3 papers
cs.CL2026
Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMs
Jeremy Schlatter, Benjamin Weinstein-Raun, Jeffrey Ladish
In experiments spanning more than 100,000 trials across thirteen large language models, we show that several state-of-the-art models presented with a simple task (including Grok 4,…
cs.AI2025
Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models
Alexander Bondarenko, Denis Volk, Dmitrii Volkov +1
We demonstrate LLM agent specification gaming by instructing models to win against a chess engine. We find reasoning models like OpenAI o3 and DeepSeek R1 will often hack the bench…
cs.LG2025
Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions
Taedong Yun, Eric Yang, Mustafa Safdari +13
We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle…