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  1. VeriCUA: Verification as Agentic Exploration for Computer-Using Agents

    VeriCUA is a platform-agnostic framework that verifies task completion by computer-using agents through agentic exploration. The verifier inspects context to build a task rubric, then picks GUI or code checks for unresolved requirements and combines findings under explicit evidence rules. It works online and offline across desktop, mobile and web, and agrees better with reference labels than the baselines, with the largest offline gains on hard cases.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  2. On the Fundamental Limits of Prefill-Based Decoding Length Prediction

    This paper derives bounds on predicting an LLM's decode length from prefill-phase hidden states, a primitive for inference scheduling. It models decoding as a stopped stochastic process, giving per-prompt normality and an affine variance law ฯƒ=ฮฑฮผ+b. Predictors (MLP, EGTP, FiLM, soft-label, Mixture-of-Experts) converge near the bound, so system error dominates model error. It proposes fixing model, data and sampling in benchmarks and reporting relative-error metrics.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  3. Retrieving from Your Own Mistakes: On-Policy Training of Embedding Models for Multi-Hop Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    On-policy state training is a method for training chain embedding retrievers for multi-hop RAG on the states the encoder itself reaches, including those built on its own wrong retrievals. Each state is labeled with the earliest missing gold passage, other missing gold passages are masked, and updates are contrastive and mixed with teacher-forced states. It retrieves complete evidence more often than teacher-forced training and graph-based systems, and transfers to harder long-chain HotpotQA and 2WikiMultiHopQA variants the authors built.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  4. Understanding and Mitigating Role Spoofing in LLMs

    Understanding and Mitigating Role Spoofing in LLMs is an arXiv paper (October 2026) on role spoofing, a prompt injection where malicious tool output impersonates the user. It shows models track "who said what" using both content cues (semantics, style) and structure cues (control tokens, formatting). Attacks combining fake structure and content succeed often, adversarial training stops only content-based attacks, and linear probes trained to predict conversation roles detect spoofing across settings.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  5. M-PFT: Angular Margin for Calibrated Prompt-Tuning of Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models

    M-PFT is an angular-margin method for prompt tuning of vision-language models that fixes base-to-novel dual miscalibration (underconfidence on base classes, overconfidence on novel classes). It adds two losses: minimizing the maximum cosine similarity between tunable class embeddings, and minimizing angular distance to each zero-shot embedding. Tests on 9 prompt-tuning methods and 15 datasets show lower novel-class calibration error at comparable accuracy and negligible overhead.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  6. Cryptanalysis and Enhancement of VTBSAE: Provably Secure Verifier-Based PAKE Protocols for the Industrial Internet of Things

    Cryptanalysis of VTBSAE, a verifier-based PAKE protocol for the Industrial Internet of Things, showing it fails to resist client impersonation after server compromise. The authors propose E-VTBSAEv1, which binds the client point E1 to fresh server randomness, and prove AKE security and forward secrecy in the random-oracle model under CDH. Raspberry Pi 4B tests show runtime comparable to VTBSAE with the same communication and storage overhead.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  7. Optimality and Efficiency of Higher-Order Rank-Based Side-Channel Attacks against Inner Product Masking Schemes

    HO-ASPA (Higher-Order Adjusted Spearman Coefficient Analysis) is a rank-based, non-profiling side-channel distinguisher. The paper derives its optimal form against two-share Boolean masking and inner product masking under Hamming weight and LSB leakage. It finds no significant gap between higher and lower orders for HO-ASPA, unlike HO-CPA, and reports that it beats Kruskal-Wallis-based attacks in simulated and real-world experiments.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  8. Appreciation Teaches Unauthorized Execution: Self-Evolution Degrades the Robustness of Personal Agents to Indirect Prompt Injection

    Paper studying whether self-evolution weakens personal agents' robustness to indirect prompt injection (IPI). A two-phase method has the user ask the agent to follow tasks in external content, then tests with a third-party injected task the user did not authorize. Against the non-evolving base agent, attack success rose 14.0 to 48.8 points under skill evolution and 3.0 to 39.3 points under reinforcement learning. Code is released.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  9. Cryptography and Security Papers (@FSFG) on X

    Log-To-Leak is an arXiv paper (cs.CR, cs.AI) by Yuepeng Hu, Chongyu Fan, Sirat Samyoun and Jian Du on prompt injection attacks against tool-using LLM agents through the Model Context Protocol. The title points to a logging-based data leakage channel. The fetched page holds only the title, authors and arXiv link, with no abstract, so the method and results are not visible here.

    x.compaperAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  10. Beyond the Event Horizon of Keccak, Extending the Observation from 2011 and applications

    Beyond the Event Horizon of Keccak extends a 2011 observation that a path in the Keccak sponge from a zero-capacity state back to one yields infinite second-preimage families. Three theorems cover loops from any capacity value x, k-block loops and cycles, and Joux-style multicollisions with search cost independent of k. Verified examples run on Keccak-f[200] and Keccak-f[1600] with c=32; it also proposes bridge-based protocols.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperPublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  11. When LLM Architectures Meet Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: a Replication Study

    This paper replicates Chen et al.'s study of LLM-based smart contract vulnerability detection, first on GPT-4 and then on Mixture-of-Experts, RNN-like and State Space Models. The exact replication confirms the high-recall, low-precision pattern on GPT-4. The differentiated replication finds the pattern does not transfer uniformly: GPT-4 and Gemma-3 behave alike despite a roughly 100x parameter gap, while two MoE models diverge.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  12. When LLM Architectures Meet Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: a Replication Study

    This arXiv paper (October 2026) replicates Chen et al.'s study of LLM-based smart contract vulnerability detection. It confirms the high-recall, low-precision pattern on GPT-4, then tests Mixture-of-Experts and RNN-like models plus a preliminary State Space Model run. Gemma-3 matches GPT-4's profile despite far fewer parameters, while two Mixture-of-Experts models diverge, so architecture family alone does not predict detection behavior.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  13. Think Before You Act: Decision Gate for LLM Agents

