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Junxiao Yang

5 accepted papers

2026

BARREL: Boundary-Aware Reasoning for Factual and Reliable LRMs

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in mathematical and logical reasoning. However, current LRMs rarely admit ignorance or respond with “I don’t know”. Instead, they often produce incorrect answers while showing undue confidence, raising concerns about…

Cited by 7SourcecodeScholar
2026

Be Careful When Fine-tuning On Open-Source LLMs: Your Fine-tuning Data Could Be Secretly Stolen!

ICLR 2026poster

Fine-tuning on open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) with proprietary data is now a standard practice for downstream developers to obtain task-specific models. Surprisingly, we reveal a new and concerning risk along with the practice: the provider of the open-source LLMs can later extract the pri…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

When Smiley Turns Hostile: Interpreting How Emojis Trigger LLMs’ Toxicity

AAAI 2026technical

Emojis are globally used non-verbal cues in digital communication, and extensive research has examined how large language models (LLMs) understand and utilize emojis across contexts. While usually associated with friendliness or playfulness, it is observed that emojis may trigger toxic content gener

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Guiding not Forcing: Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks on LLMs via Removing Superfluous Constraints

ACL 2025long

Jailbreaking attacks can effectively induce unsafe behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs); however, the transferability of these attacks across different models remains limited. This study aims to understand and enhance the transferability of gradient-based jailbreaking methods, which are among t…

2024

Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks Through Goal Prioritization

ACL 2024long

While significant attention has been dedicated to exploiting weaknesses in LLMs through jailbreaking attacks, there remains a paucity of effort in defending against these attacks. We point out a pivotal factor contributing to the success of jailbreaks: the intrinsic conflict between the goals of bei…