publications

My published research. Hundreds of hours of work distilled into a few pages of "simple" PDFs.

2026

  1. Under review
    DocAI: Detecting and Localizing AI-Edited Content in Documents
    Daniel DeAlcala, Ching-Yun Ko, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Tolosana, and Pin-Yu Chen
    Under review at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2027), 2026

    TL;DRDocAIgen rewrites paragraphs, figures and tables of real PDFs with any generative model to build a 35K-page benchmark; DocAIdet, a 256M-parameter VLM, detects and localizes the AI-edited regions.

  2. IEEE CAI 2026
    Is My Text in Your AI Model? Gradient-based Membership Inference Test applied to LLMs
    Gonzalo Mancera, Daniel DeAlcala, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Tolosana, and Aythami Morales
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2026

    TL;DRGradient-based membership inference for language models: across 7 Transformer models and 2.5M sentences, AUC 0.85 to 0.99.

  3. COMPSAC 2026
    Is My Vision-Language Data in Your AI? Membership Inference Test (MINT) Demo 2
    Daniel DeAlcala*, Gonzalo Mancera*, Julian Fierrez, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, and Ruben Vera-Rodriguez
    IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2026

    TL;DRA public web platform that audits image and text models (MINT, aMINT, gMINT), with up to 90% accuracy in detecting training data.

  4. arXiv 2026
    Auditing Training Data in Domain-adapted LLMs: LoRA-MINT
    Gonzalo Mancera, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Tolosana, and Francisco Jurado
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.06946, 2026

    TL;DRMembership inference for LLMs fine-tuned with LoRA, based on perplexity: precision 0.77 to 0.92 across 4 models and 3 datasets.

  5. ICDAR-W 2026
    Comparative Study of Domain-adapted VLMs for General Document Visual Question Answering
    Marta Lopez-Duran, E. Marrero, Julian Fierrez, M. Robledo-Moreno, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, O. Delgado, Alvaro Ortigosa, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) Workshops, 2026

    TL;DRA comparison of domain-adapted vision-language models for general document visual question answering.

  6. ICDAR-W 2026
    CrimeNER Demo: Named-Entity Recognition in the Crime Domain
    Marta Lopez-Duran, Julian Fierrez, Aythami Morales, Daniel DeAlcala, Gonzalo Mancera, J. Irigoyen, Ruben Tolosana, O. Delgado, Francisco Jurado, and Alvaro Ortigosa
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) Workshops, 2026

    TL;DRA demonstrator for named-entity recognition in crime-domain documents.

2025

  1. ICCV 2025
    Active Membership Inference Test (aMINT): Enhancing Model Auditability with Multi-Task Learning
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Gonzalo Mancera, Ruben Tolosana, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

    TL;DRActive MINT trains the model and its auditor together, so training-data membership can be verified later: above 80% accuracy from MobileNet to ViT.

  2. ICCV 2025
    DeepID Challenge of Detecting Synthetic Manipulations in ID Documents
    Pavel Korshunov et al.
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

    TL;DRChallenge on detecting synthetic manipulations in ID documents. Our UAM team had the best score of 26 teams on the organisers’ private test set of 20K real ID documents.

  3. IEEE Access
    Is My Data in Your AI? Membership Inference Test (MINT) applied to Face Biometrics
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Gonzalo Mancera, Ruben Tolosana, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    IEEE Access, 2025

    TL;DRMembership Inference Test (MINT) for face recognition: using model activations, it detects whether a face was in the training set with up to 90% accuracy on 22M+ images.

  4. ICCV-W 2025
    AttZoom: Attention Zoom for Better Visual Features
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, and Ruben Tolosana
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2025

    TL;DRA modular, model-agnostic spatial attention layer for CNNs that consistently improves accuracy on CIFAR-100 and TinyImageNet.

  5. CVPR-W 2025
    gMINT: Gradient-based Membership Inference Test applied to Image Models
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Gonzalo Mancera, and Ruben Tolosana
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2025

    TL;DRgMINT audits image models from per-sample gradient updates and reaches near-perfect training-data detection in most settings.

  6. AAAI-W 2025
    MINT-Demo: Membership Inference Test Demonstrator
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Gonzalo Mancera, Ruben Tolosana, and Ruben Vera-Rodriguez
    AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Governance (AIGOV), 2025

    TL;DRThe first public MINT demonstrator: experiments on face recognition models and 22M+ images, with up to 89% accuracy.

  7. AAAI-W 2025
    Membership Inference Test: Auditing Training Data in Object Classification Models
    Gonzalo Mancera, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, and Julian Fierrez
    AAAI Workshop on Deployable AI, 2025

    TL;DRMembership Inference Test applied to auditing the training data of object classification models.

2024

  1. CVPR-W 2024
    A Comprehensive Analysis of Factors Impacting Membership Inference
    Daniel DeAlcala, Gonzalo Mancera, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Tolosana, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024

    TL;DRWhich training factors make membership easier or harder to detect: number of epochs, loss function and dropout, studied on 22M+ face images.

2023

  1. COMPSAC 2023
    Measuring Bias in AI Models: An Statistical Approach Introducing N-Sigma
    Daniel DeAlcala, Ignacio Serna, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

    TL;DRN-Sigma, a statistical method from physics, applied to measuring bias in face recognition models.

  2. CVPR-W 2023
    BeCAPTCHA-Type: Biometric Keystroke Data Generation for Improved Bot Detection
    Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, Alejandro Acien, Julian Fierrez, Santiago Hernandez, Miguel A Ferrer, and Moises Diaz
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2023

    TL;DRSynthetic keystroke data generation to train better bot detectors, on 136M keystroke events from 168K subjects.

2022

  1. AAAI-W 2022
    ALEBk: Feasibility Study of Attention Level Estimation via Blink Detection applied to e-Learning
    Roberto Daza, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, Ruth Cobos, and Julian Fierrez
    AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education (AI4EDU), 2022

    TL;DREstimating the attention level of students in online sessions from eye blink frequency, with a CNN blink detector.

  2. AAAI-W 2022
    IFBiD: Inference-Free Bias Detection
    Ignacio Serna, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, and Javier Ortega-Garcia
    AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (SafeAI), 2022

    TL;DRDetecting bias in a neural network by looking only at its weights, without running inference.