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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Self-Evolving Harness on Multiple Tasks with the Agent as Its Own Optimizer

    arXiv:2609.38372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A harness is the code around a language-model agent that organizes prompts, calls tools, manages context, and controls execution. As models grow stronger, recent work has begun to let agents improve their own harnesses, a line of work known as self-evolving harnesses. In most existing methods, a separate proposer running on a human-designed harness modifies the solver's harness, and a separate harness is evolved for each benchmark. Real-world tasks come from many domains, so both the evolution and the evaluation of a harness should cover a divers

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

    Aligned Data Can Induce Misalignment via Context Confusion

    arXiv:2609.38379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are frequently updated for various use cases, where filtering out misaligned training samples is a common practice for preventing post-update misalignment. However, alignment is inherently context-dependent: a recommendation that is aligned in one context may be inappropriate in another. For example, in response to the question "What should a researcher do with the research data?", recommending that the researcher preserve the data for reproducibility is aligned. In contrast, recommending data saving in response to "W

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

    Fine-Tuning Diffusion Language Models with Context Selection and Target Weighting

    arXiv:2609.38385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning of discrete diffusion language models masks some response tokens and trains the model to recover their original values from the visible context. The masking pattern therefore determines both the context available to the model and the tokens it learns to predict. Uniform random masking does not explicitly account for the interaction between these choices. We introduce GoldiMask, which selects tokens to reveal as context by approximately maximizing a submodular objective. This objective uses model signals to balance the benef

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

    Decode-Latency Feedback Prefill: A Model-Free Controller and Its Generalization Limits

    arXiv:2609.38386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concurrent autoregressive inference creates a fundamental interference problem: prefilling a newly arrived long prompt can delay tokens for requests that are already decoding. Fixed prefill chunks reduce this interference, but the best chunk size depends on the model, hardware, load, and latency objective. We introduce Decode-Latency Feedback Prefill (DLFP), a model-free controller that changes only prefill work that overlaps active decodes. After a guarded scheduling cycle, DLFP uses the observed interval as proportional feedback to resize the n

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

    MetaPersona: Task-Grounded Synthetic Populations from Empirical Social Science

    arXiv:2609.38392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personas used to seed LLM social simulations face a cold-start problem: existing methods lack a principled basis for deciding which attributes to include and how to assign their values. As a result, synthetic populations may misrepresent the demographic composition, latent attributes, and dependency structure that shape downstream behavior. We introduce MetaPersona-DB, a dataset of 11,000+ empirical human-subjects studies annotated with task-relevant variables, reported relationships, and aggregate-level population statistics. Building on this re

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

    SimTrace: Grounded Multimodal User Trajectories Generation for Online User Modeling

    arXiv:2609.38397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Virtual clients offer a cost-effective approach to support applications such as A/B testing, recommender system development, and interface evaluation. However, building them requires access to large-scale, semantically faithful, fine-grained online user trajectories. These data are difficult to obtain because proprietary logs are subject to privacy restrictions and small businesses often lack sufficient traffic. Consequently, existing public datasets either abstract away fine-grained user interaction details or preserve rich context but remain pl

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

    ArgGYM: A Procedural, Engine-Verified Benchmark for Structured Defeasible Reasoning

    arXiv:2609.38409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in large language model reasoning has been driven by benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments with automatically verifiable rewards, particularly in mathematics, code, and formal logic. These settings make model accuracy easier to evaluate and optimize, but it remains unclear how far success under fixed problem specifications and stable evaluation criteria transfers to reasoning outside such domains. Real-world reasoning often proceeds under incomplete and revisable information: conclusions may be supported provisionally

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

    A Competing-Hazards Systematization of Loss of Control in Autonomous Agents

    arXiv:2609.38411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leading AI developers have reported agents acting beyond their approved limits, which a United Nations panel described as an early warning of loss of human control. Yet incident reports and agent-safety evaluations describe these events differently, making it difficult to compare failures, trace risk across attempts, or separate agent behavior from the environment's role in allowing an out-of-scope action to succeed. To address this gap, we introduce a common framework in which each attempt ends in approved completion, safe stopping, scope escape

