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  1. Empty Commitments: When Agents Promise What Their Runtime Cannot Deliver

    Oct 1, 2026Jiaqi Tang, Lan Wei, Bingyu Shen +1CommitmentChatbots

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA · Independent Researcher

  2. Context without Commitment: Robust Dense Correspondence under Non-Rigid Deformation

    Sep 29, 2026Yuzhen He, Sara HomscheidPoint Cloud RegistrationGround-Truth Correspondence

    Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine (MIISM) Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

  3. Reliable Parallel Decoding in Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Zhenghao He, Bohan Liu, Guangzhi Xiong +1Masked Diffusion Language ModelsConstrained Decoding

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  4. When Confidence Rises Too Early: Detecting Shortcut Reasoning via Premature Answer Commitment

    Sep 28, 2026Zhaohan Zhang, Junjie Liu, Chengzhengxu Li +6Reasoning SkillsOverconfidence

    Queen Mary University of London · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · Xi’an Jiaotong University

  5. Commitment Hierarchies under Intent Revision: A Belief-Revision Account of Salvage in Tool-Use Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Spandan Ghose ChowdhuryCommitmentRole

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  6. Script Choice in LLMs: Evidence for Late-Layer Commitment

    Sep 23, 2026David Kletz, Sandra Mitrović, Itay Sabato +2Cryptographic Merkle Tree CommitmentsCommitment

    SUPSI, IDSIA, Switzerland · Independent Researcher · armasuisse, Science & Technology, Switzerland

  7. When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control

    Sep 15, 2026Ali ŞenolAbstentionCommitment

    Department of Computer Engineering, Tarsus University, Tarsus, Türkiye

  8. Exact Fusion and Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Robot Active Inference

    Sep 15, 2026Peng Wu, Mohsen Imani, Amidu Kamara +3Multi-Robot SystemsExploration

    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. · University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. · U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, USA. +1

  9. Pilot Early, Commit Late: A Real-Options Model of Enterprise AI Adoption under Rapid Technological Progress

    Sep 14, 2026Gaurav TewariArtificial Intelligence DeploymentTechnology

    Omega Venture Partners

  10. Routing by Reasoning Need: Trajectory-Aware Decoding Control for Diffusion Vision-Language Models

    Sep 12, 2026Yixiang Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Zhonghua Wang +1Diffusion Language ModelsInference-Time Steering

    Southern University of Science and Technology · Monash University

  11. Silent Revision: Measuring Undisclosed Change in the Safety Frameworks of Frontier AI Developers

    Sep 8, 2026Louis Yiven ZhuCommitment

    University of Oxford

  12. Dalek: A Constructive Agent Machine

    Sep 3, 2026Wanpeng XieSelf-EvolutionArtificial Intelligence Agents

  13. From Truncation to Commitment: Persistent Context in Uniform Discrete Diffusion

    Sep 1, 2026Satoshi HayakawaTruncationDiffusion Dynamics

    The University of Tokyo

  14. Credal Large Language Models for Semantic Commitment under Uncertainty

    Aug 24, 2026Shireen Kudukkil Manchingal, Sofiia Nikolenko, Fabio CuzzolinLarge Language Model UncertaintyCryptographic Merkle Tree Commitments

    Oxford Dynamics Oxford · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis and Systems (AIDAS) School of Engineering Computing & Mathematics Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

  15. Commitment Before Realization: When Classifier-Free Guidance Becomes Unnecessary in Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Aug 8, 2026Fan Zhou, Weitian Wang, Tim Van de CruysClassifier-Free GuidanceMasked Diffusion Language Models

    KU Leuven, Belgium · Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  16. Answer First, Reason Later: Commitment Order in Diffusion LLMs

    Aug 6, 2026Jewon Yeom, Jaewon Sok, Seonghyeon Park +3Diffusion Language ModelsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Department of Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University

  17. Evidence Lock Before Commitment: A Frozen Interface Degrades LLM-as-Judge Evaluation

    Aug 5, 2026Divyansh SinghCommitmentLock-In

    University of Florida

  18. Binding Biometrics with AI Agent Identifiers for Delegation of Authority

    Aug 4, 2026Joseph Geo Benjamin, Anil K Jain, Karthik NandakumarBiometricsDelegation

    Michigan State University, MI, USA

  19. The LLM Proposes, the Executive Disposes: A Self-Verifying Agent Instrument that Dissociates Commitment Drift from Binding Drift in Long-Horizon Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Mohsen ArjmandiLong-Horizon AgentsCommitment

    Independent researcher

  20. Rolling With Resistance: Preference-Optimized LLM Counselors Can Trade Goal Persistence for Relational Attunement in Motivational Interviewing

    Jul 30, 2026Weiying Chen, Junlong Shen, Zhexuan TangIntrinsic MotivationCounseling

    University of Alberta · University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

