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Beining Xu 徐北宁

Undergraduate student in Electronic and Computer Engineering
Shenzhen MSU-BIT University · Shenzhen, China

I study trustworthy AI and information security, with a focus on privacy in document multimodal models, agentic search security, LLM uncertainty, and the safety of mental-health dialogue systems.

I am also president of the university's Computer Association. My security work includes binary vulnerability exploitation, IoT security, reverse engineering, and vulnerability reporting.

Research interests

News

Recent research and milestones

2026

“Auditing Implicit Sycophancy in Mental-Health Dialogue” appeared in the EI-MiGA workshop proceedings at IJCAI 2026.

TECP: Token-Entropy Conformal Prediction for LLMs was accepted by Mathematics.

TECP was released on arXiv.

A remote code execution vulnerability was collected by the CNVD Vulnerability Database.

I completed my internship as an IoT Security Engineer at Hillstone Networks Co., Ltd.

A remote code execution vulnerability was collected by CNNVD.

Publications

Research papers and poster

Threat model for compromising agentic search through a malicious retriever

ICLR 2027 Under Review · Agentic Search Security

Backdoor in the Loop: Compromising Agentic Search via Malicious Retrievers

Beining Xu, Peichun Hua, Yunming Xiao

This work exposes a systematic vulnerability in agentic RAG: a compromised retriever can exploit the search feedback loop to suppress useful evidence, repeatedly surface a chosen document, or prolong search, even when the corpus and agent remain unchanged. It also shows how an inject-and-remove cycle can conceal the malicious behavior from backdoor detectors.

Beyond Visual Evidence, ACM MM 2026 poster

ACM MM 2026 Poster · Accepted July 10, 2026

Beyond Visual Evidence: Revealing and Mitigating Relational Privacy Leakage in Document MLLMs

Beining Xu*, Hairui Wang*, Jiaxin Wang, Changsheng Chen, Anirban Chakraborty

Document MLLMs can reveal correlated private fields even when visual evidence is weak. We study relation-level privacy leakage and introduce DRUF, a dynamic unlearning method that suppresses exposed field pairs while preserving key information extraction.

EI-MiGA @ IJCAI 2026 Workshop · Springer CCIS

Auditing Implicit Sycophancy in Mental-Health Dialogue: Structured Clinical-State Diagnostics and Clean Matched Benchmarks

Tianze Han*, Beining Xu*, Hanbo Zhang, Yongming Lu

This paper audits a hidden dialogue risk: a response may sound empathetic while reinforcing harmful cognition. It introduces a clean matched benchmark and Dynamic Emotional Signature Graphs (DESG) to evaluate clinical-state changes rather than surface wording alone.

TECP empirical miscoverage results

Mathematics 2025

TECP: Token-Entropy Conformal Prediction for LLMs

Beining Xu, Yongming Lu

A framework that uses token-level entropy as a logit-free and reference-free uncertainty measure and integrates it into a split conformal prediction pipeline.

Security research

Vulnerability analysis and reporting

Alongside AI research, I investigate deployed systems through binary analysis, reverse engineering, and IoT device security.

CNVD certificate

CNVD · Remote code execution

CNVD Certificate: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Found through binary analysis, stack overflow exploitation, return address overwrite, and repeated debugging.

CNNVD certificate

CNNVD · Remote code execution

CNNVD Certificate: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Assembly-level debugging and binary-level vulnerability analysis and exploitation.

SQL injection CVE listing

CVE-2024-52675 · SQL injection

Sourcecodester Sentiment Based Movie Success Rating Prediction System

A SQL injection vulnerability discovered and reported in the movie rating prediction system.

D-Link vulnerability metrics

CVE-2025-5228 · Binary vulnerability

D-Link DI-8100 Binary Vulnerability

A binary vulnerability discovered and reported in the D-Link DI-8100 device.

Background

Education, experience, and recognition

Education & experience

2023–2027
Shenzhen MSU-BIT University

B.Eng. in Electronic and Computer Engineering.

May–Jul 2025
Hillstone Networks Co., Ltd.

IoT Security Engineer Intern. Worked on device vulnerability research, CNVD and CNNVD submissions, vulnerability technology tracking articles, and product vulnerability reports.

Internship certificate ↗
Leadership
Computer Association

President, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University.

Awards & certificates

Bronze Medal

2024 CCPC Guangzhou Invitational Contest.

Certificate ↗
  • CNVD-2025-14134
  • CNVD-2025-13986
  • CNVD-2025-16003
  • CNVD-2025-13939
  • CNNVD-2025-99097845

Writing & community

Security research notes and technical articles.