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Ke Xu

42 papers at tracked venues · 37 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Qi Li
×33
Zhuotao Liu
×15
Kun Sun
×9
Xinhao Deng
×7
Han Qiu
×5
Xuewei Feng
×5
Yi Zhao
×4
Chuanpu Fu
×4
Tianwei Zhang
×4
Qilei Yin
×4
Ziqiang Wang
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Mingwei Xu
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Papers

  1. A Hard-Label Black-Box Evasion Attack against ML-based Malicious Traffic Detection Systems
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Zixuan Liu
    ,
    Yi Zhao
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Chuanpu Fu
    ,
    Guangmeng Zhou
    , Ke Xu
  2. Achieving Interpretable DL-based Web Attack Detection through Malicious Payload Localization
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Peiyang Li
    ,
    Fukun Mei
    ,
    Ye Wang
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    , Ke Xu,
    Chao Shen
    ,
    Qian Wang
    ,
    Qi Li
  3. Enhancing Website Fingerprinting Attacks against Traffic Drift
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Yixiang Zhang
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Yabo Wang
    , Ke Xu
  4. Rank Matters: Understanding and Defending Model Inversion Attacks via Low-Rank Feature Filtering
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Hongyao Yu
    ,
    Yixiang Qiu
    ,
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Tianqu Zhuang
    ,
    Bin Chen
    ,
    Sijin Yu
    ,
    Bin Wang
    ,
    Shu-Tao Xia
    , Ke Xu
  5. Robust Fraud Transaction Detection: A Two-Player Game Approach
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Qi Tan
    ,
    Yi Zhao
    ,
    Laizhong Cui
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Ming Zhu
    ,
    Xing Fu
    ,
    Weiqiang Wang
    ,
    Xiaotong Lin
    , Ke Xu
  6. Robust LLM-Based Website Fingerprinting under Dynamic Real-World Conditions
    WWW 2026 ·
    Xiyuan Zhao
    ,
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Tianyu Cui
    ,
    Yixiang Zhang
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
  7. Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Yihao Chen
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Jianping Wu
  8. "I've Decided to Leak": Probing Internals Behind Prompt Leakage Intents
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jianshuo Dong
    ,
    Yutong Zhang
    ,
    Liu Yan
    ,
    Zhenyu Zhong
    ,
    Tao Wei
    , Ke Xu,
    Minlie Huang
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    ,
    Han Qiu
  9. An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jianshuo Dong
    ,
    Ziyuan Zhang
    ,
    Qingjie Zhang
    ,
    Tianwei Zhang
    ,
    Hao Wang
    ,
    Hewu Li
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    , Ke Xu,
    Han Qiu
  10. Benchmarking Open-ended Audio Dialogue Understanding for Large Audio-Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kuofeng Gao
    ,
    Shutao Xia
    , Ke Xu,
    Philip Torr
    ,
    Jindong Gu
  11. CertTA: Certified Robustness Made Practical for Learning-Based Traffic Analysis
    USENIX Security 2025 ·
    Jinzhu Yan
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Yuyang Xie
    ,
    Shiyu Liang
    ,
    Lin Liu
    , Ke Xu
  12. Detecting and Adapting to Stealthy Label-Inversion Drifts via Conditional Distribution Inference
    RAID 2025 ·
    Xiaoli Zhang
    ,
    Yue Xiao
    ,
    Qilei Yin
    ,
    Zhengyang Li
    ,
    Xinyan Wang
    ,
    Jianrong Zhang
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Xu-Cheng Yin
  13. FacLens: Transferable Probe for Foreseeing Non-Factuality in Fact-Seeking Question Answering of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yanling Wang
    ,
    Haoyang Li
    ,
    Hao Zou
    ,
    Jing Zhang
    ,
    Xinlei He
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu
  14. FlowRefiner: A Robust Traffic Classification Framework against Label Noise
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Mingwei Zhan
    ,
    Ruijie Zhao
    ,
    Xianwen Deng
    ,
    Zhi Xue
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Guang Cheng
    , Ke Xu
  15. Off-Path TCP Exploits: PMTUD Breaks TCP Connection Isolation in IP Address Sharing Scenarios
    CCS 2025 ·
    Xuewei Feng
    ,
    Zhaoxi Li
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Ziqiang Wang
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu
  16. Off-Path TCP Hijacking in Wi-Fi Networks: A Packet-Size Side Channel Attack
    NDSS 2025 ·
    Ziqiang Wang
    ,
    Xuewei Feng
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Kun Sun
    ,
    Yuxiang Yang
    ,
    Mengyuan Li
    ,
    Ganqiu Du
    , Ke Xu,
    Jianping Wu
  17. One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations Against Vision-Language Pre-Training Models
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Jiawei Kong
    ,
    Wenbo Yu
    ,
    Bin Chen
    ,
    Jiawei Li
    ,
    Hao Wu
    ,
    Shu-Tao Xia
    , Ke Xu
  18. ReDAN: An Empirical Study on Remote DoS Attacks against NAT Networks
    NDSS 2025 ·
    Xuewei Feng
    ,
    Yuxiang Yang
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Xingxiang Zhan
    ,
    Kun Sun
    ,
    Ziqiang Wang
    ,
    Ao Wang
    ,
    Ganqiu Du
    , Ke Xu
  19. RingSG: Optimal Secure Vertex-Centric Computation for Collaborative Graph Processing
    CCS 2025 ·
    Zhenhua Zou
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Jinyong Shan
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu,
    Mingwei Xu
  20. Speculating LLMs' Chinese Training Data Pollution from Their Tokens
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Qingjie Zhang
