Zhengyuan Jiang
2026
Jailbreaking Safeguarded Text-to-Image Models via Large Language Models
Zhengyuan Jiang | Yuepeng Hu | Yuchen Yang | Yinzhi Cao | Neil Zhenqiang Gong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Zhengyuan Jiang | Yuepeng Hu | Yuchen Yang | Yinzhi Cao | Neil Zhenqiang Gong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Text-to-Image models may generate harmful content, such as pornographic images, particularly when unsafe prompts are submitted. To address this issue, safety filters are often added on top of text-to-image models, or the models themselves are aligned to reduce harmful outputs. However, these defenses remain vulnerable when an attacker strategically designs adversarial prompts to bypass these safety guardrails. In this work, we propose PromptTune, a method to jailbreak text-to-image models with safety guardrails using a fine-tuned large language model. Unlike other query-based jailbreak attacks that require repeated queries to the target model, our attack generates adversarial prompts efficiently after fine-tuning our AttackLLM. We evaluate our method on three datasets of unsafe prompts and against five safety guardrails. Our results demonstrate that our approach effectively bypasses safety guardrails, outperforms existing no-box attacks, and also facilitates other query-based attacks. Our code is available at https://github.com/zhengyuan-jiang/PromptTune.
Fingerprinting LLMs via Prompt Injection
Yuepeng Hu | Zhengyuan Jiang | Mengyuan Li | Osama Ahmed | Zhicong Huang | Cheng Hong | Neil Zhenqiang Gong
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yuepeng Hu | Zhengyuan Jiang | Mengyuan Li | Osama Ahmed | Zhicong Huang | Cheng Hong | Neil Zhenqiang Gong
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) are often modified after release through post-processing such as post-training or quantization, which makes it challenging to determine whether one model is derived from another. Existing provenance detection methods have two main limitations: (1) they embed signals into the base model before release, which is infeasible for already published models, or (2) they compare outputs across models using hand-crafted or random prompts, which are not robust to post-processing. In this work, we propose LLMPrint, a novel detection framework that constructs fingerprints by exploiting LLMs’ inherent vulnerability to prompt injection. Our key insight is that by optimizing fingerprint prompts to enforce consistent token preferences, we can obtain fingerprints that are both unique to the base model and robust to post-processing. We further develop a unified verification procedure that applies to both gray-box and black-box settings, with statistical guarantees. We evaluate LLMPrint on five base models and around 700 post-trained or quantized variants. Our results show that LLMPrint achieves high true positive rates while keeping false positive rates near zero. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/hifi-hyp/ACL-LLMPrint.
Learning from Textual Radiology Reports: A Benchmark Dataset for Coronary CT Angiography
Sudharshan Balaji | Zhiyu Liu | Zhengyuan Jiang | Shuo Lei | Yimin Chen | Yang Xiao | Shone O. Almeida | Mathew Joseph Karivelil | Christopher Malanga | Ning Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Sudharshan Balaji | Zhiyu Liu | Zhengyuan Jiang | Shuo Lei | Yimin Chen | Yang Xiao | Shone O. Almeida | Mathew Joseph Karivelil | Christopher Malanga | Ning Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
While coronary imaging is widely used for anatomical assessment, CCTA reports play a distinct last-mile role in clinical care. Ratherthan serving as an intermediate signal, CCTA provides an assessment of coronary disease severity (known as the CAD-RADS score) toguide patient management. However, real-world clinical text exhibits substantial heterogeneity in terminology and structure, leadingto inconsistent interpretation by automated systems, even for clinically similar cases. Recent work leverages a direct application ofLLMs for automated CAD-RADS scoring, but is limited by small, non-public, and homogeneous clinical data. We introduce CCTA-RADS, the largest publicly available dataset of 940 real-world CCTA reports from a major cardiovascular center, each annotated with CAD-RADS scores. Our analysis reveals that direct approaches, including state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-o3) and fine-tuned BERT models underperform on diverse real-world clinical data. To address these limitations, we propose a two-stage pipeline that decouples structuring from classification: an LLM-based parser normalizes heterogeneous reports into structured format, followed by fine-tuned BERT classification. This approach substantially improves the F1-score by 6%-13% compared with direct methods. We deploy our system as an interactive web interface that allows clinicians to upload CCTA reports for automated CAD-RADS assessment with SHAP and LIME explainability visualizations.