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most citedLLMs Can Understand Encrypted Prompt: Towards Privacy-Computing Friendly Transformers

7 citations · 15 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2026

Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era

Yihao Chen, Qi Li, Ke Xu +2

The partial deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) poses an unexpected security threat known as stealthy BGP hijacking, i.e., a particularly elusive form of BGP hijacking wher…

cs.CR2025

A Hard-Label Black-Box Evasion Attack against ML-based Malicious Traffic Detection Systems

Zixuan Liu, Yi Zhao, Zhuotao Liu +4

Machine Learning (ML)-based malicious traffic detection is a promising security paradigm. It outperforms rule-based traditional detection by identifying various advanced attacks. H…

cs.AI2025

SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents

Jianshuo Dong, Sheng Guo, Hao Wang +6

Search agents connect LLMs to the Internet, enabling them to access broader and more up-to-date information. However, this also introduces a new threat surface: unreliable search r…

cs.NI2025

Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane

Yinchao Zhang, Su Yao, Yong Feng +9

The paradigm of Intelligent DataPlane (IDP) embeds deep learning (DL) models on the network dataplane to enable intelligent traffic analysis at line-speed. However, the current use…

cs.CR2025

Towards Robust Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting

Xinhao Deng, Xiyuan Zhao, Qilei Yin +5

Website fingerprinting enables an eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting (WF) attacks hav…

cs.CR2024

Towards Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting at Scale

Xiyuan Zhao, Xinhao Deng, Qi Li +4

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks can effectively identify the websites visited by Tor clients via analyzing encrypted traffic patterns. Existing attacks focus on identifying dif…

cs.CR2024

Pencil: Private and Extensible Collaborative Learning without the Non-Colluding Assumption

Xuanqi Liu, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li +2

The escalating focus on data privacy poses significant challenges for collaborative neural network training, where data ownership and model training/deployment responsibilities res…

cs.NI2024★ 6 cited

Brain-on-Switch: Towards Advanced Intelligent Network Data Plane via NN-Driven Traffic Analysis at Line-Speed

Jinzhu Yan, Haotian Xu, Zhuotao Liu +4

The emerging programmable networks sparked significant research on Intelligent Network Data Plane (INDP), which achieves learning-based traffic analysis at line-speed. Prior art in…

cs.LG2024

Defending Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning: An Information Theory Approach

Qi Tan, Qi Li, Yi Zhao +3

Federated Learning (FL) trains a black-box and high-dimensional model among different clients by exchanging parameters instead of direct data sharing, which mitigates the privacy l…

cs.NI2024

Learning with Semantics: Towards a Semantics-Aware Routing Anomaly Detection System

Yihao Chen, Qilei Yin, Qi Li +6

BGP is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol to ensure global connectivity of the Internet. However, various reasons, such as deliberate attacks or misconfigurations, could ca…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

LLMs Can Understand Encrypted Prompt: Towards Privacy-Computing Friendly Transformers

Xuanqi Liu, Zhuotao Liu

The community explored to build private inference frameworks for transformer-based large language models (LLMs) in a server-client setting, where the server holds the model paramet…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

A Hard Label Black-box Adversarial Attack Against Graph Neural Networks

Jiaming Mu, Binghui Wang, Qi Li +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph structure related tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, GNNs…