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Xusheng Xiao

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Cryptography and SecurityComputation and LanguageDatabasesArtificial IntelligenceMultiagent SystemsSocial and Information NetworksSoftware Engineering

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preprint2026arXiv

Agent+P: Guiding UI Agents via Symbolic Planning

Large Language Model (LLM)-based UI agents show great promise for UI automation but often hallucinate in long-horizon tasks due to their lack of understanding of the global UI transition structure. To address this, we introduce AGENT+P, a novel framework that leverages symbolic planning to guide LLM-based UI agents. Specifically, we model an app's UI transition structure as a UI Transition Graph (UTG), which allows us to reformulate the UI automation task as a pathfinding problem on the UTG. This further enables an off-the-shelf symbolic planner to generate a provably correct and optimal high-level plan, preventing the agent from redundant exploration and guiding the agent to achieve the automation goals. AGENT+P is designed as a plug-and-play framework to enhance existing UI agents. Evaluation on the AndroidWorld benchmark demonstrates that AGENT+P improves the success rates of state-of-the-art UI agents by up to 14.31% and reduces the action steps by 37.70%.

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preprint2026arXiv

GRID: Graph Representation of Intelligence Data for Security Text Knowledge Graph Construction

Security knowledge graphs can provide computable external memory for security agents, but constructing them from long-form cyber threat intelligence (CTI) remains difficult: LLMs often lack grounded security-domain knowledge, and end-to-end document-to-graph training is hard to supervise with cheap, stable rewards. We present GRID (Graph Representation of Intelligence Data), an end-to-end framework for security text knowledge graph construction. GRID first builds security-domain supervision from CTI articles by creating traceable article-graph alignments through graph extraction and knowledge-graph-conditioned text revision. It then turns document-to-graph learning into a scripted task bank combining four-option multi-select questions with triple-level regex matching targets, yielding more stable task-specific rewards than repeatedly scoring full graph outputs with an LLM judge. Using this supervision pipeline, we train two Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-based 4B extractors: a primary Task-bank Reward model and a secondary End2End Reward model with LLM-as-judge precision/recall rewards. On 249 CTI articles from GRID, CASIE, CTINexus, MalKG, and SecureNLP, the Task-bank Reward model with the ontology-guided GRID extraction pipeline reaches 84.62% source-averaged precision, 64.91% source-averaged recall, and 68.53% Avg F1, achieving the best source-averaged recall and near-top Avg F1 with lower token usage and deployment cost. The End2End Reward model reaches 76.91% precision, 53.85% recall, and 58.06% Avg F1. Further analyses show that task-bank rewards can be built once offline and reused across later post-training runs, outperforming online End2End LLM-as-judge reward and weaker alternatives such as Choice-only Reward and End2End SFT without RL.

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preprint2026arXiv

PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations

Conversational scams, such as romance and investment scams, are emerging as a major form of online fraud. Unlike one-shot scam lures such as fake lottery or unpaid toll messages, they unfold through multi-turn conversations in which scammers gradually manipulate victims using evolving psychological techniques. However, existing research mainly focuses on static scam detection or synthetic scams, leaving open whether language models can understand how real-world scams progress over time. We introduce PreScam, a benchmark for modeling scam progression from early conversations. Built from user-submitted scam reports, PreScam filters and structures 177,989 raw reports into 11,573 conversational scam instances spanning 20 scam categories. Each instance is hierarchically structured according to the scam lifecycle defined by the proposed scam kill chain, and further annotated at the turn level with scammer psychological actions and victim responses. We benchmark models on two tasks: real-time termination prediction, which estimates whether a conversation is approaching the termination stage, and scammer action prediction, which forecasts the scammer's subsequent actions. Results show a clear gap between surface-level fluency and progression modeling: supervised encoders substantially outperform zero-shot LLMs on real-time termination prediction, while next-action prediction remains only moderately successful even for strong LLMs. Taken together, these results show that current models can capture some scam-related cues, yet still struggle to track how risk escalates and how manipulation unfolds across turns.

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preprint2021arXiv

A System for Efficiently Hunting for Cyber Threats in Computer Systems Using Threat Intelligence

Log-based cyber threat hunting has emerged as an important solution to counter sophisticated cyber attacks. However, existing approaches require non-trivial efforts of manual query construction and have overlooked the rich external knowledge about threat behaviors provided by open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence (OSCTI). To bridge the gap, we build ThreatRaptor, a system that facilitates cyber threat hunting in computer systems using OSCTI. Built upon mature system auditing frameworks, ThreatRaptor provides (1) an unsupervised, light-weight, and accurate NLP pipeline that extracts structured threat behaviors from unstructured OSCTI text, (2) a concise and expressive domain-specific query language, TBQL, to hunt for malicious system activities, (3) a query synthesis mechanism that automatically synthesizes a TBQL query from the extracted threat behaviors, and (4) an efficient query execution engine to search the big system audit logging data.

