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Kangjie Chen

16 accepted papers

2026

Dissecting the Safety Circuit: Neuronal Intervention for Transferable Adversarial Attacks on VLMs

ICML 2026poster

The limited transferability of adversarial attacks on Vision-Language Models (VLMs) stems from their failure to navigate model-specific safety alignments, where superficial perturbations exploit surrogate-specific artifacts rather than shared safety-critical features. We reveal through linear probin…

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2026

TEAR: Temporal-aware Automated Red-teaming for Text-to-Video Models

CVPR 2026

Text-to-Video (T2V) models are capable of synthesizing high-quality, temporally coherent dynamic video content, but the diverse generation also inherently introduces critical safety challenges. Existing safety evaluation methods, which focus on static image and text generation, are insufficient to c

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2026

Unmasking Backdoors: An Explainable Defense via Gradient-Attention Anomaly Scoring for Pre-trained Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, particularly when fine-tuned on large, domain-relevant datasets. However, they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries embed malicious behaviors using trigger…

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2026

When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been augmented with web search to overcome the limitations of the static knowledge boundary by accessing up-to-date information from the open Internet. While this integration enhances model capability, it also introduces a distinct safety threat surface: the retriev…

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2025

Analogy-based Multi-Turn Jailbreak against Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) are inherently designed to support multi-turn interactions, which opens up new possibilities for jailbreak attacks that unfold gradually and potentially bypass safety mechanisms more effectively than single-turn attacks. However, current multi-turn jailbreak methods are…

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2025

Automated Red Teaming for Text-to-Image Models through Feedback-Guided Prompt Iteration with Vision-Language Models

ICCV 2025poster

Text-to-image models have achieved remarkable progress in generating high-quality images from textual prompts, yet their potential for misuse like generating unsafe content remains a critical concern. Existing safety mechanisms, such as filtering and fine-tuning, remain insufficient in preventing vu…

2025

HRAvatar: High-Quality and Relightable Gaussian Head Avatar

CVPR 2025poster

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and facial movements, makes this challenging. Previous methods ach…

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2025

Quantifying and Alleviating Co-Adaptation in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting

NeurIPS 2025poster

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in novel view synthesis under dense-view settings. However, in sparse-view scenarios, despite the realistic renderings in training views, 3DGS occasionally manifests appearance artifacts in novel views. This paper investigates the…

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2025

TRUST-VLM: Thorough Red-Teaming for Uncovering Safety Threats in Vision-Language Models

ICML 2025poster

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have become a cornerstone in multi-modal artificial intelligence, enabling seamless integration of visual and textual information for tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval. Despite their impressive capabilities, these model…

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2025

Transstratal Adversarial Attack: Compromising Multi-Layered Defenses in Text-to-Image Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Modern Text-to-Image (T2I) models deploy multi-layered defenses to block Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content generation. These defenses typically include sequential layers such as prompt filters, concept erasers and image filters. While existing adversarial attacks have demonstrated vulnerabilities in…

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2024

ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large-scale pre-trained generative models are taking the world by storm, due to their abilities in generating creative content. Meanwhile, safeguards for these generative models are developed, to protect users' rights and safety, most of which are designed for large language models. Existing methods…

2024

BadEdit: Backdooring Large Language Models by Model Editing

ICLR 2024poster

Mainstream backdoor attack methods typically demand substantial tuning data for poisoning, limiting their practicality and potentially degrading the overall performance when applied to Large Language Models (LLMs). To address these issues, for the first time, we formulate backdoor injection as a lig…

2023

Clean-image Backdoor: Attacking Multi-label Models with Poisoned Labels Only

ICLR 2023top-5%

Multi-label models have been widely used in various applications including image annotation and object detection. The fly in the ointment is its inherent vulnerability to backdoor attacks due to the adoption of deep learning techniques. However, all existing backdoor attacks exclusively require to m…

Cited by 47SourcePDFScholar
2023

GuardHFL: Privacy Guardian for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

ICML 2023poster

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) enables clients with different computation and communication capabilities to collaboratively train their own customized models via a query-response paradigm on auxiliary datasets. However, such a paradigm raises serious privacy concerns due to the leakage of hi…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

Multi-target Backdoor Attacks for Code Pre-trained Models

ACL 2023long

Backdoor attacks for neural code models have gained considerable attention due to the advancement of code intelligence. However, most existing works insert triggers into task-specific data for code-related downstream tasks, thereby limiting the scope of attacks. Moreover, the majority of attacks for…

2022

BadPre: Task-agnostic Backdoor Attacks to Pre-trained NLP Foundation Models

ICLR 2022poster

Pre-trained Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, which can be adapted to a variety of downstream language tasks via fine-tuning, highly accelerate the learning progress of NLP models. However, NLP models have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Previous NLP backdoor attacks mainly…

Cited by 125SourcePDFScholar