Yifeng Zheng

Luoxuan Weng, Yinghao Tang, Yingchaojie Feng et al.

Business intelligence (BI) transforms large volumes of data within modern organizations into actionable insights for informed decision-making. Recently, large language model (LLM)-based agents have streamlined the BI workflow by automatically performing task planning, reasoning, and actions in executable environments based on natural language (NL) queries. However, existing approaches primarily focus on individual BI tasks such as NL2SQL and NL2VIS. The fragmentation of tasks across different data roles and tools lead to inefficiencies and potential errors due to the iterative and collaborative nature of BI. In this paper, we introduce DataLab, a unified BI platform that integrates a one-stop LLM-based agent framework with an augmented computational notebook interface. DataLab supports various BI tasks for different data roles in data preparation, analysis, and visualization by seamlessly combining LLM assistance with user customization within a single environment. To achieve this unification, we design a domain knowledge incorporation module tailored for enterprise-specific BI tasks, an inter-agent communication mechanism to facilitate information sharing across the BI workflow, and a cell-based context management strategy to enhance context utilization efficiency in BI notebooks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DataLab achieves state-of-the-art performance on various BI tasks across popular research benchmarks. Moreover, DataLab maintains high effectiveness and efficiency on real-world datasets from Tencent, achieving up to a 58.58% increase in accuracy and a 61.65% reduction in token cost on enterprise-specific BI tasks.

Yinshan Li, Hua Ma, Zhi Zhang et al.

A backdoor deep learning (DL) model behaves normally upon clean inputs but misbehaves upon trigger inputs as the backdoor attacker desires, posing severe consequences to DL model deployments. State-of-the-art defenses are either limited to specific backdoor attacks (source-agnostic attacks) or non-user-friendly in that machine learning (ML) expertise or expensive computing resources are required. This work observes that all existing backdoor attacks have an inevitable intrinsic weakness, non-transferability, that is, a trigger input hijacks a backdoored model but cannot be effective to another model that has not been implanted with the same backdoor. With this key observation, we propose non-transferability enabled backdoor detection (NTD) to identify trigger inputs for a model-under-test (MUT) during run-time.Specifically, NTD allows a potentially backdoored MUT to predict a class for an input. In the meantime, NTD leverages a feature extractor (FE) to extract feature vectors for the input and a group of samples randomly picked from its predicted class, and then compares similarity between the input and the samples in the FE's latent space. If the similarity is low, the input is an adversarial trigger input; otherwise, benign. The FE is a free pre-trained model privately reserved from open platforms. As the FE and MUT are from different sources, the attacker is very unlikely to insert the same backdoor into both of them. Because of non-transferability, a trigger effect that does work on the MUT cannot be transferred to the FE, making NTD effective against different types of backdoor attacks. We evaluate NTD on three popular customized tasks such as face recognition, traffic sign recognition and general animal classification, results of which affirm that NDT has high effectiveness (low false acceptance rate) and usability (low false rejection rate) with low detection latency.

Bedeuro Kim, Alsharif Abuadbba, Yansong Gao et al.

As an essential processing step in computer vision applications, image resizing or scaling, more specifically downsampling, has to be applied before feeding a normally large image into a convolutional neural network (CNN) model because CNN models typically take small fixed-size images as inputs. However, image scaling functions could be adversarially abused to perform a newly revealed attack called image-scaling attack, which can affect a wide range of computer vision applications building upon image-scaling functions. This work presents an image-scaling attack detection framework, termed as Decamouflage. Decamouflage consists of three independent detection methods: (1) rescaling, (2) filtering/pooling, and (3) steganalysis. While each of these three methods is efficient standalone, they can work in an ensemble manner not only to improve the detection accuracy but also to harden potential adaptive attacks. Decamouflage has a pre-determined detection threshold that is generic. More precisely, as we have validated, the threshold determined from one dataset is also applicable to other different datasets. Extensive experiments show that Decamouflage achieves detection accuracy of 99.9\% and 99.8\% in the white-box (with the knowledge of attack algorithms) and the black-box (without the knowledge of attack algorithms) settings, respectively. To corroborate the efficiency of Decamouflage, we have also measured its run-time overhead on a personal PC with an i5 CPU and found that Decamouflage can detect image-scaling attacks in milliseconds. Overall, Decamouflage can accurately detect image scaling attacks in both white-box and black-box settings with acceptable run-time overhead.