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6 papers

cs.AI2026

SafeSteer: A Decoding-level Defense Mechanism for Multimodal Large Language Models

Xinyi Zeng, Xue Yang, Jingyuan Zhang +5

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are gaining increasing attention. Due to the heterogeneity of their input features, they face significant challenges in terms of jailbreak…

cs.CL2026

ContiGuard: A Framework for Continual Toxicity Detection Against Evolving Evasive Perturbations

Hankun Kang, Xin Miao, Jianhao Chen +5

Toxicity detection mitigates the dissemination of toxic content (e.g., hateful comments, posts, and messages within online social actions) to safeguard a healthy online social envi…

cs.CL2026

AdaCultureSafe: Adaptive Cultural Safety Grounded by Cultural Knowledge in Large Language Models

Hankun Kang, Di Lin, Zhirong Liao +5

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), respecting indigenous cultures becomes essential for models' culturally safety and responsible global applications. Ex…

cs.AI2025

Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition

Yongqi Li, Shen Zhou, Xiaohu Li +9

Vision-language models (VLMs) aligned with general human objectives, such as being harmless and hallucination-free, have become valuable assistants of humans in managing visual tas…

cs.CR2025

Toxicity Detection towards Adaptability to Changing Perturbations

Hankun Kang, Jianhao Chen, Yongqi Li +5

Toxicity detection is crucial for maintaining the peace of the society. While existing methods perform well on normal toxic contents or those generated by specific perturbation met…

cs.CL2025

Reasoning based on symbolic and parametric knowledge bases: a survey

Mayi Xu, Yunfeng Ning, Yongqi Li +10

Reasoning is fundamental to human intelligence, and critical for problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking. Reasoning refers to drawing new conclusions based on exist…