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  1. Trust Between AI Agents: Measuring Formation, Breakage, and Recovery, with Implications for Governing Multi-Agent Systems

    Jun 12, 2026Yujiao ChenAI TrustworthinessArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139

  2. What Robots Do Matters More Than What They Look Like: Task Context Shapes Trust in Educational HRI

    Jun 12, 2026Anna-Maria Velentza, Konstantina Nikou, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +1Human-Robot InteractionRobot Systems

    Univ Brest-Bretagne INP, COMMEDIA team, Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, FR · LIRES Robotics Lab, University of Macedonia, GR and School of Educational Social Policies, University of Macedonia, GR

  3. When Should Agent Trust Be Conditional? Characterizing and Attacking Skill-Conditional Reputation in Agent Swarms

    Jun 12, 2026Yihan Xia, Taotao WangReputationAI Trustworthiness

    Shenzhen University, China

  4. Does Reasoning Preserve Alignment? On the Trustworthiness of Large Reasoning Models

    Jun 9, 2026Prajakta Kini, Avinash Reddy, Souradip Chakraborty +4Large Language Model ReliabilityLarge Reasoning Models

    University of Colorado Boulder · University of Central Florida · University of Maryland College Park +1

  5. Beyond Uniform Token-Level Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Renjie Mao, Xiangxin Zhou, Lvfang Tao +7Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardToken-Level Uncertainty

    Tencent Hunyuan

  6. Generative Explainability for Next-Generation Networks: LLM-Augmented XAI with Mutual Feature Interactions

    Jun 9, 2026Kiarash Rezaei, Omran Ayoub, Sebastian Troia +3Explainable Artificial IntelligenceXai

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden · University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, 6928 Lugano, Switzerland · Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy +1

  7. From Context-Aware to Conflict-Aware: Generalizing Contrastive Decoding for Knowledge Conflict in LLMs

    Jun 9, 2026Runze Jiang, Taiqiang Wu, Yan Wang +2Contrastive DecodingAI Trustworthiness

    1Peking University · 2Alibaba Group · 3The University of Hong Kong

  8. AgentTrust: A Self-Improving Trust Layer for AI-Agent Actions

    Jun 7, 2026Chenglin YangAI TrustworthinessThreat

    Independent Researcher

  9. TrustMargin: Training-Free Arbitration between Parametric Memory and Retrieved Evidence in Large Language Models

    Jun 7, 2026Jingyan Xu, Hong Shi, Yi Shan +4Large Language Model ReliabilityQuestion-Answering Benchmarks

    DCST, Peking University · Beijing, China

  10. TRUST-SCF: Transformer-based Risk Understanding and Scoring for Transactional Supply Chain Finance

    Jun 6, 2026Mohammadamin Davoodabadi, Amirabbas ShakeriCredit Risk PredictionStep-Level Credit

    Department of Growth Barook Co.

  11. The ACUTE Protocol: Operationalizing Language Model Activations for Better Calibration, Utility, and Trust

    Jun 5, 2026Nishant Subramani, Palash Goyal, Yiwen Song +4Confidence EstimationAI Trustworthiness

    Carnegie Mellon University · Google · Scale AI

  12. Exploring Agentic Tool-Calling Decisions via Uncertainty-Aligned Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 5, 2026Yijin Zhou, Linqian Zeng, Xiaoya Lu +4Agentic Reinforcement LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, China

  13. Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sabotage?

