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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Invisible Ink, Visible Lies: How Production Watermarking Causes LLMs to Hallucinate

Text watermarking helps identify AI-generated content, but its effect on factual reliability remains underexplored. In this paper, we study watermarking hallucination: factual errors induced or amplified by watermarking even when the required evidence is present in the context and the unwatermarked model can answer cor...

Haocheng Ye, Aoting Hu, Xinwei Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Guess My Weight: Profiled Side-Channel Recovery of Floating-Point Neural-Network Weights

Neural-network parameters deployed on embedded devices may be exposed through physical side-channel leakage during inference. Existing side-channel attacks on floating-point neural-network parameters have often targeted reduced numerical precision, while recovering the complete IEEE-754 representation remains considera...

Timon Lum\'ir Fillo, J\'an Mikulec, Anubhab Baksi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

COPEX: Benchmarking LLM Robustness to Adversarial Context Across Model Context Protocol Layers

Large language models increasingly mediate tool use in Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, where adversarial influence may enter through user instructions, tool schemas, tool outputs, or protocol messages. Existing benchmarks often evaluate deployed agents, conflating model susceptibility with guardrails, orchestrati...

Nahom Birhan, Mehrdad Rostamzadeh, Sidhant Narula et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GrayShield: Bit-Level Sanitization for Transformer Model Supply-Chain Security

Transformer models such as BERT and Vision Transformer~(ViT) achieve strong performance via densely parameterized attention backbones. However, the least significant bits~(LSBs) of their 32-bit floating-point weights can be abused as covert channels to conceal malicious payloads, posing a serious threat to the AI model...

A. Foundjem, Tsung-Hsien Chuang, F. Khomh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

CyTReX: Explainable AI-Based Cybersecurity Threat Reasoning Framework for DER Networks

Distributed Energy Resource (DER) environments rely on network communication protocols to coordinate control commands, measurements, and device states across edge assets and cloud systems. Edge anomaly detection systems (ADS) monitor this traffic to identify deviations from normal communication behavior, flagging suspi...

D. Popoola, S. Bhattacharya, M. Govindarasu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Language Model Fingerprinting Requires Rethinking Watermark Teachers

LLM fingerprinting via watermark distillation embeds a statistical watermark signal into model weights, enabling model owners to identify their models behind black-box APIs. Revisiting a recent protocol, we find that its utility evaluation understates text quality degradation in open-ended generation, favoring overly s...

Jeongyeon Hwang, Anshul Nasery, Sewoong Oh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Beware EviLLM: Enabling Vulnerability Injection via Large Language Models

Advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI-driven code generation from natural language specifications, introducing new attack surfaces for injecting vulnerabilities into software. Prior work has studied this problem only in benign settings where vulnerabilities are introduced inadvertently, or under unco...

Zeezoo Ryu, S. Chung, M. F. Karim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

From Requirements to Attack Trees: Grounded LLM Agents for Design-Time Security Review

Design-level security weaknesses can arise from requirements, trust assumptions, missing controls, and data flows before implementation begins. Existing security practices often identify these issues after code is written. We present a multi-agent LLM framework for design-time security analysis from product requirement...

Akash Iyer, Taha Demirkan, Keerthi Koneru et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Private Training: The New Landscape of AI Privacy

Retrieval-augmented systems increasingly rely on vector indexes that may retain deleted items in their search graph. Existing deletion interfaces can prevent deleted identifiers from appearing in returned results while still computing distances to their embeddings during graph traversal. We formalize this distinction a...

S. Culatana, Kang Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Agentic-ZTA: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Autonomous Zero Trust Enforcement

Agentic AI is emerging as a promising paradigm for automating complex cybersecurity decisions, yet its use in enforcing zero trust introduces significant challenges in safety, reliability, and policy compliance. This paper presents Agentic AI based zero trust architecture (Agentic-ZTA) that operationalizes the NIST SP...

Shovan Roy, Lopamudra Praharaj, Maanak Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Visual Grounding Safety in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly trained to generate structured outputs like points and bounding boxes that downstream interfaces, agents, and robots can act on, yet safety alignment of this output channel has not been systematically analyzed. We study visual grounding safety by repurposing three safety b...

Erfan Shayegani, Kundan Krishna, Yue Dong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Runtime Authorization of Self-Generated Subgoals in Long-Horizon Tool-Using AI Agents

Long-horizon tool-using AI agents create subgoals, replan, delegate work, and compose sibling results. Per-tool permission checks cannot establish that a changing goal graph remains within the principal-approved task. We address this authorization gap in a finite structured domain with one principal and one authorizati...

Gen-Liang Zhu, Chu Wang · 1 citation

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Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation

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