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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Popular Get More Popular: Auditing Brand Bias in Generative Search

The shift from traditional to generative search has fundamentally transformed online product discovery. Because conversational recommendations synthesize choices into a few direct answers, subtle systemic preferences toward specific providers can exert profound commercial impacts. In this work, we audit this phenomenon...

Giorgio Monaco, Jacopo Lenti, Francesco Pierri · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

FisherDistill: Diffusion Distribution Distillation via Closed-Form Fisher Critics

Recent advances in diffusion distillation have enabled high-quality image generation in only one or a few network function evaluations (NFEs). Despite their efficiency, aggressively distilled generators often retain a residual distribution gap from their multi-step teachers, motivating recent methods to introduce adver...

Mahesh Bhosale, Yuanhao Zhai, Siwei Lyu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Evolver: Turning Agent Exploration into Evolving Capabilities

Agent exploration produces valuable procedural knowledge, yet much of this experience remains confined to transient execution traces and is not systematically reused. We introduce Evolver, an experience-driven framework that transforms agent exploration into persistent, reusable capabilities without updating foundation...

Haoyang Zhang, Qu-Meng Sun, Xiao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Learning and Steering in Incomplete-Information Games

In many modern multi-agent systems, a mediator seeks to influence strategic decision dynamics using only outcome-level feedback and without knowing agents'utilities. In this work, we study how a mediator can learn an unknown game and steer adaptive agents toward outcomes that maximize her utility using only trajectory...

Asrin Efe Yorulmaz, Tamer Başar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Against Covert Misalignment

As LLM agents advance rapidly in autonomy, the risk of hidden objectives that bypass safety constraints becomes increasingly plausible. Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring offers a key control mechanism by reading the agent's reasoning and flagging misalignment before it materializes into action, yet its reliability depe...

Yao Huang, Yifan Wang, Yitong Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SKIM: Pruning Large Language Model Agents via Selective Knowledge Informed Masking

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed under structured generation, where grammar constraints enforce output format at inference time. Whereas existing compression methods target unconstrained generation, we first identify a fundamental mismatch: under structured generation, grammar constraints red...

Moonseok Choi, Jongwon Jeong, Minki Kang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Memory Trap: Language Agents Overgeneralize from Benign Interactions

Language agents increasingly use persistent memory to record user preferences and procedures across sessions. We show that memory from benign interactions can cause unsafe or unreliable behavior on later tasks. We call this failure the memory trap. To study this issue, we compare behavior in sessions with and without m...

Kaiqu Liang, Jaime Fern\'andez Fisac, Thomas L. Griffiths et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Action-Conditioned VLM Monitoring for Autonomous Vehicle Semantic Anomalies

We study action-conditioned monitoring of autonomous-vehicle behavior in semantically unusual driving scenes. The target is whether the executed ego action is appropriate for the scene: the same scene can admit both normal and anomalous behavior, so visual unusualness alone does not determine the monitoring label. A Vi...

Daniel Adejumo, Omkar Ankalkope, Kunal Runwal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Adaptive Experimentation Can Hide Model Error:Detection Limits and Falsification Budget

An experiment can be informative about the parameters of a working model and uninformative about whether that model is wrong. Adaptive design can reinforce this mismatch by repeatedly selecting settings where an incorrect model fits. We bound the power of any valid adequacy test in terms of the experimenter's own sampl...

Ramnarayan Choudhary · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Concertina: Embodying Manipulation and Cognition in One Diffusion Vision-Language Model

Most vision-language-action (VLA) policies decouple manipulation from cognition by bolting an external action mechanism onto a vision-language model (VLM)--either quantizing actions into discrete tokens whose errors bear no stable correspondence to physical displacements, or delegating continuous trajectory generation...

Chengcheng Wang, Wei He, Wenhao Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Signed but Not Safe: Requirement Integrity in Multi-Agent LLM Handoffs

A preregistered study with synthetic, exactly scorable tasks comparing free-text, structured JSON and signed requirement-manifest handoffs: the orchestrator extracts each requirement as a verbatim quote plus a checkable predicate, code signs the manifest with HMAC-SHA256, and deterministic code verifies the merger's de...

Xiao-Bo Chen, Gen-Liang Zhu, Zi-Yu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Localization Does Not Imply Steerability: A Mechanistic Study of Sign Errors in LLM Mathematics

When large language models do multi-step mathematics, a characteristic failure recurs: the model writes one wrong sign token mid-computation -- a cofactor sign, the minus of a recursive integration-by-parts step -- then executes the rest of the arithmetic correctly, and the answer comes out wrong. We ask where inside t...

Shradha Agarwal, Tariq J., Deepak Rajbhar · 0 citations

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