8 papers
Long-Term Simulation Exposes Cognitive-Developmental Risks in AI Companions
Kaicheng Shen, Lingyu Li, Wen Wu +3
AI companions powered by large language models increasingly interact with cognition-developing users, including children and adolescents, creating risks that may accumulate over ti…
MemPro: Agentic Memory Systems as Evolvable Programs
Qingshan Liu, Guoqing Wang, Wen Wu +5
Long-horizon autonomous agents require memory systems to retain historical information, track evolving states, and reuse relevant knowledge beyond finite context windows. Existing…
Can Heterogeneous Language Models Be Fused?
Shilian Chen, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen +4
Model merging aims to integrate multiple expert models into a single model that inherits their complementary strengths without incurring the inference-time cost of ensembling. Rece…
Caring Without Feeling: Affective Dynamics as the Control Layer of Human-AI Agent Collaboration
Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Zihao Zhang +6
AI agents that plan, retain memory across sessions, invoke external tools and act with partial autonomy are transforming human--AI collaboration. Research on affective computing, s…
MENTOR: A Metacognition-Driven Self-Evolution Framework for Uncovering and Mitigating Implicit Domain Risks in LLMs
Liang Shan, Kaicheng Shen, Wen Wu +9
Ensuring the safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for real-world deployment. However, current safety measures often fail to address implicit, domain-specific risks. T…
Forget What's Sensitive, Remember What Matters: Token-Level Differential Privacy in Memory Sculpting for Continual Learning
Bihao Zhan, Jie Zhou, Junsong Li +9
Continual Learning (CL) models, while adept at sequential knowledge acquisition, face significant and often overlooked privacy challenges due to accumulating diverse information. T…
Task-Core Memory Management and Consolidation for Long-term Continual Learning
Tianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Yuxuan Cai +5
In this paper, we focus on a long-term continual learning (CL) task, where a model learns sequentially from a stream of vast tasks over time, acquiring new knowledge while retainin…
Aesthetic Matters in Music Perception for Image Stylization: A Emotion-driven Music-to-Visual Manipulation
Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Tanren Yao +4
Emotional information is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction and deepening image understanding. However, while deep learning has advanced image recognition, the intu…