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12 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Prompt-Induced Lies: Investigating LLM Deception on Benign Prompts

ICLR 2026oral

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in reasoning, planning, and decision-making tasks, making their trustworthiness critical. A significant and underexplored risk is intentional deception, where an LLM deliberately fabricates or conceals information to serve a hidden objective. Existing…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

SWE-Perf: Can Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories?

ICML 2026poster

Code performance optimization is paramount in real-world software engineering and critical for production-level systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation and bug fixing, their proficiency in enhancing code performance at the repository l…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) generate functionally correct solutions but often fall short in code efficiency, a critical bottleneck for real-world deployment. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time iterative optimization framework to address this, employing a closed-loop system where LLMs ite…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge

ACL 2025long

Data contamination hinders fair LLM evaluation by introducing test data into newer models’ training sets. Existing studies solve this challenge by updating benchmarks with newly collected data. However, they fail to guarantee contamination-free evaluation as the newly collected data may contain pre-…

2025

EffiBench-X: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Measuring Efficiency of LLM-Generated Code

NeurIPS 2025poster

Existing code generation benchmarks primarily evaluate functional correctness, with limited attention to code efficiency, and they are often restricted to a single language such as Python. To address this gap, we introduce EffiBench‑X, the first large‑scale multi‑language benchmark specifically desi…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

To enhance the safety of VLMs, this paper introduces a novel reasoning-based VLM guard model dubbed GuardReasoner-VL. The core idea is to incentivize the guard model to deliberatively reason before making moderation decisions via online RL. First, we construct GuardReasoner-VLTrain, a reasoning corp…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Position: Current Model Licensing Practices are Dragging Us into a Quagmire of Legal Noncompliance

ICML 2025oral

The Machine Learning (ML) community has wit- nessed explosive growth, with millions of ML models being published on the Web. Reusing ML model components has been prevalent nowadays. Developers are often required to choose a license to publish and govern the use of their models. Popular options inclu…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Towards Verifiable Text Generation with Generative Agent

AAAI 2025technical

Text generation with citations makes it easy to verify the factuality of Large Language Models’ (LLMs) generations. Existing one-step generation studies expose distinct shortages in answer refinement and in-context demonstration matching. In light of these challenges, we propose R2-MGA, a Retrieval…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Chain-of-Thought Improves Text Generation with Citations in Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

Previous studies disclose that Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from hallucinations when generating texts, bringing a novel and challenging research topic to the public, which centers on enabling LLMs to generate texts with citations. Existing work exposes two limitations when using LLMs to gener…

2024

From Static to Dynamic: Knowledge Metabolism for Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

The immense parameter space of Large Language Models (LLMs) endows them with superior knowledge retention capabilities, allowing them to excel in a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, it also instigates difficulties in consistently tuning LMs to incorporate the most recent knowled…

2024

Mercury: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Amidst the recent strides in evaluating Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), existing benchmarks have mainly focused on the functional correctness of generated code, neglecting the importance of their computational efficiency. To fill the gap, we present Mercury, the first code efficiency ben…

2023

Generating Reflective Questions for Engaging Gallery Visitors in ArtMuse

AAAI 2023technical

Human guides in museums and galleries are professionally trained to stimulate informal learning in visitors by asking low-risk, open-ended reflective questions that enable them to focus on specific features of artifacts, relate to prior experiences, and elicit curiosity as well as further thought…