    Jun 4, 2026Jingheng Ye, Huiqi Zou, Simon Yu +1SabotageCoding Agents

    Northeastern University1

  14. Trust, but Don't Verify: Epistemic Blind Spots in LLM Source Evaluation

    Jun 3, 2026Rohan N. Pradhan, Steve GoleyLarge Language Model ReliabilityEpistemic Asymmetry

    Amazon

  15. From Agent Traces to Trust: A Survey of Evidence Tracing and Execution Provenance in LLM Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Yiqi Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Taotao Cai +8Large Language Model AgentsAI Trustworthiness

    Griffith University · Jiangsu University · University of Southern Queensland +5

  16. Toward Pre-Deployment Assurance for Enterprise AI Agents: Ontology-Grounded Simulation and Trust Certification

    Jun 2, 2026Thanh Luong Tuan, Abhijit SanyalAgentic DeploymentsPre-Deployment Safety Assessments

    Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA, USA · Data, Digital & IT, Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India

  17. Capability Advertisement as a Market for Lemons: A Trust Layer for Heterogeneous Agent Networks

    Jun 2, 2026Gaurav Naresh MittalDelegationAI Trustworthiness

  18. Permissive Safety Through Trusted Inference: Verifiable Belief-Space Neural Safety Filters for Assured Interactive Robotics

    Jun 1, 2026Haimin HuSafety FiltersAI Trustworthiness

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA

  19. RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 1, 2026Huiqiong Li, Jiayu Wang, Zhiting Mei +3Video World ModelsRobotic Manipulation

    Singapore Management University · Fudan University · Princeton University

  20. Trust Functions: Near-Lossless Weak-to-Strong Generalization by Learning When to Trust the Weak Teacher

    May 31, 2026Arda Uzunoglu, Alvin Zhang, Daniel KhashabiLearnabilityTeacher

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States.

  21. Silent Failures in Federated Personalization of Foundation Models

    May 31, 2026YongKyung Oh, Alex BuiFederated LearningAI Trustworthiness

    Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) Group, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA

  22. Same Payload, Different Channel: Measuring Trust Asymmetry in Tool-Using Language Models

    May 30, 2026Mohammed Sameer Syed, Rozhin YasaeiMalicious AgentsAI Trustworthiness

    University of Arizona

  23. Can You Trust What You See? Human and AI Detection of Synthetic Legal Evidence

    May 29, 2026Jinzhe Tan, Ali Ekber Cinar, Karim BenyekhlefArtificial Intelligence DetectionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Cyberjustice Laboratory, Faculty of Law, Universit´e de Montr´eal · Faculty of Law, McGill University

  24. Personalized to Persuade: The Effects of Contextualization and Warmth on Trust and Reliance in Conversational AI

    May 29, 2026Mert Yazan, Suzan Verberne, Frederik Bungaran Ishak SitumeangPersuasionArtificial Intelligence Literacy

    Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, Netherlands · University of Leiden Leiden, Netherlands

  25. Immuno-VLM: Immunizing Large Vision-Language Models via Generative Semantic Antibodies for Open-World Trustworthiness

    May 29, 2026Xiang Fang, Wanlong Fang, Wei JiOutliersAI Trustworthiness

    School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Nanjing University

  26. A Study on Question-Answer Dataset for LLM Safety Evaluation with a Focus on Illegal Activities

    May 28, 2026Kenji Imamura, Masao Ideuchi, Atsushi FujitaLarge Language Model SafetyAI Trustworthiness

    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-5 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0289, Japan

  27. Verified Misguidance: Measuring Structural Citation Failures in Search-Augmented LLMs

    May 27, 2026Yongsik Seo, Wooseok Jeong, Eunyoung Kim +2CitationsCredibility

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University · ParamitaAI · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University +2

  28. AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Human-Computer Cooperative Question Answering?

    May 27, 2026Maharshi Gor, Yoo Yeon Sung, Yu Hou +4Human-Ai CollaborationTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA · University of California Berkeley, CA, USA · Phasechange.ai Lakewood, CO, USA +1

  29. Defending LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems Against Cooperative Attacks with Sentence-Level Rectification

    May 27, 2026Yaoyang Luo, Zhi Zheng, Ziwei Zhao +5Model-Based Multi-Agent SystemsMalicious Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · North Automatic Control Technology Institute · Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC

  30. I Hear, Therefore I Trust: A Socio-Technical Investigation of Humans as Synthetic Speech Detectors

    May 27, 2026Lelia Erscoi, Tomi KinnunenUtterancesAI Trustworthiness

    Computational Speech Group, University of Eastern Finland · Computational Speech Group, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

