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The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) has raised growing concerns about their misuse risks and associated safety issues. While prior studies have examined the safety of LLMs in general usage, code generation, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Haoran Gu , Handing Wang , Yi Mei , Mengjie Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for medical consultation and health information support. In this high-stakes setting, safety depends not only on medical knowledge, but also on how models respond when patient inputs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yahan Li , Xinyi Jie , Wanjia Ruan , Xubei Zhang , Huaijie Zhu , Yicheng Gao , Chaohao Du , Ruishan Liu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon for complex multi-turn conversations across diverse real-world applications. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on single-turn evaluations, overlooking the models'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wai-Chung Kwan , Xingshan Zeng , Yuxin Jiang , Yufei Wang , Liangyou Li , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Kam-Fai Wong

We present MultiBreak, a scalable and diverse multi-turn jailbreak benchmark to evaluate large language model (LLM) safety. Multi-turn jailbreaks mimic natural conversational settings, making them easier to bypass safety-aligned LLM than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jialin Song , Xiaodong Liu , Weiwei Yang , Wuyang Chen , Mingqian Feng , Xuekai Zhu , Jianfeng Gao

With the growing prevalence of large language models (LLMs), the safety of LLMs has raised significant concerns. However, there is still a lack of definitive standards for evaluating their safety due to the subjective nature of current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chuxue Cao , Han Zhu , Jiaming Ji , Qichao Sun , Zhenghao Zhu , Yinyu Wu , Juntao Dai , Yaodong Yang , Sirui Han , Yike Guo

Large language models (LLMs) are essential tools that users employ across various scenarios, so evaluating their performance and guiding users in selecting the suitable service is important. Although many benchmarks exist, they mainly focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jiayin Wang , Fengran Mo , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Min Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

As vision-language models (VLMs) become increasingly capable, maintaining a balance between safety and usefulness remains a central challenge. Safety mechanisms, while essential, can backfire, causing over-refusal, where models decline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kaixuan Ren , Preslav Nakov , Usman Naseem

Recently Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved considerable advancements in vision-language tasks, yet produce potentially harmful or untrustworthy content. Despite substantial work investigating the trustworthiness of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yanxu Zhu , Shitong Duan , Xiangxu Zhang , Jitao Sang , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Xiao Zhou , Jing Yao , Xiaoyuan Yi , Xing Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to generate illegal or unethical responses, particularly when subjected to "jailbreak." Research on jailbreak has highlighted the safety issues of LLMs. However, prior studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhenhong Zhou , Jiuyang Xiang , Haopeng Chen , Quan Liu , Zherui Li , Sen Su

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence by integrating image-processing capabilities with textual understanding, thereby enhancing user interactions and expanding application…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Madhur Jindal , Saurabh Deshpande

Large language model-powered chatbots have transformed how people seek information, especially in high-stakes contexts like mental health. Despite their support capabilities, safe detection and response to crises such as suicidal ideation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez , Miguel Baidal , Erik Derner , Jenn Layton Annable , Mark Ball , Mark Ince , Elvira Perez Vallejos , Nuria Oliver

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited great performance in autonomously calling various tools in external environments, leading to better problem solving and task automation capabilities. However, these external tools also amplify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hongfei Xia , Hongru Wang , Zeming Liu , Qian Yu , Yuhang Guo , Haifeng Wang

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive applications. However, their safety vulnerabilities become pronounced in multi-turn multi-modal scenarios, where harmful intent can be gradually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Han Zhu , Jiale Chen , Chengkun Cai , Shengjie Sun , Haoran Li , Yujin Zhou , Chi-Min Chan , Pengcheng Wen , Lei Li , Sirui Han , Yike Guo

LLMs are increasingly used as long-running conversational agents, yet every major benchmark evaluating their memory treats user information as static facts to be stored and retrieved. That's the wrong model. People change their minds, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Praveen Kumar Myakala , Manan Agrawal , Rahul Manche

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for modern applications, but their computational demands limit accessibility. Quantization offers efficiency gains, yet its impact on safety and trustworthiness remains poorly understood. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Artyom Kharinaev , Viktor Moskvoretskii , Egor Shvetsov , Kseniia Studenikina , Bykov Mikhail , Evgeny Burnaev

Medical question answering (QA) benchmarks often focus on multiple-choice or fact-based tasks, leaving open-ended answers to real patient questions underexplored. This gap is particularly critical in mental health, where patient questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yahan Li , Jifan Yao , John Bosco S. Bunyi , Adam C. Frank , Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang , Ruishan Liu

Use cases are widely employed to specify functional requirements, yet existing benchmarks are scarce and face the risk of being misaligned with actual system behavior, similarly limiting the rigorous evaluation of large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuyuan Xiao , Yiran Zhang , Weisong Sun , Xiaohong Chen , Yang Liu , Zhi Jin

We introduce a multi-turn benchmark for evaluating personalised alignment in LLM-based AI assistants, focusing on their ability to handle user-provided safety-critical contexts. Our assessment of ten leading models across five scenarios…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Lize Alberts , Benjamin Ellis , Andrei Lupu , Jakob Foerster

Most LLM benchmarks score how well a model responds to explicit requests. They leave unmeasured a different conversational ability: noticing and acting on needs the user has implied but not said. We call this \emph{conversational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sepehr Harfi , Ahmad Salimi , Dongming Shen , Alex Smola

Large (vision-)language models exhibit remarkable capability but remain highly susceptible to jailbreaking. Existing safety training approaches aim to have the model learn a refusal boundary between safe and unsafe, based on the user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xinhe Wang , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie