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  1. Advanced Topic Modeling Techniques for Categorizing Software Vulnerabilities

    Jul 4, 2026Utkarsh Tiwari, Spoorthi M, Anirudh S +1Vulnerability Detection & RepairTopic Modeling

  2. Beyond Static Rules: Automated Discovery of Latent Vulnerabilities in Text-to-SQL

    Jul 4, 2026Hanqing Wang, Yongdong Chi, Jian Yang +4Text-To-SqlVulnerability Detection & Repair

  3. FairFlow: Demystifying and Mitigating Stereotype Bias in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 3, 2026Chen Chen, Yuanmin Huang, Zhenfei Zhang +5Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformers

  4. JavaVulBench: A Java Vulnerability Benchmark with Realistic Splits, a Unified Multi-Backend Harness, and a Leakage-Aware Evaluation Mode

    Jul 2, 2026Norbert Sandor Szolnoki, Gabor AntalVulnerability Detection & RepairBenchmark Datasets

  5. Mastermind: Strategy-grounded Learning for Repository-Scale Vulnerability Reproduction

    Jul 2, 2026Mingzhe Du, Luu Anh Tuan, Tianyi Wu +4Vulnerability Detection & RepairAgentic Pipeline

  6. HARC: Coupling Harmfulness and Refusal Directions for Robust Safety Alignment

    Jul 1, 2026Shei Pern Chua, Hao Wu, Qianli Ma +1Safety AlignmentHarms

  7. Fixed-Set Robustness in Programming by Example: Example Corruption and Semantic Partition Recovery

    Jul 1, 2026Yuan Si, Jialu ZhangInput CorruptionsAdversarial Corruption

  8. A Lifecycle and Application-Stack Survey of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities: Attacks, Risks, Defenses, and Open Problems

    Jun 30, 2026Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi, Bo TangLarge Language Model SafetyVulnerability Detection & Repair

  9. CVE-TTP KG: Knowledge Graph Linking Software Vulnerabilities to Attack Behaviors

    Jun 30, 2026Swati Yadav, Dincy R. Arikkat, Basant Agarwal +3Cyber Threat IntelligenceVulnerability Detection & Repair

  10. Words Speak Louder Than Code: Investigating Cognitive Heuristics in LLM-Based Code Vulnerability Detection

    Jun 29, 2026Asif Shahriar, Hongyu Cai, Hadjer Benkraouda +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairCode Quality

  11. On the Vulnerability of Parameter-Level Defenses to Model Merging

    Jun 29, 2026Kuangpu Guo, Qingyan Zheng, Jian Liang +4Model-Agnostic DefenseModel Merging

  12. Explainability-Aware Frustum Attack: Exposing Structural Vulnerabilities in LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detectors

    Jun 29, 2026Chengzeng You, Binbin Xu, Soteris Demetriou3D Object DetectionBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

  13. Golden Hour Divide: Trauma Care Accessibility and Resource Vulnerability in Sri Lanka

    Jun 29, 2026Sonath Kirindage, Vihanga Nimsara, Sakindu Rajapaksa +6Sri LankaResilience

  14. Vulnerability of Natural Language Classifiers to Evolutionary Generated Adversarial Text

    Jun 25, 2026Manjinder Singh, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Mohamed ElawadyBlack-Box Adversarial AttacksGenerative Adversarial Network

  15. Inherited Circuits, Learned Semantics: How Fine-Tuning Creates Evasion Vulnerabilities Invisible to Standard Evaluation

    Jun 25, 2026Ryan FettermanVulnerability Detection & RepairEvasion

  16. Chai: Agentic Discovery of Cryptographic Misuse Vulnerabilities

    Jun 25, 2026Corban Villa, Sohee Kim, Austin Chu +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairBug

  17. CyberChainBench: Can AI Agents Secure Smart Contracts Against Real-World On-Chain Vulnerabilities?

    Jun 24, 2026Jintao Huang, Fengqing Jiang, Radha Poovendran +1Smart ContractsVulnerability Detection & Repair

  18. Helpful or Harmful? Evaluating LLM-Assisted Vulnerability Patching via a Human Study

    Jun 24, 2026Giulian Biolo, Michael Tezza, Yuanjun Gong +1Vulnerability Detection & RepairRemediation

  19. Reinforcement Learning for Software Vulnerability Analysis: A Systematic Review with Emphasis on C/C++ Source Code and Static Analysis

    Jun 24, 2026Bruno Caro-Vásquez, Carola Figueroa-Flores, Gastón MarquezVulnerability Detection & RepairSystematic Review