    JevAct is a runtime verification framework that intercepts selected LLM agent actions before execution and returns feedback for bounded revision. It compiles domain policies into executable state checks and structured questions scored by a prefill-only decision model, giving probability-based judgments without generation. Tested on eleven agents with tau^2-bench Airline and Telecom and BFCL, it gained consistently on Telecom and BFCL and was mixed on Airline.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  14. CALM: Conflict-Aware Lifecycle Memory Governance for Long-Horizon Language Agents

    CALM is a conflict-aware lifecycle memory governance framework for long-horizon language agents. It turns records into evidence-grounded memory cells, updates their validity and lifecycle states from support, conflict and dependency signals, and admits evidence at query time through training-free or learned gating based on temporal applicability. It beats baselines on LongMemEval-S and LoCoMo with Qwen and GPT backbones, and keeping superseded records helps earlier-state reasoning.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  15. From Leniency to Suspicion: How an Open Post-Training Recipe Changes Whom LLM Fact-Checkers Believe

    This paper measures job-based doubt in LLM fact-checkers: judging a claim false more often when the poster has a lower-status job. It compares base and post-trained checkpoints of six model families on fact-checked claims with randomised poster profiles. Only the open Tรผlu-3 recipe (OLMo-2 32B, Tรผlu-3 70B) creates the effect, under one percentage point but reliable. In OLMo-2 32B the flip comes from one residual-stream direction and appears at supervised fine-tuning, confirmed on 400 new claims. None of seven commercial models doubts lower-status posters more.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  16. Complementing Text Based Moderation with Multimodal Grounding: Detecting Fraudulent Inducement Behaviors on Short Video Platforms

    The paper studies detection and temporal localization of fraudulent inducements (prompts to follow, join chat groups, click links) in internet finance short videos. It compares OCR+LLM, OCR+MLLM and a zero-shot MLLM, and builds a dataset of 2,419 videos (66.49 hours, 3,194 events, four categories). OCR+MLLM reaches mIoU 26.52 versus 14.49 for keyframe OCR+LLM, with 67.0 percent macro recall, using a recall-weighted F2 localization reward.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  17. Post-Training Large Language Models with LLMON

    LLMON (LLM Object Notation) is a framework that separates instructions from data and requires explicit identifier-based execution. The authors post-train Granite-4.1 3B and 8B base models with SFT then RL on a 4.6B-token structured corpus covering general, RAG and tool-calling data, with distractor variants. Attack success rates on indirect prompt-injection benchmarks fall from 53-100% to 0.02-5.6%, and general capability is preserved. Attention-based metrics diagnose failures per transformer layer.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  18. Post-Training Large Language Models with LLMON

    LLMON (LLM Object Notation) is a framework that separates executable instructions from passive data and requires explicit identifier-based execution. The paper post-trains Granite-4.1 3B and 8B base models on a 4.6B-token corpus of general, RAG and tool-calling data with distractor variants, using SFT then RL. Attack success rates on indirect prompt-injection benchmarks fall from 53-100% to 0.02-5.6%, with general capabilities preserved. It also adds attention-based per-layer diagnostics.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  19. Improving the Dependency on Fine-Tuning Data in Transfer Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition

    This paper proposes an fMLLR-based compensation mechanism that cuts the fine-tuning data needed in transfer learning for speech emotion recognition under train-test acoustic mismatch. An autoencoder reduces trainable parameters, and an affine transform in the encoder latent space models rotations and shifts. In a human-robot interaction task, mean CCC rose 16.8% with 12.9% of the training set and 14.4% with 50%.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  20. Statistical Detection of Positional Bias in LLM-Based Recommender Systems: Methodologies and Empirical Evidence

    The paper proposes POB-ICM (contingency matrix with Chi-square independence testing) and POB-UNBP (a uniformity null model under permutation-based evaluation) to detect positional bias in top-1, single-turn LLM recommenders. On a RAG product-recommendation testbed with 2000 queries and 20 permutations each (40,000 instances), both methods reject positional independence in all evaluated models. Three metrics quantify the effect, and the bias persists across candidate-set size and temperature. Code is public.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  21. Structured Security Explanations for Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection

    VulnLens is a framework for binary C/C++ function-level vulnerability detection. A label-blind LLM Explainer describes each function from seven fixed perspectives (data flow, memory access, object lifetime, arithmetic and type behavior, control flow, shared state, external-resource access). A supervised Detector fuses code and explanations by cross-attention. It reaches 75.5% accuracy and 77.2% F1 on a 526-function PrimeVul test set, and 66.4% accuracy on SecVulEval without retraining.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  22. Locating Sycophancy Across Training Stages in Open Language Models

    Locating Sycophancy Across Training Stages in Open Language Models measures sycophancy in 13 open checkpoints from 5 lineages, from base model through supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization to release. It finds two behaviors with different origins: deference to a claim in the prompt exists in every base model, while capitulation under user objection is largely absent from base models and present in every post-trained checkpoint. Post-trained models often drop firmly held answers as readily as loosely held ones when the objection names an alternative.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  23. Tractable, Not Truncated: Colored-Noise TRNG Security via Fractional Brownian Motion

    This ePrint paper models oscillator-based TRNG phase noise, both white and flicker, as fractional Brownian motion. It proves a quasi-renewal property that gives closed-form worst-case min-entropy and sampling requirements, and extends spectral and Allan-variance analysis so noise parameters come from a single timing trace. FPGA and ASIC experiments show flicker noise accounts for over 99% of uncertainty at a 0.99 min-entropy target, allowing a bitrate two to three orders of magnitude higher.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  24. Heads of Security: Learned Attention Gates Improve Prompt Injection Robustness

