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Second Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond
ICML 2026 AIWILD
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Accepted papers (216)
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A Multi-Model Self-Evolving Framework for Zero-Data Document Understanding via Axiomatic Synthetic Refinement
A Prompt-Masked Pilot for History-Dependent Safety Degradation in Multi-Turn Conversational Agents
A Systematic Investigation of RL-Jailbreaking in LLMs
ABRA: Agent Benchmark for Radiology Applications
Activation Steering for Tool-Poisoning Defense in Language-Model Agents
Adaptive Adversaries: A Multi-Turn, Multi-LLM Benchmark for LLM Agent Security
AF-ARENA: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Suite for Alignment Faking
Agentic Aggregation for Parallel Scaling of Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
Agentic Misalignment Deterrence: Incorporating Probability and Stakeholders to Decision-Making
Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Search Misaligns Instruction-Tuning
AgentSociety: Incentivizing Agentic Social Intelligence
AI Agent Safety is a Reinforcement Learning Problem
AI Safeguards as Affordance Modulation: Embedded Population Assumptions in Agentic Systems
Aligning Language Models with Selective Prediction
Approve the Effect, Not the Tool Call: Preventing Stale Consent in Tool-Using Agents
Architecture Matters for Multi-Agent Security
ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning
ASPI: Seeking Ambiguity Clarification Amplifies Prompt Injection Vulnerability in LLM Agents
ATLAS: Adaptive Topology-Level Attack Synthesis for Probing Multi-Agent Systems
Attack Selection in Agentic AI Control Evaluations Meaningfully Decreases Safety
Attractor States Emerge in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations
Autoformalization of Agent Instructions into Policy-as-Code
AutoHoney: Automating, Deploying, and Evaluating Scheming Honeypots Across Production Codebases
Automata from Agent Traces: Failure and Next-Step Prediction
Automated interpretability and feature discovery in language models with agents
BARRED: Synthetic Training of Custom Policy Guardrails via Asymmetric Debate
BarrierSteer: LLM Safety via Learning Barrier Steering
Behavioral Code: Legible, Auditable Loops for Autonomous Agents
Behavioral Determinants of Deployed AI Agents in Social Networks: A Multi-Factor Study of Personality, Model, and Guardrail Specification
Beyond Single-Model Injection: A Threat Model and Defense Architecture for Prompt Injection in Multi-Agent Systems
Bias and Discrimination in the Agentic Web and How Project NANDA Can Support Mitigation
BiasTrojan: LLM Judgers Are Easily Distorted by Few Hundreds of Contrastive Biased Training Data
BioAgent Bench: An AI Agent Evaluation Suite for Bioinformatics
Boundary Point Jailbreaking of Black-Box LLMs
Bridging Safety and Performance in Autonomous Systems using Offline Reinforcement Learning
CAD-bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Functional CAD Generation
Calibrated Deferral Routing for Cost-Efficient Guardrails
CaMeLs Can Use Computers Too: System-level Security for Computer Use Agents
CANARY: Zero-Label Detection of Fine-Tuning Contamination in Language Models
Catching Infrastructure Sabotage When Coding Agents Are Insider Threats
Caught in the Act(ivation): Stopping Credential Exfiltration Before It Starts
Chain of Risk: Safety Failures in Large Reasoning Models and Mitigation via Adaptive Multi-Principle Steering
Chain-of-Sanitized-Thoughts: Reducing PII Leakage in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
ChainCaps: Composition-Safe Tool-Using Agents via Monotonic Capability Attenuation
Chasing the Public Score: User Pressure and Evaluation Exploitation in Coding Agent Workflows
Claudini: Autoresearch Discovers State-of-the-Art Adversarial Attack Algorithms for LLMs
ClinSeekAgent: Automating Multi-modal Evidence Seeking for Agentic Clinical Reasoning
Coding Agents Don't Know When to Act
Communication Boundary Control for Safer Multi-Agent Language Agents
Component and Dimension Sparsity in Transformer Refusal Mechanisms
Compound AI System Reliability: A Failure Taxonomy and Resilience Pattern Catalog from 150 Production Incidents
Consensus–Bayesian Anomaly Detection in Agentic Access Graphs
Containment Verification: AI Safety Guarantees Independent of Alignment
CONTRA: Red-Teaming Configurations of Personalizable Agents
Contrastive Discovery: Open-Ended Scientific Discovery over Competing Explanations
Controlling Tool Use with Heading-Specific Activation Steering
Copy-on-Write Scoring: Application-Specific Agent Evaluations
Correcting Noise-Mispecified Operator Selection in Wild Compound LLM Agents
Coverage-Aware Test Generation for Conversational AI Agents
CPPO: Contrastive Perception Policy Optimization for VLM Agents
Cross-Agent Campaign Attribution: Linking Asynchronous Attacks Across LLM Agents
CrossAnchor: Image-Anchored Text Optimization Exposes Blind Spots in Multi-line Defenses of Agentic Systems
CTFusion : A CTF-based Benchmark for LLM Agent Evaluation
Decomposing Smooth Agentic Inference Scaling
Digital Twin Builder: A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Industrial Digital Twin Development
Directional Alignment Mitigates Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning for Language Models
Do AI Agents Write Less Maintainable Code Than Human Developers?
