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Never Stop Thinking: Continuous-Time Language Agents

arXiv:2609.17416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents built on LLMs follow a rigid listen-think-speak loop that inserts seconds of dead air before every reply. We show that continuous-time cogn

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Nice work from Adobe. It's standard practice to store a fixed reference answer for every eval case. When the underlying data changes daily, …

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Nice work from Adobe. It's standard practice to store a fixed reference answer for every eval case. When the underlying data changes daily, that stored answer goes stale. Adobe researchers write each

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16 Sept 2026

Not Another Text Benchmark: Putting the 'Visual' Back in Visual Question Answering for Large Video Models

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arXiv:2609.17112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large video models have exhibited impressive performance on a wide range of visual question answering tasks, owing to the rise of powerful, pretrained t

SceneBench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding of 3D Scenes

arXiv:2609.16233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current benc

World Model Science: Self-Organized Criticality, Weak Chaos, and Metastable Belief Dynamics in Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.17419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents must maintain task state across extended sequences of observations, actions, tool calls, and intermediate beliefs. We study thes

A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Effective Counter-Narrative Generation and Refinement

arXiv:2609.14178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid diffusion of hate speech and misinformation on social networks challenges democratic societies, since direct suppression efforts may deepen po

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Before You Poll with LLMs: A Deliberative Diagnostic Framework

arXiv:2609.15849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can LLMs reason through new information like humans, or do they merely retrieve cached opinions? This is critical for silicon sampling, where LLM pers

Building Legal Reward Models for Grounding and Abstention

arXiv:2609.14739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in high-stakes domains such as law, where systems must ground their reasoning in retrieved evidence and ab

CiteShade: Citation Laundering in Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Its Counterfactual Defense

arXiv:2609.15660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model's answers on retrieved external knowledge and returns each answer with citations that id

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Cost Characterization of Vertically Partitioned Federated Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2609.13664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graphs are increasingly distributed across autonomous organizations that share an entity space but own disjoint subsets of relations, forming

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CWM: Controllable White-Box Meta-Prompting for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Reasoning Ability

arXiv:2609.15234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention due to their strong language understanding and generation capabilities, demonst

DARE: Dialectical Agentic Reasoning for Structured Knowledge Fact Checking

arXiv:2609.13808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured knowledge fact checking aims to determine the truthfulness of natural language claims by reasoning over structured evidence. Recent program-g

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GraMRAG: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Multi-Step Reasoning via Graph Memory with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although existing multi-agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have demonstrated promise on complex multimodal reasoning tasks, they remai

NoteVQA: Benchmarking VLMs on Real-Life Questions from Human Communities

arXiv:2609.15695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly power consumer-facing AI search, yet evaluating them on the diversity of everyday visual questions remains ch

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Pull: Lazy Materialization of Working Memory for Stateful LLM Conversations

arXiv:2609.14773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM conversations grow to hundreds of turns, full-context injection incurs O(N^2) cumulative token costs, while lossy summarization or hard truncatio

Question's Gambit: The First Move Matters in Agentic Deep Search

arXiv:2609.14412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents answer complex questions through iterative loops of searching, reading, and reasoning. Recent work on reasoning-intensive benchmark

Recurrent GraphNeural NetworkswithSet-BasedAggregation

arXiv:2609.15932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent GNNs iterate message passing to convergence, and their logical characterizations to date rely on multi-set aggregation, graded (counting) logi

Route, Don't Fix: Regime-Dependent Decoding Correction and a Trajectory-Gated Router for Reliable Clinical LLM Answer Selection

arXiv:2609.14825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often deemed unsafe for clinical question answering because of their tendency to hallucinate. Retrieval augmentation,

TriCalRAG: A Three-Strategy, Retrieval-Augmented Benchmark for On-Premise LLM-Based Root Cause Analysis in AIOps

arXiv:2609.14762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for root cause analysis (RCA) in AIOps pipelines, but they introduce data privacy risk

Verifiable by Construction: Claim-Level Evaluation of Verbatim Citation in Clinical Question Answering

arXiv:2609.15964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted for clinical question answering (QA). Current systems can attach citations to their answers, but t

HypoKG: Evidence-Disciplined Biomedical Hypothesis Generation Beyond Endpoint Knowledge

arXiv:2609.12260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate biomedical hypotheses, but it remains unclear whether they truly reason from scientific evidence or simply pro

14 Sept 2026

LifeMem: Enabling Lifelong Experience Reuse for LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.12655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are expected to continuously adapt to new tasks and environments over their lifetime by reusing past experience. However, ex

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14 Sept 2026

Tasks over Application Manuals: Revealing Gaps in Long-Horizon Procedural Reasoning for Language Models

arXiv:2609.13005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, and recent benchmarks suggest that they are inc

14 Sept 2026

Sci-MMR: Benchmarking Multi-Step Evidence-Grounded Scientific Reasoning in Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2609.11243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents are increasingly expected to search the literature, analyze experimental evidence, and generate scientific hypotheses. These

12 Sept 2026

RAG-Safety-Bench: Reliable Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented LLM Safety

arXiv:2609.11758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Allowing large language models (LLMs) to retrieve information from a set of trusted documents can increase reliability and reduce hallucination. However

11 Sept 2026

V-Retrver: Evidence-Driven Agentic Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2602.06034v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently been applied to universal multimodal retrieval, where Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improv

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11 Sept 2026

What Should an Agent Forget? Separating What Is Stored from What Is Used

arXiv:2609.10263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent language agents need stored experience to remain available across time, while each answer requires evidence suited to a particular question.

