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most citedPromSec: Prompt Optimization for Secure Generation of Functional Source Code with Large Language Models (LLMs)

26 citations · 28 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2026

Poison with Style: A Practical Poisoning Attack on Code Large Language Models

Khang Tran, Yazan Boshmaf, Issa Khalil +3

Code Large Language Models (CLLMs) serve as the core of modern code agents, enabling developers to automate complex software development tasks. In this paper, we present Poison-wit…

cs.LG2026

Gradient Transformer: Learning to Generate Updates for LLMs

Binh-Nguyen Nguyen, Khang Tran, NhatHai Phan +1

Many organizations lack computational resources to fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on private (unshareable) data for better utility, while fine-tuning tiny language models (…

cs.CR2026

NOIR: Privacy-Preserving Generation of Code with Open-Source LLMs

Khoa Nguyen, Khiem Ton, NhatHai Phan +6

Although boosting software development performance, large language model (LLM)-powered code generation introduces intellectual property and data security risks rooted in the fact t…

cs.LG2025

SGFusion: Stochastic Geographic Gradient Fusion in Federated Learning

Khoa Nguyen, Khang Tran, NhatHai Phan +3

This paper proposes Stochastic Geographic Gradient Fusion (SGFusion), a novel training algorithm to leverage the geographic information of mobile users in Federated Learning (FL).…

cs.CV2025

ViGText: Deepfake Image Detection with Vision-Language Model Explanations and Graph Neural Networks

Ahmad ALBarqawi, Mahmoud Nazzal, Issa Khalil +2

The rapid rise of deepfake technology, which produces realistic but fraudulent digital content, threatens the authenticity of media. Traditional deepfake detection approaches often…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Demo: SGCode: A Flexible Prompt-Optimizing System for Secure Generation of Code

Khiem Ton, Nhi Nguyen, Mahmoud Nazzal +6

This paper introduces SGCode, a flexible prompt-optimizing system to generate secure code with large language models (LLMs). SGCode integrates recent prompt-optimization approaches…

cs.SE2024★ 26 cited

PromSec: Prompt Optimization for Secure Generation of Functional Source Code with Large Language Models (LLMs)

Mahmoud Nazzal, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah +1

The capability of generating high-quality source code using large language models (LLMs) reduces software development time and costs. However, they often introduce security vulnera…

cs.LG2023

FairDP: Certified Fairness with Differential Privacy

Khang Tran, Ferdinando Fioretto, Issa Khalil +2

This paper introduces FairDP, a novel training mechanism designed to provide group fairness certification for the trained model's decisions, along with a differential privacy (DP)…