Towards Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes Via Tailored Small Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have showcased remarkable generalizability in language comprehension and hold significant potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction in smart homes. Existing LLM-based smart home assistants typically transmit user commands, along with user profiles and home...

Post-Processing in Local Differential Privacy: an Extensive Evaluation and Benchmark Platform

Local differential privacy LDP has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent perturbation added by LDP protocols reduces the utility of the collected data. To mitigate this issue, several post-processin...

BackFed: an Efficient and Standardized Benchmark Suite for Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries train their local models on poisoned data and submit poisoned model updates to compromise the global model. Despite numerous proposed attacks and defenses, divergent experimental settings, implementation errors, a...

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective

The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concerns. Dataset auditing techniques, which aim to...

Hijacking JARVIS: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents against Unprivileged Third Parties

Mobile GUI agents are designed to autonomously execute diverse device-control tasks by interpreting and interacting with mobile screens. Despite notable advancements, their resilience in real-world scenarios where screen content may be partially manipulated by untrustworthy third parties remains...

Evaluating the Evaluators: Trust in Adversarial Robustness Tests

Despite significant progress in designing powerful adversarial evasion attacks for robustness verification, the evaluation of these methods often remains inconsistent and unreliable. Many assessments rely on mismatched models, unverified implementations, and uneven computational budgets, which ca...

JsDeObsBench: Measuring and Benchmarking LLMs for JavaScript Deobfuscation

Deobfuscating JavaScript JS code poses a significant challenge in web security, particularly as obfuscation techniques are frequently used to conceal malicious activities within scripts. While Large Language Models LLMs have recently shown promise in automating the deobfuscation process,...

Pushing the Limits of Safety: a Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025

Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs have enabled transformative advancements across diverse applications but remain susceptible to safety threats, especially jailbreak attacks that induce harmful outputs. To systematically evaluate and improve their safety, we organized the Adversarial Testing...

UCD: Unlearning in LLMs Via Contrastive Decoding

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific information, e.g. sensitive or undesirable content, from large language models LLMs while preserving overall performance. We propose an inference-time unlearning algorithm that uses contrastive decoding, leveraging two auxiliary smaller models, one train...

InfoFlood: Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Information Overload

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, their potential to generate harmful responses has raised significant societal and regulatory concerns, especially when manipulated by adversarial techniques known as "jailbreak" attacks. Existing...

DinoCompanion: an Attachment-Theory Informed Multimodal Robot for Emotionally Responsive Child-AI Interaction

Children's emotional development fundamentally relies on secure attachment relationships, yet current AI companions lack the theoretical foundation to provide developmentally appropriate emotional support. We introduce DinoCompanion, the first attachment-theory-grounded multimodal robot for...

RAS-Eval: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Security Evaluation of LLM Agents in Real-World Environments

The rapid deployment of Large language model LLM agents in critical domains like healthcare and finance necessitates robust security frameworks. To address the absence of standardized evaluation benchmarks for these agents in dynamic environments, we introduce RAS-Eval, a comprehensive security...

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning

Large Reasoning Models LRMs have demonstrated promising performance in complex tasks. However, the resource-consuming reasoning processes may be exploited by attackers to maliciously occupy the resources of the servers, leading to a crash, like the DDoS attack in cyber. To this end, we propose a...

One-shot Face Sketch Synthesis in the Wild via Generative Diffusion Prior and Instruction Tuning

Face sketch synthesis is a technique aimed at converting face photos into sketches. Existing face sketch synthesis research mainly relies on training with numerous photo-sketch sample pairs from existing datasets. However, these large-scale discriminative learning methods will have to face proble...

Towards Effective Complementary Security Analysis Using Large Language Models

A key challenge in security analysis is the manual evaluation of potential security weaknesses generated by static application security testing SAST tools. Numerous false positives FPs in these reports reduce the effectiveness of security analysis. We propose using Large Language Models LLMs to...

SafeGenBench: a Benchmark Framework for Security Vulnerability Detection in LLM-Generated Code

The code generation capabilities of large language modelsLLMs have emerged as a critical dimension in evaluating their overall performance. However, prior research has largely overlooked the security risks inherent in the generated code. In this work, we introduce SafeGenBench, a benchmark...

Tech-ASan: Two-Stage Check for Address Sanitizer

Address Sanitizer ASan is a sharp weapon for detecting memory safety violations, including temporal and spatial errors hidden in C/C++ programs during execution. However, ASan incurs significant runtime overhead, which limits its efficiency in testing large software. The overhead mainly comes fro...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: golang-x-perf-0-0.28.20250326git02a15fd.fc42

This package holds the source for various tools related to performance measurement, storage, and analysis. - cmd/benchstat contains a command-line tool that computes and 7 compares statistics about benchmarks. - cmd/benchsave contains a command-line tool for publishing benchmark results. - storag...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: golang-x-perf-0-0.28.20250326git02a15fd.fc41

This package holds the source for various tools related to performance measurement, storage, and analysis. - cmd/benchstat contains a command-line tool that computes and 7 compares statistics about benchmarks. - cmd/benchsave contains a command-line tool for publishing benchmark results. - storag...

Uncovering Reliable Indicators: Improving IoC Extraction from Threat Reports

Indicators of Compromise IoCs are critical for threat detection and response, marking malicious activity across networks and systems. Yet, the effectiveness of automated IoC extraction systems is fundamentally limited by one key issue: the lack of high-quality ground truth. Current extraction too...