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most citedRevisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark

7 citations · 15 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2026

POPS: Recovering Unlearned Multi-Modality Knowledge in MLLMs with Prompt-Optimized Parameter Shaking

Zhangheng LI, Jianing Zhu, Junyuan Hong +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on cross-modal tasks by jointly training on large-scale textual and visual data, where privacy-sen…

cs.CL2025

Scaling Textual Gradients via Sampling-Based Momentum

Zixin Ding, Junyuan Hong, Zhan Shi +6

LLM-based prompt optimization, which uses LLM-provided ``textual gradients'' (feedback) to refine prompts, has emerged as an effective method for automatic prompt engineering. Howe…

cs.CR2025

X-Guard: Multilingual Guard Agent for Content Moderation

Bibek Upadhayay, Vahid Behzadan, Ph. D

Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become integral to numerous applications in critical domains where reliability is paramount. Despite significant advances in safety framew…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models

Qinbin Li, Junyuan Hong, Chulin Xie +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to numerous domains, significantly advancing applications in data management, mining, and analysis. Their profound capabilities in…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents by a Guard Agent via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning

Zhen Xiang, Linzhi Zheng, Yanjie Li +9

The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) agents has raised new concerns regarding their safety and security. In this paper, we propose GuardAgent, the first guardrail ag…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Shake to Leak: Fine-tuning Diffusion Models Can Amplify the Generative Privacy Risk

Zhangheng Li, Junyuan Hong, Bo Li +1

While diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in generating realistic images, privacy risks also arise: published models or APIs could generate training ima…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Decoding Compressed Trust: Scrutinizing the Trustworthiness of Efficient LLMs Under Compression

Junyuan Hong, Jinhao Duan, Chenhui Zhang +12

Compressing high-capability Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a favored strategy for resource-efficient inferences. While state-of-the-art (SoTA) compression methods boas…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Revisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark

Yihua Zhang, Pingzhi Li, Junyuan Hong +10

In the evolving landscape of natural language processing (NLP), fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) with first-order (FO) optimizers like SGD and Adam has become s…