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most citedThe Good and The Bad: Exploring Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

MemoProAgent: Toward Memory-Driven Proactive Assistance

Shenglai Zeng, Xiao Yang, Tiffany Ma +15

As assistants move from reactive answering toward proactive intervention, memory changes role: it no longer only supplies the answer to a query, it determines whether and when to s…

cs.AI2026

MemTrace: Probing What Final Accuracy Misses in Long-Term Memory

Xianxuan Long, Zhikai Chen, Shenglai Zeng +3

LLM agents increasingly maintain long-term memory of user facts across sessions. Yet such memory is usually evaluated by aggregating accuracy over question rows or episodes. Becaus…

cs.CV2026

Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension

Shenglai Zeng, Qirui Wang, Kai Guo +3

Visual Text Comprehension (VTC) renders text into images for a vision-language model (VLM) to read, sidestepping LLM context-window limits and powering applications from long-page…

cs.AI2026

Exploring Cross-Scenario Generality of Agentic Memory Systems: Diagnostics and a Strong Baseline

Zhikai Chen, Jialiang Gu, Junyu Yin +6

LLM agents accumulate histories that outgrow their context windows, motivating a growing literature on memory systems. Yet most existing designs are tuned to a single scenario (mul…

cs.AI2026

JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will

Yuetai Li, Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu +21

Current benchmarks for occupational AI agents are scoped primarily by economic values, telling a replacement story. We introduce JobBench, which evaluates AI agents on the workflow…

cs.CL2026

Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Fails: A Graph Perspective

Kai Guo, Xinnan Dai, Zhibo Zhang +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful and widely used approach for improving large language models by grounding generation in retrieved evidence. However, RAG…

cs.AI2026

When Do Hallucinations Arise? A Graph Perspective on the Evolution of Path Reuse and Path Compression

Xinnan Dai, Kai Yang, Cheng Luo +3

Reasoning hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) often appear as fluent yet unsupported conclusions that violate either the given context or underlying factual knowledge. A…

cs.IR2026

Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Query Visual Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation

Jiankun Zhang, Shenglai Zeng, Kai Guo +4

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) has emerged as a key paradigm for grounding MLLMs with external knowledge. While query pre-processing (e.g., rewriting) is standard…

cs.CL2026

Attn-GS: Attention-Guided Context Compression for Efficient Personalized LLMs

Shenglai Zeng, Tianqi Zheng, Chuan Tian +10

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) to individual users requires incorporating extensive interaction histories and profiles, but input token constraints make this impractica…

cs.CL2025

GraphGhost: Tracing Structures Behind Large Language Models

Xinnan Dai, Xianxuan Long, Chung-Hsiang Lo +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities on structured tasks, yet the internal mechanisms underlying such behaviors remain poorly understood. Existing int…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Static Retrieval: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Iterative Retrieval in GraphRAG

Kai Guo, Xinnan Dai, Shenglai Zeng +4

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a powerful paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on knowledge-intensive question answering. Graph-based RAG (GraphRAG) leverag…

cs.LG2025

Uncovering Graph Reasoning in Decoder-only Transformers with Circuit Tracing

Xinnan Dai, Chung-Hsiang Lo, Kai Guo +3

Transformer-based LLMs demonstrate strong performance on graph reasoning tasks, yet their internal mechanisms remain underexplored. To uncover these reasoning process mechanisms in…

cs.CR2025

Keeping an Eye on LLM Unlearning: The Hidden Risk and Remedy

Jie Ren, Zhenwei Dai, Xianfeng Tang +9

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, growing concerns have emerged over the misuse of sensitive, copyrighte…

cs.CR2025

Beyond Text: Unveiling Privacy Vulnerabilities in Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiankun Zhang, Shenglai Zeng, Jie Ren +4

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) systems enhance LMMs by integrating external multimodal databases, but introduce unexplored privacy vulnerabilities. While text-bas…

cs.AI2025

Empowering GraphRAG with Knowledge Filtering and Integration

Kai Guo, Harry Shomer, Shenglai Zeng +3

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing. However, they often suffer from knowledge gaps and hallucinations. Graph…

cs.CL2025

Towards Context-Robust LLMs: A Gated Representation Fine-tuning Approach

Shenglai Zeng, Pengfei He, Kai Guo +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) enhanced with external contexts, such as through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), often face challenges in handling imperfect evidence. They tend…

cs.LG2025

Unveiling Mode Connectivity in Graph Neural Networks

Bingheng Li, Zhikai Chen, Haoyu Han +3

A fundamental challenge in understanding graph neural networks (GNNs) lies in characterizing their optimization dynamics and loss landscape geometry, critical for improving interpr…

cs.CR2025

Unveiling Privacy Risks in LLM Agent Memory

Bo Wang, Weiyi He, Shenglai Zeng +4

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have become increasingly prevalent across various real-world applications. They enhance decision-making by storing private user-agent interactions…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Towards Knowledge Checking in Retrieval-augmented Generation: A Representation Perspective

Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Bingheng Li +8

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have shown promise in enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, these systems face challenges in effectively…

cs.CV2024

Six-CD: Benchmarking Concept Removals for Benign Text-to-image Diffusion Models

Jie Ren, Kangrui Chen, Yingqian Cui +5

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating images that closely correspond to textual prompts. However, the advancement of T2I diffusion…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Mitigating the Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) via Pure Synthetic Data

Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He +7

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the outputs of language models by integrating relevant information retrieved from external knowledge sources. However, when the retrie…

cs.CV2024

Unveiling and Mitigating Memorization in Text-to-image Diffusion Models through Cross Attention

Jie Ren, Yaxin Li, Shenglai Zeng +4

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated their remarkable capability to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, increasing resear…

cs.CR2024★ 6 cited

The Good and The Bad: Exploring Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He +8

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a powerful technique to facilitate language model with proprietary and private data, where data privacy is a pivotal concern. Whereas extens…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Copyright Protection in Generative AI: A Technical Perspective

Jie Ren, Han Xu, Pengfei He +10

Generative AI has witnessed rapid advancement in recent years, expanding their capabilities to create synthesized content such as text, images, audio, and code. The high fidelity a…