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Mingfei Zhang

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7ranked-venue papers
4as first author
7since 2021 · last 2026
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Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Security and privacy · 4 · 3 first-author · 4 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 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
6 papers
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security · 82% Security and privacy of machine learning · 18%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
4 papers
Distributed systems · 100%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Language models and text generation · 100%
Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100%

Topics — the 8 heaviest of 10, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security › consensus protocol
proof-of-stake
2.632026
A Liveness Attack to Ethereum PoS with No Additional Cost · SP 2026
Available Attestation: Towards a Reorg-Resilient Solution for Ethereum Proof-of-Stake · USENIX Security Symposium 2025
Max Attestation Matters: Making Honest Parties Lose Their Incentives in Ethereum PoS · USENIX Security Symposium 2024
Distributed systems
consensus
1.842026
Risk-free Selfish Mining in Hybrid Predictability Model. A Case Study on Polkadot's NPoS · WWW 2026
BunnyFinder: Finding Incentive Flaws for Ethereum Consensus · NDSS 2026
Available Attestation: Towards a Reorg-Resilient Solution for Ethereum Proof-of-Stake · USENIX Security Symposium 2025
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › retrieval-augmented generation
robust retrieval-augmented generation
1.012026
Beyond Explicit Refusals: Soft-Failure Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation · ACL (1) 2026
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack › large language model attack
adversarial attack on retrieval-augmented generation
1.012026
Beyond Explicit Refusals: Soft-Failure Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation · ACL (1) 2026
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security › consensus protocol
consensus protocol security
1.012026
BunnyFinder: Finding Incentive Flaws for Ethereum Consensus · NDSS 2026
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security › mining attack
selfish mining
1.012026
Risk-free Selfish Mining in Hybrid Predictability Model. A Case Study on Polkadot's NPoS · WWW 2026
Distributed systems › consensus › permissionless consensus
proof-of-stake
1.012026
Risk-free Selfish Mining in Hybrid Predictability Model. A Case Study on Polkadot's NPoS · WWW 2026
Distributed systems › consensus
blockchain consensus
0.312025
Available Attestation: Towards a Reorg-Resilient Solution for Ethereum Proof-of-Stake · USENIX Security Symposium 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

selfish mining analysis · 3.0formal analysis · 2.0evolutionary optimization · 2.0black-box attack · 2.0LLM-based evaluation · 2.0attestation · 1.7game-theoretic analysis · 1.5
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Beyond Explicit Refusals: Soft-Failure Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation
abstract
Existing jamming attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems typically induce explicit refusals or denial-ofservice behaviors, which are conspicuous and easy to detect.In this work, we formalize a subtler availability threat, termed soft failure, which degrades system utility by inducing fluent and coherent yet non-informative responses rather than overt failures.We propose Deceptive Evolutionary Jamming Attack (DEJA), an automated black-box attack framework that generates adversarial documents to trigger such soft failures by exploiting safety-aligned behaviors of large language models.DEJA employs an evolutionary optimization process guided by a fine-grained Answer Utility Score (AUS), computed via an LLM-based evaluator, to systematically degrade the certainty of answers while maintaining high retrieval success.Extensive experiments across multiple RAG configurations and benchmark datasets show that DEJA consistently drives responses toward low-utility soft failures, achieving SASR above 79% while keeping hard-failure rates below 15%, significantly outperforming prior attacks.The resulting adversarial documents exhibit high stealth, evading perplexity-based detection and resisting query paraphrasing, and transfer across model families to proprietary systems without retargeting.
Wentao Zhang 0011, Yan Zhuang 0002, ZhuHang Zheng, Mingfei Zhang, Jiawen Deng 0006, Fuji Ren
ACL (1)4
2026 BunnyFinder: Finding Incentive Flaws for Ethereum Consensus
Rujia Li 0001, Mingfei Zhang, Xueqian Lu, Wenbo Xu 0002, Ying Yan 0002, Sisi Duan
NDSS2
2026 A Liveness Attack to Ethereum PoS with No Additional Cost
Mingfei Zhang, Rujia Li 0001, Xueqian Lu, Sisi Duan
SP1
2026 Risk-free Selfish Mining in Hybrid Predictability Model. A Case Study on Polkadot's NPoS
Mingfei Zhang, Rujia Li 0001, Sisi Duan
WWW1
2026 Parallel framework for intelligent prediction of multi-site fugitive dust: Combined with DustLSTM-Trans and FedProx-Dyn
Fangzhou Lin, Zihan Ma 0010, Shiyu Zhuang, Mingfei Zhang, Shiqi Wang 0034
Adv. Eng. Informatics7
2025 Available Attestation: Towards a Reorg-Resilient Solution for Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Mingfei Zhang, Rujia Li 0001, Xueqian Lu, Sisi Duan
USENIX Security Symposium1
2024 Max Attestation Matters: Making Honest Parties Lose Their Incentives in Ethereum PoS
Mingfei Zhang, Rujia Li 0001, Sisi Duan
USENIX Security Symposium1