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Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents
May 11, 2026Rong Shan, Te Gao, Hang Zheng +6Scholarly Peer Review AI Agent Security
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Central South University · Carnegie Mellon University
Skill Description Deception Attack against Task Routing in Internet of Agents
May 11, 2026Jiayi He, Xiaofeng Luo, Jiawen Kang +3Adversarial Attacks AI Agent Security
School of Automation Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou, China · College of Computing and Data Science Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore · The State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data Guizhou University Guiyang, China +1
Oracle Poisoning: Corrupting Knowledge Graphs to Weaponise AI Agent Reasoning
May 10, 2026Ben Kereopa-Yorke, Guillermo Diaz, Holly Wright +3AI Agent Security LLM Agent Security
1Microsoft · 2UNSW Canberra · 3SAP +1
Portable Agent Memory: A Protocol for Cryptographically-Verified Memory Transfer Across Heterogeneous AI Agents
May 10, 2026Santhosh Kumar RavindranAgent Memory Persistent Memory for Language Models
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
Security Risks in Tool-Enabled AI Agents: A Systematic Analysis of Privileged Execution Environments
May 10, 2026Hardik GoelAI Agent Security Tool-Using Agents
Microsoft Corporation, USA
Restricting the Model, Missing the System: Measurement and Accountability in Offensive AI Governance
May 10, 2026Michael Alexander Riegler, Finn Schwall, Annika Willoch Olstad +4AI Agent Security AI Safety Evaluation
AI Safety Department SimulaMet and OsloMet Oslo, Norway · Department of Computer Science NTNU Trondheim, Norway
Don't Click That: Teaching Web Agents to Resist Deceptive Interfaces
May 10, 2026Yilin Zhang, Yingkai Hua, Chunyu Wei +2Adversarial Robustness AI Agent Security
Renmin University of China · Ant Digital Technologies, Ant Group
The Authorization-Execution Gap Is a Major Safety and Security Problem in Open-World Agents
May 10, 2026Baoyuan Wu, Qingshan Liu, Adel Bibi +2Agent Failure Analysis AI Agent Security
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · University of Oxford, UK +2
Agent Collectives Should Not Detect Their Own Imposters: A Chess Case Study
May 9, 2026Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas DemeesterAI Agent Security AI Agent Security Benchmarks
IDLab–T2K, Ghent University–imec
PAAC: Privacy-Aware Agentic Device-Cloud Collaboration
May 9, 2026Liangqi Yuan, Wenzhi Fang, Shiqiang Wang +1Privacy-Preserving Language Models AI Agent Security
1Purdue University · University of Exeter
Defense effectiveness across architectural layers: a mechanistic evaluation of persistent memory attacks on stateful LLM agents
May 8, 2026Jun Wen LeongLanguage Model Safety Evaluation AI Agent Security
OrchJail: Jailbreaking Tool-Calling Text-to-Image Agents by Orchestration-Guided Fuzzing
May 8, 2026Jianming Chen, Yawen Wang, Junjie Wang +3Adversarial Prompt Generation T2I Generation
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Science & Technology on Integrated Information System Laboratory, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Complex System Modeling and Simulation Technology, Beijing, China +1
Securing Computer-Use Agents: A Unified Architecture-Lifecycle Framework for Deployment-Grounded Reliability
May 8, 2026Zejian Chen, Zhanyuan Liu, Chaozhuo Li +6Agent Reliability Computer-Use Agents
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · China Unicom, Beijing, China · China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Artificial Intelligence Institute, Beijing, China
TeamBench: Evaluating Agent Coordination under Enforced Role Separation
May 8, 2026Yubin Kim, Chanwoo Park, Taehan Kim +9Multi-Agent Coordination LLM Agent Evaluation
MIT · Google Research · Independent Researcher +1
Agentic AI and the Industrialization of Cyber Offense: Forecast, Consequences, and Defensive Priorities for Enterprises and the Mittelstand
May 6, 2026Christopher KochAI Risk Management Cybersecurity
Independent Researcher
Securing the Agent: Vendor-Neutral, Multitenant Enterprise Retrieval and Tool Use
May 6, 2026Francisco Javier Arceo, Varsha Prasad NarsingLLM Agent Orchestration AI Agent Security
Red Hat AI · Boston, USA
DecodingTrust-Agent Platform (DTap): A Controllable and Interactive Red-Teaming Platform for AI Agents
May 6, 2026Zhaorun Chen, Xun Liu, Haibo Tong +14AI Agent Evaluation AI Agent Security
Virtue AI · University of Chicago · University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign +4
