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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    CoMemBench: Benchmarking Collaborative Memory Boundaries across Multi-Agent Workflow Topologies

    arXiv:2609.32192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated. We call this task-conditioned scope of information a collaborative memory boundary. Workflow topology determines which intermediate artifacts are applicable to which downstream workers and when they cease to be valid, thereby providing a structural stress dimension for sharing and isolation. Existing memory benchmarks primarily evaluate retention and retrieval, whereas multi-age

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

    Instruct, Not Answer: Using Instruction Privileges in On-Policy Context Distillation

    arXiv:2609.32201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD) has recently emerged as a powerful technique for transferring context to student models and for self-improvement. In OPCD, the teacher is conditioned on privileged information, and the goal is to minimize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the privileged teacher and the student, evaluated on student-generated tokens. Many existing studies show that using instance-specific gold answers or gold demonstrations as the default privilege can hurt training performance, especially out-of-distribution (OOD).

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

    Witness: Discovery, Deciphering, and Epiphany in Interactive Puzzle Environments

    arXiv:2609.32208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated science needs agents that can work out the rules of an unfamiliar environment by interacting with it. Interactive rule-discovery puzzles offer a controlled setting for studying this ability: an agent infers hidden rules through experimentation and uses what it has inferred to reach a stated goal. We ask what limits current language models on these puzzles and whether reinforcement learning (RL) improves performance on rules held out from training. To study both, we introduce WITNESS, a 2D grid-based puzzle environment with ground-truth

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

    Fracast-0: Fractal Weight Sharing for a Time Series Foundation Model with Only 85K Parameters

    arXiv:2609.32209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series foundation models must preserve multi-domain breadth, probabilistic output, and multiple temporal scales, but parameter count grows when each scale receives a separate representation. We introduce Fracast-0, a probabilistic forecasting foundation model that exploits temporal self-similarity to reuse one operator across scales. A parameter-free detector extracts significant seasonal structure. The encoder applies a shared local block along a geometric dilation ladder with scale conditioning, while the decoder combines context-gathered

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

    A bilingual AI audiologist built through rubric-guided playbook induction outperforms human audiologists in a blinded evaluation of simulated cases

    arXiv:2609.32220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audiology consultation requires structured history-taking, audiometric interpretation and patient-centred communication, yet real-world case material is scarce. We present a bilingual AI audiologist pairing a general-purpose large language model with rubric-guided playbook induction, multimodal audiogram interpretation and retrieval-augmented grounding, without fine-tuning the language-model backbone. Using a 21-item rubric and an AI patient simulator, we induced a 19-rule consultation policy from 73 training cases (43 English, 30 Chinese) and ev

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

    Toward Interactive Understanding of Code APIs

    arXiv:2609.32081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Empowered by advances in Language Model agents, systems have made substantial strides in code generation and understanding. However, these approaches often rely on read access to the relevant code, an assumption which does not hold when dealing with external APIs. In this work, we introduce the PAU (Python API Understanding) benchmark, where we provide models with black-box, API-level access to code snippets. Models must query the API with exploratory inputs and draw insights from the resulting outputs, with the goal of describing the snippet's t

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

    EmailBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agents on Enterprise Email and Productivity Tasks

    arXiv:2609.31906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise email agents must combine information retrieval, structured state changes, temporal reasoning, and multi-step coordination. Recent agent benchmarks include productivity tasks, but few center on typed email workflows in a self-contained environment. We introduce EmailBench, a benchmark of 206 email and productivity scenarios across 16 task categories. The benchmark couples a typed email API specification with provider-neutral naming, a deterministic synthetic Enron-inspired corpus, and a scenario suite whose topic selection was informed

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

    Improving Medical Calculation of LLMs with Embedded Coding

    arXiv:2609.31908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on medical examinations and question-answering benchmarks, but remain unreliable on medical calculation tasks that require exact numerical outputs. These calculations support high-stakes decisions such as medication dosing, organ-function assessment, and prognostic scoring, for which even small errors can have serious clinical consequences. We introduce MedCode, a framework that improves medical calculation by training LLMs to generate embedded executable code. Given a clinical context, the model identifi

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

    BioDyad: Synchronize Biomedical Discovery and Machine Learning Engineering

    arXiv:2609.31939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic biomedical machine learning (ML) draws on complementary advances in biomedical evidence acquisition and executable program search. Existing systems connect aspects of these capabilities, but coordinating them throughout program search remains challenging. New evidence must guide candidate construction, execution outcomes must inform subsequent discovery and reuse, and validation demands must fit the search budget. We introduce BioDyad, which couples biomedical discovery and ML engineering through two hierarchies within Monte Carlo graph s

