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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Spend Teacher Tokens Where They Matter: Success-Referenced On-Policy Distillation

    arXiv:2610.02678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) combines student-generated rollouts with dense token-level supervision from a teacher, but providing such supervision for every rollout requires substantial teacher computation. We introduce Success-Referenced On-Policy Distillation (SR-OPD), which reduces this cost by selecting which prompts and rollouts receive teacher supervision. When the student produces both successful and failed rollouts for the same prompt, a successful rollout can serve as a natural reference for selecting failed rollouts. SR-OPD therefore fo

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  2. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    CuBEs: Culturally-Situated Behavioral Evaluations and the Limitations of Culture-Blind LLM Judges

    arXiv:2610.02622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the occurrence and triggers of large language model (LLM) behaviors - such as sycophancy, self-preference, or over-confidence - is critical for predicting real-world model deployment risks. However, existing situated behavioral evaluations typically ignore cultural context, limiting their generalizability across an increasingly global user base. To address this gap, we propose CuBEs - Culturally-situated Behavior Evaluations that probe for response patterns across diverse user cultures. We first extend an automated testing pipeline to

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  3. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    VERSE: Verified Self-Evolving Optimizer for Agent Harnesses

    arXiv:2610.02616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harness evolution improves an LLM agent's prompts, tools, and workflow, while the optimizer's own tools and procedures often remain fixed. We study whether an optimizer can improve another agent more effectively by also improving how it diagnoses failures, develops edits, and tests their effects. Two observations guide our design. In a controlled study, optimizer self-evolution fails to improve performance without execution-based verification, but achieves the best result of that study when verification is available. Across five executors, self-e

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  4. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Batched Speech Decisions Without Decoding: Single-Token Supervision Lets a Frozen LLM Hear Beyond the Transcript

    arXiv:2610.02638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents make many small, closed decisions, which current systems answer by slow autoregressive decoding. We propose DuplexJev, which feeds ASR-encoder hidden states through a small connector into a frozen LLM and reads each question as a single-token distribution over its options. Nothing is decoded, and an 8-GPU node answers 80 decisions about eight utterances in about 0.1 s. With a last-layer connector, spoken QA stays close to reading the transcript (90% vs. 91%). DuplexJev also hears the speaker: gender and emotion accuracy b

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  5. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Coherence-Driven Belief Formation and Population Dynamics of Contagion in LLM Agents

    arXiv:2610.02654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Models of social contagion usually assume how individuals adopt beliefs and derive population behavior from it. We instead empirically measure belief adoption in language model agents, quantifying the probability an agent adopts a claim given how many peers endorse it. We find this adoption kernel to be sigmoid, a characteristic of complex contagion, with a threshold that is sensitive to three sources: the claim's plausibility, the source's reliability, and the agent's disposition. These three dimensions are well approximated by a single effectiv

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  6. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    How To Train Your World Model: Fine-tuning vs RAG for LM-based World Modeling

    arXiv:2610.02542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models (WMs) simulate the transition dynamics of environments, enabling agents to plan over the consequences of their actions. In text-based environments, fine-tuning a Language Model (LM) to serve as a WM has emerged as a dominant paradigm. However, despite the widespread success of non-parametric approaches such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), retrieval for LM-based world modelling remains underexplored. We conduct a systematic evaluation across five diverse environments spanning embodied, web navigation and social settings, comp

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  7. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Designing the Future of User Feedback for Generative AI

    arXiv:2610.02631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-deployment feedback from users can be a cost-effective, scalable, and representative means to monitor and improve generative AI systems and features. When implemented effectively, giving such feedback can increase users' engagement with and trust in GenAI systems. Government regulations and industry guidelines call for post-deployment user engagement, but there is little guidance on designing mechanisms that are usable for consumers and provide actionable input for product teams. We conducted a multi-phase study as a collaboration between ac

