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Patrick McDaniel

7 accepted papers

2026

ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models via Meticulous Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models have shown impressive generative capabilities across diverse tasks, but their safety remains a critical concern. Existing post-training alignment methods, such as SFT and RLHF, reduce harmful outputs yet leave LLMs vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, especially advanced optimizati…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2026

Doxing via the Lens: Revealing Location-related Privacy Leakage on Multi-modal Large Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in multi-modal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have shown significant ability to interpret complex visual content. While these models possess impressive reasoning capabilities, they also introduce novel and underexplored privacy risks. In this paper, we identify a novel category of pr…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs

ICLR 2025spotlight

Jailbreak attacks serve as essential red-teaming tools, proactively assessing whether LLMs can behave responsibly and safely in adversarial environments. Despite diverse strategies (e.g., cipher, low-resource language, persuasions, and so on) that have been proposed and shown success, these strategi…

2025

Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?

ICLR 2025poster

The powerful capabilities of LLMs stem from their rich training data and high-quality labeled datasets, making the training of strong LLMs a resource-intensive process, which elevates the importance of IP protection for such LLMs. Compared to gathering high-quality labeled data, directly sampling ou…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

On the Robustness Tradeoff in Fine-Tuning

ICCV 2025poster

Fine-tuning has become the standard practice for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks. However, the impact on model robustness is not well understood. In this work, we characterize the robustness-accuracy trade-off in fine-tuning. We evaluate the robustness and accuracy of fine-tuned mode…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

BackdoorAlign: Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the general capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, these models still request fine-tuning or adaptation with customized data when meeting the specific business demands and intricacies of tailored use cases. However, this process inevitably introduces new safety threats, par…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2018

Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses

ICLR 2018poster

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted using fast single-step methods that maximize a linear approxi…

Cited by 3557SourcePDFScholar