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Salesforce öffnet Slack für externe KI
Salesforce öffnet Slack für KI: Über API und Model Context Protocol erhalten Entwickler Zugriff auf Chatdaten, um kontextsensitive Agenten zu erstellen.
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A Measurement Study of Model Context Protocol
Hechuan Guo, Yongle Hao, Yue Zhang, Minghui Xu, Peizhuo Lyu, Jiezhi Chen, Xiuzhen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25292 https://…

A Measurement Study of Model Context Protocol
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been proposed as a unifying standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external tools and resources, promising the same role for AI integration that HTTP and USB played for the Web and peripherals. Yet, despite rapid adoption and hype, its trajectory remains uncertain. Are MCP marketplaces truly growing, or merely inflated by placeholders and abandoned prototypes? Are servers secure and privacy-preserving, or do they expose users to systemic r…

LLUAD: Low-Latency User-Anonymized DNS
Philip Sj\"osv\"ard, Hongyu Jin, Panos Papadimitratos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24174 https://arxiv.org/p…

LLUAD: Low-Latency User-Anonymized DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) is involved in practically all web activity, translating easy-to-remember domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Due to its central role on the Internet, DNS exposes user web activity in detail. The privacy challenge is honest-but-curious DNS servers/resolvers providing the translation/lookup service. In particular, with the majority of DNS queries handled by public DNS resolvers, the organizations running them can track, collect, and analyze massive us…

Quantum Sequential Universal Hypothesis Testing
Matteo Zecchin, Osvaldo Simeone, Aaditya Ramdas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21594 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Quantum Sequential Universal Hypothesis Testing
Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) concerns the statistical inference of unknown quantum states. In the general setting of composite hypotheses, the goal of QHT is to determine whether an unknown quantum state belongs to one or another of two classes of states based on the measurement of a number of copies of the state. Prior art on QHT with composite hypotheses focused on a fixed-copy two-step protocol, with state estimation followed by an optimized joint measurement. However, this fixed-copy ap…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/5]:
- Medical Red Teaming Protocol of Language Models: On the Importance of User Perspectives in Health...
Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Minseon Kim, Alessandro Sordoni, Francois Beaulieu, Paul Vozila

Permuting Transactions in Ethereum Blocks: An Empirical Study
Jan Droll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25415 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25415

Permuting Transactions in Ethereum Blocks: An Empirical Study
Several recent proposals implicitly or explicitly suggest making use of randomized transaction ordering within a block to mitigate centralization effects and to improve fairness in the Ethereum ecosystem. However, transactions and blocks are subject to gas limits and protocol rules. In a randomized transaction order, the behavior of transactions may change depending on other transactions in the same block, leading to invalid blocks and varying gas consumptions. In this paper, we quantify and ch…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Y. Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22070 https://ar…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Large-scale enterprise systems utilizing Protocol Buffers (protobuf) present significant challenges for performance testing, particularly when targeting intermediate business interfaces with complex nested data structures. Traditional test data generation approaches are inadequate for handling the intricate hierarchical and graph-like structures inherent in enterprise protobuf schemas. This paper presents a novel test data generation framework that leverages Python's metaclass system for dynami…

Xavier Worthy injury update: Chiefs WR cleared from concussion protocol after hard fall in practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/xavier-

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
Ethan Buchman, Paolo Dini, Shoaib Ahmed, Andrew Miller, Toma\v{z} Fleischman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22309 https://…

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
For centuries, financial institutions have responded to liquidity challenges by forming closed, centralized clearing clubs with strict rules and membership that allow them to collaborate on using the least money to discharge the most debt. As closed clubs, much of the general public has been excluded from participation. But the vast majority of private sector actors consists of micro or small firms that are vulnerable to late payments and generally ineligible for bank loans. This low liquidity …

From Cloud-Native to Trust-Native: A Protocol for Verifiable Multi-Agent Systems
Muyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.2207…

From Cloud-Native to Trust-Native: A Protocol for Verifiable Multi-Agent Systems
As autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) proliferate in high-stakes domains -- from pharmaceuticals to legal workflows -- the challenge is no longer just intelligence, but verifiability. We introduce TrustTrack, a protocol that embeds structural guarantees -- verifiable identity, policy commitments, and tamper-resistant behavioral logs -- directly into agent infrastructure. This enables a new systems paradigm: trust-native autonomy. By treating compliance as a design constra…

Diffusion with doubly stochastic resetting
Maxence Arutkin, Shlomi Reuveni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25365

Diffusion with doubly stochastic resetting
Diffusion with stochastic resetting, instantaneous returns of a diffusing particle to a reference point, creates a stationary probability distribution. The paradigm is extended here to a doubly stochastic protocol in which the resetting rate itself fluctuates in time and relaxes on its own timescale. An exact steady-state solution reveals three spatial regimes: a fluctuation-dominated core near the origin, a power-law regime at intermediate distances, and a far-field exponential decay fixed by …

Dynamic Exponent Market Maker: Personalized Portfolio Manager and One Pool to Trade Them All
Wittawat Kositwattanarerk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22732 https://

Dynamic Exponent Market Maker: Personalized Portfolio Manager and One Pool to Trade Them All
Decentralized exchange platforms such as Uniswap and Balancer operate on several pools where each pool contains two or more cryptocurrencies and constitutes direct trading pairs. The drawbacks here are that liquidity providing requires contribution of tokens in a specific proportion, and trading may require hopping between pools, hence increasing transaction fee and gas fee. We propose an automated market maker (AMM) protocol where liquidity providers can deposit any amount of tokens into the p…

Measurement and preparation protocols for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes
Christopher J. Fewster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21426 https://arxiv.o…

Measurement and preparation protocols for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes
In this conference proceedings contribution, I describe work in progress concerning two problems in the measurement theory of quantum fields. First, it is proved that all local observables can be obtained from local measurement schemes. Second, I describe a protocol for preparing a Hadamard local product state of given Hadamard states relative to the local algebras of specified spacelike separated regions.

