Publications

JADES: A Universal Framework for Jailbreak Assessment via Decompositional Scoring

Junjie Chu, Mingjie Li, Ziqing Yang, Ye Leng, Chenhao Lin, Chao Shen, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
EMNLP Oral and Award Nomination, 2026

EMNLP'26 Core A Star

RW2Unsafe: Towards More Accurate Real-World Unsafe Generation Evaluation for T2I Models

Ye Leng, Junjie Chu, Mingjie Li, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
EMNLP Findings, 2026

EMNLP'26 Core A Star

Behavior Carries Over: An AI Sandbagging Detection Method Inspired by Honest Inertia

Junjie Chu, Mingjie Li, Zeyuan Chen, Ye Leng, Yisen Wang, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang
EMNLP Findings, 2026

EMNLP'26 Core A Star

When Understanding Becomes a Risk: Authenticity and Safety Risks in the Emerging Image Generation Paradigm

Ye Leng*, Junjie Chu*, Mingjie Li, Chenhao Lin, Chao Shen, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
* Co-first authors
Selected as CVPR'26 highlight

CVPR'26 Core A Star

Understanding LLM Behavior When Encountering User-Supplied Harmful Content in Harmless Tasks

Junjie Chu, Yiting Qu, Ye Leng, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
arXiv preprint, 2026

Benchmark of Benchmarks: Unpacking Influence and Code Repository Quality in LLM Safety Benchmarks

Junjie Chu, Xinyue Shen, Ye Leng, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
arXiv preprint, 2026