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Jiqiang Liu

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2026

Embodied Agentic Intelligence for LAWNs: Joint Collision Avoidance Path Planning and Predictive Beamforming Design

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are emerging as a foundational infrastructure for the low-altitude economy, necessitating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to operate as embodied wireless agents that can navigate complex air-ground environments. This paper investigates the critical challenge of maintaining reliable and covert information transmission for such agents under stringent mobility and detection constraints. To address this, we propose an embodied agentic framework that synergizes safety-critical path planning with cognitive predictive beamforming through a hierarchical execution-reasoning loop. Specifically, the execution layer utilizes model predictive control (MPC) to solve a constrained optimization problem, linearizing obstacle-avoidance requirements into tractable dual-variable inequalities to ensure collision-free navigation. This generates a deterministic sequence of future coordinates that serves as a spatial intent prior to reduce environmental uncertainty. Subsequently, the cognitive reasoning layer leverages a large language model (LLM) to integrate these motion priors with sensing-assisted historical channel state information and warden locations through a cross-modal attention mechanism. By capturing the intricate dependencies between the agent kinematic states and the non-stationary wireless channel, the LLM proactively optimizes predictive beamforming to satisfy covertness requirements against mobile wardens. Simulation results validate the efficacy of this joint design, demonstrating that the UAV successfully tracks reference trajectories while maintaining safety margins in obstacle-cluttered environments. Furthermore, the proposed framework achieves superior covertness performance compared to conventional benchmarks.

Guoliang Yang, Jiqiang Liu, Xiaotong Zhao · 0 citations
Aug 2026

Mask2Keep: Mask-guided information transfer for backdoors resilient to compression-oriented pruning.

Deep neural network (DNN) backdoor attacks implant hidden malicious behaviors during model training so that inputs containing a trigger are misclassified to an attacker-specified target. While prior studies have explored pruning as a defense, the impact of conventional compression-oriented pruning, which is primarily used for model size reduction and efficiency, on the effectiveness of existing general backdoor attacks has not been fully examined. We show that many existing attacks are fragile under such pruning. To this end, we propose Mask2Keep (M2K), an attack-enhancement training framework that improves backdoor robustness under compression-oriented pruning by encouraging the model to encode both task- and backdoor-related information into parameters that are less likely to be removed. M2K suppresses pruning-prone parameters and redistributes critical information into more stable ones. M2K consists of three stages: (1) training a base backdoor model and learning a soft mask to estimate parameters likely to be pruned; (2) applying targeted regularization to encourage the redistribution of critical information into preserved parameters; and (3) fine-tuning by freezing likely-to-be-pruned parameters while distilling knowledge into the retained ones. Experiments across multiple attack types, datasets, and pruning strategies show that M2K maintains high attack success rates and competitive clean accuracy after aggressive compression, demonstrating its robustness to compression-oriented pruning.

Jing Shang, Jian Wang, Kailun Wang et al. · 0 citations