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Weak Segmentation-Guided GAN for~Realistic Color Edition

arXiv:2610.16620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Editing the color of images in a realistic way finds many applications such as changing the perception of an image, data augmentation or film post proce

WeatherBridge: Forecast-Aware Multi-Source Input Adaptation for Pretrained Weather Forecasting Models

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arXiv:2610.14863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven weather forecasting models are commonly trained on ERA5, yet operational deployment must use timely initial states from physics-based numeri

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Web3 x AI Agents: Landscape, Integrations, and Foundational Challenges

arXiv:2508.02773v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The convergence of Web3 technologies and AI agents is a rapidly evolving frontier that is reshaping decentralized ecosystems. This paper prese

WeFair: Fidelity-Aware Alignment from Human Feedback for Personalized Query Rewriting in Short-Video Search

arXiv:2610.16927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-video search requires compact query rewriters that infer personalized intent from brief, ambiguous queries under strict latency constraints. The c

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WeGR: Unified Generative Retrieval for Industrial Search Systems in WeChat

arXiv:2610.16979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for industrial search by unifying candidate generation within an autoregressive framework. Howev

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Weighted Adjoint Matching: Finetuning Flow Matching Models with Time-Dependent Control Cost

arXiv:2610.20035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Weighted Adjoint Matching, a method to finetune a pretrained diffusion or flow matching model given a differentiable reward. We derive it

Weighted Ensemble Sampling for Rare-Event Estimation in Language Models

arXiv:2610.19202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rare but severe failures of large language models can become practically significant at deployment scale. Estimating their probabilities with direct Mon

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What Breaks in Multi-Image Schema Application? Factorial Oracle Interventions Reveal an Instance-Information Bottleneck

arXiv:2610.19611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision-language models can accept multi-image contexts, but aggregate accuracy rarely reveals where a multi-image reasoning pipeline fails. We st

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What Counts as the Same Task? Executable Contracts for Robustness Evaluation of Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2610.14477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robustness tests for tool-using agents often change the agent's environment, for example by hiding a hostile note in an invoice, and then judge the ag

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What Do Foundation Models for Market Microstructure Learn? A Controlled Study with Synthetic Limit Order Books

arXiv:2610.20104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive transformers trained on limit order book (LOB) message streams are increasingly proposed as foundation models for market microstructure.

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What Does Disagreement Mean? A Semantic Identifiability Frontier for Pairwise Preference Learning

arXiv:2610.20450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pairwise comparison data are a standard supervision signal in preference learning, but disagreement in such data can reflect stable latent heterogenei

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What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities

arXiv:2610.19476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training often improves the performance of large audio-language models on audio understanding and reasoning benchmarks. However, these improvemen

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What Happens to the Goal? Distinct Failures of Policy Alignment in Goal Misgeneralization

arXiv:2610.19731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal misgeneralization is a common failure mode in which an agent behaves competently out of distribution but does not pursue the intended goal. However

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What Information Buys in Active Inference

arXiv:2610.19046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information-theoretic exploration is of primary interest in methodological studies of reinforcement learning (RL) and computational cognitive neuroscien

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What Is a Clarification? Estimating Model-Dependent Input Ambiguity

arXiv:2610.20052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ambiguous inputs can admit multiple interpretations, each potentially yielding a different answer. Existing work largely treats this ambiguity as a prop

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What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds

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arXiv:2610.20195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective social interaction requires more than fluent responses: agents must reach plans that fit the participants' needs and circumstances. Existing e

What Matters for World Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models?

arXiv:2610.19825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating world models into Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) has emerged as a promising direction, enabling policies to anticipate future dynami

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What the Machine Invented: Mining New Mathematical Instruments from OpenAI's October 2026 Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

arXiv:2610.17090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On 6 October 2026 OpenAI published an initial 722 AI-written mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 problem families, in the public repository g

What the Model Cannot See: Covert and Provable Text Invisibility in LLMs

arXiv:2610.15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text wrapped in a trigger can be made behaviorally invisible to a language model: omitted from summaries and quotations, ignored in question answering

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What We Talk About When We Talk About LLM Planning: Evidence for Two Distinct Planning Abilities

arXiv:2607.11197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When LLMs exhibit uneven performance across planning tasks, these gaps are often attributed to task difficulty. We argue that this explanation is in

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What You Sign Is Not What You Run: The Verifiability Gap in Quantized LLM Supply Chains

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arXiv:2610.19498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model signing authenticates the full-precision weights W an LLM is released with, yet users run a quantized artifact Q whose producing transformation

When 1+1 Backfires: Rethinking Relevance-Diversity Balancing for Sample-Aware Visual Token Reduction

arXiv:2610.16615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token compression has emerged as a critical technique for reducing the inference cost of Vision-Language Models. Existing methods select tokens b

When a Conceptor Complement Becomes Gain: Operator Geometry and Behavioral Attribution in Language Models

arXiv:2610.16325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a steering intervention changes a language model's behavior, which part of the intervention deserves the credit? We test this question for a target

When Agent Evaluation Becomes Unreliable: An Empirical Study of Oracle Failures and Configuration-Dependent Measurement in an LLM Agent Benchmark

arXiv:2610.16067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent evaluation harnesses are software systems that run test suites, generate inputs, and decide outcomes with test oracles. This paper audits such s

