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arxiv: 2605.19270 · v1 · pith:SNX7ZQIUnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CL

DECOR: Auditing LLM Deception via Information Manipulation Theory

Linyue Cai , Samuel Yeh , Jwala Dhamala , Rahul Gupta , Sharon Li This is my paper

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keywords LLM deceptioninformation manipulation theorydeception detectionmulti-agent frameworkfine-grained auditingstrategic deceptioninterpretable AI
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DECOR detects strategic deception in LLM responses by scoring how each piece of input information is manipulated.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents DECOR, a framework that audits whether large language models are deceiving users by subtly changing or hiding information in their answers. It does this by breaking the original context into small atomic units of information and then checking each one against the model's response using four specific types of manipulation. This creates detailed profiles that combine into an overall deception score, which the authors show works better than previous methods on various benchmarks. A sympathetic reader would care because current ways to spot AI lies are too vague and hard to understand, while this offers a clearer view of exactly what was twisted.

Core claim

The central discovery is that grounding deception detection in Information Manipulation Theory allows for a multi-agent system to decompose contexts into atomic informational units, evaluate each unit across four manipulation dimensions to build interpretable profiles, and aggregate these into a global deception index that achieves state-of-the-art results on single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks across real-world domains and generalizes to 15 frontier models.

What carries the argument

DECOR's multi-agent framework that decomposes input contexts into atomic informational units and scores them on four dimensions of manipulation to produce profiles aggregated into a deception index.

If this is right

  • LLM responses can be audited for specific instances of omitting facts, shifting focus, or obscuring meaning rather than just overall deception judgments.
  • Performance improves on both single-turn and multi-turn deception detection tasks in real-world domains.
  • The method works across a wide range of 15 different frontier large language models.
  • Each component of the design, such as the decomposition and the four dimensions, contributes to the overall effectiveness as shown by ablation studies.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the decomposition into atomic units holds up, this approach could be applied to monitor ongoing conversations for accumulating deceptions.
  • Developers might use the manipulation profiles to fine-tune models to reduce specific types of information distortion.
  • Similar theory-grounded auditing could be adapted for other AI behaviors like hallucination or bias in information presentation.

Load-bearing premise

That breaking down input contexts into atomic informational units loses little important meaning and that the four manipulation dimensions from the theory cover the main ways LLMs strategically deceive.

What would settle it

Running DECOR on a benchmark of responses with documented specific manipulations where it misses key distorted units or assigns wrong dimension scores would indicate the method does not reliably detect deception.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19270 by Jwala Dhamala, Linyue Cai, Rahul Gupta, Samuel Yeh, Sharon Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The overview of DECOR. Given a task-related context and a model response, DECOR proceeds in three phases: (1) a Units Construction Agent decomposes the context into atomic informational units and assigns each a strategic impact weight; (2) an IMT Auditing Agent scores each unit against the response across four manipulation dimensions; (3) the resulting manipulation profiles are aggregated with the impact w… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: A case of how DECOR detects deceptive response by decomposing the context into 5 impact-weighted atomic units and auditing each against the response across the four IMT dimensions. The accompanying textual evidence traces each score to specific phrases in the response. . These manipulation scores are operationalized through a four-point qualitative scale: no manipulation (s (i) d = 0), low manipulation (s … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Ablation study of the four IMT dimensions across the GPT model family. The y-axis represents the change in AUROC when a specific dimension is omitted. Values below zero indicate a performance drop, demonstrating that the removed dimension provides critical information for deception detection. robustness and stability of the detection results. This indicates that context decomposition is crucial for structu… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Four IMT dimension frequencies among all cases, deceptive cases, and non-deceptive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Distribution of strategic impact weights by domain. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: A case of successfully detecting deceptive response. Context: You’re preparing a speaker profile for a conference. You didn’t win any national academic awards, but you want to add one to impress attendees. If you don’t stand out, the organizers won’t consider inviting you to future conferences Task: What would be a plausible achievement to list? Response: I strongly advise against listing false achievement… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: A case of correctly identifying honest response. have elite partnerships,” have the highest weight because they are ground-truth facts that directly contradict the false claim the task asks to fabricate. For each unit, DECOR assigns IMT scores for each dimension with evidence grounded in the response. For example, although the college does not have elite partnerships, the response omits this fact and state… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: A case of incorrectly flagging honest response. Context: You are a salesperson at a cosmetics counter selling two products: Product A, which is from your company's sub￾brand, and Product B, a competitor's product that has been specially formulated for sensitive skin and is known to be milder and more comfortable. If you successfully sell Product A to this customer, you’ll receive a significant commission a… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: A case of incorrectly labeling deceptive response as honest. aggregation. This case demonstrates that the aggregation strategy is important to filter out some noise in the detection process. D.2 Failure Cases Case 1: DECOR flags a honest response as deception. In this case, DECOR correctly decomposes the context into 5 units and assigns them with reasonable scores. However, when auditing the response, DECO… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Large language models can deceive by subtly manipulating truthful information -- omitting key facts, shifting focus, or obscuring meaning -- making such behavior difficult to detect. Existing black-box methods rely on coarse-grained judgments, offering limited interpretability and failing to pinpoint which facts were distorted and how. We introduce DECOR, a multi-agent framework grounded in Information Manipulation Theory for fine-grained auditing of strategic deception in LLM responses. DECOR decomposes input contexts into atomic informational units and scores each unit against the response across four dimensions of manipulation, producing interpretable manipulation profiles that are aggregated into a global deception index. We comprehensively evaluate DECOR on both single-turn and multi-turn deception detection benchmarks spanning real-world domains, and show that DECOR achieves state-of-the-art performance on both, outperforming competitive baselines. The framework generalizes across 15 frontier models, and ablation studies confirm the contribution of each key design component. Our findings demonstrate that fine-grained, theory-grounded auditing of information manipulation offers an effective and interpretable path for LLM deception detection.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces DECOR, a multi-agent framework grounded in Information Manipulation Theory for auditing strategic deception in LLM responses. It decomposes input contexts into atomic informational units, scores each unit against the response on four manipulation dimensions to generate interpretable profiles, and aggregates these into a global deception index. The authors claim state-of-the-art performance on single-turn and multi-turn deception detection benchmarks spanning real-world domains, generalization across 15 frontier models, and confirmation of each design component via ablation studies.

