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Recent advancement in large language models (LLMs) has offered a strong potential for natural language systems to process informal language. A representative form of informal language is slang, used commonly in daily conversations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zhewei Sun , Qian Hu , Rahul Gupta , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by OpenAI's ChatGPT, brings to the forefront the imperative to defend against adversarial threats on these models. These attacks, which manipulate an LLM's output by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Amelia Kawasaki , Andrew Davis , Houssam Abbas

Building self-improving AI systems remains a fundamental challenge in the AI domain. We present NNGPT, an open-source framework that turns a large language model (LLM) into a self-improving AutoML engine for neural network development,…

The growing deployment of large language model (LLM) based agents that interact with external environments has created new attack surfaces for adversarial manipulation. One major threat is indirect prompt injection, where attackers embed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hwan Chang , Yonghyun Jun , Hwanhee Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and natural language processing (NLP) systems have developed rapidly and have been widely used in various real-world fields. However, they have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Specifically, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jiali Wei , Ming Fan , Wenjing Jiao , Wuxia Jin , Ting Liu

As Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) become increasingly integrated into voice-based applications, ensuring their robustness against manipulative or adversarial input becomes critical. Although prior work has studied adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jinyang Wu , Bin Zhu , Xiandong Zou , Qiquan Zhang , Xu Fang , Pan Zhou

Computer security has been plagued by increasing formidable, dynamic, hard-to-detect, hard-to-predict, and hard-to-characterize hacking techniques. Such techniques are very often deployed in self-propagating worms capable of automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Valentino Crespi , Wes Hardaker , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Aram Galstyan

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

Language Models (LMs) often cannot be deployed because of their potential to harm users in hard-to-predict ways. Prior work identifies harmful behaviors before deployment by using human annotators to hand-write test cases. However, human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ethan Perez , Saffron Huang , Francis Song , Trevor Cai , Roman Ring , John Aslanides , Amelia Glaese , Nat McAleese , Geoffrey Irving

Generative models have become adept at producing artifacts such as images, videos, and prose at human-like levels of proficiency. New generative techniques, such as unsupervised neural machine translation (NMT), have recently been applied…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Justin D. Weisz , Michael Muller , Stephanie Houde , John Richards , Steven I. Ross , Fernando Martinez , Mayank Agarwal , Kartik Talamadupula

Natural Language Generation tools, such as chatbots that can generate human-like conversational text, are becoming more common both for personal and professional use. However, there are concerns about their trustworthiness and ethical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Andrea Sanagustín Cabrero

In recent years, large language models have been responsible for great advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT in particular, an AI chatbot developed and recently released by OpenAI, has taken the field to the next…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Raphaël Khoury , Anderson R. Avila , Jacob Brunelle , Baba Mamadou Camara

Recently, there has been a surge in interest in NLP driven by ChatGPT. ChatGPT, a transformer-based generative language model of substantial scale, exhibits versatility in performing various tasks based on natural language. Nevertheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Xiaocheng Yang , Yik-Cheung Tam

PowerShell is a powerful and versatile task automation tool. Unfortunately, it is also widely abused by cyber attackers. To bypass malware detection and hinder threat analysis, attackers often employ diverse techniques to obfuscate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ruijie Li , Chenyang Zhang , Huajun Chai , Lingyun Ying , Haixin Duan , Jun Tao

Organizations often lay down rules or guidelines called Natural Language Access Control Policies (NLACPs) for specifying who gets access to which information and when. However, these cannot be directly used in a target access control model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Pratik Sonune , Ritwik Rai , Shamik Sural , Vijayalakshmi Atluri , Ashish Kundu

Large language models (LLMs) providing generative AI have become popular to support software engineers in creating, summarizing, optimizing, and documenting source code. It is still unknown how LLMs can support control engineers using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Heiko Koziolek , Sten Gruener , Virendra Ashiwal

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies evolve, they offer unprecedented potential to automate and enhance various tasks, including coding. Natural Language-Oriented Programming (NLOP), a vision introduced in this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Amin Beheshti

Motivated by the difficulty in presenting computational results, especially when the results are a collection of atoms in a logical language, to users, who are not proficient in computer programming and/or the logical representation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Van Duc Nguyen , Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature concerning the utilization of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, with a particular focus on transformer-based large language models (LLMs) trained using Big Code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Man Fai Wong , Shangxin Guo , Ching Nam Hang , Siu Wai Ho , Chee Wei Tan

With the advent of deep learning methods, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems have become increasingly powerful. However, deep learning based systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where imperceptible changes to the input can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales