Publications

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1. MPMA: Preference Manipulation Attack Against Model Context Protocol
   Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu, Wenshu Fan, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026, Oral.

2. ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models
   Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Wenshu Fan, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Guowen Xu
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026, Poster.

3. Evaluating Robustness of Large Audio Language Models to Audio Injection: An Empirical Study
   Guanyu Hou, Jiaming He, Yinhang Zhou, Ji Guo, Yitong Qiao, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang
   Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025.

4. The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks
   Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang
   International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

5. Watch Out for Your Guidance on Generation! Exploring Conditional Backdoor Attacks against Large Language Models
   Jiaming He, Wenbo Jiang, Guanyu Hou, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025, Oral.

6. Backdoor Attacks against Hybrid Classical-quantum Neural Networks
   Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Rui Zhang, Wenshu Fan, Jiachen Li, Guoming Lu, Hongwei Li
   Neural Networks, 2025.

7. Instruction Backdoor Attacks Against Customized LLMs
   Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Rui Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yuan Zhang, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
   USENIX Security, 2024.

8. Vertical Federated Learning across Heterogeneous Regions for Industry 4.0
   Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Luoding Tian, Meng Hao, Yuan Zhang
   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024.

9. Adversarial Robustness Poisoning: Increasing Adversarial Vulnerability of the Model via Data Poisoning
   Wenbo Jiang, Hongwei Li, Yuxin Lu, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang
   IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024.

10. Secure Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning in Ehealth Systems
    Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022.

11. Towards Lightweight and Efficient Distributed Intrusion Detection Framework
    Shuai Yuan, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Meng Hao, Yiran Li, Rongxing Lu
    IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021.