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

 

 

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

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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

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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

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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

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Learning ability of interpolating deep convolutional neural networks

Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiaoming Huo

Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 68 (2024): 101582.

August 16, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

February 17, 2021

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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

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