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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. Ranked #87New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | 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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