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Lipeng He
dblp:367/2450
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6ranked-venue papers
1as first author
6since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-1802-7394ORCID · corroborated
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Security and privacy · 3 · 3 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language ModelsabstractChatbot service providers (e.g., OpenAI) rely on tiered subscription plans to generate revenue, offering black-box access to basic models for free users and advanced models to paying subscribers.However, this approach is unprofitable and inflexible.A pay-to-unlock scheme for premium features (e.g., math, coding) offers a more sustainable alternative.Enabling such a scheme requires a feature-locking technique (FLoTE) that is (i) effective in refusing locked features, (ii) utility-preserving for unlocked features, (iii) robust against evasion or unauthorized credential sharing, and (iv) scalable to multiple features and clients.Existing FLoTEs (e.g., password-locked models) fail to meet these criteria.To fill this gap, we present LOCKET, a more robust and scalable FLoTE to enable pay-to-unlock schemes.We develop a framework for adversarial training and merging of feature-locking adapters, which enables LOCKET to selectively disable specific features of a model.Evaluation shows that LOCKET is effective (100% refusal rate), utility-preserving (≤ 7% utility degradation), robust (≤ 5% attack success rate), and scalable to multiple features and clients. Lipeng He, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan |
ACL (1) | 1 |
| 2025 | Secure Transformer Inference Made Non-interactive
Jiawen Zhang 0005, Xinpeng Yang, Lipeng He, Kejia Chen 0007, Yinghao Wang, Xiaoyang Hou, Jian Liu 0012, Kui Ren 0001, Xiaohu Yang 0001 |
NDSS | 3 |
| 2025 | Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense
Jiawen Zhang 0005, Kejia Chen 0007, Lipeng He, Jian Lou 0001, Dan Li 0032, Zunlei Feng, Mingli Song, Jian Liu 0012, Kui Ren 0001, Xiaohu Yang 0001 |
USENIX Security Symposium | 3 |
| 2025 | On the Atomicity and Efficiency of Blockchain Payment Channels
Shoupeng Ren, Yuman Bai, Lipeng He, Jian Liu 0012, Kui Ren 0001, Chun Chen 0001 |
USENIX Security Symposium | 4 |
| 2025 | FedVLP: Visual-aware latent prompt generation for Multimodal Federated Learning
Lipeng He, Yincan Shu |
Comput. Vis. Image Underst. | 4 |
| 2024 | A survey of multimodal federated learning: background, applications, and perspectives
Lipeng He, Yicong Shi |
Multim. Syst. | 3 |