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Counterfactual Simulation Training for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

arXiv:2602.20710v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inspecting Chain-of-Thought reasoning is among the most common means of understanding why an LLM produced its output. But well-known problems with C

10 Aug 2026

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Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader: Structured Document Parsing via Capability Injection and Forgetting Control

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arXiv:2608.06758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader, a Japanese document understanding model built from Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

10 Aug 2026

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking

arXiv:2608.07077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Tower of Hanoi is a simple planning puzzle that in prior work has proven challenging for large reasoning models (LRMs). Current models solve the sta

10 Aug 2026

Tutorials

Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve

arXiv:2608.03550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting remains the standard baseline for evaluating models' reasoning abilities. Originally, this technique was introduced to

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

5 Aug 2026

A False Average: Chain-of-Thought Monitors Collapse Where They Are the Only Defense

arXiv:2608.00583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is meant to catch the reward hacks that look clean in the actions and betray themselves only in the reasoning. We sh

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

4 Aug 2026

llm-anthropic 0.26

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Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExe

4 Aug 2026

Semantic Alignment of AI Models: Concept Collapse, Checkpoint Dynamics, and Cross-Lingual Transfer

arXiv:2608.01585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model benchmarking is a difficult task. Outcome reasoning alone does not test the model's conceptualization of language and popular open-source

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4 Aug 2026

TELLER: Dual-Path Iterative Preference Optimization for Table Entity Linking

arXiv:2607.28680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity linking in tables matches short and ambiguous cell mentions to their corresponding knowledge-base entities. Existing approaches typically rely on

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3 Aug 2026

FiRE: Enhancing MLLMs with Fine-Grained Context Learning for Complex Image Retrieval

arXiv:2607.27959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to their strong generalizable multimodal processing and reasoning capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significa

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31 Jul 2026

LEEPS: Latent-Guided Explore-Exploit Prompt Sampling for Efficient RLVR in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.28077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but prompt groups with identical rol

researcharxiv-cs-cl

31 Jul 2026

Same Facts, Different Diagnosis: Measuring and Mitigating Narrative Anchoring in Clinical Language Models

arXiv:2607.27384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models used for clinical diagnostic reasoning are sensitive to sociolinguistic register, not just clinical content. We term this failure

31 Jul 2026

Benchmarked: MindControl for Llama.cpp

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I recently shared the original MindControl PoC (and on github) - sampler-level guided reasoning budgets for llama.cpp, nudging the model with self-aware statements about its own thinking budget instea

30 Jul 2026

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

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Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic app

30 Jul 2026

Visual prompt engineering for video models

arXiv:2607.25537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the age of foundation models, a model is only as good as its prompt. For this reason, prompt engineering has become an essential technique for impr

29 Jul 2026

Chart Deception in Vision-Language Models: From Vulnerability to Mitigation

arXiv:2607.22600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information visualizations are widely used to communicate patterns, trends, and outliers, yet deceptive design choices-such as truncated or inverted axe

CORVUS: Context Optimization and Reduction Via Underlying Synchronization for LLM Coding Agents

arXiv:2607.22711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM coding agents operate by constructing trajectories that accumulate reasoning, tool calls, and results to enable multi-step decision-making. Howeve

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From RLVR to RLSVR: Task Transformation Induces Self-Verifiable Rewards for Open-Ended LLM Self-Improvement

arXiv:2607.23802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has driven recent progress in reasoning-oriented large language models (LLMs) by enabling large-sc

INS-ActBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Assessing Professional Actuarial Capability of Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.24273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in financial reasoning, but existing benchmarks often evaluate domain knowledge, numerical reas

Local Ai

LOCUS: Local Visual Cue Search for Enhancing Fine-Grained Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.16586v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain unreliable on fine-grained visual perception, even when high-resolution inputs preserve the necessar

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MARS: Multi-hop Adaptive Retrieval and SPARQL Generation for KGQA

arXiv:2607.14561v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning performance, but their tendency to hallucinate limits their reliability in knowledge

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

Two Regimes of Chain-of-Thought Unfaithfulness: Behavioral Detection Fails Where Models Are Wrong

arXiv:2607.23458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) explanations support oversight only if they are faithful: the stated reasoning must actually produce the answer. Auditing black-b

Auto-Fill: Learning to Predict Missing Values Accurately with Specialist Language Models

arXiv:2607.19847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting missing cell values in tabular data is a fundamental problem in data cleaning. While state-of-the-art reasoning models show great promise i

23 Jul 2026

Contrastive On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607.19046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy Distillation (OPD) supervises a student model on trajectories sampled from its own policy by minimizing the divergence between the output dist

