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Steering Vectors for Competing Ethical Frameworks Are Interchangeable: A Competing-Target Test for Activation Steering
The paper introduces a test showing that steering vectors designed for competing ethical frameworks behave interchangeably in open-weight models.
Ranked #266Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Examines whether steering vectors reliably enforce ethical frameworks and safe behavioral alignment.
SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
The paper presents an adaptive, training-free speculative decoding method to speed up inference for vision-language models.
Ranked #266Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Accelerates multimodal model inference using an adaptive self-speculative decoding bandit algorithm.
When, Where, and Why: Hierarchical Causal Explainability for Video Face Understanding with MLLMs
Introduces an explainability framework and weakly supervised video-text corpus to evaluate causal and temporal facial expression understanding in multimodal models.
Ranked #266New testPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Introduces a video-text corpus and causal concept framework for explainable facial video understanding in multimodal LLMs.
From Hindsight to Foresight: Dissecting Clinical Evidence Acquisition in Large Language Models
This paper analyzes dynamic clinical evidence gathering in language models, identifying failures in evidence identification, updating, and diagnostic reasoning.
Ranked #266New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Presents a systematic framework dissecting and evaluating dynamic diagnostic evidence acquisition failures in LLMs.
Agent Sociodrama: Social-Dynamics-Guided Persona Recasting for LLM Agent Teams
The paper introduces a framework to model evolving social dynamics and update personas in multi-agent language model teams.
Ranked #266New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Models and improves social dynamics and interaction trajectories across multi-agent LLM teams.
Why Do Agent Teams Fail Across Boundaries? A Failure Taxonomy for Agent-to-Agent Systems with Private States
The paper presents a taxonomy of failure modes in multi-agent systems where agents interact across organizational boundaries with private states.
Ranked #267New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Investigates failure modes, conduct, and reliability of multi-agent systems across enterprise boundaries.
Two For The Price Of One: Curvature-Aware Pruning Preserves Influence Functions Too
This paper introduces CACTUS, an ADMM-based optimizer that speeds up curvature-aware pruning and preserves influence functions in compressed language models.
Ranked #267New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Presents an efficient optimizer for post-training LLM pruning and sparse decomposition to reduce deployment overhead.
MemAct: Streaming Spatial Understanding with Memory and Active Exploration
Presents an embodied agent framework combining streaming spatial memory with active exploration for visual reasoning in physical environments.
Ranked #267New testPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Presents a multimodal streaming spatial understanding framework integrating vision-language reasoning with memory and active exploration.
Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Event Temporal Relation Extraction with Allen's Interval Algebra, Logical Consistency, and Relative Time in Narratives
The paper evaluates five language models on extracting complete interval networks of relative temporal events from narratives.
Ranked #267New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces an evaluation protocol and benchmark testing LLM temporal reasoning and logical consistency.
Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents
The paper presents a runtime system that structures long-horizon agent memory around reusable progress objects rather than raw interaction history.
Ranked #267New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces a context management runtime to support long-horizon autonomous agents across multi-step tasks.
Beyond Maliciousness: Static and Runtime Attack-Surface Profiling of Agent Skills
The paper profiles the security attack surface and execution privileges of third-party agent skills across public marketplaces.
Ranked #268Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Addresses agent security risks, shell execution, credential access, and permission guardrails in deployment.
Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning
This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales.
Ranked #268New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Compresses lengthy chain-of-thought reasoning into compact latent sequences via distillation for faster generation.
MicroCLIP: Connecting Text and Microscopy Images via Contrastive Language--Image Pretraining
This paper introduces a vision-language model trained on paired microscopy image-text data for open-set biological image classification and retrieval.
Ranked #268New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Connects biological microscopy images with natural language via contrastive pretraining.
Empathy Is Not the Scapegoat for Declines in Factuality and Reliability
Examines whether model empathy degrades reliability, showing that warm behavior effects depend on tasks and training approaches rather than an inevitable trade-off.
Ranked #268Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Presents an 11-dataset benchmark suite and human-validated evaluators for factuality and empathy.
Choosing LLMs for Strategic Agent Interactions
The authors formulate a meta-game framework to dynamically route and select language models during strategic multi-agent interactions.
Ranked #268Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Studies strategic multi-agent interaction and dynamic model selection in game-theoretic settings.
Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop
The paper proposes an interface for typed decision models that selectively invokes and interrupts reasoning to balance accuracy and latency.
Ranked #269New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Reduces inference pipeline time and output token work via dynamic reasoning interruption.
Agentic Self-Awareness: Aligning Knowing, Acting, and Holding
The paper benchmarks whether AI agents can recognize execution blockers and appropriately defer action on unsolvable tasks.
Ranked #269New testPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Focuses on agent reliability, preventing unwarranted actions, and aligning behavior when encountering blockers.
AgentSafeEvo: Adversarial Co-Evolution for LLM Agent Safety
The paper introduces an adversarial co-evolution reinforcement learning framework to strengthen language model agents against tool-use manipulation attacks.
Ranked #269New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Addresses tool-use vulnerabilities in multi-turn LLM agent tasks.
DVTR-KD: Distilling Vision-Language Models via Intermediate Visual Token Reconstruction
This paper presents a knowledge distillation framework that reconstructs dense teacher visual tokens to train efficient compressed student vision-language models.
Ranked #269New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Proposes a visual token reconstruction distillation method to make multimodal large language models more efficient.
How Reliable Are System-One Decisions in Medicine? A Comparative Study of Jev, Jev-like Models, and LLMs
Evaluates fast, system-one decision models and language models across fifteen medical datasets, testing their accuracy, format robustness, and abstention awareness.
Ranked #269Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Compares model decision stability and abstention across a unified 15-dataset medical benchmark.
Learning to Compute Is Not Learning to Retain or Reuse in Looped Transformers
Investigates why looped transformers fail to retain or reuse earlier correct intermediate states when extended past training depth.
Ranked #270Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Analyzes computation reuse and retention limits in parameter-efficient looped transformers.
Beyond Aggregate Accuracy: Item-Level Transitions in Prompt Optimization
Introduces a prompt optimization framework that monitors item-level regressions and recoveries rather than relying solely on aggregate accuracy.
Ranked #270Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Examines hidden regressions and churn during prompt optimization that affect deployed system reliability.
EgoProbe: Benchmarking Long-Range and Exact Memory in Streaming Egocentric Videos
EgoProbe benchmarks long-range retention and event-specific recall under interference for streaming egocentric video models.
Ranked #270New testPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Introduces a benchmark evaluating long-range multimodal memory in streaming egocentric videos.
The Last Mile of Coding Agents for Long-Document Tasks: An Empirical Study on Clinical Trial Protocol Digitization
Introduces a benchmark evaluating how reliably software coding agents extract and digitize complex unstructured clinical trial protocol documents.
Ranked #270New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces TrialPD-Bench to evaluate coding agents on long-document clinical trial digitization.
Web$hell: A Unified Interface for Agentic Web Access
Proposes Web$hell, a unified interface combining broad information gathering, browser interactions, and evidence management for web-based agents.
Ranked #270New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
On-topic
Presents Web$hell, a unified interface enabling LLM agents to execute multi-step web browsing and tool actions.
TIPS: A Tiny Inference-time Policy for Scaling in Diffusion Language Models
The paper presents a tiny learned policy controller to optimize token unmasking and remasking schedules in diffusion language models.
Ranked #271Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces a tiny controller to improve inference-time computational efficiency for diffusion models.
Smart Alone, Blind Together: Why Accuracy Fails to CertifyTheory of Mind in Multi-Agent Teams
Argues that inferential accuracy fails to evaluate agent coordination safely because correlated errors can compound into costly team actions.
Ranked #271New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Shows how correlated inferential errors create deployment risks in collaborative AI systems.
DIGS: Distribution-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
Introduces a training-free open-vocabulary 3D segmentation approach that maintains per-primitive label distributions for clean object boundaries.
Ranked #271New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Connects 3D Gaussian representations with multimodal vision-language embeddings.
ToolHACE: A Dataset for Detecting Hallucinations in Tool-Based LLM Responses
This paper introduces a benchmark dataset to evaluate hallucination detection in language model responses after external tool execution.
Ranked #271New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces ToolHACE, a span-level benchmark for evaluating hallucinations in tool-based responses.
Recursive Environment Scaling for General Long-Horizon Agents
Presents an environment scaling framework that alters dependencies to scale agent benchmark difficulty while preserving task objectives.
Ranked #271New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Addresses long-horizon planning and environment difficulty for autonomous agents.
