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8 papers

cs.LG2026

DPrivBench: Benchmarking LLMs' Reasoning for Differential Privacy

Erchi Wang, Pengrun Huang, Eli Chien +4

Differential privacy (DP) has a wide range of applications for protecting data privacy, but designing and verifying DP algorithms requires expert-level reasoning, creating a high b…

cs.LG2026

Privacy Amplification in Differentially Private Zeroth-Order Optimization with Hidden States

Eli Chien, Wei-Ning Chen, Pan Li

Zeroth-order optimization has emerged as a promising approach for fine-tuning large language models under differential privacy (DP) and memory constraints. While privacy amplificat…

cs.CL2026

One Turn Too Late: Response-Aware Defense Against Hidden Malicious Intent in Multi-Turn Dialogue

Xinjie Shen, Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu +6

Hidden malicious intent in multi-turn dialogue poses a growing threat to deployed large language models (LLMs). Rather than exposing a harmful objective in a single prompt, increas…

cs.LG2026

Differentially Private Relational Learning with Entity-level Privacy Guarantees

Yinan Huang, Haoteng Yin, Eli Chien +2

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Priva…

cs.CR2025

The Trojan Knowledge: Bypassing Commercial LLM Guardrails via Harmless Prompt Weaving and Adaptive Tree Search

Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu, Xinjie Shen +7

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails to elicit harmful outputs. Existing approaches overwhelmingly operate within the p…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs Really Forget? Evaluating Unlearning with Knowledge Correlation and Confidence Awareness

Rongzhe Wei, Peizhi Niu, Hans Hao-Hsun Hsu +9

Machine unlearning techniques aim to mitigate unintended memorization in large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches predominantly focus on the explicit removal of i…