The Fly That Stopped: Mushroom-Body-Inspired Habituation as a Reward-Free Scheduling Prior for Autonomous Penetration Testing

arXiv:2609.29126 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/Unjuno/connectomefighter

Terminology

• Ablation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Analyzer — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Computer and Communications Security — 2× in this paper
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Animat — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Q-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• State Management — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• HBEE: Human Behavioral Entropy Engine -- Pre-Registered Multi-Agent LLM Simulation of Peer-Suspicion-Based Detection Inversion
• Pentest-R1: Towards Autonomous Penetration Testing Reasoning Optimized via Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning
• Novelty Detection on a Mobile Robot Using Habituation
• The Model Proposes, the Code Disposes: A Pre-Registered Ablation of a Verifier-and-Acceptance Stage in an LLM-Orchestrated Offensive-Security Agent
• Agentic Fuzzing: Opportunities and Challenges
• Autonomous Penetration Testing using Reinforcement Learning
• Preregistration for Experiments with AI Agents
• Behaviour-Diverse Automatic Penetration Testing: A Curiosity-Driven Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
• Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Penetration Testing using A3C, Q-learning and DQN

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