Yangguang Shao


2026

Large vision–language model (LVLM)-based web agents are emerging as powerful automation tools but face severe security risks in real-world deployment. Existing benchmarks offer limited coverage, typically isolating user-level prompts from environmental threats, thus failing to capture the full spectrum of vulnerabilities. To address this, we present SecureWebArena, the first holistic security benchmark for web agents. SecureWebArena features a unified suite of six realistic web environments with 2,970 adversarial trajectories, covering a structured taxonomy of six attack vectors that span both user-level and environment-level manipulations. Crucially, we introduce a multi-layered evaluation protocol that dissects agent failures across internal reasoning, behavioral execution, and task outcomes, enabling fine-grained risk analysis beyond simple success metrics. Experiments on 9 representative LVLMs reveal universal vulnerabilities to subtle manipulations and uncover significant trade-offs between model specialization and security. SecureWebArena establishes a rigorous foundation for advancing the development of trustworthy web agents.

2025

Fingerprinting large language models (LLMs) is essential for verifying model ownership, ensuring authenticity, and preventing misuse. Traditional fingerprinting methods often require significant computational overhead or white-box verification access. In this paper, we introduce UTF, a novel and efficient approach to fingerprinting LLMs by leveraging under-trained tokens. Under-trained tokens are tokens that the model has not fully learned during its training phase. By utilizing these tokens, we perform supervised fine-tuning to embed specific input-output pairs into the model. This process allows the LLM to produce predetermined outputs when presented with certain inputs, effectively embedding a unique fingerprint. Our method has minimal overhead and impact on model’s performance, and does not require white-box access to target model’s ownership identification. Compared to existing fingerprinting methods, UTF is also more effective and robust to fine-tuning and random guess.