  21. COVENANT: Natural-Language Workflow Compilation for Aligned Agent Execution

    Jul 28, 2026Jincheng Wang, Min Zheng, Tao WeiAgentic WorkflowsAgentic Workflow Design

    Ant Group

  22. Falsifiable Commitment Planning for Self-Correcting Web Agents

    Jul 27, 2026Guangyi Liu, Huan Zhao, Quanming YaoWeb AgentsLong-Horizon Agents

    1Tsinghua University · 2Noumena AI

  23. Commitment To Cooperation With Self-Negotiated Contracts

    Jul 23, 2026Tim Wyse, Kaitlin Bustos, Yulia Volkova +1CooperationNegotiation

    Algoverse AI Research · University of Washington

  24. When Can Safe Controllers Adapt? Information before Commitment

    Jul 18, 2026Venkatesh SaligramaAdaptive ControlLinear Quadratic Regulator

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, MA 02215

  25. Committed Before Reasoning: Behavioral Reproduction and Preliminary Activation-Level Evidence of Answer Pre-Commitment in an Open-Weight LLM

    Jul 17, 2026Heejin JoCommitmentPreliminary Study

  26. Analytic Abduction: Causal Decomposition and Governed Commitment for Human--AI Coordination

    Jul 16, 2026Remo PareschiAbductive ReasoningCausal

    Stake Lab, University of Molise, Italy

  27. TRACE: An Operational Reasoning Schema for Auditable Agentic Commitments

    Jul 14, 2026Edward Y. Chang, Emily J. ChangReasoning TracesCommitment

    Stanford University · Quadrivium AI

  28. When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

    Jul 6, 2026Jerick Shi, Terry Jingcheng Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf +2Autonomous AgentsDeliberation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA · Jinesis AI Lab, Vector Institute and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · EuroSafeAI +1

  29. TACG: Trajectory-Aware Commit Gating for Diffusion Language Model Decoding

    Jul 3, 2026Chengcheng Wang, Tingzhang Luo, Wenhao Li +2Diffusion Language ModelsCommitment

    University of Sydney · City University of Hong Kong

  30. EFlow: Learning Evidence Flow for Long-Video Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection

    Jul 1, 2026Wenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin, Xuyi Yang +2Video UnderstandingTemporal Grounding

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  31. Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking

    Jul 1, 2026Chia-Hsuan Lee, Sihui Dai, Mingyang Zhou +4Reasoning TracesIterative Self-Correction

    Capital One

  32. Why Do Few-Step Text Latents Fail When Image Latents Work? Non-Commitment at Sharp Categorical Readouts

    Jun 29, 2026Zhongyao WangVideo LatentsFew-Step Generation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  33. Reported Confidence in LLMs Tracks Commitment More Than Correctness

    Jun 28, 2026Dharshan KumaranLarge Language Model ReliabilityCorrectness

    Google DeepMind

  34. Refusal Lives Downstream of Persona in Chat Models

    Jun 24, 2026Viola Zhong, Qirui LiRefusalsPersona Consistency

    Independent · Department of Mathematics Pohang University of Science and Technology

  35. Governed Shared Memory for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Jun 23, 2026Yanki Margalit, Nurit Cohen-Inger, Erni Avram +2Agentic MemoryMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    Computer Science and Information, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  36. When Agents Commit Too Soon: Diagnosing Premature Commitment in LLM Agents

    Jun 22, 2026Aman MehtaCommitmentLarge Language Model Agents

    Snowflake AI Research

  37. Coherence Under Commitment: Probing Generalization and Vacuous Memorization in LLM Logical Reasoning

    Jun 19, 2026Noor Islam S. Mohammad, Mahmudul HasanLLM Reasoning StrategiesCoherence

    Department of Computer Science, Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University, ˙Istanbul, Türkiye · School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia

  38. Beyond the Commitment Boundary: Probing Epiphenomenal Chain-of-Thought in Large Reasoning Models

    Jun 11, 2026Daniel Scalena, Sara Candussio, Luca Bortolussi +3Chain-of-Thought ReasoningInference-Time

    CLCG, University of Groningen · University of Milano-Bicocca · University of Trieste +1

  39. Cherry-pick Override: Unsafe Directional Commitment in LLM Judges under Mixed Evidence

    Jun 5, 2026Haoran XuVerdictEvidence Conflict

    University of Glasgow

  40. Self-Commitment Latency: A Reward-Free Probe for Prompted Implicit Hacking

    Jun 4, 2026Bonan Shen, Youting Wang, Dingyan Shang +1CommitmentContextual Reasoning

    Independent Researcher · Northeastern University · Syracuse University

  41. StakeBench: Evaluating Language Understanding Grounded in Market Commitment

    May 25, 2026Yunhua Pei, Jingyu Hu, Yiwei Shi +3Legal Natural Language Processing BenchmarksNatural Language Processing

    University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  42. Opportunistic Target Selection: Early Directional Commitment for Query-Efficient Black-Box Adversarial Attacks

