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most citedThe Shadow Self: Intrinsic Value Misalignment in Large Language Model Agents

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cs.CL2026

JudgeStealer: Extracting LLM Judging Capabilities across Evaluation Protocols

Chen Chen, Yaolin Chen, Xuehan Sun +5

Large language model (LLM) judges are increasingly used across various evaluation scenarios, making their judgment capabilities valuable intellectual property. However, black-box a…

cs.CL2026

The Art of Mixology: Mixup-based Obfuscation for Privacy-Preserving Split Learning in Large Language Models

Chen Chen, Xiang Gao, Xianshun Wang +6

Split learning provides a practical paradigm for resource-constrained users to train Large Language Models (LLMs) by offloading computation-intensive layers to a server while keepi…

cs.RO2026

SoK: Security and Privacy of Foundation-Model-Powered Robots

Xueluan Gong, Chen Chen, Jinxin Liu +2

Foundation models are reshaping robotics by enabling robots to interpret open-ended instructions, reason over multimodal contexts, and operate in complex, open-world environments.…

cs.CR2026

Plato's Form: Toward Backdoor Defense-as-a-Service for LLMs with Prototype Representations

Chen Chen, Yuchen Sun, Jiaxin Gao +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor defenses are diffic…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

The Shadow Self: Intrinsic Value Misalignment in Large Language Model Agents

Chen Chen, Kim Young Il, Yuan Yang +7

Large language model (LLM) agents with extended autonomy unlock new capabilities, but also introduce heightened challenges for LLM safety. In particular, an LLM agent may pursue ob…

cs.CR2026

Beyond Max Tokens: Stealthy Resource Amplification via Tool Calling Chains in LLM Agents

Kaiyu Zhou, Yongsen Zheng, Yicheng He +5

The agent--tool interaction loop is a critical attack surface for modern Large Language Model (LLM) agents. Existing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks typically function at the user-…

cs.AI2025

Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems

Jiaxin Gao, Chen Chen, Yanwen Jia +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to autonomously evaluate the quality of content in communication systems, e.g., to assess responses in telecom customer sup…

cs.CL2025

Lethe: Purifying Backdoored Large Language Models with Knowledge Dilution

Chen Chen, Yuchen Sun, Jiaxin Gao +5

Large language models (LLMs) have seen significant advancements, achieving superior performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, they remain vulnerable…

cs.CR2025

LLMs Cannot Reliably Judge (Yet?): A Comprehensive Assessment on the Robustness of LLM-as-a-Judge

Songze Li, Chuokun Xu, Jiaying Wang +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across diverse tasks, driving the development and widespread adoption of LLM-as-a-Judge systems for automate…

cs.CR2025

TrojanDam: Detection-Free Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning through Proactive Model Robustification utilizing OOD Data

Yanbo Dai, Songze Li, Zihan Gan +1

Federated learning (FL) systems allow decentralized data-owning clients to jointly train a global model through uploading their locally trained updates to a centralized server. The…

cs.CV2024

Megatron: Evasive Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks against Vision Transformer

Xueluan Gong, Bowei Tian, Meng Xue +3

Vision transformers have achieved impressive performance in various vision-related tasks, but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks is under-explored. A handful of existing works…

cs.CL2024

Neutralizing Backdoors through Information Conflicts for Large Language Models

Chen Chen, Yuchen Sun, Xueluan Gong +2

Large language models (LLMs) have seen significant advancements, achieving superior performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, from understanding to reasoning.…

cs.CL2024

Hidden Data Privacy Breaches in Federated Learning

Xueluan Gong, Yuji Wang, Shuaike Li +5

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm for conducting machine learning across broad and decentralized datasets, promising enhanced privacy by obviating the need for direct d…

cs.AI2024

AI Safety Landscape for Large Language Models: Taxonomy, State-of-the-art, and Future Directions

Chen Chen, Xueluan Gong, Ziyao Liu +3

AI Safety is an emerging area of critical importance to the safe adoption and deployment of AI systems. With the rapid proliferation of AI and especially with the recent advancemen…

cs.LG2024

URVFL: Undetectable Data Reconstruction Attack on Vertical Federated Learning

Duanyi Yao, Songze Li, Xueluan Gong +2

Launching effective malicious attacks in VFL presents unique challenges: 1) Firstly, given the distributed nature of clients' data features and models, each client rigorously guard…