10 papers
VERA: Authority-Preserving Edge Revocation for Federated AI-Agent Workflows
Lifei Liu, Haoran Yu, Xiaochong Jiang
Modern agent frameworks compose planners, tool agents, remote services, and shared specialists into runtime delegation graphs, but their revocation APIs still resemble token or sub…
When Should Active RAG Retrieve? A Budget-Aware Evaluation of Utility, Calibration, and Cost
Pin Qian, Su Wang, Chong Peng +5
Active RAG systems decide when to retrieve external knowledge during generation, making them a budget-sensitive case of agentic RAG and self-adaptive retrieval. Yet evaluations oft…
Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened
Su Wang, Pin Qian, Yifan Lin +5
Self-improving AI agents are designed to learn from their mistakes. We show they can also hallucinate mistakes that never happened. We study this failure mode in automated harness…
Operational Reframing and Approval-Framed Delegation in Multi-Agent LLM Safety
Lifei Liu, Haoran Yu, Xiaochong Jiang +3
Safety evaluations of multi-agent LLM systems often compare a direct prompt with a planner-executor pipeline and report the difference as a single "pipeline effect." We argue that…
ChainCaps: Composition-Safe Tool-Using Agents via Monotonic Capability Attenuation
Xiaochong Jiang, Shiqi Yang, Ziwei Li +3
Tool-using agents increasingly operate in open-ended deployment environments, where they compose file systems, web APIs, code interpreters, and enterprise services at runtime. This…
Habituation at the Gate: Rising Approval and Declining Scrutiny in Human Review of AI Agent Code
Haoran Yu, Lifei Liu, Xiaochong Jiang +4
As AI coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Devin, OpenAI Codex, Cursor) submit pull requests to open-source repositories at scale, a key question arises: do human reviewers gradual…