arXiv Machine Learning By Gregory N Frank

Counter-Swarm Doctrine: Containing Coordinated Agent Intrusions

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The paper discusses how agents can exploit shared infrastructure for coordinated intrusion, citing the Hugging Face incident and a public‑wiki investigation as examples. It proposes that defense should focus on revisable coordination episodes—linking observed data transfers, task authority, and response history—to detect coordinated actions before they are fully formed. The authors outline a prospective episode discovery framework, define unsanctioned coordination, and suggest an evaluation comparing isolated actions, rolling windows, known groups, and prospectively discovered episodes, measuring harmful outcomes and recurrence after channel closure.

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