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6 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.LG2026

Are LLM Uncertainty and Correctness Encoded by the Same Features? A Functional Dissociation via Sparse Autoencoders

Het Patel, Tiejin Chen, Hua Wei +2

Large language models can be uncertain yet correct, or confident yet wrong, raising the question of whether their output-level uncertainty and their actual correctness are driven b…

cs.LG2026

Zer0-Jack: A Memory-efficient Gradient-based Jailbreaking Method for Black-box Multi-modal Large Language Models

Tiejin Chen, Kaishen Wang, Hua Wei

Jailbreaking methods, which induce Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to output harmful responses, raise significant safety concerns. Among these methods, gradient-based app…

cs.LG2026

Conformal Feedback Alignment: Quantifying Answer-Level Reliability for Robust LLM Alignment

Tiejin Chen, Xiaoou Liu, Vishnu Nandam +2

Preference-based alignment like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) learns from pairwise preferences, yet the labels are often noisy and inconsistent. Existing uncert…