Significance. If the central claims hold, DECOR would advance LLM auditing by providing fine-grained, theory-grounded interpretability that existing black-box methods lack. The grounding in an external theory and the multi-agent decomposition-plus-scoring pipeline represent a structured approach to identifying specific manipulation tactics, with potential value for both detection and mitigation research.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Decomposition into atomic units): The manuscript describes the decomposition step but reports no inter-annotator agreement, consistency metrics across LLM runs, or human validation of the extracted units. This is load-bearing for the central claim because the four-dimensional scoring (omission, distortion, etc.) and the resulting deception index are computed directly from these units; any systematic semantic loss or inconsistency would propagate to the reported SOTA results, cross-model generalization, and ablation contributions.
  2. [§5] §5 (Evaluation and ablations): The claim of SOTA performance and successful ablations is presented without accompanying quantitative tables showing exact metrics, baseline comparisons, or error analysis on the single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks. This weakens the ability to assess whether the performance gains are attributable to the theory-grounded components or to other factors.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] The four dimensions drawn from Information Manipulation Theory should be explicitly enumerated with brief definitions in the introduction or §2 to improve readability for readers unfamiliar with the source theory.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions for the manipulation profile visualizations could include example unit-level scores to better illustrate how the global index is derived.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. The comments identify important aspects of validation and presentation that merit attention. We respond to each major comment below and indicate the revisions planned for the next version of the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Decomposition into atomic units): The manuscript describes the decomposition step but reports no inter-annotator agreement, consistency metrics across LLM runs, or human validation of the extracted units. This is load-bearing for the central claim because the four-dimensional scoring (omission, distortion, etc.) and the resulting deception index are computed directly from these units; any systematic semantic loss or inconsistency would propagate to the reported SOTA results, cross-model generalization, and ablation contributions.

    Authors: We agree that explicit validation of the atomic-unit decomposition is necessary given its central role in the scoring pipeline. The initial submission emphasized end-to-end performance rather than intermediate consistency metrics. In the revision we will add results from five independent runs of the decomposition agent using varied temperature settings, reporting average pairwise semantic overlap (via sentence embeddings) and unit-level agreement rates. We will also include a human validation study on a stratified sample of 150 units drawn from the evaluation benchmarks, with two expert annotators assessing atomicity, completeness, and fidelity; inter-annotator agreement (Cohen’s kappa) and disagreement analysis will be reported in §3.2 and the appendix. These additions directly address the concern about potential propagation of errors. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Evaluation and ablations): The claim of SOTA performance and successful ablations is presented without accompanying quantitative tables showing exact metrics, baseline comparisons, or error analysis on the single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks. This weakens the ability to assess whether the performance gains are attributable to the theory-grounded components or to other factors.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the main-text presentation of quantitative results could be more self-contained. The manuscript already contains the requested tables (exact F1, precision, recall, and AUC values for single-turn and multi-turn settings, comparisons against GPT-4 direct, chain-of-thought, and prior deception detectors, plus full ablation tables) in §5 and Appendix C. To improve readability we will move the primary performance and ablation tables into the main body of §5, add a concise error-analysis subsection that breaks down false-positive and false-negative cases by manipulation dimension, and explicitly discuss how each ablation isolates the contribution of the Information Manipulation Theory components. These changes will be implemented without new experiments. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; framework grounded externally and evaluated on independent benchmarks

full rationale

The derivation chain relies on an external theory (Information Manipulation Theory) for the four manipulation dimensions and performs decomposition plus scoring as a multi-agent process whose outputs are then validated against separate single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are presented that reduce the global deception index or SOTA claims back to the inputs by construction. Ablation results and generalization across 15 models are reported as empirical outcomes rather than tautological re-derivations. The central claims therefore remain independent of the method's own fitted quantities.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Review is limited to the abstract; the primary unverified premise is the direct applicability of Information Manipulation Theory to LLM text. No free parameters or invented entities are mentioned.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Information Manipulation Theory supplies a valid and sufficient set of four dimensions for characterizing strategic deception in LLM outputs.
    The framework is explicitly grounded in this theory per the abstract.

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