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Machine learning (ML) underpins foundation models in finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, making them targets for data poisoning, model extraction, prompt injection, automated jailbreaking, and preference-guided black-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Armstrong Foundjem , Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the capabilities of collaborative multi-agent systems, enabling them to address complex challenges. However, within these multi-agent systems, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Naen Xu , Hengyu An , Shuo Shi , Jinghuai Zhang , Chunyi Zhou , Changjiang Li , Tianyu Du , Zhihui Fu , Jun Wang , Shouling Ji

When an LLM agent reads a confidential file, then writes a summary, then emails it externally, no single step is unsafe, but the sequence is a data leak. We call this safety drift: individually safe actions compounding into violations.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Aditya Dhodapkar , Farhaan Pishori

Classical game-theoretic models typically assume rational agents, complete information, and common knowledge of payoffs - assumptions that are often violated in real-world MAS characterized by uncertainty, misaligned perceptions, and nested…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Vince Trencsenyi , Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis

Malicious agents in collaborative learning and outsourced data collection threaten the training of clean models. Backdoor attacks, where an attacker poisons a model during training to successfully achieve targeted misclassification, are a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Siddhartha Datta , Nigel Shadbolt

Subliminal prompting is a phenomenon in which language models are biased towards certain concepts or traits through prompting with semantically unrelated tokens. While prior work has examined subliminal prompting in user-LLM interactions,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Moritz Weckbecker , Jonas Müller , Ben Hagag , Michael Mulet

As LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are increasingly deployed for complex tasks, ensuring their reliability has become a pressing challenge. Since MAS coordinate through unstructured natural language rather than rigid protocols, they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jin Jia , Zhiling Deng , Zhuangbin Chen , Yingqi Wang , Zibin Zheng

Safety evaluations of memory-equipped LLM agents typically measure within-task safety: whether an agent completes a single scenario safely, often under adversarial conditions such as prompt injection or memory poisoning. In deployment,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ahmad Al-Tawaha , Shangding Gu , Peizhi Niu , Ruoxi Jia , Ming Jin

Graph-based agent memory is increasingly used in LLM agents to support structured long-term recall and multi-hop reasoning, but it also creates a new poisoning surface: an attacker can inject a crafted relation into graph memory so that it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yang Luo , Zifeng Kang , Tiantian Ji , Xinran Liu , Yong Liu , Shuyu Li , Lingyun Peng

Failure attribution in LLM-based multi-agent systems aims to identify the steps that contribute to a failed execution. This task remains difficult because a single execution can contain many agent actions and tool calls, failure evidence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yang Liu , Hongjiang Feng , Junsong Pu , Zhuangbin Chen

With the development of artificial intelligence, neural networks play a key role in network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Despite the tremendous advantages, neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. To improve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Ziyi Liu , Dengpan Ye , Long Tang , Yunming Zhang , Jiacheng Deng

As generative AI (GenAI) agents become more common in enterprise settings, they introduce security challenges that differ significantly from those posed by traditional systems. These agents are not just LLMs; they reason, remember, and act,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Vineeth Sai Narajala , Om Narayan

Large language models are increasingly being assembled into medical multi-agent systems that emulate multidisciplinary consultation through specialist roles, peer review and consensus formation. In clinical decision support, however,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yinghao Zhu , Lei Gu , Zixiang Wang , Haoran Sang , Dehao Sui , Wen Tang , Lan Mi , Yasha Wang , Junyi Gao , Liang Yao , Tianfan Fu , Ewen Harrison , Lequan Yu , Liantao Ma

Large language model agents increasingly rely on persistent memory to store past interactions, retrieve relevant demonstrations, and improve long-horizon task execution. However, this memory mechanism also creates a practical security…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhewen Tan , Yilun Yao , Huiyan Jin , Wenhan Yu , Guoan Wang , Mengyuan Fan , liang lu , Feng Liu , Xiangzheng Zhang , Duohe Ma , Tong Yang , Lin Sun

Textual backdoor attack, as a novel attack model, has been shown to be effective in adding a backdoor to the model during training. Defending against such backdoor attacks has become urgent and important. In this paper, we propose AttDef,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jiazhao Li , Zhuofeng Wu , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran

Robust prediction of molecular properties under extreme out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios is a pivotal bottleneck in AI-driven drug discovery. Current scaffold-splitting protocols fail to obstruct microscopic semantic overlap,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhuohao Lin , Kun Li , Jiameng Chen , Jiajun Yu , Duanhua Cao , Yizhen Zheng , Wenbin Hu

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents become more widespread, associated misalignment risks increase. While prior research has studied agents' ability to produce harmful outputs or follow malicious instructions, it remains unclear how likely…

AI coding agents increasingly act directly within software environments, yet existing analyses of their failures rely on benchmark trajectories that miss how developers actually experience misalignment. We present an observational study of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ningzhi Tang , Chaoran Chen , Gelei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Yu Huang , Collin McMillan , Tao Dong , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems have emerged as powerful architectures for complex task decomposition and collaborative problem-solving. However, their long-term behavioral stability remains largely unexamined. This study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Abhishek Rath

We study AI alignment through the lens of law-and-economics models of deterrence and enforcement. In these models, misconduct is not treated as an external failure, but as a strategic response to incentives: an actor weighs the gain from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rohit Agarwal , Joshua Lin , Mark Braverman , Elad Hazan