Shiqing Ma

Orcid: 0000-0003-1551-8948

Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, Amherst, MA, USA
  • Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2019 - 2023)
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (PhD 2019)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (until 2013)


According to our database1, Shiqing Ma authored at least 139 papers between 2013 and 2026.

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2026
Survey on Federated Unlearning: Challenges and Opportunities.
IEEE Trans. Big Data, June, 2026

REBENCH: A Procedural, Fair-by-Construction Benchmark for LLMs on Stripped-Binary Types and Names (Extended Version).
CoRR, April, 2026

Train in Vain: Functionality-Preserving Poisoning to Prevent Unauthorized Use of Code Datasets.
CoRR, April, 2026

Weaponizing the Commons: A Taxonomy and Detection Framework of Abuse on GitHub.
CoRR, April, 2026

Domain-Specialized Tree of Thought through Plug-and-Play Predictors.
CoRR, March, 2026

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report.
CoRR, February, 2026

JailGuard: A Universal Detection Framework for Prompt-based Attacks on LLM Systems.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., January, 2026

Small Symbols, Big Risks: Exploring Emoticon Semantic Confusion in Large Language Models.
CoRR, January, 2026

From Chaos to Clarity: A Knowledge Graph-Driven Audit Dataset Generation Framework for LLM Unlearning.
Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025
PROMPTMINER: Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement Learning and Fuzz Optimization.
CoRR, November, 2025

Rethinking Provenance Completeness with a Learning-Based Linux Scheduler.
CoRR, October, 2025

Rethinking Technology Stack Selection with AI Coding Proficiency.
CoRR, September, 2025

Mitigating Stylistic Biases of Machine Translation Systems via Monolingual Corpora Only.
CoRR, July, 2025

Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice.
CoRR, July, 2025

ASSURE: Metamorphic Testing for AI-powered Browser Extensions.
CoRR, July, 2025

The Foundation Cracks: A Comprehensive Study on Bugs and Testing Practices in LLM Libraries.
CoRR, June, 2025

EDITOR: Effective and Interpretable Prompt Inversion for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models.
CoRR, June, 2025

DREAM: Debugging and Repairing AutoML Pipelines.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., May, 2025

VIDSTAMP: A Temporally-Aware Watermark for Ownership and Integrity in Video Diffusion Models.
CoRR, May, 2025

Exposing Product Bias in LLM Investment Recommendation.
CoRR, March, 2025

Holistic Audit Dataset Generation for LLM Unlearning via Knowledge Graph Traversal and Redundancy Removal.
CoRR, February, 2025

Safety at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey of Large Model Safety.
CoRR, February, 2025

Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation.
CoRR, January, 2025

An Automated Monitoring and Repairing System for DNN Training.
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2025

DeCoMa: Detecting and Purifying Code Dataset Watermarks through Dual Channel Code Abstraction.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2025

Safety at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey of Large Model and Agent Safety.
Found. Trends Priv. Secur., 2025

BAIT: Large Language Model Backdoor Scanning by Inverting Attack Target.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025

Repurposing Neural Networks for Efficient Cryptographic Computation.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025

Data-centric NLP Backdoor Defense from the Lens of Memorization.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29, 2025

An Optimizable Suffix Is Worth A Thousand Templates: Efficient Black-box Jailbreaking without Affirmative Phrases via LLM as Optimizer.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29, 2025

STAFF: Speculative Coreset Selection for Task-Specific Fine-tuning.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Invisible Backdoor Attack against Self-supervised Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

MLLM-as-a-Judge for Image Safety without Human Labeling.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

Tightening Robustness Verification of MaxPool-based Neural Networks via Minimizing the Over-Approximation Zone.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

Uncertainty Quantification for Multiple-Choice Questions is Just One-Token Deep.
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation.
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Token-Budget-Aware LLM Reasoning.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024
COSTELLO: Contrastive Testing for Embedding-Based Large Language Model as a Service Embeddings.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2024

Continuous Concepts Removal in Text-to-image Diffusion Models.
CoRR, 2024

Bias Similarity Across Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2024

Speculative Coreset Selection for Task-Specific Fine-tuning.
CoRR, 2024

Unlocking Adversarial Suffix Optimization Without Affirmative Phrases: Efficient Black-box Jailbreaking via LLM as Optimizer.
CoRR, 2024

