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Judges Follow the Reference: The Derivation Gap in Verifying Tool-Call Arguments

arXiv:2610.18497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-call judges evaluate argument values proposed by LLM agents. We find that they accept a correct value less often when their input holds no referenc

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Limits of Statistical Assurance for Embodied and Agentic AI under Adaptive Adversaries

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arXiv:2610.18948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finite safety assessments cannot exclude an adversary that preserves unattacked behavior until certification and activates afterward. We characterize

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15 Oct 2026

Long-Horizon RL Needs Muon

arXiv:2610.20256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents must coordinate reasoning, tool use, and environment feedback over extended interactions. Learning from sparse outcome rewards requi

Many Steps into One: Reasoning Contraction and the Limits of Safe Memory Reuse for LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.17544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thought templates, skill libraries, agent memories and caches turn many reasoning steps into one. We call this reasoning contraction. A contracted mem

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SkillHorizon: Constructing Long-Horizon Agent Tasks through Skill Composition

arXiv:2610.14966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents must complete workflows in which later activities depend on earlier outputs and changes to shared state. A key challenge for evaluat

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

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

Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions

arXiv:2610.14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, LLMs select tools from metadata rather than from their implementations. Names and descriptions summarize what a

Context-Aware Precision Scheduling for Small Language Models

arXiv:2610.15640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) used as on-device agents must balance accuracy and latency as their context grows. Mixed precision helps manage this tradeo

EvoSpatial: Experience-Driven Skill and Tool Evolution for Spatial Reasoning Agents

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arXiv:2610.16679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language agents compose perception and measurement to reason about spatial relationships, but effective execution also requires tr

FRACTION: Fraud Explanation Generation via Agentic Graph Context Navigation

arXiv:2610.18023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph fraud explanation generation emerges as an important task, which requires jointly leveraging graph structure and content information to produce hu

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GIFT-Eval-CTX: A Benchmark For Contextual Forecasting Model Evaluation

arXiv:2610.17794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual forecasting seeks to improve time series forecasting by incorporating forward-looking information, such as planned events, external condition

Pixels or Code? Benchmarking Instruction-Guided Visual Artifact Operation

arXiv:2610.16444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual artifacts such as charts, technical diagrams, webpages, and document pages underpin scientific, commercial, and engineering workflows. Editing th

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Research

SemTree: Judge-Aware Semantic Decision Trees for Inspectable and Repairable Rule Decisions

arXiv:2610.13999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rule decisions such as content moderation, advertising compliance, and eligibility checks combine several conditions, exemptions, and missing-informatio

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Tev: Scaling Long-Horizon Agentic Environments with Dense Progress Rewards

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arXiv:2610.18868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a cap

Unfair and Unsafe: Everyday Bias Triggers Emergent Misalignment

arXiv:2610.15961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergent misalignment (EM) occurs when fine-tuning a language model to a narrow task makes it misaligned on unrelated ones. Because organizations now

Urbex: Agentic Spatial Grounding for City-Scale 3D Scenes

arXiv:2610.18356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: City-scale 3D grounding is commonly formulated as candidate ranking, which requires precomputed instance proposals and becomes inefficient in large outd

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LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B

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Gguf's: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-GGUF Free Demo: https://playground.liquid.ai 'LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a 24B-parameter reasoning model with only 2B active parameters, built for fast, p

13 Oct 2026

How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents

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At AI Engineer New York 2026, Anthropic introduced **dynamic workflows** (also called “flows”), a new type of multi‑agent orchestration designed for large, ambitious workloads using Claude Managed Age

How distributed inference keeps large AI models moving

Distributed inference splits a large AI model into sub‑components that run concurrently on multiple compute nodes, allowing each node to process only part of the workload. This parallelism boosts thro

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Nice paper on optimizing agents and their graders together. The key finding is that you want to update your LLM grader alongside the agent i…

Nice paper on optimizing agents and their graders together. The key finding is that you want to update your LLM grader alongside the agent instead of keeping it fixed, because the agent's failure mode

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Rollout-Time Intervention: Unlocking Agentic Reinforcement Learning Beyond Policy Limits

arXiv:2610.13438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key paradigm for improving large language model (LLM) agents, enabling stronger reasoning, planning, and to

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SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales Agents

arXiv:2610.12975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SmartSalesBench, the first multi-turn conversational benchmark explicitly designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) sales agents agains

VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails

arXiv:2610.12813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and secur

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Web$hell: A Unified Interface for Agentic Web Access

arXiv:2610.13416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming direct users of the open web. As they take on increasingly complex and information-intensive tasks, effec

