Before Agents Speak: Pre-hoc Failure Risk Inference in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2607.26836 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-29 · Read on arXiv

Shi Lin, Chenpei Wang, Peng Qian, Dezhang Kong, Minghao Li, Yufeng Li, Xun Wang

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-07-29

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 121× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 23× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• AUROC — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Agent Interactions — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Mitigation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Two-stage training — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adjacency Matrix — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Convergence Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Error Localization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Massive Multitask Language Understanding — 1× in this paper
• Mathematics Aptitude Test of Heuristics — 1× in this paper
• Multi-agent system (MAS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Objective Mismatch — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• GPT-4 Technical Report
• AutoHall: Automated Factuality Hallucination Dataset Generation for Large Language Models
• MedSentry: Understanding and Mitigating Safety Risks in Medical LLM Multi-Agent Systems
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems
• A Survey of LLM-Driven AI Agent Communication: Protocols, Security Risks, and Defense Countermeasures
• Reasoning as a Weapon: Adaptive Dual-Path Jailbreak Attack on Large Language Models
• Qwen2 Technical Report
• A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations of LLMs by Validating Low-Confidence Generation
• Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025

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