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cs.CL2026

Better Supervision Is Nearby: Neighborhood On-Policy Self-Distillation

Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Yoshua Li +6

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains mathematical reasoning models using a privileged teacher that sees a reference solution and supervises student-sampled prefixes. Standard…

cs.AI2026

AdaGuard: An Adaptive Guard Model with User-defined Policies

Yunhao Feng, Yifan Ding, Yuxiang Xie +4

Guard models support the safe deployment of language model agents, but fixed risk taxonomies limit their ability to accommodate requirements that vary across applications and tasks…

cs.LG2026

SAF-OPD: Stable Advantage Fusion for On-Policy Distillation

Yifan Ding, Xincheng Wei, Yoshua Y. Li +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) broadcasts a single response-level reward to every token, while on-policy distillation (OPD) scores each token against a stron…

cs.AI2026

Safety Testing LLM Agents at Scale: From Risk Discovery to Evidence-Grounded Verification

Yunhao Feng, Ruixiao Lin, Ming Wen +12

LLM agents increasingly perform autonomous actions through external tools, leading to complex and evolving safety risks. However, existing safety testing targets expert-designed sa…

cs.CR2026

BraveGuard: From Open-World Threats to Safer Computer-Use Agents

Yunhao Feng, Xiaohu Du, Xinhao Deng +13

Computer-use agents extend language models from text generation to sustained interaction with files, terminals, browsers, and external tools. This shift creates safety risks that a…

cs.CL2026

DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

DeepSeek-AI, Anyi Xu, Bangcai Lin +315

We present a preview version of DeepSeek-V4 series, including two strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models -- DeepSeek-V4-Pro with 1.6T parameters (49B activated) and DeepSe…

cs.CR2026

SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems

Yunhao Feng, Yifan Ding, Yingshui Tan +6

Skill-based agent systems tackle complex tasks by composing reusable skills, improving modularity and scalability while introducing a largely unexamined security attack surface. We…

cs.CL2026

SLAP: Stratified Loss-based Pruning for On-Policy Data-Efficient Instruction Tuning

Run Zou, Jianhang Ding, Yifan Ding +3

Instruction tuning has optimized the specialized capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but it often requires extensive datasets and prolonged training times. The challenge…

cs.AI2026

Mirror: A Multi-Agent System for AI-Assisted Ethics Review

Yifan Ding, Yuhui Shi, Zhiyan Li +10

Ethics review is a foundational mechanism of modern research governance, yet contemporary systems face increasing strain as ethical risks arise as structural consequences of large-…

cs.AI2026

A Safety Report on GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, Qwen3-VL, Grok 4.1 Fast, Nano Banana Pro, and Seedream 4.5

Xingjun Ma, Yixu Wang, Hengyuan Xu +18

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven major gains in reasoning, perception, and generation across language and…

cs.AI2026

BackdoorAgent: A Unified Framework for Backdoor Attacks on LLM-based Agents

Yunhao Feng, Yige Li, Yutao Wu +6

Large language model (LLM) agents execute tasks through multi-step workflows that combine planning, memory, and tool use. While this design enables autonomy, it also expands the at…

cs.CL2025

ADMIT: Few-shot Knowledge Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based Fact Checking

Yutao Wu, Xiao Liu, Yinghui Li +5

Knowledge poisoning poses a critical threat to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by injecting adversarial content into knowledge bases, tricking Large Language Models (L…

cs.CV2025

DAVID-XR1: Detecting AI-Generated Videos with Explainable Reasoning

Yifeng Gao, Yifan Ding, Hongyu Su +9

As AI-generated video becomes increasingly pervasive across media platforms, the ability to reliably distinguish synthetic content from authentic footage has become both urgent and…

cs.CL2025

Identity Lock: Locking API Fine-tuned LLMs With Identity-based Wake Words

Hongyu Su, Yifeng Gao, Yifan Ding +1

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has increased the complexity and cost of fine-tuning, leading to the adoption of API-based fine-tuning as a simpler and more e…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Safety at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey of Large Model and Agent Safety

Xingjun Ma, Yifeng Gao, Yixu Wang +45

The rapid advancement of large models, driven by their exceptional abilities in learning and generalization through large-scale pre-training, has reshaped the landscape of Artifici…