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Information flow guided synthesis is a compositional approach to the automated construction of distributed systems where the assumptions between the components are captured as information-flow requirements. Information-flow requirements are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Bernd Finkbeiner , Niklas Metzger , Yoram Moses

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a universal standard that enables AI agents to seamlessly connect with external tools, significantly enhancing their functionality. However, while MCP brings notable benefits, it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yongjian Guo , Puzhuo Liu , Wanlun Ma , Zehang Deng , Xiaogang Zhu , Peng Di , Xi Xiao , Sheng Wen

Structured LLM workflows, where specialized LLM sub-agents execute according to a predefined graph, have become a powerful abstraction for solving complex tasks. Optimizing such workflows, i.e., selecting configurations for each sub-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Junyan Li , Zhang-Wei Hong , Maohao Shen , Yang Zhang , Chuang Gan

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a standard interface through which LLM agents invoke external tools, and a growing ecosystem of MCP servers now mediates access to vendor services. Most of these servers target vendors that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meriem Mastouri , Emna Ksontini , Amine Barrak , Wael Kessentini

Model developers implement safeguards in frontier models to prevent misuse, for example, by employing classifiers to filter dangerous outputs. In this work, we demonstrate that even robustly safeguarded models can be used to elicit harmful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jackson Kaunismaa , Avery Griffin , John Hughes , Christina Q. Knight , Mrinank Sharma , Erik Jones

Technology is becoming increasingly pervasive. At present, the system components working together to provide functionality, be they purely software or with a physical element, tend to operate within silos, bound to a particular application…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Raluca Diaconu , Jean Bacon , Jie Deng , Jatinder Singh

Automatic software remodularisation is typically cast as a single-objective optimization problem. While recent metaheuristics have improved search efficiency, real-world architecture recovery must reconcile the conflicting attributes of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ahmed F. Ibrahim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable of interacting with external tools, granting access to specialized knowledge beyond their training data - critical in dynamic, knowledge-intensive domains such as Chemistry and…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically discover and invoke third-party tools, significantly expanding agent capabilities while introducing a distinct security landscape. Unlike prompt-only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mehrdad Rostamzadeh , Sidhant Narula , Nahom Birhan , Mohammad Ghasemigol , Daniel Takabi

Multi-agent LLM systems are entering production -- processing documents, managing workflows, acting on behalf of users -- yet their resilience to prompt injection is still evaluated with a single binary: did the attack succeed? This leaves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haochuan Kevin Wang , Zechen Zhang

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how large language model (LLM) agents discover, describe, and call external tools. While MCP unlocks broad interoperability, it also enlarges the attack surface by making tools first-class,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dongsen Zhang , Zekun Li , Xu Luo , Xuannan Liu , Peipei Li , Wenjun Xu

This letter presents an approach to guarantee online safety of a cyber-physical system under multiple state and input constraints. Our proposed framework, called gatekeeper, recursively guarantees the existence of an infinite-horizon…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Devansh R. Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

The emergence of chiplet-based heterogeneous integration is transforming the semiconductor, AI, and high-performance computing industries by enabling modular designs and improved scalability. However, assembling chiplets from multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ishraq Tashdid , Tasnuva Farheen , Sazadur Rahman

Leading language model (LM) providers like OpenAI and Anthropic allow customers to fine-tune frontier LMs for specific use cases. To prevent abuse, these providers apply filters to block fine-tuning on overtly harmful data. In this setting,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Joshua Kazdan , Abhay Puri , Rylan Schaeffer , Lisa Yu , Chris Cundy , Jason Stanley , Sanmi Koyejo , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

Large language model powered autonomous agents demand robust, standardized protocols to integrate tools, share contextual data, and coordinate tasks across heterogeneous systems. Ad-hoc integrations are difficult to scale, secure, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Abul Ehtesham , Aditi Singh , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Saket Kumar

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used to perform complex, multi-step workflows in regulated settings such as compliance and due diligence. However, many agentic architectures rely primarily on prompt engineering of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ananya Joshi , Michael Rudow

Sequential multi-agent systems built with large language models (LLMs) can automate complex software tasks, but they are hard to trust because errors quietly pass from one stage to the next. We study a traceable and accountable pipeline,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amine Barrak

Agentic language-model systems increasingly rely on mutable execution contexts, including files, memory, tools, skills, and auxiliary artifacts, creating security risks beyond explicit user prompts. This paper presents DeepTrap, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongwei Yao , Yiming Liu , Yiling He , Bingrun Yang

Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) is commonly implemented as a single static policy embedded in model parameters. However, real-world deployments often require context-dependent safety rules that vary across users, regions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jingyu Peng , Hongyu Chen , Jiancheng Dong , Maolin Wang , Wenxi Li , Yuchen Li , Kai Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how a large-language-model (LLM) agent and an external tool server exchange messages, but not trust: a host reads a server's self-declared tool list and dispatches calls, with no notion of which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alfredo Metere