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23 papers

cs.CL2026

Reasoning as State Transition: A Representational Analysis of Reasoning Evolution in Large Language Models

Siyuan Zhang, Jialian Li, Yichi Zhang +3

Large Language Models have achieved remarkable performance on reasoning tasks, motivating research into how this ability evolves during training. Prior work has primarily analyzed…

cs.AI2025

Oyster-I: Beyond Refusal -- Constructive Safety Alignment for Responsible Language Models

Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu, Xiaojun Jia +27

Large language models (LLMs) typically deploy safety mechanisms to prevent harmful content generation. Most current approaches focus narrowly on risks posed by malicious actors, of…

cs.AI2025

Towards Safe Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models via Corrective Intervention

Yichi Zhang, Yue Ding, Jingwen Yang +7

Although Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have progressed in solving complex problems, their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning often contains harmful content that can persist even when…

cs.CL2025

Unveiling Trust in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Analysis, and Mitigation

Yichi Zhang, Yao Huang, Yifan Wang +10

The trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains an intense concern despite the significant progress in their capabilities. Existing evaluation and mitigatio…

cs.AI2025

A Survey on Autonomy-Induced Security Risks in Large Model-Based Agents

Hang Su, Jun Luo, Chang Liu +4

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed the rise of autonomous AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in dynamic, open-ended environments. Th…

cs.AI2025

MLA-Trust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal LLM Agents in GUI Environments

Xiao Yang, Jiawei Chen, Jun Luo +4

The emergence of multimodal LLM-based agents (MLAs) has transformed interaction paradigms by seamlessly integrating vision, language, action and dynamic environments, enabling unpr…

cs.CV2025

Benchmarking the Trustworthiness in Multimodal LLMs for Video Understanding

Youze Wang, Zijun Chen, Ruoyu Chen +8

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models for video understanding (videoLLMs) have enhanced their capacity to process complex spatiotemporal data. However, challenges…

cs.LG2025

Unveiling the Basin-Like Loss Landscape in Large Language Models

Huanran Chen, Yinpeng Dong, Zeming Wei +4

We discover the emergence of \textit{basins} in the loss landscape of large language models. As model scale increases, LLMs become progressively more resilient to random perturbati…

cs.CL2025

Exploring the Generalizability of Factual Hallucination Mitigation via Enhancing Precise Knowledge Utilization

Siyuan Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to align their responses with objective facts, resulting in the issue of factual hallucinations, which can be difficult to detect and mi…

cs.CV2024

AdvDreamer Unveils: Are Vision-Language Models Truly Ready for Real-World 3D Variations?

Shouwei Ruan, Hanqing Liu, Yao Huang +5

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited remarkable generalization capabilities, yet their robustness in dynamic real-world scenarios remains largely unexplored. To systematica…

cs.CV2024

Real-world Adversarial Defense against Patch Attacks based on Diffusion Model

Xingxing Wei, Caixin Kang, Yinpeng Dong +4

Adversarial patches present significant challenges to the robustness of deep learning models, making the development of effective defenses become critical for real-world applicatio…

cs.CL2024

MultiTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark Towards Trustworthy Multimodal Large Language Models

Yichi Zhang, Yao Huang, Yitong Sun +10

Despite the superior capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, they still face significant trustworthiness challenges. Yet, current literature…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Membership Inference on Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Conditional Likelihood Discrepancy

Shengfang Zhai, Huanran Chen, Yinpeng Dong +5

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in the field of controllable image generation, while also coming along with issues of privacy leakage and data copyr…

cs.CV2024

Omniview-Tuning: Boosting Viewpoint Invariance of Vision-Language Pre-training Models

Shouwei Ruan, Yinpeng Dong, Hanqing Liu +3

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models like CLIP have achieved remarkable success in computer vision and particularly demonstrated superior robustness to distribution shifts of…

cs.CV2024

Exploring the Transferability of Visual Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Models

Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong, Siyuan Zhang +3

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising versatile capabilities, their performance is still inferior to specialized models on downstream tasks,…

cs.CV2024

FaceCat: Enhancing Face Recognition Security with a Unified Diffusion Model

Jiawei Chen, Xiao Yang, Yinpeng Dong +2

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited pract…

cs.CV2024

Embodied Active Defense: Leveraging Recurrent Feedback to Counter Adversarial Patches

Lingxuan Wu, Xiao Yang, Yinpeng Dong +3

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial patches has motivated numerous defense strategies for boosting model robustness. However, the prevailing defenses depend on…

cs.CR2024

BSPA: Exploring Black-box Stealthy Prompt Attacks against Image Generators

Yu Tian, Xiao Yang, Yinpeng Dong +3

Extremely large image generators offer significant transformative potential across diverse sectors. It allows users to design specific prompts to generate realistic images through…

cs.CR2024

Discovering Universal Semantic Triggers for Text-to-Image Synthesis

Shengfang Zhai, Weilong Wang, Jiajun Li +3

Recently text-to-image models have gained widespread attention in the community due to their controllable and high-quality generation ability. However, the robustness of such model…

cs.CV2023

Towards Transferable Targeted 3D Adversarial Attack in the Physical World

Yao Huang, Yinpeng Dong, Shouwei Ruan +3

Compared with transferable untargeted attacks, transferable targeted adversarial attacks could specify the misclassification categories of adversarial samples, posing a greater thr…

cs.CV2023

Machine Vision Therapy: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Enhance Visual Robustness via Denoising In-Context Learning

Zhuo Huang, Chang Liu, Yinpeng Dong +3

Although vision models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) show impressive generalization performance, their zero-shot robustness is still limited under Out-of-D…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Evil Geniuses: Delving into the Safety of LLM-based Agents

Yu Tian, Xiao Yang, Jingyuan Zhang +2

Rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have revitalized in LLM-based agents, exhibiting impressive human-like behaviors and cooperative capabilities in various scenario…

cs.MM2023★ 1 cited

Exploring Transferability of Multimodal Adversarial Samples for Vision-Language Pre-training Models with Contrastive Learning

Youze Wang, Wenbo Hu, Yinpeng Dong +3

The integration of visual and textual data in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models is crucial for enhancing vision-language understanding. However, the adversarial robustness…