Experimental Construction of NOON State Dynamics in Photonic Flat Band Lattices
Rishav Hui, Trideb Shit, Marco Di Liberto, Diptiman Sen, Sebabrata Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21700

Experimental Construction of NOON State Dynamics in Photonic Flat Band Lattices
We investigate the transport of path-entangled multi-photon NOON states in a flat-band photonic rhombic lattice and observe intriguing localization-delocalization features that depend on the phase as well as the photon number of the NOON states. To experimentally emulate photon number correlations, we develop an intensity correlation measurement protocol using coherent laser light with tunable relative phases. We first apply this protocol to show spatial bunching and anti-bunching of two-photon…

ChatGPT Instant Checkout: OpenAI führt Shopping-Funktion ein
OpenAI hat ein Instant-Checkout-Feature sowie ein Agentic Commerce Protocol Open-Source veröffentlicht. Händler müssen zahlen.
https://www.

Remote spin control in Haldane spin chains
Y. del Castillo, A. Ferr\'on, J. Fern\'andez-Rossier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21544 https://arxiv.org/…

Remote spin control in Haldane spin chains
We consider the remote manipulation of the quantum state of the edge fractional spins of Haldane spin chains using a weak local perturbation on the other edge. We derive an effective four-level model that correctly captures the response of the local magnetization to local perturbations and we use it to show that applying a small local field on one edge of the chain induces a strong variation of the magnetization on the opposite edge. Using a Landau-Zener protocol, we show how local control of t…

Anybody have access to an oscilloscope with a 100baseTX Ethernet decoder on it? Curious how fast commercial protocol decodes are compared to mine.
I'd love benchmarks:
* 2 channels, 10M points, 500 Msps, on P/N
* Simple edge trigger, saturated or nearly saturated link
* Decode to Ethernet frames
How many waveforms per second / seconds per waveform do you get?

Multiple Concurrent Proposers: Why and How
Pranav Garimidi, Joachim Neu, Max Resnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23984 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23984

Multiple Concurrent Proposers: Why and How
Traditional single-proposer blockchains suffer from miner extractable value (MEV), where validators exploit their serial monopoly on transaction inclusion and ordering to extract rents from users. While there have been many developments at the application layer to reduce the impact of MEV, these approaches largely require auctions as a subcomponent. Running auctions efficiently on chain requires two key properties of the underlying consensus protocol: selective-censorship resistance and hiding.…

Tensor Network Representations for Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Orders
Bader Aldossari, Sergey Blinov, Zhu-Xi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22989 https://

Tensor Network Representations for Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Orders
Tensor networks are an efficient platform to represent interesting quantum states of matter as well as to compute physical observables and information-theoretic quantities. We present a general protocol to construct fixed-point tensor network representations for intrinsically mixed-state topological phases, which exhibit nontrivial topological phenomena and do not have pure-state counterparts. The method exploits the power of anyon condensation in Choi states and is applicable to the cases wher…

#GoogleCloud #Observability Adopts #OpenTelemetry Protocol for Native Trace Ingestion

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Quantitative quantum soundness for all multipartite compiled nonlocal games
Matilde Baroni, Igor Klep, Dominik Leichtle, Marc-Olivier Renou, Ivan \v{S}upi\'c, Lucas Tendick, Xiangling Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25145

Quantitative quantum soundness for all multipartite compiled nonlocal games
Compiled nonlocal games transfer the power of Bell-type multi-prover tests into a single-device setting by replacing spatial separation with cryptography. Concretely, the KLVY compiler (STOC'23) maps any multi-prover game to an interactive single-prover protocol, using quantum homomorphic encryption. A crucial security property of such compilers is quantum soundness, which ensures that a dishonest quantum prover cannot exceed the original game's quantum value. For practical cryptographic implem…

AgentMaster: A Multi-Agent Conversational Framework Using A2A and MCP Protocols for Multimodal Information Retrieval and Analysis
Callie C. Liao, Duoduo Liao, Sai Surya Gadiraju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21105

AgentMaster: A Multi-Agent Conversational Framework Using A2A and MCP Protocols for Multimodal Information Retrieval and Analysis
The rise of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), has greatly facilitated the resolution of complex tasks. However, current systems are still facing challenges of inter-agent communication, coordination, and interaction with heterogeneous tools and resources. Most recently, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocol by Google have been introduced, and to the best of o…

A Target-Agnostic Protocol-Independent Interface for the Transport Layer
Pedro Mizuno, Kimiya Mohammadtaheri, Linfan Qian, Joshua Johnson, Danny Akbarzadeh, Chris Neely, Mario Baldi, Nacihket Kapre, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21550

A Target-Agnostic Protocol-Independent Interface for the Transport Layer
Transport protocols are fundamental to network communications, continuously evolving to meet the demands of new applications, workloads, and network architectures while running in a wide range of execution environments (a.k.a targets). We argue that this diversity across protocols and targets calls for a high-level, target-agnostic programming abstraction for the transport layer. Specifically, we propose to specify transport protocols as high-level programs that take an event and flow state as …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- A Target-Agnostic Protocol-Independent Interface for the Transport Layer
Mizuno, Mohammadtaheri, Qian, Johnson, Akbarzadeh, Neely, Baldi, Kapre, Arashloo

OpenAI is open sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard for AI commerce that powers its Instant Checkout feature and was co-developed with Stripe (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-just

ChatGPT can buy stuff for you now - forever changing online shopping
Transactions between AI agents are on the rise. Here's how to try ChatGPT's new Instant Checkout feature.

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Ankit Kumar (Northeastern University), Panagiotis Manolios (Northeastern University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19013

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Floodsub is a simple, robust and popular peer-to-peer publish/subscribe (pubsub) protocol, where nodes can arbitrarily leave or join the network, subscribe to or unsubscribe from topics and forward newly received messages to all of their neighbors, except the sender or the originating peer. To show the correctness of Floodsub, we propose its specification: Broadcastsub, in which implementation details like network connections and neighbor subscriptions are elided. To show that Floodsub does re…

MCP4EDA: LLM-Powered Model Context Protocol RTL-to-GDSII Automation with Backend Aware Synthesis Optimization
Yiting Wang, Wanghao Ye, Yexiao He, Yiran Chen, Gang Qu, Ang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19570

MCP4EDA: LLM-Powered Model Context Protocol RTL-to-GDSII Automation with Backend Aware Synthesis Optimization
This paper presents MCP4EDA, the first Model Context Protocol server that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to control and optimize the complete open-source RTL-to-GDSII design flow through natural language interaction. The system integrates Yosys synthesis, Icarus Verilog simulation, OpenLane place-and-route, GTKWave analysis, and KLayout visualization into a unified LLM-accessible interface, enabling designers to execute complex multi-tool EDA workflows conversationally via AI assistants s…

