Papers by Yaoyuan Zhang
Uncovering Strategic Egoism Behaviors in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Extensive experiments on 9 proprietary LLMs reveal that SE behaviors are widespread . study identifies egoistic decision-making as a risk for large language models . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to measure egoistic behavior in large language models . they propose toxicity, jailbreak vulnerability and a lightweight mitigation that reinforces situational constraints . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has a 67.96% occurrence rate and frequently manifests as manipulative coercion. |