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Xiangyu Zhang

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

54 papers at tracked venues · 45 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Siyuan Cheng
×21
Zhuo Zhang
×18
Guangyu Shen
×17
Guanhong Tao
×16
Kaiyuan Zhang
×15
Xiangzhe Xu
×14
Shengwei An
×13
Shiwei Feng
×11
Mingwei Zheng
×9
Zian Su
×9
Hanxi Guo
×8
Chengpeng Wang
×8

Papers

  1. Mitigating Backdoor Attacks via Trigger Reconstruction and Model Hardening
    WACV 2026 ·
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Yingqi Liu
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Hanxi Guo
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  2. NESA: Relational Neuro-Symbolic Static Program Analysis
    FSE 2026 ·
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Yifei Gao
    ,
    Wuqi Zhang
    ,
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Jinyao Guo
    ,
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  3. Poisoning with a Pill: Circumventing Detection in Federated Learning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Hao Wang
    ,
    Tao Song
    ,
    Tianhang Zheng
    ,
    Yang Hua
    ,
    Haibing Guan
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  4. Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yifei Gao
    ,
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Pengxiang Huang
    ,
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Mingwei Zheng
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  5. SFA-Miner: Mining Path-Sensitive API Usage Patterns Via Symbolic Finite Automata
    S&P 2026 ·
    Jiasheng Jiang
    ,
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  6. A Systematic Threat Modeling of LLM Applications
    FSE 2025 ·
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Junmin Zhu
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Wanjing Han
    ,
    Mu Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  7. An Empirical Study of Proxy Contracts at the Ethereum Ecosystem Scale
    ICSE 2025 ·
    Mengya Zhang
    ,
    Preksha Shukla
    ,
    Wuqi Zhang
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Pranav Agrawal
    ,
    Zhiqiang Lin
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Xiaokuan Zhang
  8. BAIT: Large Language Model Backdoor Scanning by Inverting Attack Target
    S&P 2025 ·
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Lu Yan
    ,
    Xiaolong Jin
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  9. CENSOR: Defense Against Gradient Inversion via Orthogonal Subspace Bayesian Sampling
    NDSS 2025 ·
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Bruno Ribeiro
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Pin-Yu Chen
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Ninghui Li
  10. CO-SPY: Combining Semantic and Pixel Features to Detect Synthetic Images by AI
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Lingjuan Lyu
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Vikash Sehwag
  11. CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs' Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Danning Xie
    ,
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Jiannan Wang
    ,
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Lin Tan
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  12. EffiTune: Diagnosing and Mitigating Training Inefficiency for Parameter Tuner in Robot Navigation System
    IROS 2025 ·
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Xuan Chen
    ,
    Zikang Xiong
    ,
    Zhiyuan Cheng
    ,
    Yifei Gao
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Sayali Kate
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  13. Exploiting the Shadows: Unveiling Privacy Leaks through Lower-Ranked Tokens in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuan Zhou
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  14. FairChecker: Detecting Fund-Stealing Bugs in DeFi Protocols via Fairness Validation
    ICSE 2025 ·
    Yi Sun
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  15. Fixing Large Language Models' Specification Misunderstanding for Better Code Generation
    ICSE 2025 ·
    Zhao Tian
    ,
    Junjie Chen
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  16. JailbreakDiffBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Jailbreaking Diffusion Models
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Xiaolong Jin
    ,
    Zixuan Weng
    ,
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Chenlong Yin
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  17. Large Language Models for Validating Network Protocol Parsers
    S&P 2025 ·
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Danning Xie
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  18. Nova: Generative Language Models for Assembly Code with Hierarchical Attention and Contrastive Learning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Nan Jiang
    ,
    Chengxiao Wang
    ,
    Kevin Liu
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Lin Tan
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Petr Babkin
  19. ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment
    ICML 2025 ·
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Jinyao Guo
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  20. Profiler: Black-box AI-generated Text Origin Detection via Context-aware Inference Pattern Analysis
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Xiaolong Jin
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  21. RFCAudit: AI Agent for Auditing Protocol Implementations Against RFC Specifications
    ASE 2025 ·
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Jinyao Guo
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  22. ROSCallBaX: Statically Detecting Inconsistencies in Callback Function Setup of Robotic Systems
    FSE 2025 ·
    Sayali Kate
    ,
    Yifei Gao
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  23. RepoAudit: An Autonomous LLM-Agent for Repository-Level Code Auditing
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jinyao Guo
    ,
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Zian Su
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  24. SOFT: Selective Data Obfuscation for Protecting LLM Fine-tuning against Membership Inference Attacks
    USENIX Security 2025 ·
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Yuetian Chen
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Yuntao Du
    ,
    Charles Fleming
    ,
    Ashish Kundu
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Ninghui Li
  25. System Prompt Hijacking via Permutation Triggers in LLM Supply Chains
    ACL 2025 ·
    Lu Yan
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Xuan Chen
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  26. TAI3: Testing Agent Integrity in Interpreting User Intent
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Xuan Chen
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Syed Yusuf Ahmed
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Mingwei Zheng
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  27. Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xuan Chen
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Zikang Xiong
