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Xutao Mao

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What Happens Inside Agent Memory? Circuit Analysis from Emergence to Diagnosis

An unsupervised stage-level diagnostic is developed that localizes silent failures to the responsible operation at 76.2% accuracy and establishes circuit-level signatures as a practical handle for monitoring agent memory and guiding its structural design.

Xutao Mao, Jin-Man Zhao, Gerald Penn et al. · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

Practice Makes Unsafe: Skill Misevolution in Self-Improving LLM Agents

This work proposes SafeEvolve, which checks each skill when it is written and when a later task retrieves it, and introduces SkillMisevo-Gym, which clears every task session but keeps the skill library, so each of these steps can be checked separately.

Xutao Mao, Liang Zhao, Xiang Zheng et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
Jul 2026

Agent Hacks Agent: Autoresearch for Production-Agent Red-Teaming

This work presents AHA, a falsifiable discovery loop that proposes a vulnerability hypothesis, constructs a falsifier, instantiates a valid attack, executes it in a sandboxed harness, reflects on the trajectory, and promotes confirmed findings into a Vulnerability Concept Graph (VCG), which provides an auditable artifa...

Xutao Mao, Xiang Zheng, Cong Wang · 3 citations

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