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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Hindsight Structured Advice Distillation: Steering Executor Agents with Advisors Trained on Their Failures and Task Characteristics
Trains an advisor model on past failures to add dynamic, structured guidance to frozen language model agent prompts.
Ranked #121New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Proposes training an advisor model to guide executor agents on complex multi-step tasks.
SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales Agents
Introduces a multi-turn conversational benchmark to evaluate sales agents against resistant, psychologically grounded buyer personas.
Ranked #122New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates multi-turn autonomous LLM sales agents negotiating against resistant personas.
Collaborative Theory of Mind: Learning to Self-Revise by Anticipating User Responses
Trains language models to anticipate user replies and self-revise drafts before responding in multi-turn interactions.
Ranked #123Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Trains conversational agents to anticipate responses and self-revise during multi-turn interactions.
Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QA
Designs a modular multi-agent pipeline separating search, verification, and reading for multimodal document question answering.
Ranked #124Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Designs specialized multi-agent roles and tool coordination to accomplish complex document retrieval tasks.
When Faster Decisions Do Not Make Better Agents: An Empirical Study of Jev in Agent Workflows
Studies how accelerated decision-making models affect overall task completion, latency, and costs across embodied and mobile agents.
Ranked #125Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Directly evaluates decision-level acceleration techniques within multi-step autonomous agent workflows.
Travel Back To Move Forward: Retrospective Exploration and Evolving for Long Horizon Agents
Introduces a framework allowing agents to rewind long-horizon environments to earlier states while retaining learned exploratory knowledge.
Ranked #126New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Introduces state-rewinding mechanisms to help autonomous agents recover from errors in long-horizon tasks.
Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict
Proposes an evaluation framework to measure how LLM agents handle uncertainty and resolve conflicting knowledge during execution.
Ranked #127New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Directly assesses the decision-making and uncertainty handling of autonomous LLM agents across execution steps.
Can LLMs Fix It Without Code? Toward Automated Verification of No-Code Bug Fixes
Presents an execution-based evaluation pipeline using browser agents to verify language model solutions for no-code software bug reports.
Ranked #128New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates computer-use agents and multimodal agentic LLMs executing multi-step bug fix instructions in browsers.
SOAR: Source-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Precise Credit Assignment for Search Agents
Proposes a reinforcement learning framework that tracks external versus internal knowledge sources to reduce search agent fabrication.
Ranked #129New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Develops a reinforcement learning framework for search agents to plan and utilize external information.
Reflective Prompt Optimization of a Deep-Research Agent: A Topic-Disjoint, Multi-Seed Protocol for Measuring Transferable Gains and Prompt-Level Overfitting
Studies reflective prompt optimization in research agents, demonstrating that gains on held-out tasks can stem from prompt-level memorization.
Ranked #130Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates system prompt optimization specifically designed for multi-agent deep-research workflows.
HarnessSQL: Harness-Native Training for SQL Agents in Realistic Database Environments
Introduces a post-training framework that trains text-to-SQL agents directly inside interactive database execution environments.
Ranked #131Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Trains database agents that inspect schemas, execute probes, and correct errors interactively.
Language Models as AI Research World Models
Evaluates whether language models can act as world models to predict empirical experimental outcomes across AI research workflows.
Ranked #132New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates AI research agents that plan, predict, and execute automated scientific experiments.
SteerablePlex: Can We Steer Full-Duplex Models?
Introduces an instruction-following benchmark and training recipe to improve goal adherence in full-duplex conversational models.
Ranked #133New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Builds controllable conversational simulators that follow sequential multi-stage instructions and goals.
Evo$^2$: Evolving the Evolver through Weight-Harness Co-Evolution
Proposes a co-evolution framework that coordinates agent harness prompt modifications with model weight updates using self-generated experience.
Ranked #134New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses directly on self-evolving agents co-optimizing model weights and agent tool/prompt harnesses.
Revocation Is Not Complete at Receipt: An Executable Outcome Contract for Distributed Agent-Tool Gateways
The paper introduces an executable contract and monitor to verify that delegated authority revocations actually take effect across distributed agent gateways.
Ranked #135Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Establishes execution outcome contracts for distributed agent-tool gateways caching delegated authority.
