4 papers
MechAudit-40: White-Box Auditing across 40 LLM Attack Mechanisms
Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2
While LLM attacks span prompt optimization, multi-turn context manipulation, retrieval poisoning, and model backdoors, white-box defenses are typically evaluated on isolated attack…
TraceGuard: Process-Guided Firewall against Reasoning Backdoors in Large Language Models
Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Hao Li +3
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduce a reasoning-level attack surface: adversaries can corrupt intermediate inferences while preserving a plausible trace and an apparently benig…
Generative AI in Depth: A Survey of Recent Advances, Model Variants, and Real-World Applications
Shamim Yazdani, Akansha Singh, Nripsuta Saxena +6
In recent years, deep learning based generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Diffusion Models (DMs), have been…
DarkMind: Latent Chain-of-Thought Backdoor in Customized LLMs
Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2
With the rapid rise of personalized AI, customized large language models (LLMs) equipped with Chain of Thought (COT) reasoning now power millions of AI agents. However, their compl…