Robin Staab

PhD student

robin.staab@inf.ethz.ch
CAB H 85.2

About me

I am Robin Staab, a PhD student at the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab of ETH Zürich, advised by Prof. Martin Vechev, since July 2023.

Education

  • ETH Zurich, 2020 - 2023

    • M. Sc. Computer Science

  • ETH Zurich, 2016 - 2020

    • B. Sc. Computer Science

Work Experience

  • Snyk , Aug-Dec 2021

    • Machine Learning Engineering Intern, Zurich

Awards

2023 Willi Studer Prize for Best Master's Degree in Computer Science Awarded

Publications

2025

Discovering Spoofing Attempts on Language Model Watermarks
Thibaud Gloaguen, Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
ICML 2025

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Mind the Gap: A Practical Attack on GGUF Quantization
Kazuki Egashira, Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Jingxuan He, Martin Vechev
ICML 2025 BuildingTrust@ICLR25 Oral

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Large Language Models are Advanced Anonymizers
Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunović, Martin Vechev
ICLR 2025

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Ward: Provable RAG Dataset Inference via LLM Watermarks
Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Maximilian Baader, Martin Vechev
ICLR 2025

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Towards Watermarking of Open-Source LLMs
Thibaud Gloaguen, Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
WMARK @ ICLR 2025

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Black-Box Detection of Language Model Watermarks
Thibaud Gloaguen, Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
ICLR 2025

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2024

A Synthetic Dataset for Personal Attribute Inference
Hanna Yukhymenko, Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Martin Vechev
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2024

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Private Attribute Inference from Images with Vision-Language Models
Batuhan Tömekçe, Mark Vero, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
NeurIPS 2024

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Exploiting LLM Quantization
Kazuki Egashira, Mark Vero, Robin Staab, Jingxuan He, Martin Vechev
NeurIPS 2024 NextGenAISafety@ICML24 Oral

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COMPL-AI Framework: A Technical Interpretation and LLM Benchmarking Suite for the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Philipp Guldimann, Alexander Spiridonov, Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanović, Mark Vero, Velko Vechev, Anna Gueorguieva, Mislav Balunović, Nikola Konstantinov, Pavol Bielik, Petar Tsankov, Martin Vechev
arXiv 2024

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Watermark Stealing in Large Language Models
Nikola Jovanović, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
ICML 2024 R2-FM@ICLR24 Oral

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From Principle to Practice: Vertical Data Minimization for Machine Learning
Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanović, Mislav Balunović, Martin Vechev
IEEE S&P 2024

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Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference with Large Language Models
Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunović, Martin Vechev
ICLR 2024 Spotlight, 2024 PPPM-Award

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Back to the Drawing Board for Fair Representation Learning
Angéline Pouget, Nikola Jovanović, Mark Vero, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
arXiv 2024

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2023

Abstract Interpretation of Fixpoint Iterators with Applications to Neural Networks
Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
PLDI 2023

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2022

Bayesian Framework for Gradient Leakage
Mislav Balunović, Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
ICLR 2022

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