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20232026
most citedTERD: A Unified Framework for Safeguarding Diffusion Models Against Backdoors

1 citations · 4 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

Assessing Adversarial Robustness of Latent Reasoning Models

Shaolong Chen, Ang Li, Mingjie Li +1

Large language models increasingly rely on long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories for complex reasoning, but autoregressive generation brings substantial memory and inference cos…

cs.IR2026

VisDocAgentBench: Benchmarking Agents for Visually Rich Document Retrieval

Lexiang Hu, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li +5

Visually rich documents encode relevance through language, layout, structured visual elements, and corpus context, yet retrieval is typically evaluated by one-shot query--page matc…

cs.CV2026

Diagnosing Visual Ignorance in Vision-Language Models

Runyu Zhou, Qi Zhang, Qixun Wang +1

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve high accuracy on many visual question-answering benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether this accuracy reflects reliable use of the visual d…

cs.CL2026

TrustLDM: Benchmarking Trustworthiness in Language Diffusion Models

Yichuan Mo, Yukun Jiang, Yanbo Shi +4

The rapid development of Language Diffusion Models (LDMs) challenges the dominant position of auto-regressive competitors in language processing. However, their flexible, any-order…

cs.CL2026

Finding and Reactivating Post-Trained LLMs' Hidden Safety Mechanisms

Mingjie Li, Wai Man Si, Michael Backes +2

Despite the impressive performance of general-purpose large language models (LLMs), they often require fine-tuning or post-training to excel at specific tasks. For instance, large…

cs.LG2025

Decoding Large Language Diffusion Models with Foreseeing Movement

Yichuan Mo, Quan Chen, Mingjie Li +2

Large Language Diffusion Models (LLDMs) benefit from a flexible decoding mechanism that enables parallelized inference and controllable generations over autoregressive models. Yet…

cs.AI2025

Know When to Explore: Difficulty-Aware Certainty as a Guide for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Ang Li, Zhihang Yuan, Yang Zhang +2

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Feedback (RLVF) has become a key technique for enhancing the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its reliance on sp…

cs.CL2025

Are Smarter LLMs Safer? Exploring Safety-Reasoning Trade-offs in Prompting and Fine-Tuning

Ang Li, Yichuan Mo, Mingjie Li +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various NLP benchmarks. However, excelling in complex tasks that require nuanced reasoning and precise deci…

cs.LG2025

SaLoRA: Safety-Alignment Preserved Low-Rank Adaptation

Mingjie Li, Wai Man Si, Michael Backes +2

As advancements in large language models (LLMs) continue and the demand for personalized models increases, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods (e.g., LoRA) will become e…

cs.CR2024

MADE: Graph Backdoor Defense with Masked Unlearning

Xiao Lin, Mingjie Li, Yisen Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered significant attention from researchers due to their outstanding performance in handling graph-related tasks, such as social network analy…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

On the Adversarial Transferability of Generalized "Skip Connections"

Yisen Wang, Yichuan Mo, Dongxian Wu +3

Skip connection is an essential ingredient for modern deep models to be deeper and more powerful. Despite their huge success in normal scenarios (state-of-the-art classification pe…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

TERD: A Unified Framework for Safeguarding Diffusion Models Against Backdoors

Yichuan Mo, Hui Huang, Mingjie Li +2

Diffusion models have achieved notable success in image generation, but they remain highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which compromise their integrity by producing specific un…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

PID: Prompt-Independent Data Protection Against Latent Diffusion Models

Ang Li, Yichuan Mo, Mingjie Li +1

The few-shot fine-tuning of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) has enabled them to grasp new concepts from a limited number of images. However, given the vast amount of personal images…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Adversarial Examples Are Not Real Features

Ang Li, Yifei Wang, Yiwen Guo +1

The existence of adversarial examples has been a mystery for years and attracted much interest. A well-known theory by \citet{ilyas2019adversarial} explains adversarial vulnerabili…