most citedSTAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning

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cs.CR2026

PyCache Trap: The Inspection-Execution Gap in Agent Skill Scanners

Jie Liao, Simeng Qin, Wenqi Ren +5

Agent skills combine instructions with executable resources, giving third-party packages access to an agent's runtime. Existing skill scanners inspect documentation and visible sou…

cs.CL2026

Search-G1: Co-Evolving Representation-Based Rewards for Selective Grounded Search

Ruoxi Cheng, Haoxuan Ma, Hongyi Zhang +7

Search-augmented language agents should retrieve external information only when necessary and ground their answers in retrieved evidence. Yet terminal correctness assigns equal cre…

cs.AI2026

Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search

Xun Huang, Simeng Qin, Xiaoshuang Jia +6

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used, their security risks have drawn increasing attention. Existing research reveals that LLMs are highly susceptible to jailbreak…

cs.CL2026

Pruning as a Cooperative Game: Surrogate-Assisted Layer Contribution Estimation for Large Language Models

Xuan Ding, Pengyu Tong, Ranjie Duan +3

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance across various tasks, their deployment in real-world scenarios is still constrained by high computational dema…

cs.CL2025

SeCon-RAG: A Two-Stage Semantic Filtering and Conflict-Free Framework for Trustworthy RAG

Xiaonan Si, Meilin Zhu, Simeng Qin +7

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems enhance large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge but are vulnerable to corpus poisoning and contamination attacks, which ca…

cs.AI2025

Oyster-I: Beyond Refusal -- Constructive Safety Alignment for Responsible Language Models

Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu, Xiaojun Jia +27

Large language models (LLMs) typically deploy safety mechanisms to prevent harmful content generation. Most current approaches focus narrowly on risks posed by malicious actors, of…

cs.LG2025

Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models via Inference-Time Activation Energy

Eric Hanchen Jiang, Weixuan Ou, Run Liu +8

Safety alignment of large language models currently faces a central challenge: existing alignment techniques often prioritize mitigating responses to harmful prompts at the expense…

cs.AI2025

Towards Safe Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models via Corrective Intervention

Yichi Zhang, Yue Ding, Jingwen Yang +7

Although Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have progressed in solving complex problems, their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning often contains harmful content that can persist even when…

cs.CY2025

Strata-Sword: A Hierarchical Safety Evaluation towards LLMs based on Reasoning Complexity of Jailbreak Instructions

Shiji Zhao, Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu +10

Large language models (LLMs) have gained widespread recognition for their superior comprehension and have been deployed across numerous domains. Building on Chain-of-Thought (CoT)…

cs.CL2025

DREAM: Disentangling Risks to Enhance Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models

Jianyu Liu, Hangyu Guo, Ranjie Duan +14

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pose unique safety challenges due to their integration of visual and textual data, thereby introducing new dimensions of potential attacks…

cs.CL2025

Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Reward Scaling for LLM Alignment

Ruoxi Cheng, Haoxuan Ma, Weixin Wang +7

Alignment is vital for safely deploying large language models (LLMs). Existing techniques are either reward-based (training a reward model on preference pairs and optimizing with r…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning

Yichi Zhang, Siyuan Zhang, Yao Huang +7

Ensuring the safety and harmlessness of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become equally critical as their performance in applications. However, existing safety alignment methods ty…