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5 papers

cs.CR2026

CSO-LLM: Class Subspace Orthogonalization for Post-Training Backdoor Detection and Trigger Inversion in LLMs

Zhengxing Li, David J. Miller, Guangmingmei Yang +1

While post-training backdoor detection and trigger inversion schemes have been developed for AIs used e.g. for images, there is a paucity of such methods for LLMs. First, the LLM i…

cs.LG2026

A Novel Latent-Class Attack and its Detection by Class Subspace Orthogonalization

Guangmingmei Yang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis

Deep learning, which in general relies on voluminous amounts of training data, is vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, including error-generic attacks and backdoors (Trojans). In…

cs.LG2025

Improving the Sensitivity of Backdoor Detectors via Class Subspace Orthogonalization

Guangmingmei Yang, David J. Miller, George Kesidis

Most post-training backdoor detection methods rely on attacked models exhibiting extreme outlier detection statistics for the target class of an attack, compared to non-target clas…

cs.LG2025

Inverting Trojans in LLMs

Zhengxing Li, Guangmingmei Yang, Jayaram Raghuram +2

While effective backdoor detection and inversion schemes have been developed for AIs used e.g. for images, there are challenges in "porting" these methods to LLMs. First, the LLM i…

cs.CR2025

CEPA: Consensus Embedded Perturbation for Agnostic Detection and Inversion of Backdoors

Guangmingmei Yang, Xi Li, Hang Wang +2

A variety of defenses have been proposed against Trojans planted in (backdoor attacks on) deep neural network (DNN) classifiers. Backdoor-agnostic methods seek to reliably detect a…