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Shangwei Guo

17 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

OneOcc: Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Legged Robots with a Single Panoramic Camera

CVPR 2026

Robust 3D semantic occupancy is essential for legged and humanoid robots, yet most Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) systems are built for wheeled platforms with forward-facing sensors. We present OneOcc, a vision-only panoramic SSC framework tailored to severe body jitter and 360deg continuity. OneOc

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2026

ShadeEdit: A Utility-Preserving and Defense-Evasive Knowledge Manipulation Attack in Federated LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Recent studies reveal that adversaries can manipulate the internal knowledge of large language models (LLMs) on selected topics through model editing, causing attacker-specified harmful or biased outputs when queried about the edited content. Once such tampered LLMs are distributed, they can mislead

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2025

BSemiFL: Semi-supervised Federated Learning via a Bayesian Approach

ICML 2025poster

Semi-supervised Federated Learning (SSFL) is a promising approach that allows clients to collaboratively train a global model in the absence of their local data labels. The key step of SSFL is the re-labeling where each client adopts two types of available models, namely global and local models, to…

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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

Beware of Road Markings: A New Adversarial Patch Attack to Monocular Depth Estimation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables the prediction of scene depths from a single RGB image, having been widely integrated into production-grade autonomous driving systems, e.g., Tesla Autopilot. Current adversarial attacks to MDE models focus on attaching an optimized adversarial patch to a des…

2024

You Only Query Once: An Efficient Label-Only Membership Inference Attack

ICLR 2024poster

As one of the privacy threats to machine learning models, the membership inference attack (MIA) tries to infer whether a given sample is in the original training set of a victim model by analyzing its outputs. Recent studies only use the predicted hard labels to achieve impressive membership inferen…

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2023

Extracting Robust Models with Uncertain Examples

ICLR 2023poster

Model extraction attacks are proven to be a severe privacy threat to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS). A variety of techniques have been designed to steal a remote machine learning model with high accuracy and fidelity. However, how to extract a robust model with similar resilience against adve…

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2023

Text Classification via Large Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

Despite the remarkable success of large-scale Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, their performances still significantly underperform fine-tuned models in the task of text classification.This is due to (1) the lack of reasoning ability in addressing complex linguistic phenomena (e.g., intensif…

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2023

What can Discriminator do? Towards Box-free Ownership Verification of Generative Adversarial Networks

ICCV 2023poster

In recent decades, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have achieved unprecedented success in image synthesis. However, well-trained GANs are under the threat of illegal steal or leakage. The prior studies on remote ownership verification assume a black-box setting where the defend…

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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
2022

NASPY: Automated Extraction of Automated Machine Learning Models

ICLR 2022spotlight

We present NASPY, an end-to-end adversarial framework to extract the networkarchitecture of deep learning models from Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Existing works about model extraction attacks mainly focus on conventional DNN models with very simple operations, or require heavy manual analysis…

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2022

Triggerless Backdoor Attack for NLP Tasks with Clean Labels

NAACL 2022long

Backdoor attacks pose a new threat to NLP models. A standard strategy to construct poisoned data in backdoor attacks is to insert triggers (e.g., rare words) into selected sentences and alter the original label to a target label. This strategy comes with a severe flaw of being easily detected from b…

2021

Fine-tuning Is Not Enough: A Simple yet Effective Watermark Removal Attack for DNN Models

IJCAI 2021poster

Watermarking has become the tendency in protecting the intellectual property of DNN models. Recent works, from the adversary's perspective, attempted to subvert watermarking mechanisms by designing watermark removal attacks. However, these attacks mainly adopted sophisticated fine-tuning techniques,…

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2021

Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning With Automatic Transformation Search

CVPR 2021poster

Collaborative learning has gained great popularity due to its benefit of data privacy protection: participants can jointly train a Deep Learning model without sharing their training sets. However, recent works discovered that an adversary can fully recover the sensitive training samples from the sha…

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