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  8. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    How to Have a Sensitive Debate: An Instance-Optimal Protocol for AI Debate

    arXiv:2610.02557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As powerful AI systems reach and sometimes surpass the abilities of human experts across a range of cognitively demanding tasks, the problem of accurate oversight and supervision of these systems has become increasingly urgent. One promising approach is AI debate, which seeks to leverage a debate between two powerful AIs to break complex questions down into simpler claims that can be easily judged directly. Theoretical work on debate has formalized this intuition in the language of computational complexity theory, where the goal is to design prot

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  9. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Right Order, Wrong Scale: Auditing LLM Judges for Occupational AI Measurement

    arXiv:2610.02492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM judges are increasingly used to assess whether AI outputs meet workplace requirements, but agreement on response rankings does not establish agreement on acceptance rates or occupational aggregates. We introduce O*NET-BENCH, an audit suite derived from an existing survey of 45,796 worker ratings, and evaluate 33 pre-existing judge configurations across six model families on 4,501 test ratings. Twenty-five configurations achieve tie-aware pair accuracy of at least 0.60, although a train-fitted response-only TF-IDF baseline nearly matches the s

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  10. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    "I just assumed that it would translate": examining MT risk awareness among healthcare staff with abbreviations as a use case

    arXiv:2610.02496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the UK, public healthcare staff report turning to machine translation (MT) - predominantly Google Translate (GT) - to communicate with patients across language barriers. Though intended to support their duty of care, potentially uninformed reliance on MT in such contexts could have serious consequences for patient safety. Research nonetheless remains limited on staff awareness of the possible risks posed by higher-stakes MT use in general and with patient medical records in particular, most existing literature instead examining its use in inte

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  11. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    HXAI: Hierarchical Privacy-Preserving Explainable AI in Distributed Energy Systems

    arXiv:2610.02504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Balancing electricity demand and supply is increasingly difficult due to the inherent intermittency of renewable power generation and the stochastic power consumption. Grid operators require fine-grained, decision-relevant insights into household energy consumption to manage peak loads and design responsive tariffs, but increased transparency at this level raises significant privacy concerns. Traditional methods for explainable AI (XAI) can reveal sensitive information, while standard privacy techniques often reduce the usefulness of explanations

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  12. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    What Does a Token Cost? A Mixture-of-Agents Measurement of Sufficient Per-Token Compute

    arXiv:2610.02491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models spend the same amount of computation on every token they generate, regardless of how difficult each token is to produce. Methods such as speculative decoding and model routing are built on the premise that much of this computation is unnecessary, yet the computation an individual token actually requires has not been measured. We measure it through a Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) lens: a panel of fifteen language models of increasing capacity, drawn from three families, in which every agent attempts to reproduce a reference sequenc

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  13. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Tropical Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2610.02478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for large language models typically maximizes expected return, adding up the probabilities of all successful trajectories. However, the classical sum formulation can only report how often the model policy succeeds, not which solution actually worked, and because probabilities sum to one, reinforcing one solution can make the model forget another that was never shown to be wrong. This makes expected return a poor fit for compositional reasoning, where a solution must be assembled from reasoning steps that the model produces

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  14. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Hypothesis-guided discovery of cognitive algorithms via program refinement

    arXiv:2610.02523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing cognitive models of algorithmic reasoning from behavioral data is a central problem in cognitive science that challenges current methods. Traditional approaches to cognitive modeling are interpretable and benefit from human expertise, but lack flexibility and scalability. Emerging techniques using large language models (LLMs) for de novo generation of cognitive models are scalable and flexible, but lack a role for human expertise and have mostly been applied to simpler tasks than algorithm recovery. We propose a hybrid system that trea

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  15. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    MEA: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent System for Faithful Model Explanations

    arXiv:2610.02480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have seen the employment of a plethora of machine learning (ML) models in high-stakes domains, but they remain largely opaque to the practitioners who act on their predictions. While post-hoc explanation methods offer a lens into this model behavior, wielding them effectively demands expertise most domain experts lack: navigating high-dimensional outputs, selecting the best explanations, and synthesizing evidence across disparate tools. To this end, we present MEA, a multi-agent framework that removes the explanation knowledge barrie

