VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Michael Karasik
dblp:424/7064
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Security and privacy of machine learning
adversarial attack |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | In-Context Representation Hijacking · ACL (1) 2026 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack
jailbreak attack |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | In-Context Representation Hijacking · ACL (1) 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
latent space interpretation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | In-Context Representation Hijacking · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
interpretability tools · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | In-Context Representation HijackingabstractWe introduce Doublespeak, a simple incontext representation hijacking attack against language models.The attack works by systematically replacing a harmful keyword (e.g., bomb) with a benign token (e.g., carrot) across multiple in-context examples, provided as a prefix to a harmful request.We demonstrate that this substitution leads to the internal representation of the benign token converging toward that of the harmful one, effectively embedding the harmful semantics under a euphemism.As a result, superficially innocuous prompts (e.g., "How to build a carrot?") are internally interpreted as disallowed instructions (e.g., "How to build a bomb?"), while bypassing the model's safety alignment.We use interpretability tools to show this semantic shift occurs progressively across layers.Doublespeak is optimizationfree, broadly transferable across model families, and achieves strong success rates on closed-source and open-source systems, reaching 74% ASR on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct with a single-sentence context override.Our findings highlight a new attack surface in LM latent space, indicating that current alignment strategies are insufficient and should instead operate at the representation level. 1 Itay Yona, Amir Sarid, Michael Karasik, Yossi Gandelsman |
ACL (1) | 3 |