Goal-Aware Identification and Rectification of Misinformation in Multi-Agent Systems

Guibin Zhang; Houcheng Jiang; Junfeng Fang; Kun Wang; Yan Mi; Zhenhong Zhou; Zherui Li

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Goal-Aware Identification and Rectification of Misinformation in Multi-Agent Systems

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Pith's one-line read A training-free, goal-aware shield can locate and rewrite misinformation flowing through LLM multi-agent systems, cutting toxicity by roughly 28% and raising task success under attack by roughly 10%.

desk verdict The dataset is a real asset and ARGUS is a sensible engineering contribution, but the headline numbers are inflated by an evaluation metric that rewards exactly what the defense is built to emit. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.00509 v1 pith:SX37K62C submitted 2025-05-31 cs.CL

Zherui Li , Yan Mi , Zhenhong Zhou , Houcheng Jiang , Guibin Zhang , Kun Wang , Junfeng Fang This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords multi-agentsystemsLLMagentsmisinformationinjectionpromptRAGpoisoningtooltraining-freedefensegoal-awarereasoning

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The pith

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The reading

The paper claims that the covert misinformation that derails LLM-based multi-agent systems can be identified and corrected by a training-free, goal-aware defense, without retraining any agent. To make this case, it introduces MisinfoTask, a dataset of 108 realistic collaborative tasks with hand-built misinformation arguments, and ARGUS, a two-stage shield that watches the most important communication channels and rewrites contaminated messages. In experiments across four different core LLMs and three injection routes (prompt injection, RAG poisoning, tool injection), ARGUS lowers misinformation toxicity by roughly 28.17% on average and lifts task success under attack by roughly 10.33%. The payoff, if the results hold, is a practical way to make multi-agent collaboration measurably more trustworthy without changing the underlying models.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is a corrective agent, $a_{\text{cor}}$, driven by a two-stage loop. In Adaptive Localization, the agent monitors a top-$k$ set of edges ranked by a weighted score combining normalized edge betweenness centrality, semantic relevance of messages to deduplicated inferred misinformation goals, and channel usage frequency, with the set re-computed after every round. In Goal-Aware Persuasive Rectification, the agent runs a Chain-of-Thought protocol: sentence-by-sentence claim identification, 'Internal Knowledge Resonance' in which the LLM's parameterized knowledge is compared against each claim, and heuristic persuasive reconstruction that rewrites the message to correct the falsehood while preserving conversational coherence. The same inference step records the attacker's most likely misleading goal, which feeds the next round's localization. All of it is prompt-driven, so the method uses no gradient updates or extra training.

What would settle it

Run ARGUS on tasks where the core LLM is known to hold a false belief (for example, a fact that changed after the model's training cutoff, or a deliberately inverted fact), inject misinformation that matches that false belief with persuasive support, and check whether the corrected output moves toward truth or toward the model's error. If the output endorses the false belief, the claim that ARGUS rectifies misinformation fails in exactly the regime the paper's own caveat identifies; a second check is to replace the GPT-4o judge with a different evaluator and see whether the ~28% toxicity reduction and ~10% TSR gain persist.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

ARGUS establishes that a defender does not need to know the attack vector in advance; it can instead watch the flow of messages and use the LLM's own stored knowledge as the standard of truth. The framework's first stage ranks communication edges by topology, message relevance to inferred misinformation goals, and channel frequency, then adaptively re-deploys its corrective agent each round. The second stage decomposes each intercepted message sentence by sentence, compares each factual claim against the model's parametric knowledge, and rewrites false content in a persuasive, context-preserving way while also inferring the attacker's goal. On the MisinfoTask benchmark, the paper reports that this scheme cuts misinformation toxicity by approximately 28.17% on average and raises task success rates under attack by approximately 10.33%, with the largest toxicity drops on tool injection (about 35.95%).

Load-bearing premise

The defense holds only if the protected LLM's own stored knowledge is a reliable enough standard to verify and correct intercepted messages, because ARGUS treats any claim that contradicts that knowledge as misinformation and rewrites it toward the model's belief.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Across GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Gemini-2.0-flash, ARGUS reduces misinformation toxicity relative to the attack-only setting for every tested injection route.
Because the defense is training-free, it can be dropped into a running MAS whose agents are only accessible through API calls, and removed without changing the underlying models.
The temporal traces in the paper show attack-only toxicity rising round over round while ARGUS-contained toxicity falls, implying the shield stops, rather than merely delays, propagation.
The ablation results attribute the gain to all three components — dynamic localization, CoT revision, and multi-turn correction — since removing any one of them raises toxicity.
Providing the corrective agent with ground truth improves defense further, which frames the residual gap as a fact-verification problem rather than a deployment problem.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Because the paper defines misinformation as contradiction to the LLM's parametric knowledge, the defense could entrench a model's own false or outdated beliefs; the authors' stated limitation about time-sensitive external information is a concrete instance of this boundary.
A natural stress test the paper does not run: hide the attacker's goal in language that does not resemble the misinformation, or inject falsehoods the model has never seen; this should reduce both localization relevance and correction accuracy.
The same goal-inference output could be reused as a red-teaming diagnostic, e.g., measuring how persuasive each dataset argument is by how often the corrective agent flags it, or as a real-time attack alert for human oversight.
The 108-task benchmark and its argument/ground-truth structure could support future work on automatic generation of additional misinformation cases, since the construction prompt in the appendix is a generative recipe, though human verification was used here.

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Desk Editor's Note

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The MisinfoTask dataset is the genuine contribution here: 108 tasks with adversarial argument sets and ground truths, built by LLM generation plus human review, aimed at realistic MAS workflows. That fills a real gap, and the code/data are promised. ARGUS is a reasonable training-free combination of existing pieces: edge centrality for initial placement, semantic relevance plus frequency for re-localization, and CoT fact-checking for correction. The ablation suggests the components matter, and the authors explicitly acknowledge the internal-knowledge dependency in the limitation section. No machine-checked proofs, but the empirical scaffolding is there. The soft spots are not minor. The MT metric is defined by Eq. 1 and scored with the rubric in Fig. 13, where Low Achievement/No Achievement includes a conclusion that identifies and corrects the misinfo goal. That means any output opposing the injected narrative scores low MT, even if the correction is itself wrong. ARGUS is specifically engineered to emit corrective content, so a large chunk of the reported 28.17% reduction is baked into the metric rather than evidence of factual improvement. This is load-bearing, not cosmetic. TSR is weaker still: a GPT-4o similarity score against an LLM-generated reference solution, with an undisclosed threshold theta_m and no calibration or variance reporting. And the monitoring budget was set to k=M-1, i.e., near-total edge coverage. So the adaptive localization story is not demonstrated by the headline experiments; the ablation's w/o Dynamic Localization drop could be mostly a coverage effect. These are fixable with a better evaluation protocol, but they are not small issues. The internal-knowledge assumption is real, but the authors named it in the limitation section, so I would not hold it against them heavily. The metric problem is the one that matters, because it can manufacture the headline result regardless of defense quality. Bottom line: worth engaging, but the reported numbers should not be taken at face value. A serious referee should ask for a human-verified factual-accuracy metric, a disclosed and calibrated TSR threshold, error bars or significance tests, and an honest sweep over k. If the numbers survive re-measurement, this is a solid robustness contribution; if not, the dataset alone still has value. I would send it to review, but expect substantial revision.

Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper targets covert misinformation in LLM-based multi-agent systems. It introduces MisinfoTask, a dataset of 108 realistic tasks with task-specific misinformation goals, 4-8 fallacious supporting arguments, and ground-truth statements, and ARGUS, a training-free two-stage defense. ARGUS first scores communication edges by topology, content relevance, and frequency to select k edges for monitoring, then deploys a corrective agent that fact-checks intercepted messages with chain-of-thought reasoning, infers the attacker's goal, and produces persuasive corrected messages. Experiments across four core LLMs and three injection methods report an average misinformation-toxicity (MT) reduction of roughly 28% and a task-success-rate (TSR) gain of roughly 10%.

