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most citedSilent Guardian: Protecting Text from Malicious Exploitation by Large Language Models

12 citations · 28 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CR2026

The Safeguard Worked. Is the LLM System Safer?

Pingyu Wu, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu

Safeguards in deployed LLM services are evaluated by refusal, attack success, and policy violation rates. Those rates characterize how a control performed on the requests it was te…

cs.CR2026

Breadcrumbing Search Agents

Xuebin Li, Hanqing Zhao, Siyuan Liang +4

LLM-based search agents are widely used for information-seeking tasks, but their reliance on external tool returns introduces a critical security risk: web content retrieved during…

cs.SE2026

Beyond Text Matching: Towards Reference-Free Evaluation for Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering

Xiuwei Shang, Li Hu, Xiao Jiang +7

Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) aims to transform decompiled pseudocode into a more human-friendly representation, thereby reducing the cognitive burden of revers…

cs.CR2026

Safeguards Based on Copyable Context Cannot Provide Reliable Safety for LLMs

Pingyu Wu, Lingyao Zhu, Weiming Zhang +1

Large language model safeguards decide whether to answer before seeing how an answer will be used. This creates a basic problem for dual-use tasks: the same answer can help an auth…

cs.SE2026

Cross-modal Retrieval Models for Stripped Binary Analysis

Guoqiang Chen, Lingyun Ying, Ziyang Song +7

Retrieving binary code via natural language queries is a pivotal capability for downstream tasks in the software security domain, such as vulnerability detection and malware analys…

cs.CR2025

PSRT: Accelerating LRM-based Guard Models via Prefilled Safe Reasoning Traces

Jiawei Zhao, Yuang Qi, Weiming Zhang +2

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on tasks such as mathematics and code generation. Motivated by these strengths, recent work has empirically d…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Prompt Decoupling Attack on the Safety Filters in Text-to-Image Models

Xingkai Peng, Jun Jiang, Meng Tong +4

Text-to-image (T2I) models have been widely applied in generating high-fidelity images across various domains. However, these models may also be abused to produce Not-Safe-for-Work…

cs.CV2025

ScaleCap: Inference-Time Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing

Long Xing, Qidong Huang, Xiaoyi Dong +10

This paper presents ScaleCap, an inference-time scalable image captioning strategy that generates comprehensive and detailed image captions. The key challenges of high-quality imag…

cs.MM2025

TAG-WM: Tamper-Aware Generative Image Watermarking via Diffusion Inversion Sensitivity

Yuzhuo Chen, Zehua Ma, Han Fang +2

AI-generated content (AIGC) enables efficient visual creation but raises copyright and authenticity risks. As a common technique for integrity verification and source tracing, digi…

cs.SE2025

BinMetric: A Comprehensive Binary Analysis Benchmark for Large Language Models

Xiuwei Shang, Guoqiang Chen, Shaoyin Cheng +5

Binary analysis remains pivotal in software security, offering insights into compiled programs without source code access. As large language models (LLMs) continue to excel in dive…

cs.SE2025

CompileAgent: Automated Real-World Repo-Level Compilation with Tool-Integrated LLM-based Agent System

Li Hu, Guoqiang Chen, Xiuwei Shang +6

With open-source projects growing in size and complexity, manual compilation becomes tedious and error-prone, highlighting the need for automation to improve efficiency and accurac…

cs.SE2025

An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Large Language Models for Binary Code Understanding

Xiuwei Shang, Zhenkan Fu, Shaoyin Cheng +5

Binary code analysis plays a pivotal role in the field of software security and is widely used in tasks such as software maintenance, malware detection, software vulnerability disc…

cs.CV2025

Clean Image May be Dangerous: Data Poisoning Attacks Against Deep Hashing

Shuai Li, Jie Zhang, Yuang Qi +4

Large-scale image retrieval using deep hashing has become increasingly popular due to the exponential growth of image data and the remarkable feature extraction capabilities of dee…

cs.CL2025

MES-RAG: Bringing Multi-modal, Entity-Storage, and Secure Enhancements to RAG

Pingyu Wu, Daiheng Gao, Jing Tang +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves Large Language Models (LLMs) by using external knowledge, but it struggles with precise entity information retrieval. In this paper, w…

cs.CR2025

Beyond the Edge of Function: Unraveling the Patterns of Type Recovery in Binary Code

Gangyang Li, Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng +5

Type recovery is a crucial step in binary code analysis, holding significant importance for reverse engineering and various security applications. Existing works typically simply t…

cs.CV2025

M3-AGIQA: Multimodal, Multi-Round, Multi-Aspect AI-Generated Image Quality Assessment

Chuan Cui, Kejiang Chen, Zhihua Wei +3

The rapid advancement of AI-generated image (AIGI) models presents new challenges for evaluating image quality, particularly across three aspects: perceptual quality, prompt corres…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

AutoPT: How Far Are We from the End2End Automated Web Penetration Testing?

Benlong Wu, Guoqiang Chen, Kejiang Chen +5

Penetration testing is essential to ensure Web security, which can detect and fix vulnerabilities in advance, and prevent data leakage and serious consequences. The powerful infere…

cs.CR2024

SQL Injection Jailbreak: A Structural Disaster of Large Language Models

Jiawei Zhao, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to jailbreak attacks that can induce them to generate harmful content. Previous jailbreak methods primarily exploited the internal prop…

cs.SE2024

Binary Code Similarity Detection via Graph Contrastive Learning on Intermediate Representations

Xiuwei Shang, Li Hu, Shaoyin Cheng +4

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and code reuse identification. As IoT devices…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Deciphering Cross-Modal Alignment in Large Vision-Language Models with Modality Integration Rate

Qidong Huang, Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang +6

We present the Modality Integration Rate (MIR), an effective, robust, and generalized metric to indicate the multi-modal pre-training quality of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs…

cs.CL2024

GenderCARE: A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing and Reducing Gender Bias in Large Language Models

Kunsheng Tang, Wenbo Zhou, Jie Zhang +7

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities in natural language generation, but they have also been observed to magnify societal biases, particularly those…

cs.DB2024

SPSW: Database Watermarking Based on Fake Tuples and Sparse Priority Strategy

Zhiwen Ren, Zehua Ma, Weiming Zhang +1

Databases play a crucial role in storing and managing vast amounts of data in various organizations and industries. Yet the risk of database leakage poses a significant threat to d…

cs.AI2024

©Plug-in Authorization for Human Content Copyright Protection in Text-to-Image Model

Chao Zhou, Huishuai Zhang, Jiang Bian +2

This paper addresses the contentious issue of copyright infringement in images generated by text-to-image models, sparking debates among AI developers, content creators, and legal…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

How Far Have We Gone in Binary Code Understanding Using Large Language Models

Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen +6

Binary code analysis plays a pivotal role in various software security applications, such as software maintenance, malware detection, software vulnerability discovery, patch analys…