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

    Symbolic Guidance for LLM Agents in Distributed Multiagent Coordination

    arXiv:2609.31963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in multi-agent systems, yet their ability to reliably execute distributed coordination protocols remains poorly understood. While AgentsNet, a benchmark framework for distributed coordination among LLM agents, enables such coordination, granting full reasoning autonomy often leads to inconsistent or degraded performance in complex domains. We hypothesize that coordination can be improved by regulating agent autonomy through symbolic guidance derived from established algor

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

    Goal-Persistent Coding Agents as Scientific Performance Engineers: A Fixed-Radius Nearest-Neighbor Case Study

    arXiv:2609.31980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents can pursue persistent objectives across many tool-use turns, but evidence that general-purpose agents can conduct rigorous scientific performance engineering remains limited. We present a repository-scale case study in which off-the-shelf Codex and Claude Code agents optimize fixed-radius nearest-neighbor (FRNN) search for particle tracking. Starting from a PyTorch-dependent CUDA implementation, the agents follow an executable goal that specifies exact-correctness tests, profiling requirements, and acceptance criteria without prescr

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

    CSI-Agent: LLM-Assisted Few-Shot Adaptation for Cross-Domain Wi-Fi CSI Sensing

    arXiv:2609.31990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has enabled device-free sensing applications such as human activity recognition. However, CSI sensing models remain brittle in cross-domain deployment, where changes in users or environments can produce incorrect predictions. Existing solutions usually treat this problem as an offline model-design problem, by pretraining a stronger representation or applying one fixed adaptation method to the entire target domain. In practice, labeled target data are scarce and different classes may fail in different ways und

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

    Context-dependent agent evaluation with orthogonal equilibrium learning

    arXiv:2609.31897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many applications require to evaluate agents under contextual information (e.g., a prompt, task, or user group). We study how to perform such context-dependent agent evaluation from offline feedback. Existing score-based models for this purpose (e.g., Bradley-Terry) impose a transitive preference ordering, which fails to reflect collective preferences when human judgements are heterogeneous. Inspired by social choice theory, we frame evaluation as a contextual game between two players, each selecting a distribution over agents as the strategy to

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

    COUNTERMEM: World-Model Verified Counter-Factual Memory for Language Agents

    arXiv:2609.31874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing agent memory frameworks mainly create memory through an agent's interaction with the factual world, e.g., remembering feedback from actions taken to improve performance on future tasks. However, these frameworks seldom ask the "what if" question during memory construction: what if a different action had been taken, would the feedback have changed, and how could this feedback become useful memory? Obtaining such feedback directly in an active environment can be expensive and can alter the state needed for comparison. In this work, we intr

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

    IndustryLLM: Failure-Driven LLM Training for Industrial Procurement

    arXiv:2609.31871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial procurement requires language models to bridge informal buyer jargon, sparse marketplace attributes, and authoritative engineering standards under strict safety tolerances. We present IndustryLLM, an open-weight industrial language model trained from Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base (35B total parameters with ~3B activated per token, with the vision encoder frozen). Rather than relying on generic text scaling, we introduce a failure-driven adaptation recipe spanning continued pre-training (CPT) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT). CPT leverages a cur

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

    Metro-WM: Long-Horizon Latent Planning with Realisable Sub-Goals

    arXiv:2609.31868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-predictive control with Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) provides a strong zero-shot goal-reaching planner, but it is only effective over short planning horizons. Hierarchical extensions attempt to bridge this gap by learning a macro planner to predict intermediate latent sub-goals to guide the micro planner. In this work, we demonstrate that unconstrained latent sub-goal prediction is fundamentally flawed. A rigorous evaluation reveals that a leading state-of-the-art macro planner routinely emits physically unrealisable sub

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

    LLM Judge Validation Under Sparse Overlap: From Inference to Design

    arXiv:2609.31857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating an LLM-as-a-judge requires estimating its agreement with humans, yet annotation budgets rarely allow every item to be multiply labeled. We prove that this \emph{overlap sparsity} is the first-order determinant of wrong deployment decisions: at 5\% pairwise overlap, wrong-decision rates reach 25\% and the probability of selecting the wrong best judge among ten candidates is 65\%. The two actionable levers are overlap \emph{quantity} and \emph{allocation}. For quantity, we derive a minimum-overlap formula showing $\rho \geq 0.25$ suffice

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

    DriveHierarchy: A Benchmark for Diagnosing VLM Driving Capabilities from Open-Loop Understanding to Closed-Loop Execution

    arXiv:2609.31814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating VLM-based autonomous driving remains difficult because driving competence is composite, where a capable system must ground traffic participants and hazards, integrate context across views and time, reason about future evolution, and act appropriately under closed-loop interaction. Existing benchmarks usually assess either open-loop understanding or closed-loop driving but provide limited structure for explaining how these abilities are organized, how they relate, and how they may inform model diagnosis and improvement. We present \text