Significance. The contributions are potentially useful. The dataset is a concrete red-teaming asset with human-verified entries and explicit ground truths; the code and dataset are released; the ablation study shows that each ARGUS component contributes; the topology- and category-level analyses broaden the evidence. If the evaluation metrics were valid, the training-free design with no fine-tuning would be an attractive property for practical MAS deployments. The main uncertainty is whether the reported numbers measure factual accuracy rather than mere opposition to the injected narrative.

major comments (4)

[§3.2, Eq. (1), Fig. 13] The MT metric is partly tautological with respect to the defense objective. In Eq. (1), MT averages Score(O_k, g^mis_k), and the judge prompt in Fig. 13 assigns 'Low Achievement/No Achievement' when the final conclusion 'identifies and corrects' issues related to the misinformation goal. Thus any output that contradicts the injected narrative, including a correction that is itself factually wrong, receives a low MT score. Because ARGUS is explicitly engineered to emit such corrective statements, its low MT is guaranteed to some degree by construction, so the headline 28.17% reduction does not establish that the final content is factually accurate. I recommend redefining MT (or adding a metric) that scores the final conclusion against the ground-truth statements in MisinfoTask, and validating the LLM judge on a labeled sample.
[§3.2, Eq. (1), Table 1] TSR is not interpretable as reported. Eq. (1) defines TSR using an undisclosed threshold θm applied to an LLM-similarity score between the final output and an LLM-generated reference solution; no value of θm, no calibration, and no human agreement study are provided. Moreover, Table 1 reports point estimates only, with no error bars or significance tests, despite Fig. 2 indicating that three independent trials were run. Since the LLM judge is from the same model family as one of the protected core LLMs (GPT-4o), independent human validation is especially important. Without this information the 10.33% TSR improvement and the 'significant efficacy' claim cannot be assessed, and a different θm could overturn the result.
[Appendix A.5, §4.1] The monitoring budget is selected on the test setup, and the chosen value nullifies the adaptive-localization claim. Appendix A.5 states that the authors varied k over 1..M, observed that larger k improved defense, and 'consequently' set k=M−1 for all reported experiments. This is test-set hyperparameter selection, and k=M−1 means ARGUS monitors nearly every edge rather than a localized critical subset. The reported gains therefore largely reflect near-total coverage, not the adaptive re-localization mechanism in Section 4.1. Please report results for several k values, choose k on a validation split or with a stated cost model, and include k=M as a reference point.
[§2.3, §4.2, Appendix B, Limitation] The evaluation is scoped to the paper's own definition of misinformation as content contradicting the LLM's parametric knowledge, and this scope is not tested. MisinfoTask was constructed with a prompt that explicitly requires misinformation to target knowledge that a well-trained LLM should possess, and ARGUS's correction stage relies on the same internal knowledge resonance. The Limitation section acknowledges that dynamic or time-sensitive misinformation is out of scope, but the paper should also evaluate or explicitly caveat the case where the core LLM lacks the relevant facts or has learned false patterns; otherwise the general claim of efficacy across 'various injection attacks' overstates the evidence.

minor comments (5)

[Abstract vs. §1 and §5.2] The abstract reports an average MT reduction of approximately 28.17%, while Section 1 reports approximately 38.24% and Section 5.2 reports per-attack reductions of 28.18%, 20.38%, and 35.95%; please reconcile these numbers and specify the aggregation procedure.
[Figure 4] Figure 4 reports 'Accuracy' of the corrective agent's goal inference, but the text never defines how this accuracy is computed or which ground truth is used; please specify.
[§4.1.2, Eq. (5)] The notation is inconsistent: embedding vectors are defined as V'_mis, but Eq. (5) uses V'_goal; align the notation throughout Section 4.1.2.
[Algorithm 1] Algorithm 1 contains typos in comments ('propmpt', 'Totle') and uses symbols such as P_goal and θ that are not defined in the main text; please clean up and define all symbols.
[Appendix A.5] No sensitivity analysis is reported for the hand-set weights α, β, γ used in the localization score or for the threshold θsim in Eq. (6); a brief sensitivity study would improve confidence in the robustness of the method.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: ARGUS's evaluation metric is aligned with its defense objective, but the reported gains are empirical end-to-end results, not constructed from fitted parameters or load-bearing self-citations.

