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Juan Zhai

11 accepted papers

2026

From Chaos to Clarity: A Knowledge Graph-Driven Audit Dataset Generation Framework for LLM Unlearning

AAAI 2026technical

Recently LLMs have faced increasing demands to selectively remove specific information through Machine Unlearning. While evaluating unlearning effectiveness is crucial, existing benchmarks suffer from fundamental limitations in audit dataset generation from unstructured corpora. We identify two crit

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2026

PROMPTMINER: Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement Learning and VLM-Guided Optimization

CVPR 2026

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models such as Stable Diffusion and FLUX can synthesize realistic, high-quality images directly from textual prompts. The resulting image quality depends critically on well-crafted prompts that specify both subjects and stylistic modifiers, which have become valuable d

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

An Optimizable Suffix Is Worth A Thousand Templates: Efficient Black-box Jailbreaking without Affirmative Phrases via LLM as Optimizer

NAACL 2025findings

Despite prior safety alignment efforts, LLMs can still generate harmful and unethical content when subjected to jailbreaking attacks. Existing jailbreaking methods fall into two main categories: template-based and optimization-based methods. The former requires significant manual effort and domain k…

2025

Data-centric NLP Backdoor Defense from the Lens of Memorization

NAACL 2025findings

Backdoor attack is a severe threat to the trustworthiness of DNN-based language models. In this paper, we first extend the definition of memorization of language models from sample-wise to more fine-grained sentence element-wise (e.g., word, phrase, structure, and style), and then point out that lan…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

STAFF: Speculative Coreset Selection for Task-Specific Fine-tuning

ICLR 2025poster

Task-specific fine-tuning is essential for the deployment of large language models (LLMs), but it requires significant computational resources and time. Existing solutions have proposed coreset selection methods to improve data efficiency and reduce model training overhead, but they still have limit…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation

ACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel **provider bias** in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences…

2024

Towards General Robustness Verification of MaxPool-based Convolutional Neural Networks via Tightening Linear Approximation

CVPR 2024poster

The robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is vital to modern AI-driven systems. It can be quantified by formal verification by providing a certified lower bound within which any perturbation does not alter the original input's classification result. It is challenging due to nonlinear co…

2022

BppAttack: Stealthy and Efficient Trojan Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks via Image Quantization and Contrastive Adversarial Learning

CVPR 2022poster

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to Trojan attacks. Existing attacks use visible patterns (e.g., a patch or image transformations) as triggers, which are vulnerable to human inspection. In this paper, we propose stealthy and efficient Trojan attacks, BppAttack. Based on existing biology literatur…

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2022

Rethinking the Reverse-engineering of Trojan Triggers

NeurIPS 2022accept

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to Trojan (or backdoor) attacks. Reverse-engineering methods can reconstruct the trigger and thus identify affected models. Existing reverse-engineering methods only consider input space constraints, e.g., trigger size in the input space. Expressly, they assume th…

2022

Training with More Confidence: Mitigating Injected and Natural Backdoors During Training

NeurIPS 2022accept

The backdoor or Trojan attack is a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Researchers find that DNNs trained on benign data and settings can also learn backdoor behaviors, which is known as the natural backdoor. Existing works on anti-backdoor learning are based on weak observations that the…