Xiangyuan Lan

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2026

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language interaction, yet their safety alignment remains vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. A key challenge is that safety behavior learned in the textual space does not reliably transfer to fused cross-modal representations, leaving multimodal inputs exploitable through latent semantic cues. We propose __Text-Anchored Semantic Perturbation Attack__ (TA-SPA), a black-box jailbreak framework that optimizes transferable perturbations in a text-anchored semantic space. TA-SPA integrates __Text-Anchored Semantic Factorization__ (TASF), which disentangles cross-modal semantic factors from modality-specific residuals, with __Semantic-Preserving Augmentation__ (SPA), which diversifies harmful target anchors while preserving semantic consistency. Extensive experiments show that TA-SPA consistently outperforms prior jailbreak attacks, transfers to commercial MLLMs, and remains effective under representative defenses, underscoring the need for representation-level safety alignment beyond input-level filtering.
Agentic RL can benefit substantially from reusable experience, but existing skill-based methods mostly focus on trajectory-level guidance and provide limited support for the principled evaluation and maintenance of an evolving skill memory. We propose D2Skill, a dynamic dual-granularity skill bank for agentic RL that organizes reusable experience into task skills for high-level guidance and step skills for fine-grained decision support and error correction. D2Skill jointly trains the policy and skill bank through paired baseline and skill-injected rollouts under the same policy, using their performance gap to derive hindsight utility signals for both skill updating and policy optimization. Constructed from training-time trajectories, the skill bank is continuously expanded through reflection and maintained with utility-aware retrieval and pruning. Across ALFWorld, WebShop, and Search-Augmented QA, D2Skill consistently outperforms skill-free and skill-based baselines, remains effective with self-feedback, and transfers to unseen ALFWorld environments without test-time adaptation. Project Page: https://github.com/TU2021/D2Skill-AgenticRL
Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent peer reviews but often miss sparse, subtle, and document-level scientific errors. We introduce PaperAudit-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating paper-level error detection and error-aware automated review. It comprises two components: (1) PaperAudit-Dataset, 220 high-quality AI/ML papers containing more than 2,200 controlled synthetic errors across eight categories; and (2) PaperAudit-Review, an evidence-aware framework that links structured error detection to review generation. Experiments across models, error categories, paper sections, and analysis depths show that sparse long-context auditing remains challenging for current LLMs. Conditioning review generation on explicit, manuscript-grounded error evidence produces more conservative and discriminative assessments that align more closely with human judgments than representative automated-review baselines. The dataset also supports post-training compact detectors through SFT and RL; Qwen3-14B achieves 55.8% F1 at Detection@1 under a fixed held-out protocol. A PubPeer transfer study and deployment in ScienceOne, a scientific foundation-model platform led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, further illustrate practical applicability.

Code and Dataset Page: https://github.com/TU2021/PaperAudit

ScienceOne Manuscript Review: https://www.scienceone.cn/lit/#/assistant