When MCP Servers Attack: Taxonomy, Feasibility, and Mitigation
Weibo Zhao, Jiahao Liu, Bonan Ruan, Shaofei Li, Zhenkai Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24272 https://

When MCP Servers Attack: Taxonomy, Feasibility, and Mitigation
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enable AI applications to connect to external systems in a plug-and-play manner, but their rapid proliferation also introduces severe security risks. Unlike mature software ecosystems with rigorous vetting, MCP servers still lack standardized review mechanisms, giving adversaries opportunities to distribute malicious implementations. Despite this pressing risk, the security implications of MCP servers remain underexplored. To address this gap, we present the…

Chiefs place WR Worthy in concussion protocol https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45860860/chiefs-xavier-worthy-bangs-head-enters-concussion-protocol

Everyone, if you can than do a donation to https://ntp.org
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Cowboys now down 3 OL starters as former first-round pick suffered concussion vs Packers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/29/cowboys-lt-tyler-guyton-concussion-protocol/86414934007/

Emulating microbial run-and-tumble and tactic motion by stochastically reorienting synthetic active Brownian particles
Sandip Kundu, Dibyendu Mondal, Arup Biswas, Arnab Pal, Manas Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21903

Emulating microbial run-and-tumble and tactic motion by stochastically reorienting synthetic active Brownian particles
Replicating efficient and adaptable microbial navigation strategies, such as run and tumble (RnT) and tactic motions to synthetic active agents has been an enduring quest. To this end, we introduce a stochastic orientational reset (SOR) protocol, in which the propulsion direction of an active Brownian particle (ABP) is reassigned to a random orientation within a defined reset-cone. When the reset-cone is aligned with the instantaneous propulsion direction, ABPs reproduce the RnT dynamics of E. …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
[1/1]:
- TRMAC: A Time-Reversal-based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks within Computing Packages
Ama Bandara, Abhijit Das, Fatima Rodriguez-Galan, Eduard Alarcon, Sergi Abadal

Our company sells products to test internet protocol implementations under unusual, but possible, situations. (Many fail.)
We sell worldwide, so we have to attach various code numbers to identify the type of product to the import/export (tariff/duty) government agents who make sure that things coming into their countries pay the proper fees.
Well, that list of code numbers appears to have been created in the 1970s and not updated since. So if you are selling a VHS VCR or a Fax m…

Still chasing a tricky bug in ngscopeclient that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Scenario:
* Open a pre-existing scopesession containing a protocol analyzer online
* Start acquiring new data
The very first waveform acquired seems to not end up in history, but all other processing works normally including protocol decodes (so we basically end up with a phantom waveform in the protocol analyzer that doesn't match up with one in history).

On the Implementation Security of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution using Optical Injection Locking
Sergio Ju\'arez, Alessandro Marcomini, Mikhail Petrov, Robert I. Woodward, Toby J. Dowling, R. Mark Stevenson, Marcos Curty, Davide Rusca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21763

On the Implementation Security of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution using Optical Injection Locking
Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) has emerged as a leading quantum communication protocol, enabling secure key distribution over unprecedented distances by utilising coherent interference of quantum states. Optical Injection Locking (OIL) architectures have been used to simplify the precise phase and frequency stabilisation required by TF-QKD. In this work, we systematically analyse potential side-channels in OIL-based TF-QKD that can be introduced through the various optical degrees…

Scan-do Attitude: Towards Autonomous CT Protocol Management using a Large Language Model Agent
Xingjian Kang, Linda Vorberg, Andreas Maier, Alexander Katzmann, Oliver Taubmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20270

Scan-do Attitude: Towards Autonomous CT Protocol Management using a Large Language Model Agent
Managing scan protocols in Computed Tomography (CT), which includes adjusting acquisition parameters or configuring reconstructions, as well as selecting postprocessing tools in a patient-specific manner, is time-consuming and requires clinical as well as technical expertise. At the same time, we observe an increasing shortage of skilled workforce in radiology. To address this issue, a Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent framework is proposed to assist with the interpretation and execution o…

DNS in the Time of Curiosity: A Tale of Collaborative User Privacy Protection
Philip Sj\"osv\"ard, Hongyu Jin, Panos Papadimitratos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24153 ht…

DNS in the Time of Curiosity: A Tale of Collaborative User Privacy Protection
The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public DNS resolvers are rising in popularity, offering low-latency resolution, high reliability, privacy-preserving policies, and support for encrypted DNS queries. However, client-resolver traffic encryption, increasingly deployed to protect users from eavesdroppers…

Toward 48 dB Spin Squeezing and 96 dB Signal Magnification for Cosmic Relic Searches with Nuclear Spins
Marios Galanis, Onur Hosten, Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20520

Toward 48 dB Spin Squeezing and 96 dB Signal Magnification for Cosmic Relic Searches with Nuclear Spins
We recently showed that macroscopic nuclear spin ensembles prepared in coherent spin states can dramatically enhance the interaction rates of weakly interacting cosmic relics-such as dark matter and the cosmic neutrino background-through collective quantum effects analogous to Dicke superradiance, where the de-excitation and excitation rates scale as the square of the number of spins, $N^2$. We thus coined these processes superradiant interactions. In this paper, we propose a protocol to realiz…

Style4D-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for 4D Stylization
Beiqi Chen, Shuai Shao, Haitang Feng, Jianhuang Lai, Jianlou Si, Guangcong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19243 https://

Style4D-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for 4D Stylization
We introduce Style4D-Bench, the first benchmark suite specifically designed for 4D stylization, with the goal of standardizing evaluation and facilitating progress in this emerging area. Style4D-Bench comprises: 1) a comprehensive evaluation protocol measuring spatial fidelity, temporal coherence, and multi-view consistency through both perceptual and quantitative metrics, 2) a strong baseline that make an initial attempt for 4D stylization, and 3) a curated collection of high-resolution dynami…

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
\"Ozge \c{S}ahin, Annemiek Kwast, Annemieke Witteveen, Tina Nane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22771

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
Accurate prediction of postoperative complications can support personalized perioperative care. However, in surgical settings, data collection is often constrained, and identifying which variables to prioritize remains an open question. We analyzed 767 elective bowel surgeries performed under an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol at Medisch Spectrum Twente (Netherlands) between March 2020 and December 2023. Although hundreds of variables were available, most had substantial missingness or…

Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol
Farzad Habibi, Juncheng Fang, Tania Lorido-Botran, Faisal Nawab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18576

Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol
The problem of hotspots remains a critical challenge in high-contention workloads for concurrency control (CC) protocols. Traditional concurrency control approaches encounter significant difficulties under high contention, resulting in excessive transaction aborts and deadlocks. In this paper, we propose Brook-2PL, a novel two-phase locking (2PL) protocol that (1) introduces SLW-Graph for deadlock-free transaction execution, and (2) proposes partial transaction chopping for early lock release. …

VeriLLM: A Lightweight Framework for Publicly Verifiable Decentralized Inference
Ke Wang, Felix Qu, Libin Xia, Zishuo Zhao, Chris Tong, Lynn Ai, Eric Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24257

VeriLLM: A Lightweight Framework for Publicly Verifiable Decentralized Inference
Decentralized inference is an appealing paradigm for serving large language models (LLMs), offering strong security, high efficiency, and lower operating costs. Yet the permissionless setting admits no a priori trust in participating nodes, making output verifiability a prerequisite for secure deployment. We present VeriLLM, a publicly verifiable protocol for decentralized LLM inference that (i) achieves security under a one-honest-verifier assumption, (ii) attains near-negligible verification …

Rethinking Testing for LLM Applications: Characteristics, Challenges, and a Lightweight Interaction Protocol
Wei Ma, Yixiao Yang, Qiang Hu, Shi Ying, Zhi Jin, Bo Du, Zhenchang Xing, Tianlin Li, Junjie Shi, Yang Liu, Linxiao Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20737

Rethinking Testing for LLM Applications: Characteristics, Challenges, and a Lightweight Interaction Protocol
Applications of Large Language Models~(LLMs) have evolved from simple text generators into complex software systems that integrate retrieval augmentation, tool invocation, and multi-turn interactions. Their inherent non-determinism, dynamism, and context dependence pose fundamental challenges for quality assurance. This paper decomposes LLM applications into a three-layer architecture: \textbf{\textit{System Shell Layer}}, \textbf{\textit{Prompt Orchestration Layer}}, and \textbf{\textit{LLM In…

This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol https://www.404media.co/this-company-wants-to-bring-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-to-blueskys-at-protocol/

MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
Zhenting Wang, Qi Chang, Hemani Patel, Shashank Biju, Cheng-En Wu, Quan Liu, Aolin Ding, Alireza Rezazadeh, Ankit Shah, Yujia Bao, Eugene Siow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20453

MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
We introduce MCP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on realistic, multi-step tasks that demand tool use, cross-tool coordination, precise parameter control, and planning/reasoning for solving tasks. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP-Bench connects LLMs to 28 representative live MCP servers spanning 250 tools across domains such as finance, traveling, scientific computing, and academic search. Unlike prior API-based benchmarks, each MCP server provides a …

Fascinating stuff, an open protocol by Google to let agents make payments.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/pro…

Announcing Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) | Google Cloud Blog
Learn more about the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol that builds on A2A, Agent to Agent Protocol. AP2 was developed by Google with leading payments and technology companies to securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms.

An early termination strategy for the distributed biased min-consensus protocol under disturbances
Zicheng Huang, Wangzhi Zhou, Yuanqiu Mo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19832 https…

An early termination strategy for the distributed biased min-consensus protocol under disturbances
The distributed biased min-consensus (DBMC) protocol is an iterative scheme that solves the shortest path problem asymptotically, requiring only local information exchange between neighboring nodes. By appropriately designing the gain function, prior work [1] proposed a DBMC-based system that ensures convergence within a pre-specified time interval. However, this guarantee assumes the absence of disturbances. In this paper, we study the DBMC-based system under disturbances affecting the edge we…

Xavier Worthy injury: Emerging Chiefs WR enters concussion protocol after leaving practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/xavier-worthy-…

Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management System for Autonomous Vehicles
Amal Yousseef, Shalaka Satam, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Mai Abdel-Malek, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25566

Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management System for Autonomous Vehicles
The rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) promises to significantly enhance transportation safety and efficiency by mitigating human error, which is responsible for over 90\% of road accidents. However, the increasing connectivity of AVs introduces new cybersecurity challenges, as traditional perimeter-based security models are inadequate for dynamic and untrusted environments. This paper presents a novel Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management (D-IM) protocol for AVs. By integrating the…

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Emmanouil M. Athanasakos, Hariprasad Manjunath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20157

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Secret key agreement from correlated physical layer observations is a cornerstone of information-theoretic security. This paper proposes and rigorously analyzes a complete, constructive protocol for secret key agreement from Gaussian sources using Sparse Regression Codes (SPARCs). Our protocol systematically leverages the known optimality of SPARCs for both rate-distortion and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding, facilitated by their inherent nested structure. The primary contribution of this work is a compr…

Formal Modeling and Verification of the Algorand Consensus Protocol in CADP
Andrea Esposito, Francesco P. Rossi, Marco Bernardo, Francesco Fabris, Hubert Garavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19452

Formal Modeling and Verification of the Algorand Consensus Protocol in CADP
Algorand is a scalable and secure permissionless blockchain that achieves proof-of-stake consensus via cryptographic self-sortition and binary Byzantine agreement. In this paper, we present a process algebraic model of the Algorand consensus protocol with the aim of enabling rigorous formal verification. Our model captures the behavior of participants with respect to the structured alternation of consensus steps toward a committee-based agreement by means of a probabilistic process calculus. We…

A Protocol to Address Ecological Redirection for Digital Practices in Organizations
Valentin Girard, Antoine Martin, Maud Rio, Romain Couillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19078 h…

A Protocol to Address Ecological Redirection for Digital Practices in Organizations
The digitalization of societies raises questions about its sustainability and the socio-technical impacts it generates. Ecological redirection applied to organizations is a field of research aiming for achieving sustainability as a direction, rather than for technical means. Arbitration and renunciation to some digital usage and technologies are investigated. Ecological redirection is, however, not yet addressing concrete methodologies for its implementation in organizations. This paper therefo…

Towards Multi-Agent Economies: Enhancing the A2A Protocol with Ledger-Anchored Identities and x402 Micropayments for AI Agents
Awid Vaziry, Sandro Rodriguez Garzon, Axel K\"upper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19550

