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Long-Context Drafting Does Not Require Long-Context Drafters
This paper demonstrates that frozen short-context drafting models can effectively serve ultra-long context speculative decoding without fine-tuning on long sequences.
Ranked #79Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Enables efficient long-context speculative decoding using frozen short-context drafter models without extra training.
JevAgentHarness: Benchmarking, Deploying and Training Decision Models That Share Control with LLMs
The paper presents a benchmark and harness to delegate routine tool choices from large language models to cheaper decision models.
Ranked #79New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Studies delegating intermediate decisions like tool selection in LLM agents to smaller models.
What Coding Agents Leave Unsaid: Measuring Task-State Gaps Between Execution and Reports
The paper measures the information gap between coding agents' internal execution logs and their user-facing progress reports.
Ranked #79Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Addresses monitoring and human oversight failures in deployed agents.
What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions.
Ranked #79New testPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Introduces HICO-Bench to evaluate agent social coordination plans against verifiable outcomes.
NEAR: Neighborhood-Aware Residuals for Memory Retrieval
Proposes NEAR, a training-free framework using neighborhood-derived residual representations to reduce retrieval errors from shared non-target information in memory records.
Ranked #79New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
On-topic
Introduces residual representations for dense memory retrieval to improve question-answering evidence ranking.
S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models
The paper identifies a linear spatial workspace subspace in multimodal language models that encodes continuous 3D coordinate representations.
Ranked #79New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Discovers internal spatial representation mechanisms in multimodal language models (MLLMs).
Trajectory-Guided Fault Localization for Agent Skill Evolution
Proposes a method linking execution traces to specific skill segments to guide automated revision of software engineering agent skills.
Ranked #79New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Focuses explicitly on refining skills and execution guidance for software engineering code agents.
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Gates reinforcement learning policy-shift distillation using intermediate checkpoints to ensure student models only learn consistent teacher shifts.
Ranked #80New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Distills RL-induced reasoning capabilities into smaller student models efficiently.
$τ$-Emotion-Bench: Exposing the Interaction Fragility of LLM Agents through Real-World User Emotions
The paper introduces a benchmark to measure how tool-calling agents perform when interacting with emotionally varied, impatient users.
Ranked #80New testPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Investigates long-horizon tool-calling agents interacting with realistic, emotionally variable human users.
A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion
The paper evaluates harnesses for legislative document conversion, showing structured multi-agent pipelines narrow performance gaps between models.
Ranked #80Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Focuses on ensuring reliable, hallucination-free enterprise output via harnesses.
X-Ragent: Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Evidence-Grounded Chest X-Ray Reasoning
The paper introduces a tool-augmented reinforcement learning framework for evidence-grounded chest X-ray diagnostic reasoning.
Ranked #80New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Develops a vision-language agent framework for multimodal reasoning over chest X-ray images.
Geometric Structure Predicts Per-Example Neighborhood Loss Under PCA Truncation
The paper analyzes geometric properties of text embeddings to predict how many nearest neighbors an individual example loses under dimensionality reduction.
Ranked #80New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Investigates per-example retrieval degradation and neighbor retention under embedding compression in dense retrieval settings.
Rubrics from the Task, Verdicts from Evidence: Pointwise Rubric Rewards with Tool-Augmented Judges
This paper proposes a rubric-based reward model that derives criteria strictly from instructions and evaluates responses pointwise using tool assistance.
Ranked #80Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Investigates tool-augmented LLM judges and rubric-based evaluation methods for assessing responses.
Not All Correct Fixes Run Alike: An Empirical Study of Patch Performance in Repository-Level Issue Resolution
The paper analyzes the runtime performance differences of test-passing issue resolution patches generated by language models on SWE-bench.
Ranked #80New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Evaluates the runtime performance of LLM-generated code patches for repository-level issues.
VLA-$Δ$: Learning Physical State Transition for Vision-Language-Action Models
Proposes explicit learning of physical state transitions between current and future scenes to train robust vision-language-action robotic policies.
Ranked #81New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Supervises physical state transitions to improve vision-language-action multimodal models for robotics.
Lost in the Fallback: How Reliably Do Typed Decision Models Use Fallback Options?