    Heads of Security (HoS) is a prompt injection defense that enforces instruction-data separation with learned per-head attention gates, redistributing attention between trusted and untrusted tokens. Evaluated on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and GPT-OSS-20B against SecAlign++ and ASIDE. The black-box RL-Hammer attack reaches 97% ASR on GPT-OSS-20B and 85% on SecAlign but 10% on HoS. The white-box Claudini attack needs 3 times more FLOPs on HoS. HoS keeps base-model utility in few-shot settings, where SecAlign and ASIDE degrade.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  25. Heads of Security: Learned Attention Gates Improve Prompt Injection Robustness

    Heads of Security (HoS) is a prompt injection defense that trains a small set of per-head attention gates to shift attention between trusted and untrusted tokens, separating instructions from data. Tested on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and GPT-OSS-20B, the black-box RL-Hammer attack reaches 10% ASR on HoS versus 97% on base GPT-OSS-20B and 85% on SecAlign. HoS keeps base utility in few-shot settings, where SecAlign and ASIDE degrade.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  26. Scaling Laws for Tool-Use Agents via Controllable Environment Synthesis

    SynthAPI is a pipeline that generates synthetic tool-use environments with explicit control over diversity of tools, tasks and underlying databases. Across 458,752 tasks and 849 trained models of four sizes, the authors fit a scaling law predicting downstream agent generalization. At larger data budgets, scaling tool and database diversity beats adding more tasks, and higher complexity helps more. Agents trained this way beat prior synthetic-data baselines on four benchmarks.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  27. Metacognitive Decoding: Efficient Inference for Diffusion Language Agents

    Metacognitive Decoding is a lightweight plug-in controller for diffusion language model backbones. It learns when to finalize tokens and how far generation should extend, and is trained on agent trajectories to balance correctness against generation cost. Across five benchmarks it cuts inference FLOPs by 20.6% on average versus the most efficient baseline, with competitive task accuracy. The abstract names no specific benchmarks or backbones.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  28. When Visual Evidence Is Insufficient: How Instructions, Post-Training, and Internal Activations Shape Refusal in Multimodal Language Models

    This paper studies how multimodal LLMs refuse questions that an image cannot answer, using the MoHoBench benchmark on three MLLMs. It varies the meaning and placement of refusal instructions, compares supervised and preference-based post-training, and intervenes on a refusal-related activation direction. Instructions change refusal at the sample level in ways aggregate rates hide. Post-training raises refusal most but can mix refusal with attempted answers. Activation intervention gives smaller, transferable changes.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  29. Towards Quantum Sensing for Side-Channel Analysis

    Preprint on using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center quantum sensing for electromagnetic side-channel analysis of ICs. The authors build an NV-based RF spectrometer with 1.1 GHz real-time bandwidth and adjustable center frequency, which reads the spectrum in the time domain without Fourier transforms or frequency sweeps. They use it on RSA decryption emanations and for leakage detection on a software Number Theoretic Transform running on a Cortex-M4 microcontroller.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  30. OpenGray: a benchmark for evaluating the decisions of radiotherapy planning agents

    OpenGray is a benchmark that adds tasks with known correct decisions to the OpenKBP-Opt head-and-neck dataset, including two overlap contradictions with provably incompatible dose goals and a feasible control. Four planning systems, from a rule-based script to a full LLM agent, were tested on 30 patients with Terra and Ministral 3 8B. Decision accuracy reached 95.4% and 92.1%, yet only 50% and 25% of overlap contradictions were escalated. SAGE logs of 39 radiosurgery runs showed an agent that lacked an action for stopping.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  31. p-DCIM: A 28nm Probabilistic SRAM DCIM based Ising Machine for Near-Memory Context Selection in LLM-RAG Pipeline

    p-DCIM is a 28 nm SRAM digital compute-in-memory macro (0.16 mm2, 0.41 mW) that works as an Ising machine for RAG evidence selection. Selection is cast as a QUBO problem, and the same MAC datapath computes embedding similarities and annealing steps. Replacing LLM reranking with it gives a selection-energy estimate over six orders of magnitude lower and cuts total energy per query by 67%, with comparable token-level F1 on the evaluated examples.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  32. AxisQ: Depth-Adaptive Channel--Frequency Quantization for Camouflaged Object Detection

    AxisQ is a post-training quantization framework for camouflaged object detection (COD) that allocates activation bits by feature depth. It uses the channel domain for shallow features and the local-frequency domain for deep features, under a fixed per-layer average bit budget. It adds a boundary-aware Hessian approximation for reconstruction. On CAMO at W2A2, weighted F-measure improves 12.7% for CFRN and 33.3% for CamoFormer-P over the strongest baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  33. Your Wish Is My Commit: Over-Compliant Refactoring in AI Coding Agents

    Your Wish Is My Commit is a controlled study of over-compliant refactoring in Codex and Claude Code, run across five models, 50 algorithmic tasks and 10 object-oriented tasks. Over 3,000 turns of repeated "refactor further" prompts, no model stopped on its own: each rewrote up to 31x the original codebase before first stopping and resumed edits after declaring the task complete. The paper defines six behavioral signals for detecting over-compliance.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  34. Analyzing Compiler-induced Constant-time Violations with Compiler at Scale

    CTGREP is a compiler-based framework that applies differential analysis across the whole Clang/LLVM compilation chain to find where, how and under which configurations compiler optimizations break constant-time cryptographic code. Applied to seven libraries, three Clang versions, six targets and thousands of configurations, it led to 48 cases fixed with developers. It also identified seven new problematic LLVM passes and bypassed existing compiler-flag mitigations.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  35. Reva: Real-Time Vulnerability Detection through Contextual Probing of Large Language Models

