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When Teachers Mislead: Spurious-Signal-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.03632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals. Recent s

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A False Average: Chain-of-Thought Monitors Collapse Where They Are the Only Defense

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arXiv:2608.00583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is meant to catch the reward hacks that look clean in the actions and betray themselves only in the reasoning. We sh

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4 Aug 2026

A Heuristic Perspective on Debiasing Language Models

arXiv:2608.00622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) often acquire various biases during pre-training and may express them in interactions, potentially causing social harm. Existing m

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A Triple-Robustness Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-Hop Requirements Traceability

arXiv:2608.00705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reported verdicts on GraphRAG versus vector RAG disagree, and the evidence is typically tied to a single corpus, embedder, and judge -- and, we show,

AdvPlan-Bench: Adversarial Evaluation of Structured Plan-Generation Agents

arXiv:2608.00832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured plan-generation agents are often evaluated as if a plan has quality in isolation, yet many realistic planning tasks require asking how a cand

Agentic Graph Token Reasoning

arXiv:2608.00542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphs model relational data throughout science and industry, from citation networks to product co-purchase graphs. Because the nodes of many such graph

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Any House Any Task: Scalable Long-Horizon Planning for Abstract Human Tasks

arXiv:2602.12244v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open world language conditioned task planning is crucial for robots operating in large-scale household environments. While many recent works attempt

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ArabicDialectSafety: A Dialect-Aware Benchmark for Arabic Content Safety Classification

arXiv:2608.01291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ArabicDialectSafety, a human-curated Arabic safety dataset of 25,071 prompts covering six Arabic varieties: Modern Standard Arabic, Syrian, E

Can AI Agents Simulate A/B Test Outcomes? A Validation Framework for Agentic Experimentation

arXiv:2608.02345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A/B testing remains the standard for rolling out new features in the technology industry. Each experiment, however, consumes real traffic, engineering e

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Can Language Models Identify Shadow Trading Targets? An NLP Evaluation of SEC Enforcement Theory

arXiv:2608.01322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shadow trading -- trading in a peer firm's securities on the basis of material nonpublic information (MNPI) about an 'economically linked' company -- is

Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning

arXiv:2606.19625v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-r

Characterizing Treatment-Context Medication Evidence Across Clinic Notes and Structured EHR Medication History

arXiv:2608.01570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinic notes and structured electronic health record (EHR) medication history often contain different medication information. Same-visit disagreement be

DE-NER : Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition via Dialogue Elicitation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.00538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements of zero-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) establish strong baselines by formulating sequence labeling into question answering wher

DeepSurvey-Bench: Evaluating Academic Value of Automatically Generated Scientific Surveys

arXiv:2601.15307v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid development of automated survey generation technology has made it increasingly important to establish a comprehensive benchmark to e

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Dense Language Generation Made Simple: Deterministic, Randomized, and Multi-Order Algorithms

arXiv:2608.01320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language generation in the limit is a theoretical framework for studying how a generator can learn to produce new valid strings from a stream of posit

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Tutorials

DiffPrune: differentiable information throttling for token pruning in vision-language models

arXiv:2608.01985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token pruning reduces the computational cost of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by removing redundant visual tokens. The key is to learn a score th

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Emergence Invariance: From Symbolized Thought to Interface Refinement

arXiv:2608.01548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can be viewed as a formalized subset of thought: a consequence-governed symbolic structure projected from wider situated cognition. Large lan

Geometry-Guided Layerwise FFN Width Allocation in Transformers

arXiv:2608.02064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks (FFNs) account for a large fraction of Transformer parameters, yet their hidden width is usually constant across depth. We ask w

Global Optimization and Inference-Time Region Grafting for Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2608.02353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in agentic workflow optimization automate workflow design through task-specific workflow search or input-conditioned architecture select

HAFI-VLM: A Frequency Perspective for Diagnosing and Enhancing Visual Perception in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.02124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) remain unreliable when predictions require fine-grained visual evidence. We identify a previously overlooked cause: spec

Is LM Studio abandoning their core product?

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Some of you may be aware that a few weeks ago, LM Studio announced a new agent, Bionic. This is pretty much an agentic harness for both local models and paid cloud models. But most aren't aware that L

Just on Time: Token-Level Early Stopping for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2602.11133v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models generate text through iterative refinement, a process that is often computationally inefficient because many tokens

Learning Compositional Meta-Routing for Agentic Workflows: An Executable Benchmark

arXiv:2608.00106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems must decide not only what answer to produce, but which reasoning and execution operations should precede it. A controller may answer dir

LongCat Sparse Attention: Taming the Lightning via Streaming-aware Hierarchical Cross-Layer Indexing

arXiv:2608.01662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) enables efficient long-context modeling through its Lightning Indexer. However, practical deployment remains constrain

Measuring Product Quality Using Images: The CLIP Q-Score and an Application to Real Estate

arXiv:2608.01544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The CLIP Q-score is a novel, safe, fully reproducible, and computationally efficient method for extracting objective product quality metrics from visu

