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Distilled Reinforcement Learning for LLM Post-training

arXiv:2607.17247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training is essential for improving reasoning, adaptation, and alignment. Existing methods mainly follow two p

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Engineering Simplicity: Simple Mechanism Interfaces Steer LLM Agents

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arXiv:2609.36365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can interaction formats and textual scaffolds help large language model (LLM) agents make better decisions, and do better decisions come with better exp

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FOCUS: Training-Free Decision-Preserving Context Compression for LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents accumulate interaction histories that grow linearly with task length, causing quadratic inference cost scaling and performance degradation fr

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Frontier Autolab: Organizational Memory, Adversarial Dissent and Temporal Leakage in Multi-Agent LLM Firms Across Fifty Years of Technological Change

arXiv:2609.36739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly structured like organizations, with roles, critics and shared memory, yet they are evaluated on tasks that la

I built a doctor for local LLM setups: duplicate weights, stale templates, and Ollama silently truncating context

I run local models through Ollama and kept hitting the same quiet problems, so I wrote a scanner for them. llm-doctor checks your model stores (Ollama, LM Studio, Hugging Face, MLX) for duplicate weig

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Imagine3D-LLM: Teaching MLLMs to Imagine 3D Scenes Before Answering

arXiv:2609.38177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning about the 3D world from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While modern MLLMs h

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Learning from Viable Failure Prefixes: Milestone Viability Potential Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents require reinforcement learning methods that can assign credit to intermediate decisions under sparse and delayed rewards. Existi

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LLM unbranding: Erasing Commercial Identity while Preserving Generic Utility

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arXiv:2609.37127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing unbranding as a critical practice to prevent visual logos from acquiring negative connotations is standard in image generation. Large Langu

LLM utility has increased, and deeper understanding to a degree, but I still very much agree with this post from 2020 @GaryMarcus

LLM utility has increased, and deeper understanding to a degree, but I still very much agree with this post from 2020 @GaryMarcus Forgets GPT~3. Real #AI news of 2020 is that @ylecun & Y Bengio have c

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More Programs or More Rolls? Separating Coverage from Specialization in LLM Harnesses

arXiv:2609.35873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated generation of LLM harnesses promises to improve inference through task specialization. Yet additional answer coverage can arise from repeated

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Mubric: Mutation Testing-Guided Rubric Generation for LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2609.37322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based evaluation is widely used to assess LLM-based systems by decomposing response quality into task-specific scoring criteria. However, automat

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OptiCom : A Unified Framework for State-Conditioned Composition in LLM-Driven Optimization

arXiv:2609.37221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to solve complex scientific and practical problems via iterative optimization. However, dynamical

PrivacySkills: How Privacy Guidance Shapes Source Selection in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.35937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While prior work has documented privacy failures in LLM agents, it remains unclear how the presentation of privacy guidance influences their choice of

Prompted Identity Degrades Cooperation in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2609.35928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems increasingly mix models from several providers, yet exposing each agent's underlying model identity to its peers significantly

Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding for Trustworthy LLM-Based Robot Planning

arXiv:2609.37554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in robot navigation, but their outputs may become unreliable when instructio

Routing Should Pay for Itself: Sparse Supervision for Economical LLM Routing

arXiv:2609.37402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing reduces serving cost by assigning each query to an appropriate model while preserving response quality. Learning such

Similarity Is Not Validity: Defending LLM Semantic Caches Against Poisoning

arXiv:2609.35908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic caches reduce LLM serving costs by reusing previously generated answers for semantically similar queries. However, retrieval is based solely

SimpleEvol: An Agent-Loop Framework for LLM-Driven Automated Heuristic Design with Minimal Human Priors

arXiv:2609.37172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automated heuristic design (AHD), enabling iterative generation and refinement of heuris

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Storage Is Not Strategy: State-Conditioned Support Control for LLM Unlearning

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arXiv:2609.37858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many localized large language model (LLM) unlearning methods select a small parameter subset from a localization signal and keep it fixed during optim

ToolFence: Fine-Grained Authorization for Secure Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents remain vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because trusted instructions and untrusted observations share one context, allowi

When Upstream Messages Override Correct Answers: A Controlled Study of Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

arXiv:2609.36855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems rely on message passing among specialized agents to accomplish complex tasks. However, an upstream agent may provide useful info

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Active Causal Discovery Benchmark: Evaluating LLM Agents Under Budgeted Interventions

arXiv:2609.31675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Active Causal Discovery Benchmark (ACDB), an SCM-grounded environment for evaluating whether LLM agents recover causal graph structure

AIM-ZO: Activation-Informed Subspace Maintenance for Zeroth-Order LLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2609.35257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization offers a memory-efficient alternative for LLM fine-tuning by estimating updates only from forward evaluations of perturbe

Be Careful Who You Trust: Coordination Dynamics under Corrupted Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Games

arXiv:2609.31704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as interacting agents, but it remains unclear how robust their coordination is when public communication i

Beyond Token Savings: A Systematic Study of Context Compression in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.32961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents tackle longer tasks, they increasingly compress growing histories of reasoning, actions, and tool outputs. Compression can reduce token us

