8th International Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications (SiMLA)

SiMLA2026 in conjunction with ACNS2026 (June 22nd-25th 2026), Stony Brook, New York, USA

Workshop Program Wednesday June 24, 2026 (All times are in Local Time)

Time Paper Title Authors
09:00 - 09:10 Opening
09:10 - 10:10 Keynote 1 by Prof. Bo Luo
Securing AI, Abusing AI, Trusting AI: Three Views of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning Models and Applications
10:10 - 11:00 ☕ Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 ACEraser: Environment Forgetting in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning through Influence Function Joshua Maccoby and Wendy Hui Wang
11:15 - 11:30 Privacy-Preserving Fairness Evaluation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption Divyesh Saglani, Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Rajan M. A., Srividhya Sankepally and Bharat Ratnala
11:30 - 11:45 Filtering Adversarial Examples in Binary Function Similarity Models Anna Paola Giancaspro, Gianluca Capozzi and Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna
11:45 - 12:00 Street-Legal Physical-World Adversarial Rim for License Plates Nikhil Kalidasu and Sahana Ganapathy
12:00 - 12:15 Can Large Language Models Redefine Malware Evasion? A Study of Functionality-Preserving Adversarial Assembly Md Mashrur Arifin, Brodie Abrew, Devyn Hubbs, Ahmed Saif Muntaseer and Jyh-Haw Yeh
12:15 - 12:30 Detection and Explanation of PowerShell Malware with Large Language Models Meng Wang, Emma Topolovec, Beatrice Arana, Naga Venkata Prasanna Sai Gupta Chimakurthy Kuladeep, Zhaohan Xi, Guanhua Yan, Xiaokui Shu, Scott Stoller and Ping Yang
12:30 - 14:00 🍽️ Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2 by A/Prof. Neil Gong
Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
15:00 - 15:15 Membership Inference Attacks Against Video Large Language Models Wei Song, Yuxin Cao, Ziqi Ding, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng and Yuekang Li
15:15 - 15:30 Variational Feature Compression for Model-Specific Representations Zinan Guo, Zihan Wang, Chuan Yan, Liuhuo Wan, Ethan Ma and Guangdong Bai
15:30 - 16:00 ☕ Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:15 SENTINEL: Self-Supervised Continual Anomaly Detection for Securing LLM Agent Systems Jake Garnier
16:15 - 16:30 AI Slop and Hallucinations in Vulnerability Assessment: A Survey on Reasoning Failures and Trustworthy Mitigation Junchen Ding, Jialiang Dong, Yichen Zhu, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Willy Susilo, Siqi Ma and Yuekang Li
17:30 - 17:40 Closing Remarks

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