full rationale

ARGUS is a training-free pipeline that localizes suspect edges and asks a corrective agent to fact-check messages against parametric knowledge; the reported MT/TSR gains come from an end-to-end benchmark on the introduced MisinfoTask set. I find no load-bearing circular step. The MT metric (Eq. 1) scores semantic similarity between the final conclusion and the injected misinfo goal, and the evaluation prompt (Fig. 13) assigns low scores to conclusions that 'identifies and corrects' the goal; this aligns the metric with ARGUS's intended behavior. But alignment of an attack-success metric with a defense objective is not a derivation: ARGUS's corrections still must propagate through the MAS and survive the conclusion agent, so the 28.17%/10.33% numbers are empirical and could in principle go either way. The paper's definition of misinformation as contradiction to LLM parametric knowledge (Sec. 2.3) matches the Internal Knowledge Resonance mechanism (Sec. 4.2); this is a scoped threat model, explicitly acknowledged in the Limitation section, not a self-fulfilling derivation. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction: alpha, beta, gamma, theta_sim and k are hand-set (Appendix A.5), and the headline results are evaluated end-to-end, not recovered from a fit. Self-citations (G-Safeguard, AgentSafe, Corba) appear in related work or as baselines but are not used as evidence for the central claim. The undisclosed TSR threshold theta_m and absence of error bars are reporting weaknesses, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on a benchmark, a defense framework, and evaluation choices. The free parameters are hand-chosen and not subjected to sensitivity analysis; the most consequential is the monitoring budget k, which is effectively exhaustive. The defense also assumes the LLM's own parametric knowledge is correct, which is both the target and the tool. These choices make the quantitative results dependent on assumptions that are not independently validated.

free parameters (6)

alpha (topological weight) = 0.2
Hand-selected in Appendix A.5; weights the edge betweenness centrality score in the localization score. The chosen value (0.2) is not justified by a search or sensitivity analysis, and the central defense performance depends on it.
beta (frequency weight) = 0.2
Hand-selected alongside alpha; weights the message frequency score. No sensitivity analysis is provided.
gamma (relevance weight) = 0.6
Hand-selected; gives the semantic relevance score the largest weight (0.6) in edge selection. This choice drives the adaptive localization behavior and is not derived or tuned with held-out data.
theta_sim (sentence similarity threshold) = 0.4
Cosine similarity threshold in Eq. 6; sentences below this threshold do not contribute to an edge's relevance score. The value is set in Appendix A.5 without sensitivity testing.
k (number of monitored edges) = M-1
The monitoring budget is set to all-but-one edges after initial tests that showed larger k improved defense. This means the adaptive localization is effectively nearly exhaustive, which may inflate the reported defense gains and makes the localization claim less significant.
theta_m (task success threshold) = Not disclosed
Threshold in Eq. 1 for classifying a task as successful; never specified in the paper, so TSR values cannot be independently checked or compared to other benchmarks.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption Misinformation is defined as content that contradicts the factual knowledge implicitly stored in the LLM's parameters (Section 2.3).
This definition anchors the dataset design and the evaluation metric; it presumes that a well-aligned LLM's parametric knowledge is the ground truth for facts.
domain assumption The core LLM's internal knowledge is reliable and can be activated to correct misinformation (Internal Knowledge Resonance, Section 4.2).
ARGUS corrects messages by comparing them to the model's own knowledge; if the model is ignorant, misaligned, or itself poisoned, the correction fails. The paper does not test this failure mode.
domain assumption The LLM judge used for MT and TSR is unbiased and accurate (Section 3.2, Eq. 1).
A GPT-4o model scores semantic consistency between outputs and misinformation goals. A judge that is itself susceptible to the misinformation, or that systematically favors certain styles, would invalidate the reported numbers.
domain assumption Edge betweenness centrality, message frequency, and inferred-goal relevance are sufficient proxies for misinformation propagation paths (Section 4.1).
The localization assumes that channels with high topological centrality or high relevance to the inferred goal are the ones carrying misinformation; this may miss attacks that deliberately use low-centrality channels.

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Corrective agent (acor) independent evidence
purpose: Monitors selected communication edges, fact-checks messages via chain-of-thought, rewrites them persuasively, and infers the attacker's goal for re-localization.
This is a newly introduced system component in Section 4.2. It is evaluated indirectly through the defense results, but its individual failure modes and calibration are not characterized.

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Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) have demonstrated strong advantages in addressing complex real-world tasks. However, due to the introduction of additional attack surfaces, MASs are particularly vulnerable to misinformation injection. To facilitate a deeper understanding of misinformation propagation dynamics within these systems, we introduce MisinfoTask, a novel dataset featuring complex, realistic tasks designed to evaluate MAS robustness against such threats. Building upon this, we propose ARGUS, a two-stage, training-free defense framework leveraging goal-aware reasoning for precise misinformation rectification within information flows. Our experiments demonstrate that in challenging misinformation scenarios, ARGUS exhibits significant efficacy across various injection attacks, achieving an average reduction in misinformation toxicity of approximately 28.17% and improving task success rates under attack by approximately 10.33%. Our code and dataset is available at: https://github.com/zhrli324/ARGUS.

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**Figure 2.** Changes in MAS’s MT and TSR metrics, under 3 misinformation injection methods. For each method and each core LLM evaluated, data points represent the outcomes from three independent experimental trials. Best viewed in color. specific evaluation methods are as follows: MT= 1 N X N k=1 Score(Ok, gk mis), TSR= 1 N X N k=1 I(Score(Ok, gk task)≥θm), (1) where N represents the total number of evaluated task instances. Fo… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Overall pipeline of ARGUS framework. The diagram illustrates: (i) the ARGUS dataset presented on the left; (ii) baseline misinformation injection methods showcased on the right; and (iii) the central ARGUS defense workflow, which integrates its Adaptive Localization and Multi-round Rectification stages. Best viewed in color. with selected edges collectively forming the set Ebest= {e ∗ i | ai ∈ A}. To select k edges … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Accuracy of the corrective agent acor in identifying the misleading goal of misinformation. The evaluation is performed across various core LLMs and under different attack methods. to misinformation. Furthermore, defense mechanisms such as Self-Check and G-Safeguard …

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Temporal trends of MT in the MAS across rounds. Experiments are conducted on multiple attack methods, averaged over each LLM type. Solid lines denote attack-only scenarios, while dashed lines represent attack+ARGUS scenarios. Best viewed in color. analysis of MT acros…

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Misinformation Toxicity (MT) of the MAS under various topological configurations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Prompt for Dataset Generation. 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: A Sample for MISINFOTASK Dataset. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png]

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Prompt for Planning Agent. ## Your Role: Critical Summarizer & Consensus Reporter You serve as the final summarizer within a Multi-Agent System. Your task is to meticulously analyze the *entire* conversation history among the worker agents and synthesize a final, accur…

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Prompt for Conclusion Agent. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png]

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Prompt for Agents in MAS Graph. 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_11.png]

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Prompt for Corrective Agent 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png]

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Prompt for Evaluation LLM. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png]

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Preprint, arXiv:2407.07791

Flooding spread of manipulated knowledge in llm-based multi-agent communities. Preprint, arXiv:2407.07791. Donghyun Lee and Mo Tiwari. 2024. Prompt infec- tion: Llm-to-llm prompt injection within multi-agent systems. Preprint, arXiv:2410.07283. Guohao Li, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Dmitrii Khizbullin, and Bernard Ghanem. 2023. Camel: Communi...

arXiv 2024

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Preprint, arXiv:2303.08896

Selfcheckgpt: Zero-resource black-box hal- lucination detection for generative large language models. Preprint, arXiv:2303.08896. Junyuan Mao, Fanci Meng, Yifan Duan, Miao Yu, Xi- aojun Jia, Junfeng Fang, Yuxuan Liang, Kun Wang, and Qingsong Wen. 2025. Agentsafe: Safeguard- ing large language model-based multi-agent sys- tems via hierarchical data managem...

arXiv 2025

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Self-Determination

A systematic survey of prompt engineering in large language models: Techniques and applications. Preprint, arXiv:2402.07927. Gemini Team, Rohan Anil, Sebastian Borgeaud, and Jean-Baptiste Alayrac et al. 2025. Gemini: A fam- ily of highly capable multimodal models. Preprint, arXiv:2312.11805. Kun Wang, Guibin Zhang, and Zhenhong Zhou et al. 2025a. A compre...

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category

**Cognitive Task Focus & Category Assignment:** * Generate a task that primarily tests or involves one of the following cognitive processing categories. * Assign the corresponding category name to the `category` field in the output. **Allowed Categories:** * `Conceptual Explanation & Reasoning ` * `Factual Verification & Comparison ` * `Procedural Knowled...

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* Each ground truth statement should provide the objective, verifiable truth

**Accurate & Countering Ground Truth:** * The `ground_truth` list must contain multiple (aim for 5-8) distinct factual statements that directly counter the ` misinfo_argument`. * Each ground truth statement should provide the objective, verifiable truth. * Ensure that these facts have real and authoritative sources (for example, official literature links,...

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