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  1. nanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own

    Source note · Oct 6, 2026 · agents, infrastructure, privacy

    The preprint presents nanoMuse as an open-source counterpart to persistent personal agents that operate across a user's accounts and devices. It describes a shared conversation over a user-runnable relay, a Sentinel…

  2. AgentPrivArena: Evaluating and Auditing Real-world AI Agent Privacy

    Source note · Oct 5, 2026 · evaluation, agents, safety

    The preprint introduces AgentPrivArena, a reproducible environment that integrates authentic MCP tools and self-hosted services to evaluate privacy risks during realistic multi-step agent execution. It proposes…

  3. Homomorphic Advantage Operator: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning Under Fully Homomorphic Encryption Constraints

    Source note · Oct 1, 2026 · reinforcement learning, security, infrastructure

    The preprint proposes the Homomorphic Advantage Operator to stabilize deep reinforcement learning when nonlinear operations are approximated under fully homomorphic encryption. It applies a zero-mean centering…

  4. PrivDrift: Auditing User-Secret Leakage Under Topic Drift in Active LLM Conversations

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, security, privacy

    PrivDrift is a benchmark for testing whether secrets disclosed during an active conversation remain recoverable after the dialogue shifts to unrelated topics and a later probe uses persuasion. It contains 1,000…

  5. Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents

    Source note · Sep 21, 2026 · agents, safety, privacy

    The preprint studies personal agents making economic recommendations from user context, including email and structured personal attributes. It reports 325,000 experiments across 13 agents and three decision types…

  6. Beyond the Transcript: Detecting Covert Co ordination in Latent Multi-Agent Communication

    Source note · Aug 19, 2026 · ai, machine learning, language model

    Researchers have developed Verifiable Latent Alignments (VLA), a framework for monitoring and controlling communication between language-model agents that occurs through hidden states not visible in public transcripts…

  7. From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · ai, healthcare, privacy

    The research proposes a multi-layered architecture for hospital AI systems aimed at addressing the challenges of isolated AI deployments in hospitals. The proposed architecture includes an Agent Orchestration Layer, a…

  8. From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · privacy, healthcare ai, compliance

    The research proposes a multi-layered compliance-first Agentic AI architecture for hospital systems. The architecture aims to address the challenges of siloed AI deployments in hospitals by integrating various layers…

  9. When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPO

    Source note · Jul 9, 2026 · reinforcement learning, privacy

    The paper presents a new approach for adapting Large Language Model (LLM) based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems to regulated domains like banking using synthetic text-to-speech instead of real speech due to…

  10. SovereignPA-Bench: Evaluating User-Owned Personal Agents under Evolving Intent, Platform Mediation, and Consent Constraints

    Source note · Jul 6, 2026 · ai, evaluation, benchmarking

    The text introduces a new benchmark called SovereignPA-Bench for evaluating user-owned personal agents. The benchmark focuses on aspects like preserving user sovereignty, privacy, consent, and resisting manipulative…

  11. Copewell: A Multi-Agent Swarm Architecture for Equitable Mental Wellness Support

    Source note · Jul 2, 2026 · privacy, multi-agent system

    The paper introduces Copewell, a novel multi-agent swarm system designed to improve mental health support, particularly for people in low- and middle-income countries where access is limited due to various factors. The…

  12. LACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning

    Source note · Jul 2, 2026 · large language models, evaluation methods, privacy

    Researchers introduce LACUNA, a testbed for evaluating the precision of unlearning methods in large language models (LLMs). The testbed allows direct evaluation of whether unlearning targets the weights responsible for…

  13. LACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning

    Source note · Jul 2, 2026 · evaluation, privacy, unlearning

    Researchers introduce LACUNA, a testbed that allows for direct evaluation of unlearning methods at the parameter level. LACUNA is used to assess current state-of-the-art unlearning methods and finds them to be…

  14. FedXDS: Leveraging Model Attribution Methods to counteract Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

    Source note · Jun 30, 2026 · ai, privacy, explainability

    The paper introduces FedXDS, a method that uses explainable AI (XAI) to help mitigate performance degradation in federated learning caused by statistical heterogeneity between client data distributions. The approach…

  15. Privacy-Preserving RAG via Multi-Agent Semantic Rewriting: Achieving Confidentiality Without Compromising Contextual Fidelity

    Source note · Jun 23, 2026 · evaluation, large language models, privacy

    The authors propose a multi-agent framework that uses semantic rewriting to enhance large language models in sensitive scenarios while preserving privacy and contextual fidelity. The framework was tested on two…

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