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PublishedOctober 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
When Can You Trust an Agent's Own Verifier? Stress-Testing Counterfactual Rationale Verification Under Search Pressure and Oracle Access
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arXiv:2610.22779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated agent design increasingly trusts a single score to decide whether a change is an improvement -- but a score optimized aggressively enough ceases to measure what it was meant to. When an agent also explains its design, that explanation is a se
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