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arXiv:2607.25415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production LLM agents are increasingly assembled from a frozen model wrapped in a harness: a prompt template, a tool set, a memory/retrieval layer, a pl

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29 Jul 2026

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Distilling Temporal Search and Reasoning: Evolving LLMs for Future Prediction via Harness-Assisted Efficient Data Synthesis

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arXiv:2607.25554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Future event prediction carries broad social impact yet remains challenging. SOTA approaches augment LLMs with external agent frameworks whose predictiv

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

29 Jul 2026

A New Role for Relevance: Guiding Corpus Interaction in Agentic Search

arXiv:2607.24223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relevance is a query-dependent estimate of whether a document or excerpt contains useful evidence. Existing retrieval agents use relevance to select top

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ADVERSARIAL: And-Inverter Graph-Assisted Hardware Trojan Detection At Scale

arXiv:2607.23882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern System-on-Chip (SoCs) often contain hundreds of millions to tens of billions of gates, making existing Hardware Trojan (HT) detection methods imp

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Answering Path Queries under Linear and Guarded Existential Rules

arXiv:2607.22636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ontology-mediated query answering is concerned with the problem of answering queries over knowledge bases consisting of a database instance and an ontol

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Codifying the Judge: Scalable Evaluation via Program Distillation

arXiv:2607.22561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-judge has become the standard for automated evaluation, but it suffers from high cost, significant latency, and opaque decisions -- limitations

Do Current Retrievers Cover All the Evidence? A Controlled Study of Conjunctive Cross-Page Retrieval

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arXiv:2607.24165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finding a long document relevant to a multi-part request is not the same as establishing that it contains every requested piece of evidence. We study

EviBack: Search-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Evidence-Constrained Teacher Backoff

arXiv:2607.23955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning enables Agentic RAG systems to learn multi-turn search from verifiable outcome rewards, but all- zero rollout groups provide no c

LA-RL: Label-Aware Self-Reflection for Reinforcement Learning in Information Extraction

arXiv:2607.23420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models show strong promise for information extraction (IE), but existing reflection-based correction methods are often misaligned with st

Loong: Synthesize Long Chain-of-Thoughts at Scale through Verifiers

arXiv:2509.03059v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that their reasoning capabilities can be significantly improved through Reinforceme

Multi-Modal Scene Graph with Kolmogorov-Arnold Experts for Audio-Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2511.23304v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-Modal Scene Graph with Kolmogorov-Arnold Expert Network for Audio-Visual Question Answering (SHRIKE). The ta

Reason Popper-ly: Patching In-Context Reasoning with Inductive Logic Programming

arXiv:2607.23019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting enables large language models (LLMs) to tackle multi-step reasoning tasks, yet the generated intermediate steps are not

SCAIR: Schema-Conditioned Agentic Iterative Reasoning for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2607.22571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) enables natural language interaction with structured enterprise knowledge, yet existing ag

SF-AMS: Strategic Forgetting for Structured Memory in LLM Agent

arXiv:2607.22562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing long-context dependencies remains a primary bottleneck in LLM agents, as redundant and irrelevant information can degrade multi-step reasoning.

SMART: LLM-Augmented Hybrid Retrieval for Dynamic Product Ads

arXiv:2607.23121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) require retrieving relevant items from multi-million product catalogs, balancing two competing objectives: retargeting (re-s

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Source-Aware Reranking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Reliability Prior Approach

arXiv:2607.22584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines rank retrieved documents by semantic similarity alone, without accounting for source provenance or cre

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Tokengeist: Multi-Turn Attribution Tracing in Agentic Conversations

arXiv:2607.22610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model produces a response in a multi-turn conversation, which tokens from prior turns shaped that answer, and how did those dependencies

When Should Active RAG Retrieve? A Budget-Aware Evaluation of Utility, Calibration, and Cost

arXiv:2607.24010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active RAG systems decide when to retrieve external knowledge during generation, making them a budget-sensitive case of agentic RAG and self-adaptive re

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Wired for Overconfidence: A Mechanistic Perspective on Inflated Verbalized Confidence in LLMs

arXiv:2604.01457v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are often not just wrong, but confidently wrong: when they produce factually incorrect answers, they tend to verbalize overly

Benchmarking Fine-tuning and Retrieval Strategies for a Multimodal Language Model on the NRC Reactor Operator Licensing Examination

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arXiv:2607.22067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of large language models (LLMs) into the nuclear power industry requires outputs grounded in domain-specific knowledge. This study evalu

27 Jul 2026

IFCLoRA: Topology-Aware Rank Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2607.22251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large language models, but its performance depends strongly on ho

27 Jul 2026

Causal-AgentIR: Self-Evolving Causal Memory for Adaptive Image Restoration Agents

arXiv:2607.21125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image restoration agents have recently emerged as a flexible paradigm for handling diverse and unpredictable degradations in real-world scenarios. Exist

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

24 Jul 2026

Telco-GAIA: Bilingual Benchmark for Agents in Telecom Domain

arXiv:2607.20510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Telco-GAIA, a bilingual, multi-modal benchmark for evaluating tool-using agents on the data of a real-world telecommunications operator. Te