CoCurve: Cross-Module Co-Pruning Curvature for Structured LLM Pruning

arXiv:2607.17568v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Resource-constrained deployment requires sustaining large language model (LLM) capabilities as models scale under fixed memory and computation budge

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DEALS: Decentralized Expertise-Aware Load Serving for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2609.33768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) have recently emerged as an effective approach for coordinating large language model (LLM)-based agents to solve complex tasks

Does Execution Require Target KV Fidelity? A Mixed-Fidelity KV Runtime for LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.33536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly constrained by the GPU memory consumed by key-value (KV) caches. Existing compression, eviction, and

Frontier Learning: Training LLM Reasoners at the Edge of Capability

arXiv:2609.35426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning-based post-training of Large Language Models (LLM) has been successfully applied to improve their reasoning capabilities. Existin

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Improving the Diversity of LLM Outputs without a Trade-off

arXiv:2609.33038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose DAST (Diversifying Arithmetic Sampling with TokenTour), a method that increases the diversity of LLM outputs without any change to the marg

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Learning Perturbation Robust Policies for LLM Agents with Stable Optimization

arXiv:2609.34064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective post-training paradigm for long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents. However, we find that the

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MASTEST: A LLM-Based Multi-Agent System For Testing RESTful APIs

arXiv:2511.18038v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Testing RESTful API is increasingly complicated but indispensable to quality assurance of cloud-native applications. This paper reports a mult

Measurement Boundaries in LLM Financial Agent Evaluation: Fixed-Tape Execution and Multi-Defect Auditing

arXiv:2609.32379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What controls are needed to interpret execution performance and audit scores in LLM agent evaluations? We study two limits on these interpretations in a

MeqMuon: Matrix-Equilibrating Muon for LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2609.35701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of large language models (LLMs) has been accompanied by continued growth in model size and pretraining costs. Muon offers high accuracy and

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PulseInfer: I/O-Centric Sparse KV Cache Offloading for Efficient Long-Context LLM Decoding

arXiv:2609.34555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context LLM serving is increasingly bottlenecked by decode, where large KV caches limit batch size and underutilize GPUs. Sparse KV cache offloadin

ReScraper: Unified Scraping and Cleaning of Web Data for Effective LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2609.34287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM pretraining corpora are normally cleaned by a stack of hand-written heuristics. A heuristic scraper extracts the main content from HTML, and dozen

Same Winners, Different Success Rates: Evaluating How LLM Agents Recover from Failures

arXiv:2609.34215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating how LLM agents recover from mid-task failures is central to deploying reliable agentic systems. Existing checkpoint-based benchmarks measur

SleuthBench: Benchmarking Statistical LLM Evaluation Using Tabular Hidden Signals

arXiv:2609.34228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating statistical discovery by large language model (LLM) agents requires verifiable analytical ground truth. Establishing such ground truth for re

Spexis: Speculative Lookahead Scheduling for LLM Inference

arXiv:2609.34370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spexis is a multi-GPU LLM inference framework that improves the efficiency of pipeline and tensor parallelism through speculative parallelism. Rather th

TempoKV: Timely Staging of LLM KV Caches for Memory-Semantic Flash

arXiv:2609.35065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reusable prefix key-value (KV) caches can outgrow GPU memory in large language model (LLM) serving. A memory-semantic flash hierarchy offers SSD-backe

Understanding the Synergy between SFT, RLVR, and OPD in LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2609.31900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM post-training composes supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and on-policy distillation (OPD)

Backbone-Adaptive Evidence Routing for Robust Pairwise LLM Judging

arXiv:2609.30751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pairwise language-model judges can gather evidence through direct comparison, reasoning, or reference-based verification, but no single protocol is best

Breaking Homogeneity: Diversifying Persona Sets for Creative LLM Outputs

arXiv:2609.30492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models often produce homogeneous responses to open-ended tasks; such homogeneity can spawn groupthink-the convergence of ideas toward a singu

Containing Behavioral Cascades from Manipulated Claims in LLM-Powered Multi-Robot Systems

arXiv:2609.30523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-robot systems are vulnerable to semantic manipulation: an accepted false world-state claim can trigger a fleet-

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Cost-Aware Best-LLM Identification using Dueling Feedback

arXiv:2609.30360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by the problem of identifying the best model from a collection of large language models (LLMs) with heterogeneous querying costs, we formulat

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Effects of Transcript Compression on LLM-based Medical Misinformation Detection in Japanese YouTube Videos

arXiv:2609.30882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assess long-form medical videos, but their effectiveness may depend on whether transcripts are pro

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Externalized CPDAG Summaries Improve LLM Causal Deduction

arXiv:2609.31071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Corr2Cause asks whether a causal claim holds in every DAG compatible with observed correlations and conditional independencies. We frame this as latent-

HasMem: Hard-Origin Adaptively Softened Memory for Long-Term LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.30797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-based memory and context compression support reuse of past interactions. Resizing continuous memory changes the input to a frozen LLM, coupling cap