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5 papers

cs.CR2026

ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models via Meticulous Reasoning

Zhengyue Zhao, Yingzi Ma, Somesh Jha +3

Large Language Models have shown impressive generative capabilities across diverse tasks, but their safety remains a critical concern. Existing post-training alignment methods, suc…

cs.LG2025

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning

Neal Mangaokar, Ashish Hooda, Zhuohang Li +5

Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often…

cs.CR2025

AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs

Xiaogeng Liu, Peiran Li, Edward Suh +7

In this paper, we propose AutoDAN-Turbo, a black-box jailbreak method that can automatically discover as many jailbreak strategies as possible from scratch, without any human inter…

cs.LG2025

Functional Homotopy: Smoothing Discrete Optimization via Continuous Parameters for LLM Jailbreak Attacks

Zi Wang, Divyam Anshumaan, Ashish Hooda +2

Optimization methods are widely employed in deep learning to identify and mitigate undesired model responses. While gradient-based techniques have proven effective for image models…

cs.SE2025

Do Large Code Models Understand Programming Concepts? Counterfactual Analysis for Code Predicates

Ashish Hooda, Mihai Christodorescu, Miltiadis Allamanis +3

Large Language Models' success on text generation has also made them better at code generation and coding tasks. While a lot of work has demonstrated their remarkable performance o…