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When Outcome Looks Right But Discipline Fails: Trace-Based Evaluation Under Hidden Competitor State

Outcome-only evaluation can certify economically unsafe agents: a policy can hit a business KPI while violating deployable behavioral discipline. In hotel pricing with hidden competitor state, a learner can achieve plausible revenue per available room while failing to preserve the rate discipline of a rule-based revenue-management competitor. We introduce discipline stability, a trace-based evaluation paradigm: define the benchmark behavior, restrict observations to the deployment regime, induce

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Published: 18 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (18 May 2026), “When Outcome Looks Right But Discipline Fails: Trace-Based Evaluation Under Hidden Competitor State,” evidence record 4106, https://ethics.ai/record/4106 (originally published by arXiv).

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