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most citedSocial Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection

169 citations · 685 across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

cs.CR2026

Mitigating Private Data Leakage in LLMs with Whiteout

Anna Yoo Jeong Ha, Ronik Bhaskar, Haitao Zheng +1

Modern large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive, largely unfiltered datasets, including content scraped from nearly every accessible website and user inputs. As a result…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

On the Feasibility of Poisoning Text-to-Image AI Models via Adversarial Mislabeling

Stanley Wu, Ronik Bhaskar, Anna Yoo Jeong Ha +3

Today's text-to-image generative models are trained on millions of images sourced from the Internet, each paired with a detailed caption produced by Vision-Language Models (VLMs).…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Understanding Implosion in Text-to-Image Generative Models

Wenxin Ding, Cathy Y. Li, Shawn Shan +2

Recent works show that text-to-image generative models are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of poisoning attacks. Empirical results find that these models can be corrupted by a…

cs.CV2024

Disrupting Style Mimicry Attacks on Video Imagery

Josephine Passananti, Stanley Wu, Shawn Shan +2

Generative AI models are often used to perform mimicry attacks, where a pretrained model is fine-tuned on a small sample of images to learn to mimic a specific artist of interest.…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Inception Attacks: Immersive Hijacking in Virtual Reality Systems

Zhuolin Yang, Cathy Yuanchen Li, Arman Bhalla +2

Today's virtual reality (VR) systems provide immersive interactions that seamlessly connect users with online services and one another. However, these immersive interfaces also int…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

Organic or Diffused: Can We Distinguish Human Art from AI-generated Images?

Anna Yoo Jeong Ha, Josephine Passananti, Ronik Bhaskar +4

The advent of generative AI images has completely disrupted the art world. Distinguishing AI generated images from human art is a challenging problem whose impact is growing over t…

cs.LG2024

Towards Scalable and Robust Model Versioning

Wenxin Ding, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Ben Y. Zhao +1

As the deployment of deep learning models continues to expand across industries, the threat of malicious incursions aimed at gaining access to these deployed models is on the rise.…

cs.CR2023

A Response to Glaze Purification via IMPRESS

Shawn Shan, Stanley Wu, Haitao Zheng +1

Recent work proposed a new mechanism to remove protective perturbation added by Glaze in order to again enable mimicry of art styles from images protected by Glaze. Despite promisi…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Can Virtual Reality Protect Users from Keystroke Inference Attacks?

Zhuolin Yang, Zain Sarwar, Iris Hwang +3

Virtual Reality (VR) has gained popularity by providing immersive and interactive experiences without geographical limitations. It also provides a sense of personal privacy through…

cs.CR2023★ 13 cited

Nightshade: Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models

Shawn Shan, Wenxin Ding, Josephine Passananti +3

Data poisoning attacks manipulate training data to introduce unexpected behaviors into machine learning models at training time. For text-to-image generative models with massive tr…

cs.LG2023

Characterizing the Optimal 0-1 Loss for Multi-class Classification with a Test-time Attacker

Sihui Dai, Wenxin Ding, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji +4

Finding classifiers robust to adversarial examples is critical for their safe deployment. Determining the robustness of the best possible classifier under a given threat model for…

cs.CR2023★ 43 cited

Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

Shawn Shan, Jenna Cryan, Emily Wenger +3

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community. In particular, models can learn to mim…

cs.CV2022

Natural Backdoor Datasets

Emily Wenger, Roma Bhattacharjee, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji +4

Extensive literature on backdoor poison attacks has studied attacks and defenses for backdoors using "digital trigger patterns." In contrast, "physical backdoors" use physical obje…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Understanding Robust Learning through the Lens of Representation Similarities

Christian Cianfarani, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Vikash Sehwag +3

Representation learning, i.e. the generation of representations useful for downstream applications, is a task of fundamental importance that underlies much of the success of deep n…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

On the Permanence of Backdoors in Evolving Models

Huiying Li, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Yuxin Chen +2

Existing research on training-time attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), such as backdoors, largely assume that models are static once trained, and hidden backdoors trained into…

cs.CR2022★ 11 cited

Post-breach Recovery: Protection against White-box Adversarial Examples for Leaked DNN Models

Shawn Shan, Wenxin Ding, Emily Wenger +2

Server breaches are an unfortunate reality on today's Internet. In the context of deep neural network (DNN) models, they are particularly harmful, because a leaked model gives an a…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Assessing Privacy Risks from Feature Vector Reconstruction Attacks

Emily Wenger, Francesca Falzon, Josephine Passananti +2

In deep neural networks for facial recognition, feature vectors are numerical representations that capture the unique features of a given face. While it is known that a version of…

cs.CR2021

SoK: Anti-Facial Recognition Technology

Emily Wenger, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng +1

The rapid adoption of facial recognition (FR) technology by both government and commercial entities in recent years has raised concerns about civil liberties and privacy. In respon…

cs.CR2021★ 11 cited

Poison Forensics: Traceback of Data Poisoning Attacks in Neural Networks

Shawn Shan, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Haitao Zheng +1

In adversarial machine learning, new defenses against attacks on deep learning systems are routinely broken soon after their release by more powerful attacks. In this context, fore…

cs.CR2021★ 38 cited

"Hello, It's Me": Deep Learning-based Speech Synthesis Attacks in the Real World

Emily Wenger, Max Bronckers, Christian Cianfarani +4

Advances in deep learning have introduced a new wave of voice synthesis tools, capable of producing audio that sounds as if spoken by a target speaker. If successful, such tools in…

cs.PF2021★ 11 cited

Towards Performance Clarity of Edge Video Analytics

Zhujun Xiao, Zhengxu Xia, Haitao Zheng +2

Edge video analytics is becoming the solution to many safety and management tasks. Its wide deployment, however, must first address the tension between inference accuracy and resou…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Understanding the Effect of Bias in Deep Anomaly Detection

Ziyu Ye, Yuxin Chen, Haitao Zheng

Anomaly detection presents a unique challenge in machine learning, due to the scarcity of labeled anomaly data. Recent work attempts to mitigate such problems by augmenting trainin…

cs.CR2021★ 16 cited

A Real-time Defense against Website Fingerprinting Attacks

Shawn Shan, Arjun Nitin Bhagoji, Haitao Zheng +1

Anonymity systems like Tor are vulnerable to Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks, where a local passive eavesdropper infers the victim's activity. Current WF attacks based on deep…

cs.CV2020

Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Learning Systems in the Physical World

Emily Wenger, Josephine Passananti, Arjun Bhagoji +3

Backdoor attacks embed hidden malicious behaviors into deep learning models, which only activate and cause misclassifications on model inputs containing a specific trigger. Existin…