activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cs.CR2026

Exposing Functional Fusion: A New Class of Strategic Backdoor in Dynamic Prompt Architectures

Zeyao Liu, Zhendong Zhao, Xiaojun Chen +3

Existing ViT backdoor attacks based on backbone-overwriting full-tuning are computationally expensive and inflict performance degradation. This has forced adversaries towards the V…

cs.AI2025

Value-Aligned Prompt Moderation via Zero-Shot Agentic Rewriting for Safe Image Generation

Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Bingshan Liu +3

Generative vision-language models like Stable Diffusion demonstrate remarkable capabilities in creative media synthesis, but they also pose substantial risks of producing unsafe, o…

cs.CR2025

DeepTracer: Tracing Stolen Model via Deep Coupled Watermarks

Yunfei Yang, Xiaojun Chen, Yuexin Xuan +3

Model watermarking techniques can embed watermark information into the protected model for ownership declaration by constructing specific input-output pairs. However, existing wate…

cs.CR2025

Who Speaks for the Trigger? Dynamic Expert Routing in Backdoored Mixture-of-Experts Transformers

Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Bingshan Liu +3

Large language models (LLMs) with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures achieve impressive performance and efficiency by dynamically routing inputs to specialized subnetworks, kno…

cs.AI2025

AILoRA: Function-Aware Asymmetric Initialization for Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Xiaoshuang Ji, Zhendong Zhao, Xiaoyan Gu +3

Parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) aims to mitigate the substantial computational and memory overhead involved in adapting large-scale pretrained models to diverse downstream ta…

cs.CL2025

Progtuning: Progressive Fine-tuning Framework for Transformer-based Language Models

Xiaoshuang Ji, Zhendong Zhao, Xiaojun Chen +2

Fine-tuning is a promising technique for leveraging Transformer-based language models in downstream tasks. As model sizes continue to grow, updating all model parameters becomes in…

cs.CV2025

Buster: Implanting Semantic Backdoor into Text Encoder to Mitigate NSFW Content Generation

Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Yuexin Xuan +4

The rise of deep learning models in the digital era has raised substantial concerns regarding the generation of Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content. Existing defense methods primarily…

cs.CR2024

Antelope: Potent and Concealed Jailbreak Attack Strategy

Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Haoyu Gao

Due to the remarkable generative potential of diffusion-based models, numerous researches have investigated jailbreak attacks targeting these frameworks. A particularly concerning…

cs.CR2024

CipherDM: Secure Three-Party Inference for Diffusion Model Sampling

Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Xudong Chen +3

Diffusion Models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results in image generation and have been applied to various fields. However, DMs sometimes seriously violate user privacy…