    May 25, 2026Florent Tariolle, Florian YgerBlack-Box Adversarial AttacksAdversarial Examples

    INSA Rouen Normandy · LITIS

  43. DART: Semantic Recoverability for Structured Tool Agents

    May 22, 2026Ke Yang, Panpan Li, Zonghan Wu +3RollbackIntermediate Checkpoints

    1MOS Intelligent Connectivity Technology Co. Ltd. · 2Sichuan Vocational College of Post and Telecom · 3East China Normal University +2

  44. Hallucination as Commitment Failure: Larger LLMs Misfire Despite Knowing the Answer

    May 21, 2026Jewon Yeom, Jaewon Sok, Heejun Kim +3Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Language Models Fail

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Department of Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University · Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology +1

  45. Compress the Context, Keep the Commitments: A Formal Framework for Verifiable LLM Context Compression

    May 17, 2026Natalia Trukhina, Vadim VashkelisLarge Language Model CompressionContext Length

    Embedded Intelligence Lab (EMILAB)

  46. Recall Isn't Enough: Bounding Commitments in Personalized Language Systems

    May 15, 2026Rui Tang, Yichi Zhang, Xi Chen +4Cryptographic Merkle Tree CommitmentsCommitment

    OpenAsk · Stern School of Business, New York University · Bank of Hebei +4

  47. The Evaluation Trap: Benchmark Design as Theoretical Commitment

    May 13, 2026Theodore J KalaitzidisArtificial Intelligence BenchmarksSelf-Evaluation

    Brown University

  48. When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel

    May 12, 2026Wenkai Li, Fan Yang, Ananya Hazarika +2Reasoning TracesChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Carnegie Mellon University · Fujitsu Research of America Inc.

  49. PACE: Policy-Native Adaptive Decision Timing for Long-Horizon Reasoning

    May 11, 2026Chen Li, Zhantao Yang, Fangyi Chen +3Long-Horizon InferenceCryptographic Merkle Tree Commitments

    Carnegie Mellon University

  50. Strategic commitments shape collective cybersecurity under AI inequality

    May 10, 2026Adeela Bashir, Zia Ush Shamszaman, Zhao Song +2CybersecurityLLM Defense Mechanisms

    School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University · Center for Digital Innovation, Teesside University · Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia +3

  51. When Does a Language Model Commit? A Finite-Answer Theory of Pre-Verbalization Commitment

    May 7, 2026Long Zhang, Wei-neng Chen, Feng-feng Wei +1CommitmentContinuation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China

  52. Towards Systematic Generalization for Power Grid Optimization Problems

    May 3, 2026Zeeshan Memon, Yijiang Li, Hongwei Jin +2Optimal Power FlowCommitment

    Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA · Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, IL, USA

  53. NeuroState-Bench: A Human-Calibrated Benchmark for Commitment Integrity in LLM Agent Profiles

    May 3, 2026Xiao JiaCommitment

    School of Artificial Intelligence The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  54. Delayed Commitment for Representation Readiness in Stage-wise Audio-Visual Learning

    May 3, 2026Xinmeng Xu, Haoran Xie, S. Joe Qin +3Audio-Visual ReasoningAudio-Visual Consistency

    Division of Artificial Intelligence, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong SAR · School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China · School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia +1

  55. A Multi-Stage Warm-Start Deep Learning Framework for Unit Commitment

    Apr 23, 2026Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Anna Van Boven, Bri-Mathias Hodge +1Mixed-Integer ProgrammingCommitment

    University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, USA

  56. What Is the Minimum Architecture for Prolepsis? Early Irrevocable Commitment Across Tasks in Small Transformers

    Apr 16, 2026Éric JacopinTransformer ArchitecturesCommitment

    Cosmic AI

  57. Hallucination as Trajectory Commitment: Causal Evidence for Asymmetric Attractor Dynamics in Transformer Generation

    Apr 16, 2026G. Aytug AkarlarHallucination RateAutoregressive Language Models

    Chimera Research Initiative Istanbul, Türkiye · Chimera Research Initiative is an independent research effort exploring causal and neuro-symbolic approaches to AI systems.

  58. Neutral Substrates: A Design Constraint for Shared Records Under Persistent Interpretive Disagreement

    Jan 8, 2026Denise M. CaseAccountabilityShared Control

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, USA

  59. Make an Offer They Can't Refuse: Grounding Bayesian Persuasion in Real-World Dialogues without Pre-Commitment

    Oct 15, 2025Buwei He, Yang Liu, Zhaowei Zhang +6PersuasionMulti-Turn Large Language Model Conversations

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence · Peking University +1

  60. Calibrated Stackelberg Games: Learning Optimal Commitments Against Calibrated Agents

    Jun 5, 2023Nika Haghtalab, Chara Podimata, Kunhe YangStackelberg EquilibriumGame Theory

    University of California, Berkeley · Massachusetts Institute of Technology