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Zi Liang

13 accepted papers

2026

Acoustic Interference: A New Paradigm Weaponizing Acoustic Latent Semantic for Universal Jailbreak against Large Audio Language Models

ICML 2026poster

The integration of audio modality into Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) significantly expands their attack surface. Existing jailbreak paradigms predominantly treat audio as a carrier for malicious payloads, relying on semantic optimization, acoustic parameter control, or additive perturbation to…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

Class-feature Watermark: A Resilient Black-box Watermark Against Model Extraction Attacks

AAAI 2026technical

Machine learning models constitute valuable intellectual property, yet remain vulnerable to model extraction attacks (MEA), where adversaries replicate their functionality through black-box queries. Model watermarking counters MEAs by embedding forensic markers for ownership verification. Current bl

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

How Much Do Large Language Model Cheat on Evaluation? Benchmarking Overestimation Under the One-Time-Pad-Based Framework

AAAI 2026technical

Overestimation in evaluating large language models (LLMs) has become an increasing concern. Due to the contamination of public benchmarks or imbalanced model training, LLMs may achieve unreal evaluation results on public benchmarks, either intentionally or unintentionally, which leads to unfair comp

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

The Matthew Effect of AI Programming Assistants: A Hidden Bias in Software Evolution

ICLR 2026poster

AI-assisted programming is rapidly reshaping software development, with large language models (LLMs) enabling new paradigms such as vibe coding and agentic coding. While prior works have focused on prompt design and code generation quality, the broader impact of LLM-driven development on the iterati…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Cross-Modal 3D Representation with Multi-View Images and Point Clouds

CVPR 2025poster

The advancement of 3D understanding and representation is a crucial step for the next phase of autonomous driving, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, 3D gaming and 3D e-commerce products. However, existing 3D semantic representation research has primarily focused on point clouds to perceive 3D…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Does Low Rank Adaptation Lead to Lower Robustness against Training-Time Attacks?

ICML 2025poster

Low rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a prominent technique for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) thanks to its superb efficiency gains over previous methods. While extensive studies have examined the performance and structural properties of LoRA, its behavior upon training-time attacks r…

2025

Exploring Intrinsic Alignments Within Text Corpus

AAAI 2025technical

Recent years have witnessed rapid advancements in the safety alignments of large language models (LLMs). Methods such as supervised instruction fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) have thus emerged as vital components in constructing LLMs. While these methods achi…

2025

Reminiscence Attack on Residuals: Exploiting Approximate Machine Unlearning for Privacy

ICCV 2025poster

Machine unlearning enables the removal of specific data from ML models to uphold the *right to be forgotten*. While approximate unlearning algorithms offer efficient alternatives to full retraining, this work reveals that they fail to adequately protect the privacy of unlearned data. In particular,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Toward Efficient Inference Attacks: Shadow Model Sharing via Mixture-of-Experts

NeurIPS 2025poster

Machine learning models are often vulnerable to inference attacks that expose sensitive information from their training data. Shadow model technique is commonly employed in such attacks, like membership inference. However, the need for a large number of shadow models leads to high computational cost…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread "VIA" Synthetic Data

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Synthetic data refers to artificial samples generated by models. While it has been validated to significantly enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) during training and has been widely adopted in LLM development, potential security risks it may introduce remain uninvestigated. This…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

“Yes, My LoRD.” Guiding Language Model Extraction with Locality Reinforced Distillation

ACL 2025long

Model extraction attacks (MEAs) on large language models (LLMs) have received increasing attention in recent research. However, existing attack methods typically adapt the extraction strategies originally developed for deep neural networks (DNNs). They neglect the underlying inconsistency between th…

2024

MERGE: Fast Private Text Generation

AAAI 2024technical

The drastic increase in language models' parameters has led to a new trend of deploying models in cloud servers, raising growing concerns about private inference for Transformer-based models. Existing two-party privacy-preserving techniques, however, only take into account natural language understan…

2023

Multi-Action Dialog Policy Learning from Logged User Feedback

AAAI 2023technical

Multi-action dialog policy (MADP), which generates multiple atomic dialog actions per turn, has been widely applied in task-oriented dialog systems to provide expressive and efficient system responses. Existing MADP models usually imitate action combinations from the labeled multi-action dialog samp…