When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks

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arXiv:2610.12823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents increasingly browse, interpret, and act on web content on behalf of users. In many realistic workflows, however, the visual evidence they con

X-AgentRed: Red-Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi-Service Ecosystems

arXiv:2610.13886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal agents increasingly connect to services across the web and applications by using tools. As the effects of their actions accumulate and interact

AgentHorizon: Evaluating Agentic Judges for Long-Horizon Computer-Use Tasks

arXiv:2610.11050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents are capable of completing complex tasks, increasing the use of automatic judges to determine success, either for training or for eva

DataSense-Bench: The First Step Toward an AI Scientist

arXiv:2610.12190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As claims about recursive self-improvement (RSI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI) proliferate, we ask a simple question: do frontier AI models

Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration

arXiv:2610.12470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods pre

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From Investigation Failures to Reliable SOC Agents: Understanding and Improving LLM-Based Alert Triage

arXiv:2610.10608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security operations centers (SOCs) must triage large volumes of alerts, most of which are benign, while missed attacks can remain uninvestigated. Tool

When Interfaces Speak: Data-Aware Generative UI Harness for Active Interaction

arXiv:2610.11123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most human-agent interaction today remains text-based. Natural language can impose cognitive overload, ambiguity, information chaos, and slow input for

From Expert-Guided Proof Search to Automated Open-Problem Solving

arXiv:2610.09769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly contributing to mathematical research, where progress often depends on efficient proof search, incremental impr

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8 Oct 2026

AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model

arXiv:2610.08773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents complete user requests by reading and acting on pages that third parties write, so an instruction planted on a page can redirect the agent

FC-SWE: Failure-Conditioned RL for Long-Horizon Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2610.07898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level software engineering (SWE) is a challenging long-horizon setting: agents must reason over extended interactions, use tools, and adapt t

RA-MoWE: Workflow-Affinity Embeddings for Query Clustering and Agentic Workflow Generation

arXiv:2610.07851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic workflows enable large language models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks by coordinating reasoning, tool use, and verification. However, a workflow

Understanding and Mitigating Inference-Time Overreliance Using Agentic Memory

arXiv:2610.07311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic memory allows LLM agents to reuse past experience, yet retrieved memories can also distort inference even when they are benign, correctly stored

Visual Orchestration Tax in Agentic VLM Pipelines: Auditing and Certifying Visual Evidence Reuse

arXiv:2610.08170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic VLM pipelines increasingly pass the same static visual evidence through multiple specialist agents and tools. This design creates an orchestra

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When Agent Context Goes Stale: Incoherence in Volatile Agent Context

arXiv:2610.05281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern agents increasingly ground their reasoning in observations returned by tools, such as file contents read from a workspace. However, the data

ANT: A Multi-Granularity Network Traffic Dataset and Benchmark for Agents Behavior Auditing

arXiv:2610.06514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing adoption of large language model (LLM) agents creates a need for network administrators and security teams to audit agent behavior within

Disentangling Task Difficulty from Run-Level Failure in Agent Failure Prediction

arXiv:2610.05572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting whether an LLM agent will fail has emerged as a promising direction for supporting intervention during execution. Recent approaches report st

DUET: Co-Evolving Solver and Grader Agents

arXiv:2610.04087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic workflows are increasingly used across domains such as technology, finance, and enterprise operations. As these agents become more widely deploy

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G-CARB: Graph-Localized Conformal Agent Risk Budget for Compositional Harm

arXiv:2610.05563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language model (SLM) agents need safety controls that track consequences across tool calls with little monitoring overhead. A private read, for

Monitorability Disposition in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2610.04914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of large reasoning models (LRMs) is a common way to detect misbehavior in real-world practice. However, current

MultiLoc: Look Around As You Localize for Fast And Robust Visual Re-localization

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arXiv:2603.27170v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relative camera pose is a basic geometric cue for visual re-localization and scene understanding. When using images alone, visual evidence may not s

Recursive Self-Improvement of Visuomotor Policies through Local Recovery Supervision

arXiv:2610.05151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor policies can execute familiar tasks yet lack the corrective behavior needed after their own mistakes. We present a framework for recursive se

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A GHOST in Long-Horizon Agents: Governance Hazard from Overlooked Safety Constraints across Turns

arXiv:2610.02664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents are now playing an increasingly significant role in assisting humans with complex problem-solving. However, it is exactly their exte

5 Oct 2026

D2K-Bench: Can LLM Agents Turn Expert Designs into Efficient GPU Kernels?

arXiv:2610.03226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPU kernels generated by large language model (LLM) agents can remain less efficient than expert implementations, but runtime alone does not reveal ho