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.
Software Repositories
DeepCASE source code
Datasets
The MABEL dataset
The DeepCASE dataset
Publications
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
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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 Read More
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 Read More
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
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
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
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
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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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Grath: Gradual self-truthifying for large language models
Weixin Chen, Bo Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
Effects of Exponential Gaussian Distribution on (Double Sampling) Randomized Smoothing
Youwei Shu, Xi Xiao, Derui Wang, Yuxin Xao, Siji Chen, Jason Xue, Linyi Li, Bo Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
HALC: Object Hallucination Reduction via Adaptive Focal-Contrast Decoding
Zhaorun Chen, Zhuokai Zhao, Hongyin Luo, Huaxiu Yao, Bo Li, Jiawei Zhou
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
SHINE: Shielding Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wenbo Guo, Zhuowen Yuan, Jinyuan Jia, Bo Li, Dawn Song
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
RigorLLM: Resilient Guardrails for Large Language Models against Undesired Content
Yuan, Zhuowen, Zidi Xiong, Yi Zeng, Ning Yu, Ruoxi Jia, Dawn Song, and Bo Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024
DPzero: Dimension-independent and differentially private zeroth-order optimization
Liang Zhang, Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil, Sewoong Oh, Niao He
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna Austria, July 21-27, 2024