This paper evaluates how reliably typed decision models switch to fallback options and remain consistent under equivalent decision rules.
Ranked #81Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Evaluates reliability and failure modes when automated decision models fail to trigger fallback options.
What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions.
Ranked #81New testPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Examines multi-turn coordination, planning, and goal completion between conversational LLM agents.
Recovering Reliable Supervision via Critique-Guided On-Policy Distillation
Uses teacher critiques on incorrect student rollouts to improve on-policy distillation and recover supervision during mathematical reasoning tasks.
Ranked #81New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Presents an on-policy distillation technique to train student reasoning models.
Improving the Evaluation of Biomedical Question Answering with Few Human Preference Signals
This paper uses limited human preference signals to calibrate automated evaluation metrics for biomedical retrieval-augmented question answering.
Ranked #81New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Addresses evaluation and human alignment metrics specifically for biomedical RAG QA systems.
To Align or Not To Align: Check Your COMPASS Before You Train
This paper introduces a metric to estimate the compatibility of pretrained models before running costly alignment or checkpoint merging.
Ranked #81New testPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces COMPASS, a theoretically grounded diagnostic metric to evaluate model alignment compatibility.
MAP4CS: A Multi-dimensional Data Pruning Framework for Efficient Code Retriever Fine-tuning
Presents a multi-dimensional data pruning framework that filters code repositories by syntax, diversity, and representation for efficient retriever fine-tuning.
Ranked #81Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Improves code retriever fine-tuning for software engineering RAG systems.
LEASH: Uncertainty-Aware Weak-to-Strong Escalation and Oversight for Computer-Use Agents
The paper proposes a training-free framework that uses uncertainty signals to escalate computer-use tasks from weak models to strong models.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Designs a routing and oversight framework specifically for long-horizon computer-use agents.
CommerceGen-Studio: An End-to-End Framework for Commercial-Grade Main-Image Generation
This paper introduces CommerceGen-Studio, an end-to-end framework using specialized agents and diffusion models to generate e-commerce product images.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Combines VLM metadata extraction with text-to-image conditioned diffusion generation.
Structure Before Intelligence: Gating What Agentic Scientific Workflows Release
The paper proposes an execution harness that validates intermediate results before allowing scientific agent workflows to release outputs.
Ranked #82Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Gating invalid results directly addresses deployment safety and reliability.
CASI: Credit Assignment via Set Intervention for Agentic Retrieval
The paper presents an intervention method using Shapley values to assign credit to individual actions within multi-action agentic retrieval sets.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Improves policy optimization and credit assignment for multi-action agentic retrieval.
Many Right Answers, One Training Example: Removing Responder Noise from GRPO for LLM Recommenders
The paper proposes ReMaRk, a reinforcement learning method that trains recommender models using all available reader replies simultaneously to reduce variance.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Reduces RL training steps and GPU hours for LLM recommenders by optimizing reward calculation across multi-response data.
Beyond Perfect Teammates: Multi-Agent Collaboration with Unreliable Colleagues
This paper introduces UnCoBench to benchmark how language model agents handle unhelpful, incomplete, or missing communications from partner agents.
Ranked #82New testPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces UnCoBench to benchmark multi-agent systems facing incomplete or misaligned collaborator inputs.
Deleting Code Without Losing Knowledge: Regenerative Software for Python Libraries
Applies regenerative software primitives so programs can be deleted and rebuilt by agents without losing architectural intent and knowledge.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Studies agent-driven code generation, regeneration bundles, and repository maintenance.
LatentLoop: Scaling Looped MoE Models with Asymmetric Compute Allocation
Allocates computation unevenly across passes in looped mixture-of-experts models to improve efficiency without losing performance.
Ranked #83New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Designs looped MoE models with asymmetric compute allocation to improve parameter efficiency.
ActICL: Post-Training for Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning
The paper proposes an agentic framework enabling multimodal models to identify information gaps and retrieve in-context demonstrations iteratively.
Ranked #83New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Focuses on progressive and context-aware retrieval of demonstrations for in-context learning.