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11 Sept 2026

A Hierarchical Consistency Framework for Auditing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

arXiv:2609.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is commonly evaluated by whether the final answer is correct. That test is insufficient: an answer can match its re

Beyond Retrieval: Joint Supervision and Multimodal Document Ranking for Textbook Question Answering

arXiv:2505.13520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Textbook question answering (TQA) is a complex task, requiring the interpretation of complex multimodal context. Although recent advances have

Do Web Agents Investigate Before They Decide?

arXiv:2602.05354v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous web agents are increasingly deployed in moderation and policy enforcement, where correct decisions often depend on evidence that is not i

Evaluating the Scalability and Adversarial Generalization of GRPO-Trained NLI Models

arXiv:2504.18376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a central task in natural language understanding with applications in fact-checking, question answering, a

Evidence-Grounded Retrieval for Investigation Hunt Lead Generation from CTI Reports

arXiv:2609.08790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Threat hunting increasingly depends on converting unstructured knowledge (e.g., Cyber Threat Intelligence reports) into actionable hunt leads: concise

LogicSkills: A Structured Benchmark for Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.06533v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models perform well on many logical reasoning benchmarks, but it remains unclear which core logical skills they truly master. To addr

Hardware

RAGMark: A Comprehensive Framework for Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU environ

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Reproducing Omitted Temporal Expressions in Japanese News for Retrieval-Augmented Applications

arXiv:2609.09569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: News articles often contain omitted temporal expressions, such as day-only or month-only mentions, which must be interpreted with reference to the publi

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This is a brilliant paper. It's of the cleanest long-context agent designs I have seen in the past couple of months. Sequential memory agent…

This is a brilliant paper. It's of the cleanest long-context agent designs I have seen in the past couple of months. Sequential memory agents read chunks one after another while maintaining a compact

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Eliciting Self-Verification in Multimodal Reasoning Agents with Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2609.08025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning agents increasingly rely on external tools such as web search to answer complex queries. Reinforcement learning (RL) finetuning algorithms s

9 Sept 2026

GraphFAS: A Distributed System for Automated Graph Feature Generation and Selection in Industrial Transaction Networks

arXiv:2609.08970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial fraud detection often relies on costly expert-crafted features that overlook graph-structured relational signals, while GNNs often do not mee

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9 Sept 2026

Applications

HOPE: Heterophily-Aware Open-Set Node Classification with Pseudo-Extrapolation

arXiv:2609.08685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard open-set node classification methods rely on the homophily assumption, where connected nodes share labels. However, real-world graphs are often

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9 Sept 2026

CAGE: Coherence-Aware Graph Encoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.04647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems score each passage independently against the query, assembling context sets that may be individ

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Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

arXiv:2609.04304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two search agents trained at the 35B-A3B and 397B-A17B scales, together with the data pipeline and training recipe be

NS-ST-GraphRAG: Neuro-Symbolic Spatio-Temporal GraphRAG for Literary Knowledge Processing

arXiv:2609.05139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-form literary narratives pose a distinctive information-processing challenge for retrieval-augmented generation: relevant evidence is distributed a

Reservoir-Based Graph Convolutional Networks

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arXiv:2603.24131v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Message passing is a core mechanism in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the iterative update of node embeddings by aggregating informati

KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records

arXiv:2609.03597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Land ownership in Bangladesh is recorded in Ana-Ganda-Kora-Kranti-Til, a base-16 positional fraction system with dedicated Unicode glyphs, no mainstream

PACE: Towards Surfacing Hidden Conflicts in User Requests

arXiv:2609.03293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized assistants should not only comply with user requests but also assess whether those requests are appropriate given the user's current circum

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Rent-a-RAG: Embedding-Space Watermarks for Auditing Third-Party RAG

arXiv:2609.03749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Third-party retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) marketplaces create a new auditing problem: data providers may license corpora to a RAG operator, yet

The Head Complexity of Boolean Functions in Single-Layer Attention

arXiv:2609.04046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What can a single layer of self-attention compute? We study head complexity: the minimum number of attention heads required to compute a function in a

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Bridging Latent Reasoning and Target-Language Generation via Retrieval-Transition Heads

arXiv:2602.22453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has identified a subset of attention heads in Transformer as retrieval heads, which are responsible for retrieving information from the