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
BadChain: Backdoor Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Language Models
Zhen Xiang, Fengqing Jiang, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Radha Poovendran, Bo Li
Published at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Backdoors in Deep Learning- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, December 2023.
October 28, 2023 Read More
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release
Alistair Knott, Dino Pedreschi, Raja Chatila, Tapabrata Chakraborti, Susan Leavy, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, David Eyers, Andrew Trotman, Paul D. Teal, Przemyslaw Biecek, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio
Ethics and Information Technology 25, no. 4 (2023): 55
October 28, 2023 Read More
Evaluating stability in massive social networks: Efficient streaming algorithms for structural balance
Vikrant Ashvinkumar, Sepehr Assadi, Chengyuan Deng, Jie Gao, Chen Wang
Proceedings of the International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2023), 58:1–58:23.
September 11, 2023 Read More
Learning Prototype Classifers for Long-Tailed Recognition
Saurabh Sharma, Yongqin Xian, Ning Yu, Ambuj Singh
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23)
August 19, 2023 Read More
Learning ability of interpolating deep convolutional neural networks
Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiaoming Huo
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 68 (2024): 101582.
August 16, 2023 Read More
VulChecker: Graph-based Vulnerability Localization in Source Code
Yisroel Mirsky, George Macon, Michael Brown, Carter Yagemann , Matthew Pruett, Evan Downing, Sukarno Mertoguno, Wenke Lee
In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), pp. 6557-6574. 2023
August 9, 2023 Read More
High-dimensional sparse index tracking based on a multi-step convex optimization approach
Fangquan Shi, Lianjie Shu, Yiling Luo, Xiaoming Huo
Quantitative Finance 23, no. 9 (2023): 1361-1372.
August 2, 2023 Read More
ARIoTEDef: Adversarially Robust IoT Early Defense System Based on Self-Evolution against Multi-step Attacks
M. Huang, H. Lee, A. Kundu, X. Chen, A. Mudgerikar, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
August 1, 2023 Read More
Opening statement for the hearing on Oversight of AI: Principles for Regulation
Stuart Russell
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Washington, D.C.
July 25, 2023 Read More
Parameter-level soft-masking for continual learning
Tatsuya Konishi, Mori Kurokawa, Chihiro Ono, Zixuan Ke, Gyuhak Kim, Bing Liu
In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 17492-17505. PMLR, 2023.
July 23, 2023 Read More
Learnability and Algorithm for Continual Learning
Gyuhak Kim, Changnan Xiao, Tatsuya Konishi, Bing Liu
In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 16877-16896. PMLR, 2023.
July 23, 2023 Read More
Conformalization of sparse generalized linear models
Etash Guha, Eugene Ndiaye Kumar, Xiaoming Huo
In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 11871-11887. PMLR, 2023.
July 23, 2023 Read More
Approximation and non-parametric estimation of functions over high-dimensional spheres via deep ReLU networks
Namjoon Suh, Tian-Yi Zhou, Xiaoming Huo
In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations. 2022.
May 1, 2023 Read More
Cognitive Bias-Aware Dissemination Strategies for Opinion Dynamics with External Information Sources
Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Andrew Clark, Radha Poovendran
22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023), May 2023.
May 1, 2023 Read More
Continual Learning of Language Models
Zixuan Ke, Yijia Shao, Haowei Lin, Tatsuya Konishi, Gyuhak Kim, Bing Liu
To appear in Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-2023), Kigali Rwanda, Mon May 1 - Fri May 5 2023.
May 1, 2023 Read More
Improved rate of first order algorithms for entropic optimal transport
Yiling Luo, Yiling Xie, Xiaoming Huo
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 2723-2750. PMLR, 2023.
April 25, 2023 Read More
Watch Out for Updates: Understanding the Effects of Model Explanation Updates in AI-Assisted Decision Making
Xinru Wang, Ming Yin
Proceedings of ACM CHI'23, Hamburg, Germany.
April 23, 2023 Read More
Accelerate the warm-up stage in the Lasso computation via a homotopic approach
Yujie Zhao, Xiaoming Huo
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 184 (2023): 107747
April 7, 2023 Read More
Solving a special type of optimal transport problem by a modified Hungarian algorithm
Yiling Xie, Yiling Luo, Xiaoming Huo
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Published online.
March 1, 2023 Read More
Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
Tony T. Wang, Adam Gleave, Tom Tseng, Nora Belrose, Kellin Pelrine, Joseph Miller, Michael D Dennis, Yawen Duan, Viktor Pogrebniak, Sergey Levine, Stuart Russell
February 18, 2023
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A Theoretical Study on Solving Continual Learning
Gyuhak Kim, Changnan Xiao, Tatsuya Konishi, Zixuan Ke, Bing Liu
Proceedings of Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-2022), Nov. 28 - Dec. 9, 2022.
November 28, 2022 Read More
An Efficient One-Class SVM for Novelty Detection in IoT
Kun Yang, Samory Kpotufe, Nick Feamster
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 11(2022).
November 14, 2022 Read More
DEEPCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events
Thijs Ede, Hojjat Aghakhani, Noah Spahn, Riccardo Bortolameotti, Marco Cova, Andrea Continella, Maarten Steen, Andreas Peter, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA.
May 23, 2022 Read More
Agent-Temporal Attention for Reward Redistribution in Episodic MultiAgent Reinforcement Learning
Baicen Xiao, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Radha Poovendran
Proc. of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), Online, May 2022.
May 9, 2022 Read More
Co-evolution of Opinion and Social Tie Dynamics Towards Structural Balance
Haotian Wang, Feng Luo, Jie Gao
Proceedings of the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA’22), 3362-3388, January 9 – 12, 2022.
January 9, 2022 Read More
New Directions in Automated Traffic Analysis
Jordan Holland, Paul Schmitt, Nick Feamster, Prateek Mittal
In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
November 13, 2021 Read More
DeepReflect: Discovering Malicious Functionality through Binary Reconstruction
Evan Downing, Kyuhong Park, Yisroel Mirsky, Wenke Lee
In Proceedings of the 2021 USENIX Security Symposium.
August 11, 2021 Read More
ATLAS: A Sequence-based Learning Approach for Attack Investigation
Abdulellah Alsaheel , Yuhong Nan, Shiqing Ma, Le Yu, Gregory Walkup, Z. Berkay Celik, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium.
August 11, 2021 Read More
Application-Driven Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing with Correlated Attributes
Aria Rezaei, Chaowei Xiao, Jie Gao, Bo Li, Sirajum Munir
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2021), February 17-19, 2021.
Received the Best Paper Award.
Hybrid Batch Attacks: Finding Black-box Adversarial Examples with Limited Queries
Fnu Suya, Jianfeng Chi, David Evans, Yuan Tian
In 29th USENIX Security Symposium. Boston, MA. August 12–14, 2020.
August 12, 2020 Read More