I am a Ph.D. student at Informatics department at LMU Munich in Germany. Previously, I obtained my master at LMU Munich in Physics. My current research interests focus on agent and alignment.

Contact me (for any reason): Liu@dbs.ifi.lmu.de

5. [LLMs] [Alignment] FocalPO: Enhancing Preference Optimizing by Focusing on Correct Preference Rankings

Tong Liu, Xiao Yu, Wenxuan Zhou, Jindong Gu, Volker Tresp

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) main, 2025.

arXiv    code

4. [Multimodal] [Safety] Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models

Tong Liu, Zhixin Lai, Jiawen Wang, Gengyuan Zhang, Shuo Chen, Philip Torr, Vera Demberg, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) main, 2025; ReGenAI@CVPR (Best paper award 🏆), 2025.

arXiv    code

3. [LLMs] [PEFT] HiFT: A Hierarchical Full Parameter Fine-Tuning Strategy

Yongkang Liu, Yiqun Zhang, Qian Li, Tong Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hinrich Schütze

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) main, 2024.

arXiv    code

2. [LLMs] [Psycholinguistics] Temperature-scaling Surprisal Estimates Improve Fit to Human Reading Times – But Does It Do So for the “Right Reasons”?

Tong Liu, Iza Škrjanec, Vera Demberg

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) main, 2024.

arXiv    code

1. [Graph] [Calibration] On Calibration of Graph Neural Networks for Node Classification

Tong Liu*, Yushan Liu*, Marcel Hildebrandt, Mitchell Joblin, Hang Li, Volker Tresp

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2022.

arXiv    code