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A resilient multi-vehicle system cooperatively performs tasks by exchanging information, detecting, and removing cyber attacks that have the intent of hijacking or diminishing performance of the entire system. In this paper, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Paul J Bonczek , Nicola Bezzo

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising approach to tackle complex tasks that are difficult for individual LLMs. A natural strategy is to scale performance by increasing the number of agents; however, we find that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yingxuan Yang , Chengrui Qu , Muning Wen , Laixi Shi , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang , Adam Wierman , Shangding Gu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about jailbreaking attacks, i.e., prompts that bypass safety mechanisms. This paper investigates the use of multi-agent LLM systems as a defence against such attacks. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Maria Carolina Cornelia Wit , Jun Pang

The rise of large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) introduces new security and reliability challenges. While these systems show great promise in decomposing and coordinating complex tasks, they also face multi-faceted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xu He , Di Wu , Yan Zhai , Kun Sun

This paper presents a detection algorithm for sensor attacks and a resilient state estimation scheme for a class of uniformly observable nonlinear systems. An adversary is supposed to corrupt a subset of sensors with the possibly unbounded…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Junsoo Kim , Chanhwa Lee , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun , Jin Heon Seo

This paper develops a glocal (global-local) attack detection framework to detect stealthy cyber-physical attacks, namely covert attack and zero-dynamics attack, against a class of multi-agent control systems seeking average consensus. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

With the growing amount of cyber threats, the need for development of high-assurance cyber systems is becoming increasingly important. The objective of this paper is to address the challenges of modeling and detecting sophisticated network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Tawfeeq Shawly , Ali Elghariani , Jason Kobes , Arif Ghafoor

Security threats such as jamming and route manipulation can have significant consequences on the performance of modern wireless networks. To increase the efficacy and stealthiness of such threats, a number of extremely challenging,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudlewski

In this paper, we investigate the role of a physical watermarking signal in quickest detection of a deception attack in a scalar linear control system where the sensor measurements can be replaced by an arbitrary stationary signal generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Somayeh Salimi , Subhrakanti Dey , Anders Ahlen

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) are increasingly deployed for agentic tasks, such as web automation, itinerary planning, and collaborative problem solving. Yet, their interactive nature introduces new security…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Samira Abedini , Sina Mavali , Lea Schönherr , Martin Pawelczyk , Rebekka Burkholz

Watermarking can detect sensor attacks in control systems by injecting a private signal into the control, whereby attacks are identified by checking the statistics of the sensor measurements and private signal. However, past approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Pedro Hespanhol , Matthew Porter , Ram Vasudevan , Anil Aswani

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate increasing integration into next-generation applications, but their safety in backdoor attacks remains largely underexplored. However, existing research has focused exclusively on single-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pengyu Zhu , Lijun Li , Yaxing Lyu , Li Sun , Sen Su , Jing Shao

In this paper, we first address adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on distributed synchronization of multi-agent systems, by providing conditions under which an attacker can destabilize the underlying network, as well as another set…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Aquib Mustafa , Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

While large language model-based agents demonstrate great potential in collaborative tasks, their interactivity also introduces security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose and model group collusive attacks, a highly destructive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiling Tao , Xinran Zheng , Shuo Yang , Meiling Tao , Xingjun Wang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models suffer from severe token inefficiency arising from two compounding sources: (i) unstructured parallel execution, where all agents activate simultaneously irrespective of input…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohit Dubey

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed reachable set computation for multi-agent systems (MASs) interacting over an undirected, stationary graph. A full state-feedback control input for such MASs depends no only on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Omanshu Thapliyal , Shanelle Clarke , Inseok Hwang

Time-varying hierarchical multi-agent systems are common in many applications. A well-known solution to control these systems is to use state feedback controllers that depend on the adjacency matrix to reach consensus. This solution has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Victor Daniel Reyes Dreke , Mircea Lazar

The digital world is witnessing the rapid rise of LLM-based multi-agent systems (MASs) and their powerful applications. However, their security remains insufficiently understood, as existing evaluations are largely limited to narrow attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ruichao Liang , Le Yin , Jing Chen , Yebo Feng , Cong Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Huangpeng Gu , Zijian Zhang , Yang Liu

Latent-based multi-agent systems replace parts of explicit inter-agent communication with hidden representations, offering a new direction for efficient and flexible agent collaboration. However, moving coordination into latent space may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenxi Wang , Ruiyang Huang , Jiayan Sun , Lei Wei , Yifan Wu

In this paper we present an idea of trusted communication platform for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) called TrustMAS. Based on analysis of routing protocols suitable for MAS we have designed a new proactive hidden routing. Proposed steg-agents…

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