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SpatialOPSD: Self-Distilling Spatial Intelligence from Verified Coding Agent Traces

arXiv:2610.11366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial coding agents significantly improve spatial reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by using external tools to generate verified e

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Tracing the Thoughts of a Coding Agent Playing ARC-AGI-3: Lessons for Continual Learning

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arXiv:2610.11450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how a coding agent learns across a sequence of abstract reasoning tasks. The agent runs on a frozen foundation model inside a fixed harness and

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A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior

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arXiv:2602.02639v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM self-explanations are often presented as a promising tool for AI oversight, yet their faithfulness to the model's true reasoning process i

Beyond the Sycophancy Score: How Task, Model, and Pressure Shape LLM Yielding

arXiv:2610.08840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often abandon a correct answer, or endorse a user's position, once the user pushes back. This behavior, called sycophancy,

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ECHO: Embodied Camera Observations of Human Object Carrying

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arXiv:2610.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied and assistive agents must do more than recognize objects: they must reason about where an object belongs given the layout of an environment and

From Pareto to Preference: Personalized Test-Time Scaling via Amortized Agentic Policy Discovery

arXiv:2610.09684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models by allocating additional inference computation. Existing approaches

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RollVerify: Bridging Efficiency and Accuracy in Long-Tail Rollout Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.09914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning is crucial for improving large language models' reasoning and generalization. It relies on massive rollouts whose lengths become

sk-bench: A Native-First Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Slovak

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arXiv:2610.09152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual LLM benchmarks omit Slovak, a morphologically rich West Slavic language of five million speakers, or cover it only by machine translation.

U-Space: Uncovering When and Why Uncertainty Arises in Language Models

arXiv:2610.09087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are informing decisions with ever-higher stakes. As the consequences of their errors grow, a central question becomes harder to ig

VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

arXiv:2607.11119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual perception, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control. General-purpose foundat

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Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your

AnyBottle: A Recipe to Only Keep the Concepts You Really Need

arXiv:2610.08552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) make predictions inspectable and intervenable by routing them through human-interpretable concepts, but originally requ

Beyond Scalar IoU: Structured Verification from Rollout Groups for Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2610.07601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides a natural framework for adapting pretrained models to video temporal grounding, where gen

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In With the Old: Enhancing 'Classical' Document Automation with Generative AI

arXiv:2610.07480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software-based legal assistance systems have leveraged many different forms of knowledge representation and reasoning. This article explores how documen

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Knee3DVLM: Dual-Sequence Full-Volume Vision-Language Modeling for Comprehensive Knee MRI Assessment

arXiv:2610.08482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being applied to three-dimensional medical imaging, but their application to knee MRI remains limited,

WASD: Wasserstein-based Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.07706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in capability, but their increasing scale comes with substantial computational and m

When Agent Context Goes Stale: Incoherence in Volatile Agent Context

arXiv:2610.05281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern agents increasingly ground their reasoning in observations returned by tools, such as file contents read from a workspace. However, the data

Where Do Test-Time Scaling and Training Fall Short in Individual Stance Prediction?

arXiv:2609.33155v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time scaling and post-training have improved LLM performance in coding and mathematical reasoning, but their effectiveness for individual stanc

ASCENT: Online Test-Time Training of Long-Horizon Agents via Self-Distillation of Verified Experience

arXiv:2610.05303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A large language model (LLM) agent solves long-horizon tasks through many reasoning-action turns, with one verification signal at termination. Deployed

Banger paper from Meta AI on research agents that decide what to investigate next. (bookmark it) If you run long-horizon research agents, ch…

Banger paper from Meta AI on research agents that decide what to investigate next. (bookmark it) If you run long-horizon research agents, choosing the next investigation is hard to learn, because thos

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Differentiable Ternary Temporal Logic Semantics with Polynomial Surrogate Networks

arXiv:2610.04662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal logic provides designers a formal reasoning tool for specifying complex spatio-temporal behaviors and tasks for autonomous systems. Many tech

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DREAM: Dynamic Resolution Assignment For Multimodal Multi-agent Debate

arXiv:2610.05615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent debate (MAD) has emerged as an effective paradigm to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and is increasingl

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Learning What to Imitate: Entropy-Aware Distribution Mixing

arXiv:2610.06671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models are often post-trained as students on reasoning traces from stronger teacher models to efficiently learn new skills. However, toke

