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Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible

arXiv:2608.08383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering vectors are a lightweight tool for controlling LLM behavior. However, emerging evidence shows that steering vectors can unintentionally comprom

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SkillSentry: Reliable Skill Execution for LLM Agents via Runtime Assurance

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arXiv:2608.09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly equipped with skills to perform complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool use. Although skills provide reusable pr

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Sparse corruption in low-rank matrix inference: the PCA benchmark

arXiv:2511.11927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for extracting a low-rank signal from noisy observations. It is known that applying PCA

Stateful CARS: Exact Cross-History Reuse for Policy-Constrained LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.08282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents face constraints whose meaning changes with observations and prior actions. We study exact sampling from the model dist

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Transformer Explainer: Learning LLM Transformers with Interactive Visual Explanation and Experimentation

arXiv:2408.04619v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Transformer architecture underpins modern large language models powering state-of-the-art text generation and AI applications. However, it

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TREAT: Evaluating Access to Formal Knowledge across Equivalent Mathematical Representations

arXiv:2608.07540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly operate between flexible input representations and formal objects used by downstream tools. A key challenge is recognizing when

TSPORec: Token Selection via Preference Optimization for LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2608.09605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for improving recommendation systems. The effectiveness of LLMs arises from their ability

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Two-Layer Linear Auto-Regressive Models Estimate Latent States

arXiv:2606.12691v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto-regressive models have emerged as powerful tools for sequential data, from language to video. Understanding how and why these models lear

When Counterbalancing Hides the Bias: Access-Conditioned Position Lock in Forced-Choice LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2607.10202v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forced-choice probes with counterbalanced orientations are a standard tool for measuring language-model 'value dispositions,' and a concentration/ex

Blind to the Pivotal Vote: Aggregate Independence Metrics Miss Where Verification Actually Helps

arXiv:2608.06940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM judge panels are a standard evaluation tool, but prior work reports highly correlated panel errors: nine judges provide roughly the effective inform

CAi Copilot: Reducing Operational Workload in Molecular Design through Intent-Driven Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2608.06961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-stage molecular design is an iterative process, not just a task of generating molecules. Researchers turn broad goals into design strategies, refi

CAS2UML: A Handwritten Sketch-to-PlantUML Dataset for Class and Activity Diagrams

arXiv:2608.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated UML generation from sketches and images is gaining renewed attention with the rise of large language models and multimodal AI. However, repr

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EpiFlow: A framework for improving the utility of wastewater signals for disease forecasting

arXiv:2608.06671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wastewater-based surveillance is an effective tool for disease monitoring and can provide early warning of outbreaks. Although wastewater viral loads (W

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From Points to Edges: Edge-Conditioned Spectral Operators for Physics-Sensitive PDE Learning

arXiv:2608.06894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators have become a central tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with spectral operators offering efficient global mixing

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HarnessSafe: Evaluating Safety Across Persistent Carriers in Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.06984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern agent harnesses persist state across tasks and sessions through persistent carriers like memory, skills, tools, and shared artifacts. However,

KnifeHunter: Structured Local Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Knife Image Retrieval in Law Enforcement

arXiv:2608.07057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knife-enabled violence presents a major public safety challenge, and law enforcement agencies require scalable tools for catalogue-level knife identific

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Long-Horizon Agent Trajectory Attribution: A Unified Benchmark and Fine-Grained Annotation Framework

arXiv:2608.06909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate through long-horizon trajectories involving user instructions, tool use, external observations, a

Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory

WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

arXiv:2608.06704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delegating a web task involves more than asking a question; it requires transferring a policy: what to verify, how to handle uncertainty, which preferen

Agentic self-driving microscopy benchmarks support qualification but do not necessarily generalize to unseen tasks

arXiv:2608.05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and sync

ChainClaw: A Layered Agent Framework for Reliable On-Chain Execution

arXiv:2608.05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose large language model agents have achieved strong performance on tool-augmented tasks, yet they rely on assumptions break down in blockch

CohortHijack: Robustness of Single Cell Annotation to Companion Cell Removal

arXiv:2608.05900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many single-cell annotation tools refine an initial cell label using nearby cells or cluster-level voting. We study whether this refinement can be manip

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Confidence matters: Leveraging Multi-view Geometric Priors for GS-based Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.06117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a widely-used tool for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering in a sparse representation. Howeve

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DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

arXiv:2608.05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly invoke external tools and interact with real-world systems, unsafe actions may cause irreversible cons

ECG-LENS: Lead-Aware Clinical Context Enriched ECG Report Generation and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely used non-invasive tools for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, but transforming multi-lead ECG recor

