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20182026
most citedDAWN: Dynamic Adversarial Watermarking of Neural Networks

57 citations · 143 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

How Context Attribution Handles What the Model Already Knows

Quoc-Huy Trinh, Lin Zhu, Sebastian Szyller

Context attribution methods for large language models (LLMs) identify which input context contributes to the model response. Recent works show the initial success in attributing th…

cs.CR2025

Amulet: a Python Library for Assessing Interactions Among ML Defenses and Risks

Asim Waheed, Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller

Machine learning (ML) models are susceptible to various risks to security, privacy, and fairness. Most defenses are designed to protect against each risk individually (intended int…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Atlas: A Framework for ML Lifecycle Provenance & Transparency

Marcin Spoczynski, Marcela S. Melara, Sebastian Szyller

The rapid adoption of open source machine learning (ML) datasets and models exposes today's AI applications to critical risks like data poisoning and supply chain attacks across th…

cs.CL2025

Soft Token Attacks Cannot Reliably Audit Unlearning in Large Language Models

Haokun Chen, Sebastian Szyller, Weilin Xu +1

Large language models (LLMs) are trained using massive datasets, which often contain undesirable content such as harmful texts, personal information, and copyrighted material. To a…

cs.CV2024

Imperceptible Adversarial Examples in the Physical World

Weilin Xu, Sebastian Szyller, Cory Cornelius +5

Adversarial examples in the digital domain against deep learning-based computer vision models allow for perturbations that are imperceptible to human eyes. However, producing simil…

cs.CR2023

SoK: Unintended Interactions among Machine Learning Defenses and Risks

Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller, N. Asokan

Machine learning (ML) models cannot neglect risks to security, privacy, and fairness. Several defenses have been proposed to mitigate such risks. When a defense is effective in mit…

cs.CL2023★ 33 cited

LLM Self Defense: By Self Examination, LLMs Know They Are Being Tricked

Mansi Phute, Alec Helbling, Matthew Hull +4

Large language models (LLMs) are popular for high-quality text generation but can produce harmful content, even when aligned with human values through reinforcement learning. Adver…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

False Claims against Model Ownership Resolution

Jian Liu, Rui Zhang, Sebastian Szyller +2

Deep neural network (DNN) models are valuable intellectual property of model owners, constituting a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is crucial to develop techniques to protect…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

On the Robustness of Dataset Inference

Sebastian Szyller, Rui Zhang, Jian Liu +1

Machine learning (ML) models are costly to train as they can require a significant amount of data, computational resources and technical expertise. Thus, they constitute valuable i…

cs.LG2022

Conflicting Interactions Among Protection Mechanisms for Machine Learning Models

Sebastian Szyller, N. Asokan

Nowadays, systems based on machine learning (ML) are widely used in different domains. Given their popularity, ML models have become targets for various attacks. As a result, resea…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

SHAPr: An Efficient and Versatile Membership Privacy Risk Metric for Machine Learning

Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller, N. Asokan

Data used to train machine learning (ML) models can be sensitive. Membership inference attacks (MIAs), attempting to determine whether a particular data record was used to train an…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal: Model Extraction Attacks Against Image Translation Models

Sebastian Szyller, Vasisht Duddu, Tommi Gröndahl +1

Machine learning models are typically made available to potential client users via inference APIs. Model extraction attacks occur when a malicious client uses information gleaned f…

stat.ML2019

Detecting organized eCommerce fraud using scalable categorical clustering

Samuel Marchal, Sebastian Szyller

Online retail, eCommerce, frequently falls victim to fraud conducted by malicious customers (fraudsters) who obtain goods or services through deception. Fraud coordinated by groups…

cs.LG2019★ 7 cited

Extraction of Complex DNN Models: Real Threat or Boogeyman?

Buse Gul Atli, Sebastian Szyller, Mika Juuti +2

Recently, machine learning (ML) has introduced advanced solutions to many domains. Since ML models provide business advantage to model owners, protecting intellectual property of M…

cs.CR2019★ 57 cited

DAWN: Dynamic Adversarial Watermarking of Neural Networks

Sebastian Szyller, Buse Gul Atli, Samuel Marchal +1

Training machine learning (ML) models is expensive in terms of computational power, amounts of labeled data and human expertise. Thus, ML models constitute intellectual property (I…

cs.CR2018★ 33 cited

PRADA: Protecting against DNN Model Stealing Attacks

Mika Juuti, Sebastian Szyller, Samuel Marchal +1

Machine learning (ML) applications are increasingly prevalent. Protecting the confidentiality of ML models becomes paramount for two reasons: (a) a model can be a business advantag…