4 papers
BitBypass: A New Direction in Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models with Bitstream Camouflage
Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena
The inherent risk of generating harmful and unsafe content by Large Language Models (LLMs), has highlighted the need for their safety alignment. Various techniques like supervised…
LiteLMGuard: Seamless and Lightweight On-Device Prompt Filtering for Safeguarding Small Language Models against Quantization-induced Risks and Vulnerabilities
Kalyan Nakka, Jimmy Dani, Ausmit Mondal +1
The growing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has influenced the development of Small Language Models (SLMs) for on-device deployment across smartphones and edge devices, of…
A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Assessing Cryptographic Indistinguishability of Lightweight Block Ciphers
Jimmy Dani, Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena
Indistinguishability is a fundamental principle of cryptographic security, crucial for securing data transmitted between Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This principle ensures th…
Is On-Device AI Broken and Exploitable? Assessing the Trust and Ethics in Small Language Models
Kalyan Nakka, Jimmy Dani, Nitesh Saxena
In this paper, we present a very first study to investigate trust and ethical implications of on-device artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on small language models (SLMs) amena…