Suggested Is Not Superseded: A Pre-Registered Evaluation of a System-One Model as a Memory-Retirement Gate
The paper evaluates long-term memory gating models to test whether they distinguish established factual updates from mere suggestions.
Ranked #136Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates memory retirement gating mechanisms for long-term interactive conversational assistants.
Origin Attribution for Unsafe Behavior in Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Coding Systems
Investigates attributing unsafe code changes to specific agents or versions in self-evolving multi-agent coding systems.
Ranked #137New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Tracks the lineage and propagation of unsafe failures across self-evolving multi-agent coding systems.
EAIR: Interaction Risks in Enterprise LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Introduces a risk analysis framework and test environments for enterprise-level multi-agent workflow interactions.
Ranked #138New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Provides a framework to detect and repair organization-wide interaction risks across enterprise LLM multi-agent systems.
STRATA: Self-Maintaining Structured Experience Graphs for Self-Evolving Language Agents
The paper introduces a structured experience graph memory that organizes and maintains agent workflows across hierarchical abstraction levels.
Ranked #139New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Introduces a structured, self-maintaining memory graph specifically for self-evolving multi-step language agents.
JevCoder: When Does Decision Delegation Pay Off in Code Repair?
The paper evaluates delegating code-repair decisions to low-cost probabilistic judges to reduce token costs without losing accuracy.
Ranked #140Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Explores delegating decisions to low-cost judges within multi-step coding agent repair trajectories.
PRISM: Transfer and Limits of Activation Interventions in Tool-Calling Language Models
Studies the transferability of internal activation interventions to reduce unsafe tool execution across model precisions and languages.
Ranked #141Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies safety and activation interventions in tool-calling language model agents.
Librarian Agents: Training LLMs to Curate Long-Context Workspaces that Anticipate Future Queries
The paper trains language model agents to reorganize unstructured document collections into structured workspaces to speed up future multi-document queries.
Ranked #142New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Trains builder agents to autonomously curate and structure workspaces to assist answering agents.
Priming Base Models for Agentic Post-Training: An Open Midtraining Recipe
The paper outlines a long-context midtraining stage using software engineering data to prepare base language models for agentic tasks.
Ranked #143New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Develops a midtraining recipe designed specifically to prepare base models for agentic post-training.
Agent Status Protocol (ASP): A Lightweight Specification for State Reporting in Multi-Agent Systems
Proposes a lightweight protocol for AI agents to report runtime status and liveness to central servers and monitoring dashboards.
Ranked #144New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Specifies a lightweight protocol for monitoring state in multi-agent systems.
Auditing Escalation Reliability in Healthcare LLM Agents: A Perturbation-Controlled Benchmark of Workflow-State Failures
Introduces an episode-level healthcare benchmark to audit how reliably language model agents escalate actions when facing workflow disruptions.
Ranked #145New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on decision reliability, tool use, and escalation failures in multi-step healthcare LLM agents.
A Self-Improving Agent that Grows its Own DSL: Oracle-Free Operator Induction for Exact Question Answering
The paper presents an agent that expands its domain-specific language for exact answering without external rewards or judges.
Ranked #146New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Develops a self-improving agent that invents domain-specific language operators.
OPRD: On-Policy Reminder Distillation for Long-Horizon Coding Agents
Uses multi-scope reminders and on-policy distillation to help coding agents maintain constraints over long software engineering interactions.
Ranked #147New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes reminder distillation to improve multi-turn tool interaction and planning in coding agents.
Output Discipline Sets the Floor: A Falsification-Guided, Model-Agnostic Agent Protocol for Auditable Hypothesis-Driven Decision Making
The paper introduces a falsification-guided agent protocol requiring systematic hypothesis elimination to improve decision-making consistency on complex diagnostic tasks.
Ranked #148Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes a model-agnostic agent protocol using evidence falsification for auditable decisions.
Encrypted Skills Can Become New Security Exploits If AI Agents Know How to Decipher
The authors demonstrate that encoding malicious instructions in agent skills bypasses scanners and causes models to execute harmful actions upon decoding.
Ranked #149Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Demonstrates a vulnerability where LLM agents decode and execute malicious injected skills.
Fan Out or Relay? Ownership-Aware Routing for LLM Agents Querying Siloed Tables
This paper shows data ownership determines whether agents should broadcast or relay table queries, and proposes ownership-aware routing.
Ranked #150Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Explores coordination and query routing strategies among distributed LLM agents.
