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As large language models become components of larger agentic systems, evaluation reliability becomes critical: unreliable sub-agents introduce brittleness into downstream system behavior. Yet current evaluation practice, reporting a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zairah Mustahsan , Abel Lim , Megna Anand , Saahil Jain , Bryan McCann

We document an empirical phenomenon in chain-of-thought and ReAct agents driven by ten large language models from seven architecture families: meaning-bearing perturbations (e.g., paraphrase, synonym) alter final answers more often than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Liyun Zhang , Jiayi Guo

Operating LLMs as coordinated multi-agent research systems over multi-hour runs surfaces failure modes that single-shot evaluation cannot: upstream providers throttle without warning, sub-agents drift the task to fit accessible tools,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sasank Annapureddy

Agentic workflows built on low-code orchestration platforms enable rapid development of multi-agent systems, but they also introduce new and poorly understood failure modes that hinder reliability and maintainability. Unlike traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xuyan Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Yawen Wang , Junjie Wang , Boyu Wu , Mingyang Li , Qing Wang

Quantitative theories of information flow give us an approach to relax the absolute confidentiality properties that are difficult to satisfy for many practical programs. The classical information-theoretic approaches for sequential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Tri Minh Ngo , Marieke Huisman

Autonomous language-model agents increasingly combine planning, tool use, document processing, browsing, code execution, and verification loops. These capabilities make agent systems more useful, but they also introduce operational failure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tarun Mittal

Large Language Model (LLM)-based coding agents show promise in automating software development tasks, yet they frequently fail in ways that are difficult for developers to understand and debug. While general-purpose LLMs like GPT can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Arun Joshi

LLM-driven GUI agents are increasingly used in production systems to automate workflows and simulate users for evaluation and optimization. Yet most GUI-agent evaluations emphasize task success and provide limited evidence on whether agents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Movin , Claudia Hauff , Aron Henriksson , Panagiotis Papapetrou

Detecting AI-involved text is essential for combating misinformation, plagiarism, and academic misconduct. However, AI text generation includes diverse collaborative processes (AI-written text edited by humans, human-written text edited by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yongxin He , Shan Zhang , Yixuan Cao , Lei Ma , Ping Luo

Runtime verification consists in observing and collecting the execution traces of a system and checking them against a specification, with the objective of raising an error when a trace does not satisfy the specification. We consider…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chana Weil-Kennedy , Darine Rammal , Christophe Gaston , Arnault Lapitre

This paper addresses the problem of both actively searching and tracking multiple unknown dynamic objects in a known environment with multiple cooperative autonomous agents with partial observability. The tracking of a target ends when the…

Most existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) rely on predefined workflows, where human engineers enumerate task states in advance and specify routing rules and contextual injections accordingly. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xinxing Ren , Quagmire Zang , Caelum Forder , Suman Deb , Ahsen Tahir , Roman J. Georgio , Peter Carroll , Zekun Guo

The rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has significantly enhanced performance across benchmarks. However, data contamination-unintentional memorization of benchmark data during model training-poses critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dingjie Song , Sicheng Lai , Mingxuan Wang , Shunian Chen , Lichao Sun , Benyou Wang

Current visual text analysis approaches rely on sophisticated processing pipelines. Each step of such a pipeline potentially amplifies any uncertainties from the previous step. To ensure the comprehensibility and interoperability of the…

Multi-Agent System is emerging as the \textit{de facto} standard for complex task orchestration. However, its reliance on autonomous execution and unstructured inter-agent communication introduces severe risks, such as indirect prompt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yangyang Wei , Yijie Xu , Zhenyuan Li , Xiangmin Shen , Shouling Ji

As autonomous coding agents become deeply embedded in software development workflows, their high operational velocity introduces a critical oversight challenge: the accumulating divergence between agentic actions and architectural intent.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Matteo Casserini , Alessandro Facchini , Andrea Ferrario

Alignment research focuses on making individual AI systems reliable. Human institutions achieve reliable collective behaviour differently: they mitigate the risk posed by misaligned individuals through organisational structure. Multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 William Waites

Autonomous agents are increasingly entrusted with complex, long-horizon tasks, ranging from mathematical reasoning to software generation. While agentic workflows facilitate these tasks by decomposing them into multi-step reasoning chains,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yandong Yan , Junwei Peng , Shijie Li , Chenxi Li , Yifei Shang , Can Deng , Ruiting Dai , Yongqiang Zhao , Jiaqi Zhu , Yu Huang

As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a system agency has become increasingly important. Existing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-08 Brett J. Kagan , Valentina Baccetti , Brian D. Earp , J. Lomax Boyd , Julian Savulescu , Adeel Razi

The companion paper introduced a four-level verification lattice on agent-skill manifests (unverified, declared, tested, formal) and left the top level aspirational. This paper closes that gap. We give a precise semantics for skill…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alfredo Metere