4 papers
SoK: Colluding Adversaries in Machine Learning Pipelines
Vasisht Duddu, Lipeng He, Asim Waheed +1
Machine learning (ML) models are susceptible to various security, privacy, and fairness risks. Adversaries with different characteristics (i.e., objectives, knowledge, and capabili…
Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Lipeng He, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan
Chatbot service providers (e.g., OpenAI) rely on tiered subscription plans to generate revenue, offering black-box access to basic models for free users and advanced models to payi…
Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities Even in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense
Jiawen Zhang, Kejia Chen, Lipeng He +7
Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities across various domains. Accompanying the evolving capabilities and expanding deployment scenarios of LLMs, their…
LookAhead: Preventing DeFi Attacks via Unveiling Adversarial Contracts
Shoupeng Ren, Lipeng He, Tianyu Tu +4
The exploitation of smart contract vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has resulted in financial losses exceeding 3 billion US dollars. Existing defense mechanisms prim…