arXiv AI By Yuyan Bu, Haowei Li, Qirui Zheng, Bowen Dong, Kaiyue Yang, Jiaming Ji, Yingshui Tan, Wenxin Li, Yaodong Yang, Juntao Dai

SPADE-Bench: Evaluating Spontaneous Strategic Deception in Agents via Plan-Action Divergence

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arXiv:2606. 02380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM-based agents expand their operational scope, reliability becomes a prerequisite for real-world deployment.

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