CS 634: Thesis Studies

Course Portfolio || Papers Write-Ups || Spring 2024

Roman Eng, PhD Student in Computer Science

Prof. Jeanna N. Matthews

Course description:

Each student does independent, original work on a project under the guidance and supervision of an instructor. This is a non-lecture based course, main activities include reading and discussing research literature, writing reactions on different prompts, developing web portfolio, develop research project and presenting it to the wider audiences.

#	Paper Title & Type	Authors	Venue and Year	Writeup	Reading/Discussion Date	Suggested by
1	How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them	Zeng et al.	arXiv 2024		01/19/2024	Self
2	Jailbroken: How does LLM Safety Training Fail	Wei et al.	arXiv 2023		02/14/2024	Self

#	Papers Read Individually	Authors	Venue	Writeup	Reading Date
1	Gradient-Based Language Model Red Teaming	Witchers et al.	Google		03/15/2024
2	Digital Twin: A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats	Shan et al.	IEEE		03/29/2024
3	Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models	Shan et al.			04/01/2024
4	Practices for Governing AI Agents	Shavit et al.	OpenAI		04/10/204
5	Complexity-Based Prompting for Multi-Step Reasoning	Yau Fu et al.	ICLR		04/20/2024