5 papers
Recognition-Refusal Misalignment in LLMs: Why Models Answer Structurally Unanswerable Questions
Yucheng Du, Xiyang Hu
Large language models often answer structurally unanswerable questions, such as computing cot(-540°) or evaluating (1).startswith("1"), instead of abstaining. We ask whether this f…
Do Vision Language Models Understand Human Engagement in Games?
Ziyi Wang, Qizan Guo, Rishitosh Singh +1
Inferring human engagement from gameplay video is important for game design and player-experience research, yet it remains unclear whether vision--language models (VLMs) can infer…
Multimodal Generative Engine Optimization: Rank Manipulation for Vision-Language Model Rankers
Yixuan Du, Chenxiao Yu, Haoyan Xu +3
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual knowledge into unified representations that increasingly underpin modern retrieval and recommendation systems. However, i…
Value-Action Alignment in Large Language Models under Privacy-Prosocial Conflict
Guanyu Chen, Chenxiao Yu, Xiyang Hu
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate decision-making tasks involving personal data sharing, where privacy concerns and prosocial motivations can push choi…
Are LLMs Reliable Rankers? Rank Manipulation via Two-Stage Token Optimization
Tiancheng Xing, Jerry Li, Yixuan Du +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as rerankers in information retrieval, yet their ranking behavior can be steered by small, natural-sounding prompts. To expose th…