Don't Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: How and Why Deep Learning for ARC

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus ARC-AGI presents a formidable challenge for AI systems. Despite the typically low performance on ARC, the deep learning paradigm remains the most effective known strategy for generating skillful state-of-the-art neural networks NN across varied modalities and...

Screen Hijack: Visual Poisoning of VLM Agents in Mobile Environments

With the growing integration of vision-language models VLMs, mobile agents are now widely used for tasks like UI automation and camera-based user assistance. These agents are often fine-tuned on limited user-generated datasets, leaving them vulnerable to covert threats during the training process...

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks

Website Fingerprinting WF is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website...

Private Training and Data Generation by Clustering Embeddings

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this process can raise privacy concerns, as large models have been shown to unintentionally memorize and reveal sensitive...

A Sea of Cyber Threats: Maritime Cybersecurity from the Perspective of Mariners

Maritime systems, including ships and ports, are critical components of global infrastructure, essential for transporting over 80% of the world's goods and supporting internet connectivity. However, these systems face growing cybersecurity threats, as shown by recent attacks disrupting Maersk, on...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: preventing a hang during link training failure Why When link training fails, the phy clock will be disabled. However, in “enablestreams”, it is assumed that link training was successful, and the mux selects the p...

DiffUMI: Training-Free Universal Model Inversion Via Unconditional Diffusion for Face Recognition

Face recognition technology presents serious privacy risks due to its reliance on sensitive and immutable biometric data. To address these concerns, such systems typically convert raw facial images into embeddings, which are traditionally viewed as privacy-preserving. However, model inversion...

Certified Unlearning for Neural Networks

We address the problem of machine unlearning, where the goal is to remove the influence of specific training data from a model upon request, motivated by privacy concerns and regulatory requirements such as the "right to be forgotten." Unfortunately, existing methods rely on restrictive assumptio...

Private Memorization Editing: Turning Memorization into a Defense to Strengthen Data Privacy in Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs memorize, and thus, among huge amounts of uncontrolled data, may memorize Personally Identifiable Information PII, which should not be stored and, consequently, not leaked. In this paper, we introduce Private Memorization Editing PME, an approach for preventing private...

IF-GUIDE: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs

We study how training data contributes to the emergence of toxic behaviors in large-language models. Most prior work on reducing model toxicity adopts $reactive$ approaches, such as fine-tuning pre-trained and potentially toxic models to align them with human values. In contrast, we propose a...

D2R: Dual Regularization Loss with Collaborative Adversarial Generation for Model Robustness

The robustness of Deep Neural Network models is crucial for defending models against adversarial attacks. Recent defense methods have employed collaborative learning frameworks to enhance model robustness. Two key limitations of existing methods are i insufficient guidance of the target model via...

Efficient RL-Based Cache Vulnerability Exploration by Penalizing Useless Agent Actions

Cache-timing attacks exploit microarchitectural characteristics to leak sensitive data, posing a severe threat to modern systems. Despite its severity, analyzing the vulnerability of a given cache structure against cache-timing attacks is challenging. To this end, a method based on Reinforcement...

A Comprehensive Survey in LLM(-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment

The remarkable success of Large Language Models LLMs has illuminated a promising pathway toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence for both academic and industrial communities, owing to their unprecedented performance across various applications. As LLMs continue to gain prominence in both...

Can In-Context Reinforcement Learning Recover from Reward Poisoning Attacks?

We study the corruption-robustness of in-context reinforcement learning ICRL, focusing on the Decision-Pretrained Transformer DPT, Lee et al., 2023. To address the challenge of reward poisoning attacks targeting the DPT, we propose a novel adversarial training framework, called Adversarially...

From Threat to Tool: Leveraging Refusal-Aware Injection Attacks for Safety Alignment

Safely aligning large language models LLMs often demands extensive human-labeled preference data, a process that's both costly and time-consuming. While synthetic data offers a promising alternative, current methods frequently rely on complex iterative prompting or auxiliary models. To address...

What Really Is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference Via Poisoning

Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often fail under the strict definition of membership based on exact matching, and have suggested relaxing this definition t...

Saffron-1: Towards an Inference Scaling Paradigm for LLM Safety Assurance

Existing safety assurance research has primarily focused on training-phase alignment to instill safe behaviors into LLMs. However, recent studies have exposed these methods' susceptibility to diverse jailbreak attacks. Concurrently, inference scaling has significantly advanced LLM reasoning...

Identifying and Understanding Cross-Class Features in Adversarial Training

Adversarial training AT has been considered one of the most effective methods for making deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks, while the training mechanisms and dynamics of AT remain open research problems. In this paper, we present a novel perspective on studying AT through th...

FERRET: Private Deep Learning Faster and Better Than DPSGD

We revisit 1-bit gradient compression through the lens of mutual-information differential privacy MI-DP. Building on signSGD, we propose FERRET--Fast and Effective Restricted Release for Ethical Training--which transmits at most one sign bit per parameter group with Bernoulli masking. Theory: We...

VLMs Can Aggregate Scattered Training Patches

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