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arXiv:2605.22221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Backtracking search underlies classical constraint solvers, planners, and theorem provers. Recent transformer-based reasoning systems explore search tre

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Measuring Cross-Modal Synergy: A Benchmark for VLM Explainability

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arXiv:2605.22168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) map complex visual inputs to semantic spaces, but interpreting the cross-modal reasoning of VLMs currently relies on pos

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23 May 2026

ACC: Compiling Agent Trajectories for Long-Context Training

arXiv:2605.21850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent development of agents has renewed demand for long-context reasoning capacity of LLMs. However, training LLMs for this capacity requires costly lo

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Bernini: Latent Semantic Planning for Video Diffusion

arXiv:2605.22344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and diffusion models have each reached remarkable maturity: MLLMs excel at reasoning over heterogeneous multimo

DeepWeb-Bench: A Deep Research Benchmark Demanding Massive Cross-Source Evidence and Long-Horizon Derivation

arXiv:2605.21482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research, in which an agent searches the open web, collects evidence, and derives an answer through extended reasoning, is a prominent use case for

SDGBiasBench: Benchmarking and Mitigating Vision--Language Models' Biases in Sustainable Development Goals

arXiv:2605.21919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assessing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires multi-step reasoning over visual cues, contextual knowledge, and development

When Cases Get Rare: A Retrieval Benchmark for Off-Guideline Clinical Question Answering

arXiv:2605.21807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across medical specialties, clinical practice is anchored in evidence-based guidelines that codify best studied diagnostic and treatment pathways. These

ConceptSeg-R1: Segment Any Concept via Meta-Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.20385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in promptable segmentation has shifted visual perception from object-level localization toward concept-level understanding. However, the

21 May 2026

Multi-Step Likelihood-Ratio Correction for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2605.20865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) plays a pivotal role in improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, widely

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RISE: Reliable Improvement in Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.20914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but further improving them still relies heavily on large-scale hum

21 May 2026

An LLM-Based System for Argument Mining

arXiv:2605.13793v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Arguments are a fundamental aspect of human reasoning, in which claims are supported, challenged, and weighed against one another. We present an end

Can LLMs Estimate Cognitive Complexity of Reading Comprehension Items?

arXiv:2510.25064v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating the cognitive complexity of reading comprehension (RC) items is crucial for assessing item difficulty before it is administered to learne

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DynaTok: Temporally Adaptive and Positional Bias-Aware Token Compression for Video-LLMs

arXiv:2605.19322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have greatly expanded multimodal reasoning capabilities. However, the massive number of visu

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HAVEN: Hierarchically Aligned Multimodal Benchmark for Unified Video Understanding

arXiv:2605.19223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong performance on standard video tasks, their ability to faithfully summarize and reason over

Inference-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models through Iterative Partial Refinement

arXiv:2605.19317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time scaling has emerged as a major approach for improving reasoning capabilities, and has been increasingly applied to diffusion models. Ho

LLM agents & memory systems operate in continuously updated environments (Git repos, evolving docs). They must process long contexts, recove…

LLM agents & memory systems operate in continuously updated environments (Git repos, evolving docs). They must process long contexts, recover earlier information, and reason over many updates that cre

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MetaRA: Metamorphic Robustness Assessment for Multimodal Large Language Model-based Visual Question Answering Systems

arXiv:2605.19307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA), as the representative multimodal task, serves as a key benchmark for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of Multimoda

Transformers Linearly Represent Highly Structured World Models

arXiv:2605.18847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Do transformers, when trained on sequential reasoning traces, build internal models of the underlying task? And if so, does the structure of those int

ZeroSearch: Incentivize the Search Capability of LLMs without Searching

arXiv:2505.04588v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective information searching is essential for enhancing the reasoning and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent researc

Calibrate-Then-Act: Cost-Aware Exploration in LLM Agents

arXiv:2602.16699v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents are deployed in environments where they must interact to acquire information. In these scenarios, the agent must reason about inher

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ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop

arXiv:2605.18746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial intelligence unfolds through a perception-action loop: agents act to acquire observations, and reason about how observations vary as a functio

Evaluating Cognitive Age Alignment in Interactive AI Agents

arXiv:2605.17894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While agentic AI and its core multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in language and visual reasoning across doma

EXG: Self-Evolving Agents with Experience Graphs

arXiv:2605.17721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex reasoning and problem solving through multi-step interactions,