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  16. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    World Action Modeling with Progressive Visual Planning

    arXiv:2610.02508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control by jointly predicting future visual dynamics and actions from an initial observation and instruction. However, existing WAMs struggle with long-horizon prediction, as generating dense video rollouts is highly inefficient. Some recent WAMs address this by predicting a single future frame without generating the full video, but this approach neglects how to progress toward the goal. We present ProWAM, a progressive world action model that jointly predicts actions and

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  17. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    THPL: A Vision-to-Language Decision Support Framework for Rainbow Trout Feeding Management in RAS

    arXiv:2610.02378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), precision feeding is critical for minimizing costs and improving fish welfare. However, existing methods lack cognitive alignment between fish behaviors and management knowledge, impeding translation into executable, interpretable feeding decisions. To address this, we propose THPL, a generative feeding decision framework tailored for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in RAS. First, Fishsort extracts trajectories to establish an Activity Coefficient (AC) quantifying feeding intensity. Second, a Hierar

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  18. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    FlashSinkhorn 2: Block-Sparse Entropic Optimal Transport

    arXiv:2610.02395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming GPU solvers for entropic optimal transport (EOT), such as FlashSinkhorn, avoid storing the dense kernel but still evaluate all $n\times m$ point pairs in every Sinkhorn iteration. We present \textbf{FlashSinkhorn~2} (FS2), a solver for squared-Euclidean cost on low-dimensional point clouds that solves large discrete EOT problems to a prescribed marginal residual on a single GPU by coupling two stages. A coarse stage solves on cell centroids, lifts the potentials to every point and, when a sampled marginal check rejects the lift, continu

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  19. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Traversing the Satisfaction-Diversity Frontier in Text-to-Image Diffusion

    arXiv:2610.02372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image generation enables users to explore several images generated from the same prompt. For these generated images to be useful, each one must reflect the user's preferences, measured by a learned reward, and differ visually from the others to maintain diversity. Existing methods are limited: they either address reward and diversity separately or combine them in one aggregate score, enabling high diversity to offset low rewards. In this paper, we address these limitations by formulating generation as satisficing: every image (candidate)

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  20. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    When Terminal-Agent Training Stalls: Demystifying Data Generation and Verification Challenge

    arXiv:2610.02405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using a frontier model like Claude Opus as a meta-agent to generate terminal tasks and verifiers for RL training is increasingly common. Yet a runnable Docker image and executable test suite do not guarantee a faithful end-to-end pipeline for terminal agent training. We present a meta-agent pipeline motivated by this gap, diagnosing three classes of failure: benchmark invalidity, harness brittleness, and reward misalignment. Prompt redesign and context extension raise baseline solvability 5.6 times, but a 9B model saturates at 81.3% mean pass@2 w

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  21. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Reinforcement Learning Techniques for the Optimization of Target Polarization in Nuclear Physics Scattering Experiments

    arXiv:2610.02452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The operation of dynamically polarized targets in nuclear physics experiments relies on continuous tuning of the microwave frequency to compensate for radiation damage and evolving material properties, a task that is traditionally performed through manual trial-and-error by expert operators. This work presents a data-driven control framework that combines surrogate modeling with reinforcement learning to optimize the target polarization. Using operational data from the APOLLO cryogenic target system, we train and evaluate multilayer perceptron an

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  22. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    A Multi Method Importance and Performance Efficiency Analysis of Topological Metrics for Natural Visibility Graph Based Cyber Attack Detection

    arXiv:2610.02342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural Visibility Graph (NVG) based analysis characterizes network traffic through topological descriptors reflecting different structural properties. However, not all descriptors contribute equally to cyber-attack classification, and extracting a large metric set can increase computational cost. This study evaluates 21 NVG derived topological metrics and investigates whether a compact subset can preserve classification capability while improving computational efficiency. Four importance analysis methods SHAP, grouped Permutation Importance, Bor

