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5 papers

cs.CL2026

DecisionRobust: Benchmarking Robustness for JEV Style Decision Models Across Text and Vision

Yifan Lan, Zhongye Liu, Yurui Chang +4

Emerging decision models such as JEV provide typed interfaces that map task instructions and observations directly to choices, judgments, and scores. As these models are increasing…

cs.AI2026

SkillGrad: Optimizing Agent Skills Like Gradient Descent

Hanyu Wang, Yifan Lan, Bochuan Cao +2

Agent skills provide a lightweight way to adapt LLM agents to specialized domains by storing reusable procedural knowledge in structured files. However, whether downloaded from thi…

cs.LG2026

The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation

Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Hanyu Wang +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning abilities across a wide range of tasks, but data contamination undermines the objective evaluation of these capa…

cs.LG2025

Phi: Preference Hijacking in Multi-modal Large Language Models at Inference Time

Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Weitong Zhang +2

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention across various domains. However, their widespread adoption has also raised serious safety conce…

cs.CV2025

Mixture of Balanced Information Bottlenecks for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition

Yifan Lan, Xin Cai, Jun Cheng +1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in various applications with large-scale and balanced data. However, data in real-world visual recognition are usually…