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Dawn Song

University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Division

59 papers at tracked venues · 52 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ICML ×13NeurIPS ×13ICLR ×8ACL ×6S&P ×5EMNLP ×4AAAI ×2VLDB ×2AsiaCCS ×1CHI ×1ICSME ×1ISSTA ×1NDSS ×1PLDI ×1

Frequent coauthors

Bo Li
×18
Xuandong Zhao
×10
Ruoxi Jia
×8
Zhun Wang
×7
Chenguang Wang
×6
Jiachen T. Wang
×5
Wenbo Guo
×5
Qinbin Li
×5
Chulin Xie
×5
Nicholas Crispino
×4
Kyle Montgomery
×4
Yi Zeng
×4

Papers

  1. Can Editing LLMs Inject Harm?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Canyu Chen
    ,
    Baixiang Huang
    ,
    Zekun Li
    ,
    Zhaorun Chen
    ,
    Shiyang Lai
    ,
    Xiongxiao Xu
    ,
    Jia-Chen Gu
    ,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Huaxiu Yao
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Xifeng Yan
    ,
    William Yang Wang
    ,
    Philip Torr
    , Dawn Song,
    Kai Shu
  2. Fico: Evaluating Vision-Language Models under Visual Fidelity and Compression at Scale
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jianhong Tu
    ,
    Nicholas Crispino
    ,
    Kyle Montgomery
    ,
    Chenguang Wang
    , Dawn Song
  3. Position: LLM Watermarking Should Align Stakeholders' Incentives for Practical Adoption
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yepeng Liu
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    , Dawn Song,
    Gregory W. Wornell
    ,
    Yuheng Bu
  4. Uncertainty Quantification in LLM Agents: Foundations, Emerging Challenges, and Opportunities
    ACL 2026 ·
    Changdae Oh
    ,
    Seongheon Park
    ,
    To Eun Kim
    ,
    Jiatong Li
    ,
    Wendi Li
    ,
    Samuel Yeh
    ,
    Sean Du
    ,
    Hamed Hassani
    ,
    Paul Bogdan
    , Dawn Song,
    Sharon Li
  5. dLLM: Simple Diffusion Language Modeling
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhanhui Zhou
    ,
    Lingjie Chen
    ,
    Hanghang Tong
    , Dawn Song
  6. A Sustainable AI Economy Needs Data Deals That Work for Generators
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ruoxi Jia
    ,
    Luis Oala
    ,
    Wenjie Xiong
    ,
    Suqin Ge
    ,
    Jiachen (Tianhao) Wang
    ,
    Feiyang Kang
    , Dawn Song
  7. AGENTVIGIL: Automatic Black-Box Red-teaming for Indirect Prompt Injection against LLM Agents
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Vincent Siu
    ,
    Zhe Ye
    ,
    Tianneng Shi
    ,
    Yuzhou Nie
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Chenguang Wang
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    , Dawn Song
  8. AIR-BENCH 2024: A Safety Benchmark based on Regulation and Policies Specified Risk Categories
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yi Zeng
    ,
    Yu Yang
    ,
    Andy Zhou
    ,
    Jeffrey Ziwei Tan
    ,
    Yuheng Tu
    ,
    Yifan Mai
    ,
    Kevin Klyman
    ,
    Minzhou Pan
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
    , Dawn Song,
    Percy Liang
    ,
    Bo Li
  9. An Undetectable Watermark for Generative Image Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Sam Gunn
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    , Dawn Song
  10. BountyBench: Dollar Impact of AI Agent Attackers and Defenders on Real-World Cybersecurity Systems
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Andy K. Zhang
    ,
    Joey Ji
    ,
    Celeste Menders
    ,
    Riya Dulepet
    ,
    Thomas Qin
    ,
    Ron Yifeng Wang
    ,
    Junrong Wu
    ,
    Kyleen Liao
    ,
    Jiliang Li
    ,
    Jinghan Hu
    ,
    Sara Hong
    ,
    Nardos Demilew
    ,
    Shivatmica Murgai
    ,
    Jason Tran
    ,
    Nishka Kacheria