When Agents Commit Too Soon: Diagnosing Premature Commitment in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.22936v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents make early choices about what to search for, which evidence to trust, and what to do next. A wrong early choice can steer ever

When Agents Talk, Secrets Travel: Topology-Driven Leakage and Recipient-Conditioned Sanitization in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2610.16039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems (MALS) introduce a privacy-leakage problem that conventional sensitivity-based defenses miss, since information disclosed to o

When and How Order-Flow Interventions Work After Dealers Adapt

arXiv:2610.18158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dealer agents can settle on persistently wide quotes, raising what customers pay to trade. A venue can route more orders to tighter quotes, but

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When Do Discrete Actions Make Good Continuous Controllers?

arXiv:2610.20429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though modern AI models like LLMs predict discrete tokens, today's robotic foundation models represent actions as continuous vectors. In this paper, we

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When Does Depth Help? Understanding Layerwise Inference in Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.19814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based tabular foundation models (TFMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on small to medium-sized tabular prediction tasks while processi

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When Does Momentum Help in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards?

arXiv:2610.20413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Momentum is a classical tool for accelerating convex optimization and a standard component of modern large language model training. Yet recent empirical

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When Does Task-Aware Imputation Matter? An Analysis of Robustness Under Train-Test Mismatch

arXiv:2610.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Missing data is a pervasive challenge in machine learning, often degrading predictive performance and complicating model deployment. Most existing appro

When Does the Dependency Graph Help Code-to-Architecture Mapping?

arXiv:2610.19769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Architectural technical debt arises when a system's implementation drifts from its inten ded modular decomposition, while the mapping between source f

When Goals Leak Across Relationships: How Cached Goal Representations Shape Cross-Client Decisions

arXiv:2610.17365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents take on more autonomous roles, they may interact with multiple clients and counterparties whose goals and incentives conflict. If an agent

When Is Enough Not Enough? Illusory Completion in Search Agents

arXiv:2602.07549v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In agentic search, an LLM agent searches the web, reads the pages it finds, and decides what to look for next before returning an answer. But

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When Messages Go Wrong: Understanding Communication Faults in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2610.15459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) use specialized agents that exchange messages to accomplish complex tasks. Their reliance on networked protoco

When Non-Adversarial Noise Hurts Learning: Benchmarking Skill Self-Evolution in Agents

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arXiv:2610.19910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly improve by distilling experience into reusable skills, but errors in that experience can persist in learned rul

When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction

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arXiv:2610.20186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills are widely assumed to play a central role in career transitions, motivating their use in career path prediction (CPP) systems. In this work, we c

When Pairwise Preferences Cycle: A Reliability-Anchored Preference Walk for Video GRPO

arXiv:2610.20089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pairwise preference feedback has become a widely adopted supervision signal for reinforcement learning in video generation models, as pairwise compariso

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When Pleasing the User Compromises Care: AI Sycophancy in Caregiver-Mediated Healthcare

arXiv:2610.14360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) alignment often assumes that the user interacting with a model is also the primary beneficiary of its behavior. Yet in many c

When Should Enterprise Policy Decisions Be Learned, and When Should They Be Reasoned?

arXiv:2610.17643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An enterprise agent that answers under a written policy must choose an action before it says anything: answer, ask for a missing fact, ask for confirmat

When Skills Remain But Access Fails: Factorized Skill Memory for Continual Skill Internalization

arXiv:2610.15492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill internalization aims to convert externally specified procedural skills into persistent model capabilities, allowing language-model agents to execu

Where Do LLM Ensemble Gains Come From? Decomposing Candidate Value, Diversity, and Aggregation

arXiv:2610.18786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM ensemble gains are often measured against a single baseline, but the value attributed to additional candidates can change with the comparison used

Where Polanyi Meets Galois: Tacit Knowing as an Algebro-Deterministic Operation, Toward Re-rooting AI-Generated Science

arXiv:2610.16102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We argue that tacit knowing is better modelled as an operating regime of one memory substrate than as a kind of content. The substrate is VaCoAl, an a

Where Should the Gaussians Go? Reusable Label-Aware Allocation for Budget-Constrained Gaussian Splatting of Cinematic CT

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arXiv:2610.20397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anatomical labels help 3D Gaussian splatting preserve vessels in cinematic renderings of CT, but the representation is still found by optimising each pa

Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.19349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) provides no reward-relative learning signal when all rollouts receive identical rewards. In long-horizon tas

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Which Knowledge Should LLMs Trust? Uncovering a Generalizable Steering Direction Across Knowledge Conflicts

arXiv:2610.20067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently encounter conflicts between internal parametric knowledge and external contextual knowledge, yet the mechanisms

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Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions

arXiv:2610.14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, LLMs select tools from metadata rather than from their implementations. Names and descriptions summarize what a

Who is the 'I' in AI? Establishing Decentralized Identity and Accountability for Autonomous Agents

arXiv:2610.17126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid proliferation of autonomous AI agents in decentralized ecosystems challenges existing identity paradigms. While human identity is traditiona