LiFT: Loop Flow Transformers

arXiv:2610.05538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Loop Flow Transformers (LiFT), a family of looped generative models that scales computation by repeatedly applying a shared Diffusion Trans

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MedAD-R1: Consistency-Reinforced Policy Optimization for Interpretable Medical Anomaly Detection

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arXiv:2602.01081v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical Anomaly Detection (MedAD) offers a promising direction for medical image analysis with Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). However, progress is

Recurrent Latent Visual Search for GUI Grounding

arXiv:2610.05185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI grounding is a critical capability for GUI agents powered by vision-language models, helping them execute user instructions by locating the correspo

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Robotic Long-Horizon Manipulation with Progressive In-Context Code Generation and Episodic Feedback

arXiv:2503.21969v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic long-horizon manipulation requires robots to compose perception, reasoning, and action over extended task sequences, yet existing language-c

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Scaling 3D Visual Grounding in Abdominal CT

arXiv:2610.04095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual grounding models can enhance radiology workflows by linking report findings to image regions. This is particularly valuable for 3D CT, where find

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ClarifyCodeBench: Evaluating LLMs on Clarifying Ambiguous Requirements for Code Generation

arXiv:2607.00711v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models have emerged as programming assistants. However, the efficacy of code generation is constrained by the quality of input requirem

CVE2AP: Automated Generation of PDDL-Encoded Attack Paths via Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.03383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attack Path (AP) modeling is fundamental to cybersecurity analysis, where the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) has been widely adopted to enco

Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models

arXiv:2610.02665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the success of discrete diffusion language models (dLMs) for fast parallel decoding, their non-smooth, high-dimensional space hinders trajecto

LEAP: Learning Efficient Action Proposals For LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.02670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are known to be slow in rollouts. An agent completes a task one step at a time. At each step, it reasons and then chooses an action to exec

Applications

LOCUS: Landmark-Oriented Container Discrimination Using Spatial Graphs

arXiv:2610.02803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robots are increasingly deployed in unstructured, real-world environments, the ability to reason about complex spatial and semantic relationships amo

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MobiAgent: Dual-Loop Recursive Policy Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2610.03476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon mobile manipulation presents significant challenges due to compounding execution errors and capacity interference between locomotion and

Multilingual GSM-Symbolic: What determines capability transfer across languages?

arXiv:2610.03367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We understand little about how capabilities acquired in one language carry over to another, or what governs this transfer: evaluations rely on incompara

Recursive Self-Improvement in Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2610.03002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) understand and generate both text and images, which lets a model produce its own training data. Existing self-improveme

Spend Teacher Tokens Where They Matter: Success-Referenced On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.02678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) combines student-generated rollouts with dense token-level supervision from a teacher, but providing such supervision for e

The Geometry of Knowledge Accessibility in Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.03052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) contain broad knowledge, but they cannot access all of it reliably. We study this problem through knowledge accessibility,

Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

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Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could 'compute the sum but return the answer in wo

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A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Personalized Health Checkup Interpretation and Guidance

arXiv:2610.01451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized interpretation of health checkup results requires reasoning across longitudinal records, medical knowledge, lifestyle guidance, and healthc

Argo-Bench: Evaluating Data Agents on Enterprise-Scale Workflows

arXiv:2610.02122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world enterprise data science and analytics workflows require reasoning across dozens of tables, performing statistical analyses, and acting on t

best <40B alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document QA test

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Due to some reasons, Qwen/Deepseek Chinese models are NOT allowed in the my workplace. So, what local models, do you think, is the best alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document Q

Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval

arXiv:2610.02070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-augmented large language models must decide which memories to retain, and recent systems do so by estimating each memory's effect on task perform

Comedic Fool's Gold: Reward Exploits and Countermeasures in Conversational Humor

arXiv:2610.00197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate automated rewards for training language models in conversational humor, focusing on reward exploits and countermeasures. Two approaches a

CompMat-Bench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Computational Materials Science

arXiv:2610.00636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research tasks is constrained by the time and resources required for the underlying experiments or calculations. In c

Dependency-Aware Reward Shaping for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.01207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When training large language models with reinforcement learning, terminal rewards provide little guidance about which steps matter. Common methods for a

Hierarchical Continuous Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2610.02193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive generation for tasks demanding bidirectional reasoning and global

Mimir: Physics-Grounded LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Irrigation Control

arXiv:2610.02038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly combine reasoning, tool use, and action, but most evidence comes from episodic tasks with relatively imme