most citedGuardReasoner: Towards Reasoning-based LLM Safeguards

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cs.SE2026

Towards Scalable and Cost-Efficient Vulnerability Detection: A Study on Automatic Query Generation

Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ratnadira Widyasari, Huihui Huang +6

Static analysis remains a cornerstone of software security, yet the effectiveness of tools such as CodeQL is often limited by the substantial manual effort required to develop high…

cs.LG2026

ConSteer-RL: Steering Reasoning Capabilities in Large Language Models via Confidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Qing Miao, Yiming Zhao, Jing Yang +5

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it remains limit…

cs.AI2026

Teaching the Way, Not the Answer: Privileged Tutoring Distillation for Multimodal Policy Optimization

Shizhe Xiang, Ke An, Wenlong Yu +5

Recent post-training methods, particularly Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), have significantly enhanced the reasoning ability of Large Vision-Language Models…

cs.CR2026

WARD: Adversarially Robust Defense of Web Agents Against Prompt Injections

Tri Cao, Yulin Chen, Hieu Cao +8

Web agents can autonomously complete online tasks by interacting with websites, but their exposure to open web environments makes them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks embedd…

cs.CR2026

WebAgentGuard: A Reasoning-Driven Guard Model for Detecting Prompt Injection Attacks in Web Agents

Yulin Chen, Tri Cao, Haoran Li +7

Web agents powered by vision-language models (VLMs) enable autonomous interaction with web environments by perceiving and acting on both visual and textual webpage content to accom…

cs.CR2026

TitanCA: Lessons from Orchestrating LLM Agents to Discover 100+ CVEs

Ting Zhang, Yikun Li, Chengran Yang +15

Software vulnerabilities remain one of the most persistent threats to modern digital infrastructure. While static application security testing (SAST) tools have long served as the…

cs.AI2026

EvoClinician: A Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Medical Diagnosis via Test-Time Evolutionary Learning

Yufei He, Juncheng Liu, Zhiyuan Hu +9

Prevailing medical AI operates on an unrealistic ''one-shot'' model, diagnosing from a complete patient file. However, real-world diagnosis is an iterative inquiry where Clinicians…

cs.LG2025

Enabling Self-Improving Agents to Learn at Test Time With Human-In-The-Loop Guidance

Yufei He, Ruoyu Li, Alex Chen +8

Large language model (LLM) agents often struggle in environments where rules and required domain knowledge frequently change, such as regulatory compliance and user risk screening.…

cs.CR2025

TopicAttack: An Indirect Prompt Injection Attack via Topic Transition

Yulin Chen, Haoran Li, Yuexin Li +3

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across a range of NLP tasks. However, their strong instruction-following capabilities and inability to distinguish in…

cs.AI2025

FlowReasoner: Reinforcing Query-Level Meta-Agents

Hongcheng Gao, Yue Liu, Yufei He +6

This paper proposes a query-level meta-agent named FlowReasoner to automate the design of query-level multi-agent systems, i.e., one system per user query. Our core idea is to ince…

cs.CR2025

Geneshift: Impact of different scenario shift on Jailbreaking LLM

Tianyi Wu, Zhiwei Xue, Yue Liu +3

Jailbreak attacks, which aim to cause LLMs to perform unrestricted behaviors, have become a critical and challenging direction in AI safety. Despite achieving the promising attack…

cs.CR2025

Robustness via Referencing: Defending against Prompt Injection Attacks by Referencing the Executed Instruction

Yulin Chen, Haoran Li, Yuan Sui +8

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance and have come to dominate the field of natural language processing (NLP) across various tasks. However, due to…

cs.CR2025

Can Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Be Detected and Removed?

Yulin Chen, Haoran Li, Yuan Sui +4

Prompt injection attacks manipulate large language models (LLMs) by misleading them to deviate from the original input instructions and execute maliciously injected instructions, b…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

GuardReasoner: Towards Reasoning-based LLM Safeguards

Yue Liu, Hongcheng Gao, Shengfang Zhai +9

As LLMs increasingly impact safety-critical applications, ensuring their safety using guardrails remains a key challenge. This paper proposes GuardReasoner, a new safeguard for LLM…