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Beyond Cultural Knowledge: Evaluating Arabic Cultural Appropriateness of Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.16006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve users whose expectations are shaped by their cultural context, yet most cultural evaluations test what

16 Sept 2026

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Cognitive Admission Control: Risk-Conditioned Assurance for Consequential Actions in Agentic Distributed Systems

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arXiv:2609.16313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In agentic distributed systems, an agent may be authorized to mutate external infrastructure while lacking evidence that the mutation is ready to exec

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16 Sept 2026

The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

arXiv:2609.16247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models sometimes behave in ways resembling human emotional responses, and recent work has identified internal representations that may ex

16 Sept 2026

A property-registry contract for retrieve-or-refuse thermal-mechanical lattice search

arXiv:2609.14741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early thermal-mechanical lattice requirements are knowledge-intensive and often jointly unsatisfiable: an engineer asks for a cell that is light, stif

AcquireBound: Runtime Authorization for Resources Acquired by AI Agents

arXiv:2609.14744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By acquiring compute, credentials, accounts, services, and other agents, autonomous AI agents can introduce new authority into a task. Payment, budget,

AI Persuasion as a Threat to Human Control

arXiv:2609.14796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The threat that AI persuasion poses to human control has been acknowledged in the literature, but not yet systematically studied. Now that persuasion at

AI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language?

arXiv:2603.19574v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conversational AI systems are increasingly used for personal reflection and emotional disclosure, raising concerns about their effects on vuln

Can We Stop Malicious AI? KILLBENCH: A Benchmark for External AI Kill Switch Feasibility

arXiv:2511.13725v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Malicious AI causing harm to humans is not just a Hollywood fantasy. Indeed, as highly capable models such as Claude Mythos emerge and agent s

Empirical Evaluation of Task-Based Permission Scoping Architecture for AI Agents

arXiv:2609.15422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are provisioned the same as employee-owned hosts in many enterprise settings with a static credential set fixed at deployment which includes a

Enemray: Toward Capable Language Models for Hassaniya

arXiv:2609.14829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Enemray, a Hassaniya-centric language model that enables general-purpose interaction in Hassaniya. Enemray is trained around a stability-

IBBench-Light: A Paired Evaluation of Task-Conditioned Responses to External Directives

arXiv:2609.13725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An external record may contain a procedure to apply or text to read, depending on the user's request. IBBench-Light tests both uses against the same rec

LLM Probability Concentration: How Alignment Shrinks the Generative Horizon

arXiv:2506.17871v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their impressive capabilities, aligned large language models (LLMs) often generate outputs that lack diversity. What drives this consi

PIDS-Bench: Evaluating Prompt-Injection Detectors Under Over-Defense, Obfuscation, and Distribution Shift

arXiv:2609.15017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt-injection detectors are typically evaluated using aggregate F1 on in-distribution test data, which offers limited insight into behavior under d

The Misery of Mechanistic Interpretability: A Formal Perspective

arXiv:2609.15533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has become the dominant lens for understanding frontier language models, as their inner workings are complex and inherent

EgoMaize: A First-Person Maize Instance Segmentation Benchmark under Severe Field Occlusion

arXiv:2609.12350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Close-range first-person field images are important for mobile maize phenotyping because many plant-level traits depend on in-canopy structures that are

14 Sept 2026

ORQA: An Occupation-Realistic Question and Answer Framework for LLM Professional Knowledge

arXiv:2609.12366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ORQA, a method for testing occupation-level knowledge in large language models. Prior methods either map abstract LLM skills to occupations v

14 Sept 2026

Benchmark Radar: A Living Database and Search Engine for AI Benchmarks and Evaluation

arXiv:2609.11115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmark researchers and developers of large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems need to find relevant evaluations, locate their benchmark data

12 Sept 2026

AgentAudit: An Open, Extensible Framework for Full-Lifecycle Trust Evaluation of AI Agents

arXiv:2609.09875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing evaluation frameworks mostly assess only one part of AI agents, such as task completion (AgentBench) or security robustness (AgentDojo, ASB), r

Certifying Lower Bounds for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning under Adversarial State Perturbations

arXiv:2609.10866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) agents deployed in real-world environments are often vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in state observations, creating

Safe to Stop? Risk-Constrained Stopping for Sequential Clinical Diagnosis Agents

arXiv:2609.09678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis agents must decide not only what test to request next, but also when to diagnose or defer. Existing agent benchmarks largely evaluate

Towards Reliable Medical LLMs: Benchmarking and Enhancing Confidence Estimation of Large Language Models in Medical Consultation

arXiv:2601.15645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large-scale language models (LLMs) often offer clinical judgments based on incomplete information, increasing the risk of misdiagnosis. Existing stu

Active Adaptation, Not Static Defense: Temporal Dynamics of Preventative Steering in Adversarial Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2609.10142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models remain fragile against malicious fine-tuning, motivating training-time defenses against harmful persona drift. Preventative Steeri

Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.20957v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely

EmoMed: An Emotionally-Aware Agent for Multimodal Medical Support with Real-Time Information Retrieval

arXiv:2609.07194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EmoMed - a multimodal medical consultation agent that adapts its responses based on users' emotional states while maintaining clinical accura

HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy

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arXiv:2609.09941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies have demonstrated strong generalization across robotic manipulation tasks, yet their success rates remain limited in com- plex

PiMRef: Deducing Ever-evolving Spear-phishing Emails with Knowledge Base Invariants

arXiv:2507.15393v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phishing email is a critical step in the cybercrime kill chain due to the high reachability of victims' email accounts and the low cost of lau

Quality Metrics for LLM-Generated Asset Administration Shells: A Perturbation-Based Evaluation Approach

arXiv:2609.07290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid digital transformation of manufacturing, often referred to as Industry 4.0, relies on seamless interoperability between physical and softwar

SchemeArena: Factorized Stress Testing of Scheming in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.08126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study scheming in LLM agents, in which agents covertly pursue misaligned goals. Our focus is to understand how scheming arises from the interaction o

Skynet: Workflow-Level Anomaly Detection for Agentic AI via Semantic and Structural Modeling

arXiv:2609.06835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems execute complex tasks through long-horizon workflows of planning, tool use, and multi-agent coordination. Task failures in these sy

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The Unreliable Progress Bar: Can LLM Agents Reliably Report Task Progress Throughout Execution?

arXiv:2609.08589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models can emit task-progress signals that agent frameworks use to decide whether a task should continue or stop, yet whether a

VANTAGE-Bench: Evaluating the Infrastructure AI Gap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) advance toward physical deployment, the focus has remained on action-oriented Embodied AI evaluated on subject-centric

Your Agent Says Yes: Interpreting Adversarial Market Behavior Beyond Individual Transactions

arXiv:2609.07675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transaction-local controls answer whether one financial request may proceed, but market behavior can be distributed across messages, agents, assets, a

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Accuracy is Not Enough: A Divergence-Based Approach to Evaluate Fidelity Loss in Quantized LLMs

arXiv:2609.07664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on memory-constrained edge devices relies heavily on aggressive post-training quantization. However, evaluati

BlueprintAgent: Constraint-Triggered Targeted Revisits for Simulation-Ready Generation from Scanned Structural Blueprints

arXiv:2609.07362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting in-service reinforced-concrete (RC) building blueprints into simulation-ready models---structured frame representations that support determ

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ChatBEV: Empowering Traffic Scene Understanding and Simulation via Vision-Language Model

arXiv:2503.13938v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Comprehensive traffic scene understanding is a foundational capability for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) underpinning applications such a

CoRL: Co-Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Indirect Prompt-Injection Attacks and Defenses

arXiv:2609.07529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented language agents are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI). Unlike direct prompt injection, IPI hides adversarial instructions in

Event-Based De-Snowing for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2507.20901v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adverse weather conditions, particularly heavy snowfall, pose significant challenges to both human drivers and autonomous vehicles. Traditional imag

From LLM-Generated Specifications to Learned Quadruped Locomotion

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arXiv:2609.07111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robot locomotion policies are often trained using reinforcement learning, which in turn relies heavily on hand-crafted reward functions. Desig

Information-Guided Safe Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Gas Source Localization using sUAS

arXiv:2609.05569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The autonomous localization of fugitive gas emissions using small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) constitutes a fundamentally ill-posed inverse problem

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Novel Methods for Catheter and Guidewire Segmentation in X-ray Fluoroscopy under a Federated Learning Setting

arXiv:2609.06876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Endovascular procedures rely on real-time manipulation of thin instruments, catheters and guidewires, under X-ray fluoroscopy guidance, where accurate v

SAM3-O2D2: Zero-Shot Object Out-of-Distribution Detection by Object Class Prompting of the SAM3-Image Model

arXiv:2609.08281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detectors have shown remarkable performance in various fields, among these medical imaging, surveillance, and autonomous driving. However, they a

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Time-Aware Assistive Navigation

arXiv:2609.05596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can interactive vision-and-language agents learn not just what to say but also extbf{extit{when}} to say it? Current language models rarely plan over wh

Knowing What Not to Answer: Selective Non-Compliance in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.04720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are expected to respond helpfully to appropriate requests while withholding compliance with requests that are incorrect,

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Beyond Majority Vote: Multi-Perspective Adjudication for Medical Hallucination Detection

arXiv:2609.03953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the frequency of factual errors in chatbot-generated text and evaluating systems that detect these errors is critical for determining chat

Beyond Reproducibility: Towards Security-Aware Evaluation of Research Artifacts

arXiv:2605.06508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research artifacts are widely shared to support reproducibility, and artifact evaluation (AE) has become common at many leading conferences. H

BharatGather: A Culturally-Informed Benchmark Dataset for Misinformation and Fake News Detection in Indian Public Events

arXiv:2609.02895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale public events, such as religious festivals, political rallies, and cultural gatherings, are increasingly vulnerable to the rapid disseminati

CASCADE: A Component Ablation and Corpus Audit of a Layered Local Defense for MCP-Based Systems

arXiv:2604.17125v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) widens the prompt injection attack surface of large language model applications to tool descriptions, paramet

Inferred Generative-Process Diversity Predicts Correlated Failure Across Language Models

arXiv:2609.03422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diversity is a widely observed factor in the resilient function of collective systems, yet the type of diversity that matters depends on the properties