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7 papers

cs.CL2025

Weak-to-Strong Jailbreaking on Large Language Models

Xuandong Zhao, Xianjun Yang, Tianyu Pang +4

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks - resulting in harmful, unethical, or biased text generations. However, existing jailbreaking methods are computati…

cs.CL2025

Bootstrapping Language Models with DPO Implicit Rewards

Changyu Chen, Zichen Liu, Chao Du +5

Human alignment in large language models (LLMs) is an active area of research. A recent groundbreaking work, direct preference optimization (DPO), has greatly simplified the proces…

cs.LG2025

On Memorization in Diffusion Models

Xiangming Gu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objec…

cs.CV2024

Revisiting Backdoor Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models from Domain Shift

Siyuan Liang, Jiawei Liang, Tianyu Pang +5

Instruction tuning enhances large vision-language models (LVLMs) but increases their vulnerability to backdoor attacks due to their open design. Unlike prior studies in static sett…

cs.CL2024

Chain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

Xuan Zhang, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

The recent development of chain-of-thought (CoT) decoding has enabled large language models (LLMs) to generate explicit logical reasoning paths for complex problem-solving. However…

cs.CL2024

Improved Few-Shot Jailbreaking Can Circumvent Aligned Language Models and Their Defenses

Xiaosen Zheng, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du +3

Recently, Anil et al. (2024) show that many-shot (up to hundreds of) demonstrations can jailbreak state-of-the-art LLMs by exploiting their long-context capability. Nevertheless, i…