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most citedPhysical Backdoor Attacks to Lane Detection Systems in Autonomous Driving

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cs.CR2026

Black-Box Skill Stealing Attack from Proprietary LLM Agents: An Empirical Study

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu +4

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills to package reusable capabilities through instructions, tools, and resources. High-quality skills embed expert knowledg…

cs.CR2026

The Art of (Mis)alignment: How Fine-Tuning Methods Effectively Misalign and Realign LLMs in Post-Training

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Yun Shen +6

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) raises significant ethical and safety concerns. While LLM alignment techniques are adopted to improve model safety and trustworthines…

cs.CR2025

Hidden Tail: Adversarial Image Causing Stealthy Resource Consumption in Vision-Language Models

Rui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Tianli Yang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, but their high inference cost makes them vulnerable to resource consumption attacks. Prior attac…

cs.CR2025

ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li +4

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to Large Language Models (LLMs), where adversaries can embed hidden triggers to manipulate LLM's outputs. Most existing defense methods,…

cs.CR2025

The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks

Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li +5

Recent research highlights concerns about the trustworthiness of third-party Pre-Trained Language Models (PTLMs) due to potential backdoor attacks. These backdoored PTLMs, however,…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

MPMA: Preference Manipulation Attack Against Model Context Protocol

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu +5

Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes interface mapping for large language models (LLMs) to access external data and tools, which revolutionizes the paradigm of tool selection…

cs.CR2024

Combinational Backdoor Attack against Customized Text-to-Image Models

Wenbo Jiang, Jiaming He, Hongwei Li +6

Recently, Text-to-Image (T2I) synthesis technology has made tremendous strides. Numerous representative T2I models have emerged and achieved promising application outcomes, such as…

cs.CR2024

OnePath: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Inference in the Cloud

Shuai Yuan, Hongwei Li, Xinyuan Qian +1

The vast storage capacity and computational power of cloud servers have led to the widespread outsourcing of machine learning inference services. While offering significant operati…

cs.CR2023

Mercury: An Automated Remote Side-channel Attack to Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator

Xiaobei Yan, Xiaoxuan Lou, Guowen Xu +4

DNN accelerators have been widely deployed in many scenarios to speed up the inference process and reduce the energy consumption. One big concern about the usage of the accelerator…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Extracting Cloud-based Model with Prior Knowledge

Shiqian Zhao, Kangjie Chen, Meng Hao +4

Machine Learning-as-a-Service, a pay-as-you-go business pattern, is widely accepted by third-party users and developers. However, the open inference APIs may be utilized by malicio…

cs.CR2022

Efficiency Boosting of Secure Cross-platform Recommender Systems over Sparse Data

Hao Ren, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang +4

Fueled by its successful commercialization, the recommender system (RS) has gained widespread attention. However, as the training data fed into the RS models are often highly sensi…

cs.CR2022

New Secure Sparse Inner Product with Applications to Machine Learning

Guowen Xu, Shengmin Xu, Jianting Ning +4

Sparse inner product (SIP) has the attractive property of overhead being dominated by the intersection of inputs between parties, independent of the actual input size. It has intri…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

VerifyML: Obliviously Checking Model Fairness Resilient to Malicious Model Holder

Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Gelei Deng +5

In this paper, we present VerifyML, the first secure inference framework to check the fairness degree of a given Machine learning (ML) model. VerifyML is generic and is immune to a…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Hercules: Boosting the Performance of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning

Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Shengmin Xu +4

In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving federated neural network training with users. We present Hercules, an efficient and high-precision training framewor…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Privacy-preserving Decentralized Deep Learning with Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption

Guowen Xu, Guanlin Li, Shangwei Guo +2

Decentralized deep learning plays a key role in collaborative model training due to its attractive properties, including tolerating high network latency and less prone to single-po…

cs.CR2022

A Secure Fingerprinting Framework for Distributed Image Classification

Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Anguo Zhang +1

The deep learning (DL) technology has been widely used for image classification in many scenarios, e.g., face recognition and suspect tracking. Such a highly commercialized applica…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

SIMC 2.0: Improved Secure ML Inference Against Malicious Clients

Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Tianwei Zhang +5

In this paper, we study the problem of secure ML inference against a malicious client and a semi-trusted server such that the client only learns the inference output while the serv…

cs.CR2021

Fingerprinting Image-to-Image Generative Adversarial Networks

Guanlin Li, Guowen Xu, Han Qiu +5

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used in various application scenarios. Since the production of a commercial GAN requires substantial computational and human…

cs.CR2020

Topology-aware Differential Privacy for Decentralized Image Classification

Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Guowen Xu +3

In this paper, we design Top-DP, a novel solution to optimize the differential privacy protection of decentralized image classification systems. The key insight of our solution is…