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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced solutions across various domains, from political science to software development. However, these models are constrained by their training data, which is static and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Aadil Gani Ganie

The security of LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) is critically threatened by propagation vulnerability, where malicious agents can distort collective decision-making through inter-agent message interactions. While existing supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rui Miao , Yixin Liu , Yili Wang , Xu Shen , Yue Tan , Yiwei Dai , Shirui Pan , Xin Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in agentic systems that interact with an external environment; this makes them susceptible to prompt injections when dealing with untrusted data. To overcome this limitation, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nils Philipp Walter , Chawin Sitawarin , Jamie Hayes , David Stutz , Ilia Shumailov

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has revolutionized the development of data-driven solutions; however, traditional frameworks often function as "black boxes", lacking the flexibility and transparency required for complex, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dat Le , Duc-Cuong Le , Anh-Son Nguyen , Tuan-Dung Bui , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Son Nguyen , Hieu Dinh Vo

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as educational agents for automatic short answer grading (ASAG) in real-world educational environments, significantly boosting assessment efficiency and scalability. However, when these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xueyi Li , Zhuoneng Zhou , Zitao Liu , Yongdong Wu

LLM-based code agents(e.g., ChatGPT Codex) are increasingly deployed as detector for code review and security auditing tasks. Although CoT-enhanced LLM vulnerability detectors are believed to provide improved robustness against obfuscated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyang Li , Mingjin Li , Jinxin Zuo , Siqi Li , Xiao Li , Hao Wu , Yueming Lu , Xiaochuan He

Agent Skill framework, now widely and officially supported by major players such as GitHub Copilot, LangChain, and OpenAI, performs especially well with proprietary models by improving context engineering, reducing hallucinations, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yangjie Xu , Lujun Li , Lama Sleem , Niccolo Gentile , Yewei Song , Yiqun Wang , Siming Ji , Wenbo Wu , Radu State

Mental health disorders affect millions worldwide, and healthcare systems are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of clinical data generated from electronic records, telemedicine platforms, and population-level screening programs. At the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Giuliano Lorenzoni , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous, tool-calling agents has fundamentally altered the cybersecurity landscape. Frameworks like OpenClaw grant AI systems operating-system-level permissions and the autonomy to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zonghao Ying , Xiao Yang , Siyang Wu , Yumeng Song , Yang Qu , Hainan Li , Tianlin Li , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu

Agentic frameworks are the software layer through which AI agents act in the world. Existing safety methods intervene on the model and therefore remain conditional on unverifiable properties of learned behavior. We introduce containment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Royce Moon , Lav R. Varshney

We introduce Agentic Reasoning, a framework that enhances large language model (LLM) reasoning by integrating external tool-using agents. Agentic Reasoning dynamically leverages web search, code execution, and structured memory to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yuyuan Liu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin

Coverage closure is a critical requirement in Integrated Chip (IC) development process and key metric for verification sign-off. However, traditional exhaustive approaches often fail to achieve full coverage within project timelines. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sivaram Pothireddypalli , Ashish Raman , Deepak Narayan Gadde , Aman Kumar

Large Language Model (LLM) agents offer a powerful new paradigm for solving various problems by combining natural language reasoning with the execution of external tools. However, their dynamic and non-transparent behavior introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Peiran Wang , Yang Liu , Yunfei Lu , Yifeng Cai , Hongbo Chen , Qingyou Yang , Jie Zhang , Jue Hong , Ye Wu

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly being deployed as conversational assistants capable of performing complex real-world tasks through tool integration. This enhanced ability to interact with external systems and process…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Feiran Jia , Tong Wu , Xin Qin , Anna Squicciarini

Traditional industrial automation systems require specialized expertise to operate and complex reprogramming to adapt to new processes. Large language models offer the intelligence to make them more flexible and easier to use. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yuchen Xia , Nasser Jazdi , Jize Zhang , Chaitanya Shah , Michael Weyrich

As hardware systems grow in complexity, security verification must keep up with them. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have started to play an important role in automating several stages of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khan Thamid Hasan , Md Ajoad Hasan , Nashmin Alam , Md. Touhidul Islam , Upoma Das , Farimah Farahmandi

Large language models (LLMs) have made rapid advancements in code generation for popular languages such as Python and C++. Many of these recent gains can be attributed to the use of ``agents'' that wrap domain-relevant tools alongside LLMs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Patrick Yubeaton , Siddharth Garg , Chinmay Hegde

Despite the impressive adaptability of large language models (LLMs), challenges remain in ensuring their security, transparency, and interpretability. Given their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, LLMs need to be defended with an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tomas Bueno Momcilovic , Beat Buesser , Giulio Zizzo , Mark Purcell , Dian Balta

The complexity of modern computing environments and the growing sophistication of cyber threats necessitate a more robust, adaptive, and automated approach to security enforcement. In this paper, we present a framework leveraging large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pablo Fernández Saura , K. R. Jayaram , Vatche Isahagian , Jorge Bernal Bernabé , Antonio Skarmeta

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automating hardware synthesis, yet substantial barriers remain for industrial-scale, datapath-centric designs due to ambiguous specifications and a lack of formal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kezhi Li , Min Li , Xiangyu Wen , Shibo Zhao , Jieying Wu , Junhua Huang , Qiang Xu