@inproceedings{kulshreshtha-etal-2026-subtle, title = "The Subtle Art of Defection: Understanding Uncooperative Behaviors in {LLM} based Multi-Agent Systems", author = "Kulshreshtha, Devang and Du, Wanyu and Jain, Raghav and Doss, Srikanth and Su, Hang and Swamy, Sandesh and Qi, Yanjun", editor = {Matusevych, Yevgen and Eryi{\u{g}}it, G{\"u}l{\c{s}}en and Aletras, Nikolaos}, booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-industry.44/", pages = "571--585", ISBN = "979-8-89176-384-5" }