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FedGraph: Defending Federated Large Language Model Fine-Tuning Against Backdoor Attacks via Graph-Based Aggregation
Xi Chen, Chunyi Zhou, Rui Zeng +3
Federated fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) allows multiple clients to collaboratively adapt models without sharing raw data, offering strong privacy benefits. However, t…
StateWise: Diagnosing and Repairing Persistent Operational State Before Agent Actions
Yongyuan Peng, Zhou Feng, Tongying Wu +5
LLM agents combine reasoning, tool use, and persistent memory to support work across tasks by reusing stored operational records as premises for later actions. However, environment…
Safety in Self-Evolving Agents: A Survey
Jiahao Chen, Zhou Feng, Oubo Ma +28
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general capabilities, yet their parameters typically remain fixed after deployment, limiting learning from new interactions. In open-end…
A Finger on the Scale: Covert Policy Steering through Agentic Skills
Jiarui Li, Jiahao Chen, Chunyi Zhou +5
Reusable agent skills extend large language model (LLM) agents with task procedures, tool-use guidance, and output constraints. Yet these skills also act as externalized behavioral…
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Adversarial Misclassification of Safe Inputs as Unsafe in Multimodal Guardrails
Shuo Shi, Rui Yin, Naen Xu +7
Multimodal guard models have emerged as critical safety components for screening content in vision-language systems. While adversarial research has extensively studied jailbreaking…
Lilith: Backdoor Generalization under Training-Inference Trigger Shift
Zhou Feng, Jiahao Chen, Chunyi Zhou +6
Machine-learning services increasingly rely on public data, third-party providers, and outsourced training, creating opportunities for data-poisoning attacks that implant persisten…
Customization under Fire: Plugin Poisoning in Text-to-Image Ecosystem
Jiahao Chen, Xing He, Yong Yang +6
The prosperity of text-to-image (T2I) models has fostered a vibrant share-and-play ecosystem centered on Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) plugins, which allow users to customize and shar…
Angel or Demon: Investigating the Plasticity Interventions' Impact on Backdoor Threats in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Oubo Ma, Ruixiao Lin, Yang Dai +4
Extensive research has highlighted the severe threats posed by backdoor attacks to deep reinforcement learning (DRL). However, prior studies primarily focus on vanilla scenarios, w…
Profiling for Pennies: Unveiling the Privacy Iceberg of LLM Agents
Jiahao Chen, Qi Zhang, Ruixiao Lin +7
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how information are collected, aggregated, and reasoned. However, this enables a novel and accessible vector of privacy intrusion:…
Compiling Activation Steering into Weights via Null-Space Constraints for Stealthy Backdoors
Rui Yin, Tianxu Han, Naen Xu +8
Safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world pipelines, yet this deployment also enlarges the supply-chain attack surface: adversaries can di…
ACIArena: Toward Unified Evaluation for Agent Cascading Injection
Hengyu An, Minxi Li, Jinghuai Zhang +6
Collaboration and information sharing empower Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) but also introduce a critical security risk known as Agent Cascading Injection (ACI). In such attacks, a com…
"I See What You Did There": Can Large Vision-Language Models Understand Multimodal Puns?
Naen Xu, Jiayi Sheng, Changjiang Li +7
Puns are a common form of rhetorical wordplay that exploits polysemy and phonetic similarity to create humor. In multimodal puns, visual and textual elements synergize to ground th…
Unveiling the Security Risks of Federated Learning in the Wild: From Research to Practice
Jiahao Chen, Zhiming Zhao, Yuwen Pu +4
Federated learning (FL) has attracted substantial attention in both academia and industry, yet its practical security posture remains poorly understood. In particular, a large body…
When Agents "Misremember" Collectively: Exploring the Mandela Effect in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
Naen Xu, Hengyu An, Shuo Shi +7
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the capabilities of collaborative multi-agent systems, enabling them to address complex challenges.…
FraudShield: Knowledge Graph Empowered Defense for LLMs against Fraud Attacks
Naen Xu, Jinghuai Zhang, Ping He +6
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into critical automated workflows, including contract review and job application processes. However, LLMs are susceptible t…