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Hamid Mozaffari
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4ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
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Security and privacy · 3 · 3 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Permissioned LLMs: Enforcing Access Control in Large Language ModelsabstractIn enterprise settings, organizational data is segregated, siloed and carefully protected by elaborate access control frameworks. These access control structures can completely break down if an LLM fine-tuned on the siloed data serves requests, for downstream tasks, from individuals with disparate access privileges. We propose Permissioned LLMs (PermLLM), a new class of LLMs that superimpose the organizational data access control structures on query responses they generate. We formalize abstractions underpinning the means to determine whether access control enforcement happens correctly over LLM query responses. Our formalism introduces the notion of a relevant response that can be used to prove whether a PermLLM mechanism has been implemented correctly. We also introduce a novel
metric, called access advantage, to empirically evaluate the efficacy of a PermLLM mechanism. We introduce three novel PermLLM mechanisms that build on Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning to achieve the desired access control. We furthermore present two instantiations of access advantage–(i) Domain Distinguishability Index (DDI) based on Membership Inference Attacks, and (ii) Utility Gap Index (UGI)
based on LLM utility evaluation. We demonstrate the efficacy of our PermLLM mechanisms through extensive experiments on five public datasets (GPQA, RCV1, SimpleQA, WMDP, and PubMedQA), in addition to evaluating the validity of DDI and UGI metrics themselves for quantifying access control in LLMs. Bargav Jayaraman, Virendra J. Marathe, Hamid Mozaffari, William F. Shen, Krishnaram Kenthapadi |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2024 | Fake or Compromised? Making Sense of Malicious Clients in Federated Learning
Hamid Mozaffari, Sunav Choudhary, Amir Houmansadr |
ESORICS (1) | 1 |
| 2023 | Every Vote Counts: Ranking-Based Training of Federated Learning to Resist Poisoning Attacks
Hamid Mozaffari, Virat Shejwalkar, Amir Houmansadr |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |
| 2020 | Heterogeneous Private Information Retrieval
Hamid Mozaffari, Amir Houmansadr |
NDSS | 1 |