Uncertainty is Fragile: Manipulating Uncertainty in Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2024

CITADEL: Context Similarity Based Deep Learning Framework Bug Finding.
CoRR, 2024

MeanSparse: Post-Training Robustness Enhancement Through Mean-Centered Feature Sparsification.
CoRR, 2024

From Effectiveness to Efficiency: Comparative Evaluation of Code Generated by LCGMs for Bilingual Programming Questions.
CoRR, 2024

Towards Imperceptible Backdoor Attack in Self-supervised Learning.
CoRR, 2024

SoK: Challenges and Opportunities in Federated Unlearning.
CoRR, 2024

Rapid Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs via Subconscious Exploitation and Echopraxia.
CoRR, 2024

DREAM: Debugging and Repairing AutoML Pipelines.
CoRR, 2024

Exploring the Orthogonality and Linearity of Backdoor Attacks.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024

Distribution Preserving Backdoor Attack in Self-supervised Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024

OdScan: Backdoor Scanning for Object Detection Models.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024

Gradient Shaping: Enhancing Backdoor Attack Against Reverse Engineering.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2024

Efficient DNN-Powered Software with Fair Sparse Models.
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2024

How to Trace Latent Generative Model Generated Images without Artificial Watermark?
Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

DIAGNOSIS: Detecting Unauthorized Data Usages in Text-to-image Diffusion Models.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

UNIT: Backdoor Mitigation via Automated Neural Distribution Tightening.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

Towards General Robustness Verification of MaxPool-Based Convolutional Neural Networks via Tightening Linear Approximation.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

Lotus: Evasive and Resilient Backdoor Attacks through Sub-Partitioning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

Merlin: Multi-tier Optimization of eBPF Code for Performance and Compactness.
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024

Exploring Inherent Backdoors in Deep Learning Models.
Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2024

Elijah: Eliminating Backdoors Injected in Diffusion Models via Distribution Shift.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023
Finding Deviated Behaviors of the Compressed DNN Models for Image Classifications.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., September, 2023

autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation With Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng., April, 2023

How to Detect Unauthorized Data Usages in Text-to-image Diffusion Models.
CoRR, 2023

Alteration-free and Model-agnostic Origin Attribution of Generated Images.
CoRR, 2023

Gradient Shaping: Enhancing Backdoor Attack Against Reverse Engineering.
CoRR, 2023

KENKU: Towards Efficient and Stealthy Black-box Adversarial Attacks against ASR Systems.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

AIRTAG: Towards Automated Attack Investigation by Unsupervised Learning with Log Texts.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

The Case for Learned Provenance Graph Storage Systems.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

ImU: Physical Impersonating Attack for Face Recognition System with Natural Style Changes.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023

Where Did I Come From? Origin Attribution of AI-Generated Images.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Django: Detecting Trojans in Object Detection Models via Gaussian Focus Calibration.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

BEAGLE: Forensics of Deep Learning Backdoor Attack for Better Defense.
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2023

CILIATE: Towards Fairer Class-Based Incremental Learning by Dataset and Training Refinement.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2023

UNICORN: A Unified Backdoor Trigger Inversion Framework.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

Get Your Cyber-Physical Tests Done! Data-Driven Vulnerability Assessment of Robotic Aerial Vehicles.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network, 2023

Detecting Backdoors in Pre-trained Encoders.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023

NOTABLE: Transferable Backdoor Attacks Against Prompt-based NLP Models.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022
Deep Learning Backdoors.
Security and Artificial Intelligence, 2022

TnT Attacks! Universal Naturalistic Adversarial Patches Against Deep Neural Network Systems.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2022

Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Normally Trained Deep Learning Models.
CoRR, 2022

Apple of Sodom: Hidden Backdoors in Superior Sentence Embeddings via Contrastive Learning.
CoRR, 2022

Neural Network Trojans Analysis and Mitigation from the Input Domain.
CoRR, 2022

Constrained Optimization with Dynamic Bound-scaling for Effective NLPBackdoor Defense.
CoRR, 2022

Piccolo: Exposing Complex Backdoors in NLP Transformer Models.
Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022

Rethinking the Reverse-engineering of Trojan Triggers.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Training with More Confidence: Mitigating Injected and Natural Backdoors During Training.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Achieving Both Model Accuracy and Robustness by Adversarial Training with Batch Norm Shaping.
Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2022

