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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Differentially private federated learning with Byzantine-robust aggregation: A cross-domain framework for secure model training in banking and healthcare systems

A federated learning framework that combines a Gaussian-mechanism differential privacy layer with a coordinate-wise trimmed-mean Byzantine-robust aggregation rule, evaluated on a simulated cross-institutional classification task resembling fraud and clinical-risk scoring.

Srikumar Nayak · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Population-Calibrated Graph Screening at 835-Million-Address Scale, with Label-Free Transfer to New Chains

A deployed system that scores an address by its position in a multi-chain transaction graph rather than by its presence in a list, and an adversarial harness of eight recurrent reinforcement-learned archetypes that passes an 8-criterion degeneracy audit and exposes a measured blind spot of the deployed heads against sy...

Yury Korolev · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning: Gradient-Based Client Identity Inference and Defenses for Inertial Sensing in Vehicular Edge Networks

As vehicular networks move toward 5G/6G edge intelligence, federated learning (FL) is widely promoted as a privacy-preserving way for vehicles and infrastructure to train shared models without exposing raw sensor data. Yet the updates clients transmit still leak enough information to identify who sent them, which threa...

Ali Akarma, Toqeer Ali Syed, Muhammad Khan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Refusal geometry reflects refusal training: diverse refusal prefixes can raise stable rank and weaken refusal vector ablation attacks

This work studies refusal directions through the training dynamics across refusal datasets and reveals that their brittleness is associated with repetitive refusal starts, which is linked to concentration of gradients and refusal features in a low-dimensional subspace.

Andrey Labunets · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Identifying AI Web Scrapers Using Canary Tokens

From pre-training to query-time augmentation, web-scraped data helps to improve the quality and contextual relevancy of content generated by large language models (LLMs). However, large-scale web scraping to feed LLMs can affect site stability and raise legal, privacy, or ethics concerns. If website owners wish to limi...

Steven Seiden, Triss Ren, Caroline Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CASCADE: A Component Ablation and Corpus Audit of a Layered Local Defense for MCP-Based Systems

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) widens the prompt injection attack surface of large language model applications to tool descriptions, parameter schemas, and tool outputs. Defenses for it are appearing quickly, but their reported figures are not comparable: each is evaluated on a corpus of its authors' construction, un...

\.Ipek Abas{\i}kele\c{s} Turgut, Edip G\"um\"u\c{s} · 0 citations

Measuring Harmfulness of Computer-Using Agents

A new benchmark to more comprehensively evaluate CUAs'misuse risks, CUAHarm, and explores using LMs to monitor CUAs'actions, finding monitoring unsafe computer-using actions is significantly harder than monitoring conventional unsafe chatbot responses.

Aaron Xuxiang Tian, Ruofan Zhang, Janet Tang et al. · 8 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Refusal Before Decoding: Detecting and Exploiting Refusal Signals in Intermediate LLM Activations

In this paper, we investigate whether refusal behavior can be predicted from LLM intermediate activations before decoding using linear probes trained on residual stream activations at each transformer block. We find that refusal is linearly decodable well before the final layer, indicating that safety-relevant behavior...

Matteo Gioele Collu, Riccardo Conte, Alberto Giaretta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SENTINEL-RL: Offloading Topological Reasoning from LLM Agents in the Security Operations Center

This work presents Sentinel-RL, an agentic-SOC architecture that decouples topological reasoning from semantic reasoning, and contributes a reusable engineering pattern, a portable HPC deployment pattern, and an enterprise-readiness analysis covering false-positive economics, reversibility guarantees, audit compliance,...

Uday Vallabhaneni, Cassie L. Cagwin, David J. Wild · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Non-Formulable Theorem: A Fundamental Limit of Finite Syntactic Systems and Its Consequences for Security and AI

For every coherent and sufficiently expressive finite syntactic system S, we prove the existence of at least one theorem that S cannot produce autonomously. The result is a metatheorem: it proves the existence of a theorem, and applies to every finite syntactic system - security mechanisms, AI systems, formal verifiers...

Fabio F. G. Buono · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PatchBench: Evaluating AI Agents for Vulnerability Patching

A patch similarity metric is introduced to detect memorized patches and new patch validation methods are developed that thoroughly evaluate both security and semantic correctness of agent patches for vulnerability patching.

Chihao Shen, Jia-Cheng Li, Aastha Mahajan et al. · 0 citations

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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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