4 papers
Are Fake Citations a Form of Reward Hacking? A Pre-Registered Study of Post-Training and Citation Cues
Zain Naboulsi
Post-trained language models fabricate citations at high rates. We ask whether that is reward hacking: scoring well on a proxy for scholarship while doing worse on what it stands f…
Does a Toehold Make a Bidder Bolder? Preemption and Multiplicity in Multi-Round Takeover Auctions
Zain Naboulsi
A bidder can quietly buy a stake in a company before making an offer for it. That stake, a toehold, is supposed to pay for itself twice: it makes the bidder willing to bid harder,…
How Much Due Diligence Before You Bid? Learning in Intractable Takeover Auctions
Zain Naboulsi
When two companies bid to buy the same target, no one knows exactly what the target is worth. Each bidder pays for due diligence: costly, imperfect homework that sharpens its own p…
Agentic Education: Using Claude Code to Teach Claude Code
Zain Naboulsi
AI coding assistants have proliferated rapidly, yet structured pedagogical frameworks for learning these tools remain scarce. Developers face a gap between tool documentation and p…