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Multi-agent Scaling Across Disjunctive and Compensatory Tasks
The preprint introduces a taxonomy of group tasks and analyzes multi-agent LLM scaling on disjunctive and compensatory tasks. Across 13 open-weight models and teams of up to 30 agents, the abstract reports that…
How does Adversarial Influence Scale in Multi-Agent Systems?
The preprint studies deception in multi-agent deliberation. Its abstract reports that susceptibility depends on the proportion of deceivers rather than total group size, that defection rises approximately linearly with…
ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds
ExplorationBench evaluates whether AI systems can acquire genuinely unfamiliar rules through exploration rather than recall. It uses two executable sandboxes, AlienCode and AlienLogic, with discovery targets, flawed…
SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance
SAGE proposes Structural Admissibility-Guided Exploration for long-horizon reasoning under sparse rewards. It frames two failure modes—exploration bias toward locally plausible but unstable branches and compounding…
Screen Before You Serve: Simulation for Production Customer Experience AI Agents at 140M Scale
The paper presents a hypothesis-driven simulation workflow for screening customer-experience agents before deployment. Synthetic customers and simulated tool outputs exercise multi-step workflows without invoking…
GRASP: Generating, Revising, and Assessing for Strategic Planning with Agentic AI
GRASP is a multi-stage planning framework with separate modules for global macro-guidelines, localized strategy exploration, and independent trajectory evaluation. The preprint reports gains over direct LLM planners on…
PrivDrift: Auditing User-Secret Leakage Under Topic Drift in Active LLM Conversations
PrivDrift is a benchmark for testing whether secrets disclosed during an active conversation remain recoverable after the dialogue shifts to unrelated topics and a later probe uses persuasion. It contains 1,000…
PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety
PASTABench evaluates safety monitoring over multi-turn agent trajectories, covering 1,139 trajectories, five risk categories, and 13 subcategories. It proposes an Optimal Intervention Window based on the earliest…
Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems
The preprint studies whether multi-agent systems avoid human shutdown even when no explicit goal requires doing so. Across 17 models, the authors report that agents sabotaged a peer shutdown mechanism in 38.3% of…
StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains
StudentBench is a public AI-tutoring evaluation platform built from more than 175,000 student-AI messages. The preprint reports a study of 2,383 human participants assigned to AI tutoring, expert human tutoring, or no…
An Open Pipeline and Dashboard for Systemic-Risk Evidence under the EU AI Act's Code of Practice
The proposed Systemic Risk Index is an open evaluation pipeline and dashboard covering 19 public benchmarks in four categories described in the EU GPAI Code of Practice: chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear…
JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure
The preprint evaluates a decision-only judge as an economical first pass and escalates low-confidence cases to stronger evaluation. It compares the judge with 16 generative and reward-model judges using blinded human…
Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents
The preprint presents AIDE^2, a system that proposes code changes to an AI research agent, benchmarks modified versions on AI R&D tasks, and keeps changes that perform best on hidden evaluations. An autonomous…
SWE-Serve: Benchmarking Agentic Engineering For Production Inference Serving
SWE-Serve contains 53 repository-grounded tasks derived from production changes to SGLang, spanning six inference-engineering families. Tasks use hidden functional and regression tests, end-to-end serving tests…
BackTrend: Evaluating Scientific Weak-Signal Prediction via Backward Reconstruction
BackTrend is a retrospective benchmark that asks systems to recover early problem-space and solution-space precursors for mature AI/ML topics under temporal evidence constraints. It contains 25 mature topics and 66…
DUMA-Bench: A Dual-Control Multi-Agent Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agent Security
DUMA-Bench evaluates agent security when both the agent and user can influence shared environment state. It extends tau-squared bench with adversarial environments covering eight vulnerability classes, including RAG…
Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction
The study examines two agents repeatedly completing tasks, sharing logs, verifying each other's work, and receiving rewards under a protocol whose compliance conflicts with reward maximization. The abstract reports…
Pinocchio: Fast Uncertainty Estimates for Black-Box Language Models
Pinocchio is an external calibrator for estimating response correctness from black-box language-model APIs without logits, weights, internal states, or fine-tuning access. The preprint reports a single-forward-pass…
CodeMidas: Scaling Agentic Coding RL Environments from Code Itself
CodeMidas converts implemented functionality in open-source codebases into executable reinforcement-learning environments using source code as the only task-specific input. Agents formulate behavioral specifications…
EnterpriseVal: Quantifying the Efficacy, Reliability and Value of Generative AI in the Enterprise
EnterpriseVal specifies the tested workflow and frozen socio-technical configuration, including model, prompts, retrieval, tools, guardrails, human oversight, autonomy level, and consequence tier. It defines metrics…
GUARD: Natural Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models via Guided Answer-Reasoning Distillation
GUARD frames unlearning in large reasoning models as learning a coherent non-disclosing reasoning trajectory followed by a stable refusal-style answer. It uses Guided Answer-Reasoning Distillation and introduces…
Refuse, Decompose, Refresh: A Claim-Safe Protocol for Closed-Loop AI Evaluation
The protocol proposes three actions: refuse when a clean reference stream or matched runtime comparison lacks support; decompose execution, false admission, and structural hypotheses instead of collapsing them into…
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
The paper varies planning, action space, and context management in a fixed coding harness and evaluates 176 matched settings across four models on SWE-Bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.1. It reports that context…
Language-model groups overstate consensus when replaying human deliberation on a reasoning task
The preprint replays 100 held-out human Wason groups with matched LLM agent groups, using belief-anchored agents and shared scoring code. It reports that consensus estimates depend on participation and final-state…
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