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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Progressive-Resolution Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning

This work introduces and formulate a new progressive-resolution secure-aggregation functionality in which clients upload once and successively finer resolutions of the same aggregate can later be authorized without renewed client participation.

Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

On the Relationship between Model Quantization and Model Inversion Attacks

A privacy-aware post-training quantization method that improves inversion resistance while recovering utility is guided, using a Fisher-type task-sensitivity proxy for budget-aware bit allocation, calibrates activation ranges, and jointly optimizes weight and activation scales and weight-rounding decisions.

Rong-Ke Liu, You-Wen Zhu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Removing the NEEDLE in the Haystack: Backdoor Removal in LLMs via Weight Orthogonalisation

This work proposes NEEDLE, a training-free method for targeted backdoor removal that achieves the lowest mean Attack Success Rate (ASR) among the evaluated defences, including 0% on challenging code injection attacks, while resulting in the lowest KL divergence and minimal changes in capability and safety.

Minoo Kim, Vasileios Lampos, George Drayson · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Refusal Localizes, the Damage Relocates: Safety Layers Under Few-Sample Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning adapts aligned large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, but a few dozen harmful examples can remove their refusal of harmful requests. Prior work localizes safety-related behavior to specific layers, directions, and tokens, suggesting targets for protection. We test whether successful localization...

Jungseob Lee, D. Lee, Sugyeong Eo et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Evasion Attacks: How Adversarial Noise Bypasses ML Classifiers

This paper presents a reproducible, educational study of evasion attacks in image classification and text classification. A compact convolutional network trained on MNIST reached 98.63% clean test accuracy and was evaluated under two white-box attacks. Under FGSM, accuracy fell to 60.20% at $\epsilon$ = 0.15 and 1.72%...

Parker Hummel, Ryne Skabo, Muhammad Abusaqer · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Safe Prototype Is Not a Safety Direction: Reference Dependence and Prompt Confounds in Response-Safety Embeddings

Can response safety be scored by cosine similarity to the mean embedding of known-safe responses? A recent sleeper-agent detector proposes exactly this score, yet the raw positive-centroid rule is not identified: positive observations locate the safe class relative to an encoder origin, but do not determine which direc...

Sahil Kadadekar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SAGE: Similarity-Based Cleaning of Poisoned Training Data from Verified Examples

This work proposes Similarity-based Approach for Ground-truth-driven Exclusion (SAGE), which trains a generic feature extractor on a separate dataset and then flags poisoned training examples using a non-parametric, similarity-weighted prediction based on the verified set.

Chaeeun Han, Soodeh Atefi, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TensorCommitments: A Lightweight Verifiable Inference for Language Models

Most large language models (LLMs) run on external clouds: users send a prompt, pay for inference, and must trust that the remote GPU executes the LLM without any adversarial tampering. We critically ask how to achieve verifiable LLM inference, where a prover (the service) must convince a verifier (the client) that an i...

Oguzhan Baser, Elahe Sadeghi, Eric Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities: Examining LLM Safety via Drunk Language Inducement

Humans are susceptible to undesirable behaviours and privacy leaks under the influence of alcohol. This paper investigates drunk language, i.e., text written under the influence of alcohol, as a driver for safety failures in large language models (LLMs). We investigate three mechanisms for inducing drunk language in LL...

Anudeex Shetty, Aditya Joshi, Salil S. Kanhere · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards

LLMs are increasingly applied to cybersecurity workflows, where they are expected to translate analysts'intent into tool invocations. However, existing evaluations focus on knowledge-based assessments or end-to-end agentic tasks, and do not directly measure LLMs'ability to generate executable commands for real-world cy...

Peng-Fei Li, Naufal Suryanto, Si-Cheng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Hybrid Approach to Malware Detection: Integrating Few-Shot Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning with Autoencoders

Ransomware has emerged as a major cybersecurity threat, with incidents increasing in frequency and impact across critical sectors. These attacks are typically launched through phishing emails, malicious downloads, or exploitation of software vulnerabilities to gain system access. Once inside, the malware encrypts files...

Emmanuela Andam, Yasir Abbas Zaidi, Abdelali Hadir et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Structured State Space Sequence Model for Multi-Class Classification of Malware

By 2030, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are projected to reach 40 billion, with fast-paced technological advancements in fields such as industry, healthcare, agriculture, automobiles, and building/home automation systems. This expansion has created a large attack surface for cybercrime, as the majority of these devic...

Emmanuela Andam, Rana Shaaban, Emanuel Grant et al. · 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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