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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved their capabilities in natural language processing and code synthesis, enabling more complex applications across different fields. This paper explores the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Mohammad Setak , Pooria Madani

With tools like GitHub Copilot, automatic code suggestion is no longer a dream in software engineering. These tools, based on large language models, are typically trained on massive corpora of code mined from unvetted public sources. As a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hojjat Aghakhani , Wei Dai , Andre Manoel , Xavier Fernandes , Anant Kharkar , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , David Evans , Ben Zorn , Robert Sim

Data-poisoning based backdoor attacks aim to insert backdoor into models by manipulating training datasets without controlling the training process of the target model. Existing attack methods mainly focus on designing triggers or fusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zihao Zhu , Mingda Zhang , Shaokui Wei , Li Shen , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu

Data poisoning is a training-time attack that undermines the trustworthiness of learned models. In a targeted data poisoning attack, an adversary manipulates the training dataset to alter the classification of a targeted test point. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nakshatra Gupta , Sumanth Prabhu , Supratik Chakraborty , R Venkatesh

Poisoning backdoor attacks involve an adversary manipulating the training data to induce certain behaviors in the victim model by inserting a trigger in the signal at inference time. We adapted clean label backdoor (CLBD)-data poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Henry Li Xinyuan , Sonal Joshi , Thomas Thebaud , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Early research into data poisoning attacks against Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrated the ease with which backdoors could be injected. More recent LLMs add step-by-step reasoning, expanding the attack surface to include the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hanna Foerster , Ilia Shumailov , Yiren Zhao , Harsh Chaudhari , Jamie Hayes , Robert Mullins , Yarin Gal

Code Large Language Models (CLLMs) serve as the core of modern code agents, enabling developers to automate complex software development tasks. In this paper, we present Poison-with-Style (PwS), a practical and stealthy model poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Khang Tran , Yazan Boshmaf , Issa Khalil , NhatHai Phan , Ting Yu , Md Rizwan Parvez

The increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) for code-related tasks has raised concerns about the security of their training datasets. One critical threat is dead code poisoning, where syntactically valid but functionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Chi-Chien Tsai , Chia-Mu Yu , Ying-Dar Lin , Yu-Sung Wu , Wei-Bin Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly through instruction tuning, which enables broad task generalization without additional fine-tuning. However, their reliance on large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 San Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Large language models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous, interfacing with humans in numerous safety-critical applications. This necessitates improving capabilities, but importantly coupled with greater safety measures to align these models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ujwal Narayan , Shreyas Chaudhari , Ashwin Kalyan , Tanmay Rajpurohit , Karthik Narasimhan , Ameet Deshpande , Vishvak Murahari

Signature and anomaly based techniques are the quintessential approaches to malware detection. However, these techniques have become increasingly ineffective as malware has become more sophisticated and complex. Researchers have therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dennis Dang , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

Backdoor attacks have emerged as a prominent threat to natural language processing (NLP) models, where the presence of specific triggers in the input can lead poisoned models to misclassify these inputs to predetermined target classes.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Lu Yan , Zhuo Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Kaiyuan Zhang , Xuan Chen , Guangyu Shen , Xiangyu Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation by leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods. However, the computational costs associated with LLM inference, particularly in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yanlin Wang , Jiadong Wu , Tianyue Jiang , Mingwei Liu , Jiachi Chen , Chong Wang , Ensheng Shi , Xilin Liu , Yuchi Ma , Zibin Zheng

Binary malware summarization aims to automatically generate human-readable descriptions of malware behaviors from executable files, facilitating tasks like malware cracking and detection. Previous methods based on Large Language Models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Haolang Lu , Hongrui Peng , Guoshun Nan , Jiaoyang Cui , Cheng Wang , Weifei Jin , Songtao Wang , Shengli Pan , Xiaofeng Tao

Backdoors and poisoning attacks are a major threat to the security of machine-learning and vision systems. Often, however, these attacks leave visible artifacts in the images that can be visually detected and weaken the efficacy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Erwin Quiring , Konrad Rieck

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

With the burgeoning advancements in the field of natural language processing (NLP), the demand for training data has increased significantly. To save costs, it has become common for users and businesses to outsource the labor-intensive task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ziqiang Li , Yueqi Zeng , Pengfei Xia , Lei Liu , Zhangjie Fu , Bin Li

Backdoor attack introduces artificial vulnerabilities into the model by poisoning a subset of the training data via injecting triggers and modifying labels. Various trigger design strategies have been explored to attack text classifiers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zichao Li , Dheeraj Mekala , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Neural networks are successfully used in a variety of applications, many of them having safety and security concerns. As a result researchers have proposed formal verification techniques for verifying neural network properties. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Youcheng Sun , Muhammad Usman , Divya Gopinath , Corina S. Păsăreanu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have progressed rapidly during the past decade and have been deployed in various real-world applications. Meanwhile, DNN models have been shown to be vulnerable to security and privacy attacks. One such attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Xiaoyi Chen , Ahmed Salem , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Shiqing Ma , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu , Yang Zhang