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The increasing reliance of drivers on navigation applications has made transportation networks more susceptible to data-manipulation attacks by malicious actors. Adversaries may exploit vulnerabilities in the data collection or processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Taha Eghtesad , Sirui Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding, code generation, and complex planning. Simultaneously, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have garnered attention for their potential to enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Can Zheng , Yuhan Cao , Xiaoning Dong , Tianxing He

As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate complex web tasks, they boost productivity while simultaneously introducing new security risks. However, relevant studies on web agent attacks remain limited. Existing red-teaming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zheng Zhang , Jiarui He , Yuchen Cai , Deheng Ye , Peilin Zhao , Ruili Feng , Hao Wang

Prompt injection attacks, where malicious input is designed to manipulate AI systems into ignoring their original instructions and following unauthorized commands instead, were first discovered by Preamble, Inc. in May 2022 and responsibly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeremy McHugh , Kristina Šekrst , Jon Cefalu

LLM-based NLP systems typically work by embedding their input data into prompt templates which contain instructions and/or in-context examples, creating queries which are submitted to a LLM, and then parsing the LLM response in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Zhifan Sun

ReAct has become the default architecture across LLM agents, and many existing web agents follow this paradigm. We argue that it is the wrong default for web agents. Instead, web agents should default to plan-then-execute: commit to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Julien Piet , Annabella Chow , Yiwei Hou , Muxi Lyu , Sylvie Venuto , Jinhao Zhu , Raluca Ada Popa , David Wagner

The rise in popularity of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted widespread public interest. We demonstrate that this technology can be attacked to generate content that subtly manipulates its users. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

With the rapid advancement of commercial multi-modal models, image editing has garnered significant attention due to its widespread applicability in daily life. Despite impressive progress, existing image editing systems, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yiran Zhao , Yaoqi Ye , Xiang Liu , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Trung Bui

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming a popular tool as they have significantly advanced in their capability to tackle a wide range of language-based tasks. However, LLMs applications are highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Md Abdur Rahman , Fan Wu , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

The recent trend in the Large Vision and Language model has brought a new change in how information extraction systems are built. VLMs have set a new benchmark with their State-of-the-art techniques in understanding documents and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Dipankar Medhi

Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various recommender systems, ranging from neighborhood-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hai Huang , Jiaming Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Qi Li , Bin Liu , Mingwei Xu

The development of autonomous web agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL), represents a significant step towards general-purpose AI assistants. However, training these agents is severely hampered by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hang Ding , Peidong Liu , Junqiao Wang , Ziwei Ji , Meng Cao , Rongzhao Zhang , Lynn Ai , Eric Yang , Tianyu Shi , Lei Yu

Online hate remains a significant societal challenge, especially as multimodal content enables subtle, culturally grounded, and implicit forms of harm. Hateful memes embed hostility through text-image interactions and humor, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sahajpreet Singh , Kokil Jaidka , Subhayan Mukerjee

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to typographic attacks, which are misclassifications caused by an attack text that is added to an image. In this paper, we introduce a multi-image setting for studying typographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiaomeng Wang , Zhengyu Zhao , Martha Larson

Instruction-following agents must ground language into their observation and action spaces. Learning to ground language is challenging, typically requiring domain-specific engineering or large quantities of human interaction data. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Theodore Sumers , Kenneth Marino , Arun Ahuja , Rob Fergus , Ishita Dasgupta

Prompt injection attacks deceive a large language model into completing an attacker-specified task instead of its intended task by contaminating its input data with an injected prompt, which consists of injected instruction(s) and data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yuqi Jia , Yupei Liu , Zedian Shao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Gong

Penetration testing is essential to securing modern web infrastructures, yet traditional manual methods struggle to keep pace with their scale and complexity. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for automating these tasks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 William Guanting Li , Alsharif Abuadbba , Kristen Moore , Dan Dongseong Kim

Can web-based image processing and visualization tools easily integrate into existing websites without significant time and effort? Our Boostlet.js library addresses this challenge by providing an open-source, JavaScript-based web framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Edward Gaibor , Shruti Varade , Rohini Deshmukh , Tim Meyer , Mahsa Geshvadi , SangHyuk Kim , Vidhya Sree Narayanappa , Daniel Haehn

The recent advancement of autonomous agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated significant potential for automating tasks on mobile devices through graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Despite initial progress, these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yi Kong , Dianxi Shi , Guoli Yang , Zhang ke-di , Chenlin Huang , Xiaopeng Li , Songchang Jin

Most web agents operate at the human interface level, observing screenshots or raw DOM trees without application-level access, which limits robustness and action expressiveness. In enterprise settings, however, explicit control of both the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chenyang Ma , Clyde Fare , Matthew Wilson , Dave Braines