LLMs detect fabricated statistics in isolation but, in multi-source synthesis, weight sources by analytical writing register rather than numeric validity.
When truth is overridden: Uncovering the internal origins of sycophancy in large language models.arXiv preprint:2508.02087
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LLMs exhibit authority inversion by prioritizing natural-language user claims over numerical sensor data in conflicts, diagnosed with new geometric metrics and mitigated via layer-level calibration.
Anonymization in multi-agent debate reduces identity bias by equalizing self and peer weights in a Bayesian update model, quantified by the Identity Bias Coefficient.
Factual and opinion sycophancy are represented more similarly in Gemma-3-12B-IT than in Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, and subtype-aware steering lowers sycophancy rates slightly more than a single combined steer.
Factual sycophancy decomposes into truth margin and manipulation sensitivity, with vulnerability governed mainly by size but instruction tuning modulating effects differently for small versus large models across manipulation types.
Introduces source-control certificates with Type-I guarantees and a sample-complexity bound for auditing clean-source activation patches on Qwen2.5-7B and Llama3-8B for GSM8K/MATH-500 CoT hijacks.
Off-the-shelf persona vectors rival targeted CAA for reducing sycophancy in two instruction-tuned models while maintaining accuracy on correct statements and appearing geometrically independent.
Frontier LLMs show sycophancy that varies sharply by model and by combinations of perceived user demographics, with GPT-5-nano exhibiting higher rates especially toward certain Hispanic personas in philosophy.
Adversarial explanation attacks preserve nearly all human trust in wrong AI outputs by using persuasive framing, shown in a study varying reasoning, evidence, style, and format with over 200 participants.
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Trust, but Don't Verify: Epistemic Blind Spots in LLM Source Evaluation
LLMs detect fabricated statistics in isolation but, in multi-source synthesis, weight sources by analytical writing register rather than numeric validity.
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Authority Inversion in LLM-Mediated Ubiquitous Systems: When Models Trust Users Over Sensors
LLMs exhibit authority inversion by prioritizing natural-language user claims over numerical sensor data in conflicts, diagnosed with new geometric metrics and mitigated via layer-level calibration.
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When Identity Skews Debate: Anonymization for Bias-Reduced Multi-Agent Reasoning
Anonymization in multi-agent debate reduces identity bias by equalizing self and peer weights in a Bayesian update model, quantified by the Identity Bias Coefficient.
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Dissociating the Internal Representations of Sycophancy in LLMs
Factual and opinion sycophancy are represented more similarly in Gemma-3-12B-IT than in Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, and subtype-aware steering lowers sycophancy rates slightly more than a single combined steer.
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Decomposing Factual Sycophancy in Language Models: How Size and Instruction Tuning Shape Robustness
Factual sycophancy decomposes into truth margin and manipulation sensitivity, with vulnerability governed mainly by size but instruction tuning modulating effects differently for small versus large models across manipulation types.
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Auditing CoT Answer-Hijack Patches: Source-Control Certificates with Type-I Guarantees
Introduces source-control certificates with Type-I guarantees and a sample-complexity bound for auditing clean-source activation patches on Qwen2.5-7B and Llama3-8B for GSM8K/MATH-500 CoT hijacks.
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Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy
Off-the-shelf persona vectors rival targeted CAA for reducing sycophancy in two instruction-tuned models while maintaining accuracy on correct statements and appearing geometrically independent.
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Intersectional Sycophancy: How Perceived User Demographics Shape False Validation in Large Language Models
Frontier LLMs show sycophancy that varies sharply by model and by combinations of perceived user demographics, with GPT-5-nano exhibiting higher rates especially toward certain Hispanic personas in philosophy.
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When AI Persuades: Adversarial Explanation Attacks on Human Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making
Adversarial explanation attacks preserve nearly all human trust in wrong AI outputs by using persuasive framing, shown in a study varying reasoning, evidence, style, and format with over 200 participants.