The ACTION Institute's mission is to innovate the fields of AI and Security.

The Institute shares with both the scientific community and the industry publications, software repositories, datasets, and other artifacts. 

DeepCASE source code 

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The MABEL dataset

 

The DeepCASE dataset

 

Publications

 

 

Cleangen: Mitigating backdoor attacks for generation tasks in large language models.

Li, Y., Xu, Z., Jiang, F., Niu, L., Sahabandu, D., Ramasubramanian, B., Poovendran, R.

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Miami, FL

November 12, 2024

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Graphene: Infrastructure Security Posture Analysis with AI-generated Attack Graphs

Jin, Xin, Katsis, Charalampos, Sang, Fan, Sun, Jiahao, Bertino, Elisa, Kompella, Ramana Rao, Kundu, Ashish

The 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (short version of the paper). October 28, 2024

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Mix and Match: Characterizing Heterogeneous Human Behavior in AI-assisted Decision Making

Lu, Zhuoran, Mahmood, Syed Hasan Amin, Li, Zhuoyan, Yin, Ming

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Pittsburgh, PA.

October 16, 2024

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RoboGuardZ: A Scalable Zero-Shot Framework for Detecting Zero-Day Malware in Robots

Kaur, Upinder, Celik, Z. Berkay, Voyles, Richard M.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhai, UAE

October 14, 2024

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RoboCop: A Robust Zero-Day Cyber-Physical Attack Detection Framework for Robots

Kaur, Upinder, Celik, Z. Berkay, Voyles, Richard M.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhai, UAE

October 14, 2024

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KnowGraph: Knowledge-Enabled Anomaly Detection via Logical Reasoning on Graph Data

Zhou, Andy, Xu, Xiaojun, Raghunathan, Ramesh, Lal, Alok, Guan, Xinze, Yu, Bin, Li, Bo

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Salt Lake City, UT

October 14, 2024

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Jatmo: Prompt Injection Defense by Task-Specific Finetuning

Julien Piet, Maha Alrashed, Chawin Sitawarin, Sizhe Chen, Zeming Wei, Elizabeth Sun , Basel Alomair, David Wagner

European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2024), Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16, 2024

September 16, 2024

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WEBRR: A Forensic System for Replaying and Investigating Web-Based Attacks in the Modern Web

Allen, Joey, Yang, Zheng, XIao, Feng, Landen, Matthew, Perdisci, Roberto, Lee, Wenke

33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA

August 14, 2024

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GuideEnricher: Protecting the Anonymity of Ethereum Mixing Service Users with Deep Reinforcement Learning

De Silva, Ravindu, Guo, Wenbo, Ruaro, Nicola, Grishchenko, Ilya, Kruegel, Christopher, Vigna, Giovanni

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaAugust 14, 2024

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ACE: A model poisoning attack on contribution evaluation methods in federated learning

Xu, Z., Jiang, F., Niu, L., Jia, J., Li, Bo, Poovendran, Radha

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 14, 2024

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Remote Keylogging Attacks in Multi-user VR Applications

Zihao Su, Kunlin Cai, Reuben Beeler, Lukas Dresel, Allan Garcia, Ilya Grishchenko, Yuan Tian, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, PA, August 14-16, 2024
 

August 14, 2024

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SAIN: Improving ICS Attack Detection Sensitivity via State-Aware Invariants

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Abdulellah Alsaheel, Arslan Khan,, Z. Berkay Celik, Dongyan Xu

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, PA, August 14-16, 2024
 

August 14, 2024

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True Attacks, Attack Attempts, or Benign Triggers? An Empirical Measurement of Network Alerts in a Security Operations Center

Limin Yang, Zhi Chen, Chenkai Wang, Zhenning Zhang, Sushruth Booma, Phuong Cao, Constantin Adam, Alex Withers, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Gang Wang

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, PA, August 14-16, 2024
 

August 14, 2024

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MIST: Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks Through Membership-Invariant Subspace Training

Jiacheng Li, Ninghui Li, Bruno Ribeiro

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Philadelphia, PA, August 14-16, 2024

August 14, 2024

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Rate, Explain and Cite (REC): Enhanced Explanation and Attribution in Automatic Evaluation by Large Language Models

