Evaluating Context Segmentation in Locally Deployable SLMs for Cybersecurity CTF Tasks

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.12839v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of highly capable open-weight Small Language Models (SLMs) democratizes access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities, posing a escalating risk as these models can bypass proprietary API guardrails when deployed locally. However, SLMs deployed as autonomous agents often struggle with long-horizon, exploratory tasks like cybersecurity Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges due to context bloat and cognitive degradation from accumulated tool-call outputs. To understand and mitigate this cybersecurity threat, we introduce context segmentation, a two-level agentic framework that divides complex exploitation tasks into manageable, contextually isolated sub-problems. Evaluating on the picoCTF dataset using memory-constrained