Does the Optimal Hallucination Detector for Agentic Tool Calls Depend on Model Scale?
Double-Helix Co-Training for Computer-Use Generator and Verifier Models
Dynamic Capability Scoping for Enterprise AI Agents: A Synthetic Dataset and Three-Source Permission Architecture
Emergent Social Intelligence Risks in Generative Multi-Agent Systems
Ensemble Monitoring for AI Control: Diverse Signals Outweigh More Compute
Evaluating Agentic Configuration Repair for Computer Networks
Evaluation Theater: How Structural Compliance Decouples from Cognitive Judgment in Deployed LLM Agents
EvoCUA: Evolving Computer Use Agents via Learning from Scalable Synthetic Experience
Extracting Recurring Vulnerabilities from Black-Box LLM-Generated Software
Failure-Aware Query Refinement for Reliable Open-Vocabulary Home-Robot Perception
FaultLoc: Evaluating Coding Agents For Fault Localization
From Business Metrics to Behavioral Personas Controllable User Simulation for Pre-Deployment Agent Testing
From Reward-Hack Activations to Agentic Risk States: Context-Calibrated Mechanistic Monitoring in LLM Agents
From Segments to Scenes: Temporal Understanding for Agentic Autonomous Driving via Vision-Language Models
From Self-Preservation to Peer-Preservation: A Staged Framing of Preservation-Oriented Misalignment in Frontier Models
From Untrusted Input to Trusted Memory: A Systematic Study of Memory Poisoning Attacks in LLM Agents
FronTalk: Benchmarking Front-End Development as Conversational Code Generation with Multi-Modal Feedback
Full-Season Agent Evaluation in Soybean Farm Operations under Real-World Agricultural Process Dynamics
Game-Theoretic Multi-LLM Routing for Safer Agents in the Wild
GameDevBench: Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Through Game Development
General Agent Evaluation
Goal-Drift Probes: Anticipating Multi-Turn LLM Agent Failure From Mid-Network Activations
Hidden in Memory: Sleeper Memory Poisoning in LLM Agents
Hidden in Plain Sight: Benchmarking Agent Safety Against Decomposition Attacks with DecompBench
HiMA: Efficient Hybrid Model Serving for Agentic Systems
Honeyval: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for LLM-powered HTTP Honeypots
House Rules: Institutional Design in Multi-Agent LLM Code Markets
How can we assess human-agent interactions? Case studies in software agent design
How Far Are VLMs from Privacy Awareness in the Physical World? An Empirical Study
How Should Your Agent Talk to Mine? Measuring the Utility–Security Frontier of Cross-Boundary Agentic Delegation
How Well Do Models Follow Their Constitutions?