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

    AIM: Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research

    arXiv:2609.38445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier LLMs are increasingly used to automate scientific research through iterative search. We distinguish idea-driven search from solution-driven search and identify three core challenges: organizing evolving research ideas, selecting promising directions, and maintaining alignment between ideas and their implementations. To address these challenges, we introduce the Agentic Idea Manager (AIM), a fully autonomous framework for managing and exploring research directions in idea-driven automated research. Inspired by Bayesian optimization, AIM u

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

    Reach Into The CHOIR: Free-List Elicitation Uncovers Distinct Model Voices in LLM Ensembles

    arXiv:2609.38448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended LLM homogeneity can create false plurality when several systems appear to offer independent perspectives while returning the same familiar default. Single-pass answers obscure the distinction between agreement produced by a tightly constrained answer space, prompt-vocabulary echo, and broader answer spaces with stable alternatives beneath the surface. We introduce CHOIR (Collective Hierarchically-Ordered Inquiry Responses), a framework that adapts free-list elicitation from cognitive anthropology to LLM ensembles. CHOIR repeatedly elic

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

    PrivMeSA: Privacy-Aware Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Medicine via Local-Remote LLM Collaboration

    arXiv:2609.38458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical large language model (LLM) agents deployed locally can consult more capable remote models, but doing so risks exposing patient information. Privacy-conscious delegation places disclosure decisions with a local agent, yet removing explicit identifiers is insufficient: quasi-identifiers can accumulate across multi-turn consultations and repeated patient visits to enable re-identification. We introduce PrivMeSA, a privacy-aware self-evolving multi-agent system that learns to control disclosure and retains remote expertise for local reuse. A

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

    NAQD Env: A benchmark for selective withdrawal in language agents

    arXiv:2609.38460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents must revise planned actions when evidence changes, permission is revoked, or a stop instruction arrives. A useful response is selective: suspend affected actions, preserve unaffected work, and resume only after sufficient repair. We introduce NAQD-Env, a synthetic environment that evaluates these decisions against a deterministic reference policy over explicit evidence, authorization, and constraint dependencies. Eleven dependency families support evaluation on development structures, held-out families, and held-out combinations o

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

    VAmoS Part Deux: Harder, More Realistic Voice-Agent Simulation

    arXiv:2609.38512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents in production must handle several requests, background speech, and customers who lose patience. We introduce VAmoS Energy, a benchmark that combines these challenges in 100 calls about utility billing and payment assistance. Each caller makes two to four requests. The agent has sixteen tools backed by a stateful Stripe billing twin and the Apache Fineract loan engine, with account access blocked until caller verification succeeds. The tasks use public household electricity data and a policy based on Pennsylvania's residential billing

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

    Demographic Pluralism: Inference-Time Modeling of Pluralistic Human Preference Distributions

    arXiv:2609.38555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in culturally sensitive settings, where alignment requires representing diverse preferences within populations. Yet existing methods model populations at coarse demographic or community levels and overlook within-group variation. We introduce Demographic Pluralism, an inference-time framework that estimates population-level opinion distributions without opinion-distribution training data or task-specific fine-tuning by generating multiple perspectives within demographically grounded groups. Acros

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

    Defining and Categorising Human-AI Interactions in Clinical Trials: A Multidimensional Human-AI Classification Approach

    arXiv:2609.38559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines human-AI interactions (HAIIs) in clinical trials and presents a multidimensional categorisation framework that classifies interactions according to AI tasks, human-AI relationships, interaction configurations and interacting human groups. We define HAII, examine existing taxonomies and extend existing categorisation approaches through this novel multidimensional framework. We purposively sampled 15 clinical trials from a previously reported dataset. Each trial was independently categorised by two human reviewers and six large