Fairneuron: Improving Deep Neural Network Fairness with Adversary Games on Selective Neurons.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2022

Constrained Optimization with Dynamic Bound-scaling for Effective NLP Backdoor Defense.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022

Dynamic Backdoor Attacks Against Machine Learning Models.
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022

BppAttack: Stealthy and Efficient Trojan Attacks against Deep Neural Networks via Image Quantization and Contrastive Adversarial Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022

Better Trigger Inversion Optimization in Backdoor Scanning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022

Complex Backdoor Detection by Symmetric Feature Differencing.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022

2021
To what extent do DNN-based image classification models make unreliable inferences?
Empir. Softw. Eng., 2021

Fast Test Input Generation for Finding Deviated Behaviors in Compressed Deep Neural Network.
CoRR, 2021

EX-RAY: Distinguishing Injected Backdoor from Natural Features in Neural Networks by Examining Differential Feature Symmetry.
CoRR, 2021

ELISE: A Storage Efficient Logging System Powered by Redundancy Reduction and Representation Learning.
Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021

ATLAS: A Sequence-based Learning Approach for Attack Investigation.
Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021

SemFlow: Accurate Semantic Identification from Low-Level System Data.
Proceedings of the Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2021

ALchemist: Fusing Application and Audit Logs for Precise Attack Provenance without Instrumentation.
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2021

AUTOTRAINER: An Automatic DNN Training Problem Detection and Repair System.
Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2021

Backdoor Scanning for Deep Neural Networks through K-Arm Optimization.
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021

BadNL: Backdoor Attacks against NLP Models with Semantic-preserving Improvements.
Proceedings of the ACSAC '21: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Virtual Event, USA, December 6, 2021

Deep Feature Space Trojan Attack of Neural Networks by Controlled Detoxification.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020
Deep Learning Backdoors.
CoRR, 2020

BadNL: Backdoor Attacks Against NLP Models.
CoRR, 2020

C2S: translating natural language comments to formal program specifications.
Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

Correlations between deep neural network model coverage criteria and model quality.
Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

UIScope: Accurate, Instrumentation-free, and Visible Attack Investigation for GUI Applications.
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2020

FineLock: automatically refactoring coarse-grained locks into fine-grained locks.
Proceedings of the ISSTA '20: 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2020

CPC: automatically classifying and propagating natural language comments via program analysis.
Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

TRADER: trace divergence analysis and embedding regulation for debugging recurrent neural networks.
Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

2019
Testing Deep Learning Models for Image Analysis Using Object-Relevant Metamorphic Relations.
CoRR, 2019

ProFuzzer: On-the-fly Input Type Probing for Better Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovery.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019

Programming support for autonomizing software.
Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2019

NIC: Detecting Adversarial Samples with Neural Network Invariant Checking.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2019

SLF: fuzzing without valid seed inputs.
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, 2019

White-Box Program Tuning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2019

ABS: Scanning Neural Networks for Back-doors by Artificial Brain Stimulation.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2019

2018
Kernel-Supported Cost-Effective Audit Logging for Causality Tracking.
Proceedings of the 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2018

MODE: automated neural network model debugging via state differential analysis and input selection.
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018

Attacks Meet Interpretability: Attribute-steered Detection of Adversarial Samples.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

Trojaning Attack on Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2018

MCI : Modeling-based Causality Inference in Audit Logging for Attack Investigation.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2018

Dual-force: understanding WebView malware via cross-language forced execution.
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2018

Debugging with intelligence via probabilistic inference.
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2018

Lprov: Practical Library-aware Provenance Tracing.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2018

2017
MPI: Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation with Semantic Aware Execution Partitioning.
Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium, 2017

LAMP: data provenance for graph based machine learning algorithms through derivative computation.
Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2017

A Hypervisor Level Provenance System to Reconstruct Attack Story Caused by Kernel Malware.
Proceedings of the Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2017

2016
ProTracer: Towards Practical Provenance Tracing by Alternating Between Logging and Tainting.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2016

Automatic model generation from documentation for Java API functions.
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016

HERCULE: attack story reconstruction via community discovery on correlated log graph.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications, 2016

2015
Accurate, Low Cost and Instrumentation-Free Security Audit Logging for Windows.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2015

2013
COLO: COarse-grained LOck-stepping virtual machines for non-stop service.
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC '13, 2013


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