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  1. LLM-Based Persuasion Enables Guardrail Override in Frontier LLMs

    May 13, 2026Rodrigo Nogueira, Thales Sales Almeida, Giovana Kerche Bonás +7PersuasionAbstract Argumentation

  2. Lying Is Just a Phase: The Hidden Alignment Transition in Language Model Scaling

    May 13, 2026Adil AminLarge ModelsScaling Laws

  3. Do Language Models Encode Knowledge of Linguistic Constraint Violations?

    May 12, 2026Hardy, Sebastian PadóLarge Language Model PerformanceLinguistics

  4. Incentivizing Truthfulness and Collaborative Fairness in Bayesian Learning

    May 12, 2026Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Jue Fan, Xiao Tian +3Fairness-Aware LearningIncentives

  5. Strategic Exploitation in LLM Agent Markets: A Simulation Framework for E-Commerce Trust

    May 11, 2026Shijun Lei, Quang Nguyen, Swapneel S Mehta +7Multi-Agent SimulationsPersonalized Large Language Model Agents

  6. The Truth Lies Somewhere in the Middle (of the Generated Tokens)

    May 11, 2026Sophie L. Wang, Phillip Isola, Brian CheungSemantic RepresentationsCenter

  7. Skill Description Deception Attack against Task Routing in Internet of Agents

    May 11, 2026Jiayi He, Xiaofeng Luo, Jiawen Kang +3Malicious CodeDeception

  8. Exploitation Without Deception: Dark Triad Feature Steering Reveals Separable Antisocial Circuits in Language Models

    May 10, 2026Cameron Berg, Roshni LullaDeceptionLarge Language Model Bias

  9. AgentShield: Deception-based Compromise Detection for Tool-using LLM Agents

    May 10, 2026Yassin H. Rassul, Tarik A. RashidLanguage Model Evasion AttacksDeception

  10. Don't Click That: Teaching Web Agents to Resist Deceptive Interfaces

    May 10, 2026Yilin Zhang, Yingkai Hua, Chunyu Wei +2Web AgentsDeception

  11. Do Linear Probes Generalize Better in Persona Coordinates?

    May 10, 2026Prasad Mahadik, Adrians SkaparsPersonalityPersona

  12. Tracking the Truth: Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring for Video Large Language Models

    May 9, 2026Tri Cao, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen +7Video Multimodal Large Language ModelsMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  13. FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Fraudulent Refund Evidence

    May 9, 2026Xinyu Yan, Boyang Chen, Jiaming Zhang +12Ai-Generated Image DetectionAuthenticity

  14. 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

  15. Repeated Deceptive Path Planning against Learnable Observer

    May 8, 2026Shiyue Cao, Pei Xu, Likun Yang +6Coverage Path PlanningReinforcement-Learning Policies

  16. Algospeak, Hiding in the Open: The Trade-off Between Legible Meaning and Detection Avoidance

    May 7, 2026Jan Fillies, Ronald E. Robertson, Jeffrey HancockLinguisticsDeception

  17. Towards Emotion Consistency Analysis of Large Language Models in Emotional Conversational Contexts

    May 7, 2026Sneha Oram, Ojaswita Bhushan, Pushpak BhattacharyyaEmotion RecognitionResponses

  18. Attractor Geometry of Transformer Memory: From Conflict Arbitration to Confident Hallucination

    May 7, 2026Qiyao Liang, Risto Miikkulainen, Ila FieteLarge Language Model HallucinationHidden States

  19. Auditing Stealth Sycophancy in Mental-Health Dialogue: Structured Clinical-State Diagnostics and Clean Matched Benchmarks

    May 5, 2026Tianze Han, Beining Xu, Hanbo Zhang +1Mental HealthSycophancy

  20. Evaluating Reasoning Models for Queries with Presuppositions

    May 4, 2026Rose Sathyanathan, Kinshuk Vasisht, Danish PruthiLarge Reasoning ModelsAssumptions

  21. The Compliance Trap: How Structural Constraints Degrade Frontier AI Metacognition Under Adversarial Pressure

    May 4, 2026Rahul KumarArtificial Intelligence SafetyMetacognition

  22. Minimum Specification Perturbation: Robustness as Distance-to-Falsification in Causal Inference

    May 2, 2026Hoang Dang, Luan Pham, Minh NguyenCausal InferencesPerturbations

  23. A Cellular Doctrine of Morality: Intrinsic Active Precision and the Mind-Reality Overload Dilemma

    May 2, 2026Ahsan AdeelMoral ReasoningNeurophysiological Correlates

  24. Truth or Tribe: How In-group Favoritism Prioritize Facts in Persona Agents

    May 2, 2026Shijun Lei, Hongyu Wang, Yunji Liang +3Social ReasoningPersona

  25. AI Washing Inflates Expected Performance but Not Interaction Outcomes: An AI Placebo Study Using Fitts' Law

    May 1, 2026Nick von Felten, Luisa Ella Müller, Johannes SchöningUsabilityArtificial Intelligence Systems

  26. Tatemae: Detecting Alignment Faking via Tool Selection in LLMs

    Apr 29, 2026Matteo Leonesi, Francesco Belardinelli, Flavio Corradini +1DeceptionFake News

  27. Evaluating Risks in Weak-to-Strong Alignment: A Bias-Variance Perspective

    Apr 28, 2026Hamid Osooli, Kareema Batool, Rick Gentry +3Weak SupervisionTraining-Inference Mismatch

  28. Asymmetric-Information Resource Allocation Games: An LP Approach to Purposeful Deception

    Apr 27, 2026Longxu Pan, Yue Guan, Daigo Shishika +1Game TheoryDeception

  29. Jailbreaking Frontier Foundation Models Through Intention Deception

    Apr 27, 2026Xinhe Wang, Katia Sycara, Yaqi XieLarge Language Model JailbreaksJailbreaks

  30. Distilling Self-Consistency into Verbal Confidence: A Pre-Registered Negative Result and Post-Hoc Rescue on Gemma 3 4B

    Apr 27, 2026Jon-Paul CacioliSelf-ConsistencyInstruction-Tuned Models

  31. Accelerating Quantum Materials Characterization: Hybrid Active Learning for Autonomous Spin Wave Spectroscopy

    Apr 26, 2026William RatcliffPhysics-Informed Machine LearningAutoresearch

  32. Benchmarking Web Agent Safety under E-commerce Deceptive Interfaces

    Apr 26, 2026Zijing Shi, Meng Fang, Ling ChenWeb AgentsWeb

  33. Dharma, Data and Deception: An LLM-Powered Rhetorical Analysis of Cow-Urine Health Claims on YouTube

    Apr 24, 2026Sheza Munir, Ratna Kandala, Anamta Khan +2MisinformationRhetoric

  34. Sound Agentic Science Requires Adversarial Experiments

    Apr 23, 2026Dionizije Fa, Marko CuljakScientific DiscoveryFalsehood

  35. Trust, Lies, and Long Memories: Emergent Social Dynamics and Reputation in Multi-Round Avalon with LLM Agents

    Apr 22, 2026Suveen EllawelaReputationDeception

  36. LLMs Know They're Wrong and Agree Anyway: The Shared Sycophancy-Lying Circuit

    Apr 21, 2026Manav PandeySycophancyLiar

  37. Debating the Unspoken: Role-Anchored Multi-Agent Reasoning for Half-Truth Detection

    Apr 21, 2026Yixuan Tang, Yirui Zhang, Hang Feng +1Fact-CheckingTruth

  38. Rethinking Dataset Distillation: Hard Truths about Soft Labels

    Apr 20, 2026Priyam Dey, Aditya Sahdev, Sunny Bhati +2Geometry-Aware Uncertainty CoresetsSoft-Label

  39. AIRA: AI-Induced Risk Audit: A Structured Inspection Framework for AI-Generated Code

    Apr 19, 2026William M. ParrisCode QualityCode Generation

  40. Dynamic Emotion and Personality Profiling for Multimodal Deception Detection

    Apr 18, 2026Li Zheng, Yanyi Luo, Hao Fei +5Emotion RecognitionDeception

  41. Flow of Truth: Proactive Temporal Forensics for Image-to-Video Generation

    Apr 16, 2026Yuzhuo Chen, Zehua Ma, Han Fang +3Multimedia ForensicsDigital Forensics

  42. Safety Training Modulates Harmful Misalignment Under On-Policy RL, But Direction Depends on Environment Design

    Apr 14, 2026Leon Eshuijs, Shihan Wang, Antske FokkensSafety AlignmentSafety

  43. Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering

    Mar 30, 2026Yanjie Zhang, Yafei Li, Rui Sheng +5ChartVisual Reasoning

  44. DecepGPT: Schema-Driven Deception Detection with Multicultural Datasets and Robust Multimodal Learning

    Mar 25, 2026Jiajian Huang, Dongliang Zhu, Zitong YU +4DeceptionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  45. Auditing Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning Trees Outperforms Majority Vote and LLM-as-Judge

    Feb 10, 2026Wei Yang, Shixuan Li, Heng Ping +3Multi-Agent ReasoningMulti-Agent Systems

  46. CoT is Not the Chain of Truth: An Empirical Internal Analysis of Reasoning LLMs for Fake News Generation

    Feb 4, 2026Zhao Tong, Chunlin Gong, Yiping Zhang +5Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Reasoning

  47. Unknown Unknowns: Do Hidden Intentions in LLMs Evade Detection?

    Jan 26, 2026Devansh Srivastav, David Pape, Lea SchönherrArtificial Intelligence DetectionArtificial Intelligence Governance

  48. Falsifying Discriminant Validity of Predictive Algorithms

    Jan 23, 2026Amanda CostonFalsehoodValidity

  49. Structural Enforcement of Statistical Rigor in AI-Driven Discovery: A Functional Architecture

    Nov 10, 2025Karen SargsyanFalse Discovery RateTwo-Sample Testing

  50. Training-free Truthfulness Detection via Sparse MLP Value Vectors

    Sep 22, 2025Runheng Liu, Heyan Huang, Xingchen Xiao +2TruthMultilayer Perceptrons

  51. The Trilemma of Truth in Large Language Models

    Jun 30, 2025Germans Savcisens, Tina Eliassi-RadLarge LanguageTruth

  52. REAL: Reading Out Transformer Activations for Precise Localization in Language Model Steering

    Jun 10, 2025Li-Ming Zhan, Bo Liu, Chengqiang Xie +2Activation SteeringTruth

  53. When Do Large Language Models Exhibit Unsolicited Deception?

    Mar 31, 2025Samuel M. Taylor, Benjamin K. BergenDeception

  54. Detecting Conversational Mental Manipulation with Intent-Aware Prompting

    Dec 11, 2024Jiayuan Ma, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang +4DeceptionNatural Language Processing

  55. Chameleon: An Adaptive AI-Driven Honeypot Architecture Using Threat-Calibrated Particle Swarm Optimization and Semantic Deception Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees

    Date pendingRohit Swami, Tushar Singh, Akash Warde +1HoneypotsThreat Models