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Latent Adversarial Detection: Adaptive Probing of LLM Activations for Multi-Turn Attack Detection

Prashant Kulkarni ยท 2026

Multi-turn prompt injection follows a known attack path -- trust-building, pivoting, escalation but text-level defenses miss covert attacks where individual turns appear benign. We show this attack paโ€ฆ

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From Mirage to Grounding: Towards Reliable Multimodal Circuit-to-Verilog Code Generation

Guang Yang, Xing Hu, Xiang Chen, Xin Xi ยท 2026

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to translate visual artifacts into code, from UI mockups into HTML to scientific plots into Python scripts. A circuit diagram can be viewโ€ฆ

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GenAI in Software Engineering: The Role of Technology Acceptance Models

Oscar Johansson, Jurgen Borstler, Nauman bin Ali ยท 2026

Context: Many organizations are keen to incorporate generative~AI (GenAI) into their software development processes. Technology acceptance models, such as the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Tโ€ฆ

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Bug-Report-Driven Fault Localization: Industrial Benchmarking and Lesson Learned at ABB Robotics

Pernilla Hall, Anton Ununger, Riccardo Rubei, Alessio Bucaioni ยท 2026

Software quality assurance remains a major challenge in industrial environments, where large-scale and long-lived systems inevitably accumulate defects. Identifying the location of a fault is often tiโ€ฆ

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ReTokSync: Self-Synchronizing Tokenization Disambiguation for Generative Linguistic Steganography

Yaofei Wang, Rui Wang, Weilong Pang, JiaLiang Han, Yuan Qi, Donghui Hu, Kejiang Chen ยท 2026

Generative linguistic steganography (GLS) enables covert communication by embedding secret messages into the natural language generation process. In practical deployment, however, GLS is vulnerable toโ€ฆ

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ARCANE: Cross-Campaign Attacker Re-identification via Passive Beacon Telemetry -- A Bayesian Network Framework for Longitudinal Cyber Attribution

Abraham Itzhak Weinberg ยท 2026

Current cyber attribution approaches typically operate on a per-incident basis, leaving open whether aggregating evidence across campaigns improves adversary identification. We investigate whether croโ€ฆ

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#MakeBeefGreatAgain: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Early #MAHA Discourse

Haoning Xue, Yue Li, Benjamin A. Lyons, Andy J. King ยท 2026

Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) is a health-related campaign slogan proposed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and later incorporated into the political coalition of President Trump. While #MAHA quickly circโ€ฆ

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From Stateless Queries to Autonomous Actions: A Layered Security Framework for Agentic AI Systems

Kexin Chu ยท 2026

Agentic AI systems face security challenges that stateless large language models do not. They plan across extended horizons, maintain persistent memory, invoke external tools, and coordinate with peerโ€ฆ

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On the hull of linearized polynomial codes

Daniele Bartoli, Giovanni Giuseppe Grimaldi, Pantelimon Stanica ยท 2026

Motivated by entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes, where the hull dimension determines the number of required pre-shared entangled pairs, we study hulls of two families of $\mathbb{F}_โ€ฆ

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HGQ-LUT: Fast LUT-Aware Training and Efficient Architectures for DNN Inference

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Bakhtiar Zadeh, Qibin Liu, Kevin H. Alvarez, Wayne Luk, Maria Spiropulu ยท 2026

Lookup-table (LUT) based neural networks can deliver ultra-low latency and excellent hardware efficiency on FPGAs by mapping arithmetic operations directly onto the logic primitives. However, state-ofโ€ฆ

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FlashSpread: IO-Aware GPU Simulation of Non-Markovian Epidemic Dynamics via Kernel Fusion

Heman Shakeri, Behnaz Moradi-Jamei, Aram Vajdi, Ehsan Ardjmand ยท 2026

Non-Markovian (renewal) epidemic simulation on multi-million-node contact networks is essential for realistic forecasting under general age-dependent holding-time distributions (log-normal, Weibull, Eโ€ฆ

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Provably Secure Steganography Based on List Decoding

Kaiyi Pang, Minhao Bai ยท 2026

Steganography embeds secret messages in seemingly innocuous carriers for covert communication under surveillance. Current Provably Secure Steganography (PSS) schemes based on language models can guaraโ€ฆ

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Diagnosable ColBERT: Debugging Late-Interaction Retrieval Models Using a Learned Latent Space as Reference

Francois Remy ยท 2026

Reliable biomedical and clinical retrieval requires more than strong ranking performance: it requires a practical way to find systematic model failures and curate the training evidence needed to correโ€ฆ

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Conflict-Aware Robust Design for Covert Wireless Communications

Abbas Arghavani ยท 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 maโ€ฆ

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The Salami Slicing Threat: Exploiting Cumulative Risks in LLM Systems

Yihao Zhang, Kai Wang, Jiangrong Wu, Haolin Wu, Yuxuan Zhou, Zeming Wei, Dongxian Wu, Xun Chen, Jun Sun, Meng Sun ยท 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) face prominent security risks from jailbreaking, a practice that manipulates models to bypass built-in security constraints and generate unethical or unsafe content. Amongโ€ฆ

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Robust Covert Quantum Communication under Bounded Channel Uncertainty

Abbas Arghavani, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos, Vahid Azimi Mousolou, Giuseppe Nebbione, Shahid Raza ยท 2026

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic opticaโ€ฆ

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Reproduction Beyond Benchmarks: ConstBERT and ColBERT-v2 Across Backends and Query Distributions

Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Ashish David, Shubham Chatterjee ยท 2026

Reproducibility must validate architectural robustness, not just numerical accuracy. We evaluate ColBERT-v2 and ConstBERT across five dimensions, finding that while ConstBERT reproduces within 0.05% Mโ€ฆ

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Scheming in the wild: detecting real-world AI scheming incidents with open-source intelligence

Tommy Shaffer Shane, Simon Mylius, Hamish Hobbs ยท 2026

Scheming, the covert pursuit of misaligned goals by AI systems, represents a potentially catastrophic risk, yet scheming research suffers from significant limitations. In particular, scheming evaluatiโ€ฆ

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BRASP: Boolean Range Queries over Encrypted Spatial Data with Access and Search Pattern Privacy

Jing Zhang, Ganxuan Yang, Yifei Yang, Siqi Wen, Zhengyang Qiu ยท 2026

Searchable Encryption (SE) enables users to query outsourced encrypted data while preserving data confidentiality. However, most efficient schemes still leak the search pattern and access pattern, whiโ€ฆ

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Anamorphic Encryption with CCA Security: A Standard Model Construction

Shujun Wang, Jianting Ning, Qinyi Li, Leo Yu Zhang ยท 2026

Anamorphic encryption serves as a vital tool for covert communication, maintaining secrecy even during post-compromise scenarios. Particularly in the receiver-anamorphic setting, a user can shield hidโ€ฆ

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