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
LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models
Li, Qinbin, Hong, Junyuan, Xie, Chulin, Tan, Jeffrey, Xin, Rachel, Hou, Junyi, Yin, Xavier, Wang, Zhun, Hendrycks, Dan, Wang, Zhangyang, Li, Bo, He, Bingsheng, Song, Dawn
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 17(11), Pages 3201 - 3214.July 1, 2024
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Poster: Brave: Byzantine-resilient and privacy-preserving peer-to-peer federated learning
Xu, Z., Jiang, F., Niu, L., Jia, J., Li, Bo, Poovendran, Radha
In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1934-1936). Singapore
July 1, 2024 Read More
Poster: Double-Dip: Thwarting Label-Only Membership Inference Attacks with Transfer Learning and Randomization
Rajabi, A., Pimple, R., Janardhanan, A., Asokraj, S., Ramasubramanian, B., Poovendran, Radha
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS), Singapore
July 1, 2024 Read More
Poster: Game of Trojans: Adaptive Adversaries Against Output-based Trojaned-Model Detectors
Sahabandu, D., Xu, X., Rajabi, A., Niu, L., Ramasubramanian, B., Bo, Li, Poovendran, Radha
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS), SingaporeJuly 1, 2024
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An Inclusive Study of Petri Nets and Their Applications
McDuffie, Jasmine, Chenou, Jules
Norfolk State University College of Science, Engineering and Technology. Technical Report No.1. June 30, 2024
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Insufficient Statistics Perturbation: Stable Estimators for Private Least Squares
Gavin Brown, Jonathan Hayase, Samuel Hopkins, Weihao Kong, Xiyang Liu, Sewoong Oh, Juan C. Perdomo, Adam Smith
To appear in the 37th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2024), June 30th-July 3rd, 2024 in Edmonton, Canada.
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Defending Membership Inference Attack on Edge using Trusted Execution Environments
Cheng-Yun Yang, Gowri Ramshankar, Sudarshan Nambiar, Evan Miller, Xun Zhang, Nicholas Eliopoulos, Purvish Jajal, Dave Tian, Shuo-Han Chen, Chiy-Ferng Perng, Yung-Hsiang Lu
Poster at Design Automation Conference (DAC 2024), San Francisco, CA, June 23 - 27, 2024
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Practical Region-level Attack against Segment Anything Models
Yifan Shen, Zhengyuan Li, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of the IEEE CVPR Workshop on Fair, Data-efficient, and Trusted Computer Vision (TCV), in conjunction with IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Seattle, WA, June 17-20, 2024
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MMSum: A Dataset for Multimodal Summarization and Thumbnail Generation of Videos
Jielin Qiu, Jiacheng Zhu, William Han, Aditesh Kumar, Karthik Mittal, Claire Jin, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Ding Zhao, Bo Li, Lijuan Wang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024), Seattle, WA, June 17 - 21, 2024
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PerAda: Parameter-efficient and generalizable federated learning personalization with guarantees
Chulin Xie, De-An Huang, Wenda Chu, Daguang Xu, Chaowei Xiao, Bo Li, Anima Anandkumar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024), Seattle, WA, June 17 - 21, 2024
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EDC: Effective and Efficient Dialog Comprehension for Dialog State Tracking
Lu, Q., Ramasubramanian, B., Poovendran, Radha
In Proceedings of findings of 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2024, findings), Mexico City, Mexico
June 16, 2024 Read More
Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reality Check
Wenxuan Zhang, Yue Deng, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan , Lidong Bing
In Proceedings of findings of 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2024, findings), Mexico City, Mexico, June 16–21, 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
ICLR Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Large Language Models (ICLR SeT-LLM), Vienna, Austria
June 6, 2024 Read More
Does It Matter Who Said It? Exploring the Impact of Deepfake-Enabled Profiles On User Perception Towards Disinformation
Margie Ruffin, Haeseung Seo, Aiping Xiong, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY, June 3 - 6, 2024
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Koopman-based Optimal Control
Hespanha, J., Camsari, K.
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 1901-1906
June 1, 2024 Read More
RL-ARNE: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Computing Average Reward Nash Equilibrium of Nonzero Sum Stochastic Games
D. Sahabandu, S. Moothedath, J. Allen, L. Bushnell, W. Lee, Poovendran, Radha
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ( Volume: 69, Issue: 11, November 2024), pp. 7824 - 7831
May 21, 2024 Read More
Dynamic Information Flow Tracking for Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats: A Stochastic Game Approach
Dinuka Sahabandu, Shana Moothedath, Joey Allen, Linda Bushnell, Wenke Lee, Radha Poovendran
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3403675
May 21, 2024 Read More
Trojanpuzzle: Covertly poisoning code-suggestion models
Aghakhani, Hojjat, Dai, Wei, Manoel, Andre, Fernandes, Xavier, Kharkar, Anant, Kruegel, Christopher, Vigna, Giovanni, Evans, David, Zorn, Ben, Sim, Robert
Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (S&P 2024) San Francisco, California
May 20, 2024 Read More
Are Adversarial Phishing Webpages a Threat in Reality? Understanding the Users’ Perception of Adversarial Webpages
Ying Yuan, Qingying Hao, Giovanni Apruzzese, Mauro Conti, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of The ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, May 13-17, 2024
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It's Trying Too Hard To Look Real: Deepfake Moderation Mistakes and Identity-Based Bias
Jaron Mink, Miranda Wei, Collins W. Munyendo, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Honolulu, HI, May 11-16, 2024
Badchain: Backdoor chain-of-thought prompting for large language models
Zhen Xiang, Fengqing Jiang, Zidi Xiong, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Radha Poovendran, Bo Li
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024
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Effective and Efficient Federated Tree Learning on Hybrid Data
Qinbin Li, Chulin Xie, Xiaojun Xu, Xiaoyuan Liu, Ce Zhang, Bo Li, Bingsheng He, and Dawn Song
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria May 7-11, 2024
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COLEP: Certifiably Robust Learning-Reasoning Conformal Prediction via Probabilistic Circuits.
Mintong Kang, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Linyi Li, Bo Li
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria May 7-11, 2024
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GNNX-BENCH: Unravelling the utility of perturbation-based gnn explainers through in-depth benchmarking
Mert Kosan, Samidha Verma, Burouj Armgaan, Khushbu Pahwa, Ambuj Singh, Sourav Medya, Sayan Ranu
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria May 7-11, 2024
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Tensor trust: Interpretable prompt injection attacks from an online game
Sam Toyer, Olivia Watkins, Ethan Adrian Mendes, Justin Svegliato, Luke Bailey, Tiffany Wang, Isaac Ong , Karim Elmaaroufi , Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Alan Ritter, Stuart Russell
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 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
ICLR Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Large Language Models (ICLR SeT-LLM), Vienna, AustriaMay 6, 2024
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Generalization Bounds for Magnitude-Based Pruning via Sparse Matrix Sketching
Etash Kumar Guha, Prasanjit Dubey, Xiaoming Huo
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024) Workshop Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Theory in Deep Learning (BGPT), Vienna, Austria, May 6 - 11, 2024
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Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods for Diffusion Models?
Yu-Lin Tsai, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chulin Xie, Chih-Hsun Lin, Jia-You Chen, Bo Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Chia-Mu Yu, Chun-Ying Huang
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024
Defending against transfer attacks from public models
Chawin Sitawarin , Jaewon Chang, David Huang, Wesson Altoyan, David Wagner
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 6-11, 2024
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