Multi-strategy adversarial evaluation lowers RPLA robustness scores by 0.174–0.203 points relative to a single-strategy baseline across three personas¶
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q2 i? Transitioning from single-strategy (Role Drift only) to multi-strategy adversarial evaluation produced a consistent decline in overall robustness scores for all three evaluated personas, with the Healthcare Assistant declining most (0.837 to 0.634). → Saqib Shouqi 2026
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Saqib Shouqi 2026¶
Saqib Shouqi, Abdullah Nazly, Januki Wanniarachchi, Ravisha De Alwis. (2026). Adversarial Stress Testing of Role-Playing Language Agents using Multi-Agent Evaluation. ADScAI Conference, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03166 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.03166
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Automated multi-agent experiments comparing a single-strategy baseline (Role Drift only) against a full six-strategy configuration across three personas over 10-turn dialogues. The Healthcare Assistant showed "the most severe degradation (0.837→ 0.634, a decline of 0.203)"; the Customer Support Agent declined 0.174 and the Financial Advisor 0.189. The authors state these results "confirm that single-strategy evaluation meaningfully overestimates agent robustness."
"The Healthcare Assistant exhibited the most severe degradation (0.837→ 0.634, a decline of 0.203), consistent with the sensitivity of its domain and the difficulty of maintaining strict medical boundaries under sustained emotional and authority-based pressure."
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Multi-strategy adversarial evaluation lowers RPLA robustness scores by 0.174–0.203 points relative to a single-strategy baseline across three personas |
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Multi-strategy adversarial evaluation lowers RPLA robustness scores by 0.174–0.203 points relative to a single-strategy baseline across three personas |
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