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most citedThe Earth is Flat because...: Investigating LLMs' Belief towards Misinformation via Persuasive Conversation

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cs.CL2026

Can Released LLM Vocabularies Support Token-Level Estimation of Hidden Corpora?

Qingjie Zhang, Xingzhang Ren, Zixuan Chen +6

Pretraining corpus composition shapes LLM capabilities, but it often remains hidden even when model weights are released. Prior work has inferred corpus mixtures or traced specific…

cs.CL2026

Auditing Chinese Web-scale Corpora via Sampled BPE Token Statistics

Qingjie Zhang, Ziqi Tang, Jie Zhang +7

Chinese web pollution has surfaced in LLMs, motivating audits of upstream Chinese corpora. However, auditing such corpora faces three challenges: (1) their web-scale size makes ful…

cs.CR2026

State-Dependent Safety Failures in Multi-Turn Language Model Interaction

Pengcheng Li, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang +5

Safety alignment in large language models is typically evaluated under isolated queries, yet real-world use is inherently multi-turn. Although multi-turn jailbreaks are empirically…

cs.CR2026

What Makes a Good LLM Agent for Real-world Penetration Testing?

Gelei Deng, Yi Liu, Yuekang Li +5

LLM-based agents show promise for automating penetration testing, yet reported performance varies widely across systems and benchmarks. We analyze 28 LLM-based penetration testing…

cs.CV2026

SafeRedir: Prompt Embedding Redirection for Robust Unlearning in Image Generation Models

Renyang Liu, Kangjie Chen, Han Qiu +4

Image generation models (IGMs), while capable of producing impressive and creative content, often memorize a wide range of undesirable concepts from their training data, leading to…

cs.CR2025

When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Xingshuo Han +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been augmented with web search to overcome the limitations of the static knowledge boundary by accessing up-to-date information from the open Inte…

cs.CV2025

Visible Yet Unreadable: A Systematic Blind Spot of Vision Language Models Across Writing Systems

Jie Zhang, Ting Xu, Gelei Deng +5

Writing is a universal cultural technology that reuses vision for symbolic communication. Humans display striking resilience: we readily recognize words even when characters are fr…

cs.CL2025

When Audio and Text Disagree: Revealing Text Bias in Large Audio-Language Models

Cheng Wang, Gelei Deng, Xianglin Yang +2

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are enhanced with audio perception capabilities, enabling them to effectively process and understand multimodal inputs that combine audio and te…

cs.CR2025

ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks

Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly de…

cs.CR2025

BitHydra: Towards Bit-flip Inference Cost Attack against Large Language Models

Xiaobei Yan, Yiming Li, Hao Wang +2

Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed, but their substantial compute demands make them vulnerable to inference cost attacks that aim to deliberately maximize the output…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Retrieval: Improving Evidence Quality for LLM-based Multimodal Fact-Checking

Haoran Ou, Gelei Deng, Xingshuo Han +4

The increasing multimodal disinformation, where deceptive claims are reinforced through coordinated text and visual content, poses significant challenges to automated fact-checking…

cs.CV2025

Mask Image Watermarking

Runyi Hu, Jie Zhang, Shiqian Zhao +5

We present MaskWM, a simple, efficient, and flexible framework for image watermarking. MaskWM has two variants: (1) MaskWM-D, which supports global watermark embedding, watermark l…

cs.CV2025

FaceID-6M: A Large-Scale, Open-Source FaceID Customization Dataset

Shuhe Wang, Xiaoya Li, Jiwei Li +8

Due to the data-driven nature of current face identity (FaceID) customization methods, all state-of-the-art models rely on large-scale datasets containing millions of high-quality…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

VideoShield: Regulating Diffusion-based Video Generation Models via Watermarking

Runyi Hu, Jie Zhang, Yiming Li +4

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has advanced significantly, particularly with the development of video generation models such as text-to-video (T2V) models and ima…

cs.AI2025

Picky LLMs and Unreliable RMs: An Empirical Study on Safety Alignment after Instruction Tuning

Guanlin Li, Kangjie Chen, Shangwei Guo +6

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for addressing a wide range of general inquiries and tasks. Despite this, fine-tuning aligned LLMs on smaller, domain-sp…

cs.CV2024

SuperMark: Robust and Training-free Image Watermarking via Diffusion-based Super-Resolution

Runyi Hu, Jie Zhang, Yiming Li +4

In today's digital landscape, the blending of AI-generated and authentic content has underscored the need for copyright protection and content authentication. Watermarking has beco…

cs.CL2024

Understanding the Dark Side of LLMs' Intrinsic Self-Correction

Qingjie Zhang, Di Wang, Haoting Qian +7

Intrinsic self-correction was proposed to improve LLMs' responses via feedback prompts solely based on their inherent capability. However, recent works show that LLMs' intrinsic se…

cs.CL2024

Walking in Others' Shoes: How Perspective-Taking Guides Large Language Models in Reducing Toxicity and Bias

Rongwu Xu, Zi'an Zhou, Tianwei Zhang +5

The common toxicity and societal bias in contents generated by large language models (LLMs) necessitate strategies to reduce harm. Present solutions often demand white-box access t…

cs.CL2024

Course-Correction: Safety Alignment Using Synthetic Preferences

Rongwu Xu, Yishuo Cai, Zhenhong Zhou +6

The risk of harmful content generated by large language models (LLMs) becomes a critical concern. This paper presents a systematic study on assessing and improving LLMs' capability…

cs.LG2023

Rethinking Adversarial Training with Neural Tangent Kernel

Guanlin Li, Han Qiu, Shangwei Guo +2

Adversarial training (AT) is an important and attractive topic in deep learning security, exhibiting mysteries and odd properties. Recent studies of neural network training dynamic…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

The Earth is Flat because...: Investigating LLMs' Belief towards Misinformation via Persuasive Conversation

Rongwu Xu, Brian S. Lin, Shujian Yang +6

Large language models (LLMs) encapsulate vast amounts of knowledge but still remain vulnerable to external misinformation. Existing research mainly studied this susceptibility beha…

cs.CR2023

A Unified Hardware-based Threat Detector for AI Accelerators

Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang

The proliferation of AI technology gives rise to a variety of security threats, which significantly compromise the confidentiality and integrity of AI models and applications. Exis…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Warfare:Breaking the Watermark Protection of AI-Generated Content

Guanlin Li, Yifei Chen, Jie Zhang +5

AI-Generated Content (AIGC) is rapidly expanding, with services using advanced generative models to create realistic images and fluent text. Regulating such content is crucial to p…