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

 

 

Jasmine: Scale up JavaScript Static Security Analysis with Computation-Based Semantic Explanation

Xiao, Feng, Su, Zhongfu, Yang, Guangliang, Lee, Wenke

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA 

May 20, 2025

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A Progressive Transformer for Unifying Binary Code Embedding and Knowledge Transfer

Lu, Hanxiao, Cai, Hongyu, Liang, Yiming, Bianchi, Antonio, Celik, Z. Berkay

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) Quebec, Canada

March 4, 2025

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Approximating Metric Magnitude of Point Sets

R. Andreeva, J. Ward, P. Skraba, J. Gao, R. Sarkar

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAFebruary 25, 2025

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ChatBug: A Common Vulnerability of Aligned LLMs Induced by Chat Templates

Jiang, Fengqing, Xu, Zhangchen, Niu, Luyao, Lin, Bill Yuchen, Poovendran, Radha

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAFebruary 25, 2025

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Continual Learning Using a Kernel-Based Method Over Foundation Models

Momeni, Saleh, Mazumder, Sahisnu, Liu, Bing

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

February 25, 2025

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A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the PROXY Protocol and its Security Implications

Stijn Pletinckx, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

In Proceedings of the 2025 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego, CA.

February 24, 2025

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Revisiting Concept Drift in Windows Malware Detection: Adaptation to Real Drifted Malware with Minimal Samples

Li, Adrian S., Iyengar, Arun, Kundu, Ashish, Bertino, Elisa

Proceedings of the 2025 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego, CA.

February 24, 2025

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Continual Learning Using Only Large Language Model Prompting

Qiu, Jiabao, Zixuan Ke, Liu, Bing

The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2025), Abu Dhabi, UAE

January 19, 2025

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In-Context Continual Learning Assisted by an External Continual Learner

Momeni, Saleh, Mazumder, Sahisnu, Ke, Zixuan, Liu, Bing

The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2025), Abu Dhabi, UAEJanuary 19, 2025

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Low Sensitivity Hopsets

Vikrant Ashvinkumar, Aaron Bernstein, Chengyuan Deng, Jie Gao, Nicole Wein

The 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2025), New York, NYJanuary 7, 2025

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Open-World Continual Learning: Unifying Novelty Detection and Continual Learning

Kim, Gyuhak, Xiao, Changnan, Xiao, Changnan, Konishi, Tatsuya , Ke, Tatsuya, Liu, Bing

Artificial Intelligence, Journal 338January 1, 2025

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High-Dimensional Multivariate Linear Regression with Weighted Nuclear Norm Regularization

Namjoon Suh, Li-Hsiang Lin, Xiaoming Huo

 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2024): 1-12.

December 31, 2024

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Adjusted Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Estimator in Statistical Learning

Yiling Xie , Xiaoming Huo

To appear in Journal of Machine Learning Research

December 31, 2024

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Continual learning: Applications and the road forward

Eli Verwimp , Shai Ben-David , Matthias Bethge, Andrea Cossu, Alexander Gepperth, Tyler L. Hayes, Eyke Hüllermeier

To appear in  Transaction on Machine Learning Research

December 31, 2024

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Utilizing Human Behavior Modeling to Manipulate Explanations in AI-Assisted Decision Making: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary

Li, Zhuoyan, Yin, Ming

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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BackdoorAlign: Mitigating Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Safety Alignment

Wang, Jiongxiao, Li, Jiazhao, Li, Yiquan, Qi, Xiangyu, Hu, Junjie, Li, Yixuan, McDaniel, Patrick, Chen, Muhao, Li, Bo, Xiao, Chaowei

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)December 9, 2024

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Robust prompt optimization for defending language models against jailbreaking attacks

Zhou, Andy, Bo Li , Haohan Wang

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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Replay-and-Forget-Free Graph Class-Incremental Learning: A Task Profiling and Prompting Approach

Niu, Chaoxi, Pang, Guansong, Chen, Ling, Liu, Bing

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Lang, Leon, Foote, Davis, Russell, Stuart, Dragan, Anca, Jenner, Erik, Emmons, Scott

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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Consistency Purification: Effective and Efficient Diffusion Purification towards Certified Robustness

Li, Yiquan, Chen, Zhongzhu, Jin, Kun, Wang, Jiongxiao, Li, Bo, Xiao, Chaowei

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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RedCode: Risky Code Execution and Generation Benchmark for Code Agents

Guo, Chengquan, Liu, Xun, Xie, Chulin, Zhou, Andy, Zeng, Yi, Lin, Zinan, Song, Dawn, Li, Bo

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) December 9, 2024

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Neuc-MDS: Non-Euclidean Multidimensional Scaling Through Bilinear Forms

Deng, Chengyuan, Gao, Jie, Lu, Kevin, Luo, Feng, Sun, Hongbin, Xin, Cheng

The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 9, 2024

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Physical ID-Transfer Attacks Against Multi-Object Tracking via Adversarial Trajectory

Wang, Chenyi, Man, Yanmao, Muller, Raymond, Li, Ming, Celik, Z. Berkay, Gerdes, Ryan, Petit, Jonathan

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 1–15. Honolulu, HI

December 8, 2024

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Enabling Asymptotic Truth Learning in a Social Network

Lu, Kevin, Chong, Jordan, Lu, Matt, Gao, Jie

Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE'24)

December 2, 2024

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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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