8 papers
Who Taught the Lie? Responsibility Attribution for Poisoned Knowledge in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Baolei Zhang, Haoran Xin, Yuxi Chen +6
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge into large language models to improve response quality. However, recent work has shown that RAG systems are highl…
Gradient Surgery for Safe LLM Fine-Tuning
Biao Yi, Jiahao Li, Baolei Zhang +4
Fine-tuning-as-a-Service introduces a critical vulnerability where a few malicious examples mixed into the user's fine-tuning dataset can compromise the safety alignment of Large L…
BadReasoner: Planting Tunable Overthinking Backdoors into Large Reasoning Models for Fun or Profit
Biao Yi, Zekun Fei, Jianing Geng +4
Large reasoning models (LRMs) have emerged as a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, representing a specialized class of large language models (LLMs) designed to tac…
Probe before You Talk: Towards Black-box Defense against Backdoor Unalignment for Large Language Models
Biao Yi, Tiansheng Huang, Sishuo Chen +4
Backdoor unalignment attacks against Large Language Models (LLMs) enable the stealthy compromise of safety alignment using a hidden trigger while evading normal safety auditing. Th…
CTRAP: Embedding Collapse Trap to Safeguard Large Language Models from Harmful Fine-Tuning
Biao Yi, Tiansheng Huang, Baolei Zhang +4
Fine-tuning-as-a-service, while commercially successful for Large Language Model (LLM) providers, exposes models to harmful fine-tuning attacks. As a widely explored defense paradi…
Traceback of Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Baolei Zhang, Haoran Xin, Minghong Fang +4
Large language models (LLMs) integrated with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems improve accuracy by leveraging external knowledge sources. However, recent research has re…