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23 Jul 2026

Outperforming Fable 5 at half the price: meet model synthesis, a new server-side tool on DigitalOcean Inference Engine

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Anyone building with AI eventually hits the same tradeoff: how to get the most intelligence per dollar, the right model at the right cost for each task. That’s what DigitalOcean Inference Engine is bu

23 Jul 2026

Tutorials

DM-KG: A Novel Method for Boosting Spatial Cognition of Vision-Language Models in Street View Imagery

arXiv:2607.12319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in geospatial question answering and visual scene understanding, improving their spatial cogn

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

15 Jul 2026

Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0: Efficient Physical-World Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2607.12894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building capable embodied agents requires not only multimodal perception and understanding, but also agentic capabilities for reasoning about actions, a

15 Jul 2026

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Financial Document Question Answering

arXiv:2605.05409v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Financial document question answering (QA) demands complex multi-step numerical reasoning over heterogeneous evidence--structured tables, textual na

7 Jul 2026

Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation

arXiv:2602.14469v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation (RCG) synthesizes reasoning traces from query-answer pairs, but it risks producing post-hoc rationalizations: wh

researcharxiv-cs-cl

7 Jul 2026

Robobench: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models as Embodied Brain

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2510.17801v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building robots that can perceive, reason, and act in dynamic, unstructured environments remains a central challenge. Recent embodied systems

7 Jul 2026

Identifying and Resolving Pitfalls of Knowledge-Based VQA Benchmarks: Auditing, Repairing, and Augmenting

arXiv:2607.00159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) aims to evaluate whether Visual Language Models (VLMs) can retrieve, ground, and reason over external

2 Jul 2026

Be Faithful When Response: Returning Fluent and Grounded Answers for Vision-Language Models Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.29984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an important paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, directly applyi

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Does Verbose Chain-of-Thought Really Help? In-Distribution Evidence that Content, Not Length, Matters

arXiv:2606.30128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting improves LLM reasoning, but the source is contested: do the intermediate steps help because they carry useful semantic

MeEvo: Metacognitive Evolution Combined with Natural Evolution for Automatic Heuristic Design

arXiv:2606.14202v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) by enabling heuristic generation through reasoning and code synthe

Preventing Error Propagation in Multi-Agent AI through Runtime Monitoring

arXiv:2606.29026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent AI systems can improve answer selection by allowing different language models to exchange reasoning traces, revise initial predictions, and

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Tandem Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2606.28166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly improved the reasoning capability of large language models, reaching expert or e

29 Jun 2026

Confidence-Aware Tool Orchestration for Robust Video Understanding

arXiv:2606.26904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video reasoning language models implicitly assume that every input frame is equally reliable. This leads to what we term the Blind Trust Problem: unde

NebulaExp-8B: An Empirical Post-Training Pipeline via Full-Scale Ablation Research

arXiv:2606.26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold

WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.26443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent. Video carries the spatial layouts, object

Where Do CoT Training Gains Land in LLM based Agents?

arXiv:2606.26935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is widely used in language-model agents, but prior work has shown that verbalized CoT is not always faithful and may in

CodePercept: Code-Grounded Visual STEM Perception for MLLMs

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2603.10757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When MLLMs fail at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) visual reasoning, a fundamental question arises: is it due to perceptual

23 Jun 2026

RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510.14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks

10 Jun 2026

Trace Only What You Need: Structure-Aware On-Demand Hypergraph Memory for Long-Document Question Answering

arXiv:2606.10921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document question answering (QA) requires large language models (LLMs) to reason over evidence scattered across lengthy documents, where answers of

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

10 Jun 2026

Hardware

Haven't seen much about the Nvidia Cosmos 3 video model that dropped, what's up with that?

hardwarer-stablediffusion

Nvidia Cosmos 3 is an open physical AI foundation model built on a mixture-of-transformers architecture that combines vision reasoning, world generation, and action prediction for reasoning, simulatio

PRPO: Perception-Reinforced Policy Optimization via Token-Level Dynamic Advantage Reshaping

arXiv:2606.08708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning capability of Large Vision-Language M

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The Last Visible Pixel: Probing Fine-Scale Perception in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606.07861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) excel at multimodal understanding and reasoning, yet their fine-grained visual perception remains underexplored.

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Thinking Without Images: Internalizing Visual Manipulation with On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606.08719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ''Thinking with Images'' has emerged as an effective paradigm for fine-grained visual reasoning: by explicitly zooming into relevant regions and reasoni

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Memory is Reconstructed, Not Retrieved: Graph Memory for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.06036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress, LLM agents still struggle with reasoning over long interaction histories. While current memory-augmented agents rely on a stati

6 Jun 2026

Dynamic Trust-Aware Sparse Communication Topology for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Consensus