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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as core dependencies in software systems. However, the hosted LLM services evolve continuously through provider-side updates without explicit version changes. These silent updates can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mohd Sameen Chishti , Damilare Peter Oyinloye , Jingyue Li

We propose the use of probabilistic programming techniques to tackle the malicious user identification problem in a recommendation algorithm. Probabilistic programming provides numerous advantages over other techniques, including but not…

As LLM-based agents increasingly operate in multi-agent systems, understanding adversarial manipulation becomes critical for defensive design. We present a systematic study of intentional deception as an engineered capability, using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jason Starace , Terence Soule

Multi-agent systems coordinate LLM-based agents to perform tasks on users' behalf. In real-world applications, multi-agent systems will inevitably interact with untrusted inputs, such as malicious Web content, files, email attachments, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Harold Triedman , Rishi Jha , Vitaly Shmatikov

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges to evaluate agent performance, particularly in non-verifiable settings where judgments rely on agent trajectories including chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. This paradigm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Muhammad Khalifa , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Jaekyeom Kim , Sungryull Sohn , Yunxiang Zhang , Moontae Lee , Hao Peng , Lu Wang , Honglak Lee

LLM-powered agents are emerging as a dominant paradigm for autonomous task solving. Unlike standard inference workloads, agents operate in a strictly serial "LLM-tool" loop, where the LLM must wait for external tool execution at every step.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yifan Sui , Han Zhao , Rui Ma , Zhiyuan He , Hao Wang , Jianxun Li , Yuqing Yang

Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate confident yet inaccurate responses, introducing significant risks for deployment in safety-critical domains. We present a novel, test-time approach to detecting model hallucination through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hazel Kim , Tom A. Lamb , Adel Bibi , Philip Torr , Yarin Gal

Large language models (LLMs) now play a central role in code generation, yet they continue to hallucinate, frequently inventing non-existent libraries. Such library hallucinations are not just benign errors: they can mislead developers,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Lukas Twist , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Helen Yannakoudakis

The prevalence of malicious packages in open-source repositories, such as PyPI, poses a critical threat to the software supply chain. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising tool for automated security tasks, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ahmed Ryan , Ibrahim Khalil , Abdullah Al Jahid , Md Erfan , Sungbin Park , Akond Ashfaque Ur Rahman , Md Rayhanur Rahman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to automated code analysis, enabling tasks such as vulnerability detection and code comprehension. However, their integration introduces novel attack surfaces. In this paper, we identify and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yue Li , Xiao Li , Hao Wu , Yue Zhang , Fengyuan Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Sheng Zhong

Large language models (LLMs) are promising tools for supporting security management tasks, such as incident response planning. However, their unreliability and tendency to hallucinate remain significant challenges. In this paper, we address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Kim Hammar , Tansu Alpcan , Emil Lupu

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on external tools to perform time-sensitive tasks and real-world actions. While tool integration expands LLM capabilities, it also introduces a new prompt-injection attack surface: tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hengkai Ye , Zhechang Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Hong Hu

Customer-service LLM agents increasingly make policy-bound decisions (refunds, rebooking, billing disputes), but the same ``helpful'' interaction style can be exploited: a small fraction of users can induce unauthorized concessions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingyu Zhang

The liberalization of software licensing has led to unprecedented re-use of software. Alongside drastically increasing productivity and arguably quality of derivative works, it has also introduced multiple attack vectors. The management of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Aarnav M. Bos

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful computational models trained on extensive corpora of human-readable text, enabling them to perform general-purpose language understanding and generation. LLMs have garnered significant attention in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Liam Barkley , Brink van der Merwe

Growing applications of large language models (LLMs) trained by a third party raise serious concerns on the security vulnerability of LLMs.It has been demonstrated that malicious actors can covertly exploit these vulnerabilities in LLMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shuli Jiang , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Yi Zhou , Ling Cai , Nathalie Baracaldo

Software supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem have become increasingly sophisticated, leveraging obfuscation and complex logic to evade traditional detection mechanisms. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have attracted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dang-Khoa Nguyen , Gia-Thang Ho , Quang-Minh Pham , Tuyet A. Dang-Thi , Minh-Khanh Vu , Thanh-Cong Nguyen , Phat T. Tran-Truong , Duc-Ly Vu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown surprising proficiency in generating code snippets, promising to automate large parts of software engineering via artificial intelligence (AI). We argue that successfully deploying AI software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Abhik Roychoudhury , Corina Pasareanu , Michael Pradel , Baishakhi Ray

The advent of Large Language Models LLMs marks a milestone in Artificial Intelligence, altering how machines comprehend and generate human language. However, LLMs are vulnerable to malicious prompt injection attacks, where crafted inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sahasra Kokkula , Somanathan R , Nandavardhan R , Aashishkumar , G Divya

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in real-world decision-making tasks for embodied artificial intelligence, especially when fine-tuned to leverage their inherent common sense and reasoning abilities while being…

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