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most citedVERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

Understanding and Mitigating Inference-Time Overreliance Using Agentic Memory

Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Nilesh Auradkar +3

Agentic memory allows LLM agents to reuse past experience, yet retrieved memories can also distort inference even when they are benign, correctly stored, and appropriately retrieve…

cs.CR2026

Polar: LLM-Powered Synthesis of Real-World Cyber Evidence for Prioritization and Mitigation

Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Ankita Patra +3

Cyber threat analysis increasingly depends on evidence distributed across vendor advisories, vulnerability databases, and threat intelligence sources. Turning these fragmented obse…

cs.AI2026

MemFit: Efficient Long-Term Agentic Memory

Mitchell Piehl, Muchao Ye

Long-term memory systems for large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity for extending reasoning capabilities across applications. Current memory systems rely on LLM agents…

cs.CV2026

Staying VIGILant: Mitigating Visual Laziness via Counterfactual Visual Alignment in MLLMs

Xi Xiao, Chen Liu, Chih-Ting Liao +9

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with visual perception, enabling joint reasoning over images and text. Despite inheriting strong reason…

cs.CV2026

LATERN: Test-Time Context-Aware Explainable Video Anomaly Detection

Mitchell Piehl, Muchao Ye

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for video anomaly detection (VAD) due to their strong visual reasoning ability and natural language-base…

cs.AI2026

EquiMem: Calibrating Shared Memory in Multi-Agent Debate via Game-Theoretic Equilibrium

Yuqiao Meng, Sakshi Sunil Narvekar, Luoxi Tang +4

Multi-agent debate (MAD) systems increasingly rely on shared memory to support long-horizon reasoning, but this convenience opens a critical vulnerability: a single corrupted entry…

cs.AI2026

OracleTSC: Oracle-Informed Reward Hurdle and Uncertainty Regularization for Traffic Signal Control

Darryl Jacob, Xinyu Liu, Muchao Ye +2

Transparent decision-making is essential for traffic signal control (TSC) systems to earn public trust. However, traditional reinforcement learning-based TSC methods function as bl…

cs.LG2026

ER-MIA: Black-Box Adversarial Memory Injection Attacks on Long-Term Memory-Augmented Large Language Models

Mitchell Piehl, Zhaohan Xi, Zuobin Xiong +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly augmented with long-term memory systems to overcome finite context windows and enable persistent reasoning across interactions. Howeve…

cs.CV2026

Understanding Real-World Traffic Safety through RoadSafe365 Benchmark

Xinyu Liu, Darryl C. Jacob, Yuxin Liu +4

Although recent traffic benchmarks have advanced multimodal data analysis, they generally lack systematic evaluation aligned with official safety standards. To fill this gap, we in…

cs.MA2026

The Value of Variance: Mitigating Debate Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems via Uncertainty-Driven Policy Optimization

Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Joseph Costa +3

Multi-agent debate (MAD) systems improve LLM reasoning through iterative deliberation, but remain vulnerable to debate collapse, a failure type where final agent decisions are comp…

cs.CV2026

SRVAU-R1: Enhancing Video Anomaly Understanding via Reflection-Aware Learning

Zihao Zhao, Shengting Cao, Muchao Ye

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in reasoning capabilities and shown promising effectiveness in video anomaly understanding (VAU) ta…

cs.CR2025

POLAR: Automating Cyber Threat Prioritization through LLM-Powered Assessment

Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Ankita Patra +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are intensively used to assist security analysts in counteracting the rapid exploitation of cyber threats, wherein LLMs offer cyber threat intelligence…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

CyLens: Towards Reinventing Cyber Threat Intelligence in the Paradigm of Agentic Large Language Models

Xiaoqun Liu, Jiacheng Liang, Qiben Yan +5

The exponential growth of cyber threat knowledge, exemplified by the expansion of databases such as MITRE-CVE and NVD, poses significant challenges for cyber threat analysis. Secur…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models

Muchao Ye, Weiyang Liu, Pan He

The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has established a new paradigm in video anomaly detection (VAD): leveraging VLMs to simultaneously detect anomalies and provi…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Data to Defense: The Role of Curation in Customizing LLMs Against Jailbreaking Attacks

Xiaoqun Liu, Jiacheng Liang, Luoxi Tang +3

Large language models (LLMs) are widely adapted for downstream applications through fine-tuning, a process named customization. However, recent studies have identified a vulnerabil…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Robustifying Safety-Aligned Large Language Models through Clean Data Curation

Xiaoqun Liu, Jiacheng Liang, Muchao Ye +1

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable when trained on datasets containing harmful content, which leads to potential jailbreaking attacks in two scenarios: the integration of…