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most citedDistract Large Language Models for Automatic Jailbreak Attack

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cs.CL2026

AlignDiff: Exploiting Model-Intrinsic Information for Better Preference Data Selection

Peng Lai, He Zhu, Zhiwen Ruan +6

Aligning large language models with human preferences remains a challenge, primarily due to the critical role of preference data quality in effective alignment. Existing datasets a…

cs.CL2026

VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free Adaptation

Yixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan +6

Multimodal large language models have advanced rapidly, yet most remain English-centric, as scaling multilingual multimodal instruction tuning is limited by the scarcity and high c…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Static Rules: Automated Discovery of Latent Vulnerabilities in Text-to-SQL

Hanqing Wang, Yongdong Chi, Jian Yang +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in Text-to-SQL tasks, their deployment in real-world environments is hindered by latent reliability issues. Iden…

cs.CL2026

Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agents

Yixia Li, Hongru Wang, Peng Lai +13

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used in interactive textual environments, from web navigation and code editing to tool use and long-horizon dialogue. Yet m…

cs.CL2026

GIFT: Guided Fine-Tuning and Transfer for Enhancing Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Zhiwen Ruan, Yichao Du, Jianjie Zheng +6

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tu…

cs.CL2026

FinSafetyBench: Evaluating LLM Safety in Real-World Financial Scenarios

Yutao Hou, Yihan Jiang, Yuhan Xie +5

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in financial scenarios. However, they may produce harmful outputs, including facilitating illegal activities or unethical beha…

cs.CL2026

Representation-Guided Parameter-Efficient LLM Unlearning

Zeguan Xiao, Lang Mo, Yun Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) often memorize sensitive or harmful information, necessitating effective machine unlearning techniques. While existing parameter-efficient unlearning m…

cs.CL2026

Modeling LLM Unlearning as an Asymmetric Two-Task Learning Problem

Zeguan Xiao, Siqing Li, Yong Wang +4

Machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs) aims to remove targeted knowledge while preserving general capability. In this paper, we recast LLM unlearning as an asymmetric…

cs.AI2026

SPPO: Sequence-Level PPO for Long-Horizon Reasoning Tasks

Tianyi Wang, Yixia Li, Long Li +6

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is central to aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks with verifiable rewards. However, standard token-level PPO struggles in th…

cs.CL2026

InstructDiff: Domain-Adaptive Data Selection via Differential Entropy for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning

Junyou Su, He Zhu, Xiao Luo +6

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is fundamental to adapting large language models, yet training on complete datasets incurs prohibitive costs with diminishing returns. Existing data se…

cs.CL2025

G2: Guided Generation for Enhanced Output Diversity in LLMs

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, Yefeng Liu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse natural language processing tasks. However, these models exhibit a critical limitation in outp…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning via Selective Critical Token Fine-Tuning

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, He Zhu +4

Large language models (LLMs) primarily rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a key method to adapt pre-trained models to domain-specific tasks such as mathematical reasoning. How…

cs.CL2025

Unveiling Over-Memorization in Finetuning LLMs for Reasoning Tasks

Zhiwen Ruan, Yun Chen, Yutao Hou +3

The pretrained large language models (LLMs) are finetuned with labeled data for better instruction following ability and alignment with human values. In this paper, we study the le…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs with Expectation of Aggregated Internal Belief

Zeguan Xiao, Diyang Dou, Boya Xiong +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of natural language tasks, but often exhibit overconfidence and generate plausible yet incorrect a…

cs.CL2025

Beyond the Surface: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Alignment with Human via Internal Representations

Peng Lai, Jianjie Zheng, Sijie Cheng +4

The growing scale of evaluation tasks has led to the widespread adoption of automated evaluation using LLMs, a paradigm known as "LLM-as-a-judge". However, improving its alignment…

cs.CL2025

Pi-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Fine-Grained Guidance from Pivot Programming Languages

Yongdong chi, Hanqing Wang, Zonghan Yang +4

Text-to-SQL transforms the user queries from natural language to executable SQL programs, enabling non-experts to interact with complex databases. Existing prompt-based methods cra…

cs.CL2025

TAG-INSTRUCT: Controlled Instruction Complexity Enhancement through Structure-based Augmentation

He Zhu, Zhiwen Ruan, Junyou Su +4

High-quality instruction data is crucial for developing large language models (LLMs), yet existing approaches struggle to effectively control instruction complexity. We present TAG…

cs.CL2025

Towards Bridging the Reward-Generation Gap in Direct Alignment Algorithms

Zeguan Xiao, Yun Chen, Guanhua Chen +1

Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs), such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Simple Preference Optimization (SimPO), have emerged as efficient alternatives to Reinforcement…

cs.CL2025

Toward Automated Robustness Evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning

Yutao Hou, Zeguan Xiao, Fei Yu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various reasoning-intensive tasks. However, these models exhibit unexpected brittleness, often failing on…

cs.CL2025

ImPart: Importance-Aware Delta-Sparsification for Improved Model Compression and Merging in LLMs

Yan Yang, Yixia Li, Hongru Wang +4

With the proliferation of task-specific large language models, delta compression has emerged as a method to mitigate the resource challenges of deploying numerous such models by ef…

cs.CL2025

LayAlign: Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning in Large Language Models via Layer-Wise Adaptive Fusion and Alignment Strategy

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, He Zhu +5

Despite being pretrained on multilingual corpora, large language models (LLMs) exhibit suboptimal performance on low-resource languages. Recent approaches have leveraged multilingu…

cs.CL2024

Compound-QA: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Compound Questions

Yutao Hou, Yajing Luo, Zhiwen Ruan +4

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across various tasks, prompting researchers to develop diverse evaluation benchmarks. However, most benchmarks typic…

cs.CR2024

SeqAR: Jailbreak LLMs with Sequential Auto-Generated Characters

Yan Yang, Zeguan Xiao, Xin Lu +5

The widespread applications of large language models (LLMs) have brought about concerns regarding their potential misuse. Although aligned with human preference data before release…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation

Yixia Li, Boya Xiong, Guanhua Chen +1

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the safe deployment of neural networks. Existing CLIP-based approaches perform OOD detection by devising novel scoring functions…