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Yunshu Mao
    ,
    Lu Yan
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  28. Unleashing the Power of Generative Model in Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary
    NDSS 2025 ·
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Ziyang Huang
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Yapeng Ye
    ,
    Nan Jiang
    ,
    Danning Xie
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Lin Tan
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  29. VERA: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Anamika Lochab
    ,
    Lu Yan
    ,
    Patrick Pynadath
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Ruqi Zhang
  30. Validating Network Protocol Parsers with Traceable RFC Document Interpretation
    ISSTA 2025 ·
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Danning Xie
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    ,
    Chengpeng Wang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  31. BadPart: Unified Black-box Adversarial Patch Attacks against Pixel-wise Regression Tasks
    ICML 2024 ·
    Zhiyuan Cheng
    ,
    Zhaoyi Liu
    ,
    Tengda Guo
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Dongfang Liu
    ,
    Mingjie Tang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  32. BiScope: AI-generated Text Detection by Checking Memorization of Preceding Tokens
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Xiaolong Jin
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  33. CodeArt: Better Code Models by Attention Regularization When Symbols Are Lacking
    FSE 2024 ·
    Zian Su
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Ziyang Huang
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Yapeng Ye
    ,
    Jianjun Huang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  34. Cost-effective Attack Forensics by Recording and Correlating File System Changes
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Le Yu
    ,
    Yapeng Ye
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  35. Define-Use Guided Path Exploration for Better Forced Execution
    ISSTA 2024 ·
    Dongnan He
    ,
    Dongchen Xie
    ,
    Yujie Wang
    ,
    Wei You
    ,
    Bin Liang
    ,
    Jianjun Huang
    ,
    Wenchang Shi
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  36. Distribution Preserving Backdoor Attack in Self-supervised Learning
    S&P 2024 ·
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  37. Elijah: Eliminating Backdoors Injected in Diffusion Models via Distribution Shift
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Sheng-Yen Chou
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Qiuling Xu
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    ,
    Pin-Yu Chen
    ,
    Tsung-Yi Ho
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  38. Exploring Inherent Backdoors in Deep Learning Models
    ACSAC 2024 ·
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Yingqi Liu
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Yunshu Mao
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  39. Exploring the Orthogonality and Linearity of Backdoor Attacks
    S&P 2024 ·
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Anuran Makur
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  40. Fusion Is Not Enough: Single Modal Attacks on Fusion Models for 3D Object Detection
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Zhiyuan Cheng
    ,
    Hongjun Choi
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    James Chenhao Liang
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Dongfang Liu
    ,
    Michael Zuzak
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  41. FuzzInMem: Fuzzing Programs via In-memory Structures
    ICSE 2024 ·
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Wei You
    ,
    Yapeng Ye
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Jianjun Huang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  42. LLMDFA: Analyzing Dataflow in Code with Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Wuqi Zhang
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Xiaoheng Xie
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  43. Lotus: Evasive and Resilient Backdoor Attacks through Sub-Partitioning
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Yingqi Liu
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  44. Nyx: Detecting Exploitable Front-Running Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
    S&P 2024 ·
    Wuqi Zhang
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    ,
    Lu Liu
    ,
    Lili Wei
    ,
    Yepang Liu
    , Xiangyu Zhang,
    Shing-Chi Cheung
  45. OdScan: Backdoor Scanning for Object Detection Models
    S&P 2024 ·
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Yingqi Li
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  46. On Large Language Models' Resilience to Coercive Interrogation
    S&P 2024 ·
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  47. ParDiff: Practical Static Differential Analysis of Network Protocol Parsers
    OOPSLA 2024 ·
    Mingwei Zheng
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    ,
    Xuwei Liu
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Le Yu
    ,
    Congyu Liu
    ,
    Guannan Wei
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  48. ROCAS: Root Cause Analysis of Autonomous Driving Accidents via Cyber-Physical Co-mutation
    ASE 2024 ·
    Shiwei Feng
    ,
    Yapeng Ye
    ,
    Qingkai Shi
    ,
    Zhiyuan Cheng
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Hongjun Choi
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  49. ReSym: Harnessing LLMs to Recover Variable and Data Structure Symbols from Stripped Binaries
    CCS 2024 ·
    Danning Xie
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    ,
    Nan Jiang
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Lin Tan
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  50. Rethinking the Invisible Protection against Unauthorized Image Usage in Stable Diffusion
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Lu Yan
    ,
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Qiuling Xu
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  51. Sanitizing Large Language Models in Bug Detection with Data-Flow
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chengpeng Wang
    ,
    Wuqi Zhang
    ,
    Zian Su
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  52. Source Code Foundation Models are Transferable Binary Analysis Knowledge Bases
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zian Su
    ,
    Xiangzhe Xu
    ,
    Ziyang Huang
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  53. UNIT: Backdoor Mitigation via Automated Neural Distribution Tightening
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Siyuan Cheng
    ,
    Guangyu Shen
    ,
    Kaiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Guanhong Tao
    ,
    Shengwei An
    ,
    Hanxi Guo
    ,
    Shiqing Ma
    , Xiangyu Zhang
  54. When LLM Meets DRL: Advancing Jailbreaking Efficiency via DRL-guided Search
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Xuan Chen
    ,
    Yuzhou Nie
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    , Xiangyu Zhang