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Ashish Hooda

6 accepted papers

2026

Through the Stealth Lens: Attention-Aware Defenses Against Poisoning in RAG

ICML 2026poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to attacks that inject poisoned passages into the retrieved context, even at low corruption rates. We show that existing attacks are not designed to be stealthy, allowing reliable detection and mitigation. We formalize a distinguishability-…

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2025

Functional Homotopy: Smoothing Discrete Optimization via Continuous Parameters for LLM Jailbreak Attacks

ICLR 2025poster

Optimization methods are widely employed in deep learning to address and mitigate undesired model responses. While gradient-based techniques have proven effective for image models, their application to language models is hindered by the discrete nature of the input space. This study introduces a nov…

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2025

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

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 to i…

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2024

Do Large Code Models Understand Programming Concepts? Counterfactual Analysis for Code Predicates

ICML 2024poster

Large Language Models' success in text generation has also made them better at code generation and coding tasks. While a lot of work has demonstrated their remarkable performance on tasks such as code completion and editing, it is still unclear as to why. We help bridge this gap by exploring to what…

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2024

PRP: Propagating Universal Perturbations to Attack Large Language Model Guard-Rails

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned to be harmless to humans. Unfortunately, recent work has shown that such models are susceptible to automated jailbreak attacks that induce them to generate harmful content. More recent LLMs often incorporate an additional layer of defense, a Guard M…

2021

Invisible Perturbations: Physical Adversarial Examples Exploiting the Rolling Shutter Effect

CVPR 2021poster

Physical adversarial examples for camera-based computer vision have so far been achieved through visible artifacts -- a sticker on a Stop sign, colorful borders around eyeglasses or a 3D printed object with a colorful texture. An implicit assumption here is that the perturbations must be visible so…

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