  20. Decoupling Reconnaissance and Exploitation: Measuring the Capability Boundaries of LLM-Based Web Penetration Testing

    Jun 24, 2026Liwei Yu, Shuo Li, Ming Zhou +2Penetration TestingVulnerability Detection & Repair

  21. Towards Robust Personalized Federated Learning: Vulnerability Assessment and Defense Co-Design

    Jun 22, 2026Mingyuan Fan, Cen ChenRobust Federated LearningPrivacy-Preserving Framework

  22. RAVEN: Agentic RAG for Automated Vulnerability Repair

    Jun 21, 2026Varun Gadey, Zijie Liu, Alexandra DmitrienkoVulnerability Detection & RepairRetrieval-Augmented Generation

  23. From CVE to CWE: Syscall-Based HIDS Generalisation

    Jun 21, 2026Alexander V. Kozachok, Stanislav G. Vyugov, Shamil G. MagomedovIntrusion DetectionVulnerability Detection & Repair

  24. Detecting and Understanding Vulnerabilities in Fully Homomorphic Encryption Frameworks

    Jun 21, 2026Yiteng Peng, Dongwei Xiao, Zhibo Liu +2Homomorphic EncryptionVulnerability Detection & Repair

  25. Revelio: Cost-Efficient Agentic Memory Safety Vulnerability Detection For Repository-Scale Codebases

    Jun 20, 2026Yiwei Hou, Hao Wang, Muxi Lyu +6Vulnerability Detection & RepairLarge Language Model Safety

  26. Safe to Check, Unsafe to Use: Relinking at the Compression Boundary of LLM Agents

    Jun 19, 2026Zesen Liu, Zihan Zhang, Dongdong SheVulnerability Detection & RepairLarge Language Model Agents

  27. Evaluating LLMs for Real-World Web Vulnerability Detection

    Jun 19, 2026Sebastian Neef, Luca Jungnickel, Antonio Benjamin Buchholz +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

  28. Local LLM Agents as Vulnerable Runtimes:A Source-Code Audit of the Agent Runtime Layer

    Jun 19, 2026Zhengsong Zhang, Zongze Li, Jiawei Guo +1Vulnerability Detection & RepairOpenclaw

  29. Calibration Without Comprehension: Diagnosing the Limits of Fine-Tuning LLMs for Vulnerability Detection in Systems Software

    Jun 18, 2026Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco VieiraVulnerability Detection & RepairLarge Language Model Safety

  30. FAPO: Fully Automated Prompt Optimization of Multi-Step LLM Pipelines

    Jun 17, 2026Paul Kassianik, Baturay Saglam, Huaibo Zhao +4Automatic Prompt OptimizationPrompt Optimization

  31. OpenAnt: LLM-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Through Code Decomposition, Adversarial Verification, and Dynamic Testing

    Jun 17, 2026Nahum Korda, Gadi EvronVulnerability Detection & RepairAdversarial Attack Strategies

  32. Lifecycle-Aware Dynamic Analysis for Secure ML Model Execution

    Jun 17, 2026Gabriele Digregorio, Marco Di Gennaro, Francesco Pastore +3Vulnerability Detection & RepairMachine Learning

  33. Code-Augur: Agentic Vulnerability Detection via Specification Inference

    Jun 17, 2026Zhengxiong Luo, Mehtab Zafar, Dylan Wolff +1Vulnerability Detection & RepairVulnerable Code

  34. MIRAGE: Stealthy Visual Prompt Injection for Vulnerability Detection in Web Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Xuelong Dai, Jianyu Ma, Boyang Ma +3Black-Box Adversarial AttacksWeb Agents

  35. The Consistency Dilemma in LLMs: Generator-Evaluator Agreement and Vulnerability to Mistakes

    Jun 16, 2026Marina Mancoridis, Zoë HitzigAgentic PipelineVulnerability Detection & Repair

  36. SoK: AI-Augmented Binary Reversing

    Jun 16, 2026Yujeong Kwon, Yiyue Zhang, Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev +3Reverse EngineeringBinary

  37. ARVO: Atlas of Reproducible Vulnerabilities for Open-Source Software

    Jun 15, 2026Xiang Mei, Jordi Del Castillo, Pulkit Singh Singaria +8Vulnerability Detection & RepairReproducibility

  38. Data-Centric Benchmarking of Exploit Generation in LLMs: Understanding the Impact of Fine-Tuning

    Jun 13, 2026Yiwei Chen, Lichi Li, Kai Cheung +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairExploitation

  39. From Shield to Target: Denial-of-Service Attacks on LLM-Based Agent Guardrails

    Jun 12, 2026Yuguang Zhou, Xunguang Wang, Pingchuan Ma +3Streaming GuardrailsLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

