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FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption

Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin, Ying Chen, Jinyuan Jia · 2026

Long-context large language models (LLMs)-for example, Gemini-3.1-Pro and Qwen-3.5-are widely used to empower many real-world applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation, autonomous agents, a…

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PuzzleMark: Implicit Jigsaw Learning for Robust Code Dataset Watermarking in Neural Code Completion Models

Haocheng Huang, Yuchen Chen, Weisong Sun, Peizhuo Lv, Yuan Xiao, Chunrong Fang, Yang Liu, Xiaofang Zhang · 2026

Constructing and curating high-quality code datasets requires significant resources, making them valuable intellectual property. Unfortunately, these datasets currently face severe risks of unauthoriz…

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Secret Stealing Attacks on Local LLM Fine-Tuning through Supply-Chain Model Code Backdoors

Zi Li, Tian Zhou, Wenze Li, Jingyu Hua, Yunlong Mao, Sheng Zhong · 2026

Local fine-tuning datasets routinely contain sensitive secrets such as API keys, personal identifiers, and financial records. Although ''local offline fine-tuning'' is often viewed as a privacy bounda…

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Pragmos: A Process Agentic Modeling System

Pedro-Aaron Hernandez-Avalos, Luciano Garcia-Banuelos · 2026

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly transformed tasks across Software Engineering. In the context of Business Process Management, LLMs are now being explored as tools to deriv…

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Runtime Verification: Monitoring, Knowledge, and Uncertainty (Lecture Notes)

Benedikt Bollig · 2026

Runtime verification is a lightweight verification technique that complements model checking by analyzing system executions at runtime rather than exploring a complete system model in advance. It is p…

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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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On (In)approximability of MaxMin Independent Set Reconfiguration

Hung P. Hoang, Naoto Ohsaka, Rin Saito, Yuma Tamura · 2026

In the Independent Set Reconfiguration problem under the Token Addition/Removal rule, given a graph $G$ and two independent sets $I$ and $J$ of $G$, we want to transform $I$ into $J$ by adding and rem…

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Persona-Based Process Design for Assistive Human-Robot Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities

Nils Mandischer, Daria Eckert and, Lars Mikelsons · 2026

Human-robot interaction is emerging as an important paradigm for integrating persons with disabilities into the workplace. While these systems can enable individuals to work, their design is mostly pe…

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Membership Inference Attacks Against Video Large Language Models

Wei Song, Yuxin Cao, Ziqi Ding, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Yuekang Li · 2026

Video large language models (VideoLLMs) are increasingly trained or instruction-tuned on large-scale video--text corpora collected from heterogeneous sources, raising an immediate privacy question: ca…

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Carbon-Taxed Transformers: A Green Compression Pipeline for Overgrown Language Models

Ajmain Inqiad Alam, Palash Roy, Chanchal K. Roy, Banani Roy, Kevin A. Schneider · 2026

The accelerating adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering (SE) has brought with it a silent crisis: unsustainable computational cost. While these models demonstrate remarkable …

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Tight Bounds for some W[1]-hard Problems Parameterized by Multi-clique-width

Benjamin Bergougnoux, Vera Chekan, Stefan Kratsch · 2026

In this work we contribute to the study of the fine-grained complexity of problems parameterized by multi-clique-width, which was initiated by F\"urer [ITCS 2017] and pursued further by Chekan and Kra…

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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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The Surprising Universality of LLM Outputs: A Real-Time Verification Primitive

Alex Bogdan, Adrian de Valois-Franklin · 2026

We report a striking statistical regularity in frontier LLM outputs that enables a CPU-only scoring primitive running at 2.6 microseconds per token, with estimated latency up to 100,000$\times$ (five …

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R-CoT: A Reasoning-Layer Watermark via Redundant Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models

Ziming Zhang, Li Li, Guorui Feng, Hanzhou Wu, Xinpeng Zhang · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed in multiple scenarios due to reasoning capabilities. In order to prevent the models from being misused, watermarking is generally employed to ensure ow…

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Profiling Resilient to Change in Probe Position

Elie Bursztein, Michael Gruber, Karel Kral, Jean-Michel Picod, Matthias Probst, Georg Sigl · 2026

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) relaxes the black-box assumption of conventional cryptanalysis by incorporating physical measurements acquired during cryptographic operations. Electro-magnetic (EM) emissi…

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Polynomial Kernels for Spanning Tree with Diversity Requirements

Petr A. Golovach, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Saket Saurabh · 2026

Given a connected undirected graph $G$, a spanning tree is a subgraph $T$ of $G$ such that $V(T) = V(G)$ and $T$ is a tree. A collection of $\ell$ spanning trees $T_1,\ldots,T_\ell$ is pairwise $k$-di…

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GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

Minghan Li, Tianrui Lv, Chao Zhang, Guodong Zhou · 2026

The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Existing dense retrieval methods typically treat LCR a…

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Spore: Efficient and Training-Free Privacy Extraction Attack on LLMs via Inference-Time Hybrid Probing

Yu Cui, Ruiqing Yue, Hang Fu, Sicheng Pan, Zhuoyu Sun, Baohan Huang, Haibin Zhang, Cong Zuo, Licheng Wang · 2026

With the wide adoption of personal AI assistants such as OpenClaw, privacy leakage in user interaction contexts with large language model (LLM) agents has become a critical issue. Existing privacy att…

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Prompt-Unknown Promotion Attacks against LLM-based Sequential Recommender Systems

Yuchuan Zhao, Tong Chen, Junliang Yu, Zongwei Wang, Lizhen Cui, Hongzhi Yin · 2026

Large language model-powered sequential recommender systems (LLM-SRSs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance, enabling recommendations through prompt-driven inference over user interaction…

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Characterizations of Admissible Objective Functions for Hierarchical Clustering

Ryuki Tsukuba, Kazutoshi Ando · 2026

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, yet for a long time it lacked a principled objective function. Dasgupta [STOC 2016] initiated a formal framework by introducing a discre…

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