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The Double-Edged Sword of Open-Ended Interaction: How LLM-Driven NPCs Affect Players' Cognitive Load and Gaming Experience

Ting-Chen Hsu, Wenran Chen, Jiangxu Lin, Fei Qin, Zheyuan Zhang ยท 2026

This study examines how large language model-driven non-player characters (LLM-NPCs) affect players' cognitive load and gaming experience, with a particular focus on the underlying psychological mechaโ€ฆ

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Engineering Resource-constrained Software Systems with DNN Components: a Concept-based Pruning Approach

Federico Formica, Andrea Rota, Aurora Francesca Zanenga, Andrea Bombarda, Mark Lawford, Lionel C. Briand, Claudio Menghi ยท 2026

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used by engineers to solve difficult problems that require predictive modeling from data. However, these models are often massive, with millions or billions of pโ€ฆ

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Time-Division Joint SAR and Secure Communications

Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri, Ata Khalili, Yujiao Liu, Anke Schmeink, Robert Schober ยท 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging can be exploited to enhance wireless communication performance through high-precision environmental awareness. However, integrating sensing and communication funโ€ฆ

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BadSkill: Backdoor Attacks on Agent Skills via Model-in-Skill Poisoning

Guiyao Tie, Jiawen Shi, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun ยท 2026

Agent ecosystems increasingly rely on installable skills to extend functionality, and some skills bundle learned model artifacts as part of their execution logic. This creates a supply-chain risk thatโ€ฆ

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Building Trust in the Skies: A Knowledge-Grounded LLM-based Framework for Aviation Safety

Anirudh Iyengar, Alisa Tiselska, Dumindu Samaraweera, Hong Liu ยท 2026

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into aviation safety decision-making represents a significant technological advancement, yet their standalone application poses critical risks due to inโ€ฆ

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Unreal Thinking: Chain-of-Thought Hijacking via Two-stage Backdoor

Wenhan Chang, Tianqing Zhu, Ping Xiong, Faqian Guan, Wanlei Zhou ยท 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in settings where Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is interpreted by users. This creates a new safety risk: attackers may manipulate the model's observableโ€ฆ

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GRM: Utility-Aware Jailbreak Attacks on Audio LLMs via Gradient-Ratio Masking

Yunqiang Wang, Hengyuan Na, Di Wu, Miao Hu, Guocong Quan ยท 2026

Audio large language models (ALLMs) enable rich speech-text interaction, but they also introduce jailbreak vulnerabilities in the audio modality. Existing audio jailbreak methods mainly optimize jailbโ€ฆ

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CLIP-Inspector: Model-Level Backdoor Detection for Prompt-Tuned CLIP via OOD Trigger Inversion

Akshit Jindal, Saket Anand, Chetan Arora, Vikram Goyal ยท 2026

Organisations with limited data and computational resources increasingly outsource model training to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) providers, who adapt vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLโ€ฆ

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Training Language Models for Bilateral Trade with Private Information

Dirk Bergemann, Soheil Ghili, Xinyang Hu, Chuanhao Li, Zhuoran Yang ยท 2026

Bilateral bargaining under incomplete information provides a controlled testbed for evaluating large language model (LLM) agent capabilities. Bilateral trade demands individual rationality, strategic โ€ฆ

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Tracing the Chain: Deep Learning for Stepping-Stone Intrusion Detection

Nate Mathews, Nicholas Hopper, Matthew Wright ยท 2026

Stepping-stone intrusions (SSIs) are a prevalent network evasion technique in which attackers route sessions through chains of compromised intermediate hosts to obscure their origin. Effective SSI detโ€ฆ

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Optimal Single-Pass Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximating CSPs

Noah G. Singer, Madhur Tulsiani, Santhoshini Velusamy ยท 2026

For an arbitrary family of predicates $\mathcal{F} \subseteq \{0,1\}^{[q]^k}$ and any $\epsilon > 0$, we prove a single-pass, linear-space streaming lower bound against the gap promise problem of distโ€ฆ

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Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

Chenyu Zhou, Huacan Chai, Wenteng Chen, Zihan Guo, Rong Shan, Yuanyi Song, Tianyi Xu, Yingxuan Yang, Aofan Yu, Weiming Zhang, Congming Zheng, Jiachen Zhu, Zeyu Zheng, Zhuosheng Zhang, Xingyu Lou, Changwang Zhang, Zhihui Fu, Jun Wang, Weiwen Liu, Jianghao Lin, Weinan Zhang ยท 2026

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly built less by changing model weights than by reorganizing the runtime around them. Capabilities that earlier systems expected the model to recover inโ€ฆ

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Search Changes Consumers' Minds: How Recognizing Gaps Drives Sustainable Choices

Frans van der Sluis, Leif Azzopardi ยท 2026

Despite a growing desire among consumers to shop responsibly, translating this intention into behaviour remains challenging. Previous work has identified that information seeking (or lack thereof) is โ€ฆ

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PrivFedTalk: Privacy-Aware Federated Diffusion with Identity-Stable Adapters for Personalized Talking-Head Generation

Soumya Mazumdar, Vineet Kumar Rakesh, Tapas Samanta ยท 2026

Talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, but training usually depends on centralized face-video and speech datasets, raising major privacy concerns. The proโ€ฆ

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Are GUI Agents Focused Enough? Automated Distraction via Semantic-level UI Element Injection

Wenkui Yang, Chao Jin, Haisu Zhu, Weilin Luo, Derek Yuen, Kun Shao, Huaibo Huang, Junxian Duan, Jie Cao, Ran He ยท 2026

Existing red-teaming studies on GUI agents have important limitations. Adversarial perturbations typically require white-box access, which is unavailable for commercial systems, while prompt injectionโ€ฆ

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TrajGuard: Streaming Hidden-state Trajectory Detection for Decoding-time Jailbreak Defense

Cheng Liu, Xiaolei Liu, Xingyu Li, Bangzhou Xin, Kangyi Ding ยท 2026

Existing jailbreak defense paradigms primarily rely on static detection of prompts, outputs, or internal states, often neglecting the dynamic evolution of risk during decoding. This oversight leaves rโ€ฆ

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Have LLM-associated terms increased in article full texts in all fields?

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha ยท 2026

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek for translation and language polishing is a welcome development, reducing the longstanding publishing barrier to non-English speakers.โ€ฆ

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The Day My Chatbot Changed: Characterizing the Mental Health Impacts of Social AI App Updates via Negative User Reviews

Sirajam Munira, Lydia Manikonda ยท 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots are increasingly used for emotional, creative, and social support, leading to sustained and routine user interaction with these systems. As these applications evoโ€ฆ

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Semantic Intent Fragmentation: A Single-Shot Compositional Attack on Multi-Agent AI Pipelines

Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam, Sai Puppala, Yoonpyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam, Sajedul Talukder ยท 2026

We introduce Semantic Intent Fragmentation (SIF), an attack class against LLM orchestration systems where a single, legitimately phrased request causes an orchestrator to decompose a task into subtaskโ€ฆ

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DDP-SA: Scalable Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Distributed Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation

Wenjing Wei, Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Alla Jammine ยท 2026

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing โ€ฆ

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