Yushi Li
Author directory2026
Adversarial Prompt Distillation: Efficient Jailbreak Attacks from Large to Small Language Models
Xiang Li | Chong Zhang | Jia Wang | Fangyu Wu | Yushi Li | Xiaobo Jin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026
Xiang Li | Chong Zhang | Jia Wang | Fangyu Wu | Yushi Li | Xiaobo Jin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026
Current jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs) predominantly rely on LLMs themselves to generate adversarial prompts, creating a critical efficiency bottleneck: each attack requires substantial computational resources and API queries, limiting scalability and practical deployment. To overcome this limitation, we propose Adversarial Prompt Distillation (APD), a novel framework that transfers jailbreaking capabilities from LLMs to small language models (SLMs) for efficient, low-resource attacks. APD integrates three key components: (1) masked adversarial knowledge pre-training via LoRA fine-tuning, (2) dynamic temperature-controlled knowledge distillation to bridge architectural gaps, and (3) reinforcement learning-based template optimization for adaptive refinement. Extensive experiments across 12 models show that APD achieves state-of-the-art attack success rates (e.g., 96.4% ASRk on GPT-4) while dramatically improving efficiency—generating prompts 3.7× faster with 11.3× fewer parameters than teacher models. Our work establishes the first practical framework for lightweight jailbreak attacks, exposes new vulnerabilities in LLM defenses, and provides a scalable testbed for advancing AI safety research. Our code is available at: https://github.com/lxgem/Efficient_and_Stealthy_Jailbreak_Attacks_via_Adversarial_Prompt.
VIABLE: A Visually Impaired Assistance Benchmark for VLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
Yi Zhao | Siqi Wang | Zhe Hu | Yushi Li | Jing Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yi Zhao | Siqi Wang | Zhe Hu | Yushi Li | Jing Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
AI-based Visually Impaired Assistance (VIA) remains challenging, largely due to the high cost of human evaluation. The VLM-as-a-Judge paradigm may offer a promising alternative, although it has mostly been studied in general domains. We therefore ask whether such judges can be trusted for VIA tasks. To investigate this question, we introduce VIABLE (Visually Impaired Assistance Benchmark for VLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation), the first benchmark for VLM-as-a-Judge evaluation in VIA. VIABLE contains over 300K judgment samples across three scenarios and introduces an Effectiveness–Impartiality–Stability framework with a 12-mode failure taxonomy. Based on VIABLE, our systematic study of seven judges across different model scales shows that existing models are largely unreliable across all evaluation axes. The strongest judge, GPT-5.4, achieves only 52.6% single-failure diagnostic accuracy, yet exhibits the highest self-preference rate at 94.2%; while open-source judges are strongly biased and adversarially fragile. To address these issues, we propose VIA-Judge-Agent, a model-agnostic inference-time harness that augments judges with visual evidence extraction and a taxonomy-guided workflow. It enables positive improvements in diagnostic accuracy and downstream VIA responses more preferred by BLV users. Data and code are available at:https://github.com/YiyiyiZhao/VIABLE.