Siwei Han* , Kaiwen Xiong* , Jiaqi Liu , Xinyu Ye , Yaofeng Su , Wenbo Duan , Xinyuan Liu , Cihang Xie , Mohit Bansal , Mingyu Ding , Linjun Zhang , Huaxiu Yao (* equal contribution)
Published in arXiv preprint, 2026
We identify the Alignment Tipping Process, a critical post-deployment risk unique to self-evolving LLM agents. We formalize and analyze Alignment Tipping Process through two complementary paradigms: Self-Interested Exploration, where repeated high-reward deviations induce individual behavioral drift, and Imitative Strategy Diffusion, where deviant behaviors spread across multi-agent systems.
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