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20162026
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cs.CR2026

Trojan-Speak: Bypassing Constitutional Classifiers with No Jailbreak Tax via Adversarial Finetuning

Bilgehan Sel, Xuanli He, Alwin Peng +2

Fine-tuning APIs offered by major AI providers create new attack surfaces where adversaries can bypass safety measures through targeted fine-tuning. We introduce Trojan-Speak, an a…

cs.CR2025

Defending against Backdoor Attacks via Module Switching

Weijun Li, Ansh Arora, Xuanli He +2

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), allowing adversaries to implant triggers for hidden behaviors in inference. Defending against such vulnerabil…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Attacks on Third-Party APIs of Large Language Models

Wanru Zhao, Vidit Khazanchi, Haodi Xing +3

Large language model (LLM) services have recently begun offering a plugin ecosystem to interact with third-party API services. This innovation enhances the capabilities of LLMs, bu…

cs.CR2022

Extracted BERT Model Leaks More Information than You Think!

Xuanli He, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu +1

The collection and availability of big data, combined with advances in pre-trained models (e.g. BERT), have revolutionized the predictive performance of natural language processing…

cs.CR2022★ 19 cited

CATER: Intellectual Property Protection on Text Generation APIs via Conditional Watermarks

Xuanli He, Qiongkai Xu, Yi Zeng +4

Previous works have validated that text generation APIs can be stolen through imitation attacks, causing IP violations. In order to protect the IP of text generation APIs, a recent…

cs.CR2021

Protecting Intellectual Property of Language Generation APIs with Lexical Watermark

Xuanli He, Qiongkai Xu, Lingjuan Lyu +2

Nowadays, due to the breakthrough in natural language generation (NLG), including machine translation, document summarization, image captioning, etc NLG models have been encapsulat…

cs.CR2021★ 5 cited

Student Surpasses Teacher: Imitation Attack for Black-Box NLP APIs

Qiongkai Xu, Xuanli He, Lingjuan Lyu +2

Machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) has attracted millions of users to their splendid large-scale models. Although published as black-box APIs, the valuable models behind these s…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

Killing One Bird with Two Stones: Model Extraction and Attribute Inference Attacks against BERT-based APIs

Chen Chen, Xuanli He, Lingjuan Lyu +1

The collection and availability of big data, combined with advances in pre-trained models (e.g., BERT, XLNET, etc), have revolutionized the predictive performance of modern natural…