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No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers

Metadata-only screening could cheaply prioritize security reviews across large agent-tool catalogs, including closed services. Its high recall came with 143 tools flagged for 95 confirmed vulnerabilities, so the method is a triage mechanism rather than proof of exploitability and still requires later validation.

Coverage window: 2026-09-01T08:00:00Z–2026-09-13T00:00:05Z · publication dates shown on each item
01 / Research

No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers

Metadata-only screening could cheaply prioritize security reviews across large agent-tool catalogs, including closed services. Its high recall came with 143 tools flagged for 95 confirmed vulnerabilities, so the method is a triage mechanism rather than proof of exploitability and still requires later validation.

02 / Research

Characterizing Job Power Elasticity for Power-Flexible AI Training

Power availability is becoming a binding AI-infrastructure constraint, so workload-aware curtailment could raise cluster utilization and make training more responsive to grid conditions. The evidence is a preprint at up to 32 GPUs; production-scale clusters, different models, and real grid programs still need validation.

03 / Research

Same Day, Same Story; One Day Ahead, a Different Signal: The Dual Validity of Financial Sentiment

Investment teams should not treat higher sentiment-label accuracy as proof of better forecasting value, especially when social data contain spam and sampling choices alter rankings. The study is a preprint with a single-annotator gold sample and a litigation-conditioned corpus, limiting generalization to ordinary market news.

04 / Research

Making Alternative Data Work: Context-Augmented LLMs for Financial Forecasting

The result suggests LLMs may provide a flexible integration layer for sparse, heterogeneous investment data without task-specific retraining. It is a short preprint using commercial datasets; the abstract does not quantify economic value after data, inference, and trading costs, and live out-of-sample performance is unproven.

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arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers

MCPSEC analyzes only the tool metadata exposed when an MCP server is registered, generating hypotheses about indirect prompt-injection vulnerabilities without source or runtime access. Human evaluators confirmed 95 vulnerable tools among 177 tools in 20 widely deployed servers; MCPSEC found 94 of them, or 98.9% recall, versus 84.2% for the paper's LLM baseline.

  • The evaluation covers 20 MCP servers and 177 tools.
  • Human evaluators confirmed 95 tools as vulnerable in the study.
  • MCPSEC identified 94 confirmed vulnerabilities for 98.9% recall, while flagging 143 tools overall.
Why it mattersMetadata-only screening could cheaply prioritize security reviews across large agent-tool catalogs, including closed services. Its high recall came with 143 tools flagged for 95 confirmed vulnerabilities, so the method is a triage mechanism rather than proof of exploitability and still requires later validation.
arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

Characterizing Job Power Elasticity for Power-Flexible AI Training

Across 131 LLM training runs on H200 GPUs, plus validation and H100 comparisons, the authors define a Power Flexibility Index to measure how throughput changes when GPU power is reduced. Under a 30% power cut, their PFI-aware allocation recovered about 1,500 tokens per second per job and 63% of the gap between equal allocation and an oracle.

  • The evaluation covers 131 LLM training runs on H200 GPUs, 24 H200 validation runs, and 34 matched H100 runs.
  • The authors report that PFI-aware allocation recovered about 1,500 tokens per second per job under a 30% power reduction.
  • The reported recovery equals 63% of the performance gap between equal-weight allocation and an oracle with perfect information.
Why it mattersPower availability is becoming a binding AI-infrastructure constraint, so workload-aware curtailment could raise cluster utilization and make training more responsive to grid conditions. The evidence is a preprint at up to 32 GPUs; production-scale clusters, different models, and real grid programs still need validation.
arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

Same Day, Same Story; One Day Ahead, a Different Signal: The Dual Validity of Financial Sentiment

Using 70,500 X messages linked to securities class actions from 2002-2025, the authors compare five sentiment tools against human agreement and abnormal returns. They find that semantic agreement and predictive ranking depend on sampling and score representation; benchmark agreement alone does not determine which instrument produces the strongest market signal.

  • The corpus links 70,500 X messages to securities class actions from 2002 through 2025.
  • The comparison covers VADER, Loughran-McDonald, FinBERT, Twitter-RoBERTa, and an LLM annotator.
  • The authors report that human-label agreement does not by itself determine predictive rankings for abnormal returns.
Why it mattersInvestment teams should not treat higher sentiment-label accuracy as proof of better forecasting value, especially when social data contain spam and sampling choices alter rankings. The study is a preprint with a single-annotator gold sample and a litigation-conditioned corpus, limiting generalization to ordinary market news.
arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

Making Alternative Data Work: Context-Augmented LLMs for Financial Forecasting

The authors test a two-agent system that first selects where an alternative-data channel is likely to be informative and then forecasts company revenue using firm- and channel-specific context. Across four commercial alternative-data channels, they report that combining alternative and conventional financial information improved forecast accuracy over either source alone and over standard baselines.

  • The framework uses one agent to identify relevant firm-channel pairs and another to forecast revenue from tailored context.
  • The evaluation covers four commercial alternative-data channels.
  • The authors report that combined alternative and conventional financial context outperformed either source alone and standard forecasting baselines.
Why it mattersThe result suggests LLMs may provide a flexible integration layer for sparse, heterogeneous investment data without task-specific retraining. It is a short preprint using commercial datasets; the abstract does not quantify economic value after data, inference, and trading costs, and live out-of-sample performance is unproven.
arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

Memory Compression for High-Fanout Agent Sandboxes

AgentZip compresses memory across related agent sandboxes by exploiting shared-template and cross-sandbox redundancy, prefetching restored pages, and scheduling compression while agents wait on model calls. The authors report up to an 8.7x reduction in sandbox-owned memory versus 2.1x for the tested Linux setup, while reducing aggressive-compression slowdown from as much as 3.1x to 1.40x.

  • AgentZip exploits both template-relative and cross-sandbox memory redundancy.
  • The authors report up to an 8.7x reduction in sandbox-owned memory compared with 2.1x for the tested Linux configuration.
  • Their restore-prefetch and execution-aware scheduling reduced the reported slowdown of aggressive compression from as high as 3.1x to 1.40x.
Why it mattersMemory rather than accelerator compute can become the bottleneck when one task fans out into many tool sandboxes, so cross-sandbox compression could materially lower agent-runtime infrastructure costs. Results are from a preprint and depend on the tested workloads and redundancy patterns; broader production validation is needed.
arXiv cs.AI Sep 12, 2026

Decoupling Readiness from Release for Tail-Aware Scheduling of Agentic LLM Workflows

The paper separates when an agent turn becomes ready from when it is released to a shared inference system, using a mean-CVaR objective and a queue-pressure-aware work budget. On real software-engineering agent traces, the authors report performance comparable to eager release at light load and up to a 3.50x reduction in P95 workflow completion time under contention.

  • The scheduler jointly chooses which ready turn to release and how much unfinished released work to maintain.
  • The evaluation uses real software-engineering agent execution traces across multiple models and arrival rates.
  • The authors report up to a 3.50x speedup in P95 workflow flow time under contention.
Why it mattersEnterprise agent services are judged on end-to-end tail latency, not single-call token speed; workflow-level admission control may therefore improve user experience without changing the model. The result is a preprint based on selected traces and arrival rates, so gains may not transfer to different tool mixes or serving stacks.

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