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#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Not Self-Decidable: LLMs Cannot Draw the Boundary of What an Agent Verifier Can Check

A verifier for an agent faces rules of two kinds: the ones a fixed check can settle and the ones that require a judge. A team that derives its own checks fixes that split up front. Where the requirements come from outside, as in finance, healthcare and law, the agent enforces rules it did not write, so the split falls...

Anthony Rhodes · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Penumbra: Sample-Efficient Adversarial Search for Regulatory Obligations

Agents are entering finance, healthcare and law, sectors where a violation leaves no lexical signature and carries real penalties. Whether an omission is material, or a disclosure sufficient, depends on what the response left out. Probing such an obligation means finding responses one minimal edit from flipping complia...

Anthony Rhodes · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Reactivating Alignment: Defending LLMs from Jailbreaks via Intention-Aware Input-Output Matching

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that conceal harmful intent within complex adversarial prompts. Existing defenses primarily rely on input perturbation or harmful-output suppression, but they rarely model where malicious intent resides, resulting in brittle protection and excessive ov...

Luo-Yu Chen, Wei-Qi Wang, Chen-Han Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLM Anonymization Against Agentic Re-Identification

Agentic LLMs with web search change the threat model for text anonymization: weak contextual cues can become cross-referenceable evidence for re-identification, yet those same details also carry downstream analytic value of the text. Existing defenses either remove explicit identifiers, perturb text for formal privacy,...

Ziwen Li, Jianing Wen, Tianshi Li · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Passing the Test You Trained On: Re-evaluating Prompt-Injection Detectors for LLM Agents

LLM agents increasingly screen tool outputs with small prompt-injection detectors, and teams choose among detectors by their scores on public benchmarks. We ask whether those scores predict how a detector behaves inside an agent. We replay the ground-truth tool calls of two agent benchmarks, AgentDojo and tau-bench, wi...

Zhuowen Liu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SecJev: Bringing Security Expertise to System One Decision Models

Security workflows need models that turn complex observations and explicit policies into decisions. System One models introduced by Jev return typed predictions and probabilities; security specialization supplies the domain expertise behind those predictions. We introduce SecJev, to our knowledge the first family of Je...

Zheng Chen, Fei Yu, Haohao Huang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Trade-off Functions for DP-SGD with Subsampling based on Random Allocation: Tight Upper and Lower Bounds

Within the $f$-DP framework, we derive a tight analysis of the trade-off function for Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) with subsampling based on random allocation in which each sample is independently assigned to exactly one of $M$ minibatches per epoch, each minibatch corresponding to one of...

Marten van Dijk, Murat Bilgehan Ertan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Differential Privacy as a Perk: Federated Learning over Multiple-Access Fading Channels with a Multi-Antenna Base Station

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves privacy by eliminating the need to exchange raw data during training. In its prototypical edge instantiation with underlying wireless transmissions enabled by analog over-the-air computing (AirComp), referred to as \emph{over-the-air FL (AirFL)},...

Hao Liang, Haifeng Wen, Kaishun Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PoCoFL: POlicy-COmpliant Federated Learning

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-oriented learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training while keeping training data local to participating clients. However, it does not guarantee that clients submit policy-compliant contributions or that aggregators process admitted contributions correctly. Existing v...

Dominik Roy George, Varesh Mishra, Aysajan Abidin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

RMCW: A Deletion-Robust Watermark Based on Reed--Muller Codes for Language Models

Large Language Model (LLM) watermarking provides a lightweight mechanism for identifying text generated by a specific model, but its robustness remains fragile under post-processing attacks. Deletion attacks are particularly challenging because they shift token positions and break the alignment between observed tokens...

Yi Wang, Bai-Cheng Chen, Yu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

When Normalization Selects the Sign: Auditing Robustness Ablations in Quantum Attention

Removing an input-scaling module changes both a classifier and the perturbations reaching its encoder. A robustness difference can therefore reflect the comparison rule as well as the module. We demonstrate this problem in a four-qubit quantum-attention detector on generated power-grid trajectories. A learned scaling m...

Owen Friedewald, Srikar Alla, Ali Shiri Sichani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Where Quantum Fourier Sampling Stops Short: A Three-Gate Audit Protocol for Delay-PUF Security Models

Quantum Fourier sampling may help audit the spectral learnability of delay-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs). We ask whether that promise survives access matching, a strong classical comparator, and oracle synthesis. Three gates structure the evaluation. Structure: low degree is not small support at reachable...

Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

GPT-Lab Oct 30, 2026

Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation

Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.

Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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