8 papers
Combating Knowledge Corruption in Agent Systems: A Byzantine-Tolerant Secure Collaborative RAG Framework
Zhaoqi Wang, Daqing He, Zijian Zhang +13
While retrieval-augmented generation systems partially address the hallucination issues in large language models, it also introduces new vulnerabilities to knowledge corruption att…
GPE: Evaluating Robust Evidence Aggregation for Fact Verification under Controllable GEO-Style Poisoning
Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Xiaomei Yuan +4
Large language models increasingly use search tools to retrieve up-to-date information, introducing a new attack surface in which retrieved documents can be manipulated. This risk…
ToE: A Hierarchical and Explainable Claim Verification Framework with Dynamic Multi-source Evidence Retrieval and Aggregation
Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Kun Zheng +4
The rapid spread of fake news poses increasing threats to information ecosystems, especially as AI-generated misinformation under Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning all…
ActiveFlowMark: Assessing Tor Anonymity under Active Bandwidth Watermarking
Zilve Fan, Zijian Zhang, Yangnan Guo +5
Low-latency anonymity networks such as Tor remain vulnerable to infrastructure-level traffic analysis that exploits side-channel information observable from encrypted communication…
EByFTVeS: Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant-based Verifiable Secret-sharing in Distributed Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
Zhen Li, Zijian Zhang, Wenjin Yang +5
Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) has been widespread in Distributed Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (DPML), because invalid shares from malicious dealers or participants can be…
Noise Reduction for Pufferfish Privacy: A Practical Noise Calibration Method
Wenjin Yang, Ni Ding, Zijian Zhang +8
This paper introduces a relaxed noise calibration method to enhance data utility while attaining pufferfish privacy. This work builds on the existing -Wasserstein (Kantorovich)…