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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Before Agents Act: Assurance-Aware Semantic Scheduling for Evidence Acquisition in Distributed Systems

Assurance-Aware Semantic Scheduling (AAS) combines integer-program selection, dispatch-aware temporal scheduling, bounded diagnostic expansion, and receipt-aware repair to formulate evidence acquisition as joint witness selection and scheduling under quorum, diversity, freshness, deadline, and resource constraints.

Jun-Fei He, De-Ying Yu · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Certified Multi-Source Integrity for Structured Agent Actions

Two robustness notions are formalized, each mechanism by ablation is validated by ablation, and how often the multi-source precondition holds on sanctions designations and software supply-chain provenance is measured.

Anmol Pandey, A. Jain, Liang-Wei Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SecProbe: Adaptive Evaluation of Coding Agents on Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

SecProbe is introduced, a framework for adaptive evaluation that combines Item Response Theory (IRT) with on-demand synthesis of repository-scale vulnerability-repair tasks and achieves comparable agent ability estimates while requiring agents to solve up to 29.5\% fewer tasks.

Xiao-Nan Luo, Yue Huang, Ke-Han Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

HESP: Separating What to Probe from When to Stop in Local LLM Alert-Triage Agents

HESP is presented, a controller that holds the investigation procedure outside the model, which keeps a ledger of competing explanations, selects read-only probes by expected information gain per cost, accepts only verdicts backed by current evidence, can end an investigation itself, and journals every prediction befor...

Zhuo Liu, Zhi-Xuan Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Evaluating System One Models for Agent Security Decisions: Reliability, Calibration, and Selective Automation

This work evaluates Jev, Laya, Decider, and Bespoke Nimble against specialized classifiers and language-model judges across prompt-injection detection, interaction-risk judgment, and harmful-request screening, examining decision accuracy, calibration, and selective automation.

Yi-Xuan Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

API Secrets Should Never Become Tokens in the LLM's Vocabulary: A Threat Analysis of API Credential Handling in LLM Agent Systems and an Empirical Evaluation of a Vault-Mediated Execution Boundary

Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents turn credential hygiene from a storage problem into an execution-security problem. A key pasted into a prompt, or embedded in a system prompt or tool configuration, crosses from an authentication boundary into a data pipeline, where it may persist in conversation history, lo...

P. Kenney, Hadi Ahmadi, Denis Lusson et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Zero-Storage Procedural Neural Synthesis via Boundary Dynamics: Formal Verification in Lean 4 and Bare-Metal Gauntlet Validation

This work presents the formal verification and bare-metal empirical validation of WERR (Waves&Errors) and Phase III Orbital Error Dynamics (OED), a non-tensor decision paradigm that procedurally synthesizes non-linear decision boundaries on demand from a 24-byte coordinate seed.

V. Dağlı, Zerrin Dagli, Dağhan Dağlı · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

AgentTell: Behavioural Side-Channel Leakage in Browser-Use Agents

Browser-use agents often carry information in their context as they move between websites. While it may be necessary for task completion, it also creates a privacy risk, especially when the information contains a private fact regarding the user. For example, an agent may learn a user's affiliation after reading a membe...

Asif Shahriar, Md Nafiu Rahman, Sadif Ahmed et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learning to Refer: Client-Resolved Generation for Privacy-Aware Language Models

Client-Resolved Generation (CRG), a genera- tion interface that separates server-side generation from the lexical realization of input-derived content, is introduced, which provides a practical interface for privacy-sensitive cloud LLMs by reducing plaintext exposure across both input and output pathways while preserv-...

Jeongho Yoon, Chanhee Park, Yong-Chan Chun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Ask Without Telling: Local SLMs Consult Cloud LLMs Without Revealing Task Intent

PriCon, an end-to-end framework that transforms the task itself through recoverable mathematical reformulation rather than hiding it among alternatives, is proposed, which reduces cloud-side task-intent inference Hit@1 to nearly 0, and preserves cloud-assisted utility.

Yan-Meng Wang, Yun-Xuan Li, Shi-Long Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Trust the Brand, Lose Control: How Identity Hijacks LLM Agent Orchestration

LLM agents now execute tasks end to end with permission to change real systems and increasingly orchestrate subagents that differ in capability and cost. Prior work treats the choice of subagent as an optimization problem. Yet the orchestrator makes this choice from the identities that subagents display, and an attacke...

Xu-Tao Mao, Rui Qian, Ling-Han Chen et al. · 1 citation

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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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