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With the popularity of deep learning (DL), artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied in many areas of human life. Neural network or artificial neural network (NN), the main technique behind DL, has been extensively studied to facilitate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Minhui Zou , Yang Shi , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song , Yu Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming an integrated part of software development. These models are trained on large datasets for code, where it is hard to verify each data point. Therefore, a potential attack surface can be to inject…

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Prompt injection is listed as the number-one vulnerability class in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications that can subvert LLM guardrails, disclose sensitive data, and trigger unauthorized tool use. Developers are rapidly adopting…

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Multi-turn tool calling is essential for LLMs to function as autonomous agents, yet synthesizing the training data required for these capabilities remains a fundamental challenge. Existing synthetic data generation pipelines often produce…

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Customized Large Language Model (LLM) agents face a critical security threat from black-box instruction backdoors, where malicious behaviors are covertly injected through hidden system instructions. Although existing prompt-based defenses…

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The safety of autonomous AI agents is increasingly recognized as a critical open problem. As agents transition from passive text generators to active actors capable of executing shell commands, modifying files, calling APIs, and browsing…

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Modern software engineers operate across 5-10 disconnected tools daily: GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, calendar applications, CI dashboards, AI coding assistants, and container platforms. This fragmentation creates cognitive overhead that…

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Capability distillation applies knowledge distillation to selected model capabilities, aiming to compress a large language model (LLM) into a smaller one while preserving the abilities needed for a downstream task. However, most existing…

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The rise of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) is shifting remote sensing (RS) intelligence from "see" to "action", as OpenClaw-style frameworks enable agents to autonomously operate massive RS image-processing tools for complex…

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Software-defined networking (SDN) has become a fundamental technology for data centers and 5G networks. In an SDN network, routing and traffic management decisions are made by a centralized controller and communicated to switches via a…

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Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but also abstracting, and reusing higher-level tool…

Large language models have gained widespread prominence, yet their vulnerability to prompt injection and other adversarial attacks remains a critical concern. This paper argues for a security-by-design AI paradigm that proactively mitigates…

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A deep clustering network is desired for data streams because of its aptitude in extracting natural features thus bypassing the laborious feature engineering step. While automatic construction of the deep networks in streaming environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Andri Ashfahani , Mahardhika Pratama

LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills (e.g., `SKILL.md`) to execute complex tasks, yet these artifacts lack portability: agent frameworks are highly sensitive to prompt formatting, leading to a large performance variation for the…

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Synthetic data is essential for assessing clustering techniques, complementing and extending real data, and allowing for more complete coverage of a given problem's space. In turn, synthetic data generators have the potential of creating…

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We present Claw AI Lab, a lab-native autonomous research platform that advances automated research from a hidden prompt-to-paper pipeline into an interactive AI laboratory. Rather than centering the system around a single agent or a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Fan Wu , Cheng Chen , Zhenshan Tan , Taiyu Zhang , Xinzhen Xu , Yanyu Qian , Dingcheng Gao , Lanyun Zhu , Qi Zhu , Yi Tan , Deyi Ji , Guosheng Lin , Tianrun Chen , Deheng Ye , Fayao Liu

Prompts play a crucial role in guiding the responses of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the intricate role of individual tokens in prompts, known as input saliency, in shaping the responses remains largely underexplored. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Junlang Qian , Kezhi Mao

There are increasing concerns about possible malicious modifications of integrated circuits (ICs) used in critical applications. Such attacks are often referred to as hardware Trojans. While many techniques focus on hardware Trojan…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for generating Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code from natural language specifications, but single-shot generation achieves only 60-65% functional correctness on standard benchmarks. Multi-agent…

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