Yaodong Yang

Large language models (LLMs) are shaping global values, yet they frequently exhibit a pronounced WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) cultural bias, marginalizing diverse viewpoints and posing challenges for reconciling diverse populations with varying cultural backgrounds...

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to operate in complex environments, the expansion of their action spaces offers agents unsafe capabilities and underscores the risk of power-seeking. While broad action space and greater environment influe...

Effective real-world human–agent interactions, such as household robotic services, are often long-term and repeated. Beyond executing tasks, agents are expected to quickly become familiar with individual users. In everyday use, people do not want to repeatedly specify precise instructions. Instea...

With the widespread use of multi-modal Large Language models (MLLMs), safety issues have become a growing concern. Multi-turn dialogues, which are more common in everyday interactions, pose a greater risk than single prompts; however, existing benchmarks do not adequately consider this situation....

Reasoning models have attracted increasing attention for their ability to tackle complex tasks, embodying the System II (slow thinking) paradigm in contrast to System I (fast, intuitive responses). Yet a key question remains: Does slower reasoning necessarily lead to more truthful answers? Our fi...

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit growing safety and alignment risks, hindering their deployment in high-stakes decision-making scenarios. In this paper, we identify a previously underexplored risk: similar to humans, LLMs can exhibit egoistic decision-making, in which they pursue short-term s...

Understanding social interaction, which encompasses perceiving numerous and subtle multimodal cues, inferring unobservable mental states and relations, and dynamically predicting others’ behavior, is the foundation for achieving human-machine interaction. Despite rapid advances in Multimodal Larg...