9 papers
Isolated but Exposed: Persistence-Based Memory Extraction Attack on LLM Agents
Xinyu Gao, Wenyu Chen, Xiangtao Meng +5
LLM-based agents extend large language models with long-term memory (LTM) that persists privacy-sensitive user data across sessions. Production systems mitigate extraction risks th…
Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
Yanting Miao, Yutao Sun, Dexin Wang +8
Visual latent reasoning lets a multimodal large language model (MLLM) create intermediate visual evidence as continuous tokens, avoiding external tools or image generators. However…
Defenses at Odds: Measuring and Explaining Defense Conflicts in Large Language Models
Xiangtao Meng, Wenyu Chen, Chuanchao Zang +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in high-stakes applications must simultaneously manage multiple risks, yet existing defenses are almost exclusively evaluated in isolation und…
Not All Tokens Are Created Equal: Query-Efficient Jailbreak Fuzzing for LLMs
Wenyu Chen, Xiangtao Meng, Chuanchao Zang +6
Large Language Models(LLMs) are widely deployed, yet are vulnerable to jailbreak prompts that elicit policy-violating outputs. Although prior studies have uncovered these risks, th…
From Defender to Devil? Unintended Risk Interactions Induced by LLM Defenses
Xiangtao Meng, Tianshuo Cong, Li Wang +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various applications, but their deployment in real-world settings faces several risks, including jailbreak att…
Beyond the Safety Tax: Mitigating Unsafe Text-to-Image Generation via External Safety Rectification
Xiangtao Meng, Yingkai Dong, Ning Yu +3
Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet remain vulnerable to generating unsafe content. Existing safety defenses typically intervene int…