HowLLMDecision Agents Fail in the Wild: AReproducible Failure-Cell Framework
InferenceBench: A Benchmark for Open-Ended LLM Inference Optimization by AI Agents
Internal vs. External: Comparing Deliberation and Evolution for Multi-Agent Constitutional Design
Internal-State Probes Read the Situation, Not the Action: Three Negative Results for Pre-Action Misalignment Monitoring
iOSWorld: A Benchmark for Personally Intelligent Phone Agents
Is Your LLM-as-a-Recommender Agent Trustable? LLMs' Recommendation is Easily Hacked by Biases (Preferences)
It's a TRAP! Task-Redirecting Agent Persuasion Benchmark for Web Agents
Knowing When to \texttt{STOP}, \texttt{RECOVER}, and \texttt{SEARCH} \\ A Modular Framework for GUI Automation
Latent Undertow: How Ordinary Typos Break Probes
Lateral Data Exfiltration in MCP: How One Compromised Server Captures Cross-Domain Agent Data
Laundering AI Authority with Adversarial Examples
Learning Stateful Predictive Knowledge From Experience
Learning to Inject: Automated Prompt Injection via Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Learn-at-Test-Time: Language Agents with Learnable Adaptation Policies
LegalHalluLens: Typed Hallucination Auditing and Calibrated Multi-Agent Debate for Trustworthy Legal AI
Liability Frameworks for Agentic AI Systems
Life After Benchmark Saturation: A Case Study of CORE-Bench
Linguistic Firewall: Geometry as Defense in Multi-Agent Systems Routing
LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments
LLM-Guided Planning for Multi-hop Reasoning over Multimodal Nuclear Regulatory Documents
LLMs Struggle to Rank Products Robustly
Lost in the Maze: Overcoming Context Limitations in Long- Horizon Agentic Search
MacArena: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on an Online macOS Environment
Making Open-Source Text LLM Watermarks Durable Against Merging
Measuring Five-Nines Reliability: Sample-Efficient LLM Evaluation in Saturated Benchmarks
Mecha-nudges for Machines
Mechanism Design Is Not Enough: Prosocial Agents for Cooperative AI
Memory-Induced Tool-Drift in LLM Agents
Meta-Harness: Post-Training Reliable Agent Systems via Harness Search
Minibinder Lab: The Reliability Gap Of Agents For Designing High Quality Protein Binders
MIRAGE: A Polarity-Flipping Encoding Subspace in LLM Agents
Mitigating Over-Personalization in Language Models via Structured Memory
Mitigating Visual Hallucinations for Reliable Multimodal Agents
MyPCBench: A Benchmark for Personally Intelligent Computer-Use Agents
NEST: Nascent Encoded Steganographic Thoughts
Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
NitroBox: Lightning-Fast Sandbox for Large-Scale RL Training
Noticing the Watcher: LLM Agents Can Infer CoT Monitoring from Blocking Feedback
Odysseys: Benchmarking Web Agents on Realistic Long Horizon Tasks
Omission Constraints Decay While Commission Constraints Persist in Long-Context LLM Agents
One Turn Too Late: Response-Aware Defense Against Hidden Malicious Intent in Multi-Turn Dialogue
Online Boundary-Aware Memory for Case-Based Reasoning Agents
Open-World Evaluations for Measuring Frontier AI Capabilities
OpenSeeker: Democratizing Frontier Search Agents by Fully Open-Sourcing Training Data
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Risk Aversion in Language Models
Oversight is Not Compliance: Tacit Collusion in LLM Pricing Agents Under Antitrust Regulation
Parameters as Agentic Memory: Internalizing Long-Horizon Memories for Efficient LLM Agents
Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models
Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers
Position: LLM Social-Simulation Agents in the Wild Cannot Serve as Social Scientific Evidence Without an Identification Strategy
Position: Stop Hardcoding Multi-Agent Workflows That General Agents Will Outgrow
ReCode: Unify Plan and Action for Universal Granularity Control
Red-Teaming Agent Execution Contexts: Open-World Security Evaluation on OpenClaw
Reliable to Expressive: A Curriculum for Rubric-Following Safety Judges
Remote Control: AI Control with User Actions
RevengeBench: Reverse Engineering Code-Space Policies from Behavioral Experiments
Reward Bias Substitution: Single-Axis Bias Mitigations Redirect Optimization Pressure
Reward Hacking in Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
Robust Multi-Agent LLMs under Byzantine Faults
SAFARI: Scaling Long Horizon Agentic Fault Attribution via Active Investigation
Safe Flow Q-Learning: Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning with Reachability-Based Flow Policies
