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  1. When Tools Silently Lie: Evaluating and Mitigating Blind Compliance in Tool-Augmented Data Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Zifu Tao, Changqing YinControlling Tool UseAdoption

    Tongji University

  2. LLMs Trust Their Own: Identity-Dependent Conformity in Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 27, 2026Liron Soffer, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Chen ShaniConformityMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    Tel-Aviv University · New York University

  3. How does Adversarial Influence Scale in Multi-Agent Systems?

    Sep 24, 2026Addison J. Wu, Jasin Cekinmez, Michel Liao +2DeceptionConformity

    Princeton University

  4. Bayesian Belief Layer for Controllable Opinion Dynamics in LLM Agents

    Sep 18, 2026Hafsa Akbar, Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie +2ConformityLarge Language Model Agents

    MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Flybits Labs, Creative AI Hub · Toronto Metropolitan University

  5. Language-model groups overstate consensus when replaying human deliberation on a reasoning task

    Sep 17, 2026Tengfei ShaoDeliberationLarge Language Model Decisions

    Global Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

  6. Beyond Blind Compliance: Benchmarking Task Verification in OCR Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Yue Zhou, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangOptical Character RecognitionMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · 2Engineering Research Center of Knowledge-Driven Human-Machine Intelligence, MOE, China · 3International Center of Future Science, Jilin University

  7. Persuasive and Compliant Tendencies Predict Group Decision-Making in Humans and Language Models

    Aug 8, 2026Wenwen He, Wenke Huang, Wei Yang Bryan Lim +1PersuasionConformity

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  8. Mobility, Memory, and Network Structure in Agent-Based Models of Convention Tipping and Convergence

    Aug 7, 2026Joe Shymanski, Garrick Springer, Sandip SenAgent-Based ModelConformity

    University of Tulsa

  9. When Outputs Disperse, Does Epistemic Revision Follow? A Black-Box Diagnostic for Machine Collectives

    Aug 4, 2026Molood ArmanDisagreementDispersion

    Independent Researcher Lyon, France

  10. Group Perspective Matters: Regulating Debate Relationships Can Mitigate Blind Conformity in Multi-Agent Debate

    Aug 4, 2026Hao Wu, Shoucheng Song, Chang Yao +4Multi-Agent DebateDebate

    School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China · Beijing Key Laboratory of Traffic Data Mining and Embodied Intelligence, Beijing, China

  11. Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates

    Aug 3, 2026Maya OkawaDebateConformity

    CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University · Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group, NTT Research, Inc.

  12. Everyone Conforms, No One Believes: Pluralistic Ignorance in LLM Agent Populations

    Aug 3, 2026Yashwanth YSConformitySocial Dynamics

    Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  13. Conformity Mitigations in Large Language Models Lie on a Single Resistance-Receptivity Frontier

    Aug 3, 2026Zafar Hussain, Kristoffer NielboMmlu-ProConformity

    Aarhus University

  14. Linguistic Monoculture in LLM-Assisted Language Use

    Jul 29, 2026Suhas Thejaswi, Juhi Kulshreshta, Lutz OettershagenLinguisticsConformity

    Aalto University, Finland · University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

  15. Teacher Knows It Best: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Tipping Points in Networked Langevin Dynamics AI Sycophancy

    Jul 27, 2026Sayantari Ghosh, Saumik Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim ChakrabartiNetwork ScienceSocial Dynamics

    National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, India · Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

  16. The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models

    Jul 14, 2026Tapan ParikhLanguage Model ComputesAnswer

    Cornell Tech

  17. Most LLM Conformity Needs No Speaker: Measuring the Speaker-Free Floor in Peer-Pressure Benchmarks

    Jul 6, 2026Yibo Hu, Jiaming QuConformityAnswer

    Illinois Institute of Technology · Amazon

  18. Obey, Diverge, Collapse: Blind Obedience to Incorrect Instructions Drives Code LLMs to Irrecoverable Code Semantic Collapse

    Jul 5, 2026Raj Jaiswal, Anany Singh Divy, Savar Bhasin +3Large Language Models FailInstruction-Tuned Models

    IIIT Delhi · Microsoft Research India · IIT Kanpur

  19. When Is Emergent Consensus Real? A Measured Coupling Gain and a Validity Diagnostic for LLM Agent Societies

    Jun 20, 2026Dongxu YangSocial DynamicsConformity

    DeepLethe

  20. Right or Wrong, Models Comply: Directional Blindness in LLM Moral Judgment

    Jun 12, 2026Jihye Kim, Jeffrey FlaniganMoral ReasoningConformity

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  21. Modelling Opinion Dynamics at Scale with Deep MARL

