Penumbra: Sample-Efficient Adversarial Search for Regulatory Obligations
Agents are entering finance, healthcare and law, sectors where a violation leaves no lexical signature and carries real penalties. Whether an omission is material, or a disclosure sufficient, depends on what the response left out. Probing such an obligation means finding responses one minimal edit from flipping compliance, and every probe costs a generation and two adjudications, so the binding constraint on regulatory red-teaming is sample efficiency, not volume. We introduce Penumbra, an adversarial search that walks from a verified anchor under an expanding edit budget until a two-evaluator committee changes its verdict, and emits the two adjacent responses that straddle the change. Al...
| Authors | Anthony Rhodes |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 3 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 October 2026 |
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