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2025The additional modality (such as speech) in multimodal large language models (LLM) increases their vulnerability to adversarial jailbreak attacks. Adversarial training (AT) techniques have shown great promise as defenses in traditional adversarial robustness literature. But they are less explored as countermeasures in speech-enabled LLMs due to the limited availability of training data and computational
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2025Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) targets the retrieval of images conditioned on a reference image and a textual modification, but constructing labeled triplets (reference image, textual modification, target image) is inherently challenging. Existing Zero-Shot CIR (ZS-CIR) approaches often rely on well-aligned vision-language models (VLMs) to combine visual and textual inputs, or use large language models
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2025Prompt optimization (PO) generates prompts to guide Large Language Models (LLMs) in performing tasks. Existing methods, such as PromptAgent, rely on a single static prompt, which struggles with disjoint cases in complex tasks. Although Mixture-of-Prompts (MoP) uses multiple prompts, it fails to account for variations in task complexity. Inspired by programmatic control flow, we introduce a nested if-else
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WSC 20252025Stochastic discrete event simulation is a vital tool across industries. However, the high dimensionality and complexity of real-world systems make it challenging to develop simulations that accurately model and predict business metrics for users when faced with inaccurate input and model fidelity limitations. Addressing this challenge is critical for improving the effectiveness of industrial simulations
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KDD 2025 Workshop on Prompt Optimization2025Length control in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a crucial but under-addressed challenge, with applications ranging from voice interfaces requiring concise responses to research summaries needing comprehensive outputs. Current approaches to length control, including Regularized DPO, Length-Instruction Fine-Tuning, and tool-augmented methods, typically require expensive model retrain-ing or complex inference-time
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