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most citedWhere have you been? A Study of Privacy Risk for Point-of-Interest Recommendation

5 citations · 5 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2026

Hearing the Whispers: Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks on Finetuned TTS Models

Kunlin Cai, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zihang Xiang +4

Text-to-Speech (TTS) foundation models are increasingly fine-tuned on private datasets to synthesize highly personalized voices, introducing severe privacy risks by exposing both b…

cs.CR2026

ImageAuditor: Membership Inference Attack against Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jinghuai Zhang, Pengyue Yu, Zhexiao Lin +3

Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (IRAG) conditions a frozen generator on reference images retrieved from an external database, supporting both text-to-image (T2I) and que…

cs.CR2026

RogueMerge: Robust and Unified Attacks against LLM Model Merging

Jinghuai Zhang, Yetian He, Kunlin Cai +3

Model merging composes specialized capabilities into a single LLM by aggregating task-specific LLMs sourced from unverified public platforms, exposing a critical supply-chain attac…

cs.CV2026

What-If World: A Causal Benchmark for General World Models in Embodied Scenarios

Kunlin Cai, Rui Song, Jinghuai Zhang +7

Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for tasks like driving and robotic manipulation. What matters in these settings is not whether a single video look…

cs.CR2026

HIDBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Host-Based Intrusion Detection

Danyu Sun, Jinghuai Zhang, Yuan Tian +1

Recent benchmark efforts have advanced the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) in cybersecurity, including tasks such as penetration testing and vulnerability identification…

cs.LG2026

FineSteer: A Unified Framework for Fine-Grained Inference-Time Steering in Large Language Models

Zixuan Weng, Jinghuai Zhang, Kunlin Cai +3

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit undesirable behaviors, such as safety violations and hallucinations. Although inference-time steering offers a cost-effective way to adju…

cs.CR2026

The Landscape of Prompt Injection Threats in LLM Agents: From Taxonomy to Analysis

Peiran Wang, Xinfeng Li, Chong Xiang +5

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has resulted in a paradigm shift towards autonomous agents, necessitating robust security against Prompt Injection (PI) vulnerabilitie…

cs.CR2025

From Perception to Protection: A Developer-Centered Study of Security and Privacy Threats in Extended Reality (XR)

Kunlin Cai, Jinghuai Zhang, Ying Li +4

The immersive nature of XR introduces a fundamentally different set of security and privacy (S&P) challenges due to the unprecedented user interactions and data collection that tra…

cs.CR2025

From Alerts to Intelligence: A Novel LLM-Aided Framework for Host-based Intrusion Detection

Danyu Sun, Jinghuai Zhang, Jiacen Xu +3

Host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) is a key defense component to protect the organizations from advanced threats like Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). By analyzing the…

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.LG2023★ 5 cited

Where have you been? A Study of Privacy Risk for Point-of-Interest Recommendation

Kunlin Cai, Jinghuai Zhang, Zhiqing Hong +5

As location-based services (LBS) have grown in popularity, more human mobility data has been collected. The collected data can be used to build machine learning (ML) models for LBS…