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10 papers

cs.CR2026

Thought-Transfer: Indirect Targeted Poisoning Attacks on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Models

Harsh Chaudhari, Ethan Rathbun, Hanna Foerster +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing large language models' capabilities by generating intermediate reasoning steps for complex tasks.…

cs.CV2026

Identifying Models Behind Text-to-Image Leaderboards

Ali Naseh, Yuefeng Peng, Anshuman Suri +3

Text-to-image (T2I) models are increasingly popular, producing a large share of AI-generated images online. To compare model quality, voting-based leaderboards have become the stan…

cs.LG2025

Text-to-Image Models Leave Identifiable Signatures: Implications for Leaderboard Security

Ali Naseh, Anshuman Suri, Yuefeng Peng +3

Generative AI leaderboards are central to evaluating model capabilities, but remain vulnerable to manipulation. Among key adversarial objectives is rank manipulation, where an atta…

cs.LG2025

Exploiting Leaderboards for Large-Scale Distribution of Malicious Models

Anshuman Suri, Harsh Chaudhari, Yuefeng Peng +3

While poisoning attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied, the mechanisms by which adversaries can distribute poisoned models at scale remain largely unexplo…

cs.LG2025

Black-Box Privacy Attacks on Shared Representations in Multitask Learning

John Abascal, Nicolás Berrios, Alina Oprea +3

Multitask learning (MTL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, t…

cs.CL2025

R1dacted: Investigating Local Censorship in DeepSeek's R1 Language Model

Ali Naseh, Harsh Chaudhari, Jaechul Roh +3

DeepSeek recently released R1, a high-performing large language model (LLM) optimized for reasoning tasks. Despite its efficient training pipeline, R1 achieves competitive performa…