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8 papers

cs.AI2026

AI Safety Landscape for Large Language Models: Taxonomy, State-of-the-art, and Future Directions

Chen Chen, Xueluan Gong, Ziyao Liu +3

AI Safety is an emerging area of critical importance to the safe adoption and deployment of AI systems. With the rapid proliferation of AI and especially with the recent advancemen…

cs.CL2026

The Shadow Self: Intrinsic Value Misalignment in Large Language Model Agents

Chen Chen, Kim Young Il, Yuan Yang +7

Large language model (LLM) agents with extended autonomy unlock new capabilities, but also introduce heightened challenges for LLM safety. In particular, an LLM agent may pursue ob…

cs.CR2026

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Retrieval Augmented Generation with Distance-Preserving Encryption

Huanyi Ye, Jiale Guo, Ziyao Liu +1

RAG has emerged as a key technique for enhancing response quality of LLMs without high computational cost. In traditional architectures, RAG services are provided by a single entit…

cs.CL2026

Attribution Techniques for Mitigating Hallucinated Information in RAG Systems: A Survey

Yuqing Zhao, Ziyao Liu, Yongsen Zheng +1

Large Language Models (LLMs)-based question answering (QA) systems play a critical role in modern AI, demonstrating strong performance across various tasks. However, LLM-generated…

cs.LG2025

FROC: A Unified Framework with Risk-Optimized Control for Machine Unlearning in LLMs

Si Qi Goh, Yongsen Zheng, Ziyao Liu +2

Machine unlearning (MU) seeks to eliminate the influence of specific training examples from deployed models. As large language models (LLMs) become widely used, managing risks aris…

cs.IR2025

Why Multi-Interest Fairness Matters: Hypergraph Contrastive Multi-Interest Learning for Fair Conversational Recommender System

Yongsen Zheng, Zongxuan Xie, Guohua Wang +3

Unfairness is a well-known challenge in Recommender Systems (RSs), often resulting in biased outcomes that disadvantage users or items based on attributes such as gender, race, age…