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cs.AI2026

Practice Makes Unsafe: Skill Misevolution in Self-Improving LLM Agents

Xutao Mao, Liangjie Zhao, Xiang Zheng +1

Self-improving LLM agents convert successful trajectories into persistent cross-task state. An unsafe success can thereby become reusable policy after its triggering input disappea…

cs.CR2026

Agent Hacks Agent: Autoresearch for Production-Agent Red-Teaming

Xutao Mao, Xiang Zheng, Cong Wang

The paper introduces AHA, an automated system that discovers and documents reusable vulnerability concepts in production LLM agents by hypothesizing, testing, and recording unsafe…

cs.AI2026

What Happens Inside Agent Memory? Circuit Analysis from Emergence to Diagnosis

Xutao Mao, Jinman Zhao, Gerald Penn +1

Agent memory failures are silent: an LLM-based agent can produce a fluent response even when it fails to extract, retain, or retrieve the information needed across sessions. The wr…

cs.CR2026

STARE: Step-wise Temporal Alignment and Red-teaming Engine for Multi-modal Toxicity Attack

Xutao Mao, Liangjie Zhao, Tao Liu +3

Red-teaming Vision-Language Models is essential for identifying vulnerabilities where adversarial image-text inputs trigger toxic outputs. Existing approaches treat image generatio…

cs.AI2025

SteinerSQL: Graph-Guided Mathematical Reasoning for Text-to-SQL Generation

Xutao Mao, Tao Liu, Hongying Zan

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with complex Text-to-SQL queries that demand both sophisticated mathematical reasoning and intricate schema navigation. Existing methods often…

cs.CL2025

LogicCat: A Chain-of-Thought Text-to-SQL Benchmark for Complex Reasoning

Tao Liu, Xutao Mao, Hongying Zan +12

Text-to-SQL is a critical task in natural language processing that aims to transform natural language questions into accurate and executable SQL queries. In real-world scenarios, t…