    REVA (REal-time Vulnerability Analysis) is an LLM-based vulnerability detector that screens each new function in one forward pass. It feeds the model a pre-computed module threat model, lightweight static analysis findings and call-graph data, then reads the model's internal representations with a trained probe. On PrimeVul's held-out test set with GLM-5.3-Flash it reaches 60.0% accuracy in about one second per function, matching the agentic VulTriage (59.2%) while over 250 times faster.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  36. Cryptanalysis and Repair of "Decentralized Multi-authority ABE for NC$^1$ from BDH"

    Cryptology ePrint 2026/2642 presents a plaintext-recovery attack on the DBDH and CBDH variants of the Datta, Komargodski and Waters multi-authority ABE for NC1 (Journal of Cryptology, 2023). It needs one corrupt authority and two users, and succeeds with probability one in the static model. The flaw is an invalid extension of the Rouselakis-Waters LSSS matrix-normalization lemma. The paper also attacks two Datta-Pal (PKC 2023) attribute-based inner-product schemes and proves repaired versions secure in the random oracle model.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperPublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  37. Private Information Retrieval with Accountability at Erasure-Optimal Server Redundancy

    SynTrace is a single-round compiler that adds accountability to linear private information retrieval (PIR). The client mixes the retrieval query with m audit queries, so audit syndromes identify up to d deviating servers among t colluding ones before reconstruction. The paper proves perfect query privacy and zero false identification within the threshold. For Shamir-based PIR it needs k=t+d+1 servers. For a 32 KiB record from a 1 GiB database it uses 2.25 MiB, against 8.96 MiB for the Eriguchi, Kurosawa and Nuida (TCC 2022) homomorphic-MAC construction.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperPublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  38. Reversible Pseudonymisation of Documents Sent to External LLMs: an Open Bilingual Benchmark and an Engine

    Open bilingual (Russian and UK English) benchmark of five open pseudonymisation tools and a regex baseline, plus a new engine built on the two strongest tools. On a held-out set of 1,000 synthetic documents per language, the best existing tools leave a whole personal value visible in 61% (Russian) and 58% (UK) of documents. The engine does so in 0.3% and 0.2%. Russian name restoration reaches only 94.6%, below the 99% threshold. Real documents were not tested.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  39. Reversible Pseudonymisation of Documents Sent to External LLMs: an Open Bilingual Benchmark and an Engine

    This paper presents an open benchmark of five existing pseudonymisation tools and a regex baseline on Russian and UK English documents, plus an open engine built on the two strongest tools. On a held-out set of 1,000 synthetic documents per language, the best existing tools leave a whole value visible in 58 to 61% of documents. The engine does so in 0.2 to 0.3%. Russian name restoration reaches only 94.6%, below the 99% threshold. Real documents were not tested.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  40. InteractiveWorld: A Verifiable Human-Centric Environment for Building Better Interactive MLLM Assistants

    InteractiveWorld is an environment for closed-loop interaction between an AI assistant and a simulated human agent who sees the scene, follows instructions and acts independently. InteractiveBench, built on it, has 120 multi-turn tasks in six categories scored by verifiable, state-based rewards. Across 12 frontier MLLMs, the best model, Claude Fable 5.1, reaches at most 20% on long-horizon Guidance and 25% on Planning tasks.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  41. DRILS: Dependency-based Requirement Change Impact Analysis Using LLMs

    DRILS is an LLM-based agentic framework for requirements change impact analysis. It uses multiple agents to generate candidate impact sets, with an LLM-as-a-judge promoting diversity in selection. It adds RE-RAG, a tuned retrieval technique, and a requirement dependency graph as a knowledge source. On three curated datasets it reaches 87.1% recall, 76.3% precision and 81% F1 at lower cost than baselines. The authors release the datasets.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  42. Enhancing LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection via Representation-Aware Logical Ensemble

    RALE (Representation-Aware Logical Ensemble) is a method for detecting vulnerabilities in C source code with LLMs trained on different code representations: raw source, Abstract Syntax Trees and Control Flow Graphs. The authors show the representations suit different vulnerability classes, and combine the models with explicit logical rules and majority voting. Single-representation models reach up to 73% F1, while the ensemble reaches 78%.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  43. Enhancing LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection via Representation-Aware Logical Ensemble

    RALE (Representation-Aware Logical Ensemble) is a method for LLM-based vulnerability detection in C code. The authors train LLMs on raw source code, Abstract Syntax Trees and Control Flow Graphs, and find each representation works best for certain vulnerability classes. Combining the models with explicit logical rules and majority voting raises F1 from at most 73% for a single model to 78%, with gains in accuracy, precision and recall.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  44. ZipFusion: Fusing Lossless KV Decompression with Attention for Efficient LLM Decoding

    ZipFusion is a lossless KV cache compression scheme whose attention kernel reads the compressed cache directly and rebuilds the original values in registers with simple bit operations, so no separate decompression pass is needed. It also reassigns the memory freed by compression across layers to hold more KV cache. Built on FlashInfer and integrated with SGLang, it gives about 1.25x decode attention speedup on an H100 and up to 26.3% higher decode throughput at 8K context than uncompressed SGLang. It reaches up to 2.76x the throughput of the best lossless KV compression baseline.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  45. Extraction meets Distillation - cryptanalytic techniques to recover parameters from a Deep Neural Network

    Extraction meets Distillation is an IACR ePrint paper (2026/2628, CSCML 2026) that combines cryptanalytic weight-direction extraction with label-based distillation to reconstruct fully connected neural networks. It adapts a ReLU extraction implementation to Leaky ReLU and proves conditional bounds for direction recovery and sign selection. On CIFAR-10 victims, reconstructed models reach 56.40% and 58.29% agreement. It separates label requests from privileged access and notes that prediction agreement does not identify parameters.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  46. The Exact Bit Security of Hash-Based Signatures