Towards Multi-Agent Economies: Enhancing the A2A Protocol with Ledger-Anchored Identities and x402 Micropayments for AI Agents
This research article presents a novel architecture to empower multi-agent economies by addressing two critical limitations of the emerging Agent2Agent (A2A) communication protocol: decentralized agent discoverability and agent-to-agent micropayments. By integrating distributed ledger technology (DLT), this architecture enables tamper-proof, on-chain publishing of AgentCards as smart contracts, providing secure and verifiable agent identities. The architecture further extends A2A with the x402 …

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
Gaurab Chhetri, Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Shamyo Brotee, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Dipti Koirala, Biplov Pandey, Subasish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19239

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
The rapid expansion of interconnected devices, autonomous systems, and AI applications has created severe fragmentation in adaptive transport systems, where diverse protocols and context sources remain isolated. This survey provides the first systematic investigation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a unifying paradigm, highlighting its ability to bridge protocol-level adaptation with context-aware decision making. Analyzing established literature, we show that existing efforts have impli…

RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs
Maximilian Jakob Heer, Benjamin Ramhorst, Yu Zhu, Luhao Liu, Zhiyi Hu, Jonas Dann, Gustavo Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20412

RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs
Data-intensive applications in data centers, especially machine learning (ML), have made the network a bottleneck, which in turn has motivated the development of more efficient network protocols and infrastructure. For instance, remote direct memory access (RDMA) has become the standard protocol for data transport in the cloud as it minimizes data copies and reduces CPU-utilization via host-bypassing. Similarly, an increasing amount of network functions and infrastructure have moved to accelera…

Democracy for DAOs: An Empirical Study of Decentralized Governance and Dynamic (Case Study Internet Computer SNS Ecosystem)
Burak Arda Okutan, Stefan Schmid, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20234

Democracy for DAOs: An Empirical Study of Decentralized Governance and Dynamic (Case Study Internet Computer SNS Ecosystem)
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) rely on governance mechanism without centralized leadership. This paper presents an empirical study of user behavior in governance for a variety of DAOs, ranging from DeFi to gaming, using the Internet Computer Protocol DAO framework called SNS (Service Nervous System). To analyse user engagement, we measure participation rates and frequency of proposals submission and voter approval rates. We evaluate decision duration times to determine DAO agilit…

Time-energy tradeoff in stochastic resetting using optimal control
R\'emi Goerlich, Kristian St{\o}levik Olsen, Hartmut L\"owen, Yael Roichman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19387

Time-energy tradeoff in stochastic resetting using optimal control
Stochastic resetting is a driving mechanism that is known to minimize the first passage time to reach a target, at the cost of energy expenditure. The choice of the physical implementation of each resetting event determines the tradeoff between the acceleration of the search process and its energetic cost. Here, we present an optimal transport protocol that balances the duration and the energetic cost of each resetting event. This protocol drives a harmonically trapped Brownian particle between…

BiTAA: A Bi-Task Adversarial Attack for Object Detection and Depth Estimation via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Yixun Zhang, Feng Zhou, Jianqin Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19793 http…

BiTAA: A Bi-Task Adversarial Attack for Object Detection and Depth Estimation via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Camera-based perception is critical to autonomous driving yet remains vulnerable to task-specific adversarial manipulations in object detection and monocular depth estimation. Most existing 2D/3D attacks are developed in task silos, lack mechanisms to induce controllable depth bias, and offer no standardized protocol to quantify cross-task transfer, leaving the interaction between detection and depth underexplored. We present BiTAA, a bi-task adversarial attack built on 3D Gaussian Splatting th…

Teleportation-based filtering for gravitational-wave detectors
Yohei Nishino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20812 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20812

Teleportation-based filtering for gravitational-wave detectors
Employing the principle of quantum teleportation in gravitational-wave detectors provides a method to address technical challenges associated with implementing quantum filters for squeezed-light injection. A recent proposal has shown that an arbitrary number of effective squeezing-angle rotations can be achieved by cascading quantum teleportation, yielding sensitivity equivalent to frequency-dependent pre-filtering. A natural question is whether the teleportation-based protocol can also realize…

Equally entangled multiqubit states
Francisco Albarr\'an-Arriagada, Guillermo Romero, Juan Carlos Retamal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20770 https://arxi…

Equally entangled multiqubit states
We present a protocol for generating multiqubit quantum states with translationally invariant pairwise entanglement. Our approach is tailored for digital quantum computers with restricted qubit connectivity, a common limitation in state-of-the-art hardware platforms. We examine two configurations: star connectivity, which enables rotationally invariant entanglement, and linear connectivity, which achieves translationally invariant entanglement. For the linear configuration, we use a variant of …

Protocol Testing with I/O Grammars
Alexander Liggesmeyer, Jos\'e Antonio Zamudio Amaya, Andreas Zeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20308 https://arxiv.o…

Protocol Testing with I/O Grammars
Generating software tests faces two fundamental problems. First, one needs to _generate inputs_ that are syntactically and semantically correct, yet sufficiently diverse to cover behavior. Second, one needs an _oracle_ to _check outputs_ whether a test case is correct or not. Both problems become apparent in _protocol testing_, where inputs are messages exchanged between parties, and outputs are the responses of these parties. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to protocol testing tha…

Scan-do Attitude: Towards Autonomous CT Protocol Management using a Large Language Model Agent
Xingjian Kang, Linda Vorberg, Andreas Maier, Alexander Katzmann, Oliver Taubmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20270

Scan-do Attitude: Towards Autonomous CT Protocol Management using a Large Language Model Agent
Managing scan protocols in Computed Tomography (CT), which includes adjusting acquisition parameters or configuring reconstructions, as well as selecting postprocessing tools in a patient-specific manner, is time-consuming and requires clinical as well as technical expertise. At the same time, we observe an increasing shortage of skilled workforce in radiology. To address this issue, a Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent framework is proposed to assist with the interpretation and execution o…

Asking for no reason whatsoever: Lots of oscilloscopes have protocol decodes for various flavors of Ethernet.
Have you ever encountered one, from any manufacturer, that is able to decode 100mbit ethernet in real time without dropping packets?

Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing
Haochen Pan, Ryan Chard, Reid Mello, Christopher Grams, Tanjin He, Alexander Brace, Owen Price Skelly, Will Engler, Hayden Holbrook, Song Young Oh, Maxime Gonthier, Michael Papka, Ben Blaiszik, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18489

Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing
Large language model (LLM)-powered agents are increasingly used to plan and execute scientific workflows, yet most research cyberinfrastructure (CI) exposes heterogeneous APIs and implements security models that present barriers for use by agents. We report on our experience using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a unifying interface that makes research capabilities discoverable, invokable, and composable. Our approach is pragmatic: we implement thin MCP servers over mature services, includi…

Quantum optical shallow networks
Simone Roncallo, Angela Rosy Morgillo, Seth Lloyd, Chiara Macchiavello, Lorenzo Maccone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21036 https://

Quantum optical shallow networks
Classical shallow networks are universal approximators. Given a sufficient number of neurons, they can reproduce any continuous function to arbitrary precision, with a resource cost that scales linearly in both the input size and the number of trainable parameters. In this work, we present a quantum optical protocol that implements a shallow network with an arbitrary number of neurons. Both the input data and the parameters are encoded into single-photon states. Leveraging the Hong-Ou-Mandel ef…

AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
Lisai Zhang, Baohan Xu, Siqian Yang, Mingyu Yin, Jing Liu, Chao Xu, Siqi Wang, Yidi Wu, Yuxin Hong, Zihao Zhang, Yanzhang Liang, Yudong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18781

AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
We present AniME, a director-oriented multi-agent system for automated long-form anime production, covering the full workflow from a story to the final video. The director agent keeps a global memory for the whole workflow, and coordinates several downstream specialized agents. By integrating customized Model Context Protocol (MCP) with downstream model instruction, the specialized agent adaptively selects control conditions for diverse sub-tasks. AniME produces cinematic animation with consist…

An Open-source Implementation and Security Analysis of Triad's TEE Trusted Time Protocol
Matthieu Bettinger, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20851

An Open-source Implementation and Security Analysis of Triad's TEE Trusted Time Protocol
The logic of many protocols relies on time measurements. However, in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX, the time source is outside the Trusted Computing Base: a malicious system hosting the TEE can manipulate that TEE's notion of time, e.g., jumping in time or affecting the perceived time speed. Previous work like Triad propose protocols for TEEs to maintain a trustworthy time source. However, in this paper, based on a public implementation of Triad that we contribute, we emp…

A Theory of Goal-Oriented Medium Access: Protocol Design and Distributed Bandit Learning
Federico Chiariotti, Andrea Zanella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19141 https://

A Theory of Goal-Oriented Medium Access: Protocol Design and Distributed Bandit Learning
The Goal-oriented Communication (GoC) paradigm breaks the separation between communication and the content of the data, tailoring communication decisions to the specific needs of the receiver and targeting application performance. While recent studies show impressive encoding performance in point-to-point scenarios, the multi-node distributed scenario is still almost unexplored. Moreover, the few studies to investigate this consider a centralized collision-free approach, where a central schedul…

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- The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents
Sai Teja Reddy Adapala, Yashwanth Reddy Alugubelly

Cryptographic Data Exchange for Nuclear Warheads
Neil Perry, Daniil Zhukov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20074

Cryptographic Data Exchange for Nuclear Warheads
Nuclear arms control treaties have historically focused on strategic nuclear delivery systems, leaving nuclear warheads outside formal verification frameworks. This paper presents a cryptographic protocol for secure and verifiable warhead tracking, addressing challenges in nuclear warhead verification without requiring intrusive physical inspections. Our system leverages commitment schemes and zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zkSNARKs) to ensure compliance with tr…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
M. Matsive Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
Since the 1990s, the telephone has been the primary mode of communication. However, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is a highly straightforward and affordable form of data transfer, is now becoming an important part of daily communication. VoIP is the technology that makes it possible to send speech and multimedia data packets across either a public or private IP network. However, a cyberattack known as a man-in-the-middle attack poses a serious concern in transferring data through a…

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Shallow-depth GHZ state generation on NISQ devices
S. Siddardha Chelluri, Stephan Schuster, Sumeet, Riccardo Roma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19145 https://

Shallow-depth GHZ state generation on NISQ devices
In this work, we focus on GHZ state generation under the practical constraint of limited qubit connectivity, a hallmark of current NISQ hardware. We study the GHZ state preparation across different connectivity graphs inspired by IBM and Google chip architectures, as well as random graphs that reflect distributed quantum systems. Our approach is a measurement-based protocol designed to utilize qubit connectivity constraints for the generation of GHZ states on NISQ devices. We benchmark this aga…

The STAR-XAI Protocol: An Interactive Framework for Inducing Second-Order Agency in AI Agents
Antoni Guasch, Maria Isabel Valdez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17978 https://…

The STAR-XAI Protocol: An Interactive Framework for Inducing Second-Order Agency in AI Agents
Current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit significant limitations in reliability and transparency, often showing a collapse in reasoning capabilities when faced with high-complexity, long-horizon tasks. This "illusion of thinking" is frequently an artifact of non-agentic, black-box evaluation paradigms that fail to cultivate robust problem-solving processes. In response, we introduce The STAR-XAI Protocol (Socratic, Transparent, Agentic, Reasoning - for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence),…

The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents
Sai Teja Reddy Adapala, Yashwanth Reddy Alugubelly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19267 https://

The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents
The proliferation of autonomous AI agents marks a paradigm shift toward complex, emergent multi-agent systems. This transition introduces systemic security risks, including control-flow hijacking and cascading failures, that traditional cybersecurity paradigms are ill-equipped to address. This paper introduces the Aegis Protocol, a layered security framework designed to provide strong security guarantees for open agentic ecosystems. The protocol integrates three technological pillars: (1) non-s…

Distillation of supersinglet states
Saeed Ahmad, Shuang Li, Jonathan Raghoonanan, Kaixuan Zhou, Valentin Ivannikov, Tim Byrnes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20962 https://

Distillation of supersinglet states
We introduce an entanglement distillation (purification) protocol for supersinglet states composed of N qubits. The supersinglet state we target is a total spin zero state with zero spin variance, and has a fully entangled structure involving all qubits. In our distillation protocol, three copies of an initial spin zero state are measured in the local total spin basis such that a higher fidelity supersinglet state is generated upon postselection. The initial state can be prepared using conventi…

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
Nicola Croce, Tobin South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19880 https://

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a significant advancement in AI-tool integration, enabling seamless communication between AI agents and external services. However, this connectivity introduces novel attack vectors that remain largely unexplored. This paper demonstrates how unsophisticated threat actors, requiring only basic programming skills and free web tools, can exploit MCP's trust model to exfiltrate sensitive financial data. We present a proof-of-concept attack where a malicio…

