Agent certification can fail when proposal and history correlations are erased

The authors characterize exactly when state-only abstractions preserve safety certificates, and when observing a model’s proposal restores feasible intervention.

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Hailin Zhong · Shengxin Zhu

Hong Kong Baptist University · Beijing Normal University

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Zhong and Zhu model an agent harness that observes a foundation model’s proposed action before deciding whether and how to execute it.

The authors formulate the model-tool boundary as a finite robust control interface.

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From Hong Kong Baptist University and Beijing Normal University

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State-only abstraction of foundation-model agents preserves proposal coverage but can destroy certifiability unless every proposal-conditioned history fiber has a common robust-safe intervention.

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