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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Refusal Before Decoding: Detecting and Exploiting Refusal Signals in Intermediate LLM Activations

Matteo Gioele Collu, Riccardo Conte, Alberto Giaretta +4

In this paper, we investigate whether refusal behavior can be predicted from LLM intermediate activations before decoding using linear probes trained on residual stream activations…

cs.CV2026

Supervised Classification Heads as Semantic Prototypes: Unlocking Vision-Language Alignment via Weight Recycling

David Méndez, Roberto Confalonieri, Natalia Díaz Rodríguez

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at tasks like zero-shot classification and cross-modal retrieval by mapping images and text to a shared space, but this requires expensive end-t…

cs.CR2026

Misleading Large Language Models used (or misused) in Scientific Peer-Reviewing via Hidden Prompt-Injection Attacks

Matteo Gioele Collu, Umberto Salviati, Roberto Confalonieri +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into the scientific peer-review process, raising new questions about their reliability and resilience to manipulation…

cs.LG2026

Iterative In-Context Learning to Enhance LLMs Abstract Reasoning: The Case-Study of Algebraic Tasks

Stefano Fioravanti, Matteo Zavatteri, Roberto Confalonieri +4

LLMs face significant challenges in systematic generalization, particularly when dealing with reasoning tasks requiring compositional rules and handling out-of-distribution example…

cs.CV2025

CUBIC: Concept Embeddings for Unsupervised Bias Identification using VLMs

David Méndez, Gianpaolo Bontempo, Elisa Ficarra +2

Deep vision models often rely on biases learned from spurious correlations in datasets. To identify these biases, methods that interpret high-level, human-understandable concepts a…

cs.AI2025

Logic Explanation of AI Classifiers by Categorical Explaining Functors

Stefano Fioravanti, Francesco Giannini, Paolo Frazzetto +2

The most common methods in explainable artificial intelligence are post-hoc techniques which identify the most relevant features used by pretrained opaque models. Some of the most…