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most citedSurvival of the Safest: Towards Secure Prompt Optimization through Interleaved Multi-Objective Evolution

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14 papers

cs.AI2025

GAUSS: Benchmarking Structured Mathematical Skills for Large Language Models

Yue Zhang, Jiaxin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren +5

We introduce \textbf{GAUSS} (\textbf{G}eneral \textbf{A}ssessment of \textbf{U}nderlying \textbf{S}tructured \textbf{S}kills in Mathematics), a benchmark that evaluates LLMs' mathe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Language Models for Materials Discovery and Sustainability: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Zongrui Pei, Junqi Yin, Jiaxin Zhang

Significant advancements have been made in one of the most critical branches of artificial intelligence: natural language processing (NLP). These advancements are exemplified by th…

cs.CL2025

SCE: Scalable Consistency Ensembles Make Blackbox Large Language Model Generation More Reliable

Jiaxin Zhang, Zhuohang Li, Wendi Cui +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance, yet their diverse strengths and weaknesses prevent any single LLM from achieving dominance across all tasks.…

cs.LG2025

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

Zhuohang Li, Chao Yan, Nicholas J. Jackson +4

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of vision-language tasks involving image-conditioned free-form text genera…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization with Instruction-focused Heuristic-based Search Algorithm

Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li, Hao Sun +5

Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central t…

cs.IR2024

HyQE: Ranking Contexts with Hypothetical Query Embeddings

Weichao Zhou, Jiaxin Zhang, Hilaf Hasson +2

In retrieval-augmented systems, context ranking techniques are commonly employed to reorder the retrieved contexts based on their relevance to a user query. A standard approach is…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Survival of the Safest: Towards Secure Prompt Optimization through Interleaved Multi-Objective Evolution

Ankita Sinha, Wendi Cui, Kamalika Das +1

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities; however, the optimization of their prompts has historically prioritized performance metrics at the expense o…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Synthetic Knowledge Ingestion: Towards Knowledge Refinement and Injection for Enhancing Large Language Models

Jiaxin Zhang, Wendi Cui, Yiran Huang +2

Large language models (LLMs) are proficient in capturing factual knowledge across various domains. However, refining their capabilities on previously seen knowledge or integrating…

cs.CL2024

Do You Know What You Are Talking About? Characterizing Query-Knowledge Relevance For Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zhuohang Li, Jiaxin Zhang, Chao Yan +4

Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from hallucinations and misinformation. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) that retrieves verifiable information from an external knowle…

cs.CL2024

SPUQ: Perturbation-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models

Xiang Gao, Jiaxin Zhang, Lalla Mouatadid +1

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly prevalent, offering remarkable text generation capabilities. However, a pressing challenge is their tendency…

cs.LG2024

Discriminant Distance-Aware Representation on Deterministic Uncertainty Quantification Methods

Jiaxin Zhang, Kamalika Das, Sricharan Kumar

Uncertainty estimation is a crucial aspect of deploying dependable deep learning models in safety-critical systems. In this study, we introduce a novel and efficient method for det…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SEE: Strategic Exploration and Exploitation for Cohesive In-Context Prompt Optimization

Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li, Hao Sun +5

Designing optimal prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) is a complicated and resource-intensive task, often requiring substantial human expertise and effort. Existing approaches…

cs.CL2024

DCR-Consistency: Divide-Conquer-Reasoning for Consistency Evaluation and Improvement of Large Language Models

Wendi Cui, Jiaxin Zhang, Zhuohang Li +4

Evaluating the quality and variability of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant, yet unresolved research challenge. Traditional evaluation methods, suc…

cs.CV2023

DECDM: Document Enhancement using Cycle-Consistent Diffusion Models

Jiaxin Zhang, Joy Rimchala, Lalla Mouatadid +2

The performance of optical character recognition (OCR) heavily relies on document image quality, which is crucial for automatic document processing and document intelligence. Howev…