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Kuofeng Gao

12 accepted papers

2025

Benchmarking Open-ended Audio Dialogue Understanding for Large Audio-Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs), such as GPT-4o, have recently unlocked audio dialogue capabilities, enabling direct spoken exchanges with humans. The potential of LALMs broadens their applicability across a wide range of practical scenarios supported by audio dialogues. However, given these adv…

2025

Grounding Language with Vision: A Conditional Mutual Information Calibrated Decoding Strategy for Reducing Hallucinations in LVLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations, where generated responses seem semantically plausible yet exhibit little or no relevance to the input image. Previous studies reveal that this issue primarily stems from LVLMs' over-reliance on language priors while disregarding…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Pre-training CLIP against Data Poisoning with Optimal Transport-based Matching and Alignment

EMNLP 2025

Recent studies have shown that Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models are threatened by targeted data poisoning and backdoor attacks due to massive training image-caption pairs crawled from the Internet. Previous defense methods correct poisoned image-caption pairs by matching a new c

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Protecting Your Video Content: Disrupting Automated Video-based LLM Annotations

CVPR 2025poster

Recently, video-based large language models (video-based LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various video comprehension tasks. However, this rapid advancement raises significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the unauthorized use of personal video data in automa…

2025

QueryAttack: Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models Using Structured Non-natural Query Language

ACL 2025finding

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in the field of natural language processing. Unfortunately, LLMs face significant security and ethical risks. Although techniques such as safety alignment are developed for defense, prior researches reveal the pos…

2025

VLMInferSlow: Evaluating the Efficiency Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models as a Service

ACL 2025long

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in real-world applications. While existing research primarily focuses on improving their accuracy, the efficiency remains underexplored. Given the real-time demands of many applications and the high inference overhead of VLMs, efficienc…

2025

Your Language Model Can Secretly Write Like Humans: Contrastive Paraphrase Attacks on LLM-Generated Text Detectors

EMNLP 2025

The misuse of large language models (LLMs), such as academic plagiarism, has driven the development of detectors to identify LLM-generated texts. To bypass these detectors, paraphrase attacks have emerged to purposely rewrite these texts to evade detection. Despite the success, existing methods requ

2024

BadCLIP: Trigger-Aware Prompt Learning for Backdoor Attacks on CLIP

CVPR 2024poster

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training known as CLIP has shown promising effectiveness in addressing downstream image recognition tasks. However recent works revealed that the CLIP model can be implanted with a downstream-oriented backdoor. On downstream tasks one victim model performs well on cle…

2024

Inducing High Energy-Latency of Large Vision-Language Models with Verbose Images

ICLR 2024poster

Large vision-language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4 have achieved exceptional performance across various multi-modal tasks. However, the deployment of VLMs necessitates substantial energy consumption and computational resources. Once attackers maliciously induce high energy consumption and latency tim…

2024

Not All Prompts Are Secure: A Switchable Backdoor Attack Against Pre-trained Vision Transfomers

CVPR 2024poster

Given the power of vision transformers a new learning paradigm pre-training and then prompting makes it more efficient and effective to address downstream visual recognition tasks. In this paper we identify a novel security threat towards such a paradigm from the perspective of backdoor attacks. Spe…

2023

Backdoor Defense via Adaptively Splitting Poisoned Dataset

CVPR 2023poster

Backdoor defenses have been studied to alleviate the threat of deep neural networks (DNNs) being backdoor attacked and thus maliciously altered. Since DNNs usually adopt some external training data from an untrusted third party, a robust backdoor defense strategy during the training stage is of impo…

2022

Hardly Perceptible Trojan Attack against Neural Networks with Bit Flips

ECCV 2022poster

"The security of deep neural networks (DNNs) has attracted increasing attention due to their widespread use in various applications. Recently, the deployed DNNs have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to Trojan attacks, which manipulate model parameters with bit flips to inject a hidden behavior and…