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Thong Bach
dblp:318/9182
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › robustness
adversarial robustness |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Rethinking Deep Alignment Through the Lens of Incomplete Safety Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › adversarial machine learning › adversarial defense
jailbreak defense |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Rethinking Deep Alignment Through the Lens of Incomplete Safety Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › AI safety
safety alignment |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Rethinking Deep Alignment Through the Lens of Incomplete Safety Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
teacher distillation · 1.0mechanistic analysis · 1.0adaptive penalty · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rethinking Deep Alignment Through the Lens of Incomplete Safety LearningabstractLarge language models exhibit systematic vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks despite extensive safety alignment through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback. These vulnerabilities manifest as differential safety behavior across token positions, with safety modifications concentrating in early positions while later positions show minimal distributional changes from base models. We provide a mechanistic analysis of safety alignment training dynamics, revealing that gradient concentration during autoregressive training creates signal decay across token positions. This leads to incomplete distributional learning where safety training fails to fully transform model preferences in later response regions. We introduce base-favored tokens as computational indicators of incomplete safety learning. Analysis reveals that while early positions undergo substantial distributional changes, later positions retain concerning base model preferences in safety-critical contexts, indicating systematic incomplete learning due to insufficient training signals. We develop a targeted completion method that addresses these undertrained regions through adaptive penalties and hybrid teacher distillation. Experimental evaluation across Llama and Qwen model families demonstrates remarkable improvements in adversarial robustness, with dramatic reductions in attack success rates across multiple attack types while fully preserving general capabilities. Thong Bach, Dung Nguyen 0001, Thao Minh Le, Truyen Tran 0001 |
AAAI | 1 |