From the 1 of 12 linked papers with an AI index.
12 papers
Trust but Verify? Uncovering the Security Debt of Autonomous Coding Agents
A H M Nazmus Sakib, Dipayan Banik, Murtuza Jadliwala
The paper investigates security issues caused by autonomous coding agents in pull requests, revealing that many PRs contain security smells—especially hard‑coded credentials—and th…
Optimus: A Robust Defense Framework for Mitigating Toxicity while Fine-Tuning Conversational AI
Aravind Cheruvu, Shravya Kanchi, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah +4
Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) on untrusted datasets poses severe risks of injecting toxic behaviors. In this work, we introduce Optimus, a novel defense framework design…
ThermalTap: Passive Application Fingerprinting in VR Headsets via Thermal Side Channels
Mahsin Bin Akram, A H M Nazmus Sakib, OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya +3
Standalone virtual reality (VR) headsets process highly sensitive personal, professional, and health-related data, yet their susceptibility to non-contact physical side channels re…
LLM Ghostbusters: Surgical Hallucination Suppression via Adaptive Unlearning
Joseph Spracklen, Pedram Aghazadeh, Farinaz Koushanfar +1
Hallucinations, outputs that sound plausible but are factually incorrect, remain an open challenge for deployed LLMs. In code generation, models frequently hallucinate non-existent…
Off-The-Shelf Image-to-Image Models Are All You Need To Defeat Image Protection Schemes
Xavier Pleimling, Sifat Muhammad Abdullah, Gunjan Balde +4
Advances in Generative AI (GenAI) have led to the development of various protection strategies to prevent the unauthorized use of images. These methods rely on adding imperceptible…
Prompt and Circumstances: Evaluating the Efficacy of Human Prompt Inference in AI-Generated Art
Khoi Trinh, Scott Seidenberger, Joseph Spracklen +4
The emerging field of AI-generated art has witnessed the rise of prompt marketplaces, where creators can purchase, sell, or share prompts to generate unique artworks. These marketp…