    ,
    Ethan Ho
    ,
    Denis Liu
    ,
    Lauren McLane
    ,
    Olivia Bruvik
    ,
    Dai-Rong Han
    ,
    Seungwoo Kim
    ,
    Akhil Vyas
    ,
    Cuiyuanxiu Chen
    ,
    Ryan Li
    ,
    Weiran Xu
    ,
    Jonathan Z. Ye
    ,
    Prerit Choudhary
    ,
    Siddharth M. Bhatia
    ,
    Vikram Sivashankar
    ,
    Yuxuan Bao
    , Dawn Song,
    Dan Boneh
    ,
    Daniel E. Ho
    ,
    Percy Liang
  11. COSMIC: Generalized Refusal Direction Identification in LLM Activations
    ACL 2025 ·
    Vincent Siu
    ,
    Nicholas Crispino
    ,
    Zihao Yu
    ,
    Sam Pan
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Yang Liu
    , Dawn Song,
    Chenguang Wang
  12. Capturing the Temporal Dependence of Training Data Influence
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiachen T. Wang
    , Dawn Song,
    James Zou
    ,
    Prateek Mittal
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
  13. CodeHalu: Investigating Code Hallucinations in LLMs via Execution-based Verification
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yuchen Tian
    ,
    Weixiang Yan
    ,
    Qian Yang
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Qian Chen
    ,
    Wen Wang
    ,
    Ziyang Luo
    ,
    Lei Ma
    , Dawn Song
  14. Data Shapley in One Training Run
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiachen T. Wang
    ,
    Prateek Mittal
    , Dawn Song,
    Ruoxi Jia
  15. DataSentinel: A Game-Theoretic Detection of Prompt Injection Attacks
    S&P 2025 ·
    Yupei Liu
    ,
    Yuqi Jia
    ,
    Jinyuan Jia
    , Dawn Song,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
  16. Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs
    ISSTA 2025 ·
    Kaihua Qin
    ,
    Zhe Ye
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Weilin Li
    ,
    Liyi Zhou
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    , Dawn Song,
    Arthur Gervais
  17. GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Zhen Xiang
    ,
    Linzhi Zheng
    ,
    Yanjie Li
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Han Xie
    ,
    Jiawei Zhang
    ,
    Zidi Xiong
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Carl Yang
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  18. HADES: Range-Filtered Private Aggregation on Public Data
    VLDB 2025 ·
    Xiaoyuan Liu
    ,
    Ni Trieu
    ,
    Trinabh Gupta
    ,
    Ishtiyaque Ahmad
    , Dawn Song
  19. Improving LLM Safety Alignment with Dual-Objective Optimization
    ICML 2025 ·
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Will Cai
    ,
    Tianneng Shi
    ,
    David Huang
    ,
    Licong Lin
    ,
    Song Mei
    , Dawn Song
  20. Multimodal Situational Safety
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Kaiwen Zhou
    ,
    Chengzhi Liu
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Anderson Compalas
    , Dawn Song,
    Xin Eric Wang
  21. OMEGA: Can LLMs Reason Outside the Box in Math? Evaluating Exploratory, Compositional, and Transformative Generalization
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yiyou Sun
    ,
    Shawn Hu
    ,
    Georgia Zhou
    ,
    Ken Zheng
    ,
    Hanna Hajishirzi
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    , Dawn Song
  22. OVERT: A Benchmark for Over-Refusal Evaluation on Text-to-Image Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ziheng Cheng
    ,
    Yixiao Huang
    ,
    Hui Xu
    ,
    Somayeh Sojoudi
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    , Dawn Song,
    Song Mei
  23. Position: Formal Mathematical Reasoning - A New Frontier in AI
    ICML 2025 ·
    Kaiyu Yang
    ,
    Gabriel Poesia
    ,
    Jingxuan He
    ,
    Wenda Li
