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most citedUnveiling the Safety of GPT-4o: An Empirical Study using Jailbreak Attacks

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45 papers

cs.CL2026

Mitigating Bias in Large Vision-Language Models via Counterfactual Ensemble Decoding

Yisong Xiao, Aishan Liu, Yongxin Huang +6

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks; however, they often inherit social biases from their training data, resultin…

cs.RO2026

RiskWorld: Object-Centric Latent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving Risk Identification

Jingzheng Li, Yufei Ge, Qianren Mao +5

Autonomous driving risk identification aims to determine which observed object is likely to become safety-critical to the ego vehicle. Existing approaches typically predict scene-l…

cs.CV2026

SafeGen: Goal-Conditioned Video Diffusion of Safety-Critical Scenarios for VLM-Based Autonomous Driving

Jiangfan Liu, Zexuan Cui, Tianyuan Zhang +7

VLMs are increasingly deployed in AD systems, creating an urgent need for rigorous safety evaluation under rare yet safety-critical scenarios. Among these, interactions with vulner…

cs.RO2026

End-to-end Conditional Diffusion for Realistic and Controllable Visual Traffic Scenario Generation

Jingzheng Li, Yufei Ge, Zhijun Chen +8

Generating closed-loop traffic scenarios that are both realistic and controllable is crucial for evaluating autonomous driving systems, especially under rare safety-critical intera…

cs.CV2026

Technical Report on the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Challenge

Tianyuan Zhang, Zonglei Jing, Jiangfan Liu +47

Vision-language agents (VLAs) are increasingly used to interpret complex driving scenes and support safety-critical reasoning. This report presents the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Cha…

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking the Robustness of Autonomous Driving to Environmental Illusions: A Lane Perception Perspective

Tianyuan Zhang, Xianglong Liu, Aishan Liu +6

Environmental illusions (eg., shadows, reflections, and tire marks) are naturally existing yet overlooked phenomena in real-world driving environments. They can disturb visual perc…

cs.AI2026

GuardAD: Safeguarding Autonomous Driving MLLMs via Markovian Safety Logic

Tianyuan Zhang, Peng Yue, Zihao Peng +8

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly integrated into autonomous driving (AD) systems; however, they remain vulnerable to diverse safety threats, particularly i…

cs.CR2026

AgentVisor: Defending LLM Agents Against Prompt Injection via Semantic Virtualization

Zonghao Ying, Haozheng Wang, Jiangfan Liu +5

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly used to automate complex workflows, but integrating untrusted external data with privileged execution exposes them to severe secu…

cs.CV2026

Reading Between the Pixels: An Inscriptive Jailbreak Attack on Text-to-Image Models

Zonghao Ying, Haowen Dai, Lianyu Hu +5

Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse. We identify and formalize the inscriptive jailbreak,…

cs.CR2026

Uncovering Security Threats and Architecting Defenses in Autonomous Agents: A Case Study of OpenClaw

Zonghao Ying, Xiao Yang, Siyang Wu +7

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous, tool-calling agents has fundamentally altered the cybersecurity landscape. Frameworks like OpenClaw grant AI sy…

cs.CR2026

Evolving Deception: When Agents Evolve, Deception Wins

Zonghao Ying, Haowen Dai, Tianyuan Zhang +6

Self-evolving agents offer a promising path toward scalable autonomy. However, in this work, we show that in competitive environments, self-evolution can instead give rise to a ser…

cs.LG2026

KernelClaw: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization with Dual-Memory Mechanisms

Qitong Sun, Jun Han, Tianlin Li +6

Improving GPU kernel efficiency is crucial for efficient AI systems. Recent work has explored leveraging large language models (LLMs) for GPU kernel generation and optimization. Ho…

cs.AI2026

How Emotion Shapes the Behavior of LLMs and Agents: A Mechanistic Study

Moran Sun, Tianlin Li, Yuwei Zheng +4

Emotion plays an important role in human cognition and performance. Motivated by this, we investigate whether analogous emotional signals can shape the behavior of large language m…

cs.CY2025

Uncovering Strategic Egoism Behaviors in Large Language Models

Yaoyuan Zhang, Aishan Liu, Zonghao Ying +4

Large language models (LLMs) face growing trustworthiness concerns (\eg, deception), which hinder their safe deployment in high-stakes decision-making scenarios. In this paper, we…

cs.CV2025

SPARK: Jailbreaking T2V Models by Synergistically Prompting Auditory and Recontextualized Knowledge

Zonghao Ying, Moyang Chen, Nizhang Li +6

Jailbreak attacks can circumvent model safety guardrails and reveal critical blind spots. Prior attacks on text-to-video (T2V) models typically add adversarial perturbations to obv…

cs.CR2025

SecureWebArena: A Holistic Security Evaluation Benchmark for LVLM-based Web Agents

Zonghao Ying, Yangguang Shao, Jianle Gan +8

Large vision-language model (LVLM)-based web agents are emerging as powerful tools for automating complex online tasks. However, when deployed in real-world environments, they face…

cs.CL2025

Detoxifying Large Language Models via Autoregressive Reward Guided Representation Editing

Yisong Xiao, Aishan Liu, Siyuan Liang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to generating toxic content, necessitating detoxification str…

cs.CV2025

Adversarial Generation and Collaborative Evolution of Safety-Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles

Jiangfan Liu, Yongkang Guo, Fangzhi Zhong +7

The generation of safety-critical scenarios in simulation has become increasingly crucial for safety evaluation in autonomous vehicles prior to road deployment in society. However,…

cs.CV2025

Bench2ADVLM: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for Vision-language Models in Autonomous Driving

Tianyuan Zhang, Ting Jin, Lu Wang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving (AD). However, current performance evaluation protocols for VLM-based AD systems (…

cs.CV2025

PromptSafe: Gated Prompt Tuning for Safe Text-to-Image Generation

Zonglei Jing, Xiao Yang, Xiaoqian Li +4

Text-to-image (T2I) models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain vulnerable to producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, such as violent or explicit ima…

cs.RO2025

MetAdv: A Unified and Interactive Adversarial Testing Platform for Autonomous Driving

Aishan Liu, Jiakai Wang, Tianyuan Zhang +6

Evaluating and ensuring the adversarial robustness of autonomous driving (AD) systems is a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper introduces MetAdv, a novel adversarial test…

cs.CR2025

Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025

Zonghao Ying, Siyang Wu, Run Hao +44

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled transformative advancements across diverse applications but remain susceptible to safety threats, especially jailbreak attacks…

cs.CR2025

AGENTSAFE: Benchmarking the Safety of Embodied Agents on Hazardous Instructions

Zonghao Ying, Le Wang, Yisong Xiao +7

The integration of vision-language models (VLMs) is driving a new generation of embodied agents capable of operating in human-centered environments. However, as deployment expands,…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

Fairness Mediator: Neutralize Stereotype Associations to Mitigate Bias in Large Language Models

Yisong Xiao, Aishan Liu, Siyuan Liang +2

LLMs have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse applications, yet they inadvertently absorb spurious correlations from training data, leading to stereotype association…