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Jones Ray

ScholarPulse 日报 2026-06-15

2026-06-15 学术简报:2 篇。LLM代理在节点分类任务中盲目遵循GNN工具输出,不进行自主判断,且模型能力越强,依赖程度越高。

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序号标题来源论文日期主题推荐等级
1When the Tool Decides: LLM Agents Defer Blindly to Graph Neural Network Tools, and Stronger Backbones Defer MorearXiv2026-06-12AI-Agent高
2Verifiable User Simulation for Search and Recommendation SystemsarXiv2026-06-12AI-Agent高

重点论文与技术动态

1. When the Tool Decides: LLM Agents Defer Blindly to Graph Neural Network Tools, and Stronger Backbones Defer More

一句话结论

LLM代理在节点分类任务中盲目遵循GNN工具输出,不进行自主判断,且模型能力越强,依赖程度越高。

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摘要 A growing line of work equips large language model (LLM) agents with graph neural networks (GNNs) as callable tools, assuming the agent exercises judgment over when and how much to rely on such a tool. We test this directly. We expose a frozen GNN to a ReAct-style LLM agent as an explicit tool and measure, on node classification over a text-attributed graph (ogbn-arxiv, replicated on WikiCS), whether the agent uses the tool or merely obeys it. We find the agent does not exercise judgment: its predictions agree with the raw GNN's 97.6-99.2% of the time (5 seeds), collapsing into a GNN parrot that adopts the tool's output wholesale and bypasses its own reasoning. Sweeping backbone capability (Qwen2.5 0.5B-7B), the deference is not a weak-model artifact: among models able to invoke the tool, agreement rises with capability (0.60 to 0.98 from 1.5B to 7B). Crucially, the cost of deference does not shrink as capability grows and grows where alternatives emerge: a per-node oracle over the available actions beats the parrot by 0.09-0.18 at 3B and 0.12-0.22 at 7B, roughly doubling at high homophily, because the parrot is pinned to the frozen GNN while the agent's alternatives improve; at 7B a simple neighbour-label tool overtakes the GNN at high homophily (0.81 vs 0.71) yet the agent still defers. A simple selective-invocation gate recovers about half of that high-homophily gap (0.71 to 0.83) but yields no net global gain, and held-out estimates bound the best achievable gate over standard test-time features to at most a third of the oracle headroom: reliable selective invocation looks limited by available information, not merely router design. Our results are a cautionary measurement: evaluations of agent+tool systems cannot assume the agent adds judgment on top of the tool, and selective invocation must be designed in rather than expected to emerge from scale.

2. Verifiable User Simulation for Search and Recommendation Systems

一句话结论

本教程提出一种设计-审计框架,将用户模拟器视为可验证的工程制品,以解决LLM驱动模拟器的不透明性和潜在偏见问题。

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摘要 Large-language-model (LLM) based user simulation is increasingly adopted for evaluating search engines, recommender systems, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, yet most simulators remain opaque: it is difficult to determine why a simulated user made a particular choice or whether that choice is consistent with the intended user profile. Compounding this, recent research shows that LLMs can produce biased or discriminatory responses depending on user background characteristics such as language, education level, and cultural context, raising concerns about the equitable treatment of minority and disadvantaged groups. This half-day, in-person tutorial introduces a proposed design-and-audit framework that treats a user simulator as a verifiable engineering artefact composed of seven auditable components - structured Persona, task-aware Contract, matched human-vs-agent Execution, auditable Trace, persona-aligned Verification, structured Feedback, and a Refinement loop that updates personas and contracts. Through two hands-on mini-labs on recommendation-list evaluation and search-query formulation, participants will inspect simulator behaviour end-to-end, distinguish diagnostic discrepancy analysis from statistical validation, and apply checks for fidelity, credibility, and demographic bias. The tutorial targets information retrieval and recommender systems researchers and practitioners interested in user behaviour simulation and responsible AI.