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

    Towards Model as a Library: Offline, Community-Sourced AI for Low-Resource African Languages

    arXiv:2609.38574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are frequently proposed as a route to AI-powered services for African communities, but they are least reliable exactly where the need is greatest: all African languages remain low-resource by any standard measure, and models trained on scraped, standardised text systematically misrepresent the dialectal and regional variation of how people actually speak. We introduce \textbf{Model as a Library (MaaL)}, a software architecture that packages small, community-enrolled speech models as versioned on-device dependencies, enabling

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

    Conditional Generation of Creative Chess Puzzles with Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2609.38577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While modern language models demonstrate impressive generative capabilities, they often struggle with constrained, counter-intuitive creative tasks. To address this limitation, we explore chess puzzle generation as a rigorous testbed for computational creativity and reasoning, a domain where altering a single piece can invalidate an entire solution. We propose a novel approach for conditional generation of creative chess puzzles using masked diffusion models. Unlike previous methods, our non-directional diffusion approach allows for conditioning

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

    Sense and Sensitivity: Benchmarking LLM Clinical Triage Recommendations with Physician Experts

    arXiv:2609.38600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in clinical settings, it is critical to evaluate their reliability under realistic variation in clinical text. We study this question in clinical triage, comparing LLMs to practicing physicians under text perturbations that preserve the underlying clinical setting. We introduce a benchmark of over 6,000 clinical scenarios, 7,000 physician annotations, and 225,000 model responses. Using this benchmark, we make two key observations. First, LLMs are more likely than physicians to recommend unnece

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

    When Scientific Contradictions Are Lost in Translation

    arXiv:2609.38621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two scientific findings can disagree without contradicting each other. Determining whether they conflict requires knowing whether they describe comparable measurements. We study how language models behave at this decision point. In a controlled task, we generate an unsatisfiable XOR constraint system and translate its constraints into scientific reports from different laboratories. One assignment satisfies more constraints, while another satisfies fewer but better matches expected biology. This creates a simple dilemma: does the model choose the

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

    Component-Aware Feedback for Self-Evolving Programs

    arXiv:2609.38639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-guided evolutionary search can discover complex programs, but existing methods mostly only save candidate programs and fitness scores while discarding which component edits produced which fitness metric changes. Existing methods force the mutator LLM to infer the effect of prior edits from cluttered histories, making program search slow and unstable. This is especially true for locally servable LLMs to evolve multi-component systems. We introduce component-aware feedback, which compares each evaluated program with its parent, identifies the c

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

    ChartRevise: A Dataset and Evaluation Protocol for Exact Chart Editing via Code

    arXiv:2609.38642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chart editing requires cross-modal edit grounding, realizing a requested visual change in the code that draws it, with necessary related updates and without altering unrelated content. Existing benchmarks emphasize either code executability or chart quality, but their metrics do not clearly distinguish request completion from missed coupled updates and gratuitous changes. We introduce ChartRevise, a structured dataset and evaluation protocol for exact program-grounded chart editing. For dataset construction, we build on the grammar of graphics to

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

    EvoSteer: Online Self-Evolving Graph Orchestration via Reference-Anchored Credit Assignment

    arXiv:2609.38661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, LLM-based multi-agent systems have been widely applied to orchestrate tool-using agents into executable communication graphs. However, existing self-evolving orchestration still faces key challenges, including post-hoc evolution that revises the team only after the trajectory ends, credit diffusion that gives every action the same terminal advantage under confounded baselines, and skill admission that is uncalibrated and never retired. To address these challenges, we propose EvoSteer, a new paradigm of Online Self-Evolving Graph

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

    Where Scientific Search Agents Fail: Decision-Checkpoint Auditing of Exposure and Inspection Attempts

    arXiv:2609.38670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Final-answer accuracy does not reveal whether a scientific-search agent failed to encounter a target paper, attempt to inspect it, or return an accepted answer after inspection. We introduce decision checkpoints that record observations and tool actions without benchmark labels during inference, then join target identities and evaluator labels to assign outcome categories from recorded events. Across five conditions on 540 answerable AutoResearchBench Deep questions in a fixed, target-enriched environment, keyword search achieves 24.6\% accuracy,

