Papers by Xianghe Pang
VLMGuard-R1: Proactive Safety Alignment for VLMs via Reasoning-Driven Prompt Optimization (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | integrating vision and language models with safety standards is essential to mitigate multimodal complexity . integrating visual inputs with vision and text unveils subtle threats beyond the reach of conventional safeguards . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines vision and language to provide a multimodal reasoning-driven prompt rewriting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models on five benchmarks with six VLMs. |
MCP-Flow: Facilitating LLM Agents to Master Real-World, Diverse and Scaling MCP Tools (2026.acl-long)
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WenHao Wang, Peizhi Niu, Zhao Xu, Zhaoyu Chen, Jian Du, Yaxin Du, Xianghe Pang, Keduan Huang, Yanfeng Wang, Qiang Yan, Siheng Chen
| Challenge: | Existing research on Large Language Models (LLMs) relies on few servers and lacks training support. |
| Approach: | They propose a web-agent-driven pipeline for large-scale server discovery, data synthesis, and model training that collects and filters data from 1166 servers and 11536 tools. |
| Outcome: | Empirical evidence shows that MCP-Flow generates higher quality instruction-function call pairs and higher agentic task performance than previous work. |
Synthesizing Post-Training Data for LLMs through Multi-Agent Simulation (2025.acl-long)
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Shuo Tang, Xianghe Pang, Zexi Liu, Bohan Tang, Rui Ye, Tian Jin, Xiaowen Dong, Yanfeng Wang, Siheng Chen
| Challenge: | Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework effectively generates both general and domain-specific data. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent simulator that automatically generates diverse text-based scenarios, capturing a wide range of real-world human needs. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that the proposed model outperforms Meta’s Llama-3-8B-Instruct model on AlpacaEval 2 and Arena-Hard benchmarks with just 20K instruction-response pairs. |