Fresh at Decision, Stale at Action: Routing New Information to LLM Decisions Already Made
This paper introduces a timestamp theory and persistent ledger to route updated information to pending LLM decisions before action.
Ranked #151New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Designs a framework for routing updated information to earlier agent decisions.
AM-Bench: Understanding Agents under Task Underspecification across Models and Harnesses
This paper introduces a benchmark to measure how language model agents handle ambiguous or missing goals, context, and constraints.
Ranked #152Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies how language model agents handle ambiguous or incomplete task specifications across harnesses.
ResearchFlow-Eval: Tracing the Execution Gap in End-to-End Multi-Claim Autoresearch
This paper introduces an evaluation framework grounded in published papers to assess continuous multi-stage execution in automated research agents.
Ranked #153Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates end-to-end scientific autoresearch agent systems executing multi-stage research workflows.
Memory Echo in Single-Agent Long-Term Memory: Lifecycle Evaluation and Provenance-Guided Mitigation
This paper examines how single-agent long-term memory accumulates repeated historical claims and introduces a benchmark and framework to mitigate unverified persistence.
Ranked #154New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates long-term memory accumulation and retrieval errors in single-agent architectures.
Instructions Are Evidence, Not Objectives: Measuring Outcome Alignment of Agents
This paper introduces an approach and benchmark for evaluating whether language model agents can infer unstated true requirements instead of following incomplete instructions.
Ranked #155New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies how agents infer implicit user intent and complete tasks despite incomplete instructions.
Interaction-as-a-Judge
Presents Interaction-as-a-Judge, using computer-use agents to evaluate interactive web and desktop software applications through direct dynamic interaction.
Ranked #156New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Uses computer-use agents interacting with applications over multiple steps to conduct evaluation.
ECMR: Evidence-Aware Deliberation Control for Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning
Presents ECMR, a dynamic evidence-aware controller that guides multi-agent deliberation steps to prevent false consensus and reduce redundant reasoning.
Ranked #157New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Introduces an evidence-aware controller to manage deliberation, verification, and roles in multi-agent LLM systems.
ProtoArena: Can AI Agents Discover and Exploit Real-World Cross-Component Protocol Vulnerabilities?
Introduces ProtoArena, a black-box dynamic benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to discover and exploit cross-component network protocol vulnerabilities.
Ranked #158New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates autonomous LLM agents acting across environments to find and exploit protocol vulnerabilities.
When Should Enterprise Policy Decisions Be Learned, and When Should They Be Reasoned?
Evaluates enterprise policy enforcement across structured JSON versus single-token outputs, measuring the impact of explicit reasoning on decision stability.
Ranked #159New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies action selection mechanisms and tool calling in enterprise policy agents.
Agency as a New Organizing Abstraction for Computer Science
The paper argues that software agency should be treated as a core organizing abstraction in computer science rather than merely an AI application.
Ranked #160New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Explores agentic AI systems that synthesize actions across tools and open environments.
Get In, Decide, Prove: A Merchant-Side Readiness Benchmark for Agentic Commerce
The paper introduces a benchmark assessing whether merchant websites provide adequate access, terms, and evidence for autonomous shopping agents.
Ranked #161New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Examines merchant readiness and interaction bottlenecks for autonomous buying AI agents.
Upstream Influence, Downstream Re-Anchoring in LLM Agent Chains
Analyzes how multi-agent workflow architecture affects the propagation and attenuation of coordinated stance manipulation across sequential agent chains.
Ranked #162Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes how manipulation propagates through multi-agent LLM chains.
LatentRiskBench: Measuring State-Dependent Risks in Enterprise Agents
Introduces LatentRiskBench to evaluate safety risks in enterprise agents where action safety depends on latent workflow context.
Ranked #163New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates multi-step enterprise agent workflows and state-dependent policy violations.
Glasseek: A Transparent Recipe for Training and Trustworthy Evaluation of DeepSearch Agents
The paper introduces an open-source framework and recipe for training and evaluating deep-search language agents on complex web exploration tasks.
Ranked #164New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents Glasseek, an open framework for training and executing deep web-search agents.
Audit tools of the trade: Automated Auditor Elicitation Can Be Sensitive to the Context the Auditor Is Given
The paper examines how providing additional context, such as codebases and benchmark transcripts, affects automated LLM safety auditors.