    The Exact Bit Security of Hash-Based Signatures is a 2026 IACR ePrint paper that analyses XMSS with 128-bit digests and SLH-DSA-128s in the random oracle model, with proofs formalised in Lean4. Strong unforgeability comes to 127 bits under most accounting modes but only 122 bits if just direct random oracle queries are counted. The authors give matching attacks, and show how resource accounting changes the result.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  47. Provable Security of SHA-256-Based LMS Revisited in the Ideal-Cipher Model

    Provable Security of SHA-256-Based LMS Revisited in the Ideal-Cipher Model is an October 2026 ePrint paper by Chun Guo, Hao Cheng, Bart Preneel and Meiqin Wang. It shows forgery attacks on LMS_SHA256_M32 and LMS_SHA256_M24 that exploit Merkle-Damgรฅrd structure, so the Katz and Fluhrer random-oracle bounds do not apply. It proves ideal-cipher-model bounds: about 256 minus log2 of the block count for M32, and a minimum of two terms for M24.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  48. Eat Your Precision: Precision Objective Mitigates Reward Hacking in Rubric-based RL

    FORK is a reward for rubric-based reinforcement learning that jointly optimizes recall and a new precision objective. Precision requires each unit of a response to be necessary (rubric-driven necessity credits) and factually correct (a grader). Rubric-coverage rewards otherwise produce verbose, less accurate responses. FORK keeps similar coverage with shorter outputs, raising win rate against the base policy from 10.6% to 68.0% on RubricHub-Medical and from 22.1% to 74.1% on HealthBench.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  49. Deletion, Substitution, Repair and Transplant: Component Attribution in BARBICAN, a Layered Prompt-Injection Gateway for MCP

    The paper analyses BARBICAN, a fail-closed prompt-injection gateway for MCP tool mediation, using deletion, substitution, repair and transplant experiments. Its arbitration classifier ran on tokenizer-mangled text for a whole evaluation. Fixing that raised AUC from 0.392 to 0.855 while system recall fell from 80.67% to 80.34%. The band it receives is 96.82% malicious. The authors argue ablation figures need the band's class balance and substitution baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  50. What Transfers Across Protein Pockets? Experience Reuse in Molecular Optimization for Agentic Structure-Based Drug Design

    This paper studies experience reuse for LLM agents that optimize ligands in protein pockets by editing and docking. Using the full log of one agent run over CrossDocked2020 test-set pockets, it tests whether keys in an experience base recur on unseen pockets and separate improving from worsening edits. The separation is largely explained by molecule size change, action and round, not the target. The authors conclude a base may better prioritize an agent's own proposals for docking than prescribe what to build.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  51. Standing on Open Shoulders: Regional Fine-Tuning of Open-Weight Camera-Trap Models for UK Wildlife with Modest Data and Compute

    DeepFaune-UK is a fine-tune of the open DeepFaune camera-trap classifier on 28 UK classes, paired with MegaDetector v6. On 20,212 MammalWeb images it reached 88.8% strict accuracy against 56.5% (DeepFaune v1.5.0) and 59.0% (SpeciesNet). Re-applying the recipe to the DINOv3-based classifier gave 90.6%. Fine-tuning on about 150 crops per class matched full-data out-of-distribution accuracy, and a DINOv2 run took about 22 minutes on under 4 GB of GPU memory.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  52. On Task, Off Track: Benchmarking LLM and Agent Robustness to Near-Target Prompt Injection

    NTBench (Near-Target Benchmark) tests LLM and agent robustness to near-target prompt injection, where injected instructions steer a response toward a plausible but incorrect or harmful outcome instead of abandoning the task. It builds reference-guided target-instruction pairs on existing datasets, with human validation, and evaluates seven LLMs on ten language datasets and two agent benchmarks. Attack success rose 9.3 to 35.8 points (incorrect targets) and 1.7 to 17.3 points (harmful targets) over fixed-target baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  53. DRIVE: Fine-tuning via Data Contribution- and Diversity-aware Weighting with Prior Regularization

    DRIVE is a per-sample weighting framework for single-stage fine-tuning when the source pre-training data is unavailable. It uses one differentiable objective: Shapley additivity splits each sample's contribution into anti-forgetting and adaptation parts, a covariance-based diversity term reshapes them, and a sample-characteristic prior stabilizes them. The authors prove better stability-plasticity guarantees than existing weighting schemes and report better performance, faster convergence and more robustness.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  54. Profile-Driven User Simulation via Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Rewards for Task-Oriented Dialogues

    ProfileSim is a profile-driven user simulator for financial marketing outbound calls. It models user profiles (demographics, Big Five traits) and business profiles (intents reverse-engineered from real call logs). The base model is fine-tuned on real voice dialogues, then refined with GRPO using dialogue-level and utterance-level rewards. Against other user generators it scores highest on colloquial naturalness and profile adherence, and lowest agent score on long-tail intents, with shorter utterances at comparable business compliance.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  55. MPQ: A Message-Passing View of Post-Training Quantization

    MPQ (Message-Passing Quantization) is a post-training quantization method that treats row-wise PTQ as posterior inference over discrete codebooks. It keeps soft posteriors across weight blocks using vector approximate message passing, then refines a hard-decision initialization with exact block coordinate descent. Tested at 2-bit lattice and 3- and 4-bit scalar quantization on Llama, Qwen and Mistral models, it improves perplexity and zero-shot accuracy over GPTQ-style baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  56. Mรญmir: A Stateless Private Search Engine

    Mรญmir is a cryptographic protocol for stateless semantic private search over highly dynamic public databases. It uses homomorphic ciphertext switching, relies on (Ring) Learning with Errors, and needs no offline communication. Against Tiptoe it matches search quality with 84x less per-query communication (0.24 MiB). Against PACMANN it raises quality from 76% to 81% of non-private search, with a 9.54 MiB one-time cost instead of 2.68 GiB, but is 2.1x slower.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  57. Causal Chain of Thought: Mitigating Attention Leakage via Context Isolation

