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20242026
most citedOpen LLMs are Necessary for Current Private Adaptations and Outperform their Closed Alternatives

3 citations · 3 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2026

AgentProv: Auditing Agentic LLM API Providers via Tool-use Policy Probes

Xun Wang, Bihe Zhao, Michael Backes +2

Commercial LLM APIs advertise a specific foundation model, but the served backbone may be silently substituted, quantized, or wrapped, for example to save deployment costs. All exi…

cs.CV2026

MultiMem: Measuring and Mitigating Memorization in Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning

Wenhao Wang, Franziska Boenisch, Michael Backes +1

Memorization in machine learning models enables high performance on rare in-distribution samples by capturing their atypical patterns. However, it also causes harmful retention of…

cs.CL2026

SafeReview: Defending LLM-based Review Systems Against Adversarial Hidden Prompts

Yuan Xin, Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu +5

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into academic peer review, their vulnerability to adversarial hidden prompts, i.e., adversarial instructions embedded in…

cs.LG2025

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Soft Prompt Transfer for LLMs

Xun Wang, Jing Xu, Franziska Boenisch +3

Prompting has become a dominant paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs). While discrete (textual) prompts are widely used for their interpretability, soft (parameter) pr…

cs.CV2025

Captured by Captions: On Memorization and its Mitigation in CLIP Models

Wenhao Wang, Adam Dziedzic, Grace C. Kim +2

Multi-modal models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated strong performance in aligning visual and textual representations, excelling in tasks like image retrieval and zero-shot classif…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Open LLMs are Necessary for Current Private Adaptations and Outperform their Closed Alternatives

Vincent Hanke, Tom Blanchard, Franziska Boenisch +3

While open Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress, they still fall short of matching the performance of their closed, proprietary counterparts, making the latt…