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Trace Evolution Bench: Measuring Whether Agents Improve from Their Own Environment Traces

arXiv:2610.15055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents are usually scored by endpoint Gain: held-out success after an update minus success before. That difference can credit a frozen res

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Trace-to-Architecture: Capability Bottleneck Diagnosis for Harness Revision

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.16725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving an LLM agent requires knowing what to change when it fails. Similar failures can require different fixes, and resolving one problem can expose

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

15 Oct 2026

Agents

TRACER: Trace-Regularized Training Against Indirect Prompt Injection

arXiv:2610.19133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indirect prompt injection uses untrusted retrieved content, tool outputs, or agent messages to override an LLM's intended behavior. We show that defense

agentsarxiv-cs-lg

Tracing Morphology, Semantics, and Divergence in Language Acquisition

arXiv:2610.19041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the dynamics of language acquisition in Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for uncovering how statistical representations evolve in

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Tracking a Small Set of Experts in Online Convex Optimization

arXiv:2610.20416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For the fundamental problem of prediction from expert advice, Freund asked whether one could compete with a comparator that switches k times among only

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Tracking large chemical reaction networks and rare events by neural networks

arXiv:2512.10309v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chemical reaction networks are widely used to model stochastic dynamics in biophysical processes. Their exact probabilistic description via th

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Train to Stitch: Topology-Preserving Regularization for Interoperable Representations

arXiv:2610.19401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large, powerful pre-trained models become more prevalent, there is growing interest in developing methods that allow different neural networks to b

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Tutorials

Trainable at Depth, Solvable at Small Size: What the Loss Surface of a Polynomial Activation Dictates for Designing, Initializing and Training Networks

arXiv:2610.20069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What makes a deep network train, and what shape is its loss surface? We answer both with one construction at two scales: a polynomial activation f (z) =

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Training a Compact, Strong, and Realistic Text-to-Speech Model

arXiv:2610.14776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) systems are conventionally optimized for intelligibility and speaker similarity. However, neither objective captures the prosodic

Tutorials

Training Dynamics of Transformers on Unbounded Inputs: Attention Learning Can Lag Output Layer Learning

arXiv:2610.20337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of transformers is attributed to several factors, including their capacity to express formal languages over variable-length inputs, and abil

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Training Language Models to Fail Gracefully

arXiv:2610.20401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning makes language models better at solving tasks, but the same mechanism also rewards guessing. When success is the only way to earn

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Training LLMs Beyond Next Token Prediction - Filling the Mutual Information Gap

arXiv:2511.00198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive language models are usually trained with next-token prediction under a fixed left-to-right target order. This paper studies tar

Transparency as Answerability: Role-Dependent Information Flow Modeling

arXiv:2610.16887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transparency in AI-supported decision systems is widely required but poorly defined. Existing approaches treat transparency as a property of systems or

Transparent Information Flow Modeling for Role-Aware AI Act Assessment

arXiv:2610.16916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act introduces a structured framework for governing high-risk AI systems, emphasizing transparency, risk ma

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

TRAP: Tool-result Replay Attack for Probing Misbinding in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.16333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents increasingly act through external tools, tool results are no longer simple outputs but execution artifacts that must remain correctly assoc

Tread: A Visuo-Inertial Framework for Terrain and Locomotion Context-Aware Gait-Phase and Speed Estimation in Wearable Robotics

arXiv:2610.19067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A wearable assistive robot must continuously estimate terrain, locomotion mode, gait phase, and walking speed. These quantities are commonly addressed b

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Tree-Structured Synergy of Large Language Models and Bayesian Optimization for Efficient CASH

arXiv:2601.12355v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To lower the expertise barrier in machine learning, the AutoML community has focused on the CASH problem, which jointly automates algorithm selectio

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

TreeFlex: Agents Navigating Their Own Search Trees

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2610.20334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A ReAct-style agent accumulates observations, intermediate results, and failed attempts in a single context. As this context grows, stale and off-path

Local Ai

TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2610.20175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parallel drafters such as DFlash and DSpark reduce proposal latency, but early mismatches limit how much of each block can be accepted. Retaining altern

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

Industry

Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White H

industrythe-verge-ai

Trust Hinders Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

arXiv:2610.15136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust calibration remains the dominant framing of AI-assisted decision making: the goal is to close the gap between perceived and actual trustworthiness

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Applications

Trust in Depth: Giving agents more autonomy without losing control

Enterprise leaders want AI agents to take on more work but don't fully trust them to act correctly every time. Trust in Depth is AWS's layered approach-scope, know, bound, observe, and prove-that lets

applicationsaws-ml-blog

Trustworthy AI Must Account for Interactions

arXiv:2504.07170v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trustworthy AI encompasses many aspirational aspects for aligning AI systems with human values, including fairness, privacy, robustness, explainabil

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Truthful and Expected-Payment-Optimal Model Routing in Graph-Based Agentic Workflows

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2610.19316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assigning routine tasks to cheaper large language model (LLM) providers can reduce generation cost, but switching providers may require processing acc

Applications

TSMC posts strong third-quarter results, but shares drop amid AI selloff

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter, but its shares nevertheless dropped 2%. The dip is tied to a broader selloff in artifi

applicationssiliconangle

Twenty Days Later: A Pre-Registered Test of History-Based Forecasts of Brand Mentions in Gemini Answers

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2610.19608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Counts of which brands a large language model names are useful only if they hold long enough to act on. We test this with a pre-registered replication

Agents

Two Routes to Interoceptive Prioritisation: Dissociating Likelihood Precision and Preference Reweighting in Active Inference

arXiv:2610.18617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An embodied agent must prioritise among competing bodily needs. In active inference, it can respond to an urgent need by increasing the precision of inf

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Local Ai

Two-stage Residual Learning for Modelling Strength-Informed Optimisation of Thermal Systems

arXiv:2610.19539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aggregate performance metrics do not identify local modelling inaccuracies in machine learning (ML) surrogates used for thermal-system optimisation. Thi

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Typed Decision Models on Tabular Data

arXiv:2610.19536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Typed decision models are language models that answer a question with a fixed set of possible answers by returning a probability for each answer instead

researcharxiv-cs-cl

UA-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models on Underwater Acoustic Recognition

arXiv:2610.16942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) are fast becoming a general interface to sound, yet how far their broad pretraining carries into specialized domai

UDHRBench: Benchmarking Human Rights in Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.15179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in contexts requiring adherence to ethical and legal norms, yet their alignment with internationally r

UltraBERT: Beyond the Limit of BERT Pre-Training

arXiv:2610.15028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent bidirectional encoders have been modernized with innovations from causal large language models (LLMs). However, the pretraining recipe itself r

Uncertainty-Driven Self-Play for Robust Multi-Agent Driving Policies

arXiv:2610.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robust driving policies that generalize beyond their training domain remains a central challenge in motion planning. We propose an uncertainty-

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Uncertainty Propagation for Echocardiography Clinical Metric Estimation via Contour Sampling

arXiv:2502.12713v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Echocardiography plays a fundamental role in the extraction of clinical parameters (e.g. left ventricular volume and ejection fraction) required to

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Unconstrained CTI-REALM with Open-Weights

arXiv:2610.14180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organisations that want language-model agents for security work face a choice between open-weight models, which they can run and audit themselves, and f

Uncovering Robustness Weaknesses in LLM Agents via Persona Evolution with Task-Integrity Constraints

arXiv:2610.16155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive-agent evaluations commonly rely on standardized LLM-based user simulators that exhibit broadly cooperative behavior, potentially overlooking

Understanding Unified VLMs: From Attention Probing to Guidance Tuning for Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2610.15227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified vision-language models (VLMs) perform both text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-text (I2T) generation with one shared Transformer backbone, yet how

Unequal Voices: How LLMs Construct Constrained Queer Narratives

arXiv:2507.15585v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One way social groups are marginalized in discourse is that the narratives told about them often default to a narrow, stereotyped range of top

Universal Sample-Based Embeddings of Higher-Order Objects

arXiv:2610.19899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks operate naturally on finite-dimensional vectors, yet many problems require reasoning about higher-order objects such as distributions, f

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Hardware

Unlocking Structured Pruning for Reasoning Language Models via Attention-Preserving MLP Trimming

arXiv:2610.19121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured pruning reduces LLM inference costs by removing model components to produce smaller dense models. However, existing methods can cause reaso

hardwarearxiv-cs-cl

Unlocking Token Rewards via Training-Free Reward Attribution

arXiv:2610.18704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose an extremely efficient, training-free method to extract token-level reward signals directly from an existing deep reward model

Agents

Upstream Influence, Downstream Re-Anchoring in LLM Agent Chains

arXiv:2610.17723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People act on evaluative judgments produced by LLM agents, and in multi-agent systems those judgments pass through several agents before reaching a pers

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Using Evidence-Centered Design to Guide Prompt Engineering in Measurement: An Illustration with Automated Essay Scoring

arXiv:2610.15231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, particularly large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in educational settings for tasks su

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

v0.40.5

model-releasesollama-releases

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. It pairs a 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer mixture

v0.40.5-rc1: New model... (#19030)

model-releasesollama-releases

ci: shorten Windows Vulkan build path Keep the nested shader-generator compiler probes below Windows path limits in checkouts with longer repository names. mlx: fix Nemotron bugs and support global sc

v0.7.0

model-releasesllama-cpp-releases

Overview llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds the LiliCorr speculative decoding technique and MTP for GLM5-Next, a new GPU cache for MoE experts kept in host memory (--moe-cache-mib, up to ~2.2x decode speedup when

Applications

VaryST: Generalizable Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Beyond the Closed-World Setting

arXiv:2610.19813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal forecasting is fundamental to many real-world systems, yet deployment environments are inherently varying: temporal distributions may ev

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Tutorials

VascuSR: Iterative Anatomy-Aware Diffusion for CT Super-Resolution

arXiv:2610.20509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative super-resolution (SR) can recover sharp detail in computed tomography (CT) images from severely downsampled observations, but the missing hig

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv