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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    LLM-IDEA: Identifiability-Driven Experimental Agent for Autonomous Discovery of Mechanistic World Models

    arXiv:2610.11253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are being increasingly deployed as autonomous scientists, designing experiments and inferring mechanistic world models with minimal human oversight. Yet identifiability is often overlooked: when a plateau is reached, the agent needs to know whether it is not yet capable enough or the model simply is not identifiable from the data, in which case no amount of further experimentation of the same kind can help. We propose the Identifiability-Driven Experimental Agent (LLM-IDEA) for closed-loop discovery with an identifiabi

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

    When Lower Reconstruction Loss Hurts: Distributionally Robust Refinement for Low-Bit LLM Quantization

    arXiv:2610.11226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) relies heavily on reconstruction loss minimization to preserve model quality at low precision. We show that the weights favored by minimizing this loss need not yield better model performance on new tasks. In fact, we find that lower reconstruction loss can even degrade model performance on the same calibration data. Our analysis further shows that weights with lower reconstruction loss on calibration data can have higher loss than other weights when the distribution of input activations changes. Motiv

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

    DuplexAgent-RSI: Recursive Harness Improvement for Full-Duplex Voice Agent Collaboration

    arXiv:2610.11299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents are converging on a collaboration pattern: a full-duplex interaction model stays on the live channel as the entry to the conversation, while search, reasoning, and coding are handled through asynchronous delegation. A duplex model supports continuous listening and speaking, but complex reasoning and tool use may exceed its capabilities. A coding agent can plan and execute extended tasks, but its sequential interface is a poor fit for live conversation. Combining them requires a harness that coordinates task acceptance, progress, canc

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

    Social Pain Disrupts Emotion-Action Brain-State Dynamics in Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

    arXiv:2610.11155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent among adolescents with depression, but the rapid brain-state dynamics linking social distress to maladaptive behavior remain unclear. We combine an experimental pain paradigm, electroencephalography (EEG) microstate analysis, and interpretable deep sequence modeling to investigate NSSI-related neurodynamics in 106 adolescents with depression, including 67 with NSSI (DN+) and 39 without NSSI (DN-), during social pain, physical pain, and resting-state conditions. A model integrating disease-specific, dom

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

    What to Admit and How to Present: Governing Persistent Memory in LLM Agents

    arXiv:2610.11188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory can improve personalization in LLM agents but can also induce sycophancy and cross-domain leakage. We distinguish two governance decisions: admission, which determines what recalled information enters the working context, and presentation, which determines how admitted information is expressed. We implement two inference-time designs without retraining: factor-compiled admission (FC), which assesses whole memory entries, and permission-semantic admission (PS), which decomposes entries into typed units; both translate adjudicated

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

    GameCommBench: A Unified Benchmark and Type-Aware Evaluation for AI-Generated Game Commentary

    arXiv:2610.11129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Game commentary is an open-ended generation task requiring multimodal perception, strategic reasoning, and contextual knowledge. Existing AI-Generated Game Commentary (AI-GGC) studies remain fragmented across games, modalities, and evaluation protocols, while overlap-based or holistic evaluators fail to capture the functional heterogeneity of commentary. We introduce \textsc{GameCommBench}, a unified benchmark spanning board games, sports, and esports, with commentary aligned to heterogeneous game contexts and annotated by commentary type. We fur

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

    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 complex tasks; ephemeral generative UIs can present structured information and guide users toward task completion. We propose GenUI-Harness, a multi-agent harness pairing a Tool Agent for information retrieval and task execution with a GUI Coder Agent that identifies ambiguities and generates front-end code for structured interfaces. Training the coder with reinforcement learning is challenging: v

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

    EvoSim: Learning to Model, Modeling to Learn

    arXiv:2610.11344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-based models connect scientific explanation with quantitative prediction. Constructing them requires selecting physical processes, defining states and governing equations, specifying couplings, and identifying parameters from experiments. Existing AI systems remain limited in making these model structure decisions autonomously. We introduce EvoSim, a self-evolving AI scientist for physical modeling. It uses experimental discrepancies to drive mechanism and equation revisions and held-out experimental data to test physical plausibility. Ex

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

    AliO: Output Alignment Matters in Long-Term Time Series Forecasing

    arXiv:2610.11213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term Time Series Forecasting (LTSF) tasks, which leverage the current data sequence as input to predict the future sequence, have become increasingly crucial in real-world applications such as weather forecasting and planning of electricity consumption. However, state-of-the-art LTSF models often fail to achieve prediction output alignment for the same timestamps across lagged input sequences. Instead, these models exhibit low output alignment, resulting in fluctuation in prediction outputs for the same timestamps, undermining the model's re

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

    Balancing Reference Guidance and Free Generation in Trajectory Rollouts for Reasoning RL

    arXiv:2610.11128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A verified reference solution provides a correct trajectory for training a reasoning model. Alternatively, a prefix of the reference can guide the model in generating a trajectory of its own. How much reference guidance should we provide? We study this question through prefix continuation, where the model continues from a reference prefix and keeps the resulting trajectory if it passes verification, falling back to the reference otherwise. Since both procedures produce correct trajectories, we compare their distributions with the ideal distributi

