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  1. When Models Defer to Wrong Answers: A Robustness Audit of Source-Attributed Cues in Multiple-Choice QA

    Sep 8, 2026Manikandan Ravikiran, Siddharth VohraMultiple-Choice QuestionsWrong

  2. TV-Regulated OPD: Direction Matters in On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 8, 2026Han Xiao, Yifan Niu, Dongyi Liu +2On-Policy DistillationToken-Level Uncertainty

  3. Counterfactual Fairness Audits of Multi-Step Clinical LLM Agents Require a Measured Per-Action Instability Floor

    Sep 2, 2026Rohith Reddy Bellibaltu, Manpreet Singh, Deepak Parashar +1Fairness AuditsCounterfactual Reasoning

  4. Verdict Instability of OOD Scores under Reference Resampling

    Sep 1, 2026Donghoon Lee, Shinjin KangInstabilityPost-Hoc

  5. Hallucination Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models via Implicit Feature Stabilization

    Aug 30, 2026Aditi Sarker, Rafi Ibn Sultan, Hui Zhu +2Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Vision Language Models

  6. Self-Referential Induction Increases Response Instability Relative to Unresolvable and Verifiable Questions in Large Language Models

    Aug 13, 2026Paras Balani, Subhrakanta PandaLarge Language Model ReliabilityInstability

  7. Assessing Reliability of BERT-Based Models on Question Answering Tasks

    Aug 11, 2026Pooja Yadav, Priyanka Harjule, Basant Agarwal +1Large Language Model ReliabilityBert-Based Models

  8. Persona Conditioning as an Assessor-Sensitivity Probe for LLM-Based IR Evaluation

    Aug 11, 2026Samaneh Mohtadi, Pietro Bernardelle, Joel Mackenzie +1Large Language Model EvaluationInformation Retrieval Metrics

  9. Beyond Binary: Continuous State Optimization with Graph-Structured Objectives

    Aug 10, 2026Corinna Cortes, Yishay Mansour, Mehryar MohriLearning-Augmented AlgorithmsState Space

  10. Instability of LLM Pre-Pretraining: It Doesn't Always Help. An Investigation on Multiple Languages

    Aug 9, 2026Sofiia Riazhskykh, Nam Luu, Ondřej BojarLarge Language Model PretrainingModel Pretraining

  11. Why Ranking Anomaly Detection Algorithms Isn't as Reliable as You May Think

    Aug 5, 2026Simon Klüttermann, Jérôme Rutinowski, Frederik Polachowski +1Anomaly DetectionBenchmark Datasets

  12. Feature Bagging Provides Stability

    Jul 29, 2026Yuheng Ma, Qiang SunRandom ForestDecision Trees

  13. Automated Numerical Stability Analysis of Deep Learning Operators

    Jul 28, 2026Xinye ChenNeural OperatorsInstability

  14. Understanding the Impact of Linguistic Realization Choices on LLM Stance with Causal Tracing

    Jul 22, 2026Langchen Huang, Sebastian Padó, Franziska WeeberLinguisticsRewrite

  15. StabilityBench: Benchmarking Instability in LLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Emma Kondrup, Zachary Yang, Anne Imouza +1InstabilityArtificial Intelligence Assistants

  16. Quantifying the Sources of Instability in LLM-Based Stance Analysis of Public Discourse

    Jul 12, 2026Bo ChenDiscourseSpeaker Diarization

  17. Is Model Instability just Noise to be Tolerated or a Property that can be Managed?

    Jul 11, 2026Amirali Rayegan, Lunxiao Li, Tim MenziesInstabilityStatistical Models

  18. Regime-Conditional Stabilisation of LLM-Augmented Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 5, 2026Faid Keddouri, Sohaib Houhou, Aissa Boulmerka +1Potential-Based Reward ShapingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  19. A Memory Efficient Unified Algorithm for Online Learning of Linear Dynamical Systems

    Jul 2, 2026Yuval Ran-Milo, Angelos Assos, Elad HazanDiscrete-Time Linear SystemsNonlinear Dynamics

  20. A Diagnostic Framework and Multi-Evaluator Audit of Evaluator-Driven Preference Dynamics in Self-Adapting LLM Agents

    Jun 29, 2026Liu ZewenPairwise PreferencesLarge Language Model Agents

  21. Delayed Verification Destabilizes Multi-Agent LLM Belief: Instability Thresholds and Optimal Corrector Placement

    Jun 25, 2026Igor ItkinMulti-Agent Large Language ModelVerifier

  22. Two Layers of Instability in Causal Estimation

    Jun 19, 2026Alexis BellotCausal InferencesEstimators

  23. Who Flips? Self- and Cross-Model Counterarguments Reveal Answer Instability in LLMs

    Jun 14, 2026Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Shaghayegh Kolli +1FlipsInstability

  24. The Geometry of Phase Transitions in Generative Dynamics via Projection Caustics

    Jun 11, 2026Ryosuke Sakamoto, Kotaro SakamotoSamplersPhase Transitions

  25. Task-Aligned Stability Analysis of Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving Hazard Detection

    Jun 10, 2026Everett RichardsAutonomous DrivingDriving

  26. When Surface Form Changes Moderation Decisions: A Paired Study of Code-Mixed Workflow Instability

    Jun 4, 2026Suraj Babu Thimma Krishnaram, Yibo Hu, Karthikeyan SaravananContent ModerationCode Quality

