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NeurIPS 2025 | Cracking Closed-Source Multimodal Models: A Novel Adversarial Attack via Optimal Feature Alignment

MLLM security

NeurIPS 2025 | Cracking Closed-Source Multimodal Models: A Novel Adversarial Attack via Optimal Feature Alignment

Introduction In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made remarkable breakthroughs, showing strong capabilities in visual understanding, cross-modal reasoning, and image captioning. However, with wider deployment in real-world scenarios, security risks have become a growing concern. Research indicates that MLLMs inherit adversarial vulnerabilities from their visual encoders, making

By Honghao Wang
Hand Off the Dirty, Tedious Research Work to AI: Shanghai AI Lab Launches FlowSearch Research Agent

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Hand Off the Dirty, Tedious Research Work to AI: Shanghai AI Lab Launches FlowSearch Research Agent

Automating Complex Scientific Processes – Shanghai AI Lab Launches FlowSearch FlowSearch represents a significant leap in AI-assisted scientific work. On benchmarks such as GAIA, HLE, GPQA, and TRQA, it delivers best-in-class performance—showcasing AI’s ability for dynamic collaboration and deep reasoning in complex scientific tasks. --- Why This Matters While

By Honghao Wang
Stanford, NVIDIA, and Berkeley Propose Embodied Test-Time Scaling Law

robotics

Stanford, NVIDIA, and Berkeley Propose Embodied Test-Time Scaling Law

Authors and Affiliations This work is led by Jacky Kwok, a PhD student at Stanford University. Co-corresponding authors include: * Marco Pavone – Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research at NVIDIA * Azalia Mirhoseini – Stanford Computer Science Professor & DeepMind Scientist * Ion Stoica – UC Berkeley Professor --- Vision-Language-Action Models & Real-World Robustness Vision-Language-Action (VLA)

By Honghao Wang
Stanford’s New Paper: Fine-Tuning is Dead, Long Live Autonomous In-Context Learning

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Stanford’s New Paper: Fine-Tuning is Dead, Long Live Autonomous In-Context Learning

Farewell to Traditional Fine-Tuning: Introducing ACE A groundbreaking study from Stanford University, SambaNova Systems, and the University of California, Berkeley has demonstrated a transformative approach to improving AI models — without adjusting a single weight. The method, called Agent Contextual Engineering (ACE), relies on context engineering rather than retraining. It autonomously

By Honghao Wang