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20222026
most citedUnsafeBench: Benchmarking Image Safety Classifiers on Real-World and AI-Generated Images

4 citations · 9 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2026

EchoCoT: Extracting Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Large Reasoning Models

Yiting Qu, Ziqing Yang, Chi Cui +3

Hidden chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, especially those from frontier proprietary large reasoning models (LRMs), are valuable model assets. Yet whether these hidden CoTs can be dire…

cs.CV2026

Innocent Panels, Hateful Stories: Evaluating and Detecting Hateful Intent in Multi-Turn Visual Story Generation

Ye Leng, Junjie Chu, Yiting Qu +3

Picture books and comics have long been used to disseminate hateful narratives because they are easily understood even by children, as exemplified by the notorious Nazi propaganda…

cs.CR2026

Understanding LLM Behavior When Encountering User-Supplied Harmful Content in Harmless Tasks

Junjie Chu, Yiting Qu, Ye Leng +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly trained to align with human values, primarily focusing on task level, i.e., refusing to execute directly harmful tasks. However, a sub…

cs.CV2025

From Evidence to Verdict: An Agent-Based Forensic Framework for AI-Generated Image Detection

Mengfei Liang, Yiting Qu, Yukun Jiang +2

The rapid evolution of AI-generated images poses growing challenges to information integrity and media authenticity. Existing detection approaches face limitations in robustness, i…

cs.CR2025

Hate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions

Yiting Qu, Ziqing Yang, Yihan Ma +3

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the creation of a new form of digital art: optical illusions--visual tricks that create different perceptions of real…

cs.CR2025

Bridging the Gap in Vision Language Models in Identifying Unsafe Concepts Across Modalities

Yiting Qu, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to identify unsafe or inappropriate images due to their internal ethical standards and powerful reasoning abilities. However,…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

HateBench: Benchmarking Hate Speech Detectors on LLM-Generated Content and Hate Campaigns

Xinyue Shen, Yixin Wu, Yiting Qu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have raised increasing concerns about their misuse in generating hate speech. Among all the efforts to address this issue, hate speech detectors play a…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

UnsafeBench: Benchmarking Image Safety Classifiers on Real-World and AI-Generated Images

Yiting Qu, Xinyue Shen, Yixin Wu +3

With the advent of text-to-image models and concerns about their misuse, developers are increasingly relying on image safety classifiers to moderate their generated unsafe images.…

cs.CR2023

FAKEPCD: Fake Point Cloud Detection via Source Attribution

Yiting Qu, Zhikun Zhang, Yun Shen +2

To prevent the mischievous use of synthetic (fake) point clouds produced by generative models, we pioneer the study of detecting point cloud authenticity and attributing them to th…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Unsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models

Yiting Qu, Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He +3

State-of-the-art Text-to-Image models like Stable Diffusion and DALLE2 are revolutionizing how people generate visual content. At the same time, society has serious concerns…

cs.CR2023

Prompt Stealing Attacks Against Text-to-Image Generation Models

Xinyue Shen, Yiting Qu, Michael Backes +1

Text-to-Image generation models have revolutionized the artwork design process and enabled anyone to create high-quality images by entering text descriptions called prompts. Creati…

cs.SI2022★ 1 cited

On the Evolution of (Hateful) Memes by Means of Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Yiting Qu, Xinlei He, Shannon Pierson +3

The dissemination of hateful memes online has adverse effects on social media platforms and the real world. Detecting hateful memes is challenging, one of the reasons being the evo…