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

    SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2610.11345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving LLM agents promise to improve autonomously through continual interaction and learning, reducing their dependence on manually curated supervision. Realizing this promise requires not only updating the agent, but also evolving its training experience as its capabilities change. However, most existing pipelines rely on static datasets or separately updated synthesis models, causing previously useful tasks to become trivial while overly difficult tasks remain uninformative. This growing mismatch between agent capability and training exp

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

    OpenProblemBench: Benchmarking AI on Open Problems in the Foundational Theoretical Sciences

    arXiv:2610.11118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The next frontier for artificial general intelligence is tackling unresolved scientific problems, calling for benchmarks that assess progress beyond established knowledge. We introduce OpenProblemBench, a benchmark of 82 unresolved problems drawn from the mathematics and theoretical physics literature. Each problem supplies the research context, assumptions, and prior progress needed to investigate the question. We select problems whose proposed solutions admit comparatively clear checks of their decisive mathematical or computational claims. Fou

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

    Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities

    arXiv:2610.11012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Powerful misaligned AI models might recognize alignment evaluations and strategically behave well on them, rendering direct audits uninformative. However, distilling such a model into a weaker benign student places the teacher in a Distillation Double Bind: if misalignment transfers, the student may conceal it less effectively, revealing evidence about the teacher; if it does not, the student may learn useful capabilities while remaining benign. We introduce two distinct distillation approaches, one targeting each outcome. Distillation for Incrim

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

    MedBenchAgent: Towards Systematic Automation of Medical VLM Benchmark Construction

    arXiv:2610.11312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale construction of medical vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks is increasingly feasible with richly annotated imaging datasets and large language models (LLMs), yet existing automation largely focuses on generating evaluation items within predefined benchmark specifications. We study the broader problem of automatically deriving the specification itself: what to evaluate, which annotations support each task, and how to translate this evidence into reliable evaluation items. We formulate benchmark construction as constrained compilatio

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

    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 evaluation without human involvement. Despite their flexibility, their reliability on long tasks spanning multiple applications remains unclear. A trajectory, composed of long sequences of screenshots and actions, may appear complete, but in reality violates constraints from the instruction or introduces an unwanted side effect. To identify these errors, a judge needs to examine the trajectory with r

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

    DivMoE: Fine-Grained MoE Upcycling via Cross-Domain Expert Composition

    arXiv:2610.11317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have become essential for scaling large language models, with recent work demonstrating the benefits of fine-grained expert designs. Training such models from scratch is expensive, and sparse upcycling from pre-trained dense models is an attractive alternative. However, we identify a structural pathology of fine-grained upcycling: when fine-grained experts are derived from a single source model, naive routing collapses and downstream accuracy drops to near-random (e.g., on Qwen3-1.7B, Drop-Upcycling-fine-gra

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

    TokenBank: Financial Infrastructure for AI Services

    arXiv:2610.11333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI services incur inference costs during execution, while revenue may arrive later. Changing API prices, limited upfront capital, and service failures can limit operators' ability to sustain or expand their services. Beyond reducing per-request costs, operators need to plan future spending, fund execution before revenue arrives, and obtain compensation for specified losses. This requires clear agreements across services with different pricing and execution conditions. These agreements must distinguish rights to consume services from rights to rec

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

    Beyond Imitation: A Framework and Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Peer Review

    arXiv:2610.11087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of scientific publishing has strained peer review, particularly in machine learning, raising concerns about declining review quality and increasing reviewer workload. Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as automated review assistants, yet their evaluation has focused largely on imitating human-written reviews rather than supporting the core functions of peer review. Here, we introduce a verification-centric perspective on LLM-assisted peer review, emphasizing error detection as a critical and resource-intensive task.

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

    Finsler Flow Matching: Dynamics-Aware Geodesic Interpolation for Single-Snapshot Trajectory Inference

    arXiv:2610.11318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-cell snapshot data can resolve a continuum of cellular states but do not uniquely determine the dynamics governing transitions between them. However, additional dynamical information can often be encoded in a cell-cell Markov transition kernel. Existing generative approaches for single cell trajectory inference either infer transport only from population marginals, impose a symmetric geometry on the state space, or incorporate directionality through a single velocity vector at each observed state. We introduce Finsler Flow Matching (FFM),

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

    Reading the Room: Foundations, Design, and Challenges of Normative Competence in LLMs

    arXiv:2610.10906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human communities are governed by normative systems: shared standards that produce \textit{norms} dictating acceptable behavior, enforced through community sanctioning. Aligning increasingly autonomous AI systems with these norms is a central alignment challenge, complicated by the fact that norms are vast in number, change quickly, and are often arbitrary (e.g., dress or language conventions). Thus, alignment requires \textit{normative competence}: the ability to discern from interaction alone what norms a community enforces without relying on s

