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most citedThe Janus Interface: How Fine-Tuning in Large Language Models Amplifies the Privacy Risks

4 citations · 7 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2026

DP-SelFT: Differentially Private Selective Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Haichao Sha, Zihao Wang, Yuncheng Wu +2

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resul…

cs.CR2026

Rethinking Side-Channel Analysis: Automated Discovery and Analysis of Side-Channel Leakage with LLM-Assisted Agents

Zhen Xu, Zihao Wang, Yuhua Sun +1

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-…

cs.CR2026

Misrouter: Exploiting Routing Mechanisms for Input-Only Attacks on Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

Zekun Fei, Zihao Wang, Weijie Liu +4

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as a leading paradigm for scaling large language models through sparse, routing-based computation. However, this design introduc…

cs.CR2026

LocalAlign: Enabling Generalizable Prompt Injection Defense via Generation of Near-Target Adversarial Examples for Alignment Training

Yuyang Gong, Zihao Wang, Jiawei Liu +1

Large language models are increasingly embedded into systems that interact with user data, retrieved web content, and external tools, creating a new attack surface: prompt injectio…

cs.CR2026

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report

Kristopher W. Reese, Taylor Kulp-McDowall, Michael Majurski +68

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI T…

cs.CL2025

Hey, That's My Data! Token-Only Dataset Inference in Large Language Models

Chen Xiong, Zihao Wang, Rui Zhu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on massive training datasets, often including proprietary data, which raises concerns about unauthorized usage and copyright infringement. Existin…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

DPAdapter: Improving Differentially Private Deep Learning through Noise Tolerance Pre-training

Zihao Wang, Rui Zhu, Dongruo Zhou +4

Recent developments have underscored the critical role of \textit{differential privacy} (DP) in safeguarding individual data for training machine learning models. However, integrat…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

The Janus Interface: How Fine-Tuning in Large Language Models Amplifies the Privacy Risks

Xiaoyi Chen, Siyuan Tang, Rui Zhu +7

The rapid advancements of large language models (LLMs) have raised public concerns about the privacy leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) within their extensive tra…