    ,
    Kristin E. Lauter
    ,
    Swarat Chaudhuri
    , Dawn Song
  24. Position: In-House Evaluation Is Not Enough. Towards Robust Third-Party Evaluation and Flaw Disclosure for General-Purpose AI
    ICML 2025 ·
    Shayne Longpre
    ,
    Kevin Klyman
    ,
    Ruth Elisabeth Appel
    ,
    Sayash Kapoor
    ,
    Rishi Bommasani
    ,
    Michelle Sahar
    ,
    Sean McGregor
    ,
    Avijit Ghosh
    ,
    Borhane Blili-Hamelin
    ,
    Nathan Butters
    ,
    Alondra Nelson
    ,
    Amit Elazari
    ,
    Andrew Sellars
    ,
    Casey John Ellis
    ,
    Dane Sherrets
    , Dawn Song,
    Harley Geiger
    ,
    Ilona Cohen
    ,
    Lauren McIlvenny
    ,
    Madhulika Srikumar
    ,
    Mark M. Jaycox
    ,
    Markus Anderljung
    ,
    Nadine Farid Johnson
    ,
    Nicholas Carlini
    ,
    Nicolas Miailhe
    ,
    Nik Marda
    ,
    Peter Henderson
    ,
    Rebecca S. Portnoff
    ,
    Rebecca Weiss
    ,
    Victoria Westerhoff
    ,
    Yacine Jernite
    ,
    Rumman Chowdhury
    ,
    Percy Liang
    ,
    Arvind Narayanan
  25. Position: Political Neutrality in AI Is Impossible - But Here Is How to Approximate It
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jillian Fisher
    ,
    Ruth Elisabeth Appel
    ,
    Chan Young Park
    ,
    Yujin Potter
    ,
    Liwei Jiang
    ,
    Taylor Sorensen
    ,
    Shangbin Feng
    ,
    Yulia Tsvetkov
    ,
    Margaret E. Roberts
    ,
    Jennifer Pan
    , Dawn Song,
    Yejin Choi
  26. SECODEPLT: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating the Security Risks and Capabilities of Code GenAI
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yuzhou Nie
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Yu Yang
    ,
    Ruizhe Jiang
    ,
    Yuheng Tang
    ,
    Xander Davies
    ,
    Yarin Gal
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    , Dawn Song
  27. SafeKey: Amplifying Aha-Moment Insights for Safety Reasoning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Kaiwen Zhou
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Jayanth Srinivasa
    ,
    Gaowen Liu
    ,
    Aosong Feng
    , Dawn Song,
    Xin Eric Wang
  28. Scalable Best-of-N Selection for Large Language Models via Self-Certainty
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhewei Kang
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    , Dawn Song
  29. SoK: Watermarking for AI-Generated Content
    S&P 2025 ·
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Sam Gunn
    ,
    Miranda Christ
    ,
    Jaiden Fairoze
    ,
    Andrés Fábrega
    ,
    Nicholas Carlini
    ,
    Sanjam Garg
    ,
    Sanghyun Hong
    ,
    Milad Nasr
    ,
    Florian Tramèr
    ,
    Somesh Jha
    ,
    Lei Li
    ,
    Yu-Xiang Wang
    , Dawn Song
  30. Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Rishub Tamirisa
    ,
    Bhrugu Bharathi
    ,
    Long Phan
    ,
    Andy Zhou
    ,
    Alice Gatti
    ,
    Tarun Suresh
    ,
    Maxwell Lin
    ,
    Justin Wang
    ,
    Rowan Wang
    ,
    Ron Arel
    ,
    Andy Zou
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Dan Hendrycks
    ,
    Mantas Mazeika
  31. Type-Constrained Code Generation with Language Models
    PLDI 2025 ·
    Niels Mündler
    ,
    Jingxuan He
    ,
    Hao Wang
    ,
    Koushik Sen
    , Dawn Song,
    Martin T. Vechev
  32. VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yujin Potter
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Nicholas Crispino
    ,
    Kyle Montgomery
    ,
    Alexander Xiong
    ,
    Ethan Y. Chang
    ,
    Francesco Pinto
    ,
    Yuqi Chen
    ,
    Rahul Gupta
    ,
    Morteza Ziyadi
    ,
    Christos Christodoulopoulos
