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20232026
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10 papers

cs.CL2026

FastGuide: Accelerating Reward Guidance for Diffusion Large Language Models

Darshan Thaker, Lachlan Ewen MacDonald, René Vidal

Gradient-based reward guidance provides a flexible way to use downstream reward models to control masked diffusion language models at inference time. However, its computational cos…

eess.IV2026

ANaLOG: Anisotropic Native-Latent Operator Guidance for Solving Inverse Problems

Darshan Thaker, Lachlan Ewen MacDonald, René Vidal

Native-latent guidance is a recent paradigm for solving inverse problems with latent diffusion models. It replaces repeated evaluations of the image-space forward model, each requi…

cs.CL2026

REALISTA: Realistic Latent Adversarial Attacks that Elicit LLM Hallucinations

Buyun Liang, Jinqi Luo, Liangzu Peng +6

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks but remain vulnerable to hallucinations, making it important to systematically evaluate their reliability…

cs.CL2025

SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations

Buyun Liang, Liangzu Peng, Jinqi Luo +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-risk domains. However, state-of-the-art LLMs often exhibit hallucinations, raising serious concerns about their relia…

cs.LG2025

Conformal Information Pursuit for Interactively Guiding Large Language Models

Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, Yuyan Ge, Edgar Dobriban +2

A significant use case of instruction-finetuned Large Language Models (LLMs) is to solve question-answering tasks interactively. In this setting, an LLM agent is tasked with making…

cs.CR2025

KDA: A Knowledge-Distilled Attacker for Generating Diverse Prompts to Jailbreak LLMs

Buyun Liang, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, Darshan Thaker +2

Jailbreak attacks exploit specific prompts to bypass LLM safeguards, causing the LLM to generate harmful, inappropriate, and misaligned content. Current jailbreaking methods rely h…

eess.IV2024

Frequency-Guided Posterior Sampling for Diffusion-Based Image Restoration

Darshan Thaker, Abhishek Goyal, René Vidal

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse proble…

cs.CL2024

PaCE: Parsimonious Concept Engineering for Large Language Models

Jinqi Luo, Tianjiao Ding, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being used for a wide variety of tasks. While they are capable of generating human-like responses, they can also produce undesirable output includi…

cs.CV2023

Learning Interpretable Queries for Explainable Image Classification with Information Pursuit

Stefan Kolek, Aditya Chattopadhyay, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan +3

Information Pursuit (IP) is an explainable prediction algorithm that greedily selects a sequence of interpretable queries about the data in order of information gain, updating its…

cs.CV2023

Contextual Knowledge Pursuit for Faithful Visual Synthesis

Jinqi Luo, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, Dimitris Dimos +1

Modern text-to-vision generative models often hallucinate when the prompt describing the scene to be generated is underspecified. In large language models (LLMs), a prevalent strat…