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AI security papers from top-4 security conferences

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AI Security Papers Guide (BIG4 Venues)

Overview

A curated collection of AI security papers from the top-4 security conferences: IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS. Covers adversarial attacks, model stealing, data poisoning, privacy attacks, deepfake detection, and LLM security. Organized by year and venue, focusing exclusively on peer-reviewed work from these prestigious venues.

Venues

VenueFull NameFocus
S&PIEEE Symposium on Security and PrivacyBroad security + privacy
CCSACM Conference on Computer and Communications SecuritySystems security
USENIXUSENIX Security SymposiumSystems + network security
NDSSNetwork and Distributed System SecurityNetwork security

Topic Categories

AI Security (BIG4)
β”œβ”€β”€ Adversarial ML
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Evasion attacks (adversarial examples)
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Poisoning attacks (backdoors, trojans)
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Model stealing (extraction, distillation)
β”‚   └── Defenses (certified robustness, detection)
β”œβ”€β”€ Privacy Attacks
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Membership inference
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Model inversion
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Attribute inference
β”‚   └── Training data extraction
β”œβ”€β”€ LLM Security
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Prompt injection
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Jailbreaking
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Data leakage
β”‚   └── Alignment attacks
β”œβ”€β”€ Deepfakes
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Generation methods
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ Detection techniques
β”‚   └── Watermarking
└── Federated Learning Security
    β”œβ”€β”€ Byzantine attacks
    β”œβ”€β”€ Gradient leakage
    └── Secure aggregation

Key Papers by Year

# Recent highlights
papers_2024_2025 = [
    {"title": "Not What You've Signed Up For: "
              "Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications",
     "venue": "S&P 2024", "topic": "LLM security"},
    {"title": "Prompt Stealing Attacks Against "
              "Text-to-Image Generation Models",
     "venue": "S&P 2024", "topic": "Prompt extraction"},
    {"title": "Backdoor Attacks on Language Models",
     "venue": "CCS 2024", "topic": "NLP backdoors"},
    {"title": "Membership Inference in LLMs",
     "venue": "USENIX 2024", "topic": "Privacy"},
]

for p in papers_2024_2025:
    print(f"[{p['venue']}] {p['title']}")
    print(f"  Topic: {p['topic']}")

Research Trends

### Emerging Areas (2024-2025)
1. **LLM security** β€” Jailbreaking, prompt injection, agent attacks
2. **Supply chain attacks** β€” Poisoned models, malicious packages
3. **Multi-modal attacks** β€” Cross-modal adversarial examples
4. **Agent security** β€” Attacks on LLM-based autonomous systems
5. **Watermarking** β€” LLM output detection, IP protection
6. **Unlearning** β€” Machine unlearning verification and attacks

Use Cases

  1. Security research: Find state-of-the-art attack/defense methods
  2. Threat modeling: Understand AI system vulnerabilities
  3. Literature review: Systematic coverage of BIG4 AI security
  4. Course material: Graduate-level AI security curriculum
  5. Red teaming: Learn evaluation techniques for AI systems

References

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