Beyond Outcome Gaps: Process-Aware Fairness Diagnosis for LLM-based Multi-Agent Decision Systems

Authors/venue/date: Yiran Zhao and six co-authors; accepted to EMNLP 2026, current arXiv manuscript; 2 September 2026. Problem: equal final outcomes can hide unfair multi-agent trajectories. Contribution: SCOPED-Hiring logs over 311,000 structured trajectories across six diagnostic lenses. Significance: supports process-level audits. Limitations: simulated hiring setting and author-reported repair effects; no independent reproduction. Paper