most citedExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

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cs.CR2026

Revelio: Cost-Efficient Agentic Memory Safety Vulnerability Detection For Repository-Scale Codebases

Yiwei Hou, Hao Wang, Muxi Lyu +6

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a significant threat even for projects with extensive fuzzing and manual auditing. Recent results suggest that large language models hold great…

cs.AI2026

When Do Intrinsic Rewards Work for Code Reasoning? A Comprehensive Study

Xiaolong Jin, Xuandong Zhao, Wenbo Guo +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in large language model reasoning, but relies on ground-truth supervision that is costly or in…

cs.LG2026

VIMPO: Value-Implicit Policy Optimization for LLMs

Zhewei Kang, Aosong Feng, Sergey Levine +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a central tool for improving the reasoning ability of large language models, but current methods face a trade-off between…

cs.AI2026

ChainWorld: Composing Long-Horizon Desktop Workloads from Atomic OSWorld Tasks

Vincent Siu, Manasi Sharma, Dawn Song +3

Computer use agents are evaluated almost exclusively on atomic desktop tasks, but realistic desktop work requires sustaining state across multiple objectives. We study this gap wit…

cs.AI2026

Do Androids Dream of Breaking the Game? Systematically Auditing AI Agent Benchmarks with BenchJack

Hao Wang, Hanchen Li, Qiuyang Mang +3

Agent benchmarks have become the de facto measure of frontier AI competence, guiding model selection, investment, and deployment. However, reward hacking, where agents maximize a s…

cs.CR2026★ 3 cited

ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

Zhun Wang, Nico Schiller, Hongwei Li +13

AI agents are rapidly gaining capabilities that could significantly reshape cybersecurity, making rigorous evaluation urgent. A critical capability is exploitation: turning a vulne…

cs.LG2026

MLS-Bench: A Holistic and Rigorous Assessment of AI Systems on Building Better AI

Bohan Lyu, Yucheng Yang, Siqiao Huang +25

Modern AI progress has been driven by ML methods that are generalizable across settings and scalable to larger regimes. As large language models demonstrate advanced capabilities i…

cs.CL2026

On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents

Weixiang Zhao, Yichen Zhang, Yingshuo Wang +8

Experience-driven self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the autonomy of large language model agents, yet its reliance on self-curated experience introduc…

cs.SE2026

Structural Anchors and Reasoning Fragility:Understanding CoT Robustness in LLM4Code

Yang Liu, Da Song, Armstrong Foundjem +2

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting is widely used to elicit explicit reasoning from large language models for code (LLM4Code). However, its impact on robustness and the stability of…

cs.AI2026

The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break

Xinyu Jessica Wang, Haoyue Bai, Yiyou Sun +7

Large language model (LLM) agents perform strongly on short- and mid-horizon tasks, but often break down on long-horizon tasks that require extended, interdependent action sequence…

cs.LG2026

Intent-aligned Formal Specification Synthesis via Traceable Refinement

Zhe Ye, Aidan Z. H. Yang, Huangyuan Su +6

Large language models are increasingly used to generate code from natural language, but ensuring correctness remains challenging. Formal verification offers a principled way to obt…

cs.AI2026

CUBE: A Standard for Unifying Agent Benchmarks

Alexandre Lacoste, Nicolas Gontier, Oleh Shliazhko +23

The proliferation of agent benchmarks has created critical fragmentation that threatens research productivity. Each new benchmark requires substantial custom integration, creating…

cs.CR2026

Self-Sovereign Agent

Wenjie Qu, Xuandong Zhao, Jiaheng Zhang +1

We investigate the emerging prospect of self-sovereign agents -- AI systems that can economically sustain and extend their own operation without human involvement. Recent advances…

cs.AI2025

Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation

Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Peter Kirgis +28

AI agents have been developed for complex real-world tasks from coding to customer service. But AI agent evaluations suffer from many challenges that undermine our understanding of…

cs.AI2025

WebGuard: Building a Generalizable Guardrail for Web Agents

Boyuan Zheng, Zeyi Liao, Scott Salisbury +8

The rapid development of autonomous web agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), while greatly elevating efficiency, exposes the frontier risk of taking unintended or harmfu…