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  23. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Learning What to Investigate Next: Meta-Reasoning for Long-Horizon Research Agents

    arXiv:2610.02525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon research agents must decide both how to investigate and what to investigate next as evidence accumulates. This is hard to learn because such decisions are sparse in long execution traces, and their consequences may emerge several investigations later. We introduce Meta-reasoning for Iterative Research Agents (MIRA), a hierarchical architecture separating research allocation from execution. An outer-loop meta-reasoner curates context from a persistent research record, then writes a work order for the next investigation or ends the epi

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  24. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Mitigating Social Sycophancy via Pluralistic Preference Optimization

    arXiv:2610.02568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal advice, including relationship advice, now ranks among the most common uses of generative AI. But language models (LMs) exhibit sycophancy: they affirm users much more often than humans do, which can make people overconfident and less willing to repair their relationships after a conflict. Prior work on mitigating sycophancy has focused on factual settings where a response can be checked against a ground truth answer, while mitigations for social sycophancy (e.g., personal advice, where there is no ground truth) have relied on simple pro

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  25. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    DeReAct: Decomposed Reasoning and Acting for Reliable AI Agents

    arXiv:2610.02351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ReAct-based agents typically rely on a single LLM policy to propose actions, interact with the environment, and decide when a task is complete. This coupling makes action authorization and completion control difficult to enforce independently, allowing errors to propagate and unsupported completion claims to terminate execution. We introduce DeReAct, a modular agent architecture that externalizes two gating policies: a Critic that validates proposed actions before execution, and a Context Manager that reconstructs an environment-supported \textsc

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  26. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    On-Premises Multi-Course RAG Tutoring for Business Education: Hardware-Software Trade-offs in a Campus AI Tutor

    arXiv:2610.02510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Campus AI tutors based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) must ground answers in assigned course materials while keeping textbooks and student dialogue on institutional infrastructure. We present CourseChat, an on-premises, multi-course RAG tutor for undergraduate business education, deployed behind a campus web gateway and intended for use embedded in Moodle. Six isolated course offerings, each keyed by its own course reference number (CRN), share twin-edge AI hosts running a FastAPI service, a local vector database, and a local large langu

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  27. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    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 carries an injection. System-1 decision models answer such questions in a single forward pass with class probabilities, promising large cost and latency savings over LLM calls. We present a paired evaluation of an open-weight (Laya) and a hosted (Jev) System-1 model on 11 agent decision points built from 18 public sources: 7,283 base cases plus 6,640 robustness variants, with byte-identical inputs

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  28. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    The AI Risk Observatory: What Can We Learn from AI Disclosures in Annual Reports About Societal Resilience?

    arXiv:2610.02281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Societal resilience research relies on access to useful and actionable data, which motivates our main research question: Can annual reports, processed at scale with LLMs, provide a useful signal about how companies disclose their response to AI? We test this by applying a reproducible two-stage classification pipeline to 9,821 annual reports from 1,362 UK listed companies (2020-2025, with partial 2026 data). We first validate the method against 474 human-annotated passages, finding high recall and moderate label-level agreement. We then report th

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  29. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    MintFlow: Minimal Trajectory Intervention for Constrained Flow Matching

    arXiv:2610.02260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching models excel at generative modeling, and many downstream applications require their samples to satisfy prescribed constraints, such as observed measurements and physical laws. However, existing constrained samplers often face a trade-off: \textit{enforcing constraints can substantially displace samples from the pretrained data distribution}. To address this trade-off, we introduce \textbf{MintFlow}, a training-free constrained sampling framework that formulates constraint enforcement as a minimal intervention on the pretrained flow

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  30. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Keep It CALM: Analyzing the Limits of Global Unsafety in Text-to-Image Generation

    arXiv:2610.02300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free safeguards for text-to-image generation often rely on a reusable safety signal, such as an unsafe direction or global toxic subspace, applied broadly across prompts. We provide a controlled geometric analysis of this global-unsafety assumption and reveal a consistent coverage-selectivity trade-off: compact unsafe subspaces fail to cover heterogeneous unsafe semantics, whereas broader aggregation increasingly distorts safety-adjacent benign prompts. Motivated by this finding, we propose CALM (Counterfactual Adaptive Local Modulation)

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
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