  31. Evaluating Local Explainability Metrics for Machine Learning Models on Tabular Data

    May 26, 2026Tomás Pereira, João Vitorino, Eva Maia +1ExplainabilityExplainable AI Methods

    GECAD, ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  32. Grimlock: Guarding High-Agency Systems with eBPF and Attested Channels

    May 26, 2026Qiancheng Wu, Wenhui Zhang, Gan Fang +5AI TrustworthinessDelegation

    Roblox

  33. Trust Region Q Adjoint Matching

    May 26, 2026Yonghoon Dong, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim +2Flow PoliciesQ-Learning

    1KAIST AI · 2Seoul National University · 3RLWRLD

  34. Credibility-Aware Learning and Control for Safe USV Navigation under Perception Uncertainty

    May 26, 2026Yuhang Zhang, Shuqi Chai, Yukang Zhang +5Autonomous Underwater VehiclesCollision Avoidance

    School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen 518172, China · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518172, China +5

  35. Quality Without Usefulness: LLM-Generated XAI Narratives as Trust Heuristics Rather Than Decision Aids

    May 26, 2026Fabian Lukassen, Jan Herrmann, Christoph Weisser +3XaiExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    University of Göttingen · BASF SE · Hochschule Bielefeld +1

  36. The Timing Dependencies of Trust: Speed, Accuracy, and cBCI Neuro-Decoupling in Human-AI Teams

    May 25, 2026Christopher Baker, Stephen Hinton, Akashdeep Nijjar +4Human-Ai CollaborationTeamwork

    School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast · School of Psychology Liverpool John Moores University · School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex +1

  37. Evo-Attacker: Memory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Tool Attacks on LLM-MAS

    May 25, 2026Bingyu Yan, Xiaoming Zhang, Jinyu Hou +4Multi-Agent EvolutionModel-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    1Beihang University · 2Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · 3China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

  38. KYA: A Framework-Agnostic Trust Layer for Autonomous Systems with Verifiable Provenance and Hierarchical Policy Composition

    May 25, 2026Kolawole QuadriOn-Chain AttestationsTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    Veldt Labs USA

  39. Trust but Verify: Prover-Verifier Deliberation for Selective LLM Prediction

    May 24, 2026João Sedoc, Baotong Zhang, Dean FosterLarge Language Model ReliabilityVerdict

    New York University

  40. Eroding Trust in Real Speech: A Large-Scale Study of Human Audio Deepfake Perception

    May 21, 2026Nicolas M. Müller, Wei Herng ChoongAudio Deepfake DetectionFake News

    Fraunhofer AISEC & Resemble AI · Germany · Fraunhofer AISEC

  41. Trust in Generative AI for Health Information Consumption and the Effect of Learned Dependency: An Experimental Investigation

    May 21, 2026Arif Ahmed, Gondy Leroy, Agrim Sachdeva +4Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceAI Trustworthiness

    The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, U.S.A

  42. Adversarial Trust Poisoning in Vehicular Collaborative Perception

    May 21, 2026Yutong Liu, Chenyi Wang, Ming F. Li +1Collaborative PerceptionPoisoning

    ECE Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  43. Understanding Perspectives of Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians towards Emerging Collaborative-decision Making Technologies

    May 20, 2026Ray-Yuan Chung, Athena Ortega, Zixuan Xu +7TechnologyAI Trustworthiness

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  44. Trusted Weights, Treacherous Optimizations? Optimization-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on LLMs

    May 20, 2026Yifei Wang, Yida Yang, Tianlin Li +3Attacker Large Language ModelAI Trustworthiness

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tongji University · Beihang University +1

  45. Rethinking Visual Attribution for Chest X-ray Reasoning in Large Vision Language Models

    May 19, 2026Guangzhi Xiong, Qiao Jin, Sanchit Sinha +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsChest X-Ray