  40. SEVRA-BENCH: Social Engineering of Vulnerabilities in Review Agents

    Jun 11, 2026Rui Melo, Riccardo Fogliato, Sean Zhou +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairCode Quality

  41. ViPER: Vision-based Packing-Aware Encoder for Robust Malware Detection

    Jun 11, 2026Fatima Qaiser, Bisma Tahir, Muhammad Abid Mughal +1Malware ClassificationUnsupervised Detectors

  42. PI-Hunter: Automated Red-Teaming for Exposing and Localizing Prompt Injections

    Jun 10, 2026Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma +5Prompt Injection DetectionLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

  43. From Data Heterogeneity to Convergence: A Data-Centric Review of Federated Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Huong Nguyen, Mickaël Bettinelli, Amirhossein Ghaffari +4HeterogeneityOptimization Convergence Analysis

  44. Uncovering Vulnerability of Vision-Language-Action Models under Joint-Level Physical Faults

    Jun 9, 2026Minsoo Jo, Taeju Kwon, Junha Chun +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action

  45. Unveiling Privacy Risks in Multi-modal Large Language Models: Task-specific Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Challenges

    Jun 8, 2026Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2Large Multimodal ModelsLarge Language Model Safety

  46. Data Agents Under Attack: Vulnerabilities in LLM-Driven Analytical Systems

    Jun 7, 2026Kuncan Wang, Ziting Wang, Peizhuo Lv +4Vulnerability Detection & RepairData Science Agents

  47. AI Code Sandboxes: A Comparative Security Study. Part 1 of 2 -- Engine-Level Properties (Attack Surface, Leakage, Stackability, CVE History, Patch Cadence, Fuzzing)

    Jun 7, 2026George Andronchik, Pavel LokhmakovVulnerability Detection & RepairFuzzing

  48. VATS: Exploiting Implicit Authority in Error-Path Injection via Systematic Mutation

    Jun 6, 2026Harshil Patel, Kunal PaiInjection AttacksVulnerability Detection & Repair

  49. AttackPathGNN: Cross-function vulnerability detection in smart contracts using state interference graphs and conjunction pooling

    Jun 4, 2026Gabriela Dobrita, Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela BaraSmart ContractsVulnerability Detection & Repair

  50. Safety Paradox: How Enhanced Safety Awareness Leaves LLMs Vulnerable to Posterior Attack

    Jun 4, 2026Long P. Hoang, Hai V. Le, Shaoyang Xu +2Large Language Model SafetySafety Alignment

  51. SlotGCG: Exploiting the Positional Vulnerability in LLMs for Jailbreak Attacks

    Jun 4, 2026Seungwon Jeong, Jiwoo Jeong, Hyeonjin Kim +2Large Language Model JailbreaksJailbreaks

  52. Willing but Unable: Separating Refusal from Capability in Code LLMs via Abliteration

    Jun 3, 2026Cristina Carleo, Pietro Liguori, Naghmeh Ivaki +1Vulnerable CodeVulnerability Detection & Repair

  53. Revisiting Vul-RAG: Reproducibility and Replicability of RAG-based Vulnerability Detection with Open-Weight Models

    Jun 3, 2026Sabrina Kaniewski, Fabian Schmidt, Tobias HeerVulnerability Detection & RepairReproducibility

  54. CyberGym-E2E: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities

    Jun 3, 2026Tianneng Shi, Robin Rheem, Dongwei Jiang +13CybersecurityVulnerability Detection & Repair

  55. What If Prompt Injection Never Left? Exploring Cross-Session Stored Prompt Injection in Agentic Systems

    Jun 3, 2026Yuanbo Xie, Tianyun Liu, Yingjie Zhang +4PersistenceAgentic AI Systems

  56. AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

    Jun 2, 2026Jonas Guan, Tom Blanchard, Hanna Foerster +3Artificial Intelligence AgentsAdversarial Attack Strategies

  57. FORGE: Multi-Agent Graduated Exploitation and Detection Engineering

    Jun 2, 2026Farooq ShaikhVulnerability Detection & RepairExploitation

  58. Decoupled Smart Contract Audits: Lightweight LLM Framework via Distillation and Aggregation

    Jun 2, 2026Bagus Rakadyanto Oktavianto Putra, Muhamad Risqi Utama Saputra, Widyawan +1Smart ContractsLarge Language Model Safety

  59. Needles at Scale: LLM-Assisted Target Selection for Windows Vulnerability Research

    May 31, 2026Michael J. BommaritoVulnerability Detection & RepairAttack Surface

  60. DiscourseFlip: An Oblique Discourse-Level Opinion Manipulation Attack against Black-box Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    May 31, 2026Yuyang Gong, Miaokun Chen, Jiawei Liu +5Retrieval-Augmented GenerationDiscourse