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#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

When Valid Tool Calls Change Meaning: Formation-Consistent Dispatch for LLM Agents

Formation-consistent dispatch (FCD), which connects implementation analysis to execution authority, is presented, which produces provenance-bound over-approximations of declared in-scope effects from official source.

Geonwoo Kim, Brent ByungHoon Kang Korea Advanced Institute of Science, Technology · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Before Acting, Change the State: Prospective State Intervention for Web Agents under Deceptive Interfaces

Veer is introduced, an agent-side runtime defense that leaves task planning to the base agent and intervenes on Web state when a proposed action would produce an unauthorized consequence, establishing task-relevant Web state as an effective runtime control target for protecting Web agents from deceptive outcomes.

Ruo-Zhao Yang, Ming-Fei Cheng, Xiao-Fei Xie · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PlanGuard: A Guardrail for Multi-Step Plan Safety in Embodied Agents

This work introduces PlanGuard, the first pre-execution detector that evaluates the physical safety of a complete multi-step plan in its current environment, and proposes Strong-Teacher Adaptive Compensation for On-Policy Distillation (STAC-OPD), which provides compact models with adaptive strong-teacher supervision al...

Jun-Chi Chen, Chang-Tao Miao, Yu Xiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Agentic Network Traffic Monitoring

This work presents a novel approach to monitoring the network traffic of agentic systems using complex valued hypersparse traffic matrices by integrating DBOS (DataBase OS), the OneSparse PostgreSQL database, and the GraphBLAS math library.

Manuel Tsoukatos, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Retrospective Distillation Attribution via Normalized Response Similarity

Auditing publicly released descendants of distilled models spanning diverse post-training objectives, SCOUT consistently identifies the distillation source and tracing teacher-associated *syntactic signatures* along training trajectories reveals that they emerge during distillation and persist through subsequent prefer...

Minwoo Jang, Jaechang Kim, Minhyeon Oh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Reward Hacking and Agent Containment Failure: A Monte Carlo Study Based on the 2026 Hugging Face Incident

A probabilistic risk model linking five stages: reward hacking, containment escape, usable access, persistence, and failure of detection supports treating cyber-capable agent evaluations as hostile security zones in which indirect egress, shared infrastructure, credentials, and evaluation artifacts must remain outside...

Murat Ozer, Bulent Erenay, Ibrahim Berber · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint May 2025

From ASR to ASP: Evaluating Prompt Attack Vulnerabilities Against Open-Source LLMs

This paper comprehensively studies effective prompt injection attacks against 14 widely used open-source and three closed-source LLMs on five attack benchmarks and proposes a straightforward and effective hypnotism attack, showing that this attack causes aligned language models to generate objectionable behaviors.

Jia-Wen Wang, Pritha Gupta, E. Hüllermeier et al. · 9 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Prompt Injection Detection for Email Agents Through Attack Chain Modeling

A detection framework that models this attack chain by combining a text detector, verifiers specific to each stage, explicit rule-based risk signals, user intent and action consistency analysis, and a logistic decision policy is proposed, which achieves a mean F1 score under the strict threshold setting policy.

A. Hashmi, D. Patel, Yun-Ting Yin · 0 citations
#machine learning Conference Open access Sep 2025

What Do They Fix? LLM-Aided Categorization of Security Patches for Critical Memory Bugs

DUALLM, a dual-method pipeline that integrates two approaches based on a Large Language Model (LLM) and a fine-tuned small language model, achieves 87.4% accuracy and an F1-score of 0.875, significantly outperforming prior solutions.

Xing-Yu Li, Jue-Fei Pu, Yifan Wu 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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