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EcoAgent-Bench: Evaluating Economic Decision-Making in Budget-Constrained LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.05519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent benchmarks usually measure task completion and treat resource use as an auxiliary statistic. In deployment, however, the choice among a local look

From Passive Mirrors to Active Agents: Holonic Digital Twins for Physical AI over Networks

arXiv:2608.06227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple sectors, today's AI tools, including deep learning and generative AI, still fail when

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HERALD: Counterfactual Audits and Minimal Repairs for Proof-of-Retrieval Rewards

arXiv:2608.06012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-agent rewards mix answer quality, citation grounding, tool cost, and anti-hacking terms; a high score therefore need not imply that cited evidenc

OmniMech: All-in-one Multimodal Mechanical Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction

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arXiv:2608.05539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) can generate executable CAD programs from images, but existing methods mainly target coarse, general-purpose 3D obj

SkillTrace: Multi-Trace Provenance Auditing for LLM-Agent Skill Reuse

arXiv:2608.05204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-agent ecosystems are rapidly growing around reusable skills: mixed-modality packages of metadata, natural-language instructions, code, tools, refere

SkillTV-Bench: Benchmarking How Well Judges Perform on Skill-Augmented Agentic Execution

arXiv:2608.05573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly execute long-horizon tasks through tool use and environment interaction, shifting evaluation from final-response scoring to veri

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Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Non-Uniform Noise Reduction in MRI Images

arXiv:2501.14198v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings, but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts in

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Tytan: Interactive Neurosymbolic Construction of Analytic Semantic Schemas from Relational Data

arXiv:2608.06331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: From natural-language query interfaces to automated report generation, data analysis tools need a description of the data: the real-world entities it

When Do Prompt-Side Agent Playbooks Transfer? Accuracy, Cost, and Runtime Shift in Agent Deployment

arXiv:2608.05778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt-side playbooks can improve tool-using language agents without retraining, but their portability beyond the source setting is unclear. We study fr

Capability-Gated Planning: Cost-to-Goal Discovery and the Limits of Myopic Experiment Selection

arXiv:2608.05085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Systems that automate scientific discovery must repeatedly decide which experiment to run, which hypothesis to test, which tool to build, and when to

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EvolveNet: Collaborative Harness Evolution for Agent Self-Improvement

arXiv:2608.04968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capabilities of an LLM agent depend not only on its model but on the harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifie

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OmniRouting: A Semantic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Constraint-Aware Spatial Reasoning in PCB Routing

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arXiv:2608.04434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in constraint-aware navigation, maze reasoning, and graph reasoning. However,

Q-CueGraph: Query-Conditioned Visual Evidence Graphs for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.04452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution pixels and crop or zoom tools give multimodal large language models the ability to inspect an image, but they do not provide a reliabl

Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

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arXiv:2608.04828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills, structured documents that specify when to act, which procedure to follow, and which tools

The Neural Echo: A Signal Processing Perspective for Understanding Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.04864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the neural echo as a tool for understanding the behavior of neural networks. It generalizes the model-based concepts of impulse responses

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AI-Assisted Peer Review Across Research Communities: From Reviewer AI Policies to LLM Review Quality

arXiv:2608.03581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-assisted peer review is increasingly discussed and adopted as a tool to support the scientific publishing process, yet there is little systematic u

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Conformal risk control for model-form uncertainty in parametric non-intrusive reduced-order models

arXiv:2608.03360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-intrusive reduced-order models (NIROMs) have become a standard tool for approximating parametric partial differential equations from computer desi

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Formal Verification of Agentic Systems over Operational Data

arXiv:2608.03609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world workflows where they act on persistent operational data.

Hybrid LLM-Augmented Reinforcement Learning Agents for Complex Sequential Decision Tasks

arXiv:2608.03502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool-use, enabling new forms of autonomous agents. Howe

NOMADD: Numerical Optimization of Models Adapting to Data Drift

arXiv:2608.02845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular model performance degrades when feature distributions change over time or the relationship between features and outcome variables change over ti

Robust Biharmonic Skinning Using Geometric Fields

arXiv:2406.00238v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bounded bihramonic weights are a popular tool used to rig and deform characters for animation, to compute reduced-order simulations, and to de

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S^3: Improving Agent Safety through Multi-Stage Defense

arXiv:2608.02683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents rely on multi-stage agentic workflows, with stages such as memory, planning, and tool execution, to accomplish compl

SAT-Edge-Agent: Hardware-in-the-Loop Edge-Agent Orchestration for Onboard Satellite Intelligence

arXiv:2608.03728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Onboard satellite intelligence requires a task layer that translates mission intent into local tool calls, exposes execution state, and returns machine-

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