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Xinben Gao
dblp:306/8197
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0001-9616-842XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 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
3 papers |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Language models and text generation · 77% Efficient and distributed learning · 23% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Machine learning and data management · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Security and privacy of machine learning
split learning attacks |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | Functionality and Data Stealing by Pseudo-Client Attack and Target Defenses in Split Learning · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025 PCAT: Functionality and Data Stealing from Split Learning by Pseudo-Client Attack · USENIX Security Symposium 2023 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model safety |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Exploiting Task-Level Vulnerabilities: An Automatic Jailbreak Attack and Defense Benchmarking for LLMs · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack
jailbreak attack |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Exploiting Task-Level Vulnerabilities: An Automatic Jailbreak Attack and Defense Benchmarking for LLMs · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Security and privacy of machine learning
large language model security |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Exploiting Task-Level Vulnerabilities: An Automatic Jailbreak Attack and Defense Benchmarking for LLMs · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › privacy attack
model inversion attack |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Functionality and Data Stealing by Pseudo-Client Attack and Target Defenses in Split Learning · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › distributed training › distributed DNN training
split learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Functionality and Data Stealing by Pseudo-Client Attack and Target Defenses in Split Learning · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025 |
Machine learning and data management › privacy-preserving machine learning
federated learning |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | PCAT: Functionality and Data Stealing from Split Learning by Pseudo-Client Attack · USENIX Security Symposium 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
pseudo-client attack · 1.7defense mechanism design · 1.7gradient inversion · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Exploiting Task-Level Vulnerabilities: An Automatic Jailbreak Attack and Defense Benchmarking for LLMs
Lan Zhang 0002, Xinben Gao, Liuyi Yao, Jinke Song, Yaliang Li |
USENIX Security Symposium | 2 |
| 2025 | Functionality and Data Stealing by Pseudo-Client Attack and Target Defenses in Split LearningabstractSplit learning (SL) aims to protect a client's data by splitting up a neural network among the client and the server. Previous efforts have shown that a semi-honest server can conduct a model inversion attack. However, those attacks require the knowledge of the client network structure, and the performance deteriorates dramatically as the client network gets deeper ($\geq 2$layers). In this work, we explore the attack in a more general and challenging situation where the client model is unknown and more complex. We unveil the inherent privacy leakage through a series of intermediate server models during SL, and propose a new attack on SL:Pseudo-ClientATtack (PCAT). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attack for a semi-honest server to steal clients' functionality, reconstruct private inputs and labels without any knowledge about the clients' network structure. Moreover, the attack is transparent to clients. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our attack outperforms previous works in scenarios involving more complex models and learning tasks, even in non-i.i.d. settings and confronted with conventional defensive measures. We further explore novel defense mechanisms to mitigate PCAT and improve our attack to counteract the potential defenses. Lan Zhang 0002, Xinben Gao, Yaliang Li, Yunhao Liu 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. | 2 |
| 2023 | PCAT: Functionality and Data Stealing from Split Learning by Pseudo-Client Attack
Xinben Gao |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |