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cs.CR2025

Black-Box Guardrail Reverse-engineering Attack

Hongwei Yao, Yun Xia, Shuo Shao +3

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly employ guardrails to enforce ethical, legal, and application-specific constraints on their outputs. While effective at mitigating harmful…

cs.CR2025

PromptCOS: Towards Content-only System Prompt Copyright Auditing for LLMs

Yuchen Yang, Yiming Li, Hongwei Yao +6

System prompts are critical for shaping the behavior and output quality of large language model (LLM)-based applications, driving substantial investment in optimizing high-quality…

cs.CL2025

Quantifying Conversation Drift in MCP via Latent Polytope

Haoran Shi, Hongwei Yao, Shuo Shao +4

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external tools, enabling dynamic aggregation of real-time data to improve task execution. Howe…

cs.CR2025

SoK: Large Language Model Copyright Auditing via Fingerprinting

Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Yu He +4

The broad capabilities and substantial resources required to train Large Language Models (LLMs) make them valuable intellectual property, yet they remain vulnerable to copyright in…

cs.LG2025

BadReward: Clean-Label Poisoning of Reward Models in Text-to-Image RLHF

Kaiwen Duan, Hongwei Yao, Yufei Chen +4

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is crucial for aligning text-to-image (T2I) models with human preferences. However, RLHF's feedback mechanism also opens new pathw…

cs.CR2025

ControlNET: A Firewall for RAG-based LLM System

Hongwei Yao, Haoran Shi, Yidou Chen +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the factual accuracy and domain adaptability of Large Language Models (LLMs). This advancement has enabled their wid…

cs.CR2025

FIT-Print: Towards False-claim-resistant Model Ownership Verification via Targeted Fingerprint

Shuo Shao, Haozhe Zhu, Yiming Li +3

Model fingerprinting has emerged as a crucial mechanism for safeguarding the intellectual property of open-source models, offering a non-intrusive approach that requires no modific…