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most citedThe Good and The Bad: Exploring Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

6 citations · 28 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2026

Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Fails: A Graph Perspective

Kai Guo, Xinnan Dai, Zhibo Zhang +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful and widely used approach for improving large language models by grounding generation in retrieved evidence. However, RAG…

cs.LG2025

SoK: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models

Jie Ren, Yue Xing, Yingqian Cui +2

Large language model (LLM) unlearning has become a critical topic in machine learning, aiming to eliminate the influence of specific training data or knowledge without retraining t…

cs.CR2025

Keeping an Eye on LLM Unlearning: The Hidden Risk and Remedy

Jie Ren, Zhenwei Dai, Xianfeng Tang +9

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, growing concerns have emerged over the misuse of sensitive, copyrighte…

cs.CR2025

Beyond Text: Unveiling Privacy Vulnerabilities in Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiankun Zhang, Shenglai Zeng, Jie Ren +4

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) systems enhance LMMs by integrating external multimodal databases, but introduce unexplored privacy vulnerabilities. While text-bas…

cs.LG2025

A General Framework to Enhance Fine-tuning-based LLM Unlearning

Jie Ren, Zhenwei Dai, Xianfeng Tang +7

Unlearning has been proposed to remove copyrighted and privacy-sensitive data from Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing approaches primarily rely on fine-tuning-based methods, wh…

cs.LG2024

Self-Comparison for Dataset-Level Membership Inference in Large (Vision-)Language Models

Jie Ren, Kangrui Chen, Chen Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant advancements in a wide range of natural language processing and vision-language tasks. Access t…

cs.CV2024

Six-CD: Benchmarking Concept Removals for Benign Text-to-image Diffusion Models

Jie Ren, Kangrui Chen, Yingqian Cui +5

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating images that closely correspond to textual prompts. However, the advancement of T2I diffusion…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Mitigating the Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) via Pure Synthetic Data

Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He +7

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the outputs of language models by integrating relevant information retrieved from external knowledge sources. However, when the retrie…

cs.CV2024

Unveiling and Mitigating Memorization in Text-to-image Diffusion Models through Cross Attention

Jie Ren, Yaxin Li, Shenglai Zeng +4

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated their remarkable capability to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, increasing resear…

cs.CR2024★ 6 cited

The Good and The Bad: Exploring Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He +8

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a powerful technique to facilitate language model with proprietary and private data, where data privacy is a pivotal concern. Whereas extens…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Copyright Protection in Generative AI: A Technical Perspective

Jie Ren, Han Xu, Pengfei He +10

Generative AI has witnessed rapid advancement in recent years, expanding their capabilities to create synthesized content such as text, images, audio, and code. The high fidelity a…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Superiority of Multi-Head Attention in In-Context Linear Regression

Yingqian Cui, Jie Ren, Pengfei He +2

We present a theoretical analysis of the performance of transformer with softmax attention in in-context learning with linear regression tasks. While the existing literature predom…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

A Robust Semantics-based Watermark for Large Language Model against Paraphrasing

Jie Ren, Han Xu, Yiding Liu +4

Large language models (LLMs) have show great ability in various natural language tasks. However, there are concerns that LLMs are possible to be used improperly or even illegally.…

cs.CL2023

On the Generalization of Training-based ChatGPT Detection Methods

Han Xu, Jie Ren, Pengfei He +5

ChatGPT is one of the most popular language models which achieve amazing performance on various natural language tasks. Consequently, there is also an urgent need to detect the tex…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

Exploring Memorization in Fine-tuned Language Models

Shenglai Zeng, Yaxin Li, Jie Ren +7

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great capabilities in various tasks but also exhibited memorization of training data, raising tremendous privacy and copyright concerns. Whi…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Stealthy Backdoor Attack via Confidence-driven Sampling

Pengfei He, Yue Xing, Han Xu +6

Backdoor attacks aim to surreptitiously insert malicious triggers into DNN models, granting unauthorized control during testing scenarios. Existing methods lack robustness against…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

FT-Shield: A Watermark Against Unauthorized Fine-tuning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Yingqian Cui, Jie Ren, Yuping Lin +7

Text-to-image generative models, especially those based on latent diffusion models (LDMs), have demonstrated outstanding ability in generating high-quality and high-resolution imag…