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POLAR: Ontology-Guided Risk Prevention for Tool-Calling LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.08082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM tool-use agents operate in dynamic environments where many actions carry operational risk. However, most safety mechanisms react only after errors m

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Semantic Behavioral Watermarking: Paraphrase-Robust and Forgery-Resistant Provenance for LLM Agents

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arXiv:2610.08668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Behavioral watermarking embeds an owner identifier in an LLM agent's high-level action choices, giving provenance without touching output tokens. Prio

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Transect: Retaining Observability for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Evaluations

arXiv:2610.08364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI evaluations increasingly use open-ended, agentic, long-horizon tasks whose transcripts can span hundreds of pages of outputs and actions fro

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Is Escalation Worth It? On the Depth of LLM Cascades

arXiv:2605.06350v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM cascades, in which a cheap model defers to an expensive one on low-confidence queries, are widely used to reduce inference cost. Given a pool of

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llm-mistral 0.16

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**llm-mistral 0.16** is a language‑model plugin that provides programmatic access to Mistral models via the official Mistral API. It exposes wrapper functions for sending requests, receiving responses

Proxy Confidence: Auditing Black-Box LLM Agents with a Surrogate's Log-Probabilities

arXiv:2610.03894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A deployed LLM agent emits tool calls, queries, and code that can be silently wrong -- by the time the error surfaces, the action has run. Frontier ch

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RAISED: Self-Distillation for Robustness to Prompt Injection in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.06401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because they must act on untrusted external content. Existing training-ti

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Representational Control over Self-Report & Behavior Coherence in LLM Risk-Taking

arXiv:2610.04125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-report is an appealing low-cost probe of an LLM's dispositions, but recent work finds only selective agreement between what models report and how

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We are releasing the only Western OSS LLM that is competitive with the best Chinese OSS models for coding tasks! Mistral Large 4 preview, AK…

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We are releasing the only Western OSS LLM that is competitive with the best Chinese OSS models for coding tasks! Mistral Large 4 preview, AKA le Chonk 🐈 is SOTA OSS on cyber and human evals. Check 🧵 b

Author Representation Strategies for Zero-Shot Authorship Attribution: A Comparative Study of LLM-Based and Embedding-Based Approaches

arXiv:2610.03531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Authorship Attribution (AA) requires capturing fine-grained stylistic characteristics, making it particularly challenging in zero-shot (ZS) settings whe

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EpiWorld: Grounding LLM Policy Agents in Epidemiological World Models

arXiv:2610.02744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Epidemic intervention policies are textual artefacts that human decision-makers interpret, justify, and revise through natural language, making large la

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Explainable Molecular Structure Inference from GC--MS with Diffusion Models and LLM Reranking

arXiv:2610.03066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GC--EI--MS is an important technique for analyzing volatile and semivolatile compounds in complex samples. However, conventional methods rely heavily

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Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2610.02267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses make many small, typed decisions per task: which model to call, which tool to use, whether retrieved text is relevant, whether an input

GISTBench: Evaluating LLM User Understanding via Evidence-Based Interest Verification

arXiv:2603.29112v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce GISTBench, a benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to understand users from their interaction histories in rec

Great overview of context compression in LLM Agents And one interesting, unexpected finding. If your compaction policy is tuned to cut token…

Great overview of context compression in LLM Agents And one interesting, unexpected finding. If your compaction policy is tuned to cut tokens, it may be making your agent run slower. Great study from

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Hop-Decayed Influence: New Vulnerabilities of Structural Auxiliary Indexing in GraphRAG Pipelines with LLM

arXiv:2610.02373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GraphRAG pipelines construct auxiliary structures during offline indexing--semantic summaries, hierarchical edges, and pre-computed scores--that deter

How Robust Is Multimodal Claim Verification to LLM Rewriting?

arXiv:2610.02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are known to introduce stylistic changes into generated text, yet how these stylistic shifts affect model decisions on scientific tasks remains und

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Tutorials

JOVE: Joint Execution and Verification for Resource-Aware LLM Task Graphs

arXiv:2610.03296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex reasoning queries can be decomposed into directed acyclic task graphs and distributed across heterogeneous LLMs, reducing latency through parall

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LEAP: Learning Efficient Action Proposals For LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.02670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are known to be slow in rollouts. An agent completes a task one step at a time. At each step, it reasons and then chooses an action to exec

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nokia-applied-research/AnyJev: Turn any LLM into a Jev-style decision model

Haven't seen posted here. The research project matters because it proves you can pull trustworthy decisions straight out of an LLM's internal state in a single forward pass (no generation loop, no par

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Source Preference in the Wild: How LLM Agents Favor Items by Source, and How to Reduce It

arXiv:2610.03195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents decide on users' behalf which product to buy, which hotel to book, or which paper to cite, a preference for items from certain sources (th

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Hardware

Yann LeCun's latest talk at ETH Zürich 'You should not work on LLM. At least if you're in academia, you should absolutely not work on LLMs. …

Yann LeCun's latest talk at ETH Zürich 'You should not work on LLM. At least if you're in academia, you should absolutely not work on LLMs. There is nothing you can bring to the table. If you're inter

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A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Personalized Health Checkup Interpretation and Guidance

arXiv:2610.01451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized interpretation of health checkup results requires reasoning across longitudinal records, medical knowledge, lifestyle guidance, and healthc

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An Educator-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for Scaffolded Feedback in Conceptual Database Design

arXiv:2610.00870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an educator-guided LLM pedagogical agent for scaffolded feedback in conceptual database design. Integrated into an entity--relationship diagr

Anyone wonder why americans lag so far behind in the open LLM market?

