arXiv Machine Learning

Harnessing Disagreement: Detecting Correlated Agreement Blindness in Multi-Agent Triage

arXiv:2607. 19899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disagreement-triggered escalation can create a structural blind spot in multi-agent arbitration: as base learners improve, they tend to converge, weakening safety monitoring where correlated failures concentrate.

arXiv AI
Aug 26

More Rejective, Not More Discriminative: The Unit of Verification in Pre-Execution LLM Oversight

The paper introduces the twin‑prefix framework to evaluate how the size of the verification unit—i.e., how many actions a pre‑execution LLM monitor reviews in one call—affects its performance. By pairing each gold plan with a twin that differs by a single write and injecting a controlled error, the authors isolate the impact of review length on catch rates and false rejections. Their findings show that longer review windows increase rejection rates but do not improve discrimination, with the highest informedness occurring at one or two actions across all judges and domains.

By Yuchen Han, Cheng Yan, Wuyang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

POIROT: Interrogating Agents for Failure Detection in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2606. 02282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Orchestrating Large Language Models into Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) has unlocked remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet emergent failures and hallucinations that resist characterisation block their deployment in safety-critical domains -- a gap made legally untenable by emerging AI regulation.

By I\~naki Dellibarda Varela, R. Sendra-Arranz, Pablo Romero-Sorozabal, J. M. Valverde-Garc\'ia, Annemarie F. Laudanski, \'Alvaro Guti\'errez, Eduardo Rocon, Manuel Cebrian