Yujing Zhang


2026

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding their responses in structured knowledge graphs. Leveraging community detection and relation filtering techniques, GraphRAG systems demonstrate inherent resistance to traditional RAG attacks, such as text poisoning and prompt injection. However, in this paper, we find that the security of GraphRAG systems fundamentally relies on the topological integrity of the underlying graph, which can be undermined by implicitly corrupting the logical connections, without altering surface-level text semantics. To exploit this vulnerability, we propose LogicPoison, a novel attack framework that targets logical reasoning rather than injecting false contents. Specifically, LogicPoison employs a type-preserving entity swapping mechanism to perturb both global logic hubs for disrupting overall graph connectivity and query-specific reasoning bridges for severing essential multi-hop inference paths. This approach effectively reroutes valid reasoning into dead ends while maintaining surface-level textual plausibility. Comprehensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that LogicPoison successfully bypasses GraphRAG’s defenses, significantly degrading performance and outperforming state-of-the-art baselines in both effectiveness and stealth. Our code is available at <https://github.com/Jord8061/logicPoison>.
Financial management is high-stakes, where small errors can propagate into reporting deviations and costly downstream decisions, yet real-world workflows remain labor-intensive and fragmented, and existing automation supports only isolated steps rather than complete workflows. Large language models (LLMs) show promise in automating financial workflows, but current benchmarks lack domain-specific data, realistic workflow-level task design, and standardized workflow-level evaluation. To address these gaps, we present **FinMaster**, a benchmark for evaluating large language models on full financial management workflows spanning financial literacy, accounting, auditing, and consulting. **FinMaster** comprises three modules: *FinSim* generates synthetic datasets compliant with real-world accounting standards for diverse company types, enabling realistic evaluation without relying on proprietary financial records. *FinSuite* offers 183 tasks across core financial domains. *FinEval* provides a unified evaluation framework. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art models including GPT-4o-mini, Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and DeepSeek-V3 reveal critical capability gaps in financial reasoning, with accuracy dropping from over 90% on basic tasks to 40% on complex scenarios requiring multi-step reasoning. This degradation reflects error propagation, where accuracy reaches 58% for single-metric calculations but decreases to 37% in multi-metric settings. **FinMaster** provides scalable and reproducible benchmarking for realistic end-to-end financial workflows, helping advance reliable deployment of LLMs in financial practice.