activity
20242026
collaborators

10 papers

cs.LG2026

DPrivBench: Benchmarking LLMs' Reasoning for Differential Privacy

Erchi Wang, Pengrun Huang, Eli Chien +4

Differential privacy (DP) has a wide range of applications for protecting data privacy, but designing and verifying DP algorithms requires expert-level reasoning, creating a high b…

cs.CL2026

One Turn Too Late: Learning When to Intervene Against Multi-Turn Malicious Intent

Xinjie Shen, Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu +6

Hidden malicious intent in multi-turn dialogue poses a growing threat to deployed large language models (LLMs). Rather than exposing a harmful objective in a single prompt, attacke…

cs.CL2026

MAPLE: Metadata Augmented Private Language Evolution

Eli Chien, Yuzheng Hu, Ryan McKenna +3

Differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) requires massive compute and full model access, which rules out state-of-the-art proprietary APIs for genera…

cs.CR2025

The Trojan Knowledge: Bypassing Commercial LLM Guardrails via Harmless Prompt Weaving and Adaptive Tree Search

Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu, Xinjie Shen +7

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails to elicit harmful outputs. Existing approaches overwhelmingly operate within the p…

cs.LG2025

Differentially Private Relational Learning with Entity-level Privacy Guarantees

Yinan Huang, Haoteng Yin, Eli Chien +2

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Priva…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs Really Forget? Evaluating Unlearning with Knowledge Correlation and Confidence Awareness

Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu, Hans Hao-Hsun Hsu +9

Machine unlearning techniques aim to mitigate unintended memorization in large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches predominantly focus on the explicit removal of i…

cs.LG2025

Privacy Amplification in Differentially Private Zeroth-Order Optimization with Hidden States

Eli Chien, Wei-Ning Chen, Pan Li

Zeroth-order optimization has emerged as a promising approach for fine-tuning large language models under differential privacy (DP) and memory constraints. While privacy amplificat…

cs.LG2024

LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation

Mufei Li, Viraj Shitole, Eli Chien +6

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) serve as crucial data representations in domains such as hardware synthesis and compiler/program optimization for computing systems. DAG generative m…

cs.LG2024

Privately Learning from Graphs with Applications in Fine-tuning Large Language Models

Haoteng Yin, Rongzhe Wei, Eli Chien +1

Graphs offer unique insights into relationships between entities, complementing data modalities like text and images and enabling AI models to extend their capabilities beyond trad…

cs.CL2024

Machine Unlearning of Pre-trained Large Language Models

Jin Yao, Eli Chien, Minxin Du +4

This study investigates the concept of the `right to be forgotten' within the context of large language models (LLMs). We explore machine unlearning as a pivotal solution, with a f…