14 papers
Decoding Hidden Deception in Reasoning LLMs: Activation Explainers for Deception Auditing
Kexin Chen, Yi Liu, Haonan Zhang +3
As LLMs acquire stronger reasoning capabilities, deceptive behavior becomes an increasingly serious safety concern. Existing deception monitors either score visible transcripts or…
DDOR: Delta Debugging for Explainable Overrefusal Testing and Repair
Qinyan Zhou, Peixin Zhang, Jun Sun +2
While safety alignment and guardrails help large language models (LLMs) avoid harmful outputs, they can also induce overrefusal, i.e., unwarranted rejection of benign queries that…
LLM-VA: Resolving the Jailbreak-Overrefusal Trade-off via Vector Alignment
Haonan Zhang, Dongxia Wang, Yi Liu +2
Safety-aligned LLMs suffer from two failure modes: jailbreak (answering harmful inputs) and over-refusal (declining benign queries). Existing vector steering methods adjust the mag…
FlowHijack: A Dynamics-Aware Backdoor Attack on Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Models
Xinyuan An, Tao Luo, Gengyun Peng +3
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a cornerstone for robotics, with flow-matching policies like showing great promise in generating smooth, continuous actio…
RP-CATE: Recurrent Perceptron-based Channel Attention Transformer Encoder for Industrial Hybrid Modeling
Haoran Yang, Yinan Zhang, Wenjie Zhang +5
Nowadays, industrial hybrid modeling which integrates both mechanistic modeling and machine learning-based modeling techniques has attracted increasing interest from scholars due t…
ORFuzz: Fuzzing the "Other Side" of LLM Safety -- Testing Over-Refusal
Haonan Zhang, Dongxia Wang, Yi Liu +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit over-refusal - erroneously rejecting benign queries due to overly conservative safety measures - a critical functional flaw that u…