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Chenguang Wang
    , Dawn Song
  33. Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yiyou Sun
    ,
    Yu Gai
    ,
    Lijie Chen
    ,
    Abhilasha Ravichander
    ,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Nouha Dziri
    , Dawn Song
  34. "I Can't Believe It's Not Custodial!": Usable Trustless Decentralized Key Management
    CHI 2024 ·
    Tanusree Sharma
    ,
    Vivek C. Nair
    ,
    Henry Wang
    ,
    Yang Wang
    , Dawn Song
  35. Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners
    ICML 2024 ·
    Nicholas Crispino
    ,
    Kyle Montgomery
    ,
    Fankun Zeng
    , Dawn Song,
    Chenguang Wang
  36. AgentPoison: Red-teaming LLM Agents via Poisoning Memory or Knowledge Bases
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zhaorun Chen
    ,
    Zhen Xiang
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  37. BEEAR: Embedding-based Adversarial Removal of Safety Backdoors in Instruction-tuned Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yi Zeng
    ,
    Weiyu Sun
    ,
    Tran Ngoc Huynh
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
  38. Boosting Alignment for Post-Unlearning Text-to-Image Generative Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Myeongseob Ko
    ,
    Henry Li
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Jonathan Patsenker
    ,
    Jiachen T. Wang
    ,
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Ming Jin
    , Dawn Song,
    Ruoxi Jia
  39. C-RAG: Certified Generation Risks for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Mintong Kang
    ,
    Nezihe Merve Gürel
    ,
    Ning Yu
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  40. Data Free Backdoor Attacks
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Bochuan Cao
    ,
    Jinyuan Jia
    ,
    Chuxuan Hu
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    ,
    Zhen Xiang
    ,
    Jinghui Chen
    ,
    Bo Li
    , Dawn Song
  41. Decoding Compressed Trust: Scrutinizing the Trustworthiness of Efficient LLMs Under Compression
    ICML 2024 ·
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Chenhui Zhang
    ,
    Zhangheng Li
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Kelsey Lieberman
    ,
    James Diffenderfer
    ,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Ajay Kumar Jaiswal
    ,
    Kaidi Xu
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Dan Hendrycks
    , Dawn Song,
    Zhangyang Wang
    ,
    Bo Li
  42. Effective and Efficient Federated Tree Learning on Hybrid Data
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Xiaojun Xu
    ,
    Xiaoyuan Liu
    ,
    Ce Zhang
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Bingsheng He
    , Dawn Song
  43. GRATH: Gradual Self-Truthifying for Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Weixin Chen
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  44. GREATS: Online Selection of High-Quality Data for LLM Training in Every Iteration
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Jiachen T. Wang
    ,
    Tong Wu
    , Dawn Song,
    Prateek Mittal
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
  45. Hidden Persuaders: LLMs' Political Leaning and Their Influence on Voters
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yujin Potter
    ,
    Shiyang Lai
    ,
    Junsol Kim
    ,
    James Evans
    , Dawn Song
  46. LLM-PBE: Assessing Data Privacy in Large Language Models
    VLDB 2024 ·
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Jeffrey Tan
    ,
    Rachel Xin
    ,
    Junyi Hou
    ,
    Xavier Yin
    ,
    Zhun Wang
    ,
    Dan Hendrycks
    ,
    Zhangyang Wang
