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most citedA Closer Look at GAN Priors: Exploiting Intermediate Features for Enhanced Model Inversion Attacks

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cs.CR2026

From Bits to Beliefs: Recoverable Semantic Fingerprints for Black-Box Verification of Large Language Models

Jiaxin Hong, Yuxin Peng, Hongyao Yu +3

Open-weight large language models (LLMs) can be copied, modified, and redeployed behind black-box APIs, making post-release ownership verification difficult. Existing black-box fin…

cs.LG2026

Weak Ties, Strong Signals: Efficient Training Data Detection in Diffusion LLMs via Independent Token Sampling

Hongyao Yu, Tianqu Zhuang, Ziyuan Xu +4

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, yet they may expose sensitive training data during denoising. Detecting such usage…

cs.CR2026

MemVenom: Triggered Poisoning of Multimodal Memories in Web Agents

Yv Zhang, Hao Sun, Hao Fang +5

External memory has become a core component of modern web agents, enabling long-horizon reasoning through the retrieval of past experiences. However, this paradigm introduces a cri…

cs.CR2026

Bypassing Copyright Protection in Diffusion-based Customization via Two-Stage Latent Feature Optimization

Ziang Xu, Wenbo Yu, Hongyao Yu +6

With the growing concerns over copyright infringement in diffusion-based customization, adversarial attacks have emerged as a prominent defense strategy to prevent malicious conten…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning Matters: Mitigate Hallucination in Multimodal Large Reasoning Models via Reasoning-Conditioned Preference Optimization

Jiawei Kong, Hao Fang, Shunxiang Liao +5

Multimodal Large Reasoning Models introduce the reasoning paradigm, demonstrating strong capabilities on complex vision-language tasks. However, they still suffer from severe hallu…

cs.CV2026

Seeing Through the Chain: Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Reasoning Models

Hao Fang, Jinyu Li, Jiawei Kong +4

While multimodal reasoning models (MLRMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities, they remain prone to hallucinations, and effective solutions are still underexplored. In this pape…

cs.CV2026

Looking Back and Forth: Cross-Image Attention Calibration and Attentive Preference Learning for Multi-Image Hallucination Mitigation

Xiaochen Yang, Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong +3

Although large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, they are prone to hallucinations in multi-image tasks. We attribute this issue to limitatio…

cs.CL2026

Towards Distillation-Resistant Large Language Models: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

Hao Fang, Tianyi Zhang, Tianqu Zhuang +6

Proprietary large language models (LLMs) embody substantial economic value and are generally exposed only as black-box APIs, yet adversaries can still exploit their outputs to extr…

cs.CV2025

Closing the Safety Gap: Surgical Concept Erasure in Visual Autoregressive Models

Xinhao Zhong, Yimin Zhou, Zhiqi Zhang +6

The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has brought new opportunities for text-to-image generation, but also heightened safety concerns. Existing concept erasure t…

cs.CV2025

Revisiting the Privacy Risks of Split Inference: A GAN-Based Data Reconstruction Attack via Progressive Feature Optimization

Yixiang Qiu, Yanhan Liu, Hongyao Yu +4

The growing complexity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to the adoption of Split Inference (SI), a collaborative paradigm that partitions computation between edge devices and…

cs.CV2025

ICAS: Detecting Training Data from Autoregressive Image Generative Models

Hongyao Yu, Yixiang Qiu, Yiheng Yang +6

Autoregressive image generation has witnessed rapid advancements, with prominent models such as scale-wise visual auto-regression pushing the boundaries of visual synthesis. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

Grounding Language with Vision: A Conditional Mutual Information Calibrated Decoding Strategy for Reducing Hallucinations in LVLMs

Hao Fang, Changle Zhou, Jiawei Kong +3

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations, where generated responses seem semantically plausible yet exhibit little or no relevance to the input image.…

cs.CL2025

Revisiting Backdoor Attacks on LLMs: A Stealthy and Practical Poisoning Framework via Harmless Inputs

Jiawei Kong, Hao Fang, Xiaochen Yang +5

Recent studies have widely investigated backdoor attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) by inserting harmful question-answer (QA) pairs into their training data. However, we revis…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Your Language Model Can Secretly Write Like Humans: Contrastive Paraphrase Attacks on LLM-Generated Text Detectors

Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Tianqu Zhuang +6

The misuse of large language models (LLMs), such as academic plagiarism, has driven the development of detectors to identify LLM-generated texts. To bypass these detectors, paraphr…

cs.CV2025

GaussTrap: Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on 3D Gaussian Splatting for Targeted Scene Misperception

Jiaxin Hong, Sixu Chen, Shuoyang Sun +7

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for real-time scene representation and novel view synthesis, gaining traction in safety-critical applicatio…

cs.CV2025

Neural Antidote: Class-Wise Prompt Tuning for Purifying Backdoors in CLIP

Jiawei Kong, Hao Fang, Sihang Guo +5

While pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit impressive representational capabilities for multimodal data, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability…

cs.CV2025

Retrievals Can Be Detrimental: Unveiling the Backdoor Vulnerability of Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models

Hao Fang, Xiaohang Sui, Hongyao Yu +5

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable generation capability. However, their training generally requires huge computational resources and large-scale datasets…

cs.CR2024

Rank Matters: Understanding and Defending Model Inversion Attacks via Low-Rank Feature Filtering

Hongyao Yu, Yixiang Qiu, Hao Fang +6

Model Inversion Attacks (MIAs) pose a significant threat to data privacy by reconstructing sensitive training samples from the knowledge embedded in trained machine learning models…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

MIBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Benchmarking Model Inversion Attack and Defense

Yixiang Qiu, Hongyao Yu, Hao Fang +6

Model Inversion (MI) attacks aim at leveraging the output information of target models to reconstruct privacy-sensitive training data, raising critical concerns regarding the priva…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

A Closer Look at GAN Priors: Exploiting Intermediate Features for Enhanced Model Inversion Attacks

Yixiang Qiu, Hao Fang, Hongyao Yu +3

Model Inversion (MI) attacks aim to reconstruct privacy-sensitive training data from released models by utilizing output information, raising extensive concerns about the security…

cs.CV2024

CLIP-Guided Generative Networks for Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attacks

Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Bin Chen +3

Transferable targeted adversarial attacks aim to mislead models into outputting adversary-specified predictions in black-box scenarios. Recent studies have introduced \textit{singl…

cs.CV2024

One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Vision-Language Pre-training Models

Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Wenbo Yu +5

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models have exhibited unprecedented capability in many applications by taking full advantage of the multimodal alignment. However, previous studi…

cs.AI2024

GI-NAS: Boosting Gradient Inversion Attacks Through Adaptive Neural Architecture Search

Wenbo Yu, Hao Fang, Bin Chen +5

Gradient Inversion Attacks invert the transmitted gradients in Federated Learning (FL) systems to reconstruct the sensitive data of local clients and have raised considerable priva…