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Knowledge or Calculator? Decomposing the Skill Premium in Verifiable Financial Agent Workflows

arXiv:2610.03564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial AI agents must do more than retrieve facts: investment workflows require correct quantitative execution, reliable use of procedural resources,

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Student-Guided Teacher Distillation for Efficient LLM Task Routing: Positioning Against Jev-Style System-1 Classifiers

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arXiv:2610.02516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot classifiers are useful for routing user requests to specialized LLM tasks, but scoring every request against a large candidate set is expens

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CommunityKV: Efficient Long-Context Decoding via Graph Partitioning

arXiv:2610.00418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling Transformers to long contexts is constrained by the quadratic cost of self-attention and the linear growth of key-value cache memory transfer. S

ECoMEM: Explicit Concept Memory for Memory-Dependent Robot Control

arXiv:2610.00801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot may lose sight of an object it must later retrieve, need to recall what a person demonstrated earlier, or track which steps of a task it has alr

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Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents

arXiv:2610.00010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language agents increasingly rely on external memory as a frozen world model, yet current memory systems are usually judged only by task su

Memorizon: Training World Models Beyond Their Context Window

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arXiv:2610.00544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming world models should render a place consistently across repeated visits. Directly supervising such revisits requires training samples that capt

Not All Experience Belongs in the Weights: Component Routing for Self-Improving GUI Agents

arXiv:2610.01787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving GUI agents keep the trajectories they produce and return them to the agent, by fine-tuning or by retrieval into the prompt, and studies t

PACE: Provenance-Aware Capability Enforcement for Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.01349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents turn generated text into real side effects, so poisoned tool metadata, retrieved pages, memory, and reusa

Safety in Self-Evolving Agents: A Survey

arXiv:2610.00093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general capabilities, yet their parameters typically remain fixed after deployment, limiting learning from

A Reusable Semantic Web Framework for Evidence-Grounded Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act

arXiv:2609.39537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The EU AI Act (Art. 27) requires deployers of high-risk AI systems to conduct Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIAs) before deployment, yet the

Beyond Rephrasing: Book-Level Organization Improves Synthetic Textbook Data for Mid-Training

arXiv:2607.28109v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic textbook data has improved language model pre-training, but prior work largely treats the benefit as a property of generated content or lo

CARAT: Do Materials LLMs Reason or Recite?

arXiv:2609.38340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a materials LLM answers a question about crystal structure, does it reason from the structure or copy an answer already printed in its input? Accur

Composition, Not Conversation: VLMs Lose the Scene, Not the Thread

arXiv:2609.38368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly reason over visual evidence that is cropped, segmented, retrieved, or revealed over time. Yet most VQA benchm

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D-Scope: Decomposing and Steering Diffusion Transformers with Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.39625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) reveal visual structure in diffusion transformers (DiTs), but interpreting a feature does not establish whether it can be u

EvoDuet: Bilevel Co-Evolution of Web Searching and Task Solving for Scientific Discovery

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arXiv:2609.40340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolutionary search with large language models (LLMs) can stall when progress requires external knowledge the model lacks. Supplying relevant documents

GraphCert: Bootstrap Agentic Graph Reasoning with Certified Evidence Rubrics

arXiv:2609.38798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph agents extend large language models (LLMs) with the ability to actively explore and reason over knowledge graphs through multi-step interactions w

Inline Memory Meets Reusable Skills: Memory-centric Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model

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arXiv:2609.39794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet adapting them to new tasks and domains remai

ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining

arXiv:2603.02767v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield repres

Richard: Voice-First Mobile Interaction for Persistent Tasks

arXiv:2609.39976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile terminals need to provide application and network services while supporting users' control over their attention. We explore voice-first interac

TRACE: Trajectory Selection for Parallel Scaling of Search Agents

arXiv:2609.39912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parallel search may generate a correct answer that final-answer voting fails to select. We formulate this consolidation stage as trajectory selection

What Pretraining and Midtraining Make Learnable from Rewards?

arXiv:2609.38446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A reward can identify a correct answer while leaving the computation needed for new inputs undetermined. We study how pretraining and midtraining supp

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Authority Before Utility: Non-Compensatory Control for Persistent LLM Memory

arXiv:2609.37474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory creates a control problem that retrieval relevance alone does not solve: a memory can remain highly useful after an update, deletion,

Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies

arXiv:2609.38155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Answering questions about long videos often requires connecting events involving the same objects across hours or days. Chronological descriptions and

BITEM at the NTCIR-19 R2C2 Task: Predicting Confidence from Agentic RAG Pipeline Signals

arXiv:2609.37993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The BITEM team entered both subtasks of the NTCIR-19 R2C2 task with a single agentic pipeline, in which a model searches, reads and records evidence o

