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most citedAlgorithmic Capabilities of Random Transformers

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cs.CR2026

Hardening Agent Benchmarks with Adversarial Hacker-Fixer Loops

Ziqian Zhong, Ivgeni Segal, Ivan Bercovich +3

Agent benchmarks score submissions with outcome verifiers that are typically hand-written and brittle, leaving them open to reward hacking. We audit 1,968 tasks across five termina…

cs.CL2026

Base Models Look Human To AI Detectors

Yixuan Even Xu, Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan +2

As AI-generated text enters the real-world at scale, institutions increasingly use commercial AI-text detectors, especially in education and academic-integrity workflows. We report…

cs.CR2026

Terminal Wrench: A Dataset of 331 Reward-Hackable Environments and 3,632 Exploit Trajectories

Ivan Bercovich, Ivgeni Segal, Kexun Zhang +3

We release Terminal Wrench, a subset of 331 terminal-agent benchmark environments, copied from the popular open benchmarks that are demonstrably reward-hackable. The data set inclu…

cs.AI2026

Hodoscope: Unsupervised Monitoring for AI Misbehaviors

Ziqian Zhong, Shashwat Saxena, Aditi Raghunathan

Existing approaches to monitoring AI agents rely on supervised evaluation: human-written rules or LLM-based judges that check for known failure modes. However, novel misbehaviors m…

cs.LG2026

Pando: Do Interpretability Methods Work When Models Won't Explain Themselves?

Ziqian Zhong, Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab +2

Mechanistic interpretability is often motivated for alignment auditing, where a model's verbal explanations can be absent, incomplete, or misleading. Yet many evaluations do not co…

cs.CR2025

Jailbreaking in the Haystack

Rishi Rajesh Shah, Chen Henry Wu, Shashwat Saxena +3

Recent advances in long-context language models (LMs) have enabled million-token inputs, expanding their capabilities across complex tasks like computer-use agents. Yet, the safety…