    ,
    Di Wang
    ,
    Haoting Qian
    ,
    Liu Yan
    ,
    Tianwei Zhang
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    ,
    Hewu Li
    ,
    Han Qiu
  21. Swallow: A Transfer-Robust Website Fingerprinting Attack via Consistent Feature Learning
    CCS 2025 ·
    Meng Shen
    ,
    Jinhe Wu
    ,
    Junyu Ai
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Chenchen Ren
    , Ke Xu,
    Liehuang Zhu
  22. TrafficFormer: An Efficient Pre-trained Model for Traffic Data
    S&P 2025 ·
    Guangmeng Zhou
    ,
    Xiongwen Guo
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Tong Li
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu
  23. Training Robust Classifiers for Classifying Encrypted Traffic under Dynamic Network Conditions
    CCS 2025 ·
    Yuqi Qing
    ,
    Qilei Yin
    ,
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Xiaoli Zhang
    ,
    Peiyang Li
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
  24. Training with Only 1.0 ‰ Samples: Malicious Traffic Detection via Cross-Modality Feature Fusion
    CCS 2025 ·
    Chuanpu Fu
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Elisa Bertino
    , Ke Xu
  25. Understanding the Dark Side of LLMs' Intrinsic Self-Correction
    ACL 2025 ·
    Qingjie Zhang
    ,
    Di Wang
    ,
    Haoting Qian
    ,
    Yiming Li
    ,
    Tianwei Zhang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    , Ke Xu,
    Hewu Li
    ,
    Liu Yan
    ,
    Han Qiu
  26. Wedjat: Detecting Sophisticated Evasion Attacks via Real-time Causal Analysis
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Li Gao
    ,
    Chuanpu Fu
    ,
    Xinhao Deng
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
  27. Adversarial Robust Safeguard for Evading Deep Facial Manipulation
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Jiazhi Guan
    ,
    Yi Zhao
    ,
    Zhuoer Xu
    ,
    Changhua Meng
    , Ke Xu,
    Youjian Zhao
  28. BlueSWAT: A Lightweight State-Aware Security Framework for Bluetooth Low Energy
    CCS 2024 ·
    Xijia Che
    ,
    Yi He
    ,
    Xuewei Feng
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
  29. CoGNN: Towards Secure and Efficient Collaborative Graph Learning
    CCS 2024 ·
    Zhenhua Zou
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Jinyong Shan
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu,
    Mingwei Xu
  30. Defending Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning: An Information Theory Approach
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Qi Tan
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Yi Zhao
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Xiaobing Guo
    , Ke Xu
  31. Detecting Tunneled Flooding Traffic via Deep Semantic Analysis of Packet Length Patterns
    CCS 2024 ·
    Chuanpu Fu
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Meng Shen
    , Ke Xu
  32. Exploiting Sequence Number Leakage: TCP Hijacking in NAT-Enabled Wi-Fi Networks
    NDSS 2024 ·
    Yuxiang Yang
    ,
    Xuewei Feng
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Kun Sun
    ,
    Ziqiang Wang
    , Ke Xu
  33. From Hardware Fingerprint to Access Token: Enhancing the Authentication on IoT Devices
    NDSS 2024 ·
    Yue Xiao
    ,
    Yi He
    ,
    Xiaoli Zhang
    ,
    Qian Wang
    ,
    Renjie Xie
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu,
    Qi Li
  34. Learning with Semantics: Towards a Semantics-Aware Routing Anomaly Detection System
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Yihao Chen
    ,
    Qilei Yin
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    , Ke Xu,
    Yi Xu
    ,
    Mingwei Xu
    ,
    Ziqian Liu
    ,
    Jianping Wu
  35. Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic
    NDSS 2024 ·
    Yuqi Qing
    ,
    Qilei Yin
    ,
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Yihao Chen
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu,
    Jia Zhang
    ,
    Qi Li
  36. Pencil: Private and Extensible Collaborative Learning without the Non-Colluding Assumption
    NDSS 2024 ·
    Xuanqi Liu
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu,
    Mingwei Xu
  37. Real-Time Website Fingerprinting Defense via Traffic Cluster Anonymization
    S&P 2024 ·
    Meng Shen
    ,
    Kexin Ji
    ,
    Jinhe Wu
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Xiangdong Kong
    , Ke Xu,
    Liehuang Zhu
  38. Robust and Reliable Early-Stage Website Fingerprinting Attacks via Spatial-Temporal Distribution Analysis
    CCS 2024 ·
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Qi Li
    , Ke Xu
  39. Toward Timeliness-Enhanced Loss Recovery for Large-Scale Live Streaming
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Bo Wu
    ,
    Tong Li
    ,
    Cheng Luo
    ,
    Xu Yan
    ,
    Fuyu Wang
    ,
    Xinle Du
    , Ke Xu
  40. Towards Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting at Scale
    CCS 2024 ·
    Xiyuan Zhao
    ,
    Xinhao Deng
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Yunpeng Liu
    ,
    Zhuotao Liu
    ,
    Kun Sun
    , Ke Xu
  41. Transferability of White-box Perturbations: Query-Efficient Adversarial Attacks against Commercial DNN Services
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Meng Shen
    ,
    Changyue Li
    ,
    Qi Li
    ,
    Hao Lu
    ,
    Liehuang Zhu
    , Ke Xu
  42. Walking in Others' Shoes: How Perspective-Taking Guides Large Language Models in Reducing Toxicity and Bias
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Rongwu Xu
    ,
    Zi'an Zhou
    ,
    Tianwei Zhang
    ,
    Zehan Qi
    ,
    Su Yao
    , Ke Xu,
    Wei Xu
    ,
    Han Qiu