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PrivMeSA: Privacy-Aware Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Medicine via Local-Remote LLM Collaboration

arXiv:2609.38458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical large language model (LLM) agents deployed locally can consult more capable remote models, but doing so risks exposing patient information. Pri

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Prompt2Skill: Unsupervised Skill Optimization From Natural Language Instructions

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arXiv:2609.38593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skills are external artifacts that Large Language Models (LLMs) consume at inference time to improve their performance on specialized domains by incor

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RealWorldShop: Benchmarking and Improving Conversational Shopping Agents in Real-World E-commerce

arXiv:2609.38974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are reshaping ecommerce from static recommenders into interactive shopping assistants, yet real-world shopping requires session-le

ResidualKV: Residual-Based KV Cache Compression for Efficient Long-Context Inference

arXiv:2602.08005v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient long-context inference faces two coupled bottlenecks: KV-cache memory grows linearly with context length, while attention computatio

RoPE at the End of Its Rope? Theory, Diagnosis, and Mitigation of Long-Context Failures

arXiv:2609.39929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context failures of RoPE-based language models can arise from RoPE's intrinsic tradeoff between maintaining stable token preferences and distingu

Scaling Parameter and Context in Attention: Native Sparse Attention from Mixture-of-Head

arXiv:2609.38832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling attention parameters can improve language model quality, but retaining full token histories makes additional heads costly at long contexts. Furt

ShieldCLIP: Selective Safety Alignment for Harmful Content Mitigation in Multimodal Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.39688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal encoders such as CLIP underlie many downstream systems, but their web-scale training data embed harmful associations that safety alignment

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STRATA: Self-Learning Through Role-Aligned Tiered Agents for Real-Time Strategy Games

arXiv:2609.38881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time strategy (RTS) games require agents to coordinate economic development, production and construction, base defense, unit organization, and atta

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TED:Text-Axis Evidence Decomposition for Prompted Anomaly Localization

arXiv:2609.39033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CLIP is a powerful vision-language model, but it was not designed for fine-grained defect localization; CLIP-based anomaly detectors therefore adapt i

Thinking Outside the Box: Can Language Models Rely on External Guidance Selectively?

arXiv:2609.39578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses often improve language models with human-designed workflows, but as models grow more capable, unreliable guidance can increasingly const

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TSMD: Temporal-Stream Modality Dropout for Robust Video Highlight Detection

arXiv:2609.39051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing multimodal video highlight detectors typically assume that visual, audio, and textual streams are continuously available. In practice, however,

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When Correct Memory Goes Wrong: Fuzzing Persistent Memory Use in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.38275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent memory helps LLM agents carry information across long interactions, but correct memory can still be used incorrectly when queries change or

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WorkGenesis: Building the Worlds That Teach Agents to Work

arXiv:2609.39325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability of Large Language Model (LLM) agents to complete daily and professional work is receiving increasing attention. Training such agents require

AdaTutoRank: Learning to Rerank Document Sets via Adaptive Tutoring Optimization for RAG and Deep Research

arXiv:2609.32472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Document rerankers determine what evidence reaches the downstream model in RAG and deep research, yet mainstream rerankers select by relevance match

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AnyAct: Universal Action for Self-Evolving Agents

arXiv:2609.37025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) advance, AI agents are increasingly deployed in open-world environments to tackle complex sequential tasks (e.g., docume

Authority Bias in Language Models: Source Deference and User Agreement Are Not Interchangeable

arXiv:2609.37616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models tend to agree with whatever a user asserts, and post-training increasingly targets this sycophancy so that models evaluate claims on t

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Block Sparse Flash Attention

arXiv:2512.07011v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern large language models increasingly require long contexts for reasoning and multi-document tasks, but attention's quadratic complexity c

CoMemBench: Benchmarking Collaborative Memory Boundaries across Multi-Agent Workflow Topologies

arXiv:2609.32192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information

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CRASM-Gate: Deterministic-First Constraint- and Role-Aware Semantic Mapping with Selective Model Assistance Across Heterogeneous Industrial Standards

arXiv:2609.37458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial standards often encode the same engineering concept through incompatible hierarchies, identifiers, roles, and structural constraints, so the

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CyFA: Linear Sequence Modeling with Relative-Time-Partitioned Memory

arXiv:2609.36259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear RNNs offer linear-time sequence processing and constant-memory decoding, but their fixed-size recurrent states must accommodate all past key--val

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Degeneracy-Orthogonal Geometric Constraints for LiDAR SLAM

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arXiv:2609.36753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robot navigation relies on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) to estimate motion and maintain an accurate pose within an environmen

Do Evidence-Reading Diagnostics Improve Interface Selection in Small LLM Recommenders?

arXiv:2609.37472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Behavioral tests measure how a language model reads evidence. We ask whether those measurements help choose a recommendation interface. We evaluate si

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EpiCon: Collective Agent Learning through Co-Evolving Multimodal Memory

arXiv:2609.37923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents can learn from past executions, but enabling different agents to reuse and build on one another's experience remains challenging. We introduce Ep

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ER-JEPA: Experience Replay Improves Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning in Language Models

arXiv:2609.36952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at token-level generation but may learn undesirable abstract semantics and lack comprehensive perception. LLM-JEPA