    CausalCoT is an inference framework that splits a problem into a directed acyclic graph of atomic sub-questions and evaluates each node in an isolated context holding only its direct causal parents. This removes attention paths to non-parent content, so intermediate steps drive the answer rather than leaking from global context. It keeps benchmark accuracy competitive and raises causal sensitivity of reasoning steps by 12 points on average, up to 21, over the strongest baseline. The graph also allows test-time corrections that propagate downstream.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  58. Progress Probes $P^2$: Lightweight Runtime Monitoring for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Progress Probes (P^2) trains linear probes on a vision-language-action model's own activations, using demonstrations, to estimate task progress, then flags executions that deviate from expected progress. Tested on the open-source pi0.5 across simulated and real-world manipulation tasks, it matches or beats VLM-based monitors and failure-data-trained methods at failure detection, without an external foundation model.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  59. Who Is Sycophantic to Whom? Confident LLMs, Human Deference, and the Collapse of Trust Calibration

    This paper studies reverse sycophancy: whether users bend toward a confident, consistent, wrong LLM. In a within-subjects experiment, 32 participants learned science topics from five GPT-5-mini assistants with 0 to 100% of facts replaced by falsehoods. Scores fell from 7.4 to 2.9 out of 10, planted falsehoods were chosen on 60% of falsified items against 11% of correctly taught ones, and confidence stopped tracking correctness. It introduces a baseline-corrected Human Deference Index.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  60. Rethinking Sequence Compression with Test-time Regression

    TTR-Compressor is a sequence compression method that treats input tokens as a test-time regression problem. The regression is learned end-to-end by backpropagation, and its coefficients are solved in closed form in the forward pass to give the compressed representation. As a block-wise sparse attention compressor it improves RULER over attention-based compressors by a large margin. As a visual token merger for multimodal LLMs it beats the MLP merger and matches it with 55.6% fewer visual tokens.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  61. An Empirical Study of Recent Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph to Text Generation on Standard Benchmarks

    This empirical study benchmarks recent LLMs against fine-tuned encoder-decoder models on knowledge graph-to-text generation, using reference-based metrics and graph-grounded, reference-free LLM-based evaluation validated against human annotations. Recent LLMs narrow or close the gap on reference-based metrics and do better on graph-grounded ones. Prompted models make fewer contradictions and triple omissions, and fine-tuned models' errors grow faster with graph size.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  62. From Structured Records to Patient Narratives: Preserving Clinical Alignment in LLM-Generated Health Summaries

    This paper studies evidence-grounded health summarization for menstrual health monitoring. It combines structured evidence conditioning with RAG in a prompt-based constrained generation framework, and scores 4,500 summaries from three LLMs with NLI, atomic factuality metrics and readability measures. Grounding constraints improved uncertainty preservation and generally kept or improved faithfulness against retrieved evidence, while omission effects varied by model. Clinical alignment came with harder reading and more medical terminology.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  63. RIFT: KV Cache Compression for Draft Models with Complementary Compressibility Training

    RIFT is a family of selection-based KV cache compression strategies for speculative-decoding draft models. It targets "decode staleness", where prefill-focused selection loses relevance as output grows, by balancing prefill information with recent generated tokens, refreshing the selection adaptively, and training drafters with sparse attention masks. Qwen3.5-4B drafting for Qwen3.5-122B keeps over 98% of full-cache acceptance length at 32K input, 4K output and an 8K KV budget.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  64. The Good, the Bad, and the Noisy: A Systematic Analysis of Ring-Oscillator-Based Noise Generators

    This IACR ePrint paper (2026/2597) systematically compares ring-oscillator-based additive noise generators, a hiding countermeasure against side-channel attacks. Experiments show many existing designs ignore output amplification and the risk of the noise being filtered out, so they lower signal-to-noise ratio too little. The authors give a guideline on inverter chain length, output amplification and frequency randomization, and build a tailored generator for an AES implementation that outperforms prior designs.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  65. IFC-MCQ: Automatically Generating Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for Evaluating LLM Agents on IFC Data Retrieval

    IFC-MCQ is a method that automatically generates multiple-choice benchmarks from Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) building-model files, so answers can be graded by exact option-set match instead of human or LLM review. Its taxonomy has 15 categories and 36 subtypes in four groups, with answer keys from the file and distractors from file values or rules. Two agentic setups, tool-based and code-based retrieval, showed category-specific failures and variation by IFC model and interface.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  66. SIM-UT: A User Simulation based Evaluation Framework for Medical Triage Chatbots

    SIM-UT (Simulation of User Behaviour for Triage) is a multi-turn, simulation-based method for finding failure modes in LLM medical triage chatbots. It was applied to three WhatsApp health chatbots (India, South Africa, Kenya) across 5,000+ multilingual simulated turns, comparing MedGemma with ChatGPT and Claude. The main finding is de-escalation risk: agents that first flagged emergencies agreed with users who minimised symptoms, such as vaginal bleeding in pregnancy.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  67. Symmetry-Based Parameter Efficient Low-Rank Fine-Tuning for High-Throughput Calculation of Lattice Thermal Conductivity

    SBFS-FT (symmetry-based few-shot fine-tuning) adapts the MatterSim 1M universal machine-learned interatomic potential with low-rank adaptation on a small set of compounds sharing one crystal symmetry. Tested on half-Heusler (space group 216), space group 225 and spinel (227) datasets, it cut lattice thermal conductivity error 2-3 times versus the base model. It matched per-compound fine-tuning while taking 5-7 times less compute for 100 compounds.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  68. MPIDetector: Detecting Multi-modal Prompt Injection via LLM-based Reasoning

