4 papers
SkillGrad: Optimizing Agent Skills Like Gradient Descent
Hanyu Wang, Yifan Lan, Bochuan Cao +2
Agent skills provide a lightweight way to adapt LLM agents to specialized domains by storing reusable procedural knowledge in structured files. However, whether downloaded from thi…
The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation
Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Hanyu Wang +2
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning abilities across a wide range of tasks, but data contamination undermines the objective evaluation of these capa…
Phi: Preference Hijacking in Multi-modal Large Language Models at Inference Time
Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Weitong Zhang +2
Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention across various domains. However, their widespread adoption has also raised serious safety conce…
Mixture of Balanced Information Bottlenecks for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition
Yifan Lan, Xin Cai, Jun Cheng +1
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in various applications with large-scale and balanced data. However, data in real-world visual recognition are usually…