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most citedLarge Language Models for Code: Security Hardening and Adversarial Testing

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cs.SE2026

TestSuiteBench: Coding Agents Struggle to Generate Strong Test Suites from Specifications

Kazuki Egashira, Niels Mündler-Sasahara, Mark Niklas Müller +1

Coding agents are increasingly used to create large software projects. While code-generation benchmarks have scaled accordingly to full applications, test-generation benchmarks rem…

cs.CR2026

AutoMark: Enabling Autoresearch to Discover Better LLM Watermarks

Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev

With LLM watermarking being deployed commercially and now required by regulations, improving its reliability and effectiveness has become crucial. Yet, recent progress in the field…

cs.LG2026

Leveraging Instruction Tuning and Merging for Reasoning Model Adaptation

Yu-Du Feng, Niels Mündler-Sasahara, Mark Vero +1

Reasoning language models (RLMs) demonstrate impressive performance by leveraging test-time compute in the form of reasoning tokens. However, this behavior makes adapting RLMs to n…

cs.PL2026

Generative Compilation: On-the-Fly Compiler Feedback as AI Generates Code

Niels Mündler-Sasahara, Hristo Venev, Dawn Song +2

Languages with rich static semantics, such as Rust, provide stronger guarantees for AI-generated code, but their strictness makes generation more difficult. Off-the-shelf compilers…

cs.AI2026

Marking the Wrong Symptoms: Evaluating LLM Watermarks in Medical Texts

Melanie Rieff, Robin Staab, Thibaud Gloaguen +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into clinical workflows, stressing the need for reliable traceability of model-generated output with watermarking. Yet, mos…

cs.CL2026

Making Open-Source Text LLM Watermarks Durable Against Merging

Luisa Scharff, Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab +1

Open-source LLMs (OSMs)arereaching near state-of-the-art performance, prompting prior works to trace the text they generate by embedding text watermarking algorithms directly into…

cs.CL2026

Not All Proofs Are Equal: Evaluating LLM Proof Quality Beyond Correctness

Ivo Petrov, Jasper Dekoninck, Dimitar I. Dimitrov +1

Large language models (LLMs) have become capable mathematical problem-solvers, often producing correct proofs for challenging problems. However, correctness alone is not sufficient…

cs.CL2026

Optimizing the Cost-Quality Tradeoff of Agentic Theorem Provers in Lean

Kári Rögnvaldsson, Chenhao Sun, Jasper Dekoninck +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in workflows for generating formal proofs in Lean. These workflows often decompose problems into smaller lemmas, sample many proo…

cs.CR2026

TIGER: Inverting Transformer Gradients via Embedding-Subspace Distance Optimization

William Kalikman, Ivo Petrov, Dimitar I. Dimitrov +1

Federated learning allows multiple clients to jointly train a shared model by sending gradient updates to a central server while keeping raw inputs local. However, prior gradient i…

cs.LG2026

Widening the Gap: Exploiting LLM Quantization via Outlier Injection

Xiaohua Zhan, Kazuki Egashira, Robin Staab +2

LLM quantization has become essential for memory-efficient deployment. Recent work has shown that quantization schemes can pose critical security risks: an adversary may release a…

cs.IR2026

SABER-Math: Automated Benchmark for Information Retrieval Evaluation in Mathematics

Nikolay Georgiev, Maria Drencheva, Kseniia Ibragimova +3

As agentic AI systems tackle more complex mathematical tasks, they increasingly rely on information retrieval (IR) to search problem databases, theorem libraries, and educational r…

cs.CL2026

Learning from Saturated Data: Signals Beyond Correctness for LLM Training

Hanno Hiss, Jasper Dekoninck, Martin Vechev

The growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have led to the saturation of many benchmarks and training datasets used to improve them. Motivated by this, we investigate…

cs.CR2026

Honeyval: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for LLM-powered HTTP Honeypots

Mark Vero, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Ivan Petrov +6

Honeypots are decoy systems mimicking real system components designed to defend against cyber attacks. Recently, LLMs increasingly serve as simulation backbones for honeypots. They…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Benchmarks: MathArena as an Evaluation Platform for Mathematics with LLMs

Jasper Dekoninck, Nikola Jovanović, Tim Gehrunger +4

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable mathematical collaborators, but static benchmarks are no longer sufficient for evaluating progress: they are often na…

cs.CR2026

Every Bit, Everywhere, All at Once: A Binomial Multibit LLM Watermark

Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Mark Vero +1

With LLM watermarking already being deployed commercially, practical applications increasingly require multibit watermarks that encode more complex payloads, such as user IDs or ti…

cs.SE2026

Coding Agents Don't Know When to Act

Thibaud Gloaguen, Niels Mündler, Mark Müller +2

Coding agents are increasingly deployed to autonomously maintain software, including to resolve user-reported issues: a bug report comes in and the agent creates a patch to address…

cs.LG2026

Delay, Plateau, or Collapse: Evaluating the Impact of Systematic Verification Error on RLVR

Kazuki Egashira, Mark Vero, Jasper Dekoninck +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a powerful approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While RLVR is designe…

cs.CR2026

SecPI: Secure Code Generation with Reasoning Models via Security Reasoning Internalization

Hao Wang, Niels Mündler, Mark Vero +3

Reasoning language models (RLMs) are increasingly used in programming. Yet, even state-of-the-art RLMs frequently introduce critical security vulnerabilities in generated code. Pri…

cs.SE2026

CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?

Alex Thillen, Niels Mündler, Veselin Raychev +1

LLM coding agents can generate working code, but their solutions often accumulate complexity, duplication, and architectural debt. Human developers address such issues through refa…

cs.CL2026

Recovered in Translation: Efficient Pipeline for Automated Translation of Benchmarks and Datasets

Hanna Yukhymenko, Anton Alexandrov, Martin Vechev

The reliability of multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) evaluation is currently compromised by the inconsistent quality of translated benchmarks. Existing resources often suffer…

cs.CR2026

A Unified Framework for LLM Watermarks

Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanović +1

LLM watermarks allow tracing AI-generated texts by inserting a detectable signal into their generated content. Recent works have proposed a wide range of watermarking algorithms, e…

cs.SE2026

Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?

Thibaud Gloaguen, Niels Mündler-Sasahara, Niels Mündler +4

A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md. Although this practice is strongly encouraged by ag…

cs.AI2026

Learning Compact Boolean Networks

Shengpu Wang, Yuhao Mao, Yani Zhang +1

Floating-point neural networks dominate modern machine learning but incur substantial inference costs, motivating emerging interest in Boolean networks for resource-constrained dep…

cs.CR2025

AutoBaxBuilder: Bootstrapping Code Security Benchmarking

Tobias von Arx, Niels Mündler, Mark Vero +2

As large language models (LLMs) see wide adoption in software engineering, the reliable assessment of the correctness and security of LLM-generated code is crucial. Notably, prior…