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Yini Huang

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What Your Posts Reveal: A Benchmark and Agentic Framework for User-Level Privacy Leakage on Social Media

Public social media posts can reveal private information through weak cues scattered across text, images, or metadata. Such leakage is often cumulative and cross-post: cues that appear harmless in isolation may jointly expose a user's home, workplace, or routine. However, current research lacks a unified benchmark for user-level multimodal privacy leakage and an evaluation metric that captures exposure severity beyond binary accuracy. To address these gaps, we propose SopriBench, a synthetic benchmark guided by leakage patterns abstracted from a private reference corpus of Rednote and Instagram accounts, covering 50 user profiles and 1,569 images with attributes, contextual sensitivity, granularity, leakage type, inference difficulty, and supporting evidence. We further introduce the Privacy Exposure Score (PES), which weights value granularity by contextual sensitivity. Inspired by abductive reasoning, we introduce Argus, a training-free agentic framework for cumulative leakage inference. Argus forms hypotheses from accumulated evidence, verifies supporting evidence, and aggregates cross-post cues into privacy profiles, achieving 0.55 PES, a 25% improvement over the strongest baseline, with the largest gain on cross-post leakage.

cs.CR

UniCA: Bi-directional Cross-Attention with Positive Similarity Loss for Robust Multi-Modal Retrieval

Multi-modal retrieval has become increasingly critical for handling the growing volume of integrated visual-textual data in real-world applications, but existing frameworks rely on implicit fusion via text encoder self-attention, limiting explicit cross-modal semantic alignment. To address this gap, this paper proposes UniCA (Unified Cross-Attention Encoder), a multi-modal retrieval model with four key innovations: 1) a bi-directional cross-attention (Bi-CA) block that enables active semantic exchange between visual and textual tokens prior to concatenation, capturing inter-modal correlations more efficiently. 2) a Positive Similarity Loss that optimizes absolute semantic proximity between query and positive candidate embeddings. 3) a streamlined dataset UMR-S10 (Universal Multimodal Retrieval Sample 10%) to reduce computational costs while retaining semantic diversity and task representativeness. 4) an experimental validation on the WebQA benchmark demonstrates that UniCA outperforms the baseline model across Hybrid and Image-Text tasks, achieving improvements of up to 4.09% in Recall@5, 3.28% in Recall@10, and 3.96% in MRR@1 for the hybrid task. UniCA provides an efficient and robust solution for multi-modal retrieval, lowering deployment barriers through its lightweight dataset and enhanced fusion mechanism.

cs.IR