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Publications (7)

cs.CL2025

Proactive Privacy Amnesia for Large Language Models: Safeguarding PII with Negligible Impact on Model Utility

Martin Kuo, Jingyang Zhang, Jianyi Zhang +9

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), increasing research has recognized their risk of leaking personally identifiable information (PII) under malicious attacks. Although…

cs.SE2024

Profile of Vulnerability Remediations in Dependencies Using Graph Analysis

Fernando Vera, Palina Pauliuchenka, Ethan Oh +3

This research introduces graph analysis methods and a modified Graph Attention Convolutional Neural Network (GAT) to the critical challenge of open source package vulnerability rem…

cs.CL2025

H-CoT: Hijacking the Chain-of-Thought Safety Reasoning Mechanism to Jailbreak Large Reasoning Models, Including OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Martin Kuo, Jianyi Zhang, Aolin Ding +6

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have recently extended their powerful reasoning capabilities to safety checks-using chain-of-thought reasoning to decide whether a request should be a…

cs.CL2025

SafeTy Reasoning Elicitation Alignment for Multi-Turn Dialogues

Martin Kuo, Jianyi Zhang, Aolin Ding +12

Malicious attackers can exploit large language models (LLMs) by engaging them in multi-turn dialogues to achieve harmful objectives, posing significant safety risks to society. To…

cs.LG2023

FADE: Enabling Federated Adversarial Training on Heterogeneous Resource-Constrained Edge Devices

Minxue Tang, Jianyi Zhang, Mingyuan Ma +5

Federated adversarial training can effectively complement adversarial robustness into the privacy-preserving federated learning systems. However, the high demand for memory capacit…

cs.LG2021

FL-WBC: Enhancing Robustness against Model Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning from a Client Perspective

Jingwei Sun, Ang Li, Louis DiValentin +3

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that trains a global model through iterative communications between a central server and edge devices. Recent wo…

cs.LG2025

FedProphet: Memory-Efficient Federated Adversarial Training via Robust and Consistent Cascade Learning

Minxue Tang, Yitu Wang, Jingyang Zhang +5

Federated Adversarial Training (FAT) can supplement robustness against adversarial examples to Federated Learning (FL), promoting a meaningful step toward trustworthy AI. However,…