Erfan Shayegani

According to our database, Erfan Shayegani authored at least 16 papers between 2023 and 2026.

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2026

VLMs Need Words: Vision Language Models Ignore Visual Detail In Favor of Semantic Anchors.

Haz Sameen Shahgir, Xiaofu Chen, Yu Fu, Erfan Shayegani, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Yue Dong

CoRR, April, 2026

SENSE-7: Taxonomy and Dataset for Measuring User Perceptions of Empathy in Sustained Human-AI Conversations.

Jina Suh, Lindy Le, Erfan Shayegani, Gonzalo Ramos, Judith Amores, Desmond C. Ong, Mary Czerwinski, Javier Hernandez

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2026

2025

From Measurement to Expertise: Empathetic Expert Adapters for Context-Based Empathy in Conversational AI Agents.

Erfan Shayegani, Jina Suh, Andy Wilson, Nagu Rangan, Javier Hernandez

CoRR, November, 2025

Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models.

G. M. Shahariar, Ali Nazari, Erfan Shayegani, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

CoRR, October, 2025

Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness.

Erfan Shayegani, Keegan Hines, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Roman Lutz, Spencer Whitehead, Vidhisha Balachandran, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet

CoRR, October, 2025

Evil Vizier: Vulnerabilities of LLM-Integrated XR Systems.

Yicheng Zhang, Zijian Huang, Sophie Chen, Erfan Shayegani, Jiasi Chen, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

CoRR, September, 2025

Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots.

Erfan Shayegani, G. M. Shahariar, Sara Abdali, Lei Yu, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Yue Dong

CoRR, April, 2025

Layer-wise Alignment: Examining Safety Alignment Across Image Encoder Layers in Vision Language Models.

Saketh Bachu, Erfan Shayegani, Rohit Lal, Trishna Chakraborty, Arindam Dutta, Chengyu Song, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Amit Roy-Chowdhury

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

2024

Unfair Alignment: Examining Safety Alignment Across Vision Encoder Layers in Vision-Language Models.

Saketh Bachu, Erfan Shayegani, Trishna Chakraborty, Rohit Lal, Arindam Dutta, Chengyu Song, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

CoRR, 2024

Cross-Modal Safety Alignment: Is textual unlearning all you need?

Trishna Chakraborty, Erfan Shayegani, Zikui Cai, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, M. Salman Asif, Yue Dong, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Chengyu Song

CoRR, 2024

That Doesn't Go There: Attacks on Shared State in Multi-User Augmented Reality Applications.

Carter Slocum, Yicheng Zhang, Erfan Shayegani, Pedram Zaree, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Jiasi Chen

Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

Securing Shared State in Multi-User Augmented Reality.

Jiasi Chen, Carter Slocum, Yicheng Zhang, Erfan Shayegani, Pedram Zaree, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct, 2024

Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models.

Erfan Shayegani, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

Can Textual Unlearning Solve Cross-Modality Safety Alignment?

Trishna Chakraborty, Erfan Shayegani, Zikui Cai, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, M. Salman Asif, Yue Dong, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Chengyu Song

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2023

Survey of Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models Revealed by Adversarial Attacks.

Erfan Shayegani, Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Yu Fu, Pedram Zaree, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

CoRR, 2023

Plug and Pray: Exploiting off-the-shelf components of Multi-Modal Models.

Erfan Shayegani, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

CoRR, 2023