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most citedMembership Inference Attacks Against Text-to-image Generation Models

20 citations · 84 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CR2025

Amplifying Machine Learning Attacks Through Strategic Compositions

Yugeng Liu, Zheng Li, Hai Huang +2

Machine learning (ML) models are proving to be vulnerable to a variety of attacks that allow the adversary to learn sensitive information, cause mispredictions, and more. While the…

cs.CR2025

Watermarking LLM-Generated Datasets in Downstream Tasks

Yugeng Liu, Tianshuo Cong, Michael Backes +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced rapid advancements, with applications spanning a wide range of fields, including sentiment classification, review generation, and ques…

cs.CR2025

Membership Inference Attacks Against Vision-Language Models

Yuke Hu, Zheng Li, Zhihao Liu +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), built on pre-trained vision encoders and large language models (LLMs), have shown exceptional multi-modal understanding and dialog capabilities, posi…

cs.CR2024

: Measuring Stereotypical Bias in Large Vision-Language Models from Vision and Language Modalities

Yukun Jiang, Zheng Li, Xinyue Shen +3

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have been rapidly developed and widely used in various fields, but the (potential) stereotypical bias in the model is largely unexplored. In th…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Membership Inference Attacks Against In-Context Learning

Rui Wen, Zheng Li, Michael Backes +1

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specific tasks introduces concerns about computational efficiency, prompting an exploration of efficient methods such as In-Context Learnin…

cs.CR2024

BadMerging: Backdoor Attacks Against Model Merging

Jinghuai Zhang, Jianfeng Chi, Zheng Li +3

Fine-tuning pre-trained models for downstream tasks has led to a proliferation of open-sourced task-specific models. Recently, Model Merging (MM) has emerged as an effective approa…

cs.CL2024

Inside the Black Box: Detecting Data Leakage in Pre-trained Language Encoders

Yuan Xin, Zheng Li, Ning Yu +4

Despite being prevalent in the general field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), pre-trained language models inherently carry privacy and copyright concerns due to their nature o…

cs.CR2024

Membership Inference Attack Against Masked Image Modeling

Zheng Li, Xinlei He, Ning Yu +1

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved significant success in the realm of self-supervised learning (SSL) for visual recognition. The image encoder pre-trained through MIM, invol…

cs.CR2023

SecurityNet: Assessing Machine Learning Vulnerabilities on Public Models

Boyang Zhang, Zheng Li, Ziqing Yang +4

While advanced machine learning (ML) models are deployed in numerous real-world applications, previous works demonstrate these models have security and privacy vulnerabilities. Var…

cs.CR2023

A Comprehensive Study of Privacy Risks in Curriculum Learning

Joann Qiongna Chen, Xinlei He, Zheng Li +2

Training a machine learning model with data following a meaningful order, i.e., from easy to hard, has been proven to be effective in accelerating the training process and achievin…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Generative Watermarking Against Unauthorized Subject-Driven Image Synthesis

Yihan Ma, Zhengyu Zhao, Xinlei He +3

Large text-to-image models have shown remarkable performance in synthesizing high-quality images. In particular, the subject-driven model makes it possible to personalize the image…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

FDINet: Protecting against DNN Model Extraction via Feature Distortion Index

Hongwei Yao, Zheng Li, Haiqin Weng +3

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) platforms have gained popularity due to their accessibility, cost-efficiency, scalability, and rapid development capabilities. However, recent…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

NOTABLE: Transferable Backdoor Attacks Against Prompt-based NLP Models

Kai Mei, Zheng Li, Zhenting Wang +2

Prompt-based learning is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks against prompt-based models consider injecting backdoors into the entire embedding layers or word…

cs.CR2023★ 9 cited

Watermarking Diffusion Model

Yugeng Liu, Zheng Li, Michael Backes +2

The availability and accessibility of diffusion models (DMs) have significantly increased in recent years, making them a popular tool for analyzing and predicting the spread of inf…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Backdoor Attacks Against Dataset Distillation

Yugeng Liu, Zheng Li, Michael Backes +2

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into…

cs.CR2022★ 4 cited

Backdoor Attacks in the Supply Chain of Masked Image Modeling

Xinyue Shen, Xinlei He, Zheng Li +3

Masked image modeling (MIM) revolutionizes self-supervised learning (SSL) for image pre-training. In contrast to previous dominating self-supervised methods, i.e., contrastive lear…

cs.CR2022★ 20 cited

Membership Inference Attacks Against Text-to-image Generation Models

Yixin Wu, Ning Yu, Zheng Li +2

Text-to-image generation models have recently attracted unprecedented attention as they unlatch imaginative applications in all areas of life. However, developing such models requi…

cs.CR2022

UnGANable: Defending Against GAN-based Face Manipulation

Zheng Li, Ning Yu, Ahmed Salem +3

Deepfakes pose severe threats of visual misinformation to our society. One representative deepfake application is face manipulation that modifies a victim's facial attributes in an…

cs.CR2022★ 7 cited

DE-FAKE: Detection and Attribution of Fake Images Generated by Text-to-Image Generation Models

Zeyang Sha, Zheng Li, Ning Yu +1

Text-to-image generation models that generate images based on prompt descriptions have attracted an increasing amount of attention during the past few months. Despite their encoura…

cs.CR2022★ 7 cited

Data Poisoning Attacks Against Multimodal Encoders

Ziqing Yang, Xinlei He, Zheng Li +4

Recently, the newly emerged multimodal models, which leverage both visual and linguistic modalities to train powerful encoders, have gained increasing attention. However, learning…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Auditing Membership Leakages of Multi-Exit Networks

Zheng Li, Yiyong Liu, Xinlei He +3

Relying on the fact that not all inputs require the same amount of computation to yield a confident prediction, multi-exit networks are gaining attention as a prominent approach fo…

cs.CR2022★ 10 cited

Membership-Doctor: Comprehensive Assessment of Membership Inference Against Machine Learning Models

Xinlei He, Zheng Li, Weilin Xu +2

Machine learning models are prone to memorizing sensitive data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to infer whether an input sample w…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Membership Leakage in Label-Only Exposures

Zheng Li, Yang Zhang

Machine learning (ML) has been widely adopted in various privacy-critical applications, e.g., face recognition and medical image analysis. However, recent research has shown that M…