Observation of Inelastic Meson Scattering in a Floquet System using a Digital Quantum Simulator
Ziting Wang, Zi-Yong Ge, Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-An Wang, Si-Yun Zhou, Hao Li, Kui Zhao, Yue-Shan Xu, Wei-Guo Ma, Hao-Tian Liu, Cai-Ping Fang, Jia-Cheng Song, Tian-Ming Li, Jia-Chi Zhang, Yu Liu, Cheng-Lin Deng, Guangming Xue, Haifeng Yu, Kai Xu, Kaixuan Huang, Franco Nori, Heng Fan

Observation of Inelastic Meson Scattering in a Floquet System using a Digital Quantum Simulator
Lattice gauge theories provide a non-perturbative framework for understanding confinement and hadronic physics, but their real-time dynamics remain challenging for classical computations. However, quantum simulators offer a promising alternative for exploring such dynamics beyond classical capabilities. Here, we experimentally investigate meson scattering using a superconducting quantum processor. Employing a digital protocol, we realize a Floquet spin chain equivalent to a one-dimensional Floq…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
Alessandro Giaconia, Muoi Tran, Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20434 https://…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains a fragile pillar of Internet routing. BGP hijacks still occurr daily. While full deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) is ongoing, attackers have already adapted, launching post-ROV attacks such as forged-origin hijacks. To detect these, recent approaches like DFOH [Holterbach et al., USENIX NSDI '24] and BEAM [Chen et al., USENIX Security '24] apply machine learning (ML) to analyze data from globally distributed BGP monitors, assuming anomalies w…

MindGuard: Tracking, Detecting, and Attributing MCP Tool Poisoning Attack via Decision Dependence Graph
Zhiqiang Wang, Junyang Zhang, Guanquan Shi, HaoRan Cheng, Yunhao Yao, Kaiwen Guo, Haohua Du, Xiang-Yang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20412

MindGuard: Tracking, Detecting, and Attributing MCP Tool Poisoning Attack via Decision Dependence Graph
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly adopted to standardize the interaction between LLM agents and external tools. However, this trend introduces a new threat: Tool Poisoning Attacks (TPA), where tool metadata is poisoned to induce the agent to perform unauthorized operations. Existing defenses that primarily focus on behavior-level analysis are fundamentally ineffective against TPA, as poisoned tools need not be executed, leaving no behavioral trace to monitor. Thus, we propose M…

Excited-CAFQA: A classical simulation bootstrap for the variational estimation of molecular excited states
Bikrant Bhattacharyya, Gokul Ravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20588 htt…

Excited-CAFQA: A classical simulation bootstrap for the variational estimation of molecular excited states
Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are iterative algorithms suited to implementation on current-era quantum devices. VQAs employ classical optimization to minimize cost functions evaluated on quantum circuits. However, the extent to which VQAs manage noise is often insufficient for quantum chemistry applications. One method of improving VQAs is through accurate ansatz initialization. The CAFQA (Clifford Ansatz For Quantum Accuracy) protocol runs a discrete search through a classically simula…

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
S M Mostaq Hossain, Amani Altarawneh, Maanak Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18774

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
As blockchain technologies are increasingly adopted in enterprise and research domains, the need for secure, scalable, and performance-transparent node infrastructure has become critical. While self-hosted Ethereum nodes offer operational control, they often lack elasticity and require complex maintenance. This paper presents a hybrid, service-oriented architecture for deploying and monitoring Ethereum full nodes using Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB), integrated with EC2-based observability, IA…

PALQO: Physics-informed Model for Accelerating Large-scale Quantum Optimization
Yiming Huang, Yajie Hao, Jing Zhou, Xiao Yuan, Xiaoting Wang, Yuxuan Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20733

PALQO: Physics-informed Model for Accelerating Large-scale Quantum Optimization
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are leading strategies to reach practical utilities of near-term quantum devices. However, the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics precludes standard backpropagation, leading to prohibitive quantum resource costs when applying VQAs to large-scale tasks. To address this challenge, we reformulate the training dynamics of VQAs as a nonlinear partial differential equation and propose a novel protocol that leverages physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) t…

Automatic Red Teaming LLM-based Agents with Model Context Protocol Tools
Ping He, Changjiang Li, Binbin Zhao, Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21011 https://

Automatic Red Teaming LLM-based Agents with Model Context Protocol Tools
The remarkable capability of large language models (LLMs) has led to the wide application of LLM-based agents in various domains. To standardize interactions between LLM-based agents and their environments, model context protocol (MCP) tools have become the de facto standard and are now widely integrated into these agents. However, the incorporation of MCP tools introduces the risk of tool poisoning attacks, which can manipulate the behavior of LLM-based agents. Although previous studies have i…

Protocol for Purifying Noisy Preparation and Measurements of Qubits
Jaemin Kim, Seungchan Seo, Jiyoung Yun, Benjamin Lienhard, Joonwoo Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16136 https…

Protocol for Purifying Noisy Preparation and Measurements of Qubits
Noise affecting qubit preparation and measurements accounts for a significant fraction of errors in quantum information processing. This is especially critical in tasks like variational quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and entanglement distribution through repeaters. In this work, we present a protocol to purify noisy SPAM, effectively suppressing these errors to an arbitrarily low level. For instance, in a realistic scenario where qubits contain error rates around $0.05$ in both p…

Servant, Stalker, Predator: How An Honest, Helpful, And Harmless (3H) Agent Unlocks Adversarial Skills
David Noever
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19500 https://

Servant, Stalker, Predator: How An Honest, Helpful, And Harmless (3H) Agent Unlocks Adversarial Skills
This paper identifies and analyzes a novel vulnerability class in Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agent systems. The attack chain describes and demonstrates how benign, individually authorized tasks can be orchestrated to produce harmful emergent behaviors. Through systematic analysis using the MITRE ATLAS framework, we demonstrate how 95 agents tested with access to multiple services-including browser automation, financial analysis, location tracking, and code deployment-can chain legitimat…

SCAMPER -- Synchrophasor Covert chAnnel for Malicious and Protective ERrands
Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Karri, Farshad Khorrami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20051 https://

SCAMPER -- Synchrophasor Covert chAnnel for Malicious and Protective ERrands
We note that constituent fields (notably the fraction-of-seconds timestamp field) in the data payload structure of the synchrophasor communication protocol (IEEE C37.118 standard) are overprovisioned relative to real-world usage and needs, lending themselves to abuse for embedding of covert channels. We develop the SCAMPER (Synchrophasor Covert Channel for Malicious and Protective ERrands) framework to exploit these overprovisioned fields for covert communication and show that SCAMPER can be ap…