24 Jul 2026

LoRFT: Benchmarking Long-Range Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction from Fixed Highway Cameras

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arXiv:2607.19911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-range vehicle trajectories provide important spatio-temporal evidence for traffic safety analysis, autonomous driving evaluation, and data-driven t

23 Jul 2026

Tutorials

Scaling Laws for Hypernetwork-Based Knowledge Injection in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.19604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Injecting factual knowledge into large language models (LLMs) reliably and at scale remains an open challenge. Hypernetworks provide a promising solutio

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23 Jul 2026

Interventional Grounding Audits: Black-Box Premise-Dependency Tests for LLM Chain-of-Thought via Predicate Substitution

arXiv:2607.13069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models produce chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that appears logically sound yet may not genuinely depend on its stated premises. We intr

16 Jul 2026

CANDI: Contextual Alignment for Niche Domains Question Answering

arXiv:2607.11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in specialized domains like medical diagnostics and financial advisory necessitates evaluating capabili

Efficiently Learning Branching Networks for Multitask Algorithmic Reasoning

arXiv:2512.01113v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating multi-step reasoning

Evidence-Grounded AI for Musculoskeletal Care

arXiv:2607.12527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Musculoskeletal diseases are among the leading causes of disability worldwide and create the greatest global need for rehabilitation. Because recovery,

Tutorials

Invariant Learning Dynamics of Transformers in Inductive Reasoning Tasks

arXiv:2607.11875v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a theoretical framework to explain the emergence of inductive reasoning abilities in Transformer language models. While previous wo

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DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment

arXiv:2607.07820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training tool-use agents to improve from their own experience remains challenging, as supervised fine-tuning relies on fixed teacher-distilled trajector

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PolyUQuest: Verifiable Structure-Aware Web RAG over Heterogeneous Graphs

arXiv:2607.08269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems treat web pages as flat text, losing the structural and semantic signals encoded in HTML. We prese

Truncated Step-Level Sampling with Process Rewards for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2602.23440v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for training large language models to interleave reasoning with search engine calls. How

Understanding Axes of Difficulty For Long Context Tasks Via PredicateLongBench

arXiv:2607.08284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated rapidly improving long-context capabilities, prompting a wave of benchmarks designed to evaluate them. Ho

MMAgent-R^2: Learning to Rerank and Reject for Agentic mRAG

arXiv:2607.07383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to retrieve visual entities matching the query image from large-scale encyclopedic kn

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9 Jul 2026

Think Big, Search Small: Where Capacity Matters in Hierarchical Search Agents?

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arXiv:2607.07548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model based search agents increasingly adopt multi-agent architectures in which a main agent decomposes a complex question into sub-queri

9 Jul 2026

TurnOPD: Making On-Policy Distillation Turn-Aware for Efficient Long-Horizon Agent Training

arXiv:2607.05804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student policy by matching a stronger teacher on the student's own trajectories, offering a promising framework fo

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8 Jul 2026

Agentic Very Long Video Understanding

arXiv:2601.18157v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advent of always-on personal AI assistants, enabled by all-day wearable devices such as smart glasses, demands a new level of contextual underst

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Decomposed Prompting Does Not Fix Knowledge Gaps, But Helps Models Say 'I Don't Know'

arXiv:2602.04853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models often struggle to recognize their knowledge limits in closed-book question answering, leading to confident hallucinations. Whi

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Hierarchical Evidence-Driven Reasoning for Long Document Understanding

arXiv:2607.04625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) streamlines long-document understanding by leveraging retrieval mechanisms to restrict input images to a highly c

Homer: Understanding Long-form Videos with Hierarchical Memory and Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2607.02588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models excel on short clips but struggle on hour-long videos in an online setting, where frames are processed incrementally

K9-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Canine-Centric Videos

arXiv:2607.02680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MLLMs have shown strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse inputs such as across images, video, audio, and text. A crucial, yet underexplored, appl

OmniGAIA: Towards Native Omni-Modal AI Agents

arXiv:2602.22897v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human intelligence naturally intertwines omni-modal perception -- spanning vision, audio, and language -- with complex reasoning and tool usage to i

3 Jul 2026

X-LogSMask: Expand Transformer for Graph-Structured Data

arXiv:2607.01553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become general-purpose architectures, but their all-to-all self-attention is poorly matched to graph data, whose interactions are sp

3 Jul 2026

TRACE: State-Aware Query Processing over Temporal Evidence Graphs for Conversational Data

arXiv:2607.00339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational data is increasingly used as a persistent source of user state for long-running assistants and AI agents. However, querying this data rem

2 Jul 2026

Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representation

arXiv:2606.31285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human reasoning is inherently multimodal: when problems become difficult, we rarely think in words alone. We often externalize our reasoning by sketchin

1 Jul 2026

Agents-K1: Towards Agent-native Knowledge Orchestration

arXiv:2606.13669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current LLM-based research agents have advanced through agent orchestration, yet largely overlook scientific knowledge orchestration. Existing works

30 Jun 2026

Hardware

ConCise: Training-Free Conclusion-Chain State Compression for Cost-Efficient Multi-Step RAG Services