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  1. Who Verifies the Graph? Misspecification Attacks on Causal Action Verification for Language Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Fabio RovaiOn-Chain AttestationsVerification Framework

    The Tesseract Academy London, United Kingdom

  2. Language Models Are "Insecure" Reporters

    Sep 28, 2026Jenny Y. Huang, Jiameng Fan, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun +5HonestyHeadlines

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Google Research · Harvard University

  3. Byzantine-Robust Federated RAG via Aligned Calibration and Fixed-Membership Conformal Prediction

    Sep 27, 2026Prasanjit Dubey, Aritra Guha, Xiaoming HuoOnline Conformal PredictionHonesty

    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. · AT&T Chief Data Office

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

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

    Princeton University

  5. When Honesty is Not Enough in AI Debate

    Sep 24, 2026Rayne Holland, Liming Zhu, Jason XueScalable OversightHonesty

    CSIRO

  6. Sharp Limits for Honest Uncertainty in Hard-Budget Repeated Evaluation

    Sep 24, 2026Yezhou Cheng, Runjia Du, Zeming Liu +5Confidence IntervalsControlled Study

    Independent · Northwestern University · Pinterest, Inc.

  7. Easy to Catch a Liar, Hard to Clear an Honest One: Language Models Diagnosing a Corrupted Reward Channel from a Verified Record

    Sep 15, 2026Arman Nik KhahHonestyConfabulation

    The University of Texas at Dallas

  8. Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return

    Sep 13, 2026Arham Sethi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Saanvi Paturi +3HonestySystemverilog Assertions

    The Shishukunj International School · Haileybury Astana · UWCSEA East Campus +2

  9. Optimizing Byzantine Node Placement in Decentralized Federated Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Edoardo Gabrielli, Gabriele TolomeiByzantine AttacksFederated Learning

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy · Dipartimento di Informatica Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy

  10. The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games

    Aug 10, 2026Fatemeh Seyedin, Adrian Weller, Jinhyuk Yun +1Game TheoryLarge Language Model Agents

    Berlin, Germany · Cambridge, UK · Soongsil University +1

  11. When Truth Is Distributed: Misinformation Derails Collective Fact Recovery in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 4, 2026Chenfei Yan, Zeyang Yue, Feifei Zhao +6MisinformationTruth

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University +3

  12. Paying for Honesty Without Knowing the Truth: Reputation-Penalty Design for LLM Marketplace Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Mingdai Yang, Shicheng Fan, Kejing Yu +5HonestyReputation

    Univ. of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL, USA · Springbrand Inc. Hangzhou, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China +2

  13. Instrument Effects in Language-Model Honesty Evaluation: An Auditable Single-System Demonstration

    Jul 15, 2026Justin BronderHonestyVerdict

    Corabo Inc.

  14. When Is Delegated Play Truthful? Within-Range Regret and the Trilemma of Aligned Delegation

    Jul 15, 2026Taksch DubeHonestyIncentives

    Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  15. Creativity, honesty and designed forgetting emerge in small hyperbolic language models

    Jul 10, 2026Kwan Soo Shin, In Seok Kang, Yunkyung MinSmall Large Language ModelsCreativity

    PolymathMinds Lab, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, and aSSIST University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Korean Educational Development Institute, Jincheon, Republic of Korea.

  16. Formal Mechanisms for Market Stability in Self-Interested Agent Societies: A Marketplace Simulation Study

    Jul 9, 2026Eugene Ng Yi Sheng, Bingquan ShenMulti-Agent SimulationsMediation

    DSO National Laboratories · National University of Singapore

  17. Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor

    Jun 28, 2026Yoshua Bengio, Oliver Richardson, Tomáš Gavenčiak +13Artificial Intelligence SafetyArtificial Intelligence Scientists

    LawZero · Universit´e de Montr´eal · Mila +6

  18. Heterogeneous LLM Debate Under Adversarial Peers: Honest Gains, Replacement Costs, and Resilience

    Jun 18, 2026Prashanti Nilayam, Kiran Kumar Ramanna, Prashil Tumbade +1Adversarial RobustnessHonesty

    ServiceNow

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

    Jun 15, 2026Petr NyomaDeceptionTruth

    Harmonic Labs

  20. 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

  21. The Impossibility of Eliciting Latent Knowledge

    Jun 10, 2026Korbinian Friedl, Francis Rhys Ward, Paul Yushin Rapoport +2HonestyArtificial Intelligence Agents

    The London School of Economics and Political Science · Independent

  22. Truthful AI Advisors: A Pre-Specified Benchmark for Large Language Model Honesty Under Preference Misalignment

    May 31, 2026Hamidreza Hasani Balyani, Seyed Pouyan Mousavi Davoudi, Alireza Amiri-Margavi +2HonestyLarge Language Model Alignment

    Amazon Lab126, HW Tech Org. Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Independent Researcher in AI and Statistics Tehran, Iran · Computational Modeling and Simulation University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA +1

  23. Used Car Salesbots? Honesty and Credulity of LLMs as Bargaining Agents under Partial Information

    May 29, 2026Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Vaishak Belle, Shay B. CohenNegotiationLarge Language Model Agents

    University of Edinburgh

  24. Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for Large Language Model Usage

    May 28, 2026Shahinul Hoque, Jinghuai Zhang, Jinyuan Sun +1Model AuditingHonesty

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville · University of California, Los Angeles

  25. Honest Lying: Understanding Memory Confabulation in Reflexive Agents

    May 28, 2026Prakhar Dixit, Sadia Kamal, Tim OatesReflectionsConfabulation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  26. Your Neighbors Know: Leveraging Local Neighborhoods for Backdoor Detection in Decentralized Learning

    May 19, 2026Sayan Biswas, Antoine Boutet, Davide Frey +7Clean Label Backdoor AttackDecentralized Learning

    1EPFL · 2Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI · 3Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA

  27. Unlearners Can Lie: Evaluating and Improving Honesty in LLM Unlearning

    May 9, 2026Renjie Gu, Jiazhen Du, Yihua Zhang +1Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Reliability

    Fudan University · Central South University · Michigan State University

  28. The Endogeneity of Miscalibration: Impossibility and Escape in Scored Reporting

    May 8, 2026Lauri Lovén, Sasu TarkomaScalable OversightHonesty

    Future Computing Group, University of Oulu, Finland · University of Oulu and University of Helsinki, Finland

  29. ARGUS: Policy-Adaptive Ad Governance via Evolving Reinforcement with Adversarial Umpiring

    May 4, 2026Deyi Ji, Junyu Lu, Xuanyi Liu +7AdsHonesty

    Tencent · Dalian University of Technology · Peking University +2