10 papers
OverThink: Slowdown Attacks on Reasoning LLMs
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +4
Most flagship language models generate explicit reasoning chains, enabling inference-time scaling. However, producing these reasoning chains increases token usage (i.e., reasoning…
Identifying Models Behind Text-to-Image Leaderboards
Ali Naseh, Yuefeng Peng, Anshuman Suri +3
Text-to-image (T2I) models are increasingly popular, producing a large share of AI-generated images online. To compare model quality, voting-based leaderboards have become the stan…
Text-to-Image Models Leave Identifiable Signatures: Implications for Leaderboard Security
Ali Naseh, Anshuman Suri, Yuefeng Peng +3
Generative AI leaderboards are central to evaluating model capabilities, but remain vulnerable to manipulation. Among key adversarial objectives is rank manipulation, where an atta…
Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Yuefeng Peng, Ali Naseh, Amir Houmansadr
Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs). Although various defenses have been proposed, there is still s…
Throttling Web Agents Using Reasoning Gates
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +2
AI web agents use Internet resources at far greater speed, scale, and complexity -- changing how users and services interact. Deployed maliciously or erroneously, these agents coul…
Exploiting Leaderboards for Large-Scale Distribution of Malicious Models
Anshuman Suri, Harsh Chaudhari, Yuefeng Peng +3
While poisoning attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied, the mechanisms by which adversaries can distribute poisoned models at scale remain largely unexplo…