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Alasdair Paren

6 accepted papers

2026

BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Agents backed by large language models (LLMs) often rely on external tools drawn from marketplaces where multiple providers offer functionally equivalent options. This raises a critical point concerning fairness: if selection is systematically biased, it can degrade user experience and distort compe…

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2026

FORCE: Transferable Visual Jailbreaking Attacks via Feature Over-Reliance CorrEction

CVPR 2026

The integration of new modalities enhances the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) but also introduces additional vulnerabilities. In particular, simple visual jailbreaking attacks can manipulate open-source MLLMs more readily than sophisticated textual attacks. However, these u

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2025

Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification

ICML 2025poster

Despite the success of Instruction Tuning (IT) in training large language models (LLMs), such models often leverage spurious or biased features learnt from their training data and can become misaligned, leading to undesired behaviours. While existing techniques can steer model behaviour at inference…

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2025

MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in operating system (OS) agents have enabled vision-language models (VLMs) to directly control a user’s computer. Unlike conventional VLMs that passively output text, OS agents autonomously perform computer-based tasks in response to a single user prompt. OS agents do so by capturing…

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2025

Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) are often deployed to do constrained tasks, with narrow domains. For example, customer support bots can be built on top of LLMs, relying on their broad language understanding and capabilities to enhance performance. However, these LLMs are adversarially susceptible, pote…

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2024

Universal In-Context Approximation By Prompting Fully Recurrent Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Zero-shot and in-context learning enable solving tasks without model fine-tuning, making them essential for developing generative model solutions. Therefore, it is crucial to understand whether a pretrained model can be prompted to approximate any function, i.e., whether it is a universal in-context…