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most citedTree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically

24 citations · 24 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 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

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.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.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…