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Explicit Logic Channel for Validation and Enhancement of MLLMs on Zero-Shot Tasks

arXiv:2603.11689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in Visual-Language Comprehension (VLC) tasks. However, they are of

From Pixels to Places: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Image Geolocalization Ability in Large Language Models

arXiv:2508.01608v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digit

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

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Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key p

Gradient Dynamics of Attention: How Cross-Entropy Sculpts Bayesian Manifolds

arXiv:2512.22473v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers empirically perform precise probabilistic reasoning in carefully constructed ``Bayesian wind tunnels'' and in large-scale languag

HalluScore: Large Language Model Hallucination Question Answering Benchmark

arXiv:2605.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in natural language generation, but remain susceptible to hallucination. In response to g

Learning Transferable Topology Priors for Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration Across Domains

arXiv:2605.17359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have shown strong potential for complex reasoning by coordinating specialized agents through struct

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LiTS: A Modular Framework for LLM Tree Search

arXiv:2603.00631v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiTS is a modular Python framework for LLM reasoning via tree search. It decomposes tree search into three reusable components (Policy, Transition,

LongMINT: Evaluating Memory under Multi-Target Interference in Long-Horizon Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.18565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world agents operate over long and evolving horizons, where information is repeatedly updated and may interfere across memories, requiring accura

OmniVL-Guard Pro: A Tool-Augmented Agent for Omnibus Vision-Language Forensics

arXiv:2605.16962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing vision-language forgery detection and grounding methods operate under a closed-world paradigm, assuming verification can be completed by the

Prompt Compression in Diffusion Large Language Models: Evaluating LLMLingua-2 on LLaDA

arXiv:2605.17932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt compression reduces inference cost and context length in large language models, but prior evaluations focus primarily on autoregressive archite

VLM-AutoDrive: Post-Training Vision-Language Models for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving Events

arXiv:2603.18178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid growth of ego-centric dashcam footage presents a major challenge for detecting safety-critical events such as collisions and near-co

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ZeroSiam: An Efficient Asymmetry for Test-Time Entropy Optimization without Collapse

arXiv:2509.23183v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time entropy minimization helps adapt a model to novel environments and incentivize its reasoning capability, unleashing the model's potential

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Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination

arXiv:2605.15864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often produce self-reflective statements like 'let me check the figure again' during reasoning. Do such statements trigg

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Differentiable Mixture-of-Agents Incentivizes Swarm Intelligence of Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.15706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have catalyzed the development of multi-agent systems (MAS) for complex reasoning tasks. However, existi

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Enhancing Medical Image Segmentation via Heat Conduction Equation

arXiv:2511.03260v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical image segmentation models struggle to achieve efficient global context modeling and long-range dependency reasoning under practical computat

Nudging Beyond the Comfort Zone: Efficient Strategy-Guided Exploration for RLVR

arXiv:2605.15726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a scalable paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language mode

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Solvita: Enhancing Large Language Models for Competitive Programming via Agentic Evolution

arXiv:2605.15301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with the rigorous reasoning demands of hard competitive programming. While recent multi-agent frameworks att

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AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture-of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603.14851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating vision-language models (VLMs) into end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving (AD) systems has shown promise in improving scene understanding.

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Exploring Vision-Language Models for Online Signature Verification: A Zero-Shot Capability Study

arXiv:2605.14845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general visual reasoning, yet their applicability to rigor

LATERN: Test-Time Context-Aware Explainable Video Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2605.15054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for video anomaly detection (VAD) due to their strong visual reasoning abili

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LLMs Know When They Know, but Do Not Act on It: A Metacognitive Harness for Test-time Scaling

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arXiv:2605.14186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often expose useful signals of self-monitoring: before solving a problem, they can estimate whether they are likely to succ

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LLMs learn scientific taste from institutional traces across the social sciences

arXiv:2603.16659v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement-learned reasoning has powered recent AI leaps on verifiable tasks, including mathematics, code, and structure prediction. The harder b

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MemEye: A Visual-Centric Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Agent Memory

arXiv:2605.15128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term agent memory is increasingly multimodal, yet existing evaluations rarely test whether agents preserve the visual evidence needed for later r

Proactive Memory for Ad-Hoc Recall over Streaming Dialogues

arXiv:2603.04885v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world dialogue usually unfolds as an infinite stream. It thus requires bounded-state memory mechanisms to operate within an infinite horizon. H

CoT-Guard: Small Models for Strong Monitoring

arXiv:2605.12746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of reasoning models is a promising approach for detecting covert misbehavior (i.e., hidden objectives) in code g