A hierarchical genetic algorithm induces overthinking in black-box large reasoning models by perturbing logical structure, achieving up to 26.1x longer outputs on the MATH benchmark.
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OTora is a two-stage framework that generates insertion-aware adversarial triggers and ICL-guided genetic payloads to induce reasoning-level denial-of-service in tool-augmented LLM agents across multiple backbones while preserving task correctness.
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Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS Attack on Black-Box Large Language Reasoning Models
A hierarchical genetic algorithm induces overthinking in black-box large reasoning models by perturbing logical structure, achieving up to 26.1x longer outputs on the MATH benchmark.
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OTora: A Unified Red Teaming Framework for Reasoning-Level Denial-of-Service in LLM Agents
OTora is a two-stage framework that generates insertion-aware adversarial triggers and ICL-guided genetic payloads to induce reasoning-level denial-of-service in tool-augmented LLM agents across multiple backbones while preserving task correctness.