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Nils Palumbo

3 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-…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Validating Mechanistic Interpretations: An Axiomatic Approach

ICML 2025poster

Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse engineer the computation performed by a neural network in terms of its internal components. Although there is a growing body of research on mechanistic interpretation of neural networks, the notion of a *mechanistic interpretation* itself is often ad-hoc.…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Two Heads are Actually Better than One: Towards Better Adversarial Robustness via Transduction and Rejection

ICML 2024poster

Both transduction and rejection have emerged as important techniques for defending against adversarial perturbations. A recent work by Goldwasser et. al showed that rejection combined with transduction can give *provable* guarantees (for certain problems) that cannot be achieved otherwise. Neverthel…