activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.CR2026

ToolHazard: Scaling Adversarial Environments for Security Evaluation and Alignment of LLM-based Agents

Yutao Mou, Pengfei Yang, Zhe Yin +6

Large language model (LLM) agents integrated with external tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injections embedded in environmental states. However, existing studies largely re…

cs.LG2026

Mitigating Rubric Interference in LLM Judges via On-Policy Self-Distillation

Dingyao Yu, Tong Zhang, Yutao Mou +3

LLM judges increasingly evaluate responses against fine-grained rubric checklists. When a sample requires multiple rubrics, current methods typically assess each in a separate infe…

cs.CL2026

ToolSafe: Enhancing Tool Invocation Safety of LLM-based agents via Proactive Step-level Guardrail and Feedback

Yutao Mou, Zhangchi Xue, Lijun Li +4

While LLM-based agents can interact with environments via invoking external tools, their expanded capabilities also amplify security risks. Monitoring step-level tool invocation be…

cs.CL2025

Decoupling Safety into Orthogonal Subspace: Cost-Efficient and Performance-Preserving Alignment for Large Language Models

Yutao Mou, Xiaoling Zhou, Yuxiao Luo +2

Safety alignment is essential for building trustworthy artificial intelligence, yet it remains challenging to enhance model safety without degrading general performance. Current ap…

cs.CL2025

AutoRed: A Free-form Adversarial Prompt Generation Framework for Automated Red Teaming

Muxi Diao, Yutao Mou, Keqing He +6

The safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for the development of trustworthy AI applications. Existing red teaming methods often rely on seed instructions, which limits…

cs.CL2025

Can You Really Trust Code Copilots? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Code Security Perspective

Yutao Mou, Xiao Deng, Yuxiao Luo +2

Code security and usability are both essential for various coding assistant applications driven by large language models (LLMs). Current code security benchmarks focus solely on si…