Hsu, Aliyah R., ; Zhu, James, Wang, Zhichao, Bi, Bin, Mehrotra, Shubham, Pentyala, Shiva K., Tan, Katherine, Mao, Xiang-Bo, Omrani, Roshanak, Chaudhuri, Sougata, Radhakrishnan, Regunathan, Asur, Sitaram, Cheng, Claire Na, Yu, Bin

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

August 11, 2024

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Re-Tuning: Overcoming the Compositionality Limits of Large Language Models with Recursive Tuning

Pasewark, Eric, Montgomery, Kyle, Duan; Kefei, Song, Dawn, Wang, Chenguang

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

August 11, 2024

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SafeDecoding: Defending against jailbreak attacks via safety-aware decoding

Xu, Z., Jiang, F., Niu, L., Jia, J., Li, Bo, Poovendran, Radha

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Bangkok, Thailand

August 11, 2024

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ArtPrompt: ASCII art-based jailbreak attacks against aligned LLMs

Jiang, F., Xu, Z., Niu, L., Xiang, Z., Li, Bo, Poovendran, Radha

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand

August 11, 2024

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Securing Deep Neural Networks on Edge from Membership Inference Attacks Using Trusted Execution Environments

Yang, Cheng-Yun, Ramshankar, Gowri, Nambiar, Sudarshan, Miller, Evan, Zhang, Xun, Eliopoulos, Nicholas, Jajal, Purvish, Jing Tian, Dave, Chen, Shuo-Han, Perng, Chiy-Ferng, Lu, Yung-Hsiang

2024 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Newport Beach, California

August 5, 2024

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Designing behavior-aware AI to improve the human-AI team performance in AI-assisted decision making

Mahmood, Syed Hasan Amin, Lu, Zhuoran, Yin, Ming

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jeju, Korea.

August 3, 2024

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RICE: Breaking Through the Training Bottlenecks of Reinforcement Learning with Explanation

Zelei Cheng, Xian Wu, Jiahao Yu, Sabrina Yang, Gang Wang, Xinyu Xing

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024

July 21, 2024

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Optimally Improving Cooperative Learning in a Social Setting

Shahrzad Haddadan, Cheng Xin, Jie Gao

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024

July 21, 2024

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Adversarial Images can Control Generative Models at Runtime

Luke Bailey, Euan Ong, Stuart Russell, Scott Emmons

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024

July 21, 2024

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InstructRetro: Instruction tuning post retrieval-augmented pretraining

Boxin Wang, Wei Ping, Lawrence McAfee, Peng Xu, Bo Li, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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Differentially private synthetic data via foundation model apis 2: Text

Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Arturs Backurs, Sivakanth Gopi, Da Yu, Huseyin A. Inan, Harsha Nori, Haotian Jiang, Huishuai Zhang, Yin Tat Lee, Bo Li, Sergey Yekhanin

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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Universal consistency of wide and deep ReLU neural networks and minimax optimal convergence rates for Kolmogorov-Donoho optimal function classes

Hyunouk Ko, Xiaoming Huo

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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Decoding Compressed Trust: Scrutinizing the Trustworthiness of Efficient LLMs Under Compression

Junyuan Hong, Jinhao Duan, Chenhui Zhang, Zhangheng Li, Chulin Xie, Kelsey Lieberman, James Diffenderfer , Brian Bartoldson , Ajay Jaiswal , Kaidi Xu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Dan Hendrycks , Dawn Song , Zhangyang Wang , Bo Li

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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Harmbench: A standardized evaluation framework for automated red teaming and robust refusal

Mantas Mazeika, Long Phan, Xuwang Yin, Andy Zou, Zifan Wang, Norman Mu, Elham Sakhaee, Nathaniel Li , Steven Basart, Bo Li , David Forsyth , Dan Hendrycks

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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C-RAG: Certified Generation Risks for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Kang, Mintong, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Ning Yu, Dawn Song, Bo Li

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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Certifiably Byzantine-Robust Federated Conformal Prediction

Mintong Kang, Zhen Lin, Jimeng Sun, Cao Xiao, Bo Li

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
 

July 21, 2024

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