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most citedTest-time Backdoor Mitigation for Black-Box Large Language Models with Defensive Demonstrations

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cs.CL2026

Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting

Cheng Wang, Qin Liu, Wenxuan Zhou +1

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a promising approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, it struggles to effectivel…

cs.CL2026

DebugLM: Learning Traceable Training Data Provenance for LLMs

Wenjie Jacky Mo, Qin Liu, Xiaofei Wen +3

Large language models (LLMs) are trained through multi-stage pipelines over heterogeneous data sources, yet developers lack a principled way to pinpoint the specific data responsib…

cs.CL2025

False Sense of Security: Why Probing-based Malicious Input Detection Fails to Generalize

Cheng Wang, Zeming Wei, Qin Liu +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) can comply with harmful instructions, raising serious safety concerns despite their impressive capabilities. Recent work has leveraged probing-based ap…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu +8

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) with principles like helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness typically relies on scalar rewards that obscure which objectives drive the tra…

cs.CL2024

Securing Multi-turn Conversational Language Models From Distributed Backdoor Triggers

Terry Tong, Jiashu Xu, Qin Liu +1

Large language models (LLMs) have acquired the ability to handle longer context lengths and understand nuances in text, expanding their dialogue capabilities beyond a single uttera…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Test-time Backdoor Mitigation for Black-Box Large Language Models with Defensive Demonstrations

Wenjie Mo, Jiashu Xu, Qin Liu +5

Existing studies in backdoor defense have predominantly focused on the training phase, overlooking the critical aspect of testing time defense. This gap becomes pronounced in the c…