arXiv AI

CrackedPDFs: A Controlled Benchmark for Hidden Prompt Injection in PDFs

arXiv:2607. 19396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Document-based LLM systems often flatten a PDF before guardrails inspect it.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

TriShieldRAG: 3 Rings, One Blind Spot in Layered Defenses for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

TriShieldRAG introduces a three‑layered defense for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation: an Ingest Guard that screens documents, a Retrieval Scorer that re‑ranks based on trust, and a Cross‑LLM Consensus that validates evidence across three models. Against the original PoisonedRAG attack on the 2.68M‑passage Natural Questions corpus, the framework reduces attack success from about 79% to 1%. However, adaptive attacks that only alter document formatting can bypass the Ingest Guard and still achieve high success rates, revealing limits of layered defenses that rely on the same retrieved evidence.

By Susil Kumar Mohanty, Rohit Patel, Kosuru Yuvaraj, Jeenal Chaudhary, Disha Singhania
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

What Does 99% Accuracy Measure? A Reproducible Audit of Shortcut Learning in a Widely Used Fake News Corpus

The paper audits the widely used ISOT/Kaggle Fake and Real News corpus and finds that extremely high reported accuracies (≈0.98) are largely due to shortcut signals rather than genuine veracity detection. A simple TF‑IDF linear classifier achieves perfect F1 when using only subject metadata, and even after removing metadata, newswire tags, and duplicate documents, the F1 drops only modestly, indicating that editorial style rather than specific tokens drives performance. Under topic‑disjoint and temporal transfer tests, performance collapses, and models transfer poorly to the independent LIAR benchmark, showing that within‑corpus scores reflect source and topic separability, not truth verification. whyItMatters:"The study demonstrates that current high accuracy metrics on this fake‑news dataset are misleading, highlighting the need for more robust evaluation protocols that guard against shortcut learning."

By Yuvraj Verma
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Beyond F1: Evaluating Coverage and Failure Recovery in AI Model Security Scanners

The paper evaluates three AI model security scanners—ModelScan, ModelAudit, and Fickling—using a benchmark of 170 Pickle and PyTorch artifacts from 145 families, 135 of which have binary security labels. It distinguishes coverage metrics such as non‑N/A coverage, analysis completion, and definitive security decisions, finding that ModelAudit achieved 100% definitive decisions, Fickling 81.5%, and ModelScan 49.6%. When a definitive judgment was made, ModelScan reached perfect precision, recall, and F1, while Fickling added no unique true positives beyond those found by the other tools.

By Qianlong Lan, Vinothini Pandurangan, Anuj Kaul, Indranil Sanyal
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Ranked by the Matcher: A Reproducibility Audit of Knowledge Graph Extraction from Threat Reports

The paper audits the reproducibility of knowledge‑graph extraction from threat reports by re‑implementing matching rules for only five of twelve systems and re‑scoring ten system outputs under eight protocols. The audit shows that different matching protocols can reverse most pairwise system rankings and that a fixed prediction set can vary from 0.16 to 0.70 F1. The authors also build CTIForge to isolate validation effects, finding that validation changes precision across backbones and increases entity‑type disputes, and they release the full pipeline, protocol suite, and audit records.

By Safayat Bin Hakim, Houbing Herbert Song
arXiv AI
Sep 10

AtomCite: Verification and Correction of Supplied Page-Level Citations in Multi-Page Documents

AtomCite is an agentic framework that verifies and corrects page‑level citations in multi‑page documents by parsing answers into claims, checking each claim against the cited page image, and applying a deterministic repair policy. The authors introduce DocCite, the first benchmark for this task, built on MP‑DocVQA and DUDE, containing 928 injected instances and 1,909 verified natural errors. Across Gemini, Claude, and GPT models, AtomCite achieves about 93% verification accuracy and improves citation precision from 34% to 87‑90%, while also enhancing hallucination detection in open‑source models.

By Chen Qian, Yimeng Wang, Yu Chen, Lingfei Wu, Andreas Stathopoulos