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AI agents are beginning to interact with each other directly and across internet platforms and physical environments, creating security challenges beyond traditional cybersecurity and AI safety frameworks. Free-form protocols are essential…

The deployment of autonomous AI agents in sensitive domains, such as healthcare, introduces critical risks to safety, security, and privacy. These agents may deviate from user objectives, violate data handling policies, or be compromised by…

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Static analysis remains one of the most popular approaches for detecting and correcting poor or vulnerable program code. It involves the examination of code listings, test results, or other documentation to identify errors, violations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fitzroy D. Nembhard , Marco M. Carvalho

The emergence of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents capable of tool usage has introduced new safety risks that go beyond traditional conversational misuse. These agents, empowered to execute external functions, are vulnerable to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zeyang Sha , Hanling Tian , Zhuoer Xu , Shiwen Cui , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ronny Ko , Jiseong Jeong , Shuyuan Zheng , Chuan Xiao , Tae-Wan Kim , Makoto Onizuka , Won-Yong Shin

Writing code requires significant time and effort in software development. To automate this process, researchers have made substantial progress for code generation. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jia Li , Xianjie Shi , Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Lei Li , Huangzhao Zhang , Jia Li , Fang Liu , Yuwei Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Yihong Dong , Yuqi Zhu , Chongyang Tao

Autonomous agents powered by foundation models have seen widespread adoption across various real-world applications. However, they remain highly vulnerable to malicious instructions and attacks, which can result in severe consequences such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhaorun Chen , Mintong Kang , Bo Li

Software agents have emerged as promising tools for addressing complex software engineering tasks. Existing works, on the other hand, frequently oversimplify software development workflows, despite the fact that such workflows are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Minh Huynh Nguyen , Thang Phan Chau , Phong X. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has drawn attention to their potential for accelerating drug discovery. However, a central problem remains: translating theoretical ideas into robust implementations in the highly specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sizhe Liu , Yizhou Lu , Siyu Chen , Xiyang Hu , Jieyu Zhao , Yingzhou Lu , Yue Zhao

Despite the integration of safety alignment and external filters, text-to-image (T2I) generative systems are still susceptible to producing harmful content, such as sexual or violent imagery. This raises serious concerns about unintended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boheng Li , Junjie Wang , Yiming Li , Zhiyang Hu , Leyi Qi , Jianshuo Dong , Run Wang , Han Qiu , Zhan Qin , Tianwei Zhang

Humans solve problems by executing targeted plans, yet large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable for structured workflow execution. We propose RunAgent, a multi-agent plan execution platform that interprets natural-language plans while…

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As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent across many real-world applications, understanding and enhancing their robustness to adversarial attacks is of paramount importance. Existing methods for identifying adversarial…

Agents are LLM-driven components that can mutate environments in powerful, arbitrary ways. Extracting guarantees for the execution of agents in production environments can be challenging due to asynchrony and failures. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mahesh Balakrishnan , Ashwin Bharambe , Davide Testuggine , David Geraghty , David Mao , Vidhya Venkat , Ilya Mironov , Rithesh Baradi , Gayathri Aiyer , Victoria Dudin

Agent benchmarks have become the de facto measure of frontier AI competence, guiding model selection, investment, and deployment. However, reward hacking, where agents maximize a score without performing the intended task, emerges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Wang , Hanchen Li , Qiuyang Mang , Alvin Cheung , Koushik Sen , Dawn Song

Recent developments in AI safety research have called for red-teaming methods that effectively surface potential risks posed by generative AI models, with growing emphasis on how red-teamers' backgrounds and perspectives shape their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wesley Hanwen Deng , Mingxi Yan , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Akshita Jha , Lauren Wilcox , Kenneth Holstein , Motahhare Eslami , Leon A. Gatys

Fully autonomous teams of LLM-powered AI agents are emerging that collaborate to perform complex tasks for users. What challenges do developers face when trying to build and debug these AI agent teams? In formative interviews with five AI…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Will Epperson , Gagan Bansal , Victor Dibia , Adam Fourney , Jack Gerrits , Erkang Zhu , Saleema Amershi

Current research on decision-making in safety-critical scenarios often relies on inefficient data-driven scenario generation or specific modeling approaches, which fail to capture corner cases in real-world contexts. To address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yinsong Chen , Kaifeng Wang , Xiaoqiang Meng , Xueyuan Li , Zirui Li , Xin Gao

Conventional language model (LM) safety alignment relies on a reactive, disjoint procedure: attackers exploit a static model, followed by defensive fine-tuning to patch exposed vulnerabilities. This sequential approach creates a mismatch --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mickel Liu , Liwei Jiang , Yancheng Liang , Simon Shaolei Du , Yejin Choi , Tim Althoff , Natasha Jaques

This study presents a structured approach to evaluating vulnerabilities within quantum cryptographic protocols, focusing on the BB84 quantum key distribution method and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved…

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The inherent non-deterministic nature of autonomous agents, particularly within low-code/no-code (LCNC) environments, presents significant reliability challenges. Agents can become trapped in unforeseen loops, generate inaccurate outputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jiexi Xu