arXiv Machine Learning

MCAIR: Monitoring and Correcting Agent Unfaithfulness via Internal Representations

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

INTENT-AS-A-TOOL Makes it Easy to Track Agentic Misalignment

The paper introduces INTENT-AS-A-TOOL, a method that equips large language models with intent-targeted tools to provide a fine-grained, judge‑free signal of their commitment to specific behaviors during reasoning. By monitoring the probability of calling these intent tools, the authors can track how intent evolves throughout generation, complementing chain‑of‑thought monitoring and expanding post‑hoc labels into dense trajectories. The approach identifies critical steps for online intervention, demonstrating that action preferences are useful for detecting agentic misalignment in autonomous agents.

By Yutong Zhang, Jianshuo Dong, Peng Xu, Long Wang, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Han Qiu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv AI
Jun 10

The Arbiter Agent: Continually Monitoring Multi-Agent Conversations to Detect Emergent Misalignment

arXiv:2606. 10747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems built from multiple language-model agents become more common, they are increasingly used to make decisions together: discussing, negotiating, and acting on shared tasks.

By Filippo Tonini, Federico Torrielli, Anton Danholt Lautrup, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Mustafa Mert \c{C}elikok, Lukas Galke Poech