25 accepted papers
Personalized AI applications such as DreamBooth enable the generation of customized content from user images, but also raise significant privacy concerns, particularly the risk of facial identity leakage. Recent defense mechanisms like Anti-DreamBooth attempt to mitigate this risk by injecting adver
The integration of vision and language in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), while enabling multimodal capabilities, inherently expands their attack surface. Among existing white-box jailbreak methods, suffix-optimization-based approaches often rely on gradient approximations over discrete token spaces,
Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks. Recent studies have shown that model compression, such as quantization and pruning, can be exploited by attackers to implant conditional backdoors. Such backdoors remain dormant in the original model but are activated after the mode
Foundation models, such as Diffusion Models (DMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), are now widely integrated into digital systems. This widespread use introduces a specific security risk: generative backdoors. Unlike traditional models where backdoors cause simple classification errors, generative …
Camera-based Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception models receive increasing attention for their crucial role in autonomous driving, a domain where concerns about the robustness and reliability of deep learning have been raised. While only a few works have investigated the effects of randomly generated s…
Deep learning (DL) has shown transformative potential across industries, yet its sensitivity to adversarial examples (AEs) limits its reliability and broader deployment. Research on DL robustness has developed various techniques, with adversarial training (AT) established as a leading approach to co…
Large language models have been widely applied, but can inadvertently encode sensitive or harmful information, raising significant safety concerns. Machine unlearning has emerged to alleviate this concern; however, existing training-time unlearning approaches, relying on coarse-grained loss combinat…
Adversarial training is extensively utilized to improve the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. Yet mitigating the degradation of standard generalization performance in adversarial-trained models remains an open problem. This paper attempts to resolve this issue through the lens of model…
Language models are vulnerable to clandestinely modified data and manipulation by attackers. Despite considerable research dedicated to enhancing robustness against adversarial attacks, the realm of provable robustness for backdoor attacks remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we initiate a…
Robustness measurements on deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained significant attention, especially in safety-critical applications. Numerous studies have been devoted to assessing the robustness of classifiers by averaging local robustness over a fixed set of data samples, such as a test set. Howe…
Deep learning models, despite their remarkable success in various tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Although robust learning techniques that consider adversarial risks against worst-case perturbations can effectively increase a model's robustness, they may not alw…
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become more integrated into our daily lives, it is crucial to identify and mitigate their risks, especially when the risks can have profound impacts on human users and societies. Guardrails, which filter the inputs or outputs of LLMs, have emerged as a core safeguardi…
"Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) excel at creating high-quality images from text descriptions but, like many deep learning models, suffer from robustness issues. While there are attempts to evaluate the robustness of T2I DMs as a binary or worst-case problem, they cannot answer how robust…
While Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning (GCRL) has gained attention, its algorithmic robustness against adversarial perturbations remains unexplored. The attacks and robust representation training methods that are designed for traditional RL become less effective when applied to GCRL. To addre…
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in safety-critical areas, but it can be weakened by adversarial attacks. Recent studies have introduced ``smoothed policies" to enhance its robustness. Yet, it is still challenging to establish a provable guarantee to certify the bound of i…
Adversarial robustness and privacy of deep learning (DL) models are two widely studied topics in AI security. Adversarial training (AT) is an effective approach to improve the robustness of DL models against adversarial attacks. However, while models with AT demonstrate enhanced robustness, they be…
The implicit bias of gradient descent has long been considered the primary mechanism explaining the superior generalization of over-parameterized neural networks without overfitting, even when the training error is zero. However, the implicit bias toward adversarial robustness has rarely been consid…
Although adversarial training (AT) has proven effective in enhancing the model's robustness the recently revealed issue of fairness in robustness has not been well addressed i.e. the robust accuracy varies significantly among different categories. In this paper instead of uniformly evaluating the mo…
Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-MARL) is widely applied in safety-critical scenarios, thus the analysis of robustness for c-MARL models is profoundly important. However, robustness certification for c-MARLs has not yet been explored in the community. In this paper, we propose a nov…
Inspired by the recent success of sequence modeling in RL and the use of masked language model for pre-training, we propose a masked model for pre-training in RL, RePreM (Representation Pre-training with Masked Model), which trains the encoder combined with transformer blocks to predict the masked…
Neural network controllers (NNCs) have shown great promise in autonomous and cyber-physical systems. Despite the various verification approaches for neural networks, the safety analysis of NNCs remains an open problem. Existing verification approaches for neural network control systems (NNCSs) eithe…
The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to input perturbations has posed a significant challenge. Recent work on robustness verification of DNNs not only lacks scalability but also requires severe restrictions on the architecture (layers, activation functions, etc.). To address these limita…
When textual classifiers are deployed in safety-critical workflows, they must withstand the onslaught of AI-enabled model confusion caused by adversarial examples with minor alterations. In this paper, the main objective is to provide a formal verification framework, called TextVerifier, with certif…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial geometric transformation. This paper aims to verify the robustness of large-scale DNNs against the combination of multiple geometric transformations with a provable guarantee. Given a set of transformations (e.g., rotation, scali…
Anticipating a human collaborator's intention enables safe and efficient interaction between a human and an autonomous system. Specifically, in the context of semiautonomous driving, studies have revealed that correct and timely prediction of the driver's intention needs to be an essential part of A…