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most citedTrojanRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Can Be Backdoor Driver in Large Language Models

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23 papers

cs.CL2026

ACTOR: Action-Centered Temporal Organization for Literary Role-Playing Agents

Yuxiang Gao, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu +2

Large language agents for literary role-playing are typically modeled around dialogue generation, leaving characters' non-dialogue behaviors and their dynamic evolution over story…

cs.CL2026

Mobile-Aptus: Confidence-Driven Proactive and Robust Interaction in MLLM-based Mobile-Using Agents

Zheng Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu +5

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional potential in enabling mobile-using agents to autonomously execute human instructions. However…

cs.CL2026

GUI-CIDER: Mid-training GUI Agents via Causal Internalization and Density-aware Exemplar Reselection

Zheng Wu, Chengcheng Han, Zhengxi Lu +5

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models in building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, their real-world task completion is fundamentally bottlenecked by…

cs.CR2026

HoneyTrap: Deceiving Large Language Model Attackers to Honeypot Traps with Resilient Multi-Agent Defense

Siyuan Li, Xi Lin, Jun Wu +5

Jailbreak attacks pose significant threats to large language models (LLMs), enabling attackers to bypass safeguards. However, existing reactive defense approaches struggle to keep…

cs.CV2025

FedDEAP: Adaptive Dual-Prompt Tuning for Multi-Domain Federated Learning

Yubin Zheng, Pak-Hei Yeung, Jing Xia +4

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exposing local data, balancing performance and privacy. However, domain sh…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

See, Think, Act: Teaching Multimodal Agents to Effectively Interact with GUI by Identifying Toggles

Zongru Wu, Rui Mao, Zhiyuan Tian +7

The advent of multimodal agents facilitates effective interaction within graphical user interface (GUI), especially in ubiquitous GUI control. However, their inability to reliably…

cs.CL2025

On the Adaptive Psychological Persuasion of Large Language Models

Tianjie Ju, Yujia Chen, Hao Fei +6

Previous work has showcased the intriguing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in instruction-following and rhetorical fluency. However, systematic exploration of their du…

cs.CV2025

On Path to Multimodal Generalist: General-Level and General-Bench

Hao Fei, Yuan Zhou, Juncheng Li +29

The Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) is currently experiencing rapid growth, driven by the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Unlike earlier specialists, existing MLLMs are evolv…

cs.CL2025

Hidden Ghost Hand: Unveiling Backdoor Vulnerabilities in MLLM-Powered Mobile GUI Agents

Pengzhou Cheng, Haowen Hu, Zheng Wu +4

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown greater promise for human-interaction. However, due to the high fine-tuning cos…

cs.AI2025

EVA: Evolving Semantic Adversaries for Red-Teaming GUI Agents Against Environmental Injection Attacks

Yijie Lu, Manman Zhao, Tianjie Ju +6

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed yet vulnerable to Environmental Injection Attacks (EIAs).However…

cs.CL2025

Probing then Editing Response Personality of Large Language Models

Tianjie Ju, Zhenyu Shao, Bowen Wang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities to generate responses that simulate consistent personality traits. Despite the major attempts to analyze perso…

cs.CL2025

Smoothing Grounding and Reasoning for MLLM-Powered GUI Agents with Query-Oriented Pivot Tasks

Zongru Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zheng Wu +3

Perception-enhanced pre-training, particularly through grounding techniques, is widely adopted to enhance the performance of graphical user interface (GUI) agents. However, in reso…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Watch Out Your Album! On the Inadvertent Privacy Memorization in Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Tianjie Ju, Yi Hua, Hao Fei +7

Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have exhibited remarkable performance on various vision-language tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). Despite accumulating evide…

cs.CL2025

When Disagreements Elicit Robustness: Investigating Self-Repair Capabilities under LLM Multi-Agent Disagreements

Tianjie Ju, Bowen Wang, Hao Fei +9

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have upgraded them from sophisticated text generators to autonomous agents capable of cooperation and tool use in multi-agent system…

cs.CR2024

NSmark: Null Space Based Black-box Watermarking Defense Framework for Language Models

Haodong Zhao, Jinming Hu, Peixuan Li +6

Language models (LMs) have emerged as critical intellectual property (IP) assets that necessitate protection. Although various watermarking strategies have been proposed, they rema…

cs.CR2024

Transferring Backdoors between Large Language Models by Knowledge Distillation

Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Tianjie Ju +2

Backdoor Attacks have been a serious vulnerability against Large Language Models (LLMs). However, previous methods only reveal such risk in specific models, or present tasks transf…

cs.CL2024

Flooding Spread of Manipulated Knowledge in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Communities

Tianjie Ju, Yiting Wang, Xinbei Ma +7

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in multi-agent systems has highlighted their impressive capabilities in various applications, such as collaborative problem-solvi…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

TrojanRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Can Be Backdoor Driver in Large Language Models

Pengzhou Cheng, Yidong Ding, Tianjie Ju +5

Large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about potential security threats despite performing significantly in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Backdoor attacks initially…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Federated Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation with intra-client and inter-client Consistency

Yubin Zheng, Peng Tang, Tianjie Ju +2

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinic disease diagnosis and medical image analysis. However, labeling medical images for segmentation task is tough due to the ind…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

How Large Language Models Encode Context Knowledge? A Layer-Wise Probing Study

Tianjie Ju, Weiwei Sun, Wei Du +3

Previous work has showcased the intriguing capability of large language models (LLMs) in retrieving facts and processing context knowledge. However, only limited research exists on…

cs.CL2024

General LLMs as Instructors for Domain-Specific LLMs: A Sequential Fusion Method to Integrate Extraction and Editing

Xin Zhang, Tianjie Ju, Huijia Liang +2

The substantial interest in updating Large Language Models (LLMs) without retraining from scratch is accompanied by several challenges. This is particularly true when updating LLMs…

cs.CL2024

Investigating Multi-Hop Factual Shortcuts in Knowledge Editing of Large Language Models

Tianjie Ju, Yijin Chen, Xinwei Yuan +4

Recent work has showcased the powerful capability of large language models (LLMs) in recalling knowledge and reasoning. However, the reliability of LLMs in combining these two capa…

cs.CL2024

On the Robustness of Editing Large Language Models

Xinbei Ma, Tianjie Ju, Jiyang Qiu +4

Large language models (LLMs) have played a pivotal role in building communicative AI, yet they encounter the challenge of efficient updates. Model editing enables the manipulation…