Amin Saied
2026
SIRAJ: Diverse and Efficient Red-Teaming for LLM Agents via Distilled Structured Reasoning
Kaiwen Zhou | Ahmed Elgohary | A S M Iftekhar | Amin Saied
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Kaiwen Zhou | Ahmed Elgohary | A S M Iftekhar | Amin Saied
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
The ability of LLM agents to plan and invoke tools exposes them to new safety risks, making a comprehensive red-teaming system crucial for discovering vulnerabilities and ensuring their safe deployment. We present SIRAJ, a generic red-teaming framework for arbitrary black-box LLM agents. We employ a dynamic two-step process that starts with an agent definition and generates diverse seed test cases that cover diverse risk outcomes, tool-use trajectories, and risk sources. Then, it iteratively constructs and refines model-based adversarial attacks based on the execution trajectories of former attempts. To optimize the red-teaming cost, we present a model distillation approach that leverages structured forms of a teacher model’s reasoning to train smaller models that are equally effective. Across diverse evaluation agent settings, our seed test case generation approach yields 2 – 2.5x boost to the coverage of risk outcomes and tool-calling trajectories. Our distilled 8B red-teamer model improves attack success rate by 100%, surpassing the 671B Deepseek-R1 model. Our ablations and analyses validate the effectiveness of the iterative framework, structured reasoning, and the generalization of our red-teamer models.
2024
AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models
Wanjun Zhong | Ruixiang Cui | Yiduo Guo | Yaobo Liang | Shuai Lu | Yanlin Wang | Amin Saied | Weizhu Chen | Nan Duan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
Wanjun Zhong | Ruixiang Cui | Yiduo Guo | Yaobo Liang | Shuai Lu | Yanlin Wang | Amin Saied | Weizhu Chen | Nan Duan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
Assessing foundation models’ abilities for human-level tasks is crucial for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development.Traditional benchmarks, which rely on artificial datasets, may not accurately represent these capabilities. In this paper, we introduce AGIEval, a novel bilingual benchmark designed to assess foundation models in the context of human-centric standardized exams, such as college entrance exams, law school admission tests, math competitions, and lawyer qualification tests. We evaluate several state-of-the-art foundation models on our benchmark. Impressively, we show that GPT-4 exceeds the average human performance in SAT, LSAT, and math contests, with 95% accuracy on SAT Math and 92.5% on the Chinese college entrance English exam. This demonstrates the exceptional performance of contemporary foundation models. In contrast, we also find that GPT-4 is less proficient in tasks requiring complex reasoning or specific domain knowledge. Our comprehensive analyses of model capabilities (understanding, knowledge, reasoning, and calculation) reveal their strengths and limitations, providing valuable insights into future directions for enhancing general capabilities. By concentrating on tasks pertinent to human cognition and decision-making, our benchmark delivers a meaningful and robust evaluation of foundation models’ performance in real-world scenarios.