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  1. Before Agent Tells The Lie: Has Deception Already Been Represented?

    Oct 5, 2026Xinling Li, Dadi Guo, Qingyu Liu +5DeceptionArtificial Intelligence Detection

    South China University of Technology · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory +1

  2. Universal Cross-Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Promptable Concept Segmentation

    Sep 30, 2026Ziqi Zhou, Yifan Hu, Yufei Song +5Segment Anything ModelBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    College of Computer Science, Chongqing University · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology +2

  3. Unlearning Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs with Contrastive Forget Sets

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Tang, Rajiv KhannaLarge Language Model UnlearningDeception

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  4. DecoyTrace: Toxic Decoys for Active Defense in Decentralized Federated Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Pedro Beltrán-López, Enrique Tomás Martínez Beltrán, Pantaleone Nespoli +2Federated LearningModel-Agnostic Defense

    Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Spain

  5. Before Acting, Change the State: Prospective State Intervention for Web Agents under Deceptive Interfaces

    Sep 28, 2026Ruozhao Yang, Mingfei Cheng, Xiaofei XieWeb AgentsAgentic Deployments

    School of Computing and Information Systems Singapore Management University Singapore 188065

  6. DGF-Bench: A Benchmark for Simulating and Auditing Deception Against Multi-Agent Governance Boards

    Sep 28, 2026Jeremy CanaleGovernanceDeception

  7. Posterior Regimes and Latent Deception: Variational Bayesian Inference in Hidden Markov Models for Sequential Fraud Detection in Financial Transactions

    Sep 27, 2026Joseph Uririoghene Obukofe, Anthony O'Hare, Chioma Sandra DikeFraud DetectionHidden Markov Models

    Computing Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom · University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom

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

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

    Princeton University

  9. Detecting Deceptive Recruitment: A Signal-theoretic Machine Learning Framework for Early Identification of Labour Exploitation

    Sep 17, 2026Sajid Siraj, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh, Amin Vafadarnikjoo +1JobsArtificial Intelligence Detection

    Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK · COMSATS University, Wah Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan · Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK +1

  10. The Truth Was Never Gone: Perfect Aliasing in Compliant-Context Truth Probes

    Sep 12, 2026Dylan JayabahuTruthDeception

    University of Waterloo

  11. From Deceptive Outputs to Deceptive Mechanisms: A Causal Framework for Language-Model Deception Research

    Sep 3, 2026Yakov Pyotr ShkolnikovDeceptionPreference Alignment Learning

    Independent Researcher

  12. Consistency Without Alignment: Item-Sensitive Language Models Indistinguishable From Random

    Sep 1, 2026Cris HuynhLarge Language Model AlignmentItem Response Theory

    Independent researcher

  13. Asymmetries in Spontaneous and Instructed Deception

    Aug 31, 2026Josiah LuikhamDeceptionInstruction-Tuned Models

    Independent Researcher

  14. Detecting AI Impostors: How Do Middle Schoolers Identify LLM Agents in a Live Collaborative Setting?

    Aug 31, 2026Dan Schumacher, Pragathi Durga Rajarajan, Haven Kotara +6Artificial Intelligence DetectionDeception

    University of Texas at San Antonio

  15. Lies We Can See: Joint Verbal and Non-Verbal Deception by VLM Agents in Embodied Social Interactions

    Aug 31, 2026Jaewoo Ahn, Junseo Kim, Hyunseo Kim +4DeceptionNonverbal Cues

    Seoul National University · Inha University · KAIST +1

  16. Breaking Planner Integrity Boundary: Enviroment State-Text Injection Attack on LLM-Driven Embodied Agents

    Aug 17, 2026Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang +7Large Language Model PlanningAttack-Success Rate

    Wuhan University · University at Buffalo

  17. Theory-Guided Deception Detection: A RAG-Based Artificial Intelligence Exploration

    Aug 9, 2026David M. Markowitz, Timothy R. LevineDeceptionArtificial Intelligence Models

    Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 · Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019

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

    Aug 3, 2026Zafar Hussain, Kristoffer NielboMmlu-ProConformity

    Aarhus University

  19. Sweet Little Lies: Strategic Deception in AI Emotional Support Chatbots

    Aug 2, 2026Aseem Pahuja, Zhiling Guo, Tahir Abbas SyedDeceptionEmotional Support Conversation Task

    Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK · G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas, USA

  20. Semantics of Subterfuge: Benchmarking Legal Deception Detection Against General-domain State-of-the-Art

    Jul 31, 2026Theekshana Samaradiwakara, Nisansa de Silva, George C. LobbDeceptionNatural Language Processing

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka · The Law Office of George C. Lobb Austin, Texas, USA

  21. Can Agents Deceive? Evaluating Reasoning and Deception in ParliamentBench using a Social Deduction Game

    Jul 30, 2026Niklas Bauer, Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Akiko Aizawa +3DeceptionSocial Reasoning

    University of Göttingen, Germany · National Institute of Informatics, Japan · University of Tokyo, Japan

  22. Even More Deception: Objective Misalignment in Mixed-Motive LLM Multi-Agent Systems

    Jul 28, 2026Marylou Fauchard, Florian Carichon, Margarida Carvalho +1Multi-Agent Large Language Model SystemsDeception

    Mila, Université de Montréal · Mila, McGill Univeristy · Mila, Univeristé de Montréal, McGill Univeristy

  23. Agentic Cloud Decoys: A Deception-Driven Framework for Autonomous Intrusion Investigation

    Jul 27, 2026Mohan Manivannan, Dalal AlharthiMultivariate Telemetry DataIntrusion Detection

    College of Information Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA

  24. The Chronos Vulnerability: A Taxonomy of Temporal Persistence and Memory-Based Deception in Agentic AI

    Jul 20, 2026Om Narayan, Ramkinker Singh, Praveen BaskarRealistic Threat ModelLLM Defense Mechanisms

    Department of Computer Science New York University New York, NY, USA · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Independent Researcher Chicago, IL, USA

  25. DecoyFace: Beyond Obfuscation via Controllable and Imperceptible Identity Misdirection for Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition

    Jul 20, 2026Zhihan Ren, Lijun He, Xinyao Wang +2Face Recognition ModelObfuscation

    Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Deep Space Exploration Intelligent Information Technology, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

  26. Transcoders for Investigating Deception in Language Models

    Jul 16, 2026Darius Lim, Nathan Leow, Xin Wei ChiaDeceptionMechanistic Interpretability

    Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX) Singapore

  27. An Explainable Agentic System for Detection of Conversational Scams with Summary-Based Memory

    Jul 13, 2026Ahmed Omar Salim Adnan, Yogananda Manjunath, Shivanjali KhareArtificial Intelligence DetectionConversational Artificial Intelligence

    University of New Haven · M.S. in Data Science · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science

  28. Deceptive Grounding: Entity Attribution Failure in Clinical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Jul 10, 2026Cedric Caruzzo, Donggeun Yoo, Tae Soo KimClinical Reasoning TrainingClinical

    Lunit

  29. Scaling Trends for Lie Detector Oversight in Preference Learning

    Jul 2, 2026Oskar J. Hollinsworth, Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Sam Adam-Day +2DeceptionPreference Learning

  30. LLM Semantic Signaling Game and Mechanism Design: Systematic Blindness, Awareness Shaping, and Mindset Dynamics

    Jun 27, 2026Quanyan ZhuDeceptionHuman-Ai Interaction

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University Tandon School of Engineering Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

  31. Is Lying an Emergent Behaviour in LLMs? Evidence from Gaslighting AI agents in a Sustainability Game

    Jun 26, 2026Subhendu Bhandary, Federico Carucci, Christos Charalambous +6DeceptionMulti-Agent Simulations

    Chair for Network Dynamics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, TUD Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany · School of Industrial Engineering, LIUC – Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy · Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus +6