Ranked #165Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies automated LLM auditors evaluating coding agents across diverse contexts.
When Goals Leak Across Relationships: How Cached Goal Representations Shape Cross-Client Decisions
The paper examines how shared KV caches cause language model agents to leak goals across competing clients, offering internal intervention techniques.
Ranked #166Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes autonomous multi-client agent decision-making and cross-context goal interference.
Structural Baselines Matter for Agent Failure Detection and Attribution
Shows agent failure detection models often rely on trivial cues like run length, exposing benchmark flaws when attributing critical failure steps.
Ranked #167Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes failure detection and attribution methods in tool-using LLM agent execution runs.
LATCH: LLM-Assisted Timing Closure Harness for Post-Route FPGA Optimisation
Evaluates different agent control granularities for post-route FPGA timing closure to balance execution reliability and frequency gains.
Ranked #168Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates LLM agent orchestration, action control granularities, and exploration strategies for FPGA optimization.
From Caricature to Collective Artifact: How Persona Construction Drives Polarization in Generative Social Simulations
Analyzes how persona construction in generative social simulations causes network segregation and collective political polarization.
Ranked #169Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies collective behavior and emergent polarization across interacting multi-agent LLM personas.
EvoWeb: A Benchmark for Coding Agents on Evolving Web Applications
Introduces a benchmark evaluating coding agents on evolving web applications across cumulative feature requests.
Ranked #170New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates autonomous web-coding agents executing multi-step development requests.
How Should a Camera-First AI Agent Work?
This paper proposes a two-deadline architecture for visual agents to rapidly capture fleeting visual targets before slower semantic reasoning completes.
Ranked #171New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Designs an architectural framework for real-time multimodal agents interacting with dynamic environments.
Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Adaptive Debate
Introduces an adaptive multi-agent debate framework that uses a leader-supporter structure to trigger debate only when simple aggregation is insufficient.
Ranked #172Surprising resultPeer-reviewed7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents an adaptive multi-agent debate framework for complex reasoning tasks.
SLDBench v2: Active Scaling Law Discovery
Expands a benchmark to evaluate whether language model agents can actively select experiments to discover reliable model scaling laws under compute budgets.
Ranked #173New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates language-model agents making sequential decisions and taking actions under budget constraints.
Avoiding What Your Teacher Already Knows: Entity Familiarity for Deep-Search Distillation
Measures teacher entity familiarity to filter out uninformative search trajectories when distilling deep-search capabilities into smaller agents.
Ranked #174New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies trajectory distillation and tool-use behaviors in deep-search agents.
ProCARE: Real-World Study Automation via Profile-Grounded Evidence Contracts
This paper proposes ProCARE, a framework that uses structured contracts to reliably automate healthcare observational studies with language model agents.
Ranked #175New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes an agentic framework with deterministic validation for automating real-world healthcare studies.
Pollard: Governed Semantic Execution Trees for Framework-Independent AI Agent Control and Replay
This paper presents Pollard, a framework-independent agent runtime that uses semantic execution trees for deterministic tracking, governance, and replay.
Ranked #176New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes a runtime framework for governed execution, tracing, and replay of AI agents.
Phantom Merge: When Your Large Language Model Agents Pick One but Tell You About Another
This paper identifies and mitigates Phantom Merge, an error where language model agents bind retrieved facts to the wrong entity.
Ranked #177New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Identifies and fixes entity-evidence binding errors in multi-entity LLM agents.
LLM Value Functions for Credit Assignment in Agentic RL
The paper uses in-context language model evaluations as state value functions to improve credit assignment in agentic reinforcement learning.
Ranked #178New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Improves credit assignment for reinforcement learning in long-horizon LLM agent tasks.
Visible but Not Avoided: State-Dependent Re-Proposal of Rejected Candidates in Catalog-Based LLM Optimization Loops
The paper demonstrates that language model optimizers frequently re-propose previously rejected candidates during search trajectories.
Ranked #179Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes candidate selection and re-proposal failures in LLM optimization loops for GUI agents.
Recall What Is Missing: Composing Evidence from Long-Term Agent Memory
The paper presents a training-free memory selection method that progressively composes non-redundant evidence sets for long-term agents.
Ranked #180New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes an evidence composition method for long-term agent memory.
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