    University of Virginia · National Institutes of Health

  46. Towards Trust Calibration in Socially Interactive Agents: Investigating Gendered Multimodal Behaviors Generation with LLMs

    May 19, 2026Lucie Galland, Chloé Clavel, Magalie OchsHuman-Ai InteractionAI Trustworthiness

    LIS Laboratory, Amu · Marseille, France · Inria Paris +1

  47. Trust It or Not: Evidential Uncertainty for Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction with Trust3R

    May 19, 2026Zihao Zhu, Wenyuan Zhao, Nuo Chen +2Feed-Forward 3D ReconstructionRobust Geometric Model Estimation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

  48. Progressive Autonomy as Preference Learning: A Formalization of Trust Calibration for Agentic Tool Use

    May 18, 2026Changkun OuAI TrustworthinessPreference Learning

  49. A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook

    May 18, 2026Kaiwen Luo, Zhenhong Zhou, Leo Wang +31Large Audio Language ModelsLarge Language Model Safety

    Nanyang Technological University · Independent Researcher · The University of Melbourne +15

  50. Trustworthy Agent Network: Trust in Agent Networks Must Be Baked In, Not Bolted On

    May 18, 2026Yixiang Yao, Yuhang Yao, Xinyi Fan +5Model-Based Multi-Agent SystemsTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    University of Southern California · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  51. Exploring Trust Calibration in XAI - The Impact of Exposing Model Limitations to Lay Users

    May 18, 2026Alfio Ventura, Tim Katzke, Jan Corazza +1XaiAI Trustworthiness

    Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, University Alliance Ruhr, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 25, Dortmund, 44227, Germany · University of Duisburg-Essen, Bismarckstraße 120, Duisburg, 47057, Germany · TU Dortmund University, August-Schmidt-Straße 1, Dortmund, 44227, Germany

  52. Trust No Tool: Evaluating and Defending LLM Agents under Untrusted Tool Feedback

    May 17, 2026Lecheng Yan, Ruizhe Li, Xicheng Han +5Untrusted ContentLarge Language Model Safety

    Southern University of Science and Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · Zhejiang University +2

  53. Towards trustworthy agentic AI: a comprehensive survey of safety, robustness, privacy, and system security

    May 17, 2026Jinhu Qi, Muzhi Li, Jiahong Liu +9Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceAI Trustworthiness

    Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. · Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Incubation Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, Shanghai, China.

  54. Right Predictions, Misleading Explanations: On the Vulnerability of Vision-Language Model Explanations

    May 15, 2026Narges Babadi, Hadis KarimipourExplainable AI MethodsHeatmap

    Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

  55. To Trust or Not to Trust: Authors' Response to AI-based Reviews

    May 15, 2026César Leblanc, Lukas PicekPeer ReviewAuthorship

    École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. · Sorbonne University, Paris, France. · University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic. +1

  56. The End of Trust: How Agentic AI Breaks Security Assumptions

    May 14, 2026Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek, Erman AydaySecurityAI Trustworthiness

    Dept. of Computer and Data Sciences Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, USA

  57. Verifiable Agentic Infrastructure: Proof-Derived Authorization for Sovereign AI Systems

    May 13, 2026Jun He, Deying YuAuthorizationArtificial Intelligence Governance

  58. Uncertainty-Aware 3D Position Refinement for Multi-UAV Systems

    May 13, 2026Hosam Alamleh, Damir PulatovMulti-UavIndoor Localization

    Computer Science University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

  59. Proof-Carrying Certificates for LLM Pipelines: A Trust-Boundary Architecture

    May 13, 2026George KoomullilLarge Language Model ReliabilityCertificates

    Ascendr, Inc.

  60. TRUST-TAEA: A trustworthiness-guided two-archive evolutionary algorithm with variable-grouping sparse search for large-scale multi-objective optimization

    May 13, 2026Junyi Cui, Chao Min, Stanisław Migórski +2Multi-Objective OptimizationEvolutionary Optimization

    School of Sciences, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China · Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Krakow, 30348, Poland +1