Rui Zhang

According to our database, Rui Zhang authored at least 25 papers between 2021 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Black-Box Skill Stealing Attack from Proprietary LLM Agents: An Empirical Study.

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu, Chi Liu, Qingchuan Zhao, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu

CoRR, April, 2026

The Art of (Mis)alignment: How Fine-Tuning Methods Effectively Misalign and Realign LLMs in Post-Training.

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Yun Shen, Xinyue Shen, Wenbo Jiang, Guowen Xu, Yang Liu, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang

CoRR, April, 2026

BadTemplate: A Training-Free Backdoor Attack via Chat Template Against Large Language Models.

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang, Guowen Xu

CoRR, February, 2026

Backdoor Complications: A Comprehensive Analysis and Mitigation of the Unforeseen Consequences of Backdoor Attacks.

Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang

IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2026

ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models.

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Wenshu Fan, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Guowen Xu

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

TimeSearch-R: Adaptive Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding via Self-Verification Reinforcement Learning.

Junwen Pan, Qizhe Zhang, Rui Zhang, Ming Lu, Xin Wan, Yuan Zhang, Chang Liu, Qi She

CoRR, November, 2025

Hidden Tail: Adversarial Image Causing Stealthy Resource Consumption in Vision-Language Models.

Rui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Tianli Yang, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Yang Liu, Guowen Xu

CoRR, August, 2025

TimeSearch: Hierarchical Video Search with Spotlight and Reflection for Human-like Long Video Understanding.

Junwen Pan, Rui Zhang, Xin Wan, Yuan Zhang, Ming Lu, Qi She

CoRR, April, 2025

A Hidden Backdoor Attack via Formal Text Style Transfer in Language Models.

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Rui Zhang, Jiaming He, Hanxiao Chen, Guowen Xu

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2025

The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks.

Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Stealthy Physical Backdoor Attacks Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems.

Wenbo Jiang, Hongwei Li, Yuxin Lu, Shuai Yuan, Rui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Qiyang Song, Dongxiao Liu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025

SecInfer: Secure and Efficient Model Inference on Vertically Partitioned Data.

Robert H. Deng, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Meng Hao, Pengzhi Xing, Jia Hu, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025

PromptNeedling: Jailbreaking Text-to-Video Generative Models.

Yiyang Mu, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang, Wenshu Fan

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025

CLBA: A Cross-Lingual Backdoor Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models.

Chi Liu, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Jiaming He, Wenbo Jiang

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025

Evaluating Robustness of Large Audio Language Models to Audio Injection: An Empirical Study.

Guanyu Hou, Jiaming He, Yinhang Zhou, Ji Guo, Yitong Qiao, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

Watch Out for Your Guidance on Generation! Exploring Conditional Backdoor Attacks against Large Language Models.

Jiaming He, Wenbo Jiang, Guanyu Hou, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li

Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

2024

Vertical Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Regions for Industry 4.0.

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Luoding Tian, Meng Hao, Yuan Zhang

IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, August, 2024

Combinational Backdoor Attack against Customized Text-to-Image Models.

Wenbo Jiang, Jiaming He, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, Rui Zhang, Hanxiao Chen, Meng Hao, Haomiao Yang

CoRR, 2024

One Prompt to Verify Your Models: Black-Box Text-to-Image Models Verification via Non-Transferable Adversarial Attacks.

Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Rui Zhang, Guoming Lu, Hongwei Li

CoRR, 2024

Talk Too Much: Poisoning Large Language Models under Token Limit.

Jiaming He, Wenbo Jiang, Guanyu Hou, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li

CoRR, 2024

Rapid Adoption, Hidden Risks: The Dual Impact of Large Language Model Customization.

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Rui Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yuan Zhang, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang

CoRR, 2024

Instruction Backdoor Attacks Against Customized LLMs.

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Rui Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yuan Zhang, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang

Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

Adversarial Robustness Poisoning: Increasing Adversarial Vulnerability of the Model via Data Poisoning.

Wenbo Jiang, Hongwei Li, Yuxin Lu, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang

Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024

2022

Secure Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning in eHealth Systems.

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022

2021

Towards Lightweight and Efficient Distributed Intrusion Detection Framework.

Shuai Yuan, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Meng Hao, Yiran Li, Rongxing Lu

Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2021