4 papers
Patching LLM Like Software: A Lightweight Method for Improving Safety Policy in Large Language Models
Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Ching-Yun Ko +3
We propose patching for large language models (LLMs) like software versions, a lightweight and modular approach for addressing safety vulnerabilities. While vendors release improve…
DS FedProxGrad: Asymptotic Stationarity Without Noise Floor in Fair Federated Learning
Huzaifa Arif
Recent work \cite{arifgroup} introduced Federated Proximal Gradient \textbf{(\texttt{FedProxGrad})} for solving non-convex composite optimization problems in group fair federated l…
Forecasting Fails: Unveiling Evasion Attacks in Weather Prediction Models
Huzaifa Arif, Pin-Yu Chen, Alex Gittens +2
With the increasing reliance on AI models for weather forecasting, it is imperative to evaluate their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. This work introduces Weather Adapt…
PEEL the Layers and Find Yourself: Revisiting Inference-time Data Leakage for Residual Neural Networks
Huzaifa Arif, Keerthiram Murugesan, Payel Das +2
This paper explores inference-time data leakage risks of deep neural networks (NNs), where a curious and honest model service provider is interested in retrieving users' private da…