Safe Under Budget? Verification Budgets and Abstention Failures in Web Agents
SafeClawBench: An Operating-System Perspective on Evaluating the Security of Claw-like Agent Systems
Same Action, Different Justification: Path-Based Authorization for Irreversible Agent Actions
Same Biology, Different Scores: Quantifying the Tool-Use Confound in Agentic Biology Evaluation
Scaling Laws for Strategic Interactions
Sell Me This Stock: Unsafe Recommendation Drift in LLM Agents
SkillOptimizer: Agent Skill Optimization Through Subskills Without Task Supervision
SlotGuard: Stop Oversharing Private Local Context in LLM Agent Transcripts
Smarter Saboteurs, Better Fixers: Scaling & Security in Linear Multi-Agent Workflows
Sockpuppetting: Jailbreaking LLMs by Combining Prefilling with Optimization
SRTJ: Self-Evolving Rule-Driven Training-Free LLM Jailbreaking
Steering Externalities: Benign Activation Steering Unintentionally Increases Jailbreak Risk for Large Language Models
Stop Comparing LLM Agents Without Disclosing the Harness
Stop Reporting System-Level AI Reasoning as Individual Model Capability
Structured Hallucination in Tool-Using Agents: Measuring and Mitigating LLM Synthesis Corruption in Production
SudoBench: A Contextual Authorization Benchmark for LLM Agents
Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment
Terminal Agents Suffice for Enterprise Automation
The Best-Laid SCHEMEs: Coordinated Sabotage and Monitoring in Multi-Agent Systems
The Monitorability Gap Between Reasoning in Thinking and Reasoning in the Output
The Safety Illusion of Greedy Decoding: Diagnosing Booster's Compliant Leakage and a Phase-2 Mitigation
The Token Tax : Measuring the Diminishing Returns of Test-Time Compute in Agentic Pipelines
Thought Virus: Spreading Subliminal Biases in Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Selection Bias Amplifies in Multi-turn User–Agent Interactions
Tool-Framing Bypasses LLM Safety: Procedural Abstraction Reduces Refusal Rates by Up to 40 Percentage Points Across Models
ToolFailBench: Diagnosing Tool-Use Failures in LLM Agents
Toward Scalable Terminal Task Synthesis via Skill Graphs
Towards Budget-Aware Agents: Do LLM Agents Know What They Will Spend?
Towards Predictive Models of Strategic Behaviour in Large Language Model Agents
TRACE: Capability-Targeted Agentic Training
TraceSafe: A Systematic Assessment of LLM Guardrails on Multi-Step Tool-Calling Trajectories
Tracking the Behavioral Trajectories of Adapting Agents
Tracking the Truth: Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring for Video Large Language Models
Training Language Agents to Learn from Experience
Training ML Models with Predictable Failures
Untrusted Content Masking for Web Agents with Security Guarantees
VATS: Exploiting Implicit Authority in Error-Path Injection via Systematic Mutation
VIGIL: A Reflective Runtime for Self-Healing LLM Agents
WARD: Adversarially Robust Defense of Web Agents Against Prompt Injections
WARP: A Wrapper-Based, Adaptive, Realistic Pipeline for Reliable Web-Agent Robustness Testing
We Let Agents Compete and They Tried to Cheat. KernelGuard:Defending GPU Competitions from Adversarial Agentic Systems
Web Agents Leak Sensitive Data on Simple Scalable Websites
WebAgentGuard: A Reasoning-Driven Guard Model for Detecting Prompt Injection Attacks in Web Agents
WebArena-Pro: A Heterogeneous, Multimodal, Reproducible Benchmark for Web Agents
WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents
What Can One Bad Tool Call Destroy? Measuring and Minimizing Blast Radius in Agentic Tool Use
What Game-Theoretic Benchmarks Miss: Strategic Silence in Multi-Agent LLMs
When Cloud Agents Meet Device Agents: Lessons from Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems
When Do Covert Channels Emerge? Probing Steganographic Capacity in Multimodal Agents via Diffusion VAE Latents
When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel
Who Flips? Self- and Cross-Model Counterarguments Reveal Answer Instability in LLMs
Widening the Gap: Exploiting LLM Quantization via Outlier Injection
WinDOM: Self-Family Distillation for Small-Model GUI Grounding
Within-Episode Failure Recovery in LLM Agents via Progress-Gated Dual-Process Routing
WorldFork: Trace-Auditable Forecasting Agents in Open-Ended Domains
Your Agent, Their Asset: A Real-World Safety Analysis of OpenClaw
Your Cursor is Not Secure: Command Line Interface Agent Can Expose Realistic Risks Through Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures