Jie Cao

The paper introduces Semantic-level UI Element Injection, a novel red-teaming technique that overlays misleading UI elements onto screenshots to significantly improve the attack success rate against safety-aligned GUI agents.

The paper analyzes the escalating security and safety threats posed by generative AI systems as they transition from merely generating content to executing real-world actions via tools and agents, finding that current defenses lag behind capability deployment.

SmartDirector is a novel framework that significantly improves cinematic video generation by using multiple keyframes to provide precise control over narrative structure and temporal pacing.

RACE-Sched is an asynchronous agentic framework that successfully integrates low-latency, real-time scheduling decisions with advanced, long-horizon reasoning provided by Large Language Models.

The paper introduces BioConCal, a supervised scoring mechanism that evaluates biomedical NER candidates surfaced by multiple LLMs, significantly improving the quality of the candidate pool for human curators.