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20242026
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12 papers

cs.CR2026

SkillShield: Prompt-Space Security Skills for LLM Coding Agents

Xiaodong Wu, Zhimin Zhao, Qi Li +4

A coding agent edits files and executes shell commands with its developer's privileges, allowing malicious requests to translate directly into harmful actions or functional malware…

cs.CR2026

EVOMAL: Self-Poisoning in Self-Evolving Coding Agents

Xiaodong Wu, Yu Shi, Qi Li +5

Self-evolving LLM coding agents write their own tools by imitating retrieved skills from shared skill libraries. We identify a vulnerability in this loop: during authoring, a retri…

cs.CR2026

MarkNull: Model-Agnostic Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via On-Manifold Latent Manipulation

Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang +4

Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against realistic, model-agnostic remo…

cs.SD2026

MelShield: Robust Mel-Domain Audio Watermarking for Provenance Attribution of AI Generated Synthesized Speech

Yutong Jin, Qi Li, Lingshuang Liu +1

In this paper, we propose MelShield, a robust, in-generation, keyed audio watermarking framework that embeds identifiable signals into AI-generated audio for copyright protection a…

cs.CR2026

MarkSweep: A No-box Removal Attack on AI-Generated Image Watermarking via Noise Intensification and Frequency-aware Denoising

Jie Cao, Zelin Zhang, Qi Li +1

AI watermarking embeds invisible signals within images to provide provenance information and identify content as AI-generated. In this paper, we introduce MarkSweep, a novel waterm…

cs.CR2025

Secure and Robust Watermarking for AI-generated Images: A Comprehensive Survey

Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang +2

The rapid progress of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has enabled the effortless synthesis of high-quality visual content, while simultaneously raising pressing concerns…