8 papers
A Longitudinal Study of Android Apps Signing Key Protection
Mark Huasong Meng, Qing Zhang, Weirao Lu +1
Android app signing relies on developer-managed credentials, making secure key protection essential for the integrity of the software supply chain. A recent platform key leakage in…
Controllable and explainable personality sliders for LLMs at inference time
Florian Hoppe, David Khachaturov, Robert Mullins +1
Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with specific personas typically relies on expensive and monolithic Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) or RLHF. While effective, these methods requi…
Beyond the Scope: Security Testing of Permission Management in Team Workspace
Liuhuo Wan, Chuan Yan, Mark Huasong Meng +4
Nowadays team workspaces are widely adopted for multi-user collaboration and digital resource management. To further broaden real-world applications, mainstream team workspaces pla…
Assessing Privacy Compliance of Android Third-Party SDKs
Mark Huasong Meng, Chuan Yan, Qing Zhang +5
Third-party Software Development Kits (SDKs) are widely adopted in Android app development, to effortlessly accelerate development pipelines and enhance app functionality. However,…
PAODING: A High-fidelity Data-free Pruning Toolkit for Debloating Pre-trained Neural Networks
Mark Huasong Meng, Hao Guan, Liuhuo Wan +3
We present PAODING, a toolkit to debloat pretrained neural network models through the lens of data-free pruning. To preserve the model fidelity, PAODING adopts an iterative process…
Supervised Robustness-preserving Data-free Neural Network Pruning
Mark Huasong Meng, Guangdong Bai, Sin Gee Teo +1
When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They ty…