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15 papers

cs.AI2026

Vision Language Model Helps Private Information De-Identification in Vision Data

Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable ability. While various methods exist to enhance privacy in text-based applications, privacy…

cs.CR2026

Unveiling Privacy Risks in Multi-modal Large Language Models: Task-specific Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Challenges

Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2

Privacy risks in text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) are well studied, particularly their tendency to memorize and leak sensitive information. However, Multi-modal Large Languag…

cs.LG2026

Are Classification Robustness and Explanation Robustness Really Strongly Correlated? An Analysis Through Input Loss Landscape

Tiejin Chen, Wenwang Huang, Linsey Pang +2

This paper delves into the critical area of deep learning robustness, challenging the conventional belief that classification robustness and explanation robustness in image classif…

cs.CL2026

Diagnosing Multi-step Reasoning Failures in Black-box LLMs via Stepwise Confidence Attribution

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Dengjia Zhang +3

Large Language Models have achieved strong performance on reasoning tasks with objective answers by generating step-by-step solutions, but diagnosing where a multi-step reasoning t…

cs.AI2026

The Sim-to-Real Gap of Foundation Model Agents: A Unified MDP Perspective

Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Weibo Li +2

Foundation model agents are increasingly deployed for real-world decision-making, but suffer from the sim-to-real gap. While robotics and classical control have mature frameworks t…

cs.CL2026

Position: Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs is Just Unsupervised Clustering

Tiejin Chen, Longchao Da, Xiaoou Liu +1

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is widely regarded as the primary safeguard for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes domains. However, we argue that the field suff…