    Jun 5, 2026Lukas Seier, Brandon Kaplowitz, Sebastian Towers +2Social DynamicsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    FLAIR University of Oxford United Kingdom · OWL University of Oxford United Kingdom · OUCE University of Oxford United Kingdom

  22. The Deliberative Illusion: Diagnosing Factual Attrition and Stance Homogenization in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation

    Jun 2, 2026Herun Wan, Jiaying Wu, Minnan Luo +4DeliberationMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    Xi’an Jiaotong University · National University of Singapore · Yunnan University +1

  23. What Benchmarks Don't Measure: The Case for Evaluating Abstention Competence in Autonomous Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Victor Ojewale, Suresh VenkatasubramanianAgentic EvaluationsAutonomous Agents

    Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA

  24. Easier to Mislead Than to Correct: Harmful and Beneficial Revision in LLM Conformity

    Jun 1, 2026Jiaming Qu, Lucheng Fu, Yibo HuMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsConformity

    Amazon · Georgia Institute of Technology · Illinois Institute of Technology

  25. Not All Flips Are Conformity: Decomposing Stance Convergence in Multi-Agent LLM Debate

    May 30, 2026Xiqi Hao, Zengqing Wu, Yu-Xuan Qiu +4Multi-Agent DebateDebate

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai · University of Osaka · Shenzhen University

  26. It's Not Always Sycophancy: Measuring LLM Conformity as a Function of Epistemic Uncertainty

    May 26, 2026Kevin H. Guo, Chao Yan, Avinash Baidya +5Large Language Model UncertaintyConformity

    1Vanderbilt University · 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 3Intuit AI Research

  27. Open-source LLMs administer maximum electric shocks in a Milgram-like obedience experiment

    May 20, 2026Roland Pihlakas, Jan Llenzl DagohoyConformityAttractors

    for the Three Laws collaboration · Independent researcher · Three Laws research collaboration +2

  28. LLM Agents Make Collective Belief Dynamics Programmable: Challenges and Research Directions

    May 19, 2026Xin He, Junxi Shen, Yuchen Mou +4ConformityLarge Language Model Agents

    Centre for Frontier AI Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore +1

  29. Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Consulting Work: A Benchmark with Verifiers, Rubrics, and Cognitive Traps

    May 17, 2026Tanmay Asthana, Aman Saksena, Divyansh SahuDeep ResearchExpert Demonstrations

    Deccan AI Research

  30. Scale-Dependent Collective Adaptation in Self-Amending LLM Societies: A Cross-Family Study of Emergent Governance

    May 17, 2026Kazuya Horibe, Masaomi Hatakeyama, Gen Masumoto +2ConformityAbstention

    Center for Brain Science, RIKEN. · Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich. · Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters. +3

  31. Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

    May 17, 2026Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao, Ding Chen +1Scaling Improve Social SimulationUser Simulation

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California · Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California · Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

  32. Conformity Generates Collective Misalignment in AI Agents Societies

    May 11, 2026Giordano De Marzo, Alessandro Bellina, Claudio Castellano +2Artificial Intelligence AlignmentConformity

    University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany · Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy · Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria +5

  33. Collective Alignment in LLM Multi-Agent Systems: Disentangling Bias from Cooperation via Statistical Physics

    May 11, 2026Cristiano De NobiliMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsCollective Behaviors

    Critiqality, Milan, Italy

  34. Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics?

    May 5, 2026Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, James N. Druckman +3Scaling Improve Social SimulationConformity

    Department of Computer Science University of Rochester · Department of Political Science University of Rochester · Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

  35. Mitigating Misalignment Contagion by Steering with Implicit Traits

    May 4, 2026Maria Chang, Ronny Luss, Miao Liu +3Emergent MisalignmentMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    IBM Research Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

  36. Large Language Models Exhibit Normative Conformity

    Apr 21, 2026Mikako Bito, Keita Nishimoto, Kimitaka Asatani +1ConformitySocial Norms

    The University of Tokyo

  37. Preregistered Belief Revision Contracts

    Apr 16, 2026Saad AlqithamiContractsConformity

  38. Collective Opinion Dynamics in Structured LLM Populations

    Apr 13, 2026Erica Cau, Andrea Failla, Giulio RossettiSocial DynamicsCollective Behaviors

    Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa · ISTI-CNR

  39. The PIMMUR Principles: Ensuring Validity in Collective Behavior of LLM Societies

    Date pendingJiaxu Zhou, Jen-tse Huang, Xuhui Zhou +5Scaling Improve Social SimulationConformity

    CUHK · JHU · CMU +3