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The Nesting Bird Box Problem is ER-complete: Sharp Hardness Results for the Hidden Set Problem

Lucas Meijer, Till Miltzow, Johanna Ockenfels, Milos Stojakovic · 2026

In the (Nesting) Bird Box Problem we are given a polygonal domain P and a number k and we want to know if there is a set B of k points inside P such that no two points in B can see each other. The und…

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Using Large Language Models for Black-Box Testing of FMU-Based Simulations

Abdullah Mughees, Gaadha Sudheerbabu, Tanwir Ahmad, Dragos Truscan, Mikael Manng{aa}rd, Kristian Klemets · 2026

We propose a human in the loop approach for black-box testing of Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) using Large Language Models (LLMs). The goal is to reduce the manual effort in defining test scenarios …

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KubePACS: Kubernetes Cluster Using Performant, Highly Available, and Cost Efficient Spot Instances

Taeyoon Kim, Kyumin Kim, Enrique Molina-Gimenez, Pedro Garcia-Lopez, Kyungyong Lee · 2026

Cloud users aim to minimize cost while maximizing performance by selecting the most suitable instance types for their workloads. To reduce expenses, spot instances have been widely adopted due to thei…

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Protecting the Trace: A Principled Black-Box Approach Against Distillation Attacks

Max Hartman, Vidhata Jayaraman, Moulik Choraria, Lav R. Varshney · 2026

Frontier models push the boundaries of what is learnable at extreme computational costs, yet distillation via sampling reasoning traces exposes closed-source frontier models to adversarial third parti…

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ArmSSL: Adversarial Robust Black-Box Watermarking for Self-Supervised Learning Pre-trained Encoders

Yongqi Jiang, Yansong Gao, Boyu Kuang, Chunyi Zhou, Anmin Fu, Liquan Chen · 2026

Self-supervised learning (SSL) encoders are invaluable intellectual property (IP). However, no existing SSL watermarking for IP protection can concurrently satisfy the following two practical requirem…

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Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings

Anna Abalkina, Marie Kunesova, Yagmur Ozturk, Solal Pirelli · 2026

Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien…

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Black-Box Skill Stealing Attack from Proprietary LLM Agents: An Empirical Study

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu, Chi Liu, Qingchuan Zhao, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu · 2026

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills to package reusable capabilities through instructions, tools, and resources. High-quality skills embed expert knowledge, curated workflows…

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Text Steganography with Dynamic Codebook and Multimodal Large Language Model

Jianxin Gao, Ruohan Lei, Wanli Peng · 2026

With the popularity of the large language models (LLMs), text steganography has achieved remarkable performance. However, existing methods still have some issues: (1) For the white-box paradigm, this …

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Finite-Length Empirical Comparison of Polar, PAC, and Invertible-Extractor Secrecy Codes over the Wiretap BSC

Jaswanthi Mandalapu, Andrew Thangaraj · 2026

We compare three secrecy-coding schemes for the degraded wiretap binary symmetric channel (BSC) in the finite-blocklength regime: (i) polar wiretap coset codes, (ii) PAC codes used as wiretap coset co…

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The Communication Complexity of Pattern Matching with Edits Revisited

Tomasz Kociumaka, Jakob Nogler, Philip Wellnitz · 2026

In the decades-old Pattern Matching with Edits problem, given a length-$n$ string $T$ (the text), a length-$m$ string $P$ (the pattern), and a positive integer $k$ (the threshold), the task is to list…

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Conflict-Aware Robust Design for Covert Wireless Communications

Abbas Arghavani · 2026

Covert wireless communication aims to establish a reliable link while hiding the transmission from an adversary. In wireless settings, uncertainty plays a central role in this tradeoff: it can help ma…

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ClawXiv: a signed archival workflow and distributed publication architecture for human--AI collaborative research

Andras Kornai · 2026

We propose \emph{ClawXiv}, a workflow and archive architecture for mixed human--AI research. The immediate problem is not only public dissemination of preprints, but also reliable migration from volat…

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"bot lane noob" Towards Deployment of NLP-based Toxicity Detectors in Video Games

Jonas Ave, Irdin Pekaric, Matthias Frohner, Giovanni Apruzzese · 2026

Toxicity and harassment are widespread in the video-gaming context. Especially in competitive online multiplayer scenarios, gamers oftentimes send harmful messages to other players (teammates or oppon…

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Scheduling the Unschedulable: Taming Black-Box LLM Inference at Scale

Renzhong Yuan, Yijun Zeng, Xiaosong Gao, Linxi Yu, Haochun Liao, Han Wang · 2026

When output token counts can be predicted at submission time (Gan et al., 2026), client-side scheduling against a black-box LLM API becomes semi-clairvoyant: decisions condition on coarse token priors…

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Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem

Yash Vekaria, Nurullah Demir, Konrad Kollnig, Zubair Shafiq · 2026

The lead marketing ecosystem enables collection, sale, and use of personal data submitted via web forms to deliver personalized quotes in high-value verticals such as insurance. Despite its scale and …

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Can Drift-Adaptive Malware Detectors Be Made Robust? Attacks and Defenses Under White-Box and Black-Box Threats

Adrian Shuai Li, Md Ajwad Akil, Elisa Bertino · 2026

Concept drift and adversarial evasion are two major challenges for deploying machine learning-based malware detectors. While both have been studied separately, their combination, the adversarial robus…

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Assessing Cyber Risks in Hydropower Systems Through HAZOP and Bow-Tie Analysis

Kwabena Opoku Frempong-Kore, Rishikesh Sahay, Md Rasel Al Mamun, Bell Eapen · 2026

With the widespread use of software systems in critical infrastructures such as hydropower plants has brought many advantages, yet it has exposed these systems to cyber threats. Cyber risk assessment …

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No Constant-Cost Protocol for Point--Line Incidence

Mika Goos, Nathaniel Harms, Florian K. Richter, Anastasia Sofronova · 2026

Alice and Bob are given $n$-bit integer pairs $(x,y)$ and $(a,b)$, respectively, and they must decide if $y=ax+b$. We prove that the randomised communication complexity of this Point--Line Incidence p…

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AutoEG: Exploiting Known Third-Party Vulnerabilities in Black-Box Web Applications

Ruozhao Yang, Mingfei Cheng, Gelei Deng, Junjie Wang, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaofei Xie · 2026

Large-scale web applications are widely deployed with complex third-party components, inheriting security risks arising from component vulnerabilities. Security assessment is therefore required to det…

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Secret Key Rate Analysis of RIS-Assisted THz MIMO CV-QKD Systems under Localized and Global Eavesdropping

Sushil Kumar, Soumya P. Dash, George C. Alexandropoulos · 2026

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies and consisting of a transmitter, Alice, that encodes secret keys using Gaussian-modulated coherent states, which…

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