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cs.CR2026

Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses

Xiao Li, Xiang Zheng, Yifeng Gao +35

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) integrates perception, cognition, planning, and interaction into agents that operate in open-world, safety-critical environments. As…

cs.LG2026

Reasoning through Verifiable Forecast Actions: Consistency-Grounded RL for Financial LLMs

Jialin Chen, Aosong Feng, Harshit Verma +7

Financial markets are characterized by extreme non-stationarity, low signal-to-noise ratios, and strong dependence on external information such as news, company fundamentals, and m…

cs.CL2026

Towards Context-Invariant Safety Alignment for Large Language Models

Yixu Wang, Yang Yao, Xin Wang +4

Preference-based post-training aligns LLMs with human intent, yet safety behavior often remains brittle. A model may refuse a harmful request in a standard prompt but comply when t…

cs.CR2026

DarkLLM: Learning Language-Driven Adversarial Attacks with Large Language Models

Ye Sun, Xin Wang, Jiaming Zhang +7

While vision and multimodal foundation models underpin critical tasks from perception to complex reasoning, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, tradition…

cs.AI2026

AgentHazard: A Benchmark for Evaluating Harmful Behavior in Computer-Use Agents

Yunhao Feng, Yifan Ding, Yingshui Tan +6

Computer-use agents extend language models from text generation to persistent action over tools, files, and execution environments. Unlike chat systems, they maintain state across…

cs.CL2026

Internal Safety Collapse in Frontier Large Language Models

Yutao Wu, Xiao Liu, Yifeng Gao +7

This work identifies a critical failure mode in frontier large language models (LLMs), which we term Internal Safety Collapse (ISC): under certain task conditions, models enter a s…

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.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

FreezeVLA: Action-Freezing Attacks against Vision-Language-Action Models

Xin Wang, Jie Li, Zejia Weng +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are driving rapid progress in robotics by enabling agents to interpret multimodal inputs and execute complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

T2UE: Generating Unlearnable Examples from Text Descriptions

Xingjun Ma, Hanxun Huang, Tianwei Song +3

Large-scale pre-training frameworks like CLIP have revolutionized multimodal learning, but their reliance on web-scraped datasets, frequently containing private user data, raises s…

cs.CV2025

BrokenVideos: A Benchmark Dataset for Fine-Grained Artifact Localization in AI-Generated Videos

Jiahao Lin, Weixuan Peng, Bojia Zi +4

Recent advances in deep generative models have led to significant progress in video generation, yet the fidelity of AI-generated videos remains limited. Synthesized content often e…

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.CV2025

SafeVid: Toward Safety Aligned Video Large Multimodal Models

Yixu Wang, Jiaxin Song, Yifeng Gao +6

As Video Large Multimodal Models (VLMMs) rapidly advance, their inherent complexity introduces significant safety challenges, particularly the issue of mismatched generalization wh…

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…

cs.LG2024

ModelLock: Locking Your Model With a Spell

Yifeng Gao, Yuhua Sun, Xingjun Ma +2

This paper presents a novel model protection paradigm ModelLock that locks (destroys) the performance of a model on normal clean data so as to make it unusable or unextractable wit…

cs.LG2024

FedEGG: Federated Learning with Explicit Global Guidance

Kun Zhai, Yifeng Gao, Difan Zou +4

Federated Learning (FL) holds great potential for diverse applications owing to its privacy-preserving nature. However, its convergence is often challenged by non-IID data distribu…