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Haichang Gao

4 accepted papers

2026

Coupled Trigger Optimization and Vulnerable Parameter Alignment for Persistent Backdoor Attacks on Federated Learning

ICML 2026poster

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Yet sustaining backdoor effectiveness under repeated aggregation remains challenging. Existing methods often rely on heuristic trigger designs or indiscriminant parameter manipulation, leading to rapid decay or detectable anomalies. In this …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

GlitchMiner: Mining Glitch Tokens in Large Language Models via Gradient-based Discrete Optimization

AAAI 2026technical

Glitch tokens—inputs that trigger unpredictable or anomalous behavior in Large Language Models (LLMs)—pose significant challenges to model reliability and safety. Existing detection methods primarily rely on heuristic embedding patterns or statistical anomalies within internal representations, limit

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

HumorReject: Decoupling LLM Safety from Refusal Prefix via a Little Humor

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) commonly rely on explicit refusal prefixes for safety, making them vulnerable to prefix injection attacks. We introduce HumorReject, a novel data-driven approach that reimagines LLM safety by decoupling it from refusal prefixes through humor as an indirect refusal strate

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2025

The Dark Side of Function Calling: Pathways to Jailbreaking Large Language Models

COLING 2025main

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their power comes with significant security considerations. While extensive research has been conducted on the safety of LLMs in chat mode, the security implications of their function calling feature have been largely overlo…