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Task Specialization Fine-Tuning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.17180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contextual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) seeks to generalize classical RL by maximizing task coverage across a context space of related tasks. While pr

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The Plot Thins: Uniformity and Linearity in Literary Summaries

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arXiv:2608.17218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Works of literature are complicated; they balance plot, suspense, surprise, and artistic expression. Summaries of literature prioritize plot, and theref

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Toward Personal Intelligence Through Cooperative Observation

arXiv:2608.17128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A personal AI system needs a model of the user's goals, constraints, and ongoing commitments to plan and act on their behalf, and the quality of that mo

Towards Safer RAG: Only Agents Capable of System 2 Thinking may Access Untrusted Documents

arXiv:2608.17153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet these systems remain vulnerable to

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Wasted large language models: A life cycle thinking approach

arXiv:2608.17055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are machine learning (ML) models that have an increasingly large carbon footprint through their development and use. Effo

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When More Foundation Models Means Less: Diagnosing and Addressing Multi-View Fusion Failure

arXiv:2608.17490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model hubs turn multi-view fusion into a selection problem: from a large heterogeneous encoder pool, which views should be fused, and how man

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When Writing Style Drifts: Benchmarking Authorship Verification under Distribution Shifts in Genre, Time and the AI-Era

arXiv:2608.17979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Authorship verification (AV) assumes that an author's writing style remains sufficiently stable to distinguish it from that of other writers. In practic

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Where A Small Language Model Helps in Invoice Categorisation, Understood Through Embedding Geometry

arXiv:2608.18033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Categorising invoices into the correct General Ledger (GL) code underpins financial reporting and tax compliance. This is a skilled accounting judgeme

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A validity-guided workflow for robust large language model research in psychology

arXiv:2507.04491v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into psychological and behavioral research as research tools, evaluation targets, hu

Agent-Native Telemetry: Verifiable State-Delta Evidence for Autonomous Operations

arXiv:2608.16178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational telemetry is predominantly engineered for human reading: systems repeatedly serialize verbose prose, static keys, and redundant context ac

Agentic Test-Time Scaling for WebAgents

arXiv:2602.12276v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time scaling has become a standard way to improve performance and boost reliability of neural network models. However, its behavior on agentic,

Architecture-Dependent Causal Transfer of Activation States Across Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.16347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct communication between AI systems relies on natural language as an intermediate layer, incurring encoding/decoding overhead, token cost, and laten

AudioTQ: A Data-Oblivious 6-Bit CPU Audio Codec via Randomized Hadamard Rotation and Lloyd-Max Quantization

arXiv:2608.15369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lossy audio compression algorithms traditionally rely on psychoacoustic modeling and frequency-domain representations (e.g., MP3, AAC, and Opus) to di

Automating the Detection of Requirement Dependencies Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.22456v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Requirements are inherently interconnected through various types of dependencies. Identifying these dependencies is essential, as they underpi

Beyond Correctness: Toward Automated Novelty Verification with Lean 4

arXiv:2608.14669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems applied to mathematics verify correctness but not novelty: an automatically generated theorem can compile in Lean withou

Closing the Affective Loop: Multimodal Speaker-Listener Emotion-Dynamics-Aware Empathetic Social Robots

arXiv:2608.16686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic social robots should respond not only to what users say, but also to how their emotions dynamically evolve during interaction. However, exi

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DeMTS: Denoising Trajectories as Multivariate Time Series for Hallucination Detection in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2608.14632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (D-LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for text generation. However, similar to autoregressive LLMs, D-LLMs rem

Discrete Diffusion Language Models Are Training-Free Multi-Label Classifiers

arXiv:2608.14649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present dLLM-SetScore, a training-free method that uses discrete masked-diffusion language models for multi-label text classification. For each candi

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Do Uncertainty Signals Help? A Systematic Study of Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Rollback Mechanisms

arXiv:2608.14653v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prediction uncertainty is a widely adopted metric for quantifying model confidence, with downstream applications spanning model explanation, data sele

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Domain Agnostic Text Redaction from Natural Language Rules using Instruction Tuning

arXiv:2608.14693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the increasing digitization of personal and corporate communication, the automatic sanitization of textual data has become a crucial component of

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Don't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory

arXiv:2608.16889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation chains many contact-rich skills into one multi-stage task. Vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly master the

DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving LLaMA-70B on $60 GPUs

arXiv:2608.14614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI datacenters retire functional GPUs, vast quantities of still capable accelerators enter secondary markets. This paper investigates whether these

DuplexGen: Decoupling Content, Timing, and Acoustics for Synthetic Dialogue Speech

arXiv:2608.16053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic conversational speech has become an important resource for developing and evaluating conversational speech systems. However, existing dialogue

Evidence of conceptual mastery in the application of rules by Large Language Models

arXiv:2503.00992v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper we leverage psychological methods to investigate LLMs' conceptual mastery in applying rules. We introduce a novel procedure to match t

From Prompts to Constructs: A Dual-Validity Framework for Large Language Model Research in Psychology

arXiv:2506.16697v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are entering psychological research both as tools and as objects of inquiry. Yet many studies apply human instrum