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Bingsheng He
    , Dawn Song
  47. Pianist: Scalable zkRollups via Fully Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs
    S&P 2024 ·
    Tianyi Liu
    ,
    Tiancheng Xie
    ,
    Jiaheng Zhang
    , Dawn Song,
    Yupeng Zhang
  48. Position: Evolving AI Collectives Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation
    ICML 2024 ·
    Shiyang Lai
    ,
    Yujin Potter
    ,
    Junsol Kim
    ,
    Richard Zhuang
    , Dawn Song,
    James Evans
  49. Position: On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Sayash Kapoor
    ,
    Rishi Bommasani
    ,
    Kevin Klyman
    ,
    Shayne Longpre
    ,
    Ashwin Ramaswami
    ,
    Peter Cihon
    ,
    Aspen K. Hopkins
    ,
    Kevin Bankston
    ,
    Stella Biderman
    ,
    Miranda Bogen
    ,
    Rumman Chowdhury
    ,
    Alex Engler
    ,
    Peter Henderson
    ,
    Yacine Jernite
    ,
    Seth Lazar
    ,
    Stefano Maffulli
    ,
    Alondra Nelson
    ,
    Joelle Pineau
    ,
    Aviya Skowron
    , Dawn Song,
    Victor Storchan
    ,
    Daniel Zhang
    ,
    Daniel E. Ho
    ,
    Percy Liang
    ,
    Arvind Narayanan
  50. Ratel: MPC-extensions for Smart Contracts
    AsiaCCS 2024 ·
    Yunqi Li
    ,
    Kyle Soska
    ,
    Zhen Huang
    ,
    Sylvain Bellemare
    ,
    Mikerah Quintyne-Collins
    ,
    Lun Wang
    ,
    Xiaoyuan Liu
    , Dawn Song,
    Andrew Miller
  51. Re-Tuning: Overcoming the Compositionality Limits of Large Language Models with Recursive Tuning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Eric Pasewark
    ,
    Kyle Montgomery
    ,
    Kefei Duan
    , Dawn Song,
    Chenguang Wang
  52. RedCode: Risky Code Execution and Generation Benchmark for Code Agents
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Chengquan Guo
    ,
    Xun Liu
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Andy Zhou
    ,
    Yi Zeng
    ,
    Zinan Lin
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  53. RigorLLM: Resilient Guardrails for Large Language Models against Undesired Content
    ICML 2024 ·
    Zhuowen Yuan
    ,
    Zidi Xiong
    ,
    Yi Zeng
    ,
    Ning Yu
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
    , Dawn Song,
    Bo Li
  54. SHINE: Shielding Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Zhuowen Yuan
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    ,
    Jinyuan Jia
    ,
    Bo Li
    , Dawn Song
  55. SoK: Privacy-Preserving Data Synthesis
    S&P 2024 ·
    Yuzheng Hu
    ,
    Fan Wu
    ,
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Yunhui Long
    ,
    Gonzalo Munilla Garrido
    ,
    Chang Ge
    ,
    Bolin Ding
    ,
    David A. Forsyth
    ,
    Bo Li
    , Dawn Song
  56. Specular: Towards Secure, Trust-minimized Optimistic Blockchain Execution
    S&P 2024 ·
    Zhe Ye
    ,
    Ujval Misra
    ,
    Jiajun Cheng
    ,
    Wenyang Zhou
    , Dawn Song
  57. TextGuard: Provable Defense against Backdoor Attacks on Text Classification
    NDSS 2024 ·
    Hengzhi Pei
    ,
    Jinyuan Jia
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    ,
    Bo Li
    , Dawn Song
  58. The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Arnav Gudibande
    ,
    Eric Wallace
    ,
    Charlie Snell
    ,
    Xinyang Geng
    ,
    Hao Liu
    ,
    Pieter Abbeel
    ,
    Sergey Levine
    , Dawn Song
  59. VFIX: Facilitating Software Maintenance of Smart Contracts via Automatically Fixing Vulnerabilities
    ICSME 2024 ·
    Pengcheng Fang
    ,
    Peng Gao
    ,
    Yun Peng
    ,
    Qingzhao Zhang
    ,
    Tao Xie
    , Dawn Song,
    Prateek Mittal
    ,
    Sanjeev R. Kulkarni
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Xusheng Xiao