns similar to those of humans that are not directly specified in training data. This study…

cs.LG2025

Probing the Robustness of Large Language Models Safety to Latent Perturbations

Tianle Gu, Kexin Huang, Zongqi Wang +7

Safety alignment is a key requirement for building reliable Artificial General Intelligence. Despite significant advances in safety alignment, we observe that minor latent shifts c…

cs.CV2025

SafeVid: Toward Safety Aligned Video Large Multimodal Models

Yixu Wang, Jiaxin Song, Yifeng Gao +6

As Video Large Multimodal Models (VLMMs) rapidly advance, their inherent complexity introduces significant safety challenges, particularly the issue of mismatched generalization wh…

cs.CV2025

JailBound: Jailbreaking Internal Safety Boundaries of Vision-Language Models

Jiaxin Song, Yixu Wang, Jie Li +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit impressive performance, yet the integration of powerful vision encoders has significantly broadened their attack surface, rendering them incre…

cs.CR2025

HoneypotNet: Backdoor Attacks Against Model Extraction

Yixu Wang, Tianle Gu, Yan Teng +2

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of quer…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

IDEATOR: Jailbreaking and Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models Using Themselves

Ruofan Wang, Juncheng Li, Yixu Wang +6

As large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) gain prominence, ensuring their safe deployment has become critical. Recent studies have explored VLM robustness against jailbreak attacks-te…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Reflection-Bench: Evaluating Epistemic Agency in Large Language Models

Lingyu Li, Yixu Wang, Haiquan Zhao +4

With large language models (LLMs) increasingly deployed as cognitive engines for AI agents, the reliability and effectiveness critically hinge on their intrinsic epistemic agency,…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

MEOW: MEMOry Supervised LLM Unlearning Via Inverted Facts

Tianle Gu, Kexin Huang, Ruilin Luo +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) can memorize sensitive information, raising concerns about potential misuse. LLM Unlearning, a post-hoc approach to remove this information from traine…

cs.CL2024

MLLMGuard: A Multi-dimensional Safety Evaluation Suite for Multimodal Large Language Models

Tianle Gu, Zeyang Zhou, Kexin Huang +10

Powered by remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in manifold tasks. However, the pra…