    MPIDetector is a detection framework for multi-modal prompt injection that uses few-shot in-context learning so an LLM can reason about the semantic intent of text and image inputs, without fine-tuning. The authors built a benchmark of eight textual and seven visual attack categories plus benign sets. They report up to 90.91% accuracy on text, 99.28% on images, and up to 99.80% detection on 500 obfuscated WebInject web-agent injections, beating baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  69. SHAKEing SLH-DSA with Non-profiled SCAs

    SHAKEing SLH-DSA with Non-profiled SCAs is an eShard ePrint paper (2026/2584) on correlation power analysis of SLH-DSA-SHAKE, the NIST-standardised hash-based signature scheme. It analyses PRF inputs and selection functions, then combines subtrace averaging, partial-then-total CPA and an efficient exhaustive search to recover the full secret seed, enabling universal forgery. On a 32-bit microcontroller the attack needs about 280 to 559 signatures, and the search finishes within 45 minutes on 72 cores.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  70. Active and Passive Attacks against TPM 2.0-based Full Disk Encryption

    Active and Passive Attacks against TPM 2.0-based Full Disk Encryption is an ePrint paper by Freud, Hein and Klein (BSI). It shows SPI bus sniffing and interception against discrete TPMs on a mini PC and a notebook, plus a prototype UEFI firmware attack in QEMU that affects firmware TPMs. The attacks break BitLocker and all current Linux FDE implementations, including those using TPM parameter encryption.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  71. HAETAE on a Diet: Less Stack, Less Time on Low-End Microcontrollers

    This ePrint paper presents an optimized HAETAE implementation, a lattice-based post-quantum signature scheme, for Cortex-M4, Cortex-M3, MSP430 and AVR. It keeps polynomials in 16 bits, shares buffers between objects with disjoint lifetimes, and replays Gaussian samples instead of regenerating them. On an ATmega2560, HAETAE-2 key generation, signing and verification run in 8,070 B of SRAM. Stack use drops up to 34% and signing is 1.18-2.51x faster than Low-Stack HAETAE.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  72. Broadcast and Trace from Lattices: Collusion-Resistant and Publicly Traceable

    Broadcast and Trace from Lattices is a 2026 ePrint preprint by Jeffrey Champion. It builds collusion-resistant broadcast and trace with public tracing from attribute-based encryption with succinct ciphertexts and lockable obfuscation, both known from decomposed LWE. Ciphertexts are sqrt(N)ยทpoly(ฮป, log N) in size, with poly(ฮป, log N) keys. It is the first such scheme based on a simple, instance-independent lattice assumption.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  73. DISCO*: DIstributed and SCalable Oblivious Joins and Oblivious Primitives

    DISCO is a distributed, fully oblivious database system that combines hardware enclaves (TEEs) with oblivious primitives to hide access patterns from side-channel and leakage-abuse attacks. New distributed frameworks and communication optimizations let it run in parallel across servers. It reports 88x speedup over Jodes and 180x over SODA on non-foreign-key joins with 2^25 elements, and the first terabyte-scale results.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  74. Beyond 4 bits: Data-Centric Post-training Quantization and Recovery

    This paper studies 2-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) of six dense and mixture-of-experts models from 3.8B to 32B parameters. It finds the quantization representation matters most: vector codebooks give usable models where scalar PTQ falls to chance. Calibration and recovery data must be chosen jointly. The recipe uses about 2.3 effective bits per weight, keeps 89 to 97% of full-precision QA accuracy, and needs 1.4 to 30x less compute than the strongest QAT baseline.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  75. Membership Inference in Privacy-Preserving Vector Search

    Membership Inference in Privacy-Preserving Vector Search is an IACR ePrint paper (2026/2570) that attacks backend-compatible protections for embedding databases using one snapshot and known plaintexts. It breaks the Scale-and-Perturb scheme of Fuchsbauer et al. (advantage 0.997 on MS-MARCO) and analyzes Rotate-and-Perturb, ideal DCRE and an encrypted HNSW index. It also tests shuffling and secret projection as mitigations.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  76. After the Attacker Leaves: Benchmarking Carryover Attacks on LLM Agents

    CarryoverBench is a benchmark of 12 personal-assistant scenarios and 101 attack tasks for carryover attacks, where a one-time indirect prompt injection planted in agent memory files or scheduled tasks re-fires in later sessions. Three trigger channels (Instant, Autonomous, Latent) are scored by a rule-based verifier with separate planting and triggering stages. Across five frontier models, payloads re-fire over five rounds without measurable decay. Porting the Latent channel to the Hermes runtime weakens the effect but does not remove it.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  77. Code2Video-Compass: A Comprehensive Benchmark for General-Purpose Code-Based Video Generation across T2V, I2V, and V2V

    Code2Video-Compass is a benchmark of 2,104 tasks for code-based video generation, where multimodal LLMs write executable programs that produce complete videos from text (T2V), image (I2V) or video (V2V) inputs. Tasks span 10 categories and 24 subtypes. Scoring uses 12 objective metrics and five MLLM-judge metrics. Across 15 proprietary and open-weight models from nine families, performance falls as construction, dynamic animation and state-dependency complexity rise.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  78. A Multimodal Engineering GraphRAG Framework for Post-Wind-Event Building Assessment and Recovery Inference

    This paper presents a multimodal engineering GraphRAG framework that links post-wind-event damage evidence from images and reconnaissance reports to building-condition states, recovery actions and downtime. Evidence is stored as a provenance-preserving, component-level representation, and graph-aligned retrieval uses compatibility, contradiction, evidence-precedence and abstention checks. Demonstrated on tornado-affected low-rise homes, it beats BaselineRAG and Structured Baseline RAG, and ablations test each component.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  79. Regular Syndrome Decoding Is Easier Than Previously Estimated

    Preprint by Jiseung Kim, Minkyu Kim, Changmin Lee and Hochang Lee on the Regular Syndrome Decoding (RSD) problem. It presents a hybrid-algebraic attack that balances zero-coordinate guesses and syndrome-based eliminations across regular blocks. Parameter sets in Ferret, Wolverine and committed VOLE fall below 128-bit targets by up to 67 bits, and the revised Liu et al. (EUROCRYPT 2024) PCG sets cost under 2^111 field operations.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  80. Regular Syndrome Decoding Is Easier Than Previously Estimated

