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most citedOpen-TI: Open Traffic Intelligence with Augmented Language Model

33 citations · 36 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.SC2026

Diverse Reasoning Paths Matter: Symbolic Equivalence Augmentation for Enhancing RL Exploration

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Hanyang Chen +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, the role of supervised fine-tuni…

cs.AI2026

Vision Language Model Helps Private Information De-Identification in Vision Data

Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable ability. While various methods exist to enhance privacy in text-based applications, privacy…

cs.CR2026

Unveiling Privacy Risks in Multi-modal Large Language Models: Task-specific Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Challenges

Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2

Privacy risks in text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) are well studied, particularly their tendency to memorize and leak sensitive information. However, Multi-modal Large Languag…

cs.CL2026

Diagnosing Multi-step Reasoning Failures in Black-box LLMs via Stepwise Confidence Attribution

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Dengjia Zhang +3

Large Language Models have achieved strong performance on reasoning tasks with objective answers by generating step-by-step solutions, but diagnosing where a multi-step reasoning t…

cs.AI2026

The Sim-to-Real Gap of Foundation Model Agents: A Unified MDP Perspective

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Weibo Li +2

Foundation model agents are increasingly deployed for real-world decision-making, but suffer from the sim-to-real gap. While robotics and classical control have mature frameworks t…

cs.CL2026

Position: Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs is Just Unsupervised Clustering

Tiejin Chen, Longchao Da, Xiaoou Liu +1

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is widely regarded as the primary safeguard for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes domains. However, we argue that the field suff…

cs.AI2026

Agentic AI for Trip Planning Optimization Application

Tiejin Chen, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Kyungtae Han +2

Trip planning for intelligent vehicles increasingly requires selecting optimal routes rather than merely producing feasible itineraries, as interacting factors such as travel time,…

cs.LG2026

Are LLM Uncertainty and Correctness Encoded by the Same Features? A Functional Dissociation via Sparse Autoencoders

Het Patel, Tiejin Chen, Hua Wei +2

Large language models can be uncertain yet correct, or confident yet wrong, raising the question of whether their output-level uncertainty and their actual correctness are driven b…

cs.LG2026

Every Response Counts: Quantifying Uncertainty of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems through Tensor Decomposition

Tiejin Chen, Huaiyuan Yao, Jia Chen +2

While Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) consistently outperform single-agent systems on complex tasks, their intricate interactions introduce critical reliabilit…

cs.LG2026

Conformal Feedback Alignment: Quantifying Answer-Level Reliability for Robust LLM Alignment

Tiejin Chen, Xiaoou Liu, Vishnu Nandam +2

Preference-based alignment like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) learns from pairwise preferences, yet the labels are often noisy and inconsistent. Existing uncert…

cs.LG2025

Joint-Local Grounded Action Transformation for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-Agent Traffic Control

Justin Turnau, Longchao Da, Khoa Vo +4

Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is essential for managing urban traffic flow and reducing congestion. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers an adaptive method for TSC by responding to dy…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Uncertainty Quantification and Confidence Calibration in Large Language Models: A Survey

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Longchao Da +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in text generation, reasoning, and decision-making, enabling their adoption in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, law, and transportation. H…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Generative AI in Transportation Planning: A Survey

Longchao Da, Tiejin Chen, Zhuoheng Li +14

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into transportation planning has the potential to revolutionize tasks such as demand forecasting, infrastructure desig…

cs.CL2025

Uncertainty Quantification of Large Language Models through Multi-Dimensional Responses

Tiejin Chen, Xiaoou Liu, Longchao Da +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks due to large training datasets and powerful transformer architecture. However, the relia…

cs.LG2024

Zer0-Jack: A Memory-efficient Gradient-based Jailbreaking Method for Black-box Multi-modal Large Language Models

Tiejin Chen, Kaishen Wang, Hua Wei

Jailbreaking methods, which induce Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to output harmful responses, raise significant safety concerns. Among these methods, gradient-based app…

cs.AI2024

SynTraC: A Synthetic Dataset for Traffic Signal Control from Traffic Monitoring Cameras

Tiejin Chen, Prithvi Shirke, Bharatesh Chakravarthi +5

This paper introduces SynTraC, the first public image-based traffic signal control dataset, aimed at bridging the gap between simulated environments and real-world traffic manageme…

cs.CL2024

LLM Uncertainty Quantification through Directional Entailment Graph and Claim Level Response Augmentation

Longchao Da, Tiejin Chen, Lu Cheng +1

The Large language models (LLMs) have showcased superior capabilities in sophisticated tasks across various domains, stemming from basic question-answer (QA), they are nowadays use…

cs.AI2024

Privacy-preserving Fine-tuning of Large Language Models through Flatness

Tiejin Chen, Longchao Da, Huixue Zhou +4

The privacy concerns associated with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown recently with the development of LLMs such as ChatGPT. Differential Privacy (DP) techniques…

cs.LG2024

Are Classification Robustness and Explanation Robustness Really Strongly Correlated? An Analysis Through Input Loss Landscape

Tiejin Chen, Wenwang Huang, Linsey Pang +2

This paper delves into the critical area of deep learning robustness, challenging the conventional belief that classification robustness and explanation robustness in image classif…

cs.OS2024

When eBPF Meets Machine Learning: On-the-fly OS Kernel Compartmentalization

Zicheng Wang, Tiejin Chen, Qinrun Dai +3

Compartmentalization effectively prevents initial corruption from turning into a successful attack. This paper presents O2C, a pioneering system designed to enforce OS kernel compa…

cs.LG2024

Uncertainty Regularized Evidential Regression

Kai Ye, Tiejin Chen, Hua Wei +1

The Evidential Regression Network (ERN) represents a novel approach that integrates deep learning with Dempster-Shafer's theory to predict a target and quantify the associated unce…

cs.AI2024★ 33 cited

Open-TI: Open Traffic Intelligence with Augmented Language Model

Longchao Da, Kuanru Liou, Tiejin Chen +4

Transportation has greatly benefited the cities' development in the modern civilization process. Intelligent transportation, leveraging advanced computer algorithms, could further…

cs.LG2023

Federated Learning with Projected Trajectory Regularization

Tiejin Chen, Yuanpu Cao, Yujia Wang +2

Federated learning enables joint training of machine learning models from distributed clients without sharing their local data. One key challenge in federated learning is to handle…