Image encryption techniques generally encrypt a secret image into a meaningless noise-like format, which could easily attract attention from attackers who then may try to crack it. On the other hand, image steganography typically embeds secret image data within a cover image, but it inevitably incurs a lot of distortion to the cover image. This makes the secret image data vulnerable to attacks by steganalysis tools. In light of the above, in this paper, we propose a Visually Meaningful Image Encryption (VMIE) scheme via image-to-image reversible transformation based on the Glow model. In this scheme, a secret image is encoded and compressed as a latent vector by the deep compression autoencoder. Then, the latent vector is scrambled and inputted into the Glow model to generate a visually meaningful encrypted image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed VMIE scheme not only provides desirable security against attacks, but also enables the reconstruction of the original images with negligible quality loss. Codes are available athttps://github.com/AIMS-Group-ZhiliZhou/VMEI.

Large language model editing methods frequently suffer from overfitting, wherein factual updates can propagate beyond their intended scope, overemphasizing the edited target even when it's contextually inappropriate.To address this challenge, we introduce REACT (Representation Extraction And Controllable Tuning), a unified two-phase framework designed for precise and controllable knowledge editing.In the initial phase, we utilize tailored stimuli to extract latent factual representations and apply Principal Component Analysis with a simple learnbale linear transformation to compute a directional "belief shift" vector for each instance.In the second phase, we apply controllable perturbations to hidden states using the obtained vector with a magnitude scalar, gated by a pre-trained classifier that permits edits only when contextually necessary.Relevant experiments on EVOKE benchmarks demonstrate that REACT significantly reduces overfitting across nearly all evaluation metrics, and experiments on COUNTERFACT and MQuAKE shows that our method preserves balanced basic editing performance (reliability, locality, and generality) under diverse editing scenarios.

Protein phosphorylation, a key post-translational modification, provides essential insight into protein properties, making its prediction highly significant. Using the emerging capabilities of large language models (LLMs), we apply Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning to ESM2, a powerful protein large language model, to efficiently extract features with minimal computational resources, optimizing task-specific text alignment. Additionally, we integrate the conformer architecture with the feature coupling unit to enhance local and global feature exchange, further improving prediction accuracy. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance, obtaining area under the curve scores of 79.5%, 76.3%, and 71.4% at the S, T, and Y sites of the general data sets. Based on the powerful feature extraction capabilities of LLMs, we conduct a series of analyses on protein representations, including studies on their structure, sequence, and various chemical properties [such as hydrophobicity (GRAVY), surface charge, and isoelectric point]. We propose a test method called linear regression tomography which is a top-down method using representation to explore the model's feature extraction capabilities. Our resources, including data and code, are publicly accessible at https://github.com/SkywalkerLuke/PhosF3C.

The development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is impeded by the lack of unknown protocol specifications. Protocol Reverse Engineering (PRE) plays a crucial role in inferring unpublished protocol specifications by analyzing traffic messages. Since different types within a protocol often have distinct formats, inferring the protocol type is essential for subsequent reverse analysis. Natural Language Processing (NLP) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various sequence tasks, and traffic messages of unknown protocols can be analyzed as sequences. In this paper, we propose a framework for clustering unknown industrial control protocol types. Our framework utilizes a transformer-based auto-encoder network to train corresponding request and response messages, leveraging intermediate layer embedding vectors learned by the network for clustering. The clustering results are employed to extract candidate keywords and establish empirical rules. Subsequently, rule-based re-clustering is performed, and its effectiveness is evaluated based on previous clustering results. Through this re-clustering process, we identify the most effective combination of keywords that define the type. We evaluate the proposed framework using three general protocols that have different type rules and successfully separate the protocol internal types completely.