arXiv:2606. 07054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents can pursue hidden malicious objectives through sequences of individually benign actions, making sabotage difficult to detect using standard trajectory-level monitoring.
By Vijitha Mittapalli, Shreyaa Jayant Dani, Satya Srujana Pilli, Snigdha Ansu, Mohammadreza Teymoorianfard, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed
arXiv:2602. 16346v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents execute real-world workflows via tools and memory.
By Nivya Talokar, Ayush K Tarun, Murari Mandal, Maksym Andriushchenko, Antoine Bosselut
arXiv:2605. 01143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents demonstrate strong capabilities in autonomous task execution, tool use, and multi-step reasoning.
By Sheldon Yu, Yingcheng Sun, Hanqing Guo, Qianqian Tong
The paper introduces Attnlocate, a runtime framework that localizes behavior‑guiding instructions within the attention matrix of large language model agents. By treating this localization as an object detection task, Attnlocate uses a multi‑head, multi‑layer attention aggregation scheme and a 1‑D U‑Net to identify spans that influence tool‑calling decisions. The system then adjudicates potential malicious invocations based on the authority of the source, achieving high detection metrics across diverse LLM families and demonstrating transferability to unseen models.
By Yichao Gao, Yumo Zhang, Yunhao Yao, Haohua Du, Puhan Luo, Ruiqi Li, Zhiqiang Wang
arXiv:2603. 19423v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools (file operations, API calls, database transactions) to autonomously complete complex multi-step tasks.
By Shawn Li, Yue Zhao
arXiv:2606. 11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI control protocols oversee untrusted models by monitoring their actions and modifying potentially unsafe steps, often using a trusted model.
By Joachim Schaeffer, Thomas Jiralerspong, Alexander Panfilov, Guillaume Lajoie, Jonas Geiping, Yoshua Bengio, Roland S. Zimmermann