Generated Context versus Governed State: Functional Conditions for Accountable Longitudinal Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.14804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become the dominant interface of clinical artificial intelligence, yet the interface they expose (text in, text out, o

Global Simulation-Guided Dynamic Operator Scheduling for Efficient Multi-Tenant Model Serving

arXiv:2608.15762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Container-granularity scheduling leaves abundant short-lived idle slices within containers unexploited. Reallocating containers is too heavyweight to

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GoalEvolve: From Handcrafted Algorithm Priors to Goal-Driven Evolution of Physical Design Algorithms

arXiv:2608.16733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical design algorithms operate within tightly coupled, multi-stage optimization flows, where stage-local gains may vanish or induce downstream deg

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Handoff-H1: An Orchestrated Vision-Agent System for Material Quantity Takeoff from Construction Blueprints

arXiv:2608.15032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting a set of architectural blueprints into a complete material quantity takeoff requires visual perception across drawing sheets, dimensional a

HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds

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arXiv:2608.16859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A benchmark should deliver more than a scalar score: what makes an evaluation trustworthy is the reasoning that justifies the score. This is especially

In-Context Source and Channel Coding

arXiv:2601.10267v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) remains attractive for text transmission due to its modularity and compatibility with mature entropy coders an

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Inference-Time Mitigation of Adversarial Political Bias in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.14629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become the mainstay for information retrieval and summarization tasks, ensuring that they are always non-partisan and

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Large Discovery Models: Empirically-grounded Model-Based Open-Ended Search

arXiv:2608.15669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery often involves optimising expensive-to-evaluate objectives over vast, structured, and open-ended hypothesis spaces, such as molecul

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Large language model-assisted discovery of cohorts from scientific literature

arXiv:2608.15909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Planning multi-study analyses requires identifying cohorts with the relevant participants, phenotypes, and data modalities. This process c

Large Language Models and their Awareness of Mechanics and Spatial Geometry

arXiv:2608.14615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on established code-generation and mathematical-reasoning benchmarks, but their capabilities in mechanics and

Large Language Models Show Metacognitive Sensitivity in Medical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.14552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated and used in medicine, but clinical usefulness depends on answer accuracy and whether confidence

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Local AI pre-screening for human triple-blind peer review in health sciences

arXiv:2608.14625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Academic peer review is under mounting strain: NeurIPS 2025 received 21,575 submissions, ICLR 2025 received 11,603, and ICML 2025 received 12,107. Thi

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MAPLE: MoE Adaptive Plug-and-play Layer-wise Expert allocation

arXiv:2608.15299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparsely-activated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformers universally fix the same number of routed experts across all layers, a convention that ignore

Measuring Reward Hacking and Reasoning-Answer Decoupling Under Position-Confounded Optimization

arXiv:2608.15445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a reward is correct on every training example yet consistent with more than one goal, a model can acquire an unintended one, a failure known as goa

MegaParts: Scaling Part-Aware 3D Object Generation to 300 Parts via Token-Efficient Autoregressive Modeling

arXiv:2608.14783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-aware 3D object generation is essential for graphics applications such as controllable modeling, editing, and articulation, where objects are repre

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Navigation-Informed Embeddings: Dense-Retriever Adaptation from Agent Search Traces

arXiv:2608.15956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval workflows produce query, retrieval, and stopping traces as a byproduct of answering questions. We study how these traces can adapt a d

No Task Fails Every Time: Why One-Shot Audits Are Structurally Blind to Agent Damage

arXiv:2608.15286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce AgentRelBench, an environment-agnostic reliability instrument that computes ground-truth, severity-priced damage from database state diff

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PolyDebate: A Game-Orchestrated Multimodal System for Debate Skills Practice and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.16276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Debate is a structured form of persuasive communication that trains argument construction, rebuttal, oral delivery, and audience awareness. These skil

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PWLR: Pairwise Witness Local Rejection for Boundary-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection

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arXiv:2608.15802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains challenging for image classifiers, especially when near-OOD samples lie close to in-distribution (ID) class

ReRef-3D: A Benchmark for Spatial Referring Expression-Guided 3D Scene Rearrangement

arXiv:2608.16011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ReRef-3D, a benchmark for language-guided placement in 3D scenes. It contains 33,826 instructions across 998 CLEVR-derived scenes, spanning

Skill2Query: Exploiting Skill Structure to Generate Pseudo-Queries for Agent Skill Retrieval

arXiv:2608.16071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pseudo-query generation can alleviate the supervision bottleneck for agent skill retrieval, but existing document-level approaches typically leave the r

SkillComposer: Learning Reusable Skills for Natural-Language Robot Programming

arXiv:2608.14944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when users request complex tasks. While large l

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SoftModel: A Neural Model That Grows Its Own Topology -- Governed Structural Growth for Continual In-Service Learning

arXiv:2608.16409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today, a neural system is almost always used in two phases -- trained, then deployed -- and in that regime it freezes twice: training ends, and the topo

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