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most citedLLM Self Defense: By Self Examination, LLMs Know They Are Being Tricked

33 citations · 47 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CV2026

ARMOR: Manifold-Oriented Training for Adversarially Robust Aerial Object Detection under Data Scarcity

Haoran Wang, Matthew Lau, Alec Helbling +7

Aerial object detection is increasingly deployed in real-world applications, but models remain vulnerable to physical, universal adversarial patches that cause them to miss objects…

cs.CV2026

ALLUDE: A Unified Evaluation System for Configurable Attacks in Differentiable Environments

Mansi Phute, Alexander Greenhalgh, Matthew Hull +8

Adversarial attacks against vision models like object detectors are often evaluated under limited conditions, leaving their performance under-characterized. Bridging simulation and…

cs.CL2026

Community-Specific Slang and Entity Detection via Semantic Shift in Fine-Tuned Language Models

Julia Kruk, Sanchita Porwal, Amitrajit Bhattacharjee +1

We propose an unsupervised method of resolving slang, unique entities, and folklore from online communities by isolating words in the lexicon that have the highest magnitude of sem…

cs.CR2025

UNDREAM: Bridging Differentiable Rendering and Photorealistic Simulation for End-to-end Adversarial Attacks

Mansi Phute, Matthew Hull, Haoran Wang +6

Deep learning models deployed in safety critical applications like autonomous driving use simulations to test their robustness against adversarial attacks in realistic conditions.…

cs.CV2025

VISOR++: Universal Visual Inputs based Steering for Large Vision Language Models

Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Mansi Phute

As Vision Language Models (VLMs) are deployed across safety-critical applications, understanding and controlling their behavioral patterns has become increasingly important. Existi…

cs.CV2025

ComplicitSplat: Downstream Models are Vulnerable to Blackbox Attacks by 3D Gaussian Splat Camouflages

Matthew Hull, Haoyang Yang, Pratham Mehta +8

As 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) gains rapid adoption in safety-critical tasks for efficient novel-view synthesis from static images, how might an adversary tamper images to cause h…

cs.CV2025

VISOR: Visual Input-based Steering for Output Redirection in Vision-Language Models

Mansi Phute, Ravikumar Balakrishnan

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being used in a broad range of applications, bringing their security and behavioral control to the forefront. While existing approach…

cs.SE2025

Interpretation Meets Safety: A Survey on Interpretation Methods and Tools for Improving LLM Safety

Seongmin Lee, Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim +3

As large language models (LLMs) see wider real-world use, understanding and mitigating their unsafe behaviors is critical. Interpretation techniques can reveal causes of unsafe out…

cs.CR2025

3D Gaussian Splat Vulnerabilities

Matthew Hull, Haoyang Yang, Pratham Mehta +8

With 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) being increasingly used in safety-critical applications, how can an adversary manipulate the scene to cause harm? We introduce CLOAK, the first at…

cs.CV2024

Semi-Truths: A Large-Scale Dataset of AI-Augmented Images for Evaluating Robustness of AI-Generated Image detectors

Anisha Pal, Julia Kruk, Mansi Phute +4

Text-to-image diffusion models have impactful applications in art, design, and entertainment, yet these technologies also pose significant risks by enabling the creation and dissem…

cs.LG2024

RenderBender: A Survey on Adversarial Attacks Using Differentiable Rendering

Matthew Hull, Haoran Wang, Matthew Lau +8

Differentiable rendering techniques like Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields have become powerful tools for generating high-fidelity models of 3D objects and scenes. Thei…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LLM Attributor: Interactive Visual Attribution for LLM Generation

Seongmin Lee, Zijie J. Wang, Aishwarya Chakravarthy +5

While large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capability to generate convincing text across diverse domains, concerns around its potential risks have highlighted the imp…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

Robust Principles: Architectural Design Principles for Adversarially Robust CNNs

ShengYun Peng, Weilin Xu, Cory Cornelius +6

Our research aims to unify existing works' diverging opinions on how architectural components affect the adversarial robustness of CNNs. To accomplish our goal, we synthesize a sui…

cs.CL2023★ 33 cited

LLM Self Defense: By Self Examination, LLMs Know They Are Being Tricked

Mansi Phute, Alec Helbling, Matthew Hull +4

Large language models (LLMs) are popular for high-quality text generation but can produce harmful content, even when aligned with human values through reinforcement learning. Adver…