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most citedWatch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents

8 citations · 25 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Semi-Supervised Regression with Heteroscedastic Pseudo-Labels

Xueqing Sun, Renzhen Wang, Quanziang Wang +3

Pseudo-labeling is a commonly used paradigm in semi-supervised learning, yet its application to semi-supervised regression (SSR) remains relatively under-explored. Unlike classific…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Data Quality through Self-learning on Imbalanced Financial Risk Data

Xu Sun, Zixuan Qin, Shun Zhang +2

In the financial risk domain, particularly in credit default prediction and fraud detection, accurate identification of high-risk class instances is paramount, as their occurrence…

cs.CR2024★ 8 cited

Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents

Wenkai Yang, Xiaohan Bi, Yankai Lin +3

Driven by the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-based agents have been developed to handle various real-world applications, including finance, healthcare, and…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Towards Codable Watermarking for Injecting Multi-bits Information to LLMs

Lean Wang, Wenkai Yang, Deli Chen +5

As large language models (LLMs) generate texts with increasing fluency and realism, there is a growing need to identify the source of texts to prevent the abuse of LLMs. Text water…

cs.CL2023

Communication Efficient Federated Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Adapter

Yi Liu, Xiaohan Bi, Lei Li +3

Federated Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (Fed-MNMT) has emerged as a promising paradigm for institutions with limited language resources. This approach allows multiple ins…

cs.CL2023

Diffusion Theory as a Scalpel: Detecting and Purifying Poisonous Dimensions in Pre-trained Language Models Caused by Backdoor or Bias

Zhiyuan Zhang, Deli Chen, Hao Zhou +3

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) may be poisonous with backdoors or bias injected by the suspicious attacker during the fine-tuning process. A core challenge of purifying potenti…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Fine-Tuning Deteriorates General Textual Out-of-Distribution Detection by Distorting Task-Agnostic Features

Sishuo Chen, Wenkai Yang, Xiaohan Bi +1

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is crucial for the safe deployment of natural language processing (NLP) models. Though existing methods, especially those based on the st…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Integrating Local Real Data with Global Gradient Prototypes for Classifier Re-Balancing in Federated Long-Tailed Learning

Wenkai Yang, Deli Chen, Hao Zhou +3

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed learning paradigm that involves multiple clients training a global model collaboratively in a data privacy-preserving manne…

cs.LG2023

When to Trust Aggregated Gradients: Addressing Negative Client Sampling in Federated Learning

Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Guangxiang Zhao +3

Federated Learning has become a widely-used framework which allows learning a global model on decentralized local datasets under the condition of protecting local data privacy. How…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Fine-mixing: Mitigating Backdoors in Fine-tuned Language Models

Zhiyuan Zhang, Lingjuan Lyu, Xingjun Ma +2

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), DNNs are often backdoored during the fine-tuning process of a larg…

cs.CL2022

Expose Backdoors on the Way: A Feature-Based Efficient Defense against Textual Backdoor Attacks

Sishuo Chen, Wenkai Yang, Zhiyuan Zhang +2

Natural language processing (NLP) models are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which poses a newly arisen threat to NLP models. Prior online backdoor defense methods for…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Holistic Sentence Embeddings for Better Out-of-Distribution Detection

Sishuo Chen, Xiaohan Bi, Rundong Gao +1

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) instances is significant for the safe deployment of NLP models. Among recent textual OOD detection works based on pretrained language models (PL…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Dim-Krum: Backdoor-Resistant Federated Learning for NLP with Dimension-wise Krum-Based Aggregation

Zhiyuan Zhang, Qi Su, Xu Sun

Despite the potential of federated learning, it is known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Many robust federated aggregation methods are proposed to reduce the potential backdo…

q-fin.TR2022★ 1 cited

Stock Trading Volume Prediction with Dual-Process Meta-Learning

Ruibo Chen, Wei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang +3

Volume prediction is one of the fundamental objectives in the Fintech area, which is helpful for many downstream tasks, e.g., algorithmic trading. Previous methods mostly learn a u…