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

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cs.LG2026

PRISM: Preference-Aware Influence Function Based Data Selection Method for Efficient Fine-Tuning

Qihao Lin, Guanxu Chen, Dongrui Liu +1

As LLMs continue to scale up, improving training efficiency heavily relies on effective data utilization. Data selection mitigates this issue by allocating the limited training bud…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

Frequency-Domain Regularized Adversarial Alignment for Transferable Attacks against Closed-Source MLLMs

Leitao Yuan, Qinghua Mao, Daizong Liu +5

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain vulnerable to transfer-based targeted attacks, where perturbations optimized on open-source surrogate encoders can generalize to clo…

cs.AI2026

What Do EEG Foundation Models Capture from Human Brain Signals?

Ling Tang, Qian Chen, Jilin Mei +6

Clinical electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis rests on a hand-crafted feature catalog refined over decades, \emph{e.g.,} band power, connectivity, complexity, and more. Modern EEG f…

cs.AI2026

Attributing Emergence in Million-Agent Systems

Ling Tang, Jilin Mei, Qian Chen +6

Large language models (LLMs) can simulate human-like reasoning and decision-making in individual agents. LLM-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) combine such agents to simulate popul…

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.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.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

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

Demystifying Reasoning Dynamics with Mutual Information: Thinking Tokens are Information Peaks in LLM Reasoning

Chen Qian, Dongrui Liu, Haochen Wen +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex problem-solving, yet their internal reasoning mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this paper,…

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.CL2025

Beyond External Monitors: Enhancing Transparency of Large Language Models for Easier Monitoring

Guanxu Chen, Jing Shao, Tao Luo +3

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable, but the mechanisms of their thinking and decision-making processes remain unclear. Chain-of-thoughts (CoTs) have bee…

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…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

VLSBench: Unveiling Visual Leakage in Multimodal Safety

Xuhao Hu, Dongrui Liu, Hao Li +2

Safety concerns of Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gradually become an important problem in various applications. Surprisingly, previous works indicate a counterintui…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

REEF: Representation Encoding Fingerprints for Large Language Models

Jie Zhang, Dongrui Liu, Chen Qian +4

Protecting the intellectual property of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) is very important, because training LLMs costs extensive computational resources and data. Therefor…