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most citedUnveiling the Unseen: Exploring Whitebox Membership Inference through the Lens of Explainability

2 citations · 5 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2026

MechAudit-40: White-Box Auditing across 40 LLM Attack Mechanisms

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2

While LLM attacks span prompt optimization, multi-turn context manipulation, retrieval poisoning, and model backdoors, white-box defenses are typically evaluated on isolated attack…

cs.CL2026

Lost in Diffusion: Uncovering Hallucination Patterns and Failure Modes in Diffusion Large Language Models

Zhengnan Guo, Fei Tan

While Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising non-autoregressive paradigm comparable to autoregressive (AR) models, their faithfulness, specifically reg…

cs.CR2026

TraceGuard: Process-Guided Firewall against Reasoning Backdoors in Large Language Models

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Hao Li +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduce a reasoning-level attack surface: adversaries can corrupt intermediate inferences while preserving a plausible trace and an apparently benig…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

DarkMind: Latent Chain-of-Thought Backdoor in Customized LLMs

Zhen Guo, Shanghao Shi, Shamim Yazdani +2

With the rapid rise of personalized AI, customized large language models (LLMs) equipped with Chain of Thought (COT) reasoning now power millions of AI agents. However, their compl…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Continual Learning

Zhen Guo, Abhinav Kumar, Reza Tourani

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to neural networks, enabling adversaries to manipulate model outputs on specific inputs, often with devastating consequences, especially…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Unveiling the Unseen: Exploring Whitebox Membership Inference through the Lens of Explainability

Chenxi Li, Abhinav Kumar, Zhen Guo +2

The increasing prominence of deep learning applications and reliance on personalized data underscore the urgent need to address privacy vulnerabilities, particularly Membership Inf…