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most citedPrototype-based Aleatoric Uncertainty Quantification for Cross-modal Retrieval

6 citations · 15 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2026

Not Where You Think: Protecting Location Privacy Against Reasoning-Based Geolocation

Shanghao Shi, Jian Xiao, Hao Li +5

Recent large reasoning models can infer where ordinary photos were taken using only visual information, creating a serious location privacy risk even when metadata and obvious geog…

cs.CR2026

Mirage: Targeted Jailbreaks Against Post-Generation Safety Checkers in Multimodal Diffusion Models

Shanghao Shi, Chaoyu Zhang, Heng Jin +4

Post-generation safety checkers are widely employed in diffusion-model pipelines to prevent unsafe generated content from reaching users. In this paper, we show that these safety c…

cs.LG2026

Self-Reflection Fine-Tuning: Enhancing Agent Security against Prompt Injection Attacks from Failure Experience

Zixuan Wang, Hao Li, Fengyu Gao +5

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in tool-augmented environments, but their reliance on external inputs makes them highly vulnerable to prompt injection a…

cs.CR2026

Think Twice Before You Act: Protecting LLM Agents Against Tool Description Poisoning via Isolated Planning

Shanghao Shi, Xiao Wang, Chaoyu Zhang +6

The integration of external tools has substantially expanded the capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents, but it also introduces new attack surfaces beyond prompt injecti…

cs.CR2026

TraceGuard: Process-Guided Firewall against Reasoning Backdoors in Large Language Models

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Hao Li +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduce a reasoning-level attack surface: adversaries can corrupt intermediate inferences while preserving a plausible trace and an apparently benig…

cs.CR2026

AgentSys: Secure and Dynamic LLM Agents Through Explicit Hierarchical Memory Management

Ruoyao Wen, Hao Li, Chaowei Xiao +1

Indirect prompt injection threatens LLM agents by embedding malicious instructions in external content, enabling unauthorized actions and data theft. LLM agents maintain working me…

cs.CR2026

AgentDyn: Are Your Agent Security Defenses Deployable in Real-World Dynamic Environments?

Hao Li, Ruoyao Wen, Shanghao Shi +3

AI agents that autonomously interact with external tools and environments have shown great promise across real-world applications. However, their reliance on external data exposes…

cs.CR2026

ReasAlign: Reasoning Enhanced Safety Alignment against Prompt Injection Attack

Hao Li, Yankai Yang, G. Edward Suh +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the development of powerful agentic systems capable of automating complex workflows across various fields. However, these systems are high…

cs.CR2026

Defenses Against Prompt Attacks Learn Surface Heuristics

Shawn Li, Chenxiao Yu, Zhiyu Ni +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications, where they must follow system- or developer-specified instructions that define the intend…

cs.CR2025

Rethinking Jailbreak Detection of Large Vision Language Models with Representational Contrastive Scoring

Peichun Hua, Hao Li, Shanghao Shi +2

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to a growing array of multimodal jailbreak attacks, necessitating defenses that are both generalizable to novel threats and effi…

cs.CR2025

CrossGuard: Safeguarding MLLMs against Joint-Modal Implicit Malicious Attacks

Xu Zhang, Hao Li, Zhichao Lu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong reasoning and perception capabilities but are increasingly vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. While existing work focuses on e…

cs.CR2025

DRIFT: Dynamic Rule-Based Defense with Injection Isolation for Securing LLM Agents

Hao Li, Xiaogeng Liu, Hung-Chun Chiu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly central to agentic systems due to their strong reasoning and planning capabilities. By interacting with external environments through…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

InjecGuard: Benchmarking and Mitigating Over-defense in Prompt Injection Guardrail Models

Hao Li, Xiaogeng Liu

Prompt injection attacks pose a critical threat to large language models (LLMs), enabling goal hijacking and data leakage. Prompt guard models, though effective in defense, suffer…

cs.CV2024

Debiased Orthogonal Boundary-Driven Efficient Noise Mitigation

Hao Li, Jiayang Gu, Jingkuan Song +2

Mitigating the detrimental effects of noisy labels on the training process has become increasingly critical, as obtaining entirely clean or human-annotated samples for large-scale…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue

Hao Li, Chenghao Yang, An Zhang +3

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus…

cs.CV2023

Negative Pre-aware for Noisy Cross-modal Matching

Xu Zhang, Hao Li, Mang Ye

Cross-modal noise-robust learning is a challenging task since noisy correspondence is hard to recognize and rectify. Due to the cumulative and unavoidable negative impact of unreso…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

On Generative Agents in Recommendation

An Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Leheng Sheng +2

Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their development. Add…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Prototype-based Aleatoric Uncertainty Quantification for Cross-modal Retrieval

Hao Li, Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao +2

Cross-modal Retrieval methods build similarity relations between vision and language modalities by jointly learning a common representation space. However, the predictions are ofte…