arXiv:2606. 09499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data or simulating real world environments, with many works proposing their integration into the robot learning pipeline.
By Ethan Rathbun, Ahmed Agha, Saaduddin Mahmud, Christopher Amato, Alina Oprea, Eugene Bagdasarian
arXiv:2607. 23147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models now power autonomous agents capable of complex, multi-step tasks in different environments.
By Erik Imgrund, Anna Wimbauer, Klim Kireev, Konrad Rieck
arXiv:2607. 05120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents act on behalf of user prompts, consuming external data and taking actions based on the agent context.
By Woohyuk Choi, Juhee Kim, Taehyun Kang, Jihyeon Jeong, Luyi Xing, Byoungyoung Lee
arXiv:2606. 12737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into agentic systems that interact with external tools and environments, introducing new security risks such as indirect prompt injection attacks through untrusted external sources.
By Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma, Ash Fox, George Lee, Jiliang Tang, Tomas Pfister, Long T. Le
arXiv:2508.14925v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a...
By Zhiqiang Wang, Yichao Gao, Yanting Wang, Suyuan Liu, Haifeng Sun, Haoran Cheng, Guanquan Shi, Haohua Du, Xiangyang Li
arXiv:2508. 16481v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safe use of agentic systems requires a thorough understanding of the range of malicious behaviors these systems may exhibit.
By Jonathan N\"other, Adish Singla, Goran Radanovic
The paper introduces a black-box framework for evaluating agentic AI systems, focusing on multi-step vulnerabilities that standard single-turn tests miss. It presents a seven-domain taxonomy linking observable behaviors to risk categories, an automated SAGE-RT red-teaming process generating 120 adversarial scenarios per domain, and a human-validated evaluation using LLM judges. Empirical tests on CrewAI and AutoGen agents show significant governance, privacy, and behavior risks, demonstrating the framework’s ability to uncover critical architectural weaknesses without privileged access.
By Divyanshu Kumar, Nitin Aravind Birur, Tanay Baswa, Sahil Agarwal, Prashanth Harshangi
arXiv:2606. 13385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they operate over untrusted web content and execute actions with direct consequences.
By Zihao Wang, Yiming Li, Yutong Wu, Zheyu Liu, Kangjie Chen, Fok Kar Wai, Pin-Yu Chen, Vrizlynn L. L. Thing, Bo Li, Dacheng Tao, Tianwei Zhang
arXiv:2607. 20759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents powered by LLMs are increasingly integrated into real-world software development, where they generate, edit, and execute code with autonomous access to local files and tools.
By Ankur Singh, Jinqiu Yang, Tse-Hsun Chen
The paper reports a new attack surface in AI agent harnesses: lifecycle hooks that bind shell commands to runtime events. By updating only the hook configuration, an attacker can silently inject malicious commands into a benign plugin, enabling host‑side attacks such as privilege escalation. The authors present HookPry, an automated framework that demonstrates this vulnerability across 25 harness‑backend combinations, compromising all evaluated harnesses with high success rates.
By Pengxun Li, Litian Zhang, Jianwei Hou, Shujiang Wu, Song Li, Zifeng Kang, Xi Zhang
arXiv:2607. 29254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) with external tools, enabling them to perform complex tasks and translate model outputs into consequential real-world actions.
By Minghui Pan, Jiayuxuan Yang, Yuanyuan Yuan, Yu Jiang, Zhenpeng Chen
arXiv:2608. 12962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables organizations holding complementary features of shared entities to collaborate and train models.
By Ziqi Zhao, Jialin Lu, Junjie Shan, Junyuan Zhang, Shuya Yang, Ka-Ho Chow