--- title: "Prateek Mittal · Princeton University — author profile and papers" description: "Prateek Mittal, Princeton University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Prateek Mittal # Prateek Mittal Prateek Mittal has 5 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Peter Henderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/), [Xiangyu Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyu-qi/), [Tinghao Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tinghao-xie/). 5 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015619835) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4057-0118) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102427780) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015619835) · [225 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015619835) · [14,133 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015619835&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 700 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3256](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3256) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Prateek+Mittal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Prateek+Mittal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Prateek+Mittal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Prateek+Mittal) ## Affiliations [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2013–2026 · 149 papersEmployment since 2013 · Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2007–2012 · 17 papersEducation until 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2011–2012 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati** Guwahati · India 2006Education until 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-guwahati/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Safety Research · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/year/2026/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/year/2024/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-fine-tuning-aligned-language-models/)** *(2023 · 355 citations)* Current safety alignment methods, such as instruction tuning and RLHF, constrain how a model behaves at inference time. 2. **[Visual Adversarial Examples Jailbreak Aligned Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-visual-adversarial-examples-jailbreak-aligned/)** *(2023 · 240 citations)* Adding image inputs to large language models creates new security risks. The authors argue that images are continuous and high-dimensional, which makes them much easier to manipulate adversarially than discrete text. Because these models can do so many things, a successful attack can do more than cause a… 3. **[Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2024-safety-alignment-should-made-more/)** *(2024 · 97 citations)* The paper asks why safety-aligned LLMs are so easy to break, whether through adversarial suffixes, prefilling, tweaked decoding parameters, or a few steps of fine-tuning. 4. **[Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2024-assessing-brittleness-safety-alignment-pruning/)** *(2024 · 66 citations)* Aligned LLMs can be jailbroken or lose their safeguards even after harmless fine-tuning. The authors ask whether this fragility can be traced to specific parts of the weights. Using the Llama2-chat family, they attribute behaviour to individual neurons and to low-rank components of weight matrices. They use two… 5. **[Red-Teaming NSFW Image Classifiers as Text-to-Image Safeguards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-red-teaming-nsfw-image-classifiers/)** *(2026)* This paper examines a weakness in NSFW image classifiers that act as output filters for text-to-image (T2I) generators. ## All works 15 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Analyzing Federated Learning through an Adversarial Lens ↗](https://openalex.org/W2963422767) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**Arjun Nitin Bhagoji et al.*2019 · 388 citations* 2. [**Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! arXiv:2310.03693**Xiangyu Qi, Yi Zeng, Tinghao Xie, et al.*2023 · 355 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-fine-tuning-aligned-language-models/) 3. **[Visual Adversarial Examples Jailbreak Aligned Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-visual-adversarial-examples-jailbreak-aligned/) [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/)**Xiangyu Qi, Kaixuan Huang, Ashwinee Panda, et al.*2023 · 240 citations* 4. **[Evolution of social-attribute networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2398776.2398792) Internet Measurement Conference · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2012 · 170 citations* 5. [**Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep arXiv:2406.05946**Xiangyu Qi, Ashwinee Panda, Kaifeng Lyu, et al.*2024 · 97 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2024-safety-alignment-should-made-more/) 6. **[Preserving Link Privacy in Social Network Based Systems ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6189) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Prateek Mittal, Charalampos Papamanthou, Dawn Xiaodong Song*2012 · 91 citations* 7. [**Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications arXiv:2402.05162**Boyi Wei, Kaixuan Huang, Yangsibo Huang, et al.*2024 · 66 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2024-assessing-brittleness-safety-alignment-pruning/) 8. **[Certifiably Robust RAG against Retrieval Corruption ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/satml68715.2026.00029) IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) · no summary yet**Chong Xiang et al.*2024 · 39 citations* 9. **[Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+ ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0835) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2012 · 38 citations* 10. **[New Directions in Social Authentication ↗](https://doi.org/10.14722/usec.2015.23002) no summary yet**Sakshi Jain et al.*2015 · 7 citations* 11. **[AI Risk Management Should Incorporate Both Safety and Security ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19524) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Xiangyu Qi et al.*2024 · 3 citations* 12. **[ASPIRE: iterative specification synthesis for security ↗](https://openalex.org/W2208440389) Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems · no summary yet**Kevin Zhijie Chen et al.*2015 · 3 citations* 13. **[The Model Hears You: Audio Language Model Deployments Should Consider the Principle of Least Privilege ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36625) Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society · no summary yet**Luxi He et al.*2025 · 1 citation* 14. **[VFIX: Facilitating Software Maintenance of Smart Contracts via Automatically Fixing Vulnerabilities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00013) IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) · no summary yet**Pengcheng Fang et al.*2024 · 1 citation* 15. **[Red-Teaming NSFW Image Classifiers as Text-to-Image Safeguards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-red-teaming-nsfw-image-classifiers/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Tinghao Xie, Yueqi Xie, Alireza Zareian, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Peter Henderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/) ×4 - [Xiangyu Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyu-qi/) ×4 - [Tinghao Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tinghao-xie/) ×3 - [Ashwinee Panda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashwinee-panda/) ×2 - [Kaixuan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixuan-huang/) ×2 - [Mengdi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengdi-wang/) ×2 - [Boyi Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boyi-wei/) - [Li Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-chen/) - [Mengzhou Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengzhou-xia/) - [Pin-Yu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pin-yu-chen/) - [Ruoxi Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoxi-jia/) - [Xiao Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-ma/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/): [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/2023/) - IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) - IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) - International Conference on Machine Learning - Internet Measurement Conference - Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society - Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 700 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [155 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prateek-mittal/cited-by/). 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