Dongxiao Zhao

Changxu Zhao, Dongxiao Zhao, Xin Bian et al.

In dynamic flow fields, various animals exhibit remarkable odor search capabilities despite relying on stochastic detections. Interestingly, there exists an optimal time window for integrating these detections that maximizes search efficiency. To understand the underlying mechanism, we investigate the navigation performance of Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents in unsteady flows under varying memory lengths and flow conditions. Without any predefined models, the agents develop a flow-assisted casting strategy and adaptively adjust both the geometry of their search trajectories and the concentration threshold for initiating casting to maximize the success rate. The agent's average speed toward the odor source exhibits a non-monotonic dependence on memory length, which can be explained by the "sector-search" model.

Shuhan Xia, Jing Dai, Hui Ouyang et al.

Diffusion models exhibit notable fragility when faced with adversarial prompts, and strengthening attack capabilities is crucial for uncovering such vulnerabilities and building more robust generative systems. Existing works often rely on white-box access to model gradients or hand-crafted prompt engineering, which is infeasible in real-world deployments due to restricted access or poor attack effect. In this paper, we propose CAHS-Attack , a CLIP-Aware Heuristic Search attack method. CAHS-Attack integrates Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to perform fine-grained suffix optimization, leveraging a constrained genetic algorithm to preselect high-potential adversarial prompts as root nodes, and retaining the most semantically disruptive outcome at each simulation rollout for efficient local search. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art attack performance across both short and long prompts of varying semantics. Furthermore, we find that the fragility of SD models can be attributed to the inherent vulnerability of their CLIP-based text encoders, suggesting a fundamental security risk in current text-to-image pipelines.