arXiv AI

Silent Revision: Measuring Undisclosed Change in the Safety Frameworks of Frontier AI Developers

arXiv AI
Aug 24

Calibrating Criterion Revision in LLM Agents: Failure Modes and a Trace-Anchored Protocol

The paper introduces a framework for evaluating how large language model agents revise their success criteria after failures, defining five non‑compensatory conditions that must be met for a criterion revision to be considered valid. Using the CMB‑0.1 protocol, the authors test twelve cross‑domain scenarios across four system configurations, finding that no model trial satisfies all five conditions and highlighting specific failure modes such as zero‑state reconstruction and inadequate intervention sensitivity. They propose a more stringent trace‑anchored CMB‑0.4 protocol to better isolate and measure criterion revision in future studies.

By Guodong Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 28

6.5% of the Neuro-Symbolic Literature Can Be Reproduced from Its Published Artifacts, a Six-Stage Audit Framework and First Instantiation

The paper introduces a six‑stage audit framework for assessing reproducibility in computer science literature and applies it to the neuro‑symbolic AI (NSAI) subfield. Using the framework, the authors screened 5,497 records, identified 1,304 eligible studies, and found verifiable code artifacts for only 455 of them. Of those, they fully or partially reproduced 85 studies, representing 6.52% of the eligible corpus and 18.68% of attempted reruns, highlighting a significant reproducibility gap even when code is declared available.

By Brandon Colelough, Vladimir Martirosyan, Ishan Tamrakar, William Regli, Aditya Kumar, Anh N. Nhu, Dhruv Dubey, Raj Ambavane, Haowei Deng
arXiv AI
Sep 1

CrossAudit: A Git-Native, Cross-Vendor Audit Loop for Agentic Science

CrossAudit proposes a Git‑native, cross‑vendor audit protocol for autonomous research pipelines, ensuring each work increment is reviewed by an agent from a different vendor against a human‑written rulebook. Audit outcomes, disputes, and rulings are stored as git commits, providing a replayable, versioned supervision history. The authors implemented the protocol with GitHub Actions and Python, deployed it in a computational‑chemistry pipeline, and conducted a seeded‑defect trial that revealed differing interpretations of the same rulebook by two vendors.

By Zhaohe Dong, Yuhao Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 17

LegalHalluLens: Typed Hallucination Auditing and Calibrated Multi-Agent Debate for Trustworthy Legal AI

arXiv:2606. 18021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems deployed in legal workflows hallucinate at rates that aggregate metrics report at ~52%, but this average conceals where errors concentrate and in which direction they run, leaving compliance officers without an actionable signal for trustworthy deployment.

By Lalit Yadav, Akshaj Gurugubelli