4 papers
Terrarium: Revisiting the Blackboard for Multi-Agent Safety, Privacy, and Security Studies
Mason Nakamura, Abhinav Kumar, Saaduddin Mahmud +3
A multi-agent system (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) can automate tedious user tasks such as meeting scheduling that requires inter-agent collaboration. LLMs enable n…
Throttling Web Agents Using Reasoning Gates
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +2
AI web agents use Internet resources at far greater speed, scale, and complexity -- changing how users and services interact. Deployed maliciously or erroneously, these agents coul…
Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
Hyejun Jeong, Mohammadreza Teymoorianfard, Abhinav Kumar +2
We show that Web and Research Agents (WRAs) -- language-model-based systems that investigate complex topics on the Internet -- are vulnerable to inference attacks by passive networ…
OverThink: Slowdown Attacks on Reasoning LLMs
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh +4
Most flagship language models generate explicit reasoning chains, enabling inference-time scaling. However, producing these reasoning chains increases token usage (i.e., reasoning…