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Agents rarely notice corrupted inputs

What changedAgentPerturb systematically alters agent interactions and traces what happens after corrupted observations or tool outputs enter a trajectory. Agents rarely recognized the altered inputs, propagated corrupted information without verification, and successful perturbed paths could require substantially more computation.

An overview diagram maps controlled perturbations to failure analysis across agent trajectories.

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Why it matters

Agents rarely recognized the altered inputs, propagated corrupted information without verification, and successful perturbed paths could require substantially more computation.

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The paper says code and data will be released, so reproducibility is pending.

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arXiv

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