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

    Choir: An Open Protocol for Distributed Multi-Agent Autoformalization

    arXiv:2609.31903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now formalize entire textbooks and major theorems in proof assistants such as Lean, but current efforts are typically centralized: a single team runs all agents and bears the full computational cost. We introduce Choir, an open protocol for distributed formalization. Choir decomposes a project into tasks that can be completed by independent contributors, each running their own agent with their own LLM subscription, while coordinating entirely through the project's GitHub repository. To support open participation, every contribution

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

    Working with AI: A Design Framework for Human-AI Collaboration

    arXiv:2609.31793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly GenAI, is becoming an increasingly important part of modern work. In industrial settings, AI can support decision-making, automate routine activities, assist humans, and improve productivity. However, successful AI adoption depends on more than what the technology can do. It also depends on how people experience and work with it. This raises an important question: how should human-AI collaboration be designed so that it works well for both people and organisations? This white paper addresses that questio

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

    ConflictVLA-Bench: Benchmarking Behavioral Responses of Vision-Language-Action Models to Premise Conflicts

    arXiv:2609.31792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models perform strongly on manipulation tasks, their responses to invalid task premises remain underexplored. Existing evaluations of premise conflicts often focus on terminal task outcomes, yet task failure alone cannot distinguish behavioral disengagement from continued pursuit followed by an execution error. We call the latter pattern Failed Persistence. To study this phenomenon, we introduce ConflictVLA-Bench, which pairs conflict rollouts with premise-consistent reference rollouts and evaluates both outcome

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

    CP-Agent: A Harness-Engineered Agent for Crystal Plasticity Simulation Workflows

    arXiv:2609.31790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crystal plasticity (CP) simulations predict the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline metals, yet their routine use is hindered by the manual effort of configuring heterogeneous tools, orchestrating multi-step data pipelines, and calibrating constitutive parameters against experiments. These bottlenecks impede productivity in systematic parameter studies, motivating interest in automated workflows. This study presents CP-Agent, a harness-engineered LLM-based agent that autonomously executes complete CP modeling workflows from natural-language ta

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

    Witeness Overlap: Directional Provenance Inside Open-Weight Model Families

    arXiv:2609.31784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-weight models are often released, fine-tuned, aligned, merged, and re-released, making provenance audits ask not only whether checkpoints are related, but also which checkpoint came first. Many existing model-provenance methods are designed for a base-known audit setting: given a victim or source model, they test whether a suspect model is related to it. Although these audits are framed as source-to-suspect tests, their underlying evidence is often symmetric, relying on representation similarity, weight similarity, behavioral fingerprints, o

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

    SMARtCARE: Privacy-Preserving Agentic AI Systems for Bounded-Autonomy Clinical Decision Support

    arXiv:2609.31763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context clinical AI systems can miss relevant patient history when prior admissions fall outside the active reasoning context. In ICU monitoring, this can cause early vital-sign drift to appear nonspecific even when it resembles a prior deterioration pattern. SMARtCARE addresses this gap through a four-state clinical decision-support architecture: Stable, Meta-cognitive, Assisted, and Regulated (Revoked). Rather than automatically retrieving prior records, SMARtCARE uses a lossy six-channel fingerprint of the patient's prior trajectory. When

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

    Artificial Intelligence and Women’s Employment Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

    This systematic literature review examines how artificial intelligence (AI), automation, robotics, machine learning, algorithmic technologies, and related forms of technological change are associated with women’s employment and labour-market outcomes. The review considers gender-differentiated evidence across sectors, occupations, countries, and institutional contexts. The review systematically identifies, evaluates, and synthesises literature addressing women-specific or gender-differentiated employment outcomes. Outcomes of interest include employment status and levels, unemployment, labour

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

    Introducing dots

    Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

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

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Sustainable Economic Growth: Implications for Productivity, Employment, Innovation, Inequality, and Inclusive Development

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a catchall, ‘general-purpose technology' which can transform economic growth. AI, or ‘artificial intelligence ', is emerging as a ‘catch-all' or ‘general-purpose technology' with the capacity to drive economic growth. The effects on productivity, jobs, innovation, inequality, and sustainability have been debated. The objective of this review is to bring together the peer-reviewed and working paper literature relating to the subject during the period 2020– 2025. Experimental and firm-level studies indicate significant task-level productivity

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  28. Labour market update
    IMPACT 35

    The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technology Applications on the Employment Structure of the Labor Force

    Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have occurred alongside digitization, big data, and computing power and have significantly impacted how the global labor market works. This paper examines the effects of AI applications on the labor market and the structure of the workforce. The main method of research is literature review; academic articles on the implementation of AI and its effects on the workforce are reviewed and analyzed to understand skill-biased and task-biased technological changes along with displacement, reinforcement, and productivity

    Workforce dataConfidence:80 · highVerified by AIKillsWhat
  29. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

    150 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884625

    Labor researchConfidence:68 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  30. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    How we will do better for Australia

    OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
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