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The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expose critical security vulnerabilities, necessitating the development of efficient and robust intrusion detection systems (IDS). Machine learning-based intrusion…

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In robotic manipulation, vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning generalizable and scalable robot policies. Most existing VLA frameworks rely on standard supervised objectives, typically…

Evaluating relevance in large-scale search systems is fundamentally constrained by the governance gap between nuanced, resource-constrained human oversight and the high-throughput requirements of production systems. While traditional…

Speculative execution attacks undermine the security of constant-time programming, the standard technique used to prevent microarchitectural side channels in security-sensitive software such as cryptographic code. Constant-time code must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Rutvik Choudhary , Alan Wang , Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly interact, collaborate, and delegate tasks to one another autonomously with minimal human interaction. Industry guidelines for agentic system governance emphasize the need for users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Georgios Syros , Anshuman Suri , Jacob Ginesin , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

With the application of machine learning to security-critical and sensitive domains, there is a growing need for integrity and privacy in computation using accelerators, such as GPUs. Unfortunately, the support for trusted execution on GPUs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Andrei Ivanov , Benjamin Rothenberger , Arnaud Dethise , Marco Canini , Torsten Hoefler , Adrian Perrig

Recent evidence suggests that frontier AI systems can exhibit agentic misalignment, generating and executing harmful actions derived from internally constructed goals, even without explicit user requests. Existing mitigation methods, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rong Xiang

Modern open-world agents such as OpenClaw exhibit powerful cross-environment execution capabilities yet introduce broad new safety risk sources. Meanwhile, advanced frontier AI models drastically lower attack barriers, rendering current…

Code agents powered by large language models can execute shell commands on behalf of users, introducing severe security vulnerabilities. This paper presents a two-phase security analysis of the OpenClaw platform. As an open-source AI agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhengyang Shan , Jiayun Xin , Yue Zhang , Minghui Xu

Autonomous AI agents increasingly extend their capabilities through Agent Skills: modular filesystem packages whose SKILL.md files describe when and how agents should use them. While this design enables scalable, on-demand capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shoumik Saha , Kazem Faghih , Soheil Feizi

Coding agents are increasingly used as general-purpose problem solvers, but their flexibility does not by itself confer the domain expertise needed for specialized tasks. Recent work addresses this through \textit{agent skills}: reusable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Salaheddin Alzubi , Noah Provenzano , Jaydon Bingham , Weiyuan Chen , Tu Vu

We present a cross-market algorithmic trading system that balances execution quality with rigorous compliance enforcement. The architecture comprises a high-level planner, a reinforcement learning execution agent, and an independent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ailiya Borjigin , Cong He

Agentic modeling aims to transform LLMs into autonomous agents capable of solving complex tasks through planning, reasoning, tool use, and multi-turn interaction with environments. Despite major investment, open research remains constrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Baolin Peng , Wenlin Yao , Qianhui Wu , Hao Cheng , Xiao Yu , Rui Yang , Tao Ge , Alessandro Sordoni , Xingdi Yuan , Yelong Shen , Pengcheng He , Tong Zhang , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents (e.g., OpenClaw) increasingly rely on reusable skill libraries to solve artifact-rich tasks such as document-centric workflows and data-intensive analysis. As these libraries grow, a few works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiangcheng Meng , Shu Wang , Yixiang Fang

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for complex tasks, yet deployed agents often remain static, failing to adapt as user needs evolve. This creates a tension between the need for continuous service and the necessity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peng Xia , Jianwen Chen , Xinyu Yang , Haoqin Tu , Jiaqi Liu , Kaiwen Xiong , Siwei Han , Shi Qiu , Haonian Ji , Yuyin Zhou , Zeyu Zheng , Cihang Xie , Huaxiu Yao

As autonomous agents (e.g., OpenClaw) increasingly operate with deep system-level privileges to execute complex tasks, they introduce severe, unmitigated security risks. Current vulnerability analyses overwhelmingly focus on single-turn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jianan Ma , Xiaohu Du , Ruixiao Lin , Yaoxiang Bian , Jialuo Chen , Jingyi Wang , Xiaofang Yang , Shiwen Cui , Changhua Meng , Xinhao Deng , Zhen Wang

OpenClaw-like agents offer substantial productivity benefits, yet they are insecure by default because they combine untrusted inputs, autonomous action, extensibility, and privileged system access within a single execution loop. We use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zongwei Li , Wenkai Li , Xiaoqi Li

Long-horizon LLM agents leave traces that could become reusable experience, but raw trajectories are noisy and hard to govern. We treat Agent Skills as an experience schema that couples executable scripts, with non-executable guidance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongyi Liu , Haoyan Yang , Tao Jiang , Bo Tang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

The most valuable asset of any cloud-based organization is data, which is increasingly exposed to sophisticated cyberattacks. Until recently, the implementation of security measures in DevOps environments was often considered optional by…

Irregular codes are bottlenecked by memory and communication latency. Decoupled access/execute (DAE) is a common technique to tackle this problem. It relies on the compiler to separate memory address generation from the rest of the program,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede