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  1. Cheap to Draw, Expensive to Trust: Certifying Test-Time Scaling Curves

    Sep 30, 2026Sohail, Sarkar, Shakuntala BaichooModel AuditingTest-Time Scaling

    Neel · PMCC AI Lab, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  2. Trust Is Not a Score: Runtime Assurance Contracts for High-Risk AI Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Serhii ZabolotniiRuntime EnforcementContracts

    Cherkasy State Business College, Cherkasy, Ukraine · State Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment Testing and Certification, Cherkasy, Ukraine · healthPrecision, New York, NY, USA

  3. Towards Trustworthy AI for Glioma Diagnosis: A Task-Aware Evaluation of Uncertainty Quantification

    Sep 30, 2026Gonzalo Esteban Mosquera Rojas, Sebastian R. van der Voort, Carolin M. Pirkl +3GliomaBrain Tumor Classification

    Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands · GE HealthCare, Munich, Germany +3

  4. Trust the Critic More

    Sep 30, 2026Kaiyue Wen, Luke Bailey, Arvind Mahankali +1Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    Stanford University

  5. Can Agents Trust Their Skills? Uncovering Unsafe Chains of Trust in Skill-Based LLM Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Yan Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Ke Chen +5AI TrustworthinessLarge Language Model Agents

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Cyberspace Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  6. You Cannot Pick a Provider From the Price List: Market-Aware Routing for Open-Weight LLM Inference

    Sep 29, 2026Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Yixiong Chen +4Large Language Model RoutingLLM Inference Optimization

    University of Sydney · Johns Hopkins University · Stanford University +1

  7. Foundations of Proactive Agents: Principles, Technical Layers, and Proactivity-Gym

    Sep 29, 2026Jio Oh, Seunghyun Do, Young-Jun Lee +2Large Language Model AgentsUser Simulation

    KAIST · University of Minnesota

  8. CRJudgeBench: Can AI Detect Plausible but Invalid Code Reviews?

    Sep 29, 2026Yue Pan, Jiawei Li, Ziyuan Zhang +2Code QualityRaw Judge Outputs

    University College London · Amazon · Zhejiang University

  9. Lucid Dreaming for World Models: Learning to Doubt Imagination and Decide by Trust

    Sep 29, 2026Ziqi Wen, Ting Xu, Lianyu Wang +5Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore · Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore · Bioengineering Program, Biomedical Sciences Division (BioMed), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia +3

  10. Multi-Channel Mitigation of Source-Trust Shortcuts in Fact-Checking RL Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Jianchang Su, Yiwei Yang, Wei ZhangFact-CheckingAI Trustworthiness

    University of Connecticut · University of California, Santa Cruz

  11. Reference-Tail Trust:Certified Probability Floors for Learned Updates Inside a Deployed Network

    Sep 28, 2026Abdolvahab Khalili Sadaghiani, Jose Nunez-YanezLog-Ratio-Based Gaussian Trust WeightGraph Neural Networks

  12. Evaluating Bounded Autonomy in Regulated Agentic AI: A Diagnostic Harness with Constitutional Rewards, Escalation Labels, and Runtime Governance

    Sep 28, 2026Dipankar SarkarEscalationAI Trustworthiness

    Skelf Research

  13. Fewer Assumptions by Design: A Reusable Skill for LLM-Assisted Verus Verification

    Sep 28, 2026Andrada-Livia Antoneac, Dorel Lucanu, Dragoş Teodor GavriluţLlm-As-A-JudgeAI Trustworthiness

    Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Bitdefender · Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi

  14. Learn Now, Use Next, Trust Later: Prequential Test-Time Learning for LLM Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Tong Zhao, Reed Li, Yuyang Hu +5Large Language Model AgentsNext

    Renmin University of China · Tencent

  15. Kafila: Serving Large Language Models on a Trusted Set of Heterogeneous Commodity Machines

    Sep 28, 2026Murtaza Rangwala, Richard O. Sinnott, Rajkumar BuyyaAI TrustworthinessSwarms

    Quantum Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (qCLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia

  16. LLM4Trust: Exploring the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Trust Evaluation

    Sep 27, 2026Jie Wang, Yanbo Sun, Zheng Yan +2AI TrustworthinessLog-Ratio-Based Gaussian Trust Weight

    State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University · Hangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University · Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

  17. Which Self-Improvements Should We Trust? Reliable Self-Improvement When Agents Reuse Their Benchmarks

    Sep 27, 2026Xiaojing Sun, Yuhan Zeng, Zihua She +1Recursive Self-ImprovementAI Trustworthiness

    Purdue University

  18. To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech

    Sep 24, 2026Debajyoti Mazumder, Mamta, Abhirama Subramanyam PenamakuriFact-CheckingMisinformation

    IISER Bhopal · King’s College London · MBZUAI

  19. Dual-Frontier: When Can an Agent Trust Its World Model?

    Sep 22, 2026Huatai Zhu, Qiang Chen, Ziqian Kou +5World ModelsCounterfactual Learning

    Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Xiangjiang Laboratory +2

  20. Distill What You Trust: Reliability-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 20, 2026Jie Sun, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song +8Aware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-Policy DistillationTeacher

    University of Science and Technology of China · Foundation Model Department, Tencent · Tsinghua University +4

  21. Trust, but Validate the Instrument: Auditing AI-Generated RTL Verification Plans on Authored Security-Regression Proxies

    Sep 17, 2026Hang Xiao, Chuhong Xu, Kainan Zhou +2Runtime EnforcementModel Auditing

    Fortinet, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Sony Corporate of America San Jose, CA, USA · Google LLC Mountain View, CA, USA

  22. A Unified Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy Large Language Models, Agentic AI, and Multimodal Systems

    Sep 17, 2026Shaina Raza, Ahmed Y. Radwan, Imran Liaquat +1Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceLarge Language Model Reliability

    Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, ON M5G 0C6, Canada

  23. Building Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Necessity for Railway Applications

    Sep 16, 2026Lefebvre Renard Clément, Lébé Vincent, Da Silva Ribeiro Pereira Ricardo +3Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceRelighting

    Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Madrid, Spain · Alstom - Mobility Data Science and AI, Saint-Ouen, France · Alstom - Safety Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden

  24. Reflections on Trusting Trust, Revisited: Contaminating Self-Modifying AI Coding Agents with Poisoned Benchmarks

    Sep 15, 2026Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi KohnoCoding AgentsPoisoning

    University of Washington · Georgetown University

  25. SpliTEE: Improving LLM Inference on Trusted Hardware with Differentially Private GPU Outsourcing

    Sep 14, 2026Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachchige, Robin Carpentier, Hassan Jameel Asghar +1LLM Inference OptimizationDiffie-Hellman

    School of Computing, Macquarie University

  26. Self-Verifying Anomaly Detection using Explainable AI for Cybersecurity of DER Networks

    Sep 14, 2026Damilola Popoola, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Manimaran GovindarasuInterpretable Anomaly DetectionDistributed Energy Resources

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

  27. Robust Trust

    Sep 14, 2026Piotr Dworczak, Alex SmolinAI TrustworthinessTrust Region

    Toulouse School of Economics

  28. Can We Trust LLM Judges: A Study of Capability-Dependent Biases and Multi-Judge Ensemble for Bias Calibration

    Sep 14, 2026Gemma Zhang, Prachi Badarayani, Asmi Kumar +2Llm-As-A-JudgeLarge Language Model Judges

    Microsoft · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  29. When2Talk: When Should a Proactive In-Car Agent Talk?

    Sep 14, 2026Kaiser Hamid, Peihang Li, Nade LiangProactiveTalk

    Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA

  30. Trust by Design: Trust Calibration Through Non-Advisory Socratic Dialogue in Conversational Agents

    Sep 13, 2026Roba Hassan, Nahla Aboromi, Naomi Unkelos-ShpigelAI TrustworthinessSocratic Dialogue

    Braude College of Engineering, Israel

  31. Understanding Operator Attitudes Toward AI-Supported Decision Making in Maritime Operations

    Sep 12, 2026Doreen Jirak, Armeen Saroukanoff, Dirk van RooyMaritime NavigationAttitude

    University of Antwerp, Paardenmarkt 94, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium · Antwerp Maritime Academy (AMA), Noordkasteel Oost 6, 2030 Antwerp, Belgium

  32. XAI-Arena: Can LLMs Assess the Quality of XAI Explanations?

    Sep 10, 2026Yanfei Hu Fleischhauer, Alona Zharova, Nadja Klein +1XaiExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    LMU Munich, Germany · Chair of Information Systems, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany · Scientific Computing Center, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany +1

  33. AgentAudit: An Open, Extensible Framework for Full-Lifecycle Trust Evaluation of AI Agents

    Sep 9, 2026Shrey Nag, Sachita, Abhishek Kumar Singh +2Agentic EvaluationsTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    TIET · IGDTUW · GTBIT +1

  34. Seeing is Not Believing: Breaking the Physical-to-Digital Trust Boundary in Robotics

    Sep 8, 2026Leming Shen, Shikai Geng, Yuanqing Zheng +1Robot Operating SystemMulti-Robot Systems

    University College London · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  35. Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain

    Sep 7, 2026Pengyin ShanAi-Assisted Programming TasksModel Auditing

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA

  36. Epistemic Warrant for LLM Recommendations: Characterizing the Basis for Reliance When Ground Truth Is Unavailable

    Sep 3, 2026Shai Vardi, João SedocLarge Language Model ReliabilityEpistemic States

    University of South Florida, Muma College of Business · New York University

  37. A Blind Trust, the Bloody Thrust: When Attacker-Controlled Hook Updates Steer AI Agent Harnesses towards Malicious Behaviors

    Sep 3, 2026Pengxun Li, Litian Zhang, Jianwei Hou +4Malicious AgentsArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Data and Technology Support Center of the Cyberspace Administration of China · Beihang University +1

  38. The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Jundong Hu, Shekar RamachandranLong-Term Agent MemoryGradient Staleness

    PayPal AI

  39. When Can a Machine Trust a Statute? A Survival Certificate for Machine-Extracted Legal Logic

    Sep 1, 2026Surya SakaFalse-Negative RateCertificates

    JudicialMind

  40. Trust Your Guide Only When Certain: Uncertainty-Aware Sparse Alignment at Inference Time

    Sep 1, 2026Zeen Zhu, Zhuo Li, Weiyang Guo +4Distributional AlignmentInference-Time Defense

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, China.

  41. Feedback-Assisted Trust Propagation over Document Relation Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Zhuoheng Li, Ying ChenLog-Ratio-Based Gaussian Trust WeightAI Trustworthiness

    College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University

  42. TRUST: Threshold-Recalibrated Uncertainty-Safe Training for Certified Dismissal in Breast Cancer Screening

    Aug 31, 2026Parham Hajishafiezahramini, Matthew Hamilton, Edward Kendall +2ScreeningDecision Thresholds

    Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada · 2Division of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of2026 Newfoundland, Canada · 3Cancer Care, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, St. John’s, NL, CanadaAug 31

  43. LLM-Driven Autonomous Vehicles Inherit Human Driver Biases in Pedestrian Yielding: Results and Implications From A New Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Irem Yoldas, Martim Brandão, Jie Zhang +1Large Language Model BiasAutomated Vehicles

    King’s College London, UK

  44. Review Before Trust: Source-Grounded Integrity Gates for AI-Assisted Personal Health Records

    Aug 30, 2026Nora Girda, Adrian GrozaElectronic Health RecordsTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  45. Trust, but Verify: Rigorously Profiling Best-Effort High-Performance Computing for Digital Evolution

    Aug 25, 2026Matthew Andres Moreno, Santiago Rodriguez Papa, Charles Ofria +2High-Performance ComputingMultiscale Dynamics

    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Center for the Study of Complex Systems; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

  46. InterSAGE: The Secure and Verifiable Interoperability Protocol for An Internet of Agents

    Aug 13, 2026Zhenhua Zou, Sheng Guo, Qiuyang Zhan +3InteroperabilityProtocol

    A Paper from the DeepKernel Lab

  47. Benchmarking Trustworthiness of SLMs: Pre-trained vs. Compressed

    Aug 12, 2026Haokun Lin, Kaijie Zhu, Haobo Xu +4Small Large Language ModelsLarge Language Model Reliability

    Institute of Automation, CAS Beijing, China · Tsinghua University Beijing, China · Harvard Medical School Boston, U.S. +1

  48. Self-evolving network verifiers

    Aug 11, 2026Ioannis Protogeros, Tibor Schneider, Laurent VanbeverOptical NetworksCounterexample

    ETH Zürich Zürich, Switzerland

  49. MAP-Graph: Provenance-Aware Shared Memory for Multi-Agent Workflows

    Aug 11, 2026Yiqi Wang, Zihao Yan, Jiaqi Zhang +5Graph-Structured MemoriesMulti-Agent Workflows

  50. Conversational versus Dashboard Explainable AI for UAV Intrusion Detection: An Empirical Study of Operator Trust and Reliance

    Aug 11, 2026Cong Chi Nguyen, Trang Mai Xuan, Vu-Duc Ngo +3Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    A2I Lab, Phenikaa School of Computing, Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam · MobiFone HighTech Center, MobiFone Corporation, Hanoi, Vietnam · Business AI Lab, College of Technology, National Economics University, Vietnam

  51. Beyond Detection: Evaluating Defensive LLMs Against AI-Generated Social Engineering in Live Turn-by-Turn Interaction

    Aug 10, 2026Yuqiao Xu, Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek +1Attacker Large Language ModelLLM Defense Mechanisms

    Case Western Reserve University

  52. Defending Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection Against Knowledge Poisoning and Prompt Injection

    Aug 8, 2026Kaysarul Anas Apurba, Md. Hasibul Hasan, Mahedee Zaman Moon +2Intrusion DetectionHievi-Rag

    Laurentian University Ontario, Canada · Centennial College Ontario, Canada · The University of Osaka Osaka, Japan

  53. Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

    Aug 6, 2026Xian Sun, Wei Chow, Yingshuo Wang +4Large Language Model ReliabilityAI Trustworthiness

    1Duke University · 2National University of Singapore · 3UC Berkeley +3

  54. LiNC: Lightweight Noise Correction via Per-Sample Trust and Gaussian Mixture Modeling

    Aug 4, 2026Abhishek Moturu, Babak Taati, Anna GoldenbergNoisy LabelsMedical Imaging Datasets

    Department of Computer Science University of Toronto The Hospital for Sick Children UHN KITE Research Institute T-CAIREM Vector Institute · Department of Computer Science Institute of Biomedical Engineering University of Toronto Rehabilitation Sciences Institute UHN KITE Research Institute Vector Institute · Department of Computer Science Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology University of Toronto The Hospital for Sick Children T-CAIREM Vector Institute

  55. CTRAG: An In-Context Retrieval-based Framework for Automated Compliance Checking using LLMs

    Aug 3, 2026Muhammad Roman, Karen Rafferty, Barry DevereuxComplianceAI Trustworthiness

    Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory (BRIL), Toshiba Europe Ltd., Bristol, United Kingdom · Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom

  56. When May a Model Replace the Experiment? Audits, Licenses, and the Price of Trust in Surrogate-Driven Design

    Aug 2, 2026Shuangxiu, Ma, Wenhe +1Model AuditingSurrogate Gradient

    Max · William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States · Zachary +1

  57. Trust and Its Betrayal under Three Representational Strategies

    Jul 31, 2026Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. BaumAI TrustworthinessEpistemic States

    Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

  58. The persuasive power of large language models does not depend on their perceived national origin

    Jul 31, 2026Ningzhi Liu, Yannic Hinrichs, Jonas R. KunstPersuasionSocial Influence

    Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway · Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

  59. Skillsets on the Chain: A Blockchain-based Zero-Trust Framework for Agentic AI Networking

    Jul 31, 2026Yayu Gao, Yong Xiao, Hao Hu +5Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceAI Trustworthiness

    School of Electronic Information and Communications, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 430074 · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Pazhou Laboratory (Huangpu), Guangzhou, China +4

  60. When Derived Measurements Mislead: Quantifying and Mitigating LLM Over-Trust with Privileged-Modality Reliability Evidence

    Jul 30, 2026Zongheng Guo, Tao Chen, Tianli Li +6Large Language Model ReliabilityAI Trustworthiness

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China +2