Jinho Lee
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2026
CamoDocs: A Poisoning Attack Against Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Using Camouflaged Documents
Jaewon Jung | Haizhong Zheng | Hongsun Jang | Jaeyong Song | Beidi Chen | Jinho Lee
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jaewon Jung | Haizhong Zheng | Hongsun Jang | Jaeyong Song | Beidi Chen | Jinho Lee
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) augments LLMs with external documents, but public or user-editable sources expose RAG systems to data poisoning: attackers can inject malicious documents to steer outputs toward targeted answers. Existing poisoning attacks often rely on query inclusion, inserting the target query into poisoned documents to improve retrieval; however, this creates lexical and embedding-space artifacts that make them easy to filter. We propose CamoDocs, a poisoning attack that avoids direct query inclusion by camouflaging adversarial documents among benign content. CamoDocs chunks synthesized benign and adversarial drafts, replaces selected tokens in benign chunks with dispersion tokens that spread poisoned-document embeddings, and applies coherence filtering to limit readability degradation. Across seven RAG defenses, three open-weight LLMs, and three benchmarks, CamoDocs achieves strong average ASR while avoiding query-overlap artifacts exploited by simple query detection. It also remains effective against proprietary models, achieving average ASRs of 61.80% on GPT-5.4-mini and 55.09% on Claude-Haiku-4.5. Finally, we show that erasure-heavy clustering defenses such as TrustRAG can reduce ASR, but only with substantial utility drops on retrieval-dependent benchmarks such as NeoQA. Code is available at https://github.com/jaewonalive/CamoDocs.
Spexis: Speculative Lookahead Scheduling for LLM Inference
Hyungyu Jung | Jaehyeok Yu | Hoonseo Choi | Sungkyun Kim | Jinho Lee | Jiwon Seo
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hyungyu Jung | Jaehyeok Yu | Hoonseo Choi | Sungkyun Kim | Jinho Lee | Jiwon Seo
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Spexis is a multi-GPU LLM inference framework that improves the efficiency of pipeline and tensor parallelism through speculative parallelism. Rather than using speculative decoding only to accelerate token generation, Spexis runs speculation in parallel with normal execution, introducing a new parallelism axis without increasing KV-cache memory usage. This improves memory efficiency and helps mitigate the bottlenecks of multi-GPU inference.
Spexis further uses lookahead scheduling to predict speculation quality and future memory pressure, allowing it to reduce wasted speculation, KV-cache eviction, and recomputation. Built on top of vLLM, Spexis largely improves serving performance across a range of GPU configurations, achieving speedups of up to 34% over a baseline that uses the optimal combination of pipeline and tensor parallelism. Spexis’s source code is publicly available at https://github.com/mlsys-seo/spexis.
Spexis further uses lookahead scheduling to predict speculation quality and future memory pressure, allowing it to reduce wasted speculation, KV-cache eviction, and recomputation. Built on top of vLLM, Spexis largely improves serving performance across a range of GPU configurations, achieving speedups of up to 34% over a baseline that uses the optimal combination of pipeline and tensor parallelism. Spexis’s source code is publicly available at https://github.com/mlsys-seo/spexis.