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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become an essential tool in the programmer's toolkit, but their tendency to hallucinate code can be used by malicious actors to introduce vulnerabilities to broad swathes of the software supply chain. In…

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Hallucinations, outputs that sound plausible but are factually incorrect, remain an open challenge for deployed LLMs. In code generation, models frequently hallucinate non-existent software packages, recommending imports and installation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Joseph Spracklen , Pedram Aghazadeh , Farinaz Koushanfar , Murtuza Jadliwala

Recent studies demonstrate that Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to different prompt-based attacks, generating harmful content or sensitive information. Both closed-source and open-source LLMs are underinvestigated for these…

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LLM-based programming assistants offer the promise of programming faster but with the risk of introducing more security vulnerabilities. Prior work has studied how LLMs could be maliciously fine-tuned to suggest vulnerabilities more often.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 John Heibel , Daniel Lowd

LLM agents are widely used as agents for customer support, content generation, and code assistance. However, they are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where adversarial inputs manipulate the model's behavior. Traditional defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhilong Wang , Neha Nagaraja , Lan Zhang , Hayretdin Bahsi , Pawan Patil , Peng Liu

Prompt-based verification is widely used to mitigate hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet when it helps remains poorly understood. We systematically study verification prompting across two representative LVLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuang Huang , Yafeng Zhang , Yu Zilan

Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-3.5, LLaMA, and PaLM, seem to be knowledgeable and able to adapt to many tasks. However, we still cannot completely trust their answers, since LLMs suffer from \textbf{hallucination}\textemdash…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jia-Yu Yao , Kun-Peng Ning , Zhen-Hui Liu , Mu-Nan Ning , Yu-Yang Liu , Li Yuan

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks but remain vulnerable to hallucinations, motivating the need for realistic adversarial prompts that elicit such failures. We formulate hallucination elicitation as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Buyun Liang , Jinqi Luo , Liangzu Peng , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Darshan Thaker , Kaleab A. Kinfu , Fengrui Tian , Hamed Hassani , René Vidal

Large language model-powered sequential recommender systems (LLM-SRSs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance, enabling recommendations through prompt-driven inference over user interaction sequences. However, this paradigm also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuchuan Zhao , Tong Chen , Junliang Yu , Zongwei Wang , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Extremely large image generators offer significant transformative potential across diverse sectors. It allows users to design specific prompts to generate realistic images through some black-box APIs. However, some studies reveal that image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yu Tian , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Heming Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

Navigation agents powered by large language models (LLMs) convert natural language instructions into executable plans and actions. Compared to text-based applications, their security is far more critical: a successful prompt injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiani Liu , Yixin He , Lanlan Fan , Qidi Zhong , Yushi Cheng , Meng Zhang , Yanjiao Chen , Wenyuan Xu

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) 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

Large Language Models for code (LLMs4Code) are increasingly used to generate software artifacts, including library and package recommendations in languages such as Go. However, recent evidence shows that LLMs frequently hallucinate package…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Md Nazmul Haque , Elizabeth Lin , Lawrence Arkoh , Biruk Tadesse , Bowen Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, but their potential misuse for harmful purposes remains a significant concern. To strengthen defenses against such vulnerabilities, it is essential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Seongho Joo , Hyukhun Koh , Kyomin Jung

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-risk domains. However, state-of-the-art LLMs often exhibit hallucinations, raising serious concerns about their reliability. Prior work has explored adversarial attacks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Buyun Liang , Liangzu Peng , Jinqi Luo , Darshan Thaker , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , René Vidal

The reliance of popular programming languages such as Python and JavaScript on centralized package repositories and open-source software, combined with the emergence of code-generating Large Language Models (LLMs), has created a new type of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Joseph Spracklen , Raveen Wijewickrama , A H M Nazmus Sakib , Anindya Maiti , Bimal Viswanath , Murtuza Jadliwala

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve complex reasoning tasks is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. Recent work augments LLMs with external tools to enable agentic reasoning, achieving high utility and efficiency in…

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