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20182026
most citedDAWN: Dynamic Adversarial Watermarking of Neural Networks

57 citations · 103 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CR2026

Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment

Lipeng He, Yihan Wang, Jiawen Zhang +1

Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution. Existing defenses…

cs.CR2026

SoK: Colluding Adversaries in Machine Learning Pipelines

Vasisht Duddu, Lipeng He, Asim Waheed +1

Machine learning (ML) models are susceptible to various security, privacy, and fairness risks. Adversaries with different characteristics (i.e., objectives, knowledge, and capabili…

cs.CL2026

Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Language Models via Infilling

Yihan Wang, N. Asokan

Memorization in large language models has been studied almost exclusively through prefix-conditioned extraction, a natural choice for autoregressive models. However, diffusion lang…

cs.CR2025

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models

Lipeng He, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan

Chatbot service providers (e.g., OpenAI) rely on tiered subscription plans to generate revenue, offering black-box access to basic models for free users and advanced models to payi…

cs.CR2025

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing

Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan +2

Language models (LMs) may memorize personally identifiable information (PII) from training data, enabling adversaries to extract it during inference. Existing defense mechanisms su…

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.CR2024

Combining Machine Learning Defenses without Conflicts

Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang, N. Asokan

Machine learning (ML) defenses protect against various risks to security, privacy, and fairness. Real-life models need simultaneous protection against multiple different risks whic…

cs.CR2024

Laminator: Verifiable ML Property Cards using Hardware-assisted Attestations

Vasisht Duddu, Oskari Järvinen, Lachlan J Gunn +1

Regulations increasingly call for various assurances from machine learning (ML) model providers about their training data, training process, and model behavior. For better transpar…

cs.CV2024

Espresso: Robust Concept Filtering in Text-to-Image Models

Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang +1

Diffusion based text-to-image models are trained on large datasets scraped from the Internet, potentially containing unacceptable concepts (e.g., copyright-infringing or unsafe). W…

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.LG2023★ 1 cited

GrOVe: Ownership Verification of Graph Neural Networks using Embeddings

Asim Waheed, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art approach to model and draw inferences from large scale graph-structured data in various application settings such as…

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.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…