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20202026
most citedBadPre: Task-agnostic Backdoor Attacks to Pre-trained NLP Foundation Models

33 citations · 49 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2026

Who Pays the Price? Stakeholder-Centric Prompt Injection Benchmarking for Real-world Web Agents

Zihao Wang, Yiming Li, Yutong Wu +8

LLM-based web agents are increasingly deployed in real-world settings such as e-commerce, where they interact extensively with untrusted web content while executing actions that ca…

cs.CR2026

DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Gelei Deng +4

Fact-checking systems with search-enabled large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for verifying claims by dynamically retrieving external evidence. However, the ro…

cs.CV2026

SafeRedir: Prompt Embedding Redirection for Robust Unlearning in Image Generation Models

Renyang Liu, Kangjie Chen, Han Qiu +4

Image generation models (IGMs), while capable of producing impressive and creative content, often memorize a wide range of undesirable concepts from their training data, leading to…

cs.CR2025

When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Xingshuo Han +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been augmented with web search to overcome the limitations of the static knowledge boundary by accessing up-to-date information from the open Inte…

cs.CR2025

Towards Effective Prompt Stealing Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Shiqian Zhao, Chong Wang, Yiming Li +7

Text-to-Image (T2I) models, represented by DALLE and Midjourney, have gained huge popularity for creating realistic images. The quality of these images relies on the careful…

cs.CR2025

Coward: Collision-based OOD Watermarking for Practical Proactive Federated Backdoor Detection

Wenjie Li, Siying Gu, Yiming Li +4

Backdoor detection is currently the mainstream defense against backdoor attacks in federated learning (FL), where a small number of malicious clients can upload poisoned updates to…

cs.CR2025

BadLingual: A Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang +5

In this paper, we present a new form of backdoor attack against Large Language Models (LLMs): lingual-backdoor attacks. The key novelty of lingual-backdoor attacks is that the lang…

cs.AI2025

Picky LLMs and Unreliable RMs: An Empirical Study on Safety Alignment after Instruction Tuning

Guanlin Li, Kangjie Chen, Shangwei Guo +6

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for addressing a wide range of general inquiries and tasks. Despite this, fine-tuning aligned LLMs on smaller, domain-sp…

cs.CR2024

ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users

Guanlin Li, Kangjie Chen, Shudong Zhang +2

Large-scale pre-trained generative models are taking the world by storm, due to their abilities in generating creative content. Meanwhile, safeguards for these generative models ar…

cs.CV2024

MIP: CLIP-based Image Reconstruction from PEFT Gradients

Peiheng Zhou, Ming Hu, Xiaofei Xie +3

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model, as an effective pre-trained multimodal neural network, has been widely used in distributed machine learning tasks, especially…

cs.CV2023

Boosting Black-box Attack to Deep Neural Networks with Conditional Diffusion Models

Renyang Liu, Wei Zhou, Tianwei Zhang +3

Existing black-box attacks have demonstrated promising potential in creating adversarial examples (AE) to deceive deep learning models. Most of these attacks need to handle a vast…

cs.LG2023

Omnipotent Adversarial Training in the Wild

Guanlin Li, Kangjie Chen, Yuan Xu +2

Adversarial training is an important topic in robust deep learning, but the community lacks attention to its practical usage. In this paper, we aim to resolve a real-world challeng…

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Multi-target Backdoor Attacks for Code Pre-trained Models

Yanzhou Li, Shangqing Liu, Kangjie Chen +3

Backdoor attacks for neural code models have gained considerable attention due to the advancement of code intelligence. However, most existing works insert triggers into task-speci…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Extracting Cloud-based Model with Prior Knowledge

Shiqian Zhao, Kangjie Chen, Meng Hao +4

Machine Learning-as-a-Service, a pay-as-you-go business pattern, is widely accepted by third-party users and developers. However, the open inference APIs may be utilized by malicio…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

ShiftNAS: Towards Automatic Generation of Advanced Mulitplication-Less Neural Networks

Xiaoxuan Lou, Guowen Xu, Kangjie Chen +3

Multiplication-less neural networks significantly reduce the time and energy cost on the hardware platform, as the compute-intensive multiplications are replaced with lightweight b…

cs.CL2021★ 33 cited

BadPre: Task-agnostic Backdoor Attacks to Pre-trained NLP Foundation Models

Kangjie Chen, Yuxian Meng, Xiaofei Sun +4

Pre-trained Natural Language Processing (NLP) models can be easily adapted to a variety of downstream language tasks. This significantly accelerates the development of language mod…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Stealing Deep Reinforcement Learning Models for Fun and Profit

Kangjie Chen, Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang +2

This paper presents the first model extraction attack against Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), which enables an external adversary to precisely recover a black-box DRL model only…

cs.CR2020★ 4 cited

Stealthy and Efficient Adversarial Attacks against Deep Reinforcement Learning

Jianwen Sun, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaofei Xie +4

Adversarial attacks against conventional Deep Learning (DL) systems and algorithms have been widely studied, and various defenses were proposed. However, the possibility and feasib…