The rapid growth of AI has increased the demand for domain-specific models. Post-training of open-source models offers a more economical way to meet this growing demand, but the cost of accelerator infrastructure often pushes organizations to outsource the process to third-party providers. An untrusted provider may dev...
Hongxu Su, Jianzhu Yao, Huan Zhang et al.· 0 citations
By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a cornerstone of the modern autonomous agent ecosystem. However, it creates novel attack surfaces due to untrusted external tools. While prior work has focused on attacks injected t...
Zhiqiang Wang, Yichao Gao, Yanting Wang et al.· 0 citations
This work investigates a novel approach to boost adversarial robustness and generalization by incorporating structural prior into the design of deep learning models and proposes Elastic Dictionary Learning Networks (EDLNets), a novel ResNet architecture that significantly enhances adversarial robustness and generalizat...
Zhi-Chao Hou, Wei-Zhi Gao, Hamid Krim et al.· 1 citation
Chorus is presented, a decentralized mechanism that lets each node detect and reject backdoored adapters from its neighbors before aggregation, without requiring shared validation data or any knowledge of the attacker's trigger or target.
Sayan Biswas, Jade Garcia Bourrée, R. Guerraoui et al.· 0 citations
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With LLM watermarking being deployed commercially and now required by regulations, improving its reliability and effectiveness has become crucial. Yet, recent progress in the field of LLM watermarking has increasingly been driven by improving details of existing methods, an effort fundamentally limited by the pace of h...
Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Martin T. Vechev· 0 citations
In regulated industries like consumer finance, seemingly harmless user queries can exploit large language model vulnerabilities, triggering safety failures and pushing responses dangerously close to policy limits. Existing automated red-teaming methods trade off attack effectiveness against generation cost, while treat...
Rikhiya Ghosh, Himanshu Kumar, Sriram Venkatapathy et al.· 0 citations
SIF (Sealed Inference Frame), which infers coarse professional cohorts on the device and emits only a locally differentially private, taxonomy-coded label into the OpenRTB bid stream, with no cross-site identifier, is presented.
Omsankar Tiwari, Navnit Shukla, Guan-Yu Wang et al.· 0 citations
Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have dominated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) research in recent years. Unfortunately, many existing studies have produced inflated results and unreliable benchmarks due to critical oversights and mistakes in the ML and DL pipeline, from data collection and labeling to fea...
CipherGenome is presented, a protocol that keeps the embedding, attention and router of a 15.1B-parameter MoE genome model on a trusted thin client and outsources every expert projection, 95.8% of the parameters, to untrusted and possibly colluding GPU servers under module-LWE encryption.
Genome foundation models are most useful where sequences are generated, yet the largest models need datacenter accelerators and a place to send private DNA. We ask whether a 15-billion-parameter genome mixture-of-experts (MoE) model can instead run on volunteers'web browsers, with the experts spread across many untrust...
Can a genome model retain a detectable record of the synthetic sequences used to train it? We study watermark inheritance through distillation with GenoTrace, a codon-aware extension of green-list watermarking. Two token-level factors modulate the teacher's generation bias using codon position and organism-specific cod...
Private Evolution (PE) is a differentially private algorithm for synthetic data generation. While it can be viewed as a Wasserstein learning algorithm, it performs much better in practice than worst-case Wasserstein analyses would predict. We recast PE as generative model-augmented Wasserstein learning. We show theoret...
Audra McMillan, Kunal Talwar, Felix Zhou· 0 citations
Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.