5 papers
Not All Fallbacks Are Failures: Understanding and Recovering from Fallbacks in Mobile Voice Assistants
Phillip Schneider, Alexandre Mercier, Joshua Oehms +2
Robust understanding of user input is a core requirement for voice assistants deployed in real-world environments. In practice, these systems encounter heterogeneous fallback situa…
Agent Collectives Should Not Detect Their Own Imposters: A Chess Case Study
Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester
A collective of AI agents collaborating on a task has the potential to outclass any individual agent for that task. We study the robustness of such collectives against possible imp…
CLASP: Defending Hybrid Large Language Models Against Hidden State Poisoning Attacks
Alexandre Le Mercier, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder
State space models (SSMs) like Mamba have gained significant traction as efficient alternatives to Transformers, achieving linear complexity while maintaining competitive performan…
Hidden State Poisoning Attacks against Mamba-based Language Models
Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester
State space models (SSMs) like Mamba offer efficient alternatives to Transformer-based language models, with linear time complexity. Yet, their adversarial robustness remains criti…
JaccDiv: A Metric and Benchmark for Quantifying Diversity of Generated Marketing Text in the Music Industry
Anum Afzal, Alexandre Mercier, Florian Matthes
Online platforms are increasingly interested in using Data-to-Text technologies to generate content and help their users. Unfortunately, traditional generative methods often fall i…