While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance in a multitude of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, they encounter challenges in practical applications, including issues with hallucinations, inadequate knowledge updating, and limited transparency in the reasoning process. To overcome these limitations, this study innovatively proposes a collaborative training-free reasoning scheme involving tight cooperation between Knowledge Graph (KG) and LLMs. This scheme first involves using LLMs to iteratively explore KG, selectively retrieving a task-relevant knowledge subgraph to support reasoning. The LLMs are then guided to further combine inherent implicit knowledge to reason on the subgraph while explicitly elucidating the reasoning process. Through such a cooperative approach, our scheme achieves more reliable knowledge-based reasoning and facilitates the tracing of the reasoning results. Experimental results show that our scheme significantly progressed across multiple datasets, notably achieving over a 10% improvement on the QALD10 dataset compared to the best baseline and the fine-tuned state-of-the-art (SOTA) work. Building on this success, this study hopes to offer a valuable reference for future research in the fusion of KG and LLMs, thereby enhancing LLMs' proficiency in solving complex issues.
Linguistic Steganography (LS) tasks aim to generate steganographic text (stego) based on secret information. Only authorized recipients can perceive the existence of secrets in the texts and extract them, thereby preserving privacy. However, the controllability of the stego generated by existing schemes is poor, and the stego is difficult to contain specific discourse characteristics such as style. As a result, the stego is easily detectable, compromising covert communication. To address these problems, this paper proposes LLsM, the first LS with the Large Language Model (LLM). We fine-tuned the LLaMA2 with a large-scale constructed dataset encompassing rich discourse characteristics, which enables the fine-tuned LLM to generate texts with specific discourse in a controllable manner. Then the discourse is used as guiding information and inputted into the fine-tuned LLM in the form of the Prompt together with secret. On this basis, the constructed candidate pool will be range encoded and use secret to determine the interval. The same prefix of this interval's beginning and ending is the secret embedded at this moment. Experiments show that LLsM performs superior to prevalent LS-task and related-task baselines regarding text quality, statistical analysis, discourse matching, and anti-steganalysis. In particular, LLsM's MAUVE matric surpasses some baselines by 70%-80%, and its anti-steganalysis performance is 30%-40% higher. Notably, we also present examples of longer stegos generated by LLsM, showing its potential superiority in long LS tasks.
Linguistic steganalysis (LS) tasks aim to effectively detect stegos generated by linguistic steganography. Existing LS methods overlook the distinctive user characteristics, leading to weak performance in social networks. The limited occurrence of stegos further complicates detection. In this paper, we propose the UP4LS, a novel framework with the User Profile for enhancing LS performance. Specifically, by delving into post content, we explore user attributes like writing habits, psychological states, and focal areas, thereby building the user profile for LS. For each attribute, we design the identified feature extraction module. The extracted features are mapped to high-dimensional user features via deep-learning networks from existing methods. Then the language model is employed to extract content features. The user and content features are integrated to optimize feature representation. During the training phase, we prioritize the distribution of stegos. Experiments demonstrate that UP4LS can significantly enhance the performance of existing methods, and an overall accuracy improvement of nearly 25%. In particular, the improvement is especially pronounced with fewer stego samples. Additionally, UP4LS also sets the stage for studies on related tasks, encouraging extensive applications on LS tasks.
Style transfer is a useful image synthesis technique that can re-render given image into another artistic style while preserving its content information. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a widely adopted framework toward this task for its better representation ability on local style patterns than the traditional Gram-matrix based methods. However, most previous methods rely on sufficient amount of pre-collected style images to train the model. In this paper, a novel Patch Permutation GAN (P$^2$-GAN) network that can efficiently learn the stroke style from a single style image is proposed. We use patch permutation to generate multiple training samples from the given style image. A patch discriminator that can simultaneously process patch-wise images and natural images seamlessly is designed. We also propose a local texture descriptor based criterion to quantitatively evaluate the style transfer quality. Experimental results showed that our method can produce finer quality re-renderings from single style image with improved computational efficiency compared with many state-of-the-arts methods.
Nowadays, there are plenty of works introducing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to the steganalysis and exceeding conventional steganalysis algorithms. These works have shown the improving potential of deep learning in information hiding domain. There are also several works based on deep learning to do image steganography, but these works still have problems in capacity, invisibility and security. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture named as \isgan to conceal a secret gray image into a color cover image on the sender side and exactly extract the secret image out on the receiver side. There are three contributions in our work: (i) we improve the invisibility by hiding the secret image only in the Y channel of the cover image; (ii) We introduce the generative adversarial networks to strengthen the security by minimizing the divergence between the empirical probability distributions of stego images and natural images. (iii) In order to associate with the human visual system better, we construct a mixed loss function which is more appropriate for steganography to generate more realistic stego images and reveal out more better secret images. Experiment results show that ISGAN can achieve start-of-art performances on LFW, Pascal VOC2012 and ImageNet datasets.