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Ailin Tao

2 accepted papers

2025

Intrinsic Model Weaknesses: How Priming Attacks Unveil Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly influenced various industries but suffer from a critical flaw, the potential sensitivity of generating harmful content, which poses severe societal risks. We developed and tested novel attack strategies on popular LLMs to expose their vulnerabilities i…

2025

Path Drift in Large Reasoning Models: How First-Person Commitments Override Safety

EMNLP 2025

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for complex reasoning tasks, Long Chain-of-Thought (Long-CoT) prompting has emerged as a key paradigm for structured inference. Despite early-stage safeguards enabled by alignment techniques such as RLHF, we identify a previously underexplore