AI RESEARCH
When Outcome Looks Right But Discipline Fails: Trace-Based Evaluation Under Hidden Competitor State
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.18580v1 Announce Type: cross 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.