Parrondo paradox in quantum image encryption
{\L}ukasz Pawela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16382 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16382

Parrondo paradox in quantum image encryption
We present a quantum image encryption protocol that harnesses discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) on cycles and explicitly examines the role of the Parrondo paradox in security. Using the NEQR representation, a DTQW-generated probability mask is transformed into a quantum key image and applied via CNOT to encrypt grayscale images. We adopt an efficient circuit realization of DTQWs based on QFT-diagonalization and coin-conditioned phase layers, yielding low depth for $N=2^n$ positions and $t$ st…

Formal Verification of Physical Layer Security Protocols for Next-Generation Communication Networks
Kangfeng Ye, Roberto Metere, Jim Woodcock, Poonam Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19430

Formal Verification of Physical Layer Security Protocols for Next-Generation Communication Networks
Formal verification is crucial for ensuring the robustness of security protocols against adversarial attacks. The Needham-Schroeder protocol, a foundational authentication mechanism, has been extensively studied, including its integration with Physical Layer Security (PLS) techniques such as watermarking and jamming. Recent research has used ProVerif to verify these mechanisms in terms of secrecy. However, the ProVerif-based approach limits the ability to improve understanding of security beyon…

The Art of Hide and Seek: Making Pickle-Based Model Supply Chain Poisoning Stealthy Again
Tong Liu, Guozhu Meng, Peng Zhou, Zizhuang Deng, Shuaiyin Yao, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19774

The Art of Hide and Seek: Making Pickle-Based Model Supply Chain Poisoning Stealthy Again
Pickle deserialization vulnerabilities have persisted throughout Python's history, remaining widely recognized yet unresolved. Due to its ability to transparently save and restore complex objects into byte streams, many AI/ML frameworks continue to adopt pickle as the model serialization protocol despite its inherent risks. As the open-source model ecosystem grows, model-sharing platforms such as Hugging Face have attracted massive participation, significantly amplifying the real-world risks of…

Separate and efficient characterization of state-preparation and measurement errors using single-qubit operations
Muhammad Qasim Khan, Leigh M. Norris, Lorenza Viola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19448

Separate and efficient characterization of state-preparation and measurement errors using single-qubit operations
In many platforms, errors from state-preparation and measurement (SPAM) dominate single-qubit gate errors. To inform further hardware improvements and the development of more effective SPAM mitigation strategies, it is necessary to separately characterize the error contributions from state-preparation (SP) and measurement (M). Here, we show how to construct a protocol that can efficiently and separately characterize the SP and M error parameters by using only high-fidelity single-qubit gates an…

Observation of hysteresis in an isolated quantum system of disordered Heisenberg spins
Moritz Hornung, Eduard J. Braun, Sebastian Geier, Titus Franz, Gerhard Z\"urn, Matthias Weidem\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18197

Observation of hysteresis in an isolated quantum system of disordered Heisenberg spins
We find energy-dependent hysteresis in an isolated Heisenberg quantum spin system, similar to thermomagnetic hysteresis in canonical spin glasses in contact with a thermal reservoir. Analogous to zero-field cooling and field cooling in conventional magnetic materials, an annealing protocol is devised to control the energy in an isolated system. Depending on the strength of disorder, the susceptibilities at zero field bifurcate at a specific energy, which signals the presence of different magnet…

Cryptographic Backdoor for Neural Networks: Boon and Bane
Anh Tu Ngo, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Subhamoy Maitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20714 https://arxiv.…

Cryptographic Backdoor for Neural Networks: Boon and Bane
In this paper we show that cryptographic backdoors in a neural network (NN) can be highly effective in two directions, namely mounting the attacks as well as in presenting the defenses as well. On the attack side, a carefully planted cryptographic backdoor enables powerful and invisible attack on the NN. Considering the defense, we present applications: first, a provably robust NN watermarking scheme; second, a protocol for guaranteeing user authentication; and third, a protocol for tracking un…

ZAPS: A Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocol for Secure UAV Authentication with Flight Path Privacy
Shayesta Naziri, Xu Wang, Guangsheng Yu, Christy Jie Liang, Wei Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17043

ZAPS: A Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocol for Secure UAV Authentication with Flight Path Privacy
The increasing deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military, commercial, and logistics applications has raised significant concerns regarding flight path privacy. Conventional UAV communication systems often expose flight path data to third parties, making them vulnerable to tracking, surveillance, and location inference attacks. Existing encryption techniques provide security but fail to ensure complete privacy, as adversaries can still infer movement patterns through metadata an…

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jianguo Ding, Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt, Adamu Gaston Philipo, Huansheng Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20411

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews GAN-based adversarial defenses in cybersecurity (2021--August 31, 2025), consolidating recent progress, identifying gaps, and outlining future directions. Using a PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review protocol, we searched five major digital libraries. From 8…

PRZK-Bind: A Physically Rooted Zero-Knowledge Authentication Protocol for Secure Digital Twin Binding in Smart Cities
Yagmur Yigit, Mehmet Ali Erturk, Kerem Gursu, Berk Canberk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17913

PRZK-Bind: A Physically Rooted Zero-Knowledge Authentication Protocol for Secure Digital Twin Binding in Smart Cities
Digital twin (DT) technology is rapidly becoming essential for smart city ecosystems, enabling real-time synchronisation and autonomous decision-making across physical and digital domains. However, as DTs take active roles in control loops, securely binding them to their physical counterparts in dynamic and adversarial environments remains a significant challenge. Existing authentication solutions either rely on static trust models, require centralised authorities, or fail to provide live and v…

MultiFuzz: A Dense Retrieval-based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing
Youssef Maklad, Fares Wael, Ali Hamdi, Wael Elsersy, Khaled Shaban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14300

MultiFuzz: A Dense Retrieval-based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing
Traditional protocol fuzzing techniques, such as those employed by AFL-based systems, often lack effectiveness due to a limited semantic understanding of complex protocol grammars and rigid seed mutation strategies. Recent works, such as ChatAFL, have integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) to guide protocol fuzzing and address these limitations, pushing protocol fuzzers to wider exploration of the protocol state space. But ChatAFL still faces issues like unreliable output, LLM hallucinations, …