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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach

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This paper cites Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI

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This paper cites Large language model based multi-agents: A survey of progress and challenges,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Large language model based multi-agents: A survey of progress and challenges,

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This paper cites Secret collusion among AI agents: Multi-agent deception via steganography,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Secret collusion among AI agents: Multi-agent deception via steganography,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Hidden in plain text: Emergence and mitigation of steganographic collusion in LLMs,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach The prisoners’ problem and the subliminal channel,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach An information-theoretic model for steganography,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Information-theoretic analysis of information hiding,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach RNN-Stega: Linguistic steganography based on recurrent neural net- works,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach An effective linguistic steganalysis framework based on hierarchical mutual learning,

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This paper cites Intelligent agents: Theory and practice,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Intelligent agents: Theory and practice,

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This paper cites Generative agents: Interactive simulacra of human behavior,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Generative agents: Interactive simulacra of human behavior,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Pattern-based survey and categorization of network covert-channel techniques,

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This paper cites A watermark for large language models,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach A watermark for large language models,

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This paper cites A survey of text watermarking in the era of large language models,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach A survey of text watermarking in the era of large language models,

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This paper cites Para- phrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effec- tive defense,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Para- phrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effec- tive defense,

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This paper cites zkLLM: Zero knowledge proofs for large language models,.

Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach zkLLM: Zero knowledge proofs for large language models,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Learning to communicate with deep multi-agent reinforcement learning,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Multi-agent cooper- ation and the emergence of (natural) language,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach AI control: Improving safety despite intentional subversion,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Visibility into AI agents,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Infrastructure for AI Agents

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach IDs for AI Systems

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Open Problems in Cooperative AI

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Agent smith: A single image can jailbreak one million multimodal LLM agents exponentially fast,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Prompt infection: LLM-to-LLM prompt injection within multi-agent systems,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Breaking the protocol: Security analysis of the model context protocol specification and prompt injection vulnerabil- ities in tool-integrated LLM agents,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Audit the whisper: Detecting steganographic collusion in multi-agent LLMs,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Colosseum: Auditing Collusion in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Detecting Multi-Agent Collusion Through Multi-Agent Interpretability

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Mutual information neural estimation,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Deep reinforcement learning that matters,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Estimating mutual information,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach CLUB: A contrastive log-ratio upper bound of mutual information,

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach On variational bounds of mutual information,

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