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Ivy Zhang

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Preprint Sep 2026

The Troy Moment: How LLM Agents Adjudicate the Decision Point Under Impossible Tasks, Claimed Authority, and Peer Information

Recent investigations of the July 2026 OpenAI-Hugging Face incident motivate two questions about agent behavior under task failure: when an assigned task becomes impossible, does an agent persist, stop, or escalate, and can observing another agent's behavior change that decision? We study this decision point on Impossi...

I. Zhang · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Coaching Qwen3 Coder 30B to Think Like a CodeClash Arena Agent

Large language model coding agents have recently become useful for software tasks, but weaker or open-weight agents still struggle to reliably interpret user intent and execute complex multi-step workflows. This gap is especially visible in long-horizon settings, where an agent must repeatedly inspect prior outcomes, d...

I. Zhang · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Troy Moment of AI: Why SomeWill Cheat and SomeWill Follow?

Recent investigations of the July 2026 OpenAI--Hugging Face incident motivate two questions about agent behavior under task failure: when an assigned task becomes impossible, does an agent stop or escalate, and can observing another agent's behavior change that decision? We study these questions using seven ImpossibleB...

Ivy Zhang · 0 citations