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cs.LG2026

SoK: The Pitfalls of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity

Shae McFadden, Myles Foley, Elizabeth Bates +5

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved remarkable success in domains requiring sequential decision-making, motivating its application to cybersecurity problems. However, tr…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Rewards in Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Defence

Elizabeth Bates, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in autonomous cyber defence agents trained to defend computer networks using deep reinforcement learning. These agents are typically…

cs.LG2025

DRMD: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Malware Detection under Concept Drift

Shae McFadden, Myles Foley, Mario D'Onghia +4

Malware detection in real-world settings must deal with evolving threats, limited labeling budgets, and uncertain predictions. Traditional classifiers, without additional mechanism…

cs.LG2025

Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples

Alexandra Souly, Javier Rando, Ed Chapman +10

Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoni…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Training-time Poisoning: Component-level and Post-training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sanyam Vyas, Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks +2

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) systems are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, yet their security remains severely underexplored. This work investigates backdoor…

cs.LG2025

On Efficient Bayesian Exploration in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis

In this work, we address the challenge of data-efficient exploration in reinforcement learning by examining existing principled, information-theoretic approaches to intrinsic motiv…