Zihao Wang
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2026
Activation-Guided Local Editing for Jailbreaking Attacks
Jiecong Wang | Haoran Li | Hao Peng | Ziqian Zeng | Zihao Wang | Haohua Du | Zhengtao Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jiecong Wang | Haoran Li | Hao Peng | Ziqian Zeng | Zihao Wang | Haohua Du | Zhengtao Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become indispensable assistants, they remain vulnerable to misuse. Jailbreaking is an essential adversarial technique for red-teaming models to uncover and patch security flaws. However, existing jailbreak methods suffer from significant limitations. Token-level jailbreak attacks often produce incoherent or unreadable inputs and exhibit poor transferability, while prompt-level attacks lack scalability and rely heavily on manual effort and human ingenuity. We propose AGILE, a concise and effective two-stage framework that combines the advantages of these approaches. The first stage performs a one-shot, scenario-based generation of context and rephrases the original malicious query to obscure its harmful intent. The second stage utilizes information from the model’s hidden states to guide fine-grained edits, effectively steering the model’s internal representation of the input from a malicious one toward a benign one. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AGILE achieves state-of-the-art Attack Success Rate, with gains of up to 37.74% over the strongest baseline, and AGILE exhibits excellent transferability to black-box and large-scale models. Our code is available at https://github.com/SELGroup/AGILE.
AudioStealer: Extracting Audio Prompts via Shapley Value-Guided Query Search
Yingbin Jin | Xingjian Du | Hanjun Luo | Zihao Wang | Haibo Hu | XiaoFeng Wang | Xinfeng Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yingbin Jin | Xingjian Du | Hanjun Luo | Zihao Wang | Haibo Hu | XiaoFeng Wang | Xinfeng Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 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.
Hey, That’s My Data! Token-Only Dataset Inference in Large Language Models
Chen Xiong | Zihao Wang | Rui Zhu | Tsung-Yi Ho | Pin-Yu Chen | Jingwei Xiong | Haixu Tang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Chen Xiong | Zihao Wang | Rui Zhu | Tsung-Yi Ho | Pin-Yu Chen | Jingwei Xiong | Haixu Tang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on massive training datasets, often including proprietary data, which raises concerns about unauthorized usage and copyright infringement. Existing dataset inference methods typically require access to log probabilities or other internal signals, but many modern LLMs restrict such access, motivating token-only inference approaches. We propose CatShift, a token-only dataset inference framework based on catastrophic forgetting, where models overwrite prior knowledge when trained on new data. Fine-tuning an LLM on a subset of its training data induces larger output shifts than fine-tuning on unseen data. CatShift compares these shifts against those from a known non-member validation set to infer whether a dataset was included in training. Experiments on both open-source and API-based LLMs show that CatShift remains effective without logit access, enabling practical protection of proprietary datasets.