activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.CR2026

What the Eyes See, the LLMs Miss: Exploiting Human Perception for Adversarial Text Attacks

Qin Yang, Lu Malloy, Joshua Lee +4

Large language model (LLM)-powered content moderation systems are a critical defense against harmful online content. However, they operate primarily on tokenized text and often ove…

cs.CR2026

Lap2: Revisiting Laplace DP-SGD for High Dimensions via Majorization Theory

Meisam Mohammady, Qin Yang, Nicholas Stout +4

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a cornerstone technique for ensuring privacy in deep learning, widely used in both training from scratch and fine-tun…

cs.CR2025

PLRV-O: Advancing Differentially Private Deep Learning via Privacy Loss Random Variable Optimization

Qin Yang, Nicholas Stout, Meisam Mohammady +6

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a standard method for enforcing privacy in deep learning, typically using the Gaussian mechanism to perturb gradient…

cs.LG2024

Universally Harmonizing Differential Privacy Mechanisms for Federated Learning: Boosting Accuracy and Convergence

Shuya Feng, Meisam Mohammady, Hanbin Hong +4

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) is a promising technique for collaborative model training while ensuring provable privacy for clients. However, optimizing the tra…

cs.CR2024

LMO-DP: Optimizing the Randomization Mechanism for Differentially Private Fine-Tuning (Large) Language Models

Qin Yang, Meisam Mohammad, Han Wang +5

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) and its variants have been proposed to ensure rigorous privacy for fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained language models.…