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

    Self-Supervised Keyframe Discovery for Horizon-Invariant Behavior Cloning

    arXiv:2610.10857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior cloning (BC) in non-Markovian environments is a challenging problem because policies have to reason over contextual information over long horizons. Existing policy architectures rely on recurrent or attention-based mechanisms to capture long-term dependencies. However, recurrent models suffer from hidden-state collapse and gradient instability under backpropagation through time, while attention-based models are fundamentally limited by context length. To address these issues, we propose Keyframe Mnemonics, a novel self-supervised method

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

    StoreBench: A Live-Commerce Environment for Evaluating and Training Autonomous Operator Agents

    arXiv:2610.10942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning environments are now a primary lever for improving large language model (LLM) capabilities in post-training, yet most agentic benchmarks remain static: the world moves only when the agent acts, the reward is a terminal verdict, and the pass bar is set arbitrarily. We introduce StoreBench, a live-commerce environment in which an agent runs a mid-size online apparel store on a production-grade commerce backend, testing long-horizon planning and economic judgment under uncertainty. Customers order around the clock, suppliers r

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

    Whose Ground Truth? Embracing Ambiguity in Human-Centered AI

    arXiv:2610.10805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems increasingly interact with people and make decisions about them, understanding human interpretations becomes an important part of developing human-centered AI. Conventional machine learning and AI systems are largely developed under the assumption that a single definitive ground truth exists, with variability in human annotations often resolved through aggregation or treated as noise. However, for many human-centered tasks, human interpretation is inherently ambiguous, and multiple interpretations of the same input may be simultaneo

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

    Plan-and-Patch: Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Planning

    arXiv:2610.10786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning is increasingly important for long-horizon agents, where successful execution requires coordinating subgoals, tool use, and intermediate outcomes over many steps. Yet assumptions made during planning may be invalidated by the environment, tools may return unexpected results, or actions may fail. Effective agents must therefore not only generate plans, but also revise them. Such revisions often affect only part of a plan, leaving the preceding and subsequent structure intact. Rather than regenerate the entire plan and risk unnecessary cha

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

    On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents

    arXiv:2610.10833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether small LLM agents can operate effectively under explicit wall-clock time budgets by both respecting the allocated runtime and using available time productively. We evaluate Qwen3.6-27B on five competitions from MLE-Bench Lite and Qwen3-4B on Zork I (Jericho), two agentic benchmarks where additional computational time can meaningfully improve performance. In the simplest setting, where the budget is stated only in the prompt, agents fail to translate the stated budget into controlled use of time. These failures arise from gaps in t

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

    Learning How to Search for Plans with Exponentially Less Space

    arXiv:2610.10954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heuristic search for a plan can store exponentially many states, even when its heuristic is almost perfect. We instead learn search control, one specification per domain, written as an indexical policy: a generalized policy with registers that hold objects and modes that sequence its rules. We add the choose rule, which loads an object into a register and marks a backtracking point, where one candidate suffices; every other rule must work for all of its outcomes and needs no search. Our main result is that structural termination, which rules out

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

    Verification and Self-Improvement in Agentic AI: Foundations and Limits

    arXiv:2610.10611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems can improve by searching longer, receiving additional support, or modifying how they propose and verify outputs. A performance score does not distinguish these mechanisms. We compare these changes through bounded verification with hidden terminal randomness. A stage specifies admissible transcripts, polynomial bounds, an alternating verification protocol, and a terminal checker. Its native reach uses default support; its closure frontier permits all support already admitted by the interface. Under a uniform pointwise probabilit

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

    Agent-Controlled Forgetting for Tool-Using Agents: Reversible Context Curation in Practice

    arXiv:2610.10590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents repeatedly carry observations whose useful content can be much smaller than their original payload. We study agent-controlled forgetting: the acting model selects previously observed tool results, replaces each with a short note at its original position, and retains the exact original in a recoverable archive. A Python harness exposes batch archival and explicit recovery without task-specific model training, while protecting user instructions and assistant messages from these operations. In an exploratory OpenTelemetry debugging

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

    The Harness as the Only Mutable Surface: Compliance-Bounded Self-Evolution of LLM Agents in Credit Pipelines, with a Measured Admission Gate

    arXiv:2610.10629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents can adapt a credit pipeline to a changed rule, but an agent that rewrites itself destroys the artefact a supervisor reviews: a named change, a recorded test, an approval. We argue that self-evolution is reviewable only if it is confined to the runtime harness (instruction text, tool-call logic and primitive composition) while model weights stay fixed, so that every adaptation is a diff with a cause and a test attached. We give a dual-loop engine built on that bound, with one admission gate that writes a hash-chained reco

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

    An Explainable Header-Centric Framework for Large-Scale Semantic Table Interpretation and Data Quality Assessment

    arXiv:2610.10541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Graph (KG) quality depends not only on downstream graph validation, but also on the quality of tabular metadata used before integration. In metadata-only Semantic Table Interpretation (STI), where cell values are unavailable, noisy, or unsuitable, column headers become a critical source of semantic evidence for traceable KG preparation. We present an explainable, header-centric framework for metadata-only Column Type Annotation (CTA) and Data Quality Assessment (DQA). The framework maps headers to 39 interpretable FinalFormat types usin

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
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