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cs.LG2026

OP-Print: Tracing Membership Imprints in On-Policy Self-Distillation

Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

On-policy distillation has been widely adopted for alleviating the distribution mismatch of off-policy distillation. Self-distillation further removes the need for an external teac…

cs.AI2026

Jeva: System One Models from First Principles

Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

System one models like Jev enable direct, low-latency decision-making. Yet recent open-source practice of predicting an answer from serialized text does not, by itself, respect the…

cs.CL2026

PRISM: PRIvileged Sibling-guided Multi-Agent Topology Design

Phuong Tuan Dat, Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) based on large language models (LLMs) have become a powerful way to address complex problems, and their effectiveness depends critically on the collaborat…

cs.LG2026

BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao Wang

World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting actions alone, they learn representations that couple action generati…

cs.CL2026

dOPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Diffusion Language Models

Phuong Tuan Dat, Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked sequence, offering a parallel alternative to autoregressive models, but eliciting strong rea…

cs.CV2026

ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding

Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Any new medium, once it emerges, is used for more than the transmission of overt content alone. The information it carries typically operates on two levels: one is the content dire…

cs.AI2026

On-Policy Self-Evolution via Failure Trajectories for Agentic Safety Alignment

Bo Yin, Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Tool-using LLM agents fail through trajectories rather than only final responses, as they may execute unsafe tool calls, follow injected instructions, comply with harmful requests,…

cs.CR2026

AutoMIA: Improved Baselines for Membership Inference Attack via Agentic Self-Exploration

Ruhao Liu, Weiqi Huang, Qi Li +1

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as a fundamental auditing tool for evaluating training data leakage in machine learning models. However, existing methodologies predominan…

cs.CV2026

Anatomy of a Lie: A Multi-Stage Diagnostic Framework for Tracing Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models

Lexiang Xiong, Qi Li, Jingwen Ye +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently "hallucinate" - generate plausible yet factually incorrect statements - posing a critical barrier to their trustworthy deployment. In this…

cs.CR2026

Self-Purification Mitigates Backdoors in Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

Guangnian Wan, Qi Li, Gongfan Fang +2

Multimodal Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to their autoregressive counterparts. Yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks re…

cs.CV2026

Sponge Tool Attack: Stealthy Denial-of-Efficiency against Tool-Augmented Agentic Reasoning

Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve complex reasoning tasks is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. Recent work augments LLMs with external tools to enable…

cs.LG2026

Refinement Provenance Inference: Detecting LLM-Refined Training Prompts from Model Behavior

Bo Yin, Qi Li, Runpeng Yu +1

Instruction tuning increasingly relies on LLM-based prompt refinement, where prompts in the training corpus are selectively rewritten by an external refiner to improve clarity and…