  32. Empirical Software Engineering TerraProbe: A Layered-Oracle Framework for Detecting Deceptive Fixes in LLM-Assisted Terraform

    Jun 25, 2026Manar Alsaid, Chimdumebi Nebolisa, Faris AbbasRemediationDeception

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, East Texas A&M University, 2600 W. Neal Street, Commerce, 75428, Texas, United States · Department of Dual Enrollment and P-16 Programs, Texas Woman’s University, 3042026 Administration Drive, Denton, 76204, Texas, United States

  33. Radical AI Interpretability

    Jun 25, 2026Daniel A. Herrmann, Benjamin A. LevinsteinTrustworthy Artificial IntelligenceMechanistic Interpretability

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Anthropic · University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  34. Probing the Misaligned Thinking Process of Language Models

    Jun 23, 2026Kaiwen Zhou, Constantin Venhoff, Jonathan Michala +2Large Language Model AlignmentDeception

    1Anthropic Fellows · 2MATS · 3UCSC +2

  35. Catching Lies Without Sending the Video: Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Deception Detection

    Jun 21, 2026Nikita Sharma, Pranav Sara, Karan SinglaDeceptionConfabulation

    University of California, San Diego · Case Western Reserve University, Ohio · WhissleAI, USA

  36. Privacy-Preserving Federated Temporal Graph Learning with Digital Twin--Guided Adaptive Deception for Cyber-Resilient IoMT

    Jun 19, 2026Syed Zeeshan Haider, Anwar Shah, Muneeb Arif +2Internet Of ThingGeneralist Graph Anomaly Detection

    FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

  37. Federated Temporal Attention Intelligence for Cyber-Resilient IoMT: Lightweight Digital Twins and PPO-Driven Honeypot Deception

    Jun 19, 2026Syed Zeeshan Haider, Anwar Shah, Muneeb Arif +2Internet Of ThingCognitive Digital Twins

    FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

  38. Honeyquest for LLMs: Rethinking Cyber Deception for AI Attackers

    Jun 19, 2026Kerri Prinos, Lilianne Brush, Cameron DentonDeceptionAttacker Large Language Model

    Horizon3.ai, San Francisco, CA, 94111, USA

  39. ThinkDeception: A Progressive Reinforcement Learning Framework for Interpretable Multimodal Deception Detection

    Jun 17, 2026Jinhao Song, Shan Liang, Yiqun Yue +2DeceptionMultimodal Reasoning

    Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Suzhou, China

  40. A Variational Framework for LLM Generator-Regulator Games

    Jun 16, 2026Quanyan ZhuKullback-Leibler RegularizationLarge Language Model Generation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

  41. Escape from Delusional Echo Trap: Symmetry Breaking, Stochastic Dynamics and Mathematical Mitigation Strategies for Algorithmic Sycophancy

    Jun 16, 2026Sayantari Ghosh, Saumik Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim ChakrabartiSycophancyDeception

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

  42. Decoding Hidden Deception in Reasoning LLMs: Activation Explainers for Deception Auditing

    Jun 16, 2026Kexin Chen, Yi Liu, Haonan Zhang +3DeceptionLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Zhejiang University · Griffith University

  43. Rift: A Conflict Signature for Deception in Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Petr NyomaDeceptionTruth

    Harmonic Labs

  44. RogueAI: A Reverse Turing Test for Detecting Licensed AI Deception in Dialogue

    Jun 11, 2026Sara Candussio, Emanuele Ballarin, Lorenzo Bonin +2DeceptionTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    1AILab, MIGe, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, IT · 2Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, IT · 3DIA, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, IT

  45. DeceptionX: Explainable Deception Detection with Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Jiayu Zhang, Shuo Ye, Jiajian Huang +7DeceptionMultimodal Large Language Models

    Great Bay University Dongguan, Guangdong, China · Hong Kong Polytechnic University HongKong, China

  46. Janus: A Benchmark for Goal-Conditioned Information Distortion in LLMs

    Jun 9, 2026Polydoros Giannouris, Mohsinul Kabir, Sophia AnaniadouDeceptionImplicit

