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20192025
most citedAbstraqt: Analysis of Quantum Circuits via Abstract Stabilizer Simulation

8 citations · 27 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CR2025

AutoBaxBuilder: Bootstrapping Code Security Benchmarking

Tobias von Arx, Niels Mündler, Mark Vero +2

As large language models (LLMs) see wide adoption in software engineering, the reliable assessment of the correctness and security of LLM-generated code is crucial. Notably, prior…

cs.LG2025

SPEAR++: Scaling Gradient Inversion via Sparsely-Used Dictionary Learning

Alexander Bakarsky, Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Maximilian Baader +1

Federated Learning has seen an increased deployment in real-world scenarios recently, as it enables the distributed training of machine learning models without explicit data sharin…

cs.CR2025

CommandSans: Securing AI Agents with Surgical Precision Prompt Sanitization

Debeshee Das, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer +1

The increasing adoption of LLM agents with access to numerous tools and sensitive data significantly widens the attack surface for indirect prompt injections. Due to the context-de…

cs.CY2025

Adaptive Generation of Bias-Eliciting Questions for LLMs

Robin Staab, Jasper Dekoninck, Maximilian Baader +1

Large language models (LLMs) are now widely deployed in user-facing applications, reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Despite their widespread adoption, growing relia…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

ToolFuzz -- Automated Agent Tool Testing

Ivan Milev, Mislav Balunović, Maximilian Baader +1

Large Language Model (LLM) Agents leverage the advanced reasoning capabilities of LLMs in real-world applications. To interface with an environment, these agents often rely on tool…

cs.LG2025

GRAIN: Exact Graph Reconstruction from Gradients

Maria Drencheva, Ivo Petrov, Maximilian Baader +2

Federated learning claims to enable collaborative model training among multiple clients with data privacy by transmitting gradient updates instead of the actual client data. Howeve…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

BaxBench: Can LLMs Generate Correct and Secure Backends?

Mark Vero, Niels Mündler, Victor Chibotaru +5

Automatic program generation has long been a fundamental challenge in computer science. Recent benchmarks have shown that large language models (LLMs) can effectively generate code…

cs.CL2024

A Unified Approach to Routing and Cascading for LLMs

Jasper Dekoninck, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev

The availability of a wide range of large language models (LLMs) embedded in various agentic systems has significantly increased the potential of model selection strategies to impr…

cs.LG2024

Ward: Provable RAG Dataset Inference via LLM Watermarks

Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Maximilian Baader +1

RAG enables LLMs to easily incorporate external data, raising concerns for data owners regarding unauthorized usage of their content. The challenge of detecting such unauthorized u…

cs.CL2024

Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation

Jasper Dekoninck, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev

Rating-based human evaluation has become an essential tool to accurately evaluate the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs). However, current rating systems suffer…

cs.LG2024

Certified Robustness to Data Poisoning in Gradient-Based Training

Philip Sosnin, Mark N. Müller, Maximilian Baader +2

Modern machine learning pipelines leverage large amounts of public data, making it infeasible to guarantee data quality and leaving models open to poisoning and backdoor attacks. P…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

DAGER: Exact Gradient Inversion for Large Language Models

Ivo Petrov, Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Maximilian Baader +2

Federated learning works by aggregating locally computed gradients from multiple clients, thus enabling collaborative training without sharing private client data. However, prior w…

cs.LG2024

Gaussian Loss Smoothing Enables Certified Training with Tight Convex Relaxations

Stefan Balauca, Mark Niklas Müller, Yuhao Mao +3

Training neural networks with high certified accuracy against adversarial examples remains an open challenge despite significant efforts. While certification methods can effectivel…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

SPEAR:Exact Gradient Inversion of Batches in Federated Learning

Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Maximilian Baader, Mark Niklas Müller +1

Federated learning is a framework for collaborative machine learning where clients only share gradient updates and not their private data with a server. However, it was recently sh…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Evading Data Contamination Detection for Language Models is (too) Easy

Jasper Dekoninck, Mark Niklas Müller, Maximilian Baader +2

Large language models are widespread, with their performance on benchmarks frequently guiding user preferences for one model over another. However, the vast amount of data these mo…

cs.LG2023

Expressivity of ReLU-Networks under Convex Relaxations

Maximilian Baader, Mark Niklas Müller, Yuhao Mao +1

Convex relaxations are a key component of training and certifying provably safe neural networks. However, despite substantial progress, a wide and poorly understood accuracy gap to…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Abstraqt: Analysis of Quantum Circuits via Abstract Stabilizer Simulation

Benjamin Bichsel, Anouk Paradis, Maximilian Baader +1

Stabilizer simulation can efficiently simulate an important class of quantum circuits consisting exclusively of Clifford gates. However, all existing extensions of this simulation…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

The Fundamental Limits of Interval Arithmetic for Neural Networks

Matthew Mirman, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev

Interval analysis (or interval bound propagation, IBP) is a popular technique for verifying and training provably robust deep neural networks, a fundamental challenge in the area o…

cs.LG2021

Latent Space Smoothing for Individually Fair Representations

Momchil Peychev, Anian Ruoss, Mislav Balunović +2

Fair representation learning transforms user data into a representation that ensures fairness and utility regardless of the downstream application. However, learning individually f…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Scalable Certified Segmentation via Randomized Smoothing

Marc Fischer, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev

We present a new certification method for image and point cloud segmentation based on randomized smoothing. The method leverages a novel scalable algorithm for prediction and certi…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

On the Paradox of Certified Training

Nikola Jovanović, Mislav Balunović, Maximilian Baader +1

Certified defenses based on convex relaxations are an established technique for training provably robust models. The key component is the choice of relaxation, varying from simple…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Efficient Certification of Spatial Robustness

Anian Ruoss, Maximilian Baader, Mislav Balunović +1

Recent work has exposed the vulnerability of computer vision models to vector field attacks. Due to the widespread usage of such models in safety-critical applications, it is cruci…

cs.LG2020

Certified Defense to Image Transformations via Randomized Smoothing

Marc Fischer, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev

We extend randomized smoothing to cover parameterized transformations (e.g., rotations, translations) and certify robustness in the parameter space (e.g., rotation angle). This is…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Universal Approximation with Certified Networks

Maximilian Baader, Matthew Mirman, Martin Vechev

Training neural networks to be certifiably robust is critical to ensure their safety against adversarial attacks. However, it is currently very difficult to train a neural network…