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preprint2021arXiv

CHAMP: Characterizing Undesired App Behaviors from User Comments based on Market Policies

Millions of mobile apps have been available through various app markets. Although most app markets have enforced a number of automated or even manual mechanisms to vet each app before it is released to the market, thousands of low-quality apps still exist in different markets, some of which violate the explicitly specified market policies.In order to identify these violations accurately and timely, we resort to user comments, which can form an immediate feedback for app market maintainers, to identify undesired behaviors that violate market policies, including security-related user concerns. Specifically, we present the first large-scale study to detect and characterize the correlations between user comments and market policies. First, we propose CHAMP, an approach that adopts text mining and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract semantic rules through a semi-automated process, and classifies comments into 26 pre-defined types of undesired behaviors that violate market policies. Our evaluation on real-world user comments shows that it achieves both high precision and recall ($>0.9$) in classifying comments for undesired behaviors. Then, we curate a large-scale comment dataset (over 3 million user comments) from apps in Google Play and 8 popular alternative Android app markets, and apply CHAMP to understand the characteristics of undesired behavior comments in the wild. The results confirm our speculation that user comments can be used to pinpoint suspicious apps that violate policies declared by app markets. The study also reveals that policy violations are widespread in many app markets despite their extensive vetting efforts. CHAMP can be a \textit{whistle blower} that assigns policy-violation scores and identifies most informative comments for apps.

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preprint2021arXiv

Enabling Efficient Cyber Threat Hunting With Cyber Threat Intelligence

Log-based cyber threat hunting has emerged as an important solution to counter sophisticated attacks. However, existing approaches require non-trivial efforts of manual query construction and have overlooked the rich external threat knowledge provided by open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence (OSCTI). To bridge the gap, we propose ThreatRaptor, a system that facilitates threat hunting in computer systems using OSCTI. Built upon system auditing frameworks, ThreatRaptor provides (1) an unsupervised, light-weight, and accurate NLP pipeline that extracts structured threat behaviors from unstructured OSCTI text, (2) a concise and expressive domain-specific query language, TBQL, to hunt for malicious system activities, (3) a query synthesis mechanism that automatically synthesizes a TBQL query for hunting, and (4) an efficient query execution engine to search the big audit logging data. Evaluations on a broad set of attack cases demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of ThreatRaptor in practical threat hunting.

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preprint2020arXiv

Querying Streaming System Monitoring Data for Enterprise System Anomaly Detection

The need for countering Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks has led to the solutions that ubiquitously monitor system activities in each enterprise host, and perform timely abnormal system behavior detection over the stream of monitoring data. However, existing stream-based solutions lack explicit language constructs for expressing anomaly models that capture abnormal system behaviors, thus facing challenges in incorporating expert knowledge to perform timely anomaly detection over the large-scale monitoring data. To address these limitations, we build SAQL, a novel stream-based query system that takes as input, a real-time event feed aggregated from multiple hosts in an enterprise, and provides an anomaly query engine that queries the event feed to identify abnormal behaviors based on the specified anomaly models. SAQL provides a domain-specific query language, Stream-based Anomaly Query Language (SAQL), that uniquely integrates critical primitives for expressing major types of anomaly models. In the demo, we aim to show the complete usage scenario of SAQL by (1) performing an APT attack in a controlled environment, and (2) using SAQL to detect the abnormal behaviors in real time by querying the collected stream of system monitoring data that contains the attack traces. The audience will have the option to interact with the system and detect the attack footprints in real time via issuing queries and checking the query results through a command-line UI.

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preprint2015arXiv

Behavior Query Discovery in System-Generated Temporal Graphs

Computer system monitoring generates huge amounts of logs that record the interaction of system entities. How to query such data to better understand system behaviors and identify potential system risks and malicious behaviors becomes a challenging task for system administrators due to the dynamics and heterogeneity of the data. System monitoring data are essentially heterogeneous temporal graphs with nodes being system entities and edges being their interactions over time. Given the complexity of such graphs, it becomes time-consuming for system administrators to manually formulate useful queries in order to examine abnormal activities, attacks, and vulnerabilities in computer systems. In this work, we investigate how to query temporal graphs and treat query formulation as a discriminative temporal graph pattern mining problem. We introduce TGMiner to mine discriminative patterns from system logs, and these patterns can be taken as templates for building more complex queries. TGMiner leverages temporal information in graphs to prune graph patterns that share similar growth trend without compromising pattern quality. Experimental results on real system data show that TGMiner is 6-32 times faster than baseline methods. The discovered patterns were verified by system experts; they achieved high precision (97%) and recall (91%).

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