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I mean , DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax -- the list of Chinese LLM's is such a long freaking list. As American's -- why don't we feel .. a little funny .. about being so far behind? Chinese entrepreneur

Cool eval. Simply ask an LLM “Land or Water?” and give it a latitude and longitude coordinate as text. Ask 16,200 times, plot as image. The …

Cool eval. Simply ask an LLM “Land or Water?” and give it a latitude and longitude coordinate as text. Ask 16,200 times, plot as image. The models know. From compressing the internet. results for all

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Applications

Evaluating LLM-Generated Preference Distributions

arXiv:2610.01000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as probabilistic generators for simulation, synthetic data generation, and decision support in settin

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From Discovery to Decision: Finite-Budget Recoverability in LLM Voting

arXiv:2610.01014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voting over multiple LLM responses is a common primitive in test-time scaling and ensemble inference. Collecting more responses can expand the candidate

Have an LLM Write Your Anomaly Detector: Autonomous Discovery of Compact, Interpretable Detectors for Time Series

arXiv:2610.01223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection trades off predictive accuracy, computational efficiency, and interpretability. We use a large language model not as the

LabBook: Harnessing Experimental History for Efficient LLM-Driven Discovery

arXiv:2610.00675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evolutionary approaches to LLM-driven discovery often generate new programs from a small set of selected ancestors. This keeps contexts manageable but

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Leto: Fast In-Place Recovery for LLM Training on Surviving Hardware

arXiv:2610.00687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hardware-operable failures (HOFs) interrupt large language model (LLM) training but permit recovery on the same hardware without reset, repair, or rep

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TACO: Ternary Absolute-max Column-wise One-sparse Optimizer for LLM Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2610.02199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-parameter fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) incurs substantial optimizer state memory overhead, limiting the model sizes that fit on mode

The First Token Is Not the Verdict: Hidden Costs of Reading LLM Judges Without Generating

arXiv:2610.00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reading an LLM judge's verdict from the logits of its first generated token is cheap, requires no generation, and is exactly what constrained decoding

VERITYGATE: A Four-Gate Schema-Level Faithfulness Framework and Paired Benchmark for Grounded LLM Narrations over Structured Evidence

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arXiv:2610.00833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fluent LLM explanations may not follow the evidence from a structured system. We present VERITYGATE, a four-gate checker for declared evidence IDs, en

What Does a Skill Actually Do? Estimands and Evaluation Validity for Tool and Skill Use in LLM Agents: A Critical Review

arXiv:2609.33153v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reported improvements from tools and reusable skills in large language model agents refer to different comparisons. This critical narrative re

When the AI Leaves the Tailorshop: Measuring What an LLM Advisor Leaves Behind in Complex Problem Solving

arXiv:2610.00163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex problem solving depends on acting effectively and understanding how a system works. AI advice may support these outcomes unequally. Two prereg

Contrastive Representation Shaping for LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2601.22028v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most LLM unlearning methods aim to approximate retrain-from-scratch behaviors with minimal distribution shift, often via alignment-style objectives

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LEARN-TS: LLM-Enhanced Alignment and Reconstruction with Normality Guidance for Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2609.38789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstruction errors in multivariate time-series anomaly detection may not reliably distinguish abnormal behavior from benign deviations. Language-deri

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Applications

Learning What to Forget: Distributional Unlearning for LLM Representation Spaces

arXiv:2609.38929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning systems increasingly face the need to remove the influence of entire data domains, such as toxic language, harmful behavior, or topical

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Persistent Context Graphs for Efficient Memory Compaction in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.40118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM capabilities advance, agents are tackling increasingly complex tasks over longer horizons. Their growing interaction histories make memory compac

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PrivMeSA: Privacy-Aware Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Medicine via Local-Remote LLM Collaboration

arXiv:2609.38458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical large language model (LLM) agents deployed locally can consult more capable remote models, but doing so risks exposing patient information. Pri

Stress-Testing LLM Lie Detectors: Role-Play Failures and Spurious Correlations

arXiv:2609.39807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lie detection probes aim to predict from a language model's internal states whether its output is truthful or dishonest. However, role-play complicate

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Structure vs. Chain-of-Thought: Evaluating LLM Criteria Extraction for Depression Severity

arXiv:2609.39049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A large language model (LLM) can rate depression severity directly from a social media post or mark which clinical criteria the post shows and let cod

The Invisible Language Tax: Token Premiums of French and Regional Languages in 2026 LLM Tokenizers, and a French-Optimized Prototype

arXiv:2609.39001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM services are billed per token and context windows are measured in tokens, yet the number of tokens needed for the same content varies across langu

An Exact Generate - Transform Decomposition of Small-LLM Team Scaling Across Orchestration Architectures

arXiv:2609.36104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replacing one LLM agent with a collaborating team can raise accuracy, but whether scaling the team helps, and which architecture to scale, is unclear. S

Best local LLM for real-time PT-BR voice conversation? (Pipeline help)

Building a local voice chat pipeline: Struggling with fast, natural PT-BR conversation models I'm currently trying to build a local AI voice chat system that can use tools via an LLM. I'm testing tw

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Beyond Sub-Gaussian Detector Scores: Robust Weighted Profile-Loss Change Point Detection for Human-LLM Text Segmentation

arXiv:2609.36888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed human-LLM documents require locating authorship transitions from detector scores whose reliability varies across text units. Existing weighted mea

Concealing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Topology via Phantom Structure Injection

arXiv:2609.37567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driven by the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for collabora