Router Drift Control: Mitigating Off-Policy Degradation in Mixture-of-Experts Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes filtering high-drift responses to mitigate off-policy degradation in mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning.
Ranked #272Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Improves training efficiency and stability for mixture-of-experts architectures.
CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat
Presents a benchmark evaluating security agents through live, symmetric attack-and-defense competitions in isolated sandbox environments.
Ranked #272New testPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Measures autonomous agents' abilities to discover, exploit, and patch real-world software security vulnerabilities.
Meaningful Moments: A Corpus of VLM-Derived Temporal Importance Labels for Video Action Recognition
Introduces a corpus of vision-language model generated importance scores to improve temporal sampling in video action recognition.
Ranked #272New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Leverages vision-language models to score temporal importance across large video datasets.
Towards Universal Calibration for In-Context Classification
This paper presents a universal calibrator to improve confidence estimates of in-context classification without requiring model-specific fine-tuning.
Ranked #272New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Focuses on measuring and improving model confidence calibration in in-context classification tasks.
Cortex: Measurement-Gated Evolution and Pruning of Coding-Agent Skills and Rules
The authors develop a system that systematically tests, evolves, and prunes skill and rule files used by coding agents.
Ranked #272New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Develops a measurement-gated system to refine skills and rules for autonomous agents.
Does On-Policy Distillation Need to Complete Every Rollout?
The paper introduces a method that accelerates on-policy knowledge distillation by truncating student rollouts and applying inverse-probability weighting.
Ranked #273New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Accelerates on-policy distillation to make student model training more computationally efficient.
Why Static Skill Inconsistencies Do Not Equate to Runtime Risks: A Behavioral Analysis of LLM Agent Execution
Analyzes discrepancies between static tool specification errors and actual runtime failure rates in language model agent execution.
Ranked #273Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Investigates runtime operational risks and reliability degradation in deployed LLM agent skill packages.
FoveaTree: Information-Density Trees for Query-Guided Visual Token Pruning in Video Large Language Models
The paper introduces a training-free visual token pruning framework using information-density trees to speed up video large language model inference.
Ranked #273New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Focuses on efficient token pruning for multimodal video large language models.
Lexical Redefinition Reveals Context-Sensitive Instruction Following
This paper tests how language models handle explicit instructions when subsequent contextual sentences provide conflicting word definitions.
Ranked #273Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Presents a behavioral evaluation paradigm to assess how LLMs follow conflicting in-context instructions.
SHELDON: Reasoning through Dual Search over Hypothesis and Observation Spaces
SHELDON introduces a dual-search reasoning framework that independently explores hypotheses and observation spaces to avoid confirmation bias.
Ranked #273New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Presents an agent reasoning framework that actively gathers observations and generates hypotheses over multiple steps.
Fractional Power-of-Two Quantization for Efficient and Effective Multiplier-Free LLM Inference
Proposes a fractional power-of-two quantization grid to enable efficient multiplier-free integer inference for large language models.
Ranked #274New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces fractional power-of-two 4-bit quantization for multiplier-free, efficient inference.
CoWorld Reasoner: Agentic Multimodal Reasoning with the Evolving Video World Model-Driven Harness
Equips multimodal vision-language models with video world model operations as tools to support dynamic spatiotemporal visual reasoning.
Ranked #274New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces an agent harness using video world models as tools for multistep reasoning.
Manacá-1B-Instruct-2: Reproducible Safety Alignment for a Native Brazilian-Portuguese LLM. Negative DPO Results, a Controlled Composition Scan, and a Silent Failure Mode of the LLM Judge
Documents safety alignment methods, negative preference tuning outcomes, and automated judge limitations for a Portuguese language model.
Ranked #274Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Analyzes safety alignment, DPO failures, over-refusal curves, and evaluation reliability in deployment.
VideoSlate: Stateful Commit Control for Temporally Grounded Agentic Video Reasoning
The paper introduces a stateful commit-control framework with an evidence blackboard to manage revisions during agentic video reasoning.
Ranked #274New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Presents a stateful commit control framework for video grounding and question answering.
The Multilingual Artificial Hivemind: Do All LLMs Think Alike in Every Language?
This paper investigates output diversity and text homogenization across twenty-three open-weight language models and thirteen languages.
Ranked #274Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Evaluates multilingual text homogenization and diversity metrics across 23 language models.
EigDiff: Eigensample Diffusion - or how to significantly reduce training dataset size with marginal performance variation?
The paper uses latent eigenvectors from CLIP to select smaller, representative training datasets for diffusion models.
Ranked #275New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Focuses on reducing training data and compute overhead to make training efficient.
REPORT-OPS: Hybrid Evidence-Guided Reporting with Human-Supervised Refinement for HPC
The paper presents an agent that combines language models with operational policies to generate verified operational reports for high-performance computing systems.
Ranked #275New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Implements operational policies, automated checks, and withholding of unsupported claims to prevent hallucinations.
Anomaly-Guided Observation and Two-Level Semantic Feedback for Training-Free Video Anomaly Analysis
The paper presents a training-free semantic feedback framework using vision-language models to iteratively detect and explain video anomalies.
Ranked #275New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Uses vision-language models for video anomaly understanding and semantic feedback.
Learn from Move: the Next Step for GUI Agents
This paper introduces an environment benchmark and exploration framework to help graphical user interface agents learn unfamiliar interaction dynamics.
Ranked #275New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces LatentGUIWorld, a new benchmark evaluating exploratory GUI agents under partial observability.
Agentic-TTT: Training test-time policy for test-time training
Proposes a policy mechanism enabling language models to decide when, how, and which test-time training procedures to execute.
Ranked #275New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Formulates test-time training as an agentic policy that treats TTT algorithms as callable tools.
The Right Byte First: How UTF-16 Helps Multilingual Boundary Prediction
Studies how using UTF-16 byte order improves boundary prediction and representation efficiency in multilingual byte-level language models.
Ranked #276Surprising resultPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Improves byte-level encoding efficiency and boundary prediction for smaller language models.
Verification Turns Capability Gaps into Routing Decisions: Small Language Models for Clinical Documentation
The paper studies using an agentic verification architecture to enable small on-device models to generate factual clinical documentation.
Ranked #276Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Mitigates clinical hallucinations and ensures deployment reliability using automated verification and escalation.
Semantically Steerable Image Tokenization
The paper proposes an adaptive image tokenizer that balances pixel reconstruction and semantic features to prevent discarding critical semantic content during compression.
Ranked #276New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Develops semantically steerable vision tokenization relevant to vision-language and multimodal model architectures.
CivWorldBench: Evaluating Language World Models in Structured Multi-Agent Sandbox Worlds
This paper introduces a multi-agent sandbox benchmark to evaluate language models on state inference, forecasting, and intervention prediction.
Ranked #276New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Introduces CivWorldBench, a structured benchmark evaluating language model world-modeling and forecasting.
Davinci-Tool: Scaling Agentic Tool-Use Supervision with Verifiable Executable Environments
The paper introduces a 30B tool-use model and an execution-grounded dataset to scale agentic tool supervision with verifiable environments.
Ranked #276New testPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Introduces verifiable environments and datasets for multi-step tool-use agents.
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 #277New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Small and efficient models
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
On-topic
Surveys inference-time KV-cache compression and memory-efficient resource management.
Model vs. User: Whose Values Prevail? Inference-Time Value Alignment in Multi-Turn Conversations
The paper studies the durability of inference-time value steering in multi-turn conversations when user and model values conflict.
Ranked #277Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
On-topic
Examines value alignment stability and steering robustness in multi-turn deployment interactions.
Semantic Saliency from Multi-Modal Large Language Model Scene Understanding Maps
The paper develops an automated method that measures semantic saliency by evaluating how removing individual objects alters multimodal model scene descriptions.
Ranked #277New way to see a problemPreprint5/10 suggested
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Uses multimodal large language models to compute semantic saliency and scene comprehension.
Unchecked or Falsely Accused? Evaluating AI-Generated Text Detectors on Kazakh
This work evaluates machine-text detectors on Kazakh text using pre-ChatGPT human writing and shows significant false-positive rates.
Ranked #277New testPreprint6/10 suggested
LLM evaluation and benchmarks
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
On-topic
Presents a new benchmark and evaluation methodology for AI text detectors.
SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire
Presents a benchmark evaluating agentic large language models on long-horizon strategic reasoning in the game Slay the Spire.
Ranked #277New testPreprint6/10 suggested
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates strategic planning and long-horizon decision-making of agentic models.
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