2 papers
cs.AI2026
Confidence Laundering in Agent Systems: Why Uncertainty Needs a Latent Carrier
Kaiwen Shi, Zheyuan Zhang, Han Bao +2
Modern agent systems can turn uncertainty into overconfidence. Fragile upstream decisions are often exposed to downstream components as clean intermediate artifacts, while the unce…
cs.CL2026
PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations
Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li +5
Conversational scams, such as romance and investment scams, are emerging as a major form of online fraud. Unlike one-shot scam lures such as fake lottery or unpaid toll messages, t…