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Zhenkai Liang

6 accepted papers

2026

AlphaAlign: Incentivizing Safety Alignment with Extremely Simplified Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs), despite possessing latent safety understanding from their vast pretraining data, remain vulnerable to generating harmful content and exhibit issues such as over-refusal and utility degradation after safety alignment. Current safety alignment methods often result in supe…

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2026

AlphaSteer: Learning Refusal Steering with Principled Null-Space Constraint

ICLR 2026poster

As LLMs are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, ensuring their ability to refuse malicious prompts, especially jailbreak attacks, is essential for safe and reliable use. Recently, activation steering has emerged as an effective approach for enhancing LLM safety by adding a refusal dire…

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2026

DevOps-Gym: Benchmarking AI Agents in Software DevOps Cycle

ICLR 2026poster

Even though demonstrating extraordinary capabilities in code generation and software issue resolving, AI agents' capabilities in the full software DevOps cycle are still unknown. Different from pure code generation, handling the DevOps cycle in real-world software, including developing, deploying, a…

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2025

PsyScam: A Benchmark for Psychological Techniques in Real-World Scams

EMNLP 2025

Over the years, online scams have grown dramatically,with nearly 50% of global consumersencountering scam attempts each week.These scams cause not only significant financiallosses to individuals and businesses, butalso lasting psychological trauma, largely dueto scammers’ strategic employment of psy

2025

RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to exhibit vulnerabilities despite deliberate safety alignment efforts, posing significant risks to users and society. To safeguard against the risk of policy-violating content, system-level moderation via external guard models—designed to monitor LLM inputs and…

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2025

Your Scale Factors are My Weapon: Targeted Bit-Flip Attacks on Vision Transformers via Scale Factor Manipulation

CVPR 2025poster

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have experienced significant progress and are quantized for deployment in resource-constrained applications. Quantized models are vulnerable to targeted bit-flip attacks (BFAs). A targeted BFA prepares a trigger and a corresponding Trojan/backdoor, inserting the latter (wi…