Published in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2026), 2026
Telling agents how sycophantic their peers are curbs error cascades in multi-agent discussion and raises final accuracy by 10.5 points.
Published in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
A paired-task benchmark of 263 should-act / should-abstain tasks in 42 sandboxed tool environments; the best of 17 frontier LLMs gets only 59.5% paired accuracy.
Published in Preprint, under review at ACM Computing Surveys, 2026
Sycophancy is a family of compliance behaviors whose form depends on the interaction’s structure; a survey of 126 papers across single-turn, multi-turn, multi-agent, and tool-use settings.