Pen-Strategist fine-tunes Qwen-3-14B with RL on a pentesting reasoning dataset and pairs it with a CNN step classifier, reporting 87% better strategy derivation, 47.5% more subtask completions than baselines, and gains on CTFKnow and user studies.
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Pen-Strategist: A Reasoning Framework for Penetration Testing Strategy Formation and Analysis
Pen-Strategist fine-tunes Qwen-3-14B with RL on a pentesting reasoning dataset and pairs it with a CNN step classifier, reporting 87% better strategy derivation, 47.5% more subtask completions than baselines, and gains on CTFKnow and user studies.