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most citedHow Robust is Google's Bard to Adversarial Image Attacks?

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22 papers

cs.CV2026

EgoSAT: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Egocentric Streaming Interaction Understanding

Yijia Lei, Jinzhao Li, Yichi Zhang +3

We introduce EgoSAT, the first comprehensive benchmark for egocentric video reasoning in streaming settings, designed to evaluate the capabilities of modern vision-language models…

cs.LG2026

MESA: Improving MoE Safety Alignment via Decentralized Expertise

Yitong Sun, Yao Huang, Teng Li +5

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently, enabling greater capacity with reduced computational cost by dynamically routing inputs to re…

cs.CV2026

IPIBench: Evaluating Interactive Proactive Intelligence of MLLMs under Continuous Streams

Jinzhao Li, Yinuo Chen, Wenxuan Song +5

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on reactive question answering, but real-world streaming assistants require proactive reasoning over cont…

cs.SE2026

RepoMirage: Probing Repository Context Reasoning in Code Agents with Perturbations

Hanyu Li, Yichi Zhang, Speed Zhu +3

Code agents are currently having skillful performance on repository-level software engineering benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether success on end-to-end tasks such as issue…

cs.AI2026

Guideline-Grounded Evidence Accumulation for High-Stakes Agent Verification

Yichi Zhang, Nabeel Seedat, Yinpeng Dong +3

As LLM-powered agents have been used for high-stakes decision-making, such as clinical diagnosis, it becomes critical to develop reliable verification of their decisions to facilit…

cs.CL2026

Reasoning as State Transition: A Representational Analysis of Reasoning Evolution in Large Language Models

Siyuan Zhang, Jialian Li, Yichi Zhang +3

Large Language Models have achieved remarkable performance on reasoning tasks, motivating research into how this ability evolves during training. Prior work has primarily analyzed…

cs.CL2025

DeceptionBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for AI Deception Behaviors in Real-world Scenarios

Yao Huang, Yitong Sun, Yichi Zhang +3

Despite the remarkable advances of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse cognitive tasks, the rapid enhancement of these capabilities also introduces emergent deceptive behav…

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.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.CL2025

Unveiling Trust in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Analysis, and Mitigation

Yichi Zhang, Yao Huang, Yifan Wang +10

The trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains an intense concern despite the significant progress in their capabilities. Existing evaluation and mitigatio…

cs.AI2025

A Survey on Autonomy-Induced Security Risks in Large Model-Based Agents

Hang Su, Jun Luo, Chang Liu +4

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed the rise of autonomous AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in dynamic, open-ended environments. Th…

cs.CR2025

Breaking the Ceiling: Exploring the Potential of Jailbreak Attacks through Expanding Strategy Space

Yao Huang, Yitong Sun, Shouwei Ruan +3

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite advanced general capabilities, still suffer from numerous safety risks, especially jailbreak attacks that bypass safety protocols. Understandi…

cs.CV2025

Beyond Quantity: Distribution-Aware Labeling for Visual Grounding

Yichi Zhang, Gongwei Chen, Jun Zhu +2

Visual grounding requires large and diverse region-text pairs. However, manual annotation is costly and fixed vocabularies restrict scalability and generalization. Existing pseudo-…

cs.LG2025

Mitigating Overthinking in Large Reasoning Models via Manifold Steering

Yao Huang, Huanran Chen, Shouwei Ruan +3

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks such as mathematics and coding. However, these models frequently…

cs.LG2025

Unveiling the Basin-Like Loss Landscape in Large Language Models

Huanran Chen, Yinpeng Dong, Zeming Wei +4

We discover the emergence of \textit{basins} in the loss landscape of large language models. As model scale increases, LLMs become progressively more resilient to random perturbati…

cs.AI2025

RealSafe-R1: Safety-Aligned DeepSeek-R1 without Compromising Reasoning Capability

Yichi Zhang, Zihao Zeng, Dongbai Li +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have been rapidly progressing and achieving breakthrough performance on complex reasoning tasks such as mathematic…

cs.CL2025

Exploring the Generalizability of Factual Hallucination Mitigation via Enhancing Precise Knowledge Utilization

Siyuan Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to align their responses with objective facts, resulting in the issue of factual hallucinations, which can be difficult to detect and mi…

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…

cs.LG2024

Scaling Laws for Black box Adversarial Attacks

Chuan Liu, Huanran Chen, Yichi Zhang +2

Adversarial examples exhibit cross-model transferability, enabling threatening black-box attacks on commercial models. Model ensembling, which attacks multiple surrogate models, is…

cs.CL2024

MultiTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark Towards Trustworthy Multimodal Large Language Models

Yichi Zhang, Yao Huang, Yitong Sun +10

Despite the superior capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, they still face significant trustworthiness challenges. Yet, current literature…

cs.CV2024

Exploring the Transferability of Visual Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Models

Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong, Siyuan Zhang +3

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising versatile capabilities, their performance is still inferior to specialized models on downstream tasks,…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

How Robust is Google's Bard to Adversarial Image Attacks?

Yinpeng Dong, Huanran Chen, Jiawei Chen +6

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that integrate text and other modalities (especially vision) have achieved unprecedented performance in various multimodal tasks. However,…