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Fisher-IRG: Fisher-Induced Local Invariant Representation Geometry across Language and Vision Models

arXiv:2609.36458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic-preserving transformations can induce substantial motion in learned representations, while small changes may strongly affect model prediction

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FLASH: A 'Generate Once, Synthesize Many' Framework for Synthetic Anomaly Generation in Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2609.37314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic anomaly generation helps expand industrial anomaly datasets when real defects are scarce or unavailable. Existing approaches lie at two extrem

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GeoOutageBench: Benchmarking Ambiguity-aware, Ontology-grounded Geospatiotemporal KGQA for Multimodal Power Outage and Resilience Analysis

arXiv:2609.36082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce GeoOutageBench, a benchmark for assessing LLM-based geospatiotemporal KGQA for multimodal outage and resilience analysis. Unlike existing K

Graph-Conditioned On-Policy Agent Distillation from Off-the-Shelf Teachers

arXiv:2609.37522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains compact language agents with teacher feedback on student-generated trajectories. In multi-turn tasks, compounding er

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Honeycomb: Constant-Size Scene Memory Representation for Video World Models

arXiv:2609.37690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models require persistent scene memory to maintain consistency during long-horizon video generation. Existing spatial memory systems accumul

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How Can Recommendation Feedback Evolve Agent Memory?

arXiv:2609.37544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Content-generation agents continuously receive impressions, clicks, conversions, and negative feedback from recommendation systems, providing real-world

Intrinsic Associative Memory on Riemannian Manifolds: Curvature, Capacity, and Emergent Modes

arXiv:2609.35948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geometry does more than constrain an associative memory: curvature determines what it remembers and which states it creates. We develop intrinsic dens

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KUPAS MASTER: Distilling the Tacit Expertise of Master Practitioners into Agent-Ready Experience Corpora

arXiv:2609.37673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Experienced professionals know more than just facts and conclusions. They know which cues matter, why a judgment is reasonable, and which action to take

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LexiconVLA: Learning Reusable Atomic Action Codebooks for Unseen Tasks

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arXiv:2609.36774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle to reuse recurring interactions in unseen tasks. Our diagnostic study reveals that reliable task completion

LongHarness Bench: Stress-Testing Language Model Harnesses for Long-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2609.38137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model (LM) harnesses enable LMs to operate effectively over long contexts using additional compute. However, existing long-context evaluations

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Making Cross-Continental Federated Learning Repeatable with FLIP: a Multi-Application Study

arXiv:2609.36001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in healthcare remains challenging, as the overhead of rebuilding governance guarantees for every collaboration stops most proj

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MMSkillRisk: Can Agents Stay Safe When Multimodal Skills Become Traps?

arXiv:2609.35912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills are shareable packages of procedural instructions, tools, and examples. Multimodal skills additionally include visual references that age

More Features Are Not More Evidence: Limits of Training-Free Human Activity Recognition with Jev

arXiv:2609.36154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose models promise sensor-based decisions without training a task-specific classifier, which could reduce the dependence of Human Activity R

ProCTI: Prototype-Refined Global Conditioning for Diffusion-Based Time Series Imputation

arXiv:2609.37632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series imputation has progressed from statistical and deep learning approaches to diffusion-based models, which have shown strong recent performa

Reconstructing Implicit Scientific Knowledge: Evaluating LLM Agents through End-to-End Reproduction of Astronomy

arXiv:2609.35900v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of large language models (LLMs) into scientific workflows is accelerating, yet their ability to reconstruct the reasoning underlying p

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ResComEmb: Effective and Efficient Multimodal Embedding via Residual Homogeneity Compression

arXiv:2609.37225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for universal multimodal representation learning. However, existing methods eithe

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Screening Is Enough

arXiv:2604.01178v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We call query--key relevance absolute when its values lie on a fixed bounded scale, depend on neither competing keys nor sequence length, requ

SMat-Attention: Structured Long-Context Sequence Modeling

arXiv:2609.36062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context sequence models face a fundamental tradeoff: softmax attention uses flexible token-level interactions at quadratic cost, whereas linear att

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StateTape: Action-Conditioned Evidence Lifecycle Modeling for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

arXiv:2609.36319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the recent success of coding agents built on large language models, it remains challenging to run them over long horizons, since every observati

T^2Mem: Learning Test-Time Memory for Robotics

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arXiv:2609.36720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-dependent robotic manipulation requires policies to use information that is no longer available in the current observation. Retaining history alo

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The Canonical Order Problem: When Large Language Models Are Unreliable Knowledge Bases for Multi-Valued Relations

arXiv:2609.36209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as knowledge bases (KBs) due to the vast amount of knowledge they acquire during pre-training. While

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TORQUE: Optimizing What (not) to Quantize Before and After Rotation

arXiv:2609.36032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uniform random rotations are an effective preprocessing step for quantization: they make normalized coordinate distributions approximately Gaussian, e

TRACE: Deployable Tree-Relational Structure Enhancement for Oncology LLMs

arXiv:2609.35810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in oncology applications, but their predictions are often weakly grounded in explicit medical structure. W

Tracing mechanisms of sycophantic agreement in language models

arXiv:2609.35822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophantic agreement in language models refers to the tendency to overly affirm a user's stated beliefs or preferences, often at the expense of factual

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