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  1. Breaking the Illusion of Review Reliability under Static Evaluation: SCOPE Fuzzing for LLM-based Scientific Reviewers

    Sep 29, 2026Zhuo Chen, Hao Zeng, Jiawei Liu +6Peer ReviewFuzzing

    Wuhan University · East China Normal University

  2. Illusory Truth or Mere Exposure? Model-Dependent Repetition Effects in LLM-Based Social Media Simulations

    Sep 28, 2026Azza Bouleimen, Nicolò Pagan, Anikó HannákScaling Improve Social SimulationIllusions

    Department of Computer Science University of Zurich Andreasstrasse 15, 8050, Zurich, Switzerland

  3. The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Hong-Han Wang, Yuntao Wang, Hu DingMultimodal Large Language ModelsLarge Language Model Alignment

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  4. Beyond the Illusion of Power: Calibrating Quasi-Experiments in Observational IS

    Sep 23, 2026Spandan Ghose ChowdhuryHeterogeneous Treatment EffectsIllusions

    Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA

  5. Evolution or Illusion? Rethinking Evaluation in LLM Evolutionary Search

    Sep 17, 2026Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1Evolutionary SearchGeneral Grid Search Framework

    IBM Research

  6. Towards Illusions Awareness in Cyber-Physical System's Design

    Sep 15, 2026Anna Di Placido, Nicolas Ferry, Julien DeantoniCyber-Physical SystemIllusions

    UniCA, Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS · Université Côte d’Azur, I3S/INRIA Kairos Sophia Antipolis, France

  7. The average-farmer illusion in language-model simulations of agricultural decisions

    Sep 14, 2026Zhanliang Zhu, Ziwei Li, Yuchen Liu +5User SimulationPopulation Dynamics

    1State Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China · 2Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China · 3Meta Platforms Inc. +2

  8. The Illusion of Balanced Multimodal Sentiment Analysis: Beyond the Limits of Optimization-Based Methods

    Sep 11, 2026Ioanna Kaffeza, Efthymios Georgiou, Alexandros PotamianosMultimodal Sentiment AnalysisModalities

    PERSEE Center, Mines Paris-PSL University, Sophia-Antipolis, France · National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece · University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland +2

  9. MotionBlind: Probing the Illusion of Motion Understanding in Video-LLMs

    Sep 8, 2026Dhairya Bhatia, Bishoy Galoaa, Oliver Fritsche +7MotionBlind Spots

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  10. The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages

    Aug 11, 2026Abigail Oppong, P Sam Sahil, Tadesse Destaw Belay +12Multilingual SafetyLarge Language Model Safety

    Makerere University Center for Artificial Intelligence · University of Hamburg · Instituto Politécnico Nacional +9

  11. Illusion or Integrity? Geometrical Consistency Metric for AIGC Video Quality Evaluation

    Aug 10, 2026Yifei Xue, Yuanchen Fei, Hao Zhang +3Video QualityIllusions

    Hunan University, China

  12. Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking

    Aug 7, 2026Devin Pereira, Willem ZuidemaLLM Reasoning StrategiesPuzzle

    1Artificial Intelligence Program, University of Amsterdam · ELLIS Unit Amsterdam · Institute for Logic Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam

  13. The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images

    Aug 6, 2026Zhiheng Wang, Bo Peng, Lai Wei +1Visual EvidenceIllusions

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 3Shanghai Innovation Institute

  14. The Grokked Illusion: True Equilibrium Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting

    Jul 31, 2026Xiaotian Zhang, Lai Shun Chan, Yue Shang +2Catastrophic ForgettingAnisotropic Loss Landscapes

    Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · Innovation Campus Delaware, Air Liquide, Newark, DE, USA

  15. Can LVLMs Uncover the Truth Behind Visual Illusions? An Analysis of Perceptual and Reasoning Capabilities

    Jul 30, 2026Liangjie Zhao, Jiaqing Lyu, Kexin Tang +5IllusionsReasoning Skills

    Adelaide University · Tsinghua University · Amap, Alibaba Group +3

  16. The Illusion of Secure LLM Code: Closing the Security Gap via Iterative Reprompting

    Jul 26, 2026Ishpuneet Singh, Shreyas Mahajan, Gurjot Singh +1Large Language Model SafetyVulnerable Code

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India · David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  17. The Illusion of Robustness: Aggregate Accuracy Hides Prediction Flips under Task-Irrelevant Context

    Jul 14, 2026Yanzhe Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo, Diyi YangIllusionsConformal Risk Control

    Georgia Tech · Stanford University

  18. The Illusion of Equivalency: Statistical Characterization of Quantization Effects in LLMs

    Jul 9, 2026Baha Rababah, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Carson K. LeungLarge Language Model QuantizationPost-Training Quantization

    Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada · AI Initiative, University of Central Florida, USA

  19. Beyond Activation Alignment:The Alignment-Diversity Tradeoff in Task-Aware LLM Quantization

    Jul 1, 2026Fei Wang, Chao Xue, Taoran Liu +3Large Language Model QuantizationMixed-Precision Quantization

    South China University of Technology · Ocean University of China · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University +1

  20. The Illusion of High Utility in Safety Alignment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

    Jul 1, 2026Adeel Yousaf, Soumik Ghosh, James Beetham +2Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsText-To-Image

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States

  21. Exposing the Illusion of Erasure in Knowledge Editing for LLMs

    Jun 22, 2026Advik Raj Basani, Anshuman ChhabraMultimodal Knowledge EditingConcept Erasure

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa · University of South Florida

  22. The Correctness Illusion in LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

    Jun 18, 2026Dipankar SarkarGraphics Processing Unit KernelsCorrectness

    Arizona State University, USA

  23. The Illusion of Improvement: Reject Inference Strategies in Credit Scoring

    Jun 16, 2026Bruno Scarone, Ricardo Baeza-YatesRejectionSelection Bias

    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  24. Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models

