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#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

OVIG: Optimistic Verification of AI Training Integrity via Gradient Signals

The rapid growth of AI has increased the demand for domain-specific models. Post-training of open-source models offers a more economical way to meet this growing demand, but the cost of accelerator infrastructure often pushes organizations to outsource the process to third-party providers. An untrusted provider may dev...

Hongxu Su, Jianzhu Yao, Huan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MCPTox: A Benchmark for Tool Poisoning Attack on Real-World MCP Servers

By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a cornerstone of the modern autonomous agent ecosystem. However, it creates novel attack surfaces due to untrusted external tools. While prior work has focused on attacks injected t...

Zhiqiang Wang, Yichao Gao, Yanting Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Feb 2025

Boosting Adversarial Robustness and Generalization with Dictionary Structure

This work investigates a novel approach to boost adversarial robustness and generalization by incorporating structural prior into the design of deep learning models and proposes Elastic Dictionary Learning Networks (EDLNets), a novel ResNet architecture that significantly enhances adversarial robustness and generalizat...

Zhi-Chao Hou, Wei-Zhi Gao, Hamid Krim et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Backdoor Mitigation in Decentralized LLM Fine-Tuning

Chorus is presented, a decentralized mechanism that lets each node detect and reject backdoored adapters from its neighbors before aggregation, without requiring shared validation data or any knowledge of the attacker's trigger or target.

Sayan Biswas, Jade Garcia Bourrée, R. Guerraoui et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

AutoMark: Enabling Autoresearch to Discover Better LLM Watermarks

With LLM watermarking being deployed commercially and now required by regulations, improving its reliability and effectiveness has become crucial. Yet, recent progress in the field of LLM watermarking has increasingly been driven by improving details of existing methods, an effort fundamentally limited by the pace of h...

Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Martin T. Vechev · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

FinRT: Distilling Adaptive Red-Teaming Strategies into Reusable Adversarial Generators in Consumer Finance

In regulated industries like consumer finance, seemingly harmless user queries can exploit large language model vulnerabilities, triggering safety failures and pushing responses dangerously close to policy limits. Existing automated red-teaming methods trade off attack effectiveness against generation cost, while treat...

Rikhiya Ghosh, Himanshu Kumar, Sriram Venkatapathy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Privacy-Friendly Cohort Determination: Sealed, CSP-Independent In-Browser ML Inference of Professional Segments for Identity-Less Advertising

SIF (Sealed Inference Frame), which infers coarse professional cohorts on the device and emits only a locally differentially private, taxonomy-coded label into the OpenRTB bid stream, with no cross-site identifier, is presented.

Omsankar Tiwari, Navnit Shukla, Guan-Yu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Multi-Class, Multi-Tier Network Intrusion Detection: A Comprehensive and Reproducible Benchmark

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have dominated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) research in recent years. Unfortunately, many existing studies have produced inflated results and unreliable benchmarks due to critical oversights and mistakes in the ML and DL pipeline, from data collection and labeling to fea...

Yu-Feng Xin, Bryant Goseland, Mohamed Rahouti · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

CipherGenome: Homomorphic Inference for Genomic Mixture-of-Experts

CipherGenome is presented, a protocol that keeps the embedding, attention and router of a 15.1B-parameter MoE genome model on a trusted thin client and outsources every expert projection, 95.8% of the parameters, to untrusted and possibly colluding GPU servers under module-LWE encryption.

Guang Yang, Feng-Chen Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

GenomeOcean Anywhere: Private WebGPU Inference for Genome MoEs

Genome foundation models are most useful where sequences are generated, yet the largest models need datacenter accelerators and a place to send private DNA. We ask whether a 15-billion-parameter genome mixture-of-experts (MoE) model can instead run on volunteers'web browsers, with the experts spread across many untrust...

Guang Yang, Feng-Chen Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

GenoTrace: Inheritable Watermarks for Genome Foundation Model Distillation

Can a genome model retain a detectable record of the synthetic sequences used to train it? We study watermark inheritance through distillation with GenoTrace, a codon-aware extension of green-list watermarking. Two token-level factors modulate the teacher's generation bias using codon position and organism-specific cod...

Guang Yang, Feng-Chen Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Understanding Private Evolution as Learning-Augmented Clustering

Private Evolution (PE) is a differentially private algorithm for synthetic data generation. While it can be viewed as a Wasserstein learning algorithm, it performs much better in practice than worst-case Wasserstein analyses would predict. We recast PE as generative model-augmented Wasserstein learning. We show theoret...

Audra McMillan, Kunal Talwar, Felix Zhou · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

GPT-Lab Oct 30, 2026

Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation

Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.

Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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