    Department of Computer Science, National Center for Text Mining, The University of Manchester

  47. Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment

    Jun 7, 2026David D. Baek, Xinnuo Li, Anay Gupta +4SycophancyArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA +1

  48. Building Comparative Motivation Profiles with Instrumental Interventions

    Jun 6, 2026David Vella Zarb, Rustem Turtayev, Taywon Min +2Artificial Intelligence AlignmentDeception

    MATS · University of Cambridge · KAIST +1

  49. Do Coding Agents Deceive Us? Detecting and Preventing Cheating via Capped Evaluation with Randomized Tests

    Jun 5, 2026Thanawat Lodkaew, Johannes Ackermann, Soichiro Nishimori +3Coding AgentsAgentic Evaluations

    1The University of Tokyo · 2RIKEN

  50. IDO: Incongruity-aware Distribution Optimization for Multimodal Fake News Detection

    Jun 2, 2026Hengyang Zhou, Rongman Hong, Yuxuan Zhou +2Fake News DetectionCross-Modal Conflicts

    Nanjing University · University of Birmingham · East China Normal University +1

  51. SPADE-Bench: Evaluating Spontaneous Strategic Deception in Agents via Plan-Action Divergence

    Jun 1, 2026Yuyan Bu, Haowei Li, Qirui Zheng +7DeceptionAutonomous Agents

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Science and Technology of China · Peking University +2

  52. "I Strongly Suspect This Website Is a Scam": Benchmarking PII Leakage and Detection without Defense in Autonomous Web Agents

    May 30, 2026Soham Roy, Sarthakbrata Halder, Arya Bharaty +5Web AgentsData Leakage

    KIIT Bhubaneshwar · 2BITS Pilani · 3Lam Research

  53. When LLMs Learn to Be Consistently Wrong: A Multi-Model Study of Linear Representations of Synthetic Deception

    May 28, 2026Vahideh ZolfaghariDeceptionLayer-Wise

    Algoverse AI Research, Algoverse AI Research Mentorship Program, USA. · Medical Sciences Education Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. · Student Research Committee, Department of Health Information Technology and Management, Medical Informatics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

  54. Pressure-Testing Deception Probes in LLMs: Scaling, Robustness, and the Geometry of Deceptive Representations

    May 27, 2026Sachin KumarDeceptionModel Activations

    LexisNexis, USA

  55. Evolving and Detecting Multi-Turn Deception using Geometric Signatures

    May 26, 2026Surender Suresh Kumar, Mary L. CummingsDeceptionLarge Language Model Safety

    George Mason University Fairfax, USA

  56. Voluntary Collusion with Secret Tools in Competing LLM Agents

    May 26, 2026Xijie Zeng, Frank RudziczCollusionLarge Language Model Agents

    1Dalhousie University · 2Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  57. QUACK: Questioning, Understanding, and Auditing Communicated Knowledge in Multimodal Social Deduction Agents

    May 26, 2026Ye Yuan, Rui Song, Weien Li +12Multimodal AgentsDeception

    McGill University · Mila - Quebec AI Institute · University of Cambridge +3

  58. PocketAgents: A Manifest-Driven Library of Autonomous Defense Agents

    May 20, 2026Sidnei Barbieri, Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz, Lourenço Alves Pereira JúniorAgentic DeploymentsDeception

    Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil

  59. DECOR: Auditing LLM Deception via Information Manipulation Theory

    May 19, 2026Linyue Cai, Samuel Yeh, Jwala Dhamala +2DeceptionEmotional Manipulation

    Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison · Amazon

  60. Artificial Intelligence can Recognize Whether a Job Applicant is Selling and/or Lying According to Facial Expressions and Head Movements Much More Correctly Than Human Interviewers

    May 17, 2026Hung-Yue Suen, Kuo-En Hung, Che-Wei Liu +2InterviewsFacial Expression Recognition