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

    Concept-Grounded Attention: A Controlled Evaluation of Graph-Injected Attention, Temporal Versioning, and Epistemic Status

    arXiv:2609.38684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-intensive language-model systems typically represent external knowledge as text chunks or static graphs, with limited support for concept evolution, point-in-time reasoning, and distinctions between validated and inferred knowledge. We introduce the Concept Lifecycle Model (CLM), which represents concepts as persistent, graph-grounded, temporally versioned entities with explicit provenance and epistemic status, and Concept-Grounded Attention (CGA), which injects concept-graph structure into transformer computation through graph-biased s

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

    GATE-ST: Gene-Aware Text-image Encoder for Spatial Transcriptomics

    arXiv:2609.38690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics enables spatially resolved gene expression analysis from slide-level images while preserving morphological features, providing valuable information for studying disease mechanisms and developing treatments. However, spatial gene expression profiling typically requires expensive and time-consuming tests. While existing image-based prediction optimizations mostly revolve around including positional embeddings and further image-based changes, text-based optimizations remain relatively unexplored. We present GATE-ST, which inc

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

    Budget Boundary Effects in Test-Time Mathematical Reasoning

    arXiv:2609.38699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A cumulative token cap can fall inside a mathematical derivation, forcing a test-time controller to choose between stopping at the cap (strict) and allowing the current attempt to finish (advisory). We measure this boundary choice with paired offline replays of 19,200 public traces: 120 AIME, BrUMO and HMMT problems and two archive configurations of one model. Candidate order and a 16-attempt cap are fixed, and answer selection is blind to reference answers and correctness labels. Three findings emerge. First, at the 4k cap, most advisory accurac

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

    Staying on Task: Testing the Foundations of Long-Horizon Agent Reliability

    arXiv:2609.38712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agentic workflows require models to sustain repeated state-dependent actions all while the context grows, sub-task complexity changes, and new data arrives. Each situation represents an independent axis along which an agent may fail. An agent reconciling a long ledger, for example, must repeatedly read its state, update the correct record, and preserve alignment across thousands of outputs. A model may accept the entire ledger yet lose its place or stop applying the operation consistently as generation proceeds. We introduce Long-Tra

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

    UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement

    arXiv:2609.38721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern multimodal models bring generation and understanding into a single unified system, which enables them to provide and learn from their own feedback. Motivated by this unified capacity, we introduce UniEvo-VL, a self-evolving framework for multimodal models to learn from this constructive self-correction feedback during test-time compute. Instead of relying on a separate, often larger, teacher, we leverage their self-critiques as privileged information and ask a single multimodal model to act as both teacher and student with different contex

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  29. New model
    IMPACT 45

    Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers

    arXiv:2609.38733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent LLM-based approaches to control either invoke a language model to select actions or synthesize world models that require planning at every decision, introducing latency that can limit real-time use. We introduce Code to Control, an approach that synthesizes Python controllers which execute directly as policies. Code to Control separates program structure from parameters. An LLM synthesizes the controller structure, while derivative-free search fits its parameters for continuous control using feedback from the environment. Once learned, the

    Frontier releaseConfidence:78 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  30. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Learning to Route in Visual Space via Multi-Step Embedding Retrieval

    arXiv:2609.38743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents rely on retrieval tools to access external knowledge, yet visual agentic search remains severely bottlenecked by standard single-step retrievers. In current pipelines, the agent must issue text queries for every intermediate step, struggling when visual clues are difficult to describe or when the retriever fails to surface necessary intermediate evidence within its top results. We hypothesize that offloading multi-step navigation across the entire embedding space directly to the retrieval tool resolves this performance bottleneck. To s

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
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