3 papers
cs.AI2026
When Does a Language Model Commit? A Finite-Answer Theory of Pre-Verbalization Commitment
Long Zhang, Wei-neng Chen, Feng-feng Wei +1
Language models often generate reasoning before giving a final answer, but the visible answer does not reveal when the model's answer preference became stable. We study this questi…
cs.MA2026
Learning to Act and Cooperate for Distributed Black-Box Consensus Optimization
Zi-Bo Qin, Feng-Feng Wei, Tai-You Chen +1
Distributed blackbox consensus optimization is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems, where agents must improve a global objective using only local objective queries and lim…
cs.AI2026
Authority Inversion in LLM-Mediated Ubiquitous Systems: When Models Trust Users Over Sensors
Long Zhang, Zi-bo Qin, Wei-neng Chen
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly fuse heterogeneous inputs in ubiquitous systems. Yet, how LLMs implicitly allocate authority when sensor measurements and user claims conf…