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As LLM-based agents increasingly operate in multi-agent systems, understanding adversarial manipulation becomes critical for defensive design. We present a systematic study of intentional deception as an engineered capability, using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jason Starace , Terence Soule

Despite their advanced reasoning capabilities, state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrably lack a core component of human intelligence: the ability to `read the room' and assess deception in complex social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Liangyang Ouyang , Mingfang Zhang , Ruicong Liu , Yoichi Sato

While neural networks demonstrate a remarkable ability to model linguistic content, capturing contextual information related to a speaker's conversational role is an open area of research. In this work, we analyze the effect of speaker role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Samee Ibraheem , Gaoyue Zhou , John DeNero

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become foundational in modern language-driven software applications, profoundly influencing daily life. A critical technique in leveraging their potential is role-playing, where LLMs simulate diverse roles…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xinyue Li , Zhenpeng Chen , Jie M. Zhang , Ying Xiao , Tianlin Li , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu , Yiling Lou , Xuanzhe Liu

The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) makes it important to recognize their strengths and limitations. We argue that in order to develop a holistic understanding of these systems we need to consider the problem that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 R. Thomas McCoy , Shunyu Yao , Dan Friedman , Matthew Hardy , Thomas L. Griffiths

Reliable simulation of human behavior is essential for explaining, predicting, and intervening in our society. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in emulating human behaviors, interactions, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ning Bian , Xianpei Han , Hongyu Lin , Baolei Wu , Jun Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive general-purpose capabilities but also introduce serious safety risks, particularly the potential for deception as models acquire increased agency and human oversight diminishes. In this work,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Matthew Lyle Olson , Neale Ratzlaff , Musashi Hinck , Tri Nguyen , Vasudev Lal , Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Shao-Yen Tseng

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, but their increasing autonomy in real-world applications raises concerns about their trustworthiness. While hallucinations-unintentional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haoran Huan , Mihir Prabhudesai , Mengning Wu , Shantanu Jaiswal , Deepak Pathak

The automatic evaluation of LLM-based agent intelligence is critical in developing advanced LLM-based agents. Although considerable effort has been devoted to developing human-annotated evaluation datasets, such as AlpacaEval, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tian Liang , Zhiwei He , Jen-tse Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Rui Wang , Yujiu Yang , Zhaopeng Tu , Shuming Shi , Xing Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks. However, their practical application in high-stake domains, such as fraud and abuse detection, remains an area that requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Joymallya Chakraborty , Wei Xia , Anirban Majumder , Dan Ma , Walid Chaabene , Naveed Janvekar

Social deduction games like Werewolf combine language, reasoning, and strategy, providing a testbed for studying natural language and social intelligence. However, most studies reduce the game to LLM-based self-play, yielding templated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zirui Song , Yuan Huang , Junchang Liu , Haozhe Luo , Chenxi Wang , Lang Gao , Zixiang Xu , Mingfei Han , Xiaojun Chang , Xiuying Chen

Are current language models capable of deception and lie detection? We study this question by introducing a text-based game called $\textit{Hoodwinked}$, inspired by Mafia and Among Us. Players are locked in a house and must find a key to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Aidan O'Gara

Large language models (LLMs) offer unprecedented opportunities for analyzing social phenomena at scale. This paper demonstrates the value of LLMs in psychological measurement by (1) compiling the first large-scale dataset of election rumors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Etienne Casanova , R. Michael Alvarez

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained prominence in various applications, including security. This paper explores the utility of LLMs in scam detection, a critical aspect of cybersecurity. Unlike traditional applications, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Liming Jiang

Deducing whodunit proves challenging for LLM agents. In this paper, we implement a text-based multi-agent version of the classic board game Clue as a rule-based testbed for evaluating multi-step deductive reasoning, with six agents drawn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rebecca Ansell , Autumn Toney-Wails

Game theory has long served as a foundational tool in cybersecurity to test, predict, and design strategic interactions between attackers and defenders. The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers new tools and challenges for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Daniele Proverbio , Alessio Buscemi , Alessandro Di Stefano , The Anh Han , German Castignani , Pietro Liò

Game theory, as an analytical tool, is frequently utilized to analyze human behavior in social science research. With the high alignment between the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) and humans, a promising research direction is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Caoyun Fan , Jindou Chen , Yaohui Jin , Hao He

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) enable novel use cases in domains where responsible action is increasingly important. Yet the inherent unpredictability of LLMs raises safety concerns about agent reliability. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jan Chojnacki

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to mimic human social intelligence. However, most studies focus on simplistic and static self-report or performance-based tests, which limits the depth and validity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyi Liu , Abhishek Anand , Pei Zhou , Jen-tse Huang , Jieyu Zhao

Can we trust Large Language Models (LLMs) to accurately predict scam? This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of LLMs when facing adversarial scam messages for the task of scam detection. We addressed this issue by creating a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chen-Wei Chang , Shailik Sarkar , Shutonu Mitra , Qi Zhang , Hossein Salemi , Hemant Purohit , Fengxiu Zhang , Michin Hong , Jin-Hee Cho , Chang-Tien Lu