Yingbin Jin


2026

As text-to-music models gain widespread adoption, the prompts used to guide these systems have become valuable intellectual property. This shift has given rise to a new form of attack: prompt stealing, aiming to reconstruct the high-value prompts that guide the music generation. However, unlike prior work in text and image generation, prompt stealing in text-to-music systems faces unique challenges due to the entangled and diffuse nature of semantic representations in audio, which complicates the decoupling of specific textual tokens from acoustic outputs. To address these challenges, we present AudioStealer, the first targeted study of prompt inversion in the audio domain. AudioStealer operates via a two-stage black-box attack framework: first, a heuristic search guided by audio-language embeddings identifies initial candidates; then, these candidates are refined using a game-theoretic strategy based on Shapley value estimation to attribute precise semantic contributions. Our method requires no direct access to the target model and relies solely on a shadow model, making it broadly applicable. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that AudioStealer recovers prompts with high textual consistency to the ground truth, while the regenerated audio maintains strong perceptual similarity to the target recordings. These results expose critical vulnerabilities in the text-to-audio market ecosystem and underscore the urgent need for intellectual property protections in generative audio technologies.

2025

The advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred a growing interest in their application to Named Entity Recognition (NER) methods. However, existing datasets are primarily designed for traditional machine learning methods and are inadequate for LLM-based methods, in terms of corpus selection and overall dataset design logic. Moreover, the prevalent fixed and relatively coarse-grained entity categorization in existing datasets fails to adequately assess the superior generalization and contextual understanding capabilities of LLM-based methods, thereby hindering a comprehensive demonstration of their broad application prospects. To address these limitations, we propose DynamicNER, the first NER dataset designed for LLM-based methods with dynamic categorization, introducing various entity types and entity type lists for the same entity in different context, leveraging the generalization of LLM-based NER better. The dataset is also multilingual and multi-granular, covering 8 languages and 155 entity types, with corpora spanning a diverse range of domains. Furthermore, we introduce CascadeNER, a novel NER method based on a two-stage strategy and lightweight LLMs, achieving higher accuracy on fine-grained tasks while requiring fewer computational resources. Experiments show that DynamicNER serves as a robust and effective benchmark for LLM-based NER methods. Furthermore, we also conduct analysis for traditional methods and LLM-based methods on our dataset. Our code and dataset are openly available at https://github.com/Astarojth/DynamicNER.