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Siyuan Cheng

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

BiScope: AI-generated Text Detection by Checking Memorization of Preceding Tokens

  • Hanxi Guo
  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Xiaolong Jin
  • Zhuo Zhang
  • Kaiyuan Zhang
  • Guanhong Tao
  • Guangyu Shen
  • Xiangyu Zhang

Detecting text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) is a pressing need in order to identify and prevent misuse of these powerful models in a wide range of applications, which have highly undesirable consequences such as misinformation and academic dishonesty. Given a piece of subject text, many existing detection methods work by measuring the difficulty of LLM predicting the next token in the text from their prefix. In this paper, we make a critical observation that how well the current token’s output logits memorizes the closely preceding input tokens also provides strong evidence. Therefore, we propose a novel bi-directional calculation method that measures the cross-entropy losses between an output logits and the ground-truth token (forward) and between the output logits and the immediately preceding input token (backward). A classifier is trained to make the final prediction based on the statistics of these losses. We evaluate our system, named BISCOPE, on texts generated by five latest commercial LLMs across five heterogeneous datasets, including both natural language and code. BISCOPE demonstrates superior detection accuracy and robustness compared to six existing baseline methods, exceeding the state-of-the-art non-commercial methods’ detection accuracy by over 0. 30 F1 score, achieving over 0. 95 detection F1 score on average. It also outperforms the best commercial tool GPTZero that is based on a commercial LLM trained with an enormous volume of data. Code is available at https: //github. com/MarkGHX/BiScope.

AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Editing Language Model-Based Knowledge Graph Embeddings

  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Ningyu Zhang
  • Bozhong Tian
  • Xi Chen
  • Qingbin Liu
  • Huajun Chen

Recently decades have witnessed the empirical success of framing Knowledge Graph (KG) embeddings via language models. However, language model-based KG embeddings are usually deployed as static artifacts, making them difficult to modify post-deployment without re-training after deployment. To address this issue, we propose a new task of editing language model-based KG embeddings in this paper. This task is designed to facilitate rapid, data-efficient updates to KG embeddings without compromising the performance of other aspects. We build four new datasets: E-FB15k237, A-FB15k237, E-WN18RR, and A-WN18RR, and evaluate several knowledge editing baselines demonstrating the limited ability of previous models to handle the proposed challenging task. We further propose a simple yet strong baseline dubbed KGEditor, which utilizes additional parametric layers of the hypernetwork to edit/add facts. Our comprehensive experimental results reveal that KGEditor excels in updating specific facts without impacting the overall performance, even when faced with limited training resources. Code and datasets will be available at https://github.com/AnonymousForPapers/DeltaKG.

AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Elijah: Eliminating Backdoors Injected in Diffusion Models via Distribution Shift

  • Shengwei An
  • Sheng-Yen Chou
  • Kaiyuan Zhang
  • Qiuling Xu
  • Guanhong Tao
  • Guangyu Shen
  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Shiqing Ma

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability of generating high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks as reported by recent studies. When a data input (e.g., some Gaussian noise) is stamped with a trigger (e.g., a white patch), the backdoored model always generates the target image (e.g., an improper photo). However, effective defense strategies to mitigate backdoors from DMs are underexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose the first backdoor detection and removal framework for DMs. We evaluate our framework Elijah on over hundreds of DMs of 3 types including DDPM, NCSN and LDM, with 13 samplers against 3 existing backdoor attacks. Extensive experiments show that our approach can have close to 100% detection accuracy and reduce the backdoor effects to close to zero without significantly sacrificing the model utility.

IJCAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

InstructEdit: Instruction-Based Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models

  • Ningyu Zhang
  • Bozhong Tian
  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Xiaozhuan Liang
  • Yi Hu
  • Kouying Xue
  • Yanjie Gou
  • Xi Chen

Knowledge editing for large language models can offer an efficient solution to alter a model’s behavior without negatively impacting the overall performance. However, the current approaches encounter issues with limited generalizability across tasks, necessitating one distinct editor for each task, significantly hindering the broader applications. To address this, we take the first step to analyze the multi-task generalization issue in knowledge editing. Specifically, we develop an instruction-based editing technique, termed InstructEdit, which facilitates the editor's adaptation to various task performances simultaneously using simple instructions. With only one unified editor for each LLM, we empirically demonstrate that InstructEdit can improve the editor's control, leading to an average 14. 86% increase in Reliability in multi-task editing setting. Furthermore, experiments involving holdout unseen task illustrate that InstructEdit consistently surpass previous strong baselines. To further investigate the underlying mechanisms of instruction-based knowledge editing, we analyze the principal components of the editing gradient directions, which unveils that instructions can help control optimization direction with stronger OOD generalization.

NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Django: Detecting Trojans in Object Detection Models via Gaussian Focus Calibration

  • Guangyu Shen
  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Guanhong Tao
  • Kaiyuan Zhang
  • Yingqi Liu
  • Shengwei An
  • Shiqing Ma
  • Xiangyu Zhang

Object detection models are vulnerable to backdoor or trojan attacks, where an attacker can inject malicious triggers into the model, leading to altered behavior during inference. As a defense mechanism, trigger inversion leverages optimization to reverse-engineer triggers and identify compromised models. While existing trigger inversion methods assume that each instance from the support set is equally affected by the injected trigger, we observe that the poison effect can vary significantly across bounding boxes in object detection models due to its dense prediction nature, leading to an undesired optimization objective misalignment issue for existing trigger reverse-engineering methods. To address this challenge, we propose the first object detection backdoor detection framework Django (Detecting Trojans in Object Detection Models via Gaussian Focus Calibration). It leverages a dynamic Gaussian weighting scheme that prioritizes more vulnerable victim boxes and assigns appropriate coefficients to calibrate the optimization objective during trigger inversion. In addition, we combine Django with a novel label proposal pre-processing technique to enhance its efficiency. We evaluate Django on 3 object detection image datasets, 3 model architectures, and 2 types of attacks, with a total of 168 models. Our experimental results show that Django outperforms 6 state-of-the-art baselines, with up to 38% accuracy improvement and 10x reduced overhead. The code is available at https: //github. com/PurduePAML/DJGO.

AAAI Conference 2023 Short Paper

Multi-Modal Protein Knowledge Graph Construction and Applications (Student Abstract)

  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Xiaozhuan Liang
  • Zhen Bi
  • Huajun Chen
  • Ningyu Zhang

Existing data-centric methods for protein science generally cannot sufficiently capture and leverage biology knowledge, which may be crucial for many protein tasks. To facilitate research in this field, we create ProteinKG65, a knowledge graph for protein science. Using gene ontology and Uniprot knowledge base as a basis, we transform and integrate various kinds of knowledge with aligned descriptions and protein sequences, respectively, to GO terms and protein entities. ProteinKG65 is mainly dedicated to providing a specialized protein knowledge graph, bringing the knowledge of Gene Ontology to protein function and structure prediction. We also illustrate the potential applications of ProteinKG65 with a prototype. Our dataset can be downloaded at https://w3id.org/proteinkg65.

AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

Deep Feature Space Trojan Attack of Neural Networks by Controlled Detoxification

  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Yingqi Liu
  • Shiqing Ma
  • Xiangyu Zhang

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a certain pattern called trigger, causing misclassification. Many existing trojan attacks have their triggers being input space patches/objects (e. g. , a polygon with solid color) or simple input transformations such as Instagram filters. These simple triggers are susceptible to recent backdoor detection algorithms. We propose a novel deep feature space trojan attack with five characteristics: effectiveness, stealthiness, controllability, robustness and reliance on deep features. We conduct extensive experiments on 9 image classifiers on various datasets including ImageNet to demonstrate these properties and show that our attack can evade state-of-the-art defense.

AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

Towards Feature Space Adversarial Attack by Style Perturbation

  • Qiuling Xu
  • Guanhong Tao
  • Siyuan Cheng
  • Xiangyu Zhang

We propose a new adversarial attack to Deep Neural Networks for image classification. Different from most existing attacks that directly perturb input pixels, our attack focuses on perturbing abstract features, more specifically, features that denote styles, including interpretable styles such as vivid colors and sharp outlines, and uninterpretable ones. It induces model misclassfication by injecting imperceptible style changes through an optimization procedure. We show that our attack can generate adversarial samples that are more natural-looking than the state-of-the-art unbounded attacks. The experiment also supports that existing pixel-space adversarial attack detection and defense techniques can hardly ensure robustness in the style related feature space. 1

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