    Jun 16, 2026Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan +6Vision-Language Foundation ModelsVisual Perception

    Algoverse AI Research · University of California, Santa Barbara · University of California, Berkeley +1

  25. Bridging the Usability Gap: Lessons from Interpreting Studies for Machine Interpreting Design

    Jun 14, 2026Claudio FantinuoliInteraction DesignInterpretation

    University of Mainz

  26. The Illusion of Multi-Agent Advantage

    Jun 11, 2026Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Hehai Lin, Chuyuan Li +7Model-Based Multi-Agent SystemsTable Reasoning Datasets

    1Salesforce Research. · 2HKUST (Guangzhou). · University of British Columbia. +1

  27. The Consistency Illusion: How Multi-Agent Debate Hides Reasoning Misalignment

    Jun 7, 2026Xiaoyang Wang, Christopher C. YangMulti-Agent DebateDebate

    1Drexel University

  28. The Self-Correction Illusion: LLMs Correct Others but Not Themselves

    Jun 4, 2026Kuan-Yen Chen, Fang-Yi Su, Jung-Hsien ChiangIterative Self-CorrectionLarge Language Models Fail

    National Cheng Kung University

  29. The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions

    May 27, 2026Eugene Yu JiEthicsIllusions

    University of Waterloo · Mila – Quebec AI Institute

  30. The Coverage Illusion: From Pre-retrieval Routing Failure to Post-retrieval Cascades in a Production RAG System

    May 26, 2026Zafar Hussain, Kristoffer NielboAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsSearch-Augmented Reasoning

    Aarhus University, Denmark

  31. The Illusion of Intervention: Your LLM-Simulated Experiment is an Observational Study

    May 20, 2026Victoria Lin, Taedong Yun, Maja Matarić +3User SimulationIllusions

    Google DeepMind · Carnegie Mellon University

  32. Beyond the Cartesian Illusion: Testing Two-Stage Multi-Modal Theory of Mind under Perceptual Bottlenecks

    May 18, 2026Yajing Zhou, Xiangyu KongSpatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    College of Computer Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, No.55 Taihang Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China

  33. The Alpha Illusion: Reported Alpha from LLM Trading Agents Should Not Be Treated as Deployment Evidence

    May 16, 2026Yuxuan Ye, Jun Han, Ao Hu +7TradingFinance Benchmarks

    Fudan University · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · Southwest University of Finance and Economics +3

  34. Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination

    May 15, 2026Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Yaokang Wu +4Vision-Language Foundation ModelsIllusions

    University of Southern California · University of California San Diego · Carnegie Mellon Univer +1

  35. UHR-Micro: Diagnosing and Mitigating the Resolution Illusion in Earth Observation VLMs

    May 12, 2026Shuo Ni, Tong Wang, Jing Zhang +5IllusionsAgent2Agent

    National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space-Born Intelligent Information Processing, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +2

  36. Power Reinforcement Post-Training of Text-to-Image Models with Super-Linear Advantage Shaping

    May 11, 2026Haoyuan Sun, Jing Wang, Yuxin Song +9Modern Text-To-Image ModelsText-To-Image

    Nanyang Technological University · Baidu Inc. · Zhejiang University +3

  37. Illusion-Aware Visual Preprocessing and Anti-Illusion Prompting for Classic Illusion Understanding in Vision-Language Models

    May 9, 2026Junli Zha, Jiahui Wang, Xinkai Lu +1IllusionsCvpr

    1SF Technology Co., Ltd.

  38. Nothing Deceives Like Success: Social Learning and the Illusion of Understanding in Science

    Apr 29, 2026Avery W. Louis, Marina DubovaScientific DiscoveryCollective Behaviors

    Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

  39. Breaking the Illusion: When Positive Meets Negative in Multimodal Decoding

    Apr 22, 2026Yubo Jiang, Yitong An, Xin Yang +7Modality-Specific EncodersObject Hallucination

    School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, China · Longcat Interaction Team, Meituan, Beijing 100102, China · Tianmushan Laboratory, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China

  40. Superficial Success vs. Internal Breakdown: An Empirical Study of Generalization in Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems

    Apr 21, 2026Namyoung So, Seokgyu Jang, Taeuk KimModel-Based Multi-Agent SystemsOverfitting

    Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  41. Unmasking the Illusion of Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 20, 2026Haiweng Xu, Sipeng Zheng, Hao Luo +3Embodied Artificial IntelligenceSensorimotor Experience

    1Peking University · 3BeingBeyond · 2Tsinghua University

  42. The Illusion of Certainty: Decoupling Capability and Calibration in On-Policy Distillation

    Apr 18, 2026Jiaxin Zhang, Xiangyu Peng, Qinglin Chen +3Few-Step DistillationConfidence Estimation

    Salesforce AI Research

  43. Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference

    Nov 18, 2025Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, Cory ShainIllusionsConfabulation

    Margaret Jacks1DepartmentHall, Buildingof Linguistics,460 Rm.Stanford127, Stanford,UniversityCA ,94305-2150

  44. When Context Misleads: Surprisal, Energy and Attention Entropy as Metrics of Coherence Illusions in LLMs

    Date pendingEce Takmaz, Nitin Kumar, Li Kloostra +1Discourse CoherenceSurprisal

    Utrecht University

  45. The C-index illusion: discrimination without calibration in published survival models

    Date pendingRafael da Silva, Danilo AlvaresSurvival PredictionsSurvival Analysis

    PhD in Applied Data Science Eastern University 1300 Eagle Road, Saint Davids, 19087, Pennsylvania, USA · MRC Biostatistics Unit University of Cambridge Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB20SR, UK