arXiv:2607. 25425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions are among cybersecurity's most effective training grounds, developing practical skill across cryptography, web exploitation, and binary exploitation.
By Michael Macaulay, Harmony Bouabid, Guo Gen Ang, Sasha Shaw
arXiv:2607. 25136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research on preference optimization often varies the training objective while holding the data fixed.
By Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen, Jiayi Cheng, Chenqian Le, Michael Yue, Siheng Wang, Haoyan Xu, Yuqi Li, Chenhao Wei, Zhengdao Li, Rongchao Zhang, Guang Yang, Yidong Wang, Junhao Dong
arXiv:2607. 25624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Positive quadratic networks admit the low-rank representation f_U(x)=x^top UU^top x, where Uinmathbb{R}^{dtimes r} is identifiable only up to right orthogonal multiplication, representing a rank-r PSD matrix Q=UU^top.
By Pengcheng Cheng
arXiv:2607. 25152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running autonomous agents plan, act, and judge their own completion without human intervention.
By Hyundoo Park, Byungho Choi
arXiv:2607. 24758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are capable of recognizing evaluation contexts and altering their behavior to reflect evaluator expectations rather than typical deployment behaviors, a phenomenon known as alignment faking.
By Cole Alexander Niblett, Alexander Chabot Nanni, Anita K. Rao
arXiv:2607. 25485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Health AI is evolving from answering questions to agentic systems that converse with patients, reason about health records, and act on their behalf.
By Korosh Vatanparvar, Ashutosh Joshi, Maria Xenochristou, Mohammad Abuzar Hashemi, Prasad Kasu, Deepak Bansal, Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Anchal Nema, Ramya Ganesan, Will Kimbrough, Alex Woody, Yadunandana Rao, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf
arXiv:2607. 24893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems can be attacked by a payload that no single agent ever holds in full: a poisoned tool hides encrypted fragments in its observations, spreads them across several agents, and an external step reassembles and executes them after the run.
By Diego Fernandez Arias, Dev Prashant Mistry, Ren Wang, Yibo Hu
arXiv:2605. 04330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the scaling properties of implicit deductive reasoning over Horn clauses in depth-bounded Transformers.
By Enrico Vompa, Tanel Tammet
arXiv:2607. 25926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face de-identification (De-ID) aims to remove or conceal personally identifiable facial features in images or videos to prevent identity recognition while preserving utility for downstream tasks.
By Hui Wei, Hao Yu, Guoying Zhao
arXiv:2603. 27628v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In dynamic flexible job shops, order arrivals, machine breakdowns, and processing-time deviations continually reshape the scheduling state and the priority trade-offs behind dispatching decisions.
By XinLei Zhou, Jin Huang, Jie Yang, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao
arXiv:2506. 21571v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), which autonomously produce a reasoning Chain of Thought (CoT) before producing final responses, offer a promising approach to interpreting and monitoring model behaviors.
By Jianshuo Dong, Yujia Fu, Chuanrui Hu, Chao Zhang, Han Qiu
arXiv:2607. 25283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ContractHIL-HLS, a contract-aligned multi-agent workflow for practical high-level synthesis (HLS) engineering.
By Jingbo Zhang, Haoxiang Sun, Wenbo Wang, Wenbo Zhang
arXiv:2607. 25626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding speech information directly from scalp electroencephalography (EEG) into text provides a potential non-invasive neural communication pathway for individuals with severe speech and motor impairments.
By Tian Zheng, Xurong Xie, Xinxin Zhu, Xiaolan Peng, Feng Tian
arXiv:2607. 25479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision--Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed through a model supply chain in which pretrained checkpoints, architecture definitions, text encoders, and exported computation graphs are distributed by third parties and reused across downstream services.
By Maria Rosaria Briglia, Igor Maljkovic, Antonio Emanuele Cin\`a, Luca Oneto, Iacopo Masi, Fabio Roli
arXiv:2607. 25907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering controls model behavior by editing internal activations at inference time.
By Deepanshu Mody, Samarth Agarwal, Utkarsh Mittal, Dipesh Mahato
arXiv:2607. 24845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to sequential recommendation by formulating it as a natural language task.
By Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar, Pranab Mohanty, Kalanand Mishra, Kalanand Mishra
arXiv:2607. 25364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents expose structured calls but commonly attach free-form rationales.
By Genliang Zhu (Accentrust, Georgia Institute of Technology), Chu Wang (Accentrust, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
arXiv:2607. 25887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper explores the effectiveness of domain adaptation techniques when using convolutional neural network (CNN)-based and transformer-based feature representations for acoustic scene classification.
By Abhishek dileep, Shubham Sharma, Padmanabhan Rajan
arXiv:2607. 25297v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of large language model (LLM) agents has enabled their broad adoption across diverse real-world tasks.
By Ping He, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li, Shouling Ji
arXiv:2607. 24779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online advertising bidding systems typically deploy multiple offline-trained expert models (e.
By Ji Wu, Yunshan Peng, Wentao Bai, Yunke Bai, Wenzheng Shu, Jinan Pang, Yanxiang Zeng, Xialong Liu