    Preprint 2026/2563 presents a refined hybrid-algebraic attack on Regular Syndrome Decoding (RSD) that balances zero-coordinate guesses and syndrome-based eliminations across all regular blocks. It puts at least one parameter set each from Ferret (CCS 2020), Wolverine (IEEE S&P 2021) and committed VOLE (CCS 2025) below the 128-bit target, with losses up to 67 bits. PCG attack costs improve by up to 29.77 bits (non-binary) and 25.91 bits (binary), and the revised Liu et al. (EUROCRYPT 2024) 128-bit sets fall below 2^111 field operations.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  81. Graphs and cycles in curve-based collision walks

    Graphs and cycles in curve-based collision walks is an IACR ePrint paper (2026/2560) on van Oorschot-Wiener style collision attacks in the multi-user setting. It covers elliptic curve discrete logarithms and isogeny pathfinding on supersingular F_p^2 and F_p curves, and proposes new pseudorandom walks. For F_p^2 curves, L keys need about L + log(L) useful collisions with no infiltrator. For F_p curves, about 0.75L keys fall to L collisions with an infiltrator.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  82. Can It Actually Work? Synthesizing Functional CAD Mechanisms

    FunCAD-Harness is a framework in which LLM agents design CAD mechanisms and revise them using physical simulation feedback. It turns abstract functional requirements into candidate-specific physical tests. The paper also introduces FunCADBench, a benchmark of 46 mechanism families with interdependent, multi-step operations. Experiments on frontier LLM agents show it exposes mechanical failures that visual inspection misses and raises functional success over standard simulation-augmented baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  83. OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory

    OpenVLHarness is a multimodal reasoning harness for MLLMs built on a capability layer (task-level tool interfaces plus evidence rendering) and persistent multimodal memory that stores images, structured data and web references as addressable artifacts. A coding interface runs generated programs over stored data. Across 22 benchmarks and eight backbones it adds 9.7-12.6 points over no-tool baselines, and GPT-6 Luna at medium effort beats Codex and Visual Sketchpad at maximum effort using at most 37% of their tokens.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  84. MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution

    MemT-1.0 is a memory foundation model architecture that builds memory into model computation. It builds on Metis, uses Gated DeltaNet-2 for token-level memory updates within each turn, and adds Mixture-of-Storage to scale capacity. Training used 34B tokens in continued pre-training and post-training. MemT-1.0-Nano and MemT-1.0-Flash beat parametric memory baselines and stay competitive with retrieval methods. At 128K history, Nano gives about 1.86x inference speedup and 66x less persistent storage than a full-context KV cache.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  85. Registered ABE via Predicate Encodings, Revisited

    Registered ABE via Predicate Encodings, Revisited is an ePrint paper by Junichi Tomida (October 2026) that gives a new definition of predicate encodings suited to registered attribute-based encryption. It yields the first Reg-ABE schemes for (non-)zero inner product and for conjunctions/disjunctions with O(log L)-size ciphertexts. It also gives a registered broadcast encryption scheme with O(log L)-size ciphertexts under the standard k-Lin assumption, not the generic group model.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  86. Mise-en-Video: Fine-Grained 3D Control for Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Mise-en-Video (MeV) is a multi-shot video generation framework where creators stage shots in 3D space and then generate the matching video. It combines hierarchical attention for multi-level narrative consistency with 3D-aware layout guidance for per-shot spatial control. The authors built a 160K-video dataset with hierarchical multi-shot texts and oriented 3D bounding boxes, and report gains over baselines in quality, consistency and subject controllability.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  87. Analysis of an AI based code distinguisher

    The paper analyses DeepDistinguisher, a transformer-like model that tells Goppa codes apart from random linear codes. Saliency maps and attention visualisation reveal a low-weight-row artifact in the random training instances that the model partly relies on. A pairwise-XOR rule inspired by minimum distance correlates strongly with the model's predictions, and the model loses most of its power on random matrices meeting both constraints. This suggests it exploits general combinatorial properties, not hidden algebraic structure.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  88. Analysis of an AI based code distinguisher

    Analysis of DeepDistinguisher, a transformer model that tells Goppa codes from random linear codes. Using saliency maps and attention visualization, the authors find a low-weight-row artifact in the random training instances that the model partly uses. They propose a pairwise-XOR rule on generator matrix rows that correlates strongly with the model's predictions. On random matrices meeting the minimum distance and XOR constraints, the model loses most of its accuracy, so it exploits general combinatorial properties rather than hidden algebraic structure.

    eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Security

  89. EpiLens: Lightweight RAG for Epidemiological Knowledge Acquisition

    EpiLens is a lightweight, open-source retrieval-augmented generation package that applies a fixed retrieval template and output schema to every paper in a corpus and links outputs to source passages. On a corpus of 2,297 epidemiology papers, its classifier matches or exceeds supervised and zero-shot baselines on four tasks without task-specific training data, scored against 214 manual labels. It also compares model-based study shares across parameters and pathogens.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

  90. Assisted Turbulence Modeling via Data Assimilation and Machine Learning for Turbomachinery Flows

    This paper presents a hybrid framework for axial compressor flow that couples a Multi-Fidelity Ensemble Kalman Filter (MFEnKF) with machine learning. The filter merges PIV experiments with steady RANS and unsteady hybrid RANS/LES simulations. A neural network trained on the enriched data predicts Navier-Stokes volume forcing terms from velocity, velocity gradients and turbulent viscosity. A Mixture of Experts fixes local errors near blade tips, giving lower experimental discrepancy than baseline RANS.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026๐Ÿง  AI

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