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20222026
most citedFedTracker: Furnishing Ownership Verification and Traceability for Federated Learning Model

5 citations · 13 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CV2026

JANUS: A Lightweight Framework for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Models via Distribution Optimization

Haolun Zheng, Yu He, Tailun Chen +6

Text-to-image (T2I) models such as Stable Diffusion and DALLE remain susceptible to generating harmful or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content under jailbreak attacks despite deployed…

cs.CR2026

AttriGuard: Defeating Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents via Causal Attribution of Tool Invocations

Yu He, Haozhe Zhu, Yiming Li +4

LLM agents are highly vulnerable to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI), where adversaries embed malicious directives in untrusted tool outputs to hijack execution. Most existing defen…

cs.CR2025

MIRAGE: Misleading Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Black-box and Query-agnostic Poisoning Attacks

Tailun Chen, Yu He, Yan Wang +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance LLMs with external knowledge but introduce a critical attack surface: corpus poisoning. While recent studies have demonstrated…

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.LG2025

Retrofit: Continual Learning with Controlled Forgetting for Binary Security Detection and Analysis

Yiling He, Junchi Lei, Hongyu She +5

Binary security has increasingly relied on deep learning to reason about malware behavior and program semantics. However, the performance often degrades as threat landscapes evolve…

cs.CR2025

External Data Extraction Attacks against Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

Yu He, Yifei Chen, Yiming Li +5

In recent years, RAG has emerged as a key paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs). By integrating externally retrieved information, RAG alleviates issues like outdated…

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.CR2025★ 1 cited

MAJIC: Markovian Adaptive Jailbreaking via Iterative Composition of Diverse Innovative Strategies

Weiwei Qi, Shuo Shao, Wei Gu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities but remain vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, which can elicit harmful content from the models by manipulating…

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.CR2025

Shadow in the Cache: Unveiling and Mitigating Privacy Risks of KV-cache in LLM Inference

Zhifan Luo, Shuo Shao, Su Zhang +5

The Key-Value (KV) cache, which stores intermediate attention computations (Key and Value pairs) to avoid redundant calculations, is a fundamental mechanism for accelerating Large…

cs.CR2025

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective

Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Mengren Zheng +7

The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure reg…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Data Protection in the (Generative) Artificial Intelligence Era

Yiming Li, Shuo Shao, Yu He +8

The (generative) artificial intelligence (AI) era has profoundly reshaped the meaning and value of data. No longer confined to static content, data now permeates every stage of the…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

SmartGuard: Leveraging Large Language Models for Network Attack Detection through Audit Log Analysis and Summarization

Hao Zhang, Shuo Shao, Song Li +3

End-point monitoring solutions are widely deployed in today's enterprise environments to support advanced attack detection and investigation. These monitors continuously record sys…

cs.CR2025

CBW: Towards Dataset Ownership Verification for Speaker Verification via Clustering-based Backdoor Watermarking

Yiming Li, Kaiying Yan, Shuo Shao +5

Speaker verification models are trained on large-scale public datasets whose licenses usually prohibit unauthorized commercial use, yet such infringement is difficult to detect or…

cs.CR2025

REFINE: Inversion-Free Backdoor Defense via Model Reprogramming

Yukun Chen, Shuo Shao, Enhao Huang +4

Backdoor attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a significant security threat, allowing adversaries to implant hidden malicious behaviors during the model training…

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…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

SoK: On the Role and Future of AIGC Watermarking in the Era of Gen-AI

Kui Ren, Ziqi Yang, Li Lu +6

The rapid advancement of AI technology, particularly in generating AI-generated content (AIGC), has transformed numerous fields, e.g., art video generation, but also brings new ris…

cs.CR2024

PointNCBW: Towards Dataset Ownership Verification for Point Clouds via Negative Clean-label Backdoor Watermark

Cheng Wei, Yang Wang, Kuofeng Gao +4

Recently, point clouds have been widely used in computer vision, whereas their collection is time-consuming and expensive. As such, point cloud datasets are the valuable intellectu…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Explanation as a Watermark: Towards Harmless and Multi-bit Model Ownership Verification via Watermarking Feature Attribution

Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Hongwei Yao +3

Ownership verification is currently the most critical and widely adopted post-hoc method to safeguard model copyright. In general, model owners exploit it to identify whether a giv…

cs.CR2022★ 5 cited

FedTracker: Furnishing Ownership Verification and Traceability for Federated Learning Model

Shuo Shao, Wenyuan Yang, Hanlin Gu +4

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data. However, FL e…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Watermarking in Secure Federated Learning: A Verification Framework Based on Client-Side Backdooring

Wenyuan Yang, Shuo Shao, Yue Yang +5

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple participants to collaboratively build deep learning (DL) models without directly sharing data. Consequently, the issue of copyright protecti…