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most citedTree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically

24 citations · 43 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

Beyond Success Rate: Cost-Aware Evaluation of Offensive and Defensive Security Agents

Paul Kassianik, Blaine Nelson, Yaron Singer

Security-agent evaluations commonly measure peak offensive capability under generous inference budgets, emphasizing vulnerability discovery, exploit development, penetration testin…

cs.SE2026

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

Paul Kassianik, Baturay Saglam, Huaibo Zhao +4

Multi-step LLM pipelines fail through interactions among retrieval, reasoning, and formatting steps, so prompt-only optimization can miss bottlenecks in the chain. We present Fully…

cs.AI2026

Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-Reasoning-8B Technical Report

Zhuoran Yang, Ed Li, Jianliang He +18

We present Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning, the first open-source native reasoning model for cybersecurity. Built upon our previously released Foundation-Sec-8B base model (derived fro…

cs.CR2025

A Framework for Rapidly Developing and Deploying Protection Against Large Language Model Attacks

Adam Swanda, Amy Chang, Alexander Chen +3

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI deployment, enabling autonomous and semi-autonomous applications across industries through intuitive l…

cs.CR2025

Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-8B-Instruct Technical Report

Sajana Weerawardhena, Paul Kassianik, Blaine Nelson +14

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success across many domains, yet their integration into cybersecurity applications remains limited due to a lack of general-purpo…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Models Encode Semantics and Alignment in Linearly Separable Representations

Baturay Saglam, Paul Kassianik, Blaine Nelson +3

Understanding the latent space geometry of large language models (LLMs) is key to interpreting their behavior and improving alignment. Yet it remains unclear to what extent LLMs li…

cs.AI2025

Capability-Based Scaling Trends for LLM-Based Red-Teaming

Alexander Panfilov, Paul Kassianik, Maksym Andriushchenko +1

As large language models grow in capability and agency, identifying vulnerabilities through red-teaming becomes vital for safe deployment. However, traditional prompt-engineering a…

cs.CR2025

Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-Base-8B Technical Report

Paul Kassianik, Baturay Saglam, Alexander Chen +15

As transformer-based large language models (LLMs) increasingly permeate society, they have revolutionized domains such as software engineering, creative writing, and digital arts.…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Reasoning at Jailbreaking Time

Mahdi Sabbaghi, Paul Kassianik, George Pappas +3

As large language models (LLMs) are becoming more capable and widespread, the study of their failure cases is becoming increasingly important. Recent advances in standardizing, mea…

cs.LG2024

Extracting Memorized Training Data via Decomposition

Ellen Su, Anu Vellore, Amy Chang +4

The widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in society creates new information security challenges for developers, organizations, and end-users alike. LLMs are trained on la…

cs.LG2023★ 24 cited

Tree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically

Anay Mehrotra, Manolis Zampetakis, Paul Kassianik +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) display versatile functionality, they continue to generate harmful, biased, and toxic content, as demonstrated by the prevalence of human-designe…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

BigIssue: A Realistic Bug Localization Benchmark

Paul Kassianik, Erik Nijkamp, Bo Pang +2

As machine learning tools progress, the inevitable question arises: How can machine learning help us write better code? With significant progress being achieved in natural language…

cs.LG2021★ 18 cited

Merlion: A Machine Learning Library for Time Series

Aadyot Bhatnagar, Paul Kassianik, Chenghao Liu +20

We introduce Merlion, an open-source machine learning library for time series. It features a unified interface for many commonly used models and datasets for anomaly detection and…