8 papers
DPAgent-in-the-Middle: Agentic Defense and Repair Against AI-Groomed Deceptive Patterns
Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Haoyang Li +4
Privacy deceptive patterns in web interfaces systematically manipulate users into disclosing personal data, yet existing defenses are fragmented, static, and increasingly vulnerabl…
SoK: Unlearnability and Unlearning for Model Dememorization
Mengying Zhang, Derui Wang, Ruoxi Sun +3
Advanced model dememorization methods, including availability poisoning (unlearnability) and machine unlearning, are emerging as key safeguards against data misuse in machine learn…
Re-Key-Free, Risky-Free: Adaptable Model Usage Control
Zihan Wang, Zhongkui Ma, Xinguo Feng +6
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become valuable intellectual property of model owners, due to the substantial resources required for their development. To protect these assets in…
If you're waiting for a sign... that might not be it! Mitigating Trust Boundary Confusion from Visual Injections on Vision-Language Agentic Systems
Jiamin Chang, Minhui Xue, Ruoxi Sun +3
Recent advances in embodied Vision-Language Agentic Systems (VLAS), powered by large vision-language models (LVLMs), enable AI systems to perceive and reason over real-world scenes…
SoK: The Security-Safety Continuum of Multimodal Foundation Models through Information Flow and Global Game-Theoretic Analysis of Asymmetric Threats
Ruoxi Sun, Jiamin Chang, Hammond Pearce +5
Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) integrate diverse data modalities to support complex and wide-ranging tasks. However, this integration also introduces distinct safety and secur…
Keep the Lights On, Keep the Lengths in Check: Plug-In Adversarial Detection for Time-Series LLMs in Energy Forecasting
Hua Ma, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue +4
Accurate time-series forecasting is increasingly critical for planning and operations in low-carbon power systems. Emerging time-series large language models (TS-LLMs) now deliver…