AgentTrust: Runtime Safety Evaluation and Interception for AI Agent Tool Use
May 6, 2026Chenglin YangAI Agent Security AI Agent Security Benchmarks
Independent Researcher
Redefining AI Red Teaming in the Agentic Era: From Weeks to Hours
May 5, 2026Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda, Will Pearce, Nick LandersAdversarial Attacks on LLMs LLM Red Teaming
1Dreadnode, USA
TRAP: Tail-aware Ranking Attack for World-Model Planning
May 3, 2026Siyuan Duan, Ke Zhang, Xizhao LuoBackdoor Attacks World Model-Based Planning
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University Suzhou, China
Architectural Obsolescence of Unhardened Agentic-AI Runtimes
May 3, 2026Alfredo MetereAI Agent Security AI Agent Security Benchmarks
Metere Consulting, LLC.
A Low-Latency Fraud Detection Layer for Detecting Adversarial Interaction Patterns in LLM-Powered Agents
May 1, 2026Sheldon Yu, Yingcheng Sun, Hanqing Guo +1AI Agent Security LLM Agent Security
University of California, San Diego · UNC at Greensboro · Indiana University Bloomington
Skills as Verifiable Artifacts: A Trust Schema and a Biconditional Correctness Criterion for Human-in-the-Loop Agent Runtimes
May 1, 2026Alfredo MetereAI Agent Security LLM Agent Verification
Enclawed, LLC, California, USA
AgentReputation: A Decentralized Agentic AI Reputation Framework
Apr 30, 2026Mohd Sameen Chishti, Damilare Peter Oyinloye, Jingyue LiAI Accountability AI Agent Security
Department of Computer Science NTNU Trondheim, Norway
Security Attack and Defense Strategies for Autonomous Agent Frameworks: A Layered Review with OpenClaw as a Case Study
Apr 30, 2026Luyao Xu, Xiang ChenAI Agent Security LLM Agent Security
School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China · State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Ambient Persuasion in a Deployed AI Agent: Unauthorized Escalation Following Routine Non-Adversarial Content Exposure
Apr 29, 2026Diego F. Cuadros, Abdoul-Aziz MaigaAgent Failure Analysis AI Agent Security
Digital Epidemiology Laboratory, Digital Futures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA · Center for Humanities and Technology (CHaT), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA · Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Agent Name Service (ANS): A Proof-of-Concept Trust Layer for Secure AI Agent Discovery, Identity, and Governance in Kubernetes
Apr 29, 2026Akshay Mittal, Elyson De La CruzAI Agent Security AI Agent Governance
Department of Information Technology University of the Cumberlands Williamsburg, KY, USA
From CRUD to Autonomous Agents: Formal Validation and Zero-Trust Security for Semantic Gateways in AI-Native Enterprise Systems
Apr 28, 2026Ignacio PeyranoCybersecurity AI Agent Security
Universidad Austral Rosario, Argentina
Structured Security Auditing and Robustness Enhancement for Untrusted Agent Skills
Apr 28, 2026Lijia Lv, Xuehai Tang, Jie Wen +2AI Agent Auditing AI Agent Security
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
AgentWard: A Lifecycle Security Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents
Apr 27, 2026Yixiang Zhang, Xinhao Deng, Jiaqing Wu +3AI Agent Security LLM Agent Security

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Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents

Rong Shan, Te Gao, Hang Zheng, Yunjia Xi+5

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Central South University · Carnegie Mellon University

Scholarly Peer Review AI Agent Security AI Agent Governance

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The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerability. This position paper characterizes a new systemic threat we term Agentic Denominator Gaming, in which a malicious actor deploys AI agents to generate and submit a large volume of superficially plausible but low-quality papers. Crucially, their objective is not the acceptance of low-quality papers, but rather to inflate the submission denominator and overwhelm reviewing capacity. Under a relatively stable acceptance rate, this dilution can systematically increase the publication probability of a small, targeted set of legitimate papers. We analyze the practical feasibility of this threat and its broader consequences, including intensified reviewer burnout, degraded review quality, and the emergence of industrialized automated agent mills. Finally, we propose and evaluate a range of mitigation strategies, and argue that durable protection will require system-level policy and incentive reforms, rather than relying primarily on technical detection alone.

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