AgentCIScope: Grounded Contextual Integrity Evaluation for LLM Agents
The paper introduces an executable evaluation platform and benchmark to measure contextual integrity and privacy compliance in multi-step language model agents.
Ranked #83New testPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Evaluates whether LLM agents comply with privacy constraints and prevent sensitive information leakage.
LLM-based Code Auditing by Inferring and Evaluating Developer Assumptions
The paper presents a code auditing method that uses language models to infer developer beliefs and flag contradictions as potential vulnerabilities.
Ranked #83New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Uses LLMs to analyze code and detect software vulnerabilities by inferring developer assumptions.
Looking Complete Is Not Being Grounded: Evaluating LLM Sitreps Against Human-Authored Situation Reports
This paper evaluates language-model-generated disaster situation reports against human-written reports using a domain-specific sixteen-slot information schema.
Ranked #83Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Assesses LLM-as-a-judge consistency and evaluation schemas against human expert baselines.
Beyond Perfect Teammates: Multi-Agent Collaboration with Unreliable Colleagues
This paper introduces UnCoBench to benchmark how language model agents handle unhelpful, incomplete, or missing communications from partner agents.
Ranked #83New testPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Examines multi-agent collaboration and error recovery when teammates provide unreliable information.
VEDJE: Video-Efficient Discriminative Joint Encoder for Scalable Video-Text Retrieval
The paper proposes VEDJE, compressing video features into reusable caches with feature-change prediction for efficient and scalable video-text retrieval.
Ranked #83Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Addresses video-text multimodal representation compression and retrieval.
Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas
Introduces a set-level reinforcement learning objective to train language models to produce diverse and document-grounded scientific research ideas.
Ranked #84New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Studies document-grounded generation requiring models to synthesize across input documents.
Likelihood Is Not Authorship: Can We Reliably Measure Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Writing?
The paper reveals vulnerabilities in prompt-predictability metrics used to estimate human contribution in AI-assisted writing.
Ranked #84Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Examines unreliability and exploitability of AI contribution auditing methods relevant for deployment oversight.
CodeLift: Your Test Suite Is Secretly a Dense SWE Curriculum
This paper introduces a reinforcement learning method that calibrates test pass-rate rewards to create adaptive training curricula for software engineering agents.
Ranked #84New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Introduces an RL reward method using test suites to train software engineering coding agents.
LensErase: A Foundation Model for Erase Anything
This paper presents a foundation model and a hundred-million-image dataset for mask-based object, text, and watermark erasure in images.
Ranked #84New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Develops a vision-language foundation model for mask-based image editing and erasing.
Probable but Not Valid: A Psychometric Audit of Decision Models as Synthetic Survey Respondents
This paper audits whether decision models and generative language models can serve as valid synthetic respondents for psychometric surveys.
Ranked #84Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Conducts a psychometric audit benchmarking decision models against human survey responses.
TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency
The paper proposes a vision-language-action model where action execution avoids inference latency by decoupling from explicit reasoning output at runtime.
Ranked #84Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Presents a vision-language-action model that plans and executes robotic actions efficiently.
APEX: Asynchronous Prefix Denoising for Extreme Compression
Introduces an asynchronous prefix denoising framework for extreme latent compression in diffusion models.
Ranked #84New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Develops an asynchronous latent prefix denoising method for extreme compression and efficiency.
Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation
Uses a multi-codebook diffusion language model to jointly represent text and discrete visual tokens for multimodal generation.
Ranked #85New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Introduces a unified multimodal diffusion model spanning text and visual understanding and generation.
OpCredit: Operation-Aware Policy Learning for Agentic Knowledge Graph Question Answering
The paper proposes OpCredit, a policy learning framework that assigns individual operation credits for agentic knowledge graph question answering.
Ranked #85New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Focuses on knowledge graph question answering via iterative navigation over external knowledge graphs.
What You Sign Is Not What You Run: The Verifiability Gap in Quantized LLM Supply Chains
This paper examines the verifiability gap in quantized model supply chains, showing that common GGUF artifacts lack necessary build environment disclosures.
Ranked #85Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Identifies security and verifiability vulnerabilities in quantized LLM supply chains.
SPROUT: Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Software Engineering
The paper presents SPROUT, a snapshot-based rollout framework to scale reinforcement learning for long-horizon software engineering tasks.
Ranked #85Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Scales reinforcement learning for long-horizon software engineering agents.
Judges Follow the Reference: The Derivation Gap in Verifying Tool-Call Arguments
The authors identify a derivation gap where LLM judges reject correct tool arguments lacking direct textual references, and propose a dedicated reference model.
Ranked #85Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Evaluates and improves LLM-as-a-judge reliability for tool argument verification.
Judges Follow the Reference: The Derivation Gap in Verifying Tool-Call Arguments
The authors identify a derivation gap where LLM judges reject correct tool arguments lacking direct textual references, and propose a dedicated reference model.
Ranked #85Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Focuses directly on tool-call verification and judges for LLM agents.
Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation
Proposes a synthetic self-distillation method using a slightly larger aligner to enable continual post-training in small language models.
Ranked #85New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Investigates self-distillation to enable continual post-training specifically for small, on-device models.
From Long Context to Selective Memory:A Survey of Memory-Centric Compression for Large Language Models
The paper surveys memory-centric compression techniques for managing inference resources and context windows in large language models.
Ranked #86New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Analyzes memory management and retrieval augmentation for long-context inference.
Beyond Downstream QA: Rethinking How We Evaluate Agent Memory
The paper presents a benchmark that isolates agent memory evolution from downstream retrieval and generation failures.
Ranked #86Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Examines failure modes and unreliability in agent memory systems.
DeltaStreamer: Towards Human-Like Agentic Streaming Video Understanding
This paper proposes an agentic video framework combining change-aware memory and targeted replay for streaming video understanding.
Ranked #86New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Focuses on multimodal understanding of streaming video using visual memory and planning.
Diagnosing Generalization Boundaries in AI-Based Vulnerability Detection via Calibrated Embedding Distances
The paper evaluates embedding distance metrics to detect generalization boundaries and distribution shifts in AI-based code vulnerability models.
Ranked #86New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Evaluates code models like CodeBERT and Qwen-Coder on software vulnerability detection.
Self-Distillation with Verbal Regularization
This paper proposes verbal regularization prompts for on-policy self-distillation to prevent teacher models from taking shortcut reasoning paths.
Ranked #86New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Studies distillation techniques to improve model learning and reasoning efficiency.
Does a Governed Confidence Score Know When a Text-to-SQL Answer Is Right? An Exploratory Study on BIRD and a Pre-registered Confirmation on Spider
The paper audits an enterprise confidence scoring mechanism for text-to-SQL models on the BIRD and Spider benchmarks.
Ranked #86Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Audits confidence scoring reliability on text-to-SQL benchmarks.
Humanize MLE Agents: Multi-Agent Session Alternation Beyond Single-Agent Limits
Presents a framework alternating multi-agent sessions across context resets to overcome reasoning degradation in long-horizon machine learning engineering.
Ranked #86Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Proposes multi-agent session alternation to overcome single-agent performance degradation in machine learning tasks.
Idea2Prior: Auditable Paper Retrieval and Ranking from Research Ideas
Presents a multi-stage search system that retrieves and ranks relevant scientific literature directly from informal research ideas.
Ranked #87New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Presents an auditable retrieval and ranking system grounded in external academic literature.
Believed but Not Said: Measuring Hidden Belief Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Discussions
The paper demonstrates that a single adversarial agent can cause benign models in multi-agent discussions to quietly adopt false beliefs.
Ranked #87Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Reveals vulnerability to adversarial influence and unmonitored belief collapse in deployed agents.
Does Failure Feedback Direct Agent Self-Modification?
Evaluates whether failure feedback helps self-improving agents fix specific target bugs rather than general errors.
Ranked #87Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLMs for code
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Analyzes how failure feedback directs automated code and prompt self-modification in coding agents.
Data-Centric Recursive Self-Improvement for Navigation via Policy-Synchronized Language-Action Dual Bootstrapping
This paper introduces a recursive self-improvement method that unifies instruction-following and instruction generation within a shared model for vision-language navigation.
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Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Unifies vision-language instruction following and generation for multimodal agent navigation.
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