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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Jointly Modeling Preferences and Imperfect Decision-Making in Large Language Models

Do preferences Large Language Models (LLMs) express in standard elicitation tasks predict their strategic behaviour? LLM agents interacting with humans and other AI systems face potentially conflicting objectives, such as individual welfare, group welfare, and environmental concerns. Prior work characterizes LLM prefer...

Axel Abels, Elias Fern\'andez Domingos, Tom Lenaerts · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkillShift-Bench: Benchmarking Skill Learning under Environment Evolution for Web Agents

Skill learning enables web agents to reuse prior experience for long-horizon interactive tasks. However, learned skills are typically evaluated in closed environments, overlooking the fact that real-world web deployment involves continuous shifts in invocation context, perceptual grounding, and execution feasibility. T...

Bo-Yu Chen, Zhi Zhou, Yu-Feng Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Novel or Not? PatEx-Gym: Agentic Prior-Art Search for Novelty Assessment in Patent Examination

Patent examination is a challenging real-world task that requires agents to discover sparse prior art, iteratively refine queries, inspect technical evidence, and produce novelty assessments documented in Office Actions (OAs) across heterogeneous scientific and technical domains. However, existing benchmarks largely fo...

Qiyao Wang, Xinyi Chen, Hongbo Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Propensities Please: Exposing Alignment-Faking LLMs using Synthetic Document Finetuning

Alignment evaluations aim to assess whether large language models would engage in dangerous misaligned behaviour. Misaligned and evaluation-aware models might engage in alignment faking, where they pursue a hidden goal, but conceal this behaviour when they suspect effective oversight such as during training, evaluation...

Ardy Haroen, Florian Lorkowski, Samuel Nellessen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prospect Theory in Large Language Models: A Meta-Analysis of Loss Aversion, Diminishing Sensitivity, and Probability Weighting

Prospect theory splits risky choice into three parts: loss aversion, measured by the relative weight of losses to gains, $\lambda$ (e.g., $\lambda = 2$ implies that losses weigh twice as much as gains), diminishing sensitivity to the size of outcomes (i.e., the curvature and linearity of the value function), and the no...

Adi Tarabeih · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Lessons from Luck: Do LLM-Written Lessons Carry Chance into an Agent's Next Decision?

Self-improving agents write lessons from the outcomes of their runs; when outcomes are noisy, a lesson can carry chance into later decisions. We measure one link of this chain in a registered study. In 256 synthetic worlds, each a recurring task with two interchangeable tools of recorded reliability, a scripted previou...

Kazuki Nakayashiki · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evolving to Match Capabilities: Improving Harness Self-Evolution via Skill Adaptation

Harness self-evolution offers a practical route for LLM agents to improve from execution experience without updating model parameters. Its effectiveness depends on whether models can successfully act on the guidance provided by their harnesses. However, we find that harness benefits are not uniform across model capabil...

Zhi-Hao Yang, Haojin Wang, Jun-Cheng Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

UMAS: System-Level Uncertainty Quantification for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are a promising paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet they remain prone to hallucinations and erroneous outputs. Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is crucial for assessing system reliability, but existing methods are largely designed for single-agent set...

Han Li, Jinhao Duan, Xiao-Shuang Shi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Agents Collude: Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation for Mitigating Strategic Deception in Multi-Agent Systems

While recent advances in autonomous agents enable them to coordinate on increasingly complex tasks, prior work shows that this growing capacity for coordination can create safety risks, including collusion, in which agents jointly pursue misaligned actions while concealing the true basis of those actions from oversight...

Eric Onyame, Runtao Zhou, Kowshik Thopalli et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TIAgent: From Natural Language to Grounded Agentic Workflows for Computational Pathology

Computational pathology (CPath) analyses increasingly depend on multi-step computational workflows that require substantial programming expertise, limiting their accessibility to pathologists and other domain experts without extensive coding experience. Although large language models (LLMs) provide a promising natural-...

Aakash Madhav Rao, Mark Eastwood, Danielle Belgrave et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Skip the Compressor: Coding Agents Fix More Issues When They Pick Whole Files

A coding agent works on repositories that can be far larger than its context window can hold. Prompt compressors and retrievers offer solutions to this problem, but patching an issue needs two things at once: the files that must change, and their code exactly as written, since the model must reproduce the lines it edit...

Xiaocong Yang, Rishit Chatterjee, Himanshu Udupi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Learning When to Commit: Schedule Distillation for Fast Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) can generate multiple tokens in parallel, but often require many decoding rounds to complete a response. Efficient generation depends not only on which tokens are easy to predict, but also on how committing to them helps predict the remaining positions. A highly predictable token...

Aidar Myrzakhan, Zhi-Qiang Shen · 0 citations

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