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Machine learning models are increasingly used for software security tasks. These models are commonly trained and evaluated on large Internet-derived datasets, which often contain duplicated or highly similar samples. When such samples are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Farnaz Soltaniani , Mohammad Ghafari

Data contamination, i.e., the presence of test data from downstream tasks in the training data of large language models (LLMs), is a potential major issue in measuring LLMs' real effectiveness on other tasks. We propose a straightforward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shahriar Golchin , Mihai Surdeanu

E-commerce platforms increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) to detect illicit or misleading product content. However, these models remain vulnerable to evasive content, which refers to inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ancheng Xu , Zhihao Yang , Jingpeng Li , Guanghu Yuan , Longze Chen , Liang Yan , Jiehui Zhou , Zhen Qin , Hengyu Chang , Yukun Chen , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Min Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely utilized in software engineering (SE) tasks, such as code generation and automated program repair. However, their reliance on extensive and often undisclosed pre-training datasets raises significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xin Zhou , Martin Weyssow , Ratnadira Widyasari , Ting Zhang , Junda He , Yunbo Lyu , Jianming Chang , Beiqi Zhang , Dan Huang , David Lo

The training process of large language models (LLMs) often involves varying degrees of test data contamination. Although current LLMs are achieving increasingly better performance on various benchmarks, their performance in practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Qin Zhu , Qingyuan Cheng , Runyu Peng , Xiaonan Li , Tengxiao Liu , Ru Peng , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

How to evaluate large language models (LLMs) cleanly has been established as an important research era to genuinely report the performance of possibly contaminated LLMs. Yet, how to cleanly evaluate the visual language models (VLMs) is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hongyuan Lu , Shujie Miao , Wai Lam

Detecting packed executables is a critical component of large-scale malware analysis and antivirus engine workflows, as it identifies samples that warrant computationally intensive dynamic unpacking to reveal concealed malicious behavior.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shijia Li , Jiang Ming , Lanqing Liu , Longwei Yang , Ni Zhang , Chunfu Jia

We investigate the radioactivity of text generated by large language models (LLM), i.e. whether it is possible to detect that such synthetic input was used to train a subsequent LLM. Current methods like membership inference or active IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tom Sander , Pierre Fernandez , Alain Durmus , Matthijs Douze , Teddy Furon

Machine Learning (ML) models are susceptible to evasion attacks. Evasion accuracy is typically assessed using aggregate evasion rate, and it is an open question whether aggregate evasion rate enables feature-level diagnosis on the effect of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Abderrahmen Amich , Birhanu Eshete

Benchmark data contamination has become a central challenge in LLM evaluation: when evaluation examples appear in the training data of one or more audited models, reported performance can be inflated and cross-model comparisons become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhenlong Liu , Hao Zeng , Hongxin Wei

If LLM training data is polluted with benchmark test data, then benchmark performance gives biased estimates of out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Typical decontamination filters use n-gram matching which fail to detect semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ari Spiesberger , Juan J. Vazquez , Nicky Pochinkov , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Peli Grietzer , Gavin Leech , Nandi Schoots

Training AI models in cybersecurity with help of vast datasets offers significant opportunities to mimic real-world behaviors effectively. However, challenges like data drift and scarcity of labelled data lead to frequent updates of models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Saurabh Anand , Shubham Malaviya , Manish Shukla , Sachin Lodha

When deploying large language models (LLMs), it is important to ensure that these models are not only capable, but also reliable. Many benchmarks have been created to track LLMs' growing capabilities, however there has been no similar focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Joshua Vendrow , Edward Vendrow , Sara Beery , Aleksander Madry

Benchmark contamination has become a significant concern in the LLM evaluation community. Previous Agents-as-an-Evaluator address this issue by involving agents in the generation of questions. Despite their success, the biases in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Meilin Chen , Jian Tian , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Weijie Chen , Jiang Zhu

The capabilities of large language models have grown significantly in recent years and so too have concerns about their misuse. It is important to be able to distinguish machine-generated text from human-authored content. Prior works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Julien Piet , Chawin Sitawarin , Vivian Fang , Norman Mu , David Wagner

CDD, or Contamination Detection via output Distribution, identifies data contamination by measuring the peakedness of a model's sampled outputs. We study the conditions under which this approach succeeds and fails on small language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Omer Sela

Some consider large-scale language models that can generate long and coherent pieces of text as dangerous, since they may be used in misinformation campaigns. Here we formulate large-scale language model output detection as a hypothesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lav R. Varshney , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

In this paper, we consider contamination by code generation test sets, in particular in their use in modern large language models. We discuss three possible sources of such contamination and show findings supporting each of them: (i) direct…

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes exhibit dangerous unintended behaviors. Finding and fixing these is challenging because the attack surface is massive -- it is not tractable to exhaustively search for all possible inputs that may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Adriano Hernandez

Backdoor attacks, in which a model behaves maliciously when given an attacker-specified trigger, pose a major security risk for practitioners who depend on publicly released language models. As a countermeasure, backdoor detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jun Yan , Wenjie Jacky Mo , Xiang Ren , Robin Jia