  27. Uncovering Extreme Event Mechanisms for Prediction and Control with Sensitivity-Balanced Projections

    Jun 4, 2026Nicholas Zolman, Sajeda Mokbel, Samuel E. Otto +1Instability

  28. Link Prediction or Perdition: the Seeds of Instability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

    Jun 2, 2026Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon, Pierre MonninKnowledge Graph EmbeddingsZero-Shot Link Prediction

  29. LLM-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of LLMs as a Context-Conditioned Distribution

    May 26, 2026Adib Sakhawat, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Tahsin Islam +3IdeologyPolitical Discourse

  30. Second Guess: Detecting Uncertainty Through Abstention and Answer Stability in Small Language Models

    May 25, 2026Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Mayank KejriwalLarge Language Model UncertaintyMultiple-Choice Questions

  31. Furina: Fragmented Uncertainty-Driven Refusal Instability Attack

    May 24, 2026Tongxi Wu, Jian Zhang, Yang GaoLarge Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Uncertainty

  32. Testing the Test: Score-Direction Instability in Class-Split Anomaly Detection

    May 23, 2026Alejandro Ascarate, Leo Lebrat, Rodrigo Santa Cruz +2Anomaly ScoreAnomaly Detection

  33. Non-normal spectral signatures of instability in neural network training dynamics

    May 22, 2026Souvik GhoshNeural Network OptimizationDeep Network

  34. Probabilistic Attribution For Large Language Models

    May 20, 2026Shilpika Shilpika, Carlo Graziani, Bethany Lusch +2Token-Level UncertaintyInstability

  35. Reliability and Effectiveness of Autonomous AI Agents in Supply Chain Management

    May 16, 2026Carol Xuan Long, David Simchi-Levi, Feng Zhu +3Supply Chain OptimizationArtificial Intelligence Agents

  36. Polyhedral Instability Governs Regret in Online Learning

    May 13, 2026Yuetai Li, Fengqing Jiang, Yichen Feng +6Submodular MaximizationRegret

  37. DistractMIA: Black-Box Membership Inference on Vision-Language Models via Semantic Distraction

    May 12, 2026Hongyi Tang, Zhihao Zhu, Yi YangMembership InferenceMembership Inference Attacks

  38. Same Brain, Different Prediction: How Preprocessing Choices Undermine EEG Decoding Reliability

    May 8, 2026Dengzhe Hou, Zihao Wu, Lingyu Jiang +3Brain-Computer InterfaceBrain

  39. Preference Instability in Reward Models: Detection and Mitigation via Sparse Autoencoders

    May 7, 2026Shunchang Liu, Xin Chen, Belen Martin Urcelay +1Preference LearningProcess Reward Modeling

  40. Provable imitation learning for control of instability in partially-observed Vlasov--Poisson equations

    May 6, 2026Xiaofan Xia, Qin Li, Wenlong MouPlasma Shape ControlImitation Learning

  41. Forecasting Source Stability in Scientific Experiments using Temporal Learning Models: A Case Study from Tritium Monitoring

    May 2, 2026Nicholas Tan Jerome, Nadia Aouadi, Christoph Koehler +2Multivariate ForecastingEarly Failure Prediction

  42. Geometric Decoupling: Diagnosing the Structural Instability of Latent

    Apr 20, 2026Yuanbang Liang, Zhengwen Chen, Yu-Kun LaiLatent SpaceInstability

  43. The Geometric Canary: Predicting Steerability and Detecting Drift via Representational Stability

    Apr 20, 2026Prashant C. RajuInstabilityControllability

  44. Structural Instability of Feature Composition

    Apr 18, 2026Yunpeng ZhouFeature LearningSteering

  45. A Mechanism Study of Delayed Loss Spikes in Batch-Normalized Linear Models

    Apr 18, 2026Peifeng Gao, Wenyi Fang, Yang Zheng +1Batch NormalizationLearning Rates

  46. Why Training-Free Token Reduction Collapses: The Inherent Instability of Pairwise Scoring Signals

    Apr 17, 2026Yang ShanglinVision TransformerImagenet

  47. The Price of Paranoia: Robust Risk-Sensitive Cooperation in Non-Stationary Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 17, 2026Deep Kumar Ganguly, Chandradithya S Jonnalagadda, Pratham Chintamani +1CooperationMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  48. Same Answer, Different Representations: Hidden instability in VLMs

    Feb 6, 2026Farooq Ahmad Wani, Alessandro Suglia, Rohit Saxena +6Instability

  49. MSign: An Optimizer Preventing Training Instability in Large Language Models via Stable Rank Restoration

    Feb 2, 2026Lianhai Ren, Yucheng Ding, Xiao Liu +2InstabilityRestoration

  50. The Chameleon Nature of LLMs: Quantifying Multi-Turn Stance Instability in Search-Enabled Language Models

    Oct 19, 2025Shivam Ratnakar, Sanjay RaghavendraQuestion-Answer PairsInstability