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Backes

My group is working on various aspects of information security, with a current main focus on the intersection of information security with AI / Machine Learning. Further topics of interest include: trustworthy information processing of medical information; design, analysis and verification for security-critical systems and services; and universal solutions in system and software security.

Head of Group

Michael Backes

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Stuhlsatzenhaus 5
66123 Saarbrücken (Germany)

Most Recent Publications

Year 2026

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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

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IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
When Understanding Becomes a Risk: Authenticity and Safety Risks in the Emerging Image Generation Paradigm

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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Benchmarking Empirical Privacy Protection for Adaptations of Large Language Models

Year 2025

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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Adjacent Words, Divergent Intents: Jailbreaking Large Language Models via Task Concurrency

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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Finding and Reactivating Post-Trained LLMs’ Hidden Safety Mechanisms