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most citedExplainable and Interpretable Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

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cs.LG2026

SafeSci: Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models in Science Domains and Beyond

Xiangyang Zhu, Yuan Tian, Qi Jia +14

The success of large language models (LLMs) in scientific domains has heightened safety concerns, prompting numerous benchmarks to evaluate their scientific safety. Existing benchm…

cs.CV2026

HomeGuard: VLM-based Embodied Safeguard for Identifying Contextual Risk in Household Task

Xiaoya Lu, Yijin Zhou, Zeren Chen +6

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) empower embodied agents to execute complex instructions, yet they remain vulnerable to contextual safety risks where benign commands become hazardous…

cs.MA2026

Interpreting Emergent Extreme Events in Multi-Agent Systems

Ling Tang, Jilin Mei, Dongrui Liu +4

Large language model-powered multi-agent systems have emerged as powerful tools for simulating complex human-like systems. The interactions within these systems often lead to extre…

cs.CR2026

RvB: Automating AI System Hardening via Iterative Red-Blue Games

Lige Huang, Zicheng Liu, Jie Zhang +3

The dual offensive and defensive utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights a critical gap in AI security: the lack of unified frameworks for dynamic, iterative adversarial…

cs.CL2026

Loop as a Bridge: Can Looped Transformers Truly Link Representation Space and Natural Language Outputs?

Guanxu Chen, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao

Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit a gap between their internal knowledge and their explicit linguistic outputs. In this report, we empirically investigate whether Looped T…

cs.CL2026

ReasonAny: Incorporating Reasoning Capability to Any Model via Simple and Effective Model Merging

Junyao Yang, Chen Qian, Dongrui Liu +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) with long chain-of-thought reasoning have recently achieved remarkable success. Yet, equipping domain-specialized models with such reasoning capabilit…

cs.AI2025

TradeTrap: Are LLM-based Trading Agents Truly Reliable and Faithful?

Lewen Yan, Jilin Mei, Tianyi Zhou +4

LLM-based trading agents are increasingly deployed in real-world financial markets to perform autonomous analysis and execution. However, their reliability and robustness under adv…

cs.CR2025

PACEbench: A Framework for Evaluating Practical AI Cyber-Exploitation Capabilities

Zicheng Liu, Lige Huang, Jie Zhang +3

The increasing autonomy of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates a rigorous evaluation of their potential to aid in cyber offense. Existing benchmarks often lack real-world com…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Deceive Unintentionally: Emergent Misalignment in Dishonesty from Misaligned Samples to Biased Human-AI Interactions

Xuhao Hu, Peng Wang, Xiaoya Lu +3

Previous research has shown that LLMs finetuned on malicious or incorrect completions within narrow domains (e.g., insecure code or incorrect medical advice) can become broadly mis…

cs.LG2025

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Experience

Runzhe Zhan, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +5

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training dis…

cs.AI2025

Towards Self-Evolving Benchmarks: Synthesizing Agent Trajectories via Test-Time Exploration under Validate-by-Reproduce Paradigm

Dadi Guo, Tianyi Zhou, Dongrui Liu +8

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and agent system designs have empowered agents with unprecedented levels of capability. However, existing agent benchmarks are showi…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Entropy Regularization in Large Reasoning Models

Yuxian Jiang, Yafu Li, Guanxu Chen +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great promise in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large reasoning models (LRMs). However, it suffers from a crit…

cs.AI2025

Conditional Advantage Estimation for Reinforcement Learning in Large Reasoning Models

Guanxu Chen, Yafu Li, Yuxian Jiang +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable progress in enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities on tasks with clea…

cs.CL2025

The LLM Already Knows: Estimating LLM-Perceived Question Difficulty via Hidden Representations

Yubo Zhu, Dongrui Liu, Zecheng Lin +3

Estimating the difficulty of input questions as perceived by large language models (LLMs) is essential for accurate performance evaluation and adaptive inference. Existing methods…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Your Agent May Misevolve: Emergent Risks in Self-evolving LLM Agents

Shuai Shao, Qihan Ren, Chen Qian +8

Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a new class of self-evolving agents that autonomously improve through interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong c…

cs.AI2025

SafeWork-R1: Coevolving Safety and Intelligence under the AI-45 Law

Shanghai AI Lab, :, Yicheng Bao +115

We introduce SafeWork-R1, a cutting-edge multimodal reasoning model that demonstrates the coevolution of capabilities and safety. It is developed by our proposed SafeLadder framewo…

cs.AI2025

Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report

Shanghai AI Lab, :, Xiaoyang Chen +35

To understand and identify the unprecedented risks posed by rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) models, this report presents a comprehensive assessment of their frontier…

cs.CL2025

The Devil behind the mask: An emergent safety vulnerability of Diffusion LLMs

Zichen Wen, Jiashu Qu, Zhaorun Chen +13

Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to autoregressive LLMs, offering faster inference and greater interactivity via parall…

cs.AI2025

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Computer-Use Agents

Jingyi Yang, Shuai Shao, Dongrui Liu +1

With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they are increasingly deployed as autonomous computer-use agents capable of accomplishing complex computer t…

cs.AI2025

IS-Bench: Evaluating Interactive Safety of VLM-Driven Embodied Agents in Daily Household Tasks

Xiaoya Lu, Zeren Chen, Xuhao Hu +5

Flawed planning from VLM-driven embodied agents poses significant safety hazards, hindering their deployment in real-world household tasks. However, existing static, non-interactiv…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Models: Language, Multimodality, and Beyond

Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li, Zhao-Chen Su +15

Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1, have demonstrated strong performance gains by scaling up the length of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning dur…

cs.CL2025

LED-Merging: Mitigating Safety-Utility Conflicts in Model Merging with Location-Election-Disjoint

Qianli Ma, Dongrui Liu, Qian Chen +2

Fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) for specialized tasks incurs substantial computational and data costs. While model merging offers a training-free solution to i…

cs.CR2025

X-Boundary: Establishing Exact Safety Boundary to Shield LLMs from Multi-Turn Jailbreaks without Compromising Usability

Xiaoya Lu, Dongrui Liu, Yi Yu +2

Despite the rapid development of safety alignment techniques for LLMs, defending against multi-turn jailbreaks is still a challenging task. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensiv…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

Explainable and Interpretable Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Yunkai Dang, Kaichen Huang, Jiahao Huo +11

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous fields, with large language models (LLMs) and computer vision (CV) systems driving advancements in…