CADOC: Cache-Aware Dynamic Object Context for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2609.37012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For a long-horizon agent, context is the bottleneck: the history is resent with every request, the window caps task length, and reasoning degrades as th

CounterSteer: Suppressing Indirect Prompt Injection with Activation Steering

arXiv:2609.36570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indirect prompt injection makes an LLM agent treat untrusted retrieved text as instructions. We present CounterSteer, an inference-time defense that s

DiffReID: Discriminative Diffusion Model for Object Re-Identification

arXiv:2609.36894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a fundamental image processing task, object Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve objects across non-overlapping cameras. Recently, with the deve

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EASE: Behavior-Adaptive Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents

arXiv:2609.36746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills provide a lightweight mechanism for self-evolving agents to accumulate reusable procedural knowledge without updating model parameters. How

Multi-Channel Mitigation of Source-Trust Shortcuts in Fact-Checking RL Agents

arXiv:2609.36611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented fact-checkers often receive a reliability label, such as HIGH or LOW trust, for each evidence source. These labels should adjust the

One Geometry, Different Outcomes: Readout-Dependent Effects of the Modality Gap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.36101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models learn shared embedding spaces by aligning matched image-text pairs, yet their representations remain separated by a

RAEGNet: Relation-Aware Evidence Graph Network for Harm-Aware Multimodal Fake News Detection

arXiv:2609.36902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing multimodal fake news detection methods often introduce external information to assist detection. However, most of them rely on entity-level ret

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Before Answering: Evidence Sufficiency under Size-Matched Memory Construction

arXiv:2609.32269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents that answer questions from compressed or retrieved memory must recognize when the evidence a query needs is no longer in memory. Benchmarks for

Byzantine-Robust Federated RAG via Aligned Calibration and Fixed-Membership Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2609.33037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets language models answer questions more accurately by consulting relevant documents. Many valuable collections

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ConRAG: Lightweight inference of multi-hop relations

arXiv:2609.35193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how two entities are connected often requires tracing multi-hop relations across documents to identify intermediate entities and supportin

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CORTEX: A Verified Experience Layer for Generalist Agents

arXiv:2609.33260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent can solve a task today and face the same task under new facts, tools, or governing knowledge tomorrow. Most agent systems can retrieve releva

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CueKFS: Agentic Cue-Driven Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding

arXiv:2609.31873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Keyframe selection (KFS) has long produced compact video summaries for browsing and retrieval, and representative frames for thumbnails. More recently,

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Curating Merchant-Matching Training Data with Two Confidence-Gated Local LLM Judges

arXiv:2609.33878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Merchant matching resolves a noisy payment descriptor to a retrieved merchant entity or returns no match. A key challenge in curating training labels

Kernel-Based Steering of CLIP with Vision-Language Model Preferences

arXiv:2609.32203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) can judge visual similarity, but their judgments are not directly available as compact image embeddings for efficien

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PGL-3D: Towards Progressive Geometric Learning for 3D Visual Query Localization

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arXiv:2609.33558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Visual Query Localization (3DVQL) retrieves the latest contiguous occurrence of a queried object in an RGB--point-cloud sequence and predicts a 9-DoF

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PULSE: Identifying Demonstration-Utility Features with Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.32469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-context learning is highly sensitive to demonstration choice, yet most methods select demonstrations using external query-demonstration similarity.

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RAGWarrant: Evidence-Preserving Governance for RAG Policy Promotion Under Quality, Cost, Latency, and Risk Constraints

arXiv:2609.34179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation systems are extensively instrumented with metrics, benchmarks, traces, and automated judges, but these tools do not dec

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RefineDrive: Reliable Failure-Guided Learning for Vision-Language-Action Driving

arXiv:2609.35078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving rely heavily on successful expert demonstrations, leaving model-specific failures underexploi

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Silent Failures in Agentic Security Evaluation: A Validated Harness for Tool-Call Mediation Under Indirect Prompt Injection

arXiv:2609.32691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents that invoke privileged tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI), in which adversarial instructions embedded in retrieved dat

Simulation-Based Inference for Plate Reverb System Identification

arXiv:2609.35295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We address Task A of the 1st DAFx Parameter Estimation Challenge, which aims to retrieve the physical parameters of a plate model from an impulse resp

Summarize Before Grounding: Query-Guided Chunk Condensation for Long-Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2609.34598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video interval corresponding to a language query. Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) show g

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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

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What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?

arXiv:2606.16353v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Streaming video understanding models must answer queries at any moment during an ongoing stream, using only what they have observed so far and under

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You Only Edit Once: Incentivizing In-Context Capability of LLMs via Local Demonstration Refinement

arXiv:2609.33609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) is crucial for boosting the inference performance of large language models (LLMs). However, the effectiveness of ICL in LLMs i

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