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most citedCan Sensitive Information Be Deleted From LLMs? Objectives for Defending Against Extraction Attacks

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cs.CR2026

Defending Against Dormant Poisoning Attacks Across Language and Multimodal Agents

Wonjun Lee, Vaidehi Patil, Zaid Khan +4

Recent work shows that attackers can implant dormant malicious behaviors that remain hidden at release but emerge after benign fine-tuning. As foundation models are used as agents,…

math.NA2026

Scaled Companion Linearizations for Coefficientwise Backward Stability

Javier Pérez

A central goal in solving a polynomial eigenvalue problem is to compute eigenpairs that are exact for a nearby polynomial, with each coefficient perturbation bounded by a modest mu…

cs.CR2026

Safeguarding LLMs via Model-Agnostic Latent Safety Signals from Dark Knowledge

Wonjun Lee, Kyungsik Yang, Gaeun Ji +5

LLMs have advanced rapidly, raising growing concerns about their safety. Recent work has proposed approaches to detect and defend against attacks including defenses at decoding sta…

cs.MA2026

EvoHarnessBench: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?

Zixuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Haizhou Shi +9

Modern LLM-based agents operate through a harness of tools, reusable skills, and specialist agents that shapes what they observe and what they can do. In practice, this harness con…

cs.LG2026

Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1

With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…

cs.CL2026

Playing Along: Learning a Double-Agent Defender for Belief Steering via Theory of Mind

Hanqi Xiao, Vaidehi Patil, Zaid Khan +3

As large language models (LLMs) become the engine behind conversational systems, their ability to reason about the intentions and states of their dialogue partners (i.e., form and…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchy-Aware Multimodal Unlearning for Medical AI

Fengli Wu, Vaidehi Patil, Jaehong Yoon +2

Pretrained Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly used in sensitive domains such as medical AI, where privacy regulations like HIPAA and GDPR require specific re…

cs.CL2025

Generalized Correctness Models: Learning Calibrated and Model-Agnostic Correctness Predictors from Historical Patterns

Hanqi Xiao, Vaidehi Patil, Hyunji Lee +2

Generating accurate and calibrated confidence estimates is critical for deploying LLMs in high-stakes or user-facing applications, and remains an open challenge. Prior research has…

cs.CR2025

The Sum Leaks More Than Its Parts: Compositional Privacy Risks and Mitigations in Multi-Agent Collaboration

Vaidehi Patil, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal

As large language models (LLMs) become integral to multi-agent systems, new privacy risks emerge that extend beyond memorization, direct inference, or single-turn evaluations. In p…

cs.CL2025

Unlearning Sensitive Information in Multimodal LLMs: Benchmark and Attack-Defense Evaluation

Vaidehi Patil, Yi-Lin Sung, Peter Hase +3

LLMs trained on massive datasets may inadvertently acquire sensitive information such as personal details and potentially harmful content. This risk is further heightened in multim…

cs.LG2025

UPCORE: Utility-Preserving Coreset Selection for Balanced Unlearning

Vaidehi Patil, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal

User specifications or legal frameworks often require information to be removed from pretrained models, including large language models (LLMs). This requires deleting or "forgettin…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation

Jaehong Yoon, Shoubin Yu, Vaidehi Patil +2

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly enhanced their ability to generate high-quality images and videos, but they have also increased the risk of producing unsafe…

cs.LG2023

Debiasing Multimodal Models via Causal Information Minimization

Vaidehi Patil, Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Most existing debiasing methods for multimodal models, including causal intervention and inference methods, utilize approximate heuristics to represent the biases, such as shallow…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Can Sensitive Information Be Deleted From LLMs? Objectives for Defending Against Extraction Attacks

Vaidehi Patil, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

Pretrained language models sometimes possess knowledge that we do not wish them to, including memorized personal information and knowledge that could be used to harm people. They c…

cs.CV2022

GEMS: Scene Expansion using Generative Models of Graphs

Rishi Agarwal, Tirupati Saketh Chandra, Vaidehi Patil +3

Applications based on image retrieval require editing and associating in intermediate spaces that are representative of the high-level concepts like objects and their relationships…

cs.CL2022

Overlap-based Vocabulary Generation Improves Cross-lingual Transfer Among Related Languages

Vaidehi Patil, Partha Talukdar, Sunita Sarawagi

Pre-trained multilingual language models such as mBERT and XLM-R have demonstrated great potential for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer to low web-resource languages (LRL). However…

cs.CL2021

Exploiting Language Relatedness for Low Web-Resource Language Model Adaptation: An Indic Languages Study

Yash Khemchandani, Sarvesh Mehtani, Vaidehi Patil +3

Recent research in multilingual language models (LM) has demonstrated their ability to effectively handle multiple languages in a single model. This holds promise for low web-resou…