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OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction

arXiv:2608.00721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present OmniAI, an em- bodied aerial agent that s

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Orchestrating Dual-Boundaries: An Arithmetic Intensity Inspired Acceleration Framework for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2511.21759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) have recently gained significant attention for their exceptional performance and inherent potential fo

Local Ai

PatchAlign3D: Local Feature Alignment for Dense 3D Shape Understanding

arXiv:2601.02457v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current foundation models for 3D shapes excel at global tasks (retrieval, classification) but transfer poorly to local part-level reasoning. Recent

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PICTURE: Enhancing Theory-of-Mind in Large Language Models by Revealing, Not Hiding, Characters' Lack of Knowledge

arXiv:2608.01598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulating human-like Theory of Mind (ToM) has been a longstanding problem in natural language processing (NLP). To address this, existing works introdu

PlainMedScale: A Corpus of Multi-Level Simplified Medical Texts in German and English

arXiv:2608.01158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce PlainMedScale, a topic-aligned medical corpus spanning four levels of comprehensibility in German and English, drawn from MSD (professional

Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models

arXiv:2506.07121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deploy

ReasonCast: Towards Explainable Time Series Forecasting with Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most time series (TS) models are specialized for a single task, either understanding (i.e., returning text answers about a TS) or generation (i.e., re

Revisiting Generalization Across Difficulty Levels: It's Not So Easy

arXiv:2511.21692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate how well large language models (LLMs) generalize across different task difficulties, a key question for effective data curation and e

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RH-RAG: Trustworthy Long-Form Generation for Privacy-Constrained Settings

arXiv:2608.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating long-form content from extensive internal reports remains challenging for organizations operating under strict privacy and security constrain

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RING: Retrieval-Internalized Generation for Continual Large-Scale Knowledge Injection

arXiv:2608.01630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factuality but adds latency and engineering overhead at serving time. We propose RING (Retrieval-Internali

RubricReviewer: From Direct Critique to Objective and Comprehensive Rubric-Driven Peer Review

arXiv:2608.00005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peer review at major venues is under unprecedented submission pressure, motivating the use of large language models (LLMs) as review assistants. Existin

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Scoring Rules! Statistical and Strategic Alignment for Text Evaluation Metrics

arXiv:2608.01423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based text evaluation metrics, which are widely used to assess natural language generation systems, score a candidate response by comparing

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ShiJianBench: From Dialogue to Decision for Long-Horizon Evaluation of Investment Advisors

arXiv:2608.01204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational investment advisors influence not only what users know, but also how they make subsequent decisions as market conditions evolve. Existing

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SPARC-Rad: A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Pipeline for Spatial and Anatomical Reasoning in Radiology Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2608.00100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being evaluated for medical imaging, but many available benchmarks emphasize disease classification, repo

Structured Memory for Edge Language Models: Persistent Context and Corpus Retrieval via O(1) SSM State Injection

arXiv:2608.02560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) imposes a prefill cost proportional to retrieved context length, and -- with Transformer backbones -- a KV-cache th

TextNCA: Neural Cellular Automata for Language Modeling via Hierarchical Local Attention

arXiv:2608.02050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can a strictly local, iterated, weight-shared computation primitive support language modelling, and which of those three properties actually drives the

// The confidence cliff in self-improving autoresearch // Autoresearch loops are still quite brittle. Here is a nice paper offering some ins…

// The confidence cliff in self-improving autoresearch // Autoresearch loops are still quite brittle. Here is a nice paper offering some insights into why this might be happening. Self-improving autor

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Think in Sets for Streaming Video Token Compression

arXiv:2608.01169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming VideoLLMs process frames causally while visual tokens grow continuously, making compression essential for controlling prefilling latency and m

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TIDES: A Longitudinal Bilingual Dataset for Modeling Multi-Party Social Dynamics

arXiv:2608.01724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group conversations are fundamental to human collaboration, yet standard large language models (LLMs) still struggle with the complexities of multi-part

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What Could the Agent See at 19:05? Generating Temporal Enterprise Scenarios from Real Research and Replaying Them to Evaluate Agents

arXiv:2608.01042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise AI agents act across many apps whose data changes continuously, so an answer is correct only relative to what data existed and who could se

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When Do Surrogate Updates Improve Decisions? A Local Theory of Trajectory-Wise Transfer

arXiv:2608.01130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A broad range of models face the mismatch where they are updated through trajectory losses but are evaluated by downstream task reward. Here, a trajecto

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Who Belongs in the Eval Set? A Capability-Taxonomy-Driven Pipeline for Curating Regression Eval Sets in Agent-Extensibility Platforms

arXiv:2608.01004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Platform teams hosting agent-extensibility surfaces face a regression-economics paradox: every onboarding customer ships an evaluation set tuned to thei

AgenticRepair: Multi-Faceted Program Context Engineering for Agentic Vulnerability Repair