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As we move through the world and carry out everyday tasks, we encounter objects that may become relevant only later. We are capable of recalling where we left s...
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Modern language models undergo reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on top of already-trained checkpoints. A key promise of RLVR is the discove...
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Conditional memory architectures such as DeepSeek Engram use input n-grams to look up learned embeddings, expanding the capacity of large language models (LLMs)...
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Real-time robot control demands enough visual history to infer motion and task progress, but processing that history can delay action. We present Long-WAM, a mo...
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Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are strikingly sensitive to instruction phrasing and do not inherit the language robustness of the vision-language models t...
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Latent world models have shown a remarkable ability to predict future states and to plan in the real world. In practice, however, we lack a principled way to es...
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Language-model agents are increasingly asked to carry out open-ended scientific research, yet their results are usually graded against a known answer, a rubric,...
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Prompted embedding models have recently received increasing attention, particularly for retrieval, where detailed retrieval instructions are provided as part of...
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Large language models are increasingly applied to tasks grounded in long, heterogeneous information sources. Conventional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) r...
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Many of the questions now put to large language models have no correct answer to score against: what a policy is worth, which option a user should choose, how t...
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Robot foundation models provide strong visuomotor control, yet their performance can degrade when object positions or task instructions change. Further improvem...
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How can we predict which base checkpoint is worth an expensive round of agentic post-training? End-to-end pass@$K$ tests whether successful behavior already app...
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Deployments of research agents are moving to populations of thousands that share one pool of compute, while most current systems organize one project at a time...
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AI learning tools are rapidly entering classrooms, but evidence about whether they help students learn is mixed and rests mostly on test scores. Comparatively l...
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We present FoldBack, a self-correcting masked generative policy for long-horizon garment folding. Existing long-trajectory policies may continue after a missed...
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Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) is used in two settings. In common-domain composition, several teachers score each student rollout from one prompt d...
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Hallucinated information can propagate through multi-stage LLM systems and become part of the context for subsequent reasoning. Existing studies of post-halluci...
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) from outcome rewards suffers from sparse supervision, particularly on difficult, long-horizon tasks where successful trajectories ar...
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Much knowledge work produces new deliverables from files a workspace already holds, and LLM agents are beginning to take such work over. Through direct corpus i...
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Flow policies capture rich and diverse action distributions, and fine-tuning them with off-policy RL to improve beyond the demonstrations has drawn growing inte...
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METR's 50\% time horizon measures the human completion time of software tasks that an AI solves with 50\% probability, allowing AI capabilities to be expressed...
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In 2026, cybersecurity evaluations involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents reached real systems outside their authorized test scope. The paths were diffe...
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We propose BrickBench, a benchmark for agentic text-conditioned LEGO-set design. Given a prompt, an agent is tasked with producing an assembly that not only sat...
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Bifurcations are ubiquitous in physical systems, from structural buckling to fluid and climate dynamics, yet they remain largely unexplored in deep learning. At...
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Recent incidents have highlighted the challenge of monitoring LLM agents and the danger of models deceiving people. We show that white-box deception detection v...
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AI agents can now conduct real-world cyberattacks, scale up capabilities with the number of agents, and collectively pursue misaligned goals to obtain rewards....
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Streaming Video Large Language Models (VLMs) enable continuous video understanding, yet existing benchmarks focus on low-dynamic scenarios. Under bounded contex...
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A generalist robot should not only perform diverse tasks but also improve through experience, turning what it learns during execution into capabilities that lat...
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with spatial, embodied, physical, and temporal reasoning. We hypothesize that these failures reflect a shared...
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Generating realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in complex 3D scenes requires two complementary capabilities: reasoning about interaction feasibility in th...
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LLM developers post-train their models to exhibit prosocial values and behavioral traits, which are enumerated in an alignment target. However, while recent pos...
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Safety benchmarks typically report one overall score for a suite of datasets, each of which may target one or more safety-related attributes, so models with sim...
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World action models (WAMs) predict actions and future observations, typically from a reconstruction-based representation that carries noisy, redundant informati...
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Skill-augmented agents improve sample efficiency by distilling successful trajectories into reusable strategies. Yet most existing approaches remain text-centri...
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Existing spatial reasoning benchmarks mainly test spatial perception: reading off relations already visible in the input. Yet real-world spatial intelligence de...
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Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires spe...
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Interpreting machine learning model predictions is a central challenge, particularly for black-box vision models. Concept-based attribution methods interpret mo...
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Recursive self-improvement (RSI) aims to transform interaction experience into persistent improvements, yet external feedback is costly and world-model predicti...
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly analyze and reason about images, yet it remains unclear whether their internal representations faithfully encode the...
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While deep learning models for tabular data have recently received significant research attention, the choice of objective functions for regression tasks remain...
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Neural semantic parsers generate meaning representations token by token, yet well-formedness depends on references, scope, and graph relations that unfold durin...
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Large language models reuse the same attention heads across tasks, but identifying these shared heads does not explain what they do differently in each task. A...
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As AI agents increasingly rely on external tools, accurate retrieval is essential for reliable behavior. Existing methods optimize semantic relevance but largel...
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Personal agents increasingly connect to services across the web and applications by using tools. As the effects of their actions accumulate and interact across...
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Comics are one of the great visual records of the twentieth century: hundreds of thousands of pages in which a mass readership saw its leaders, its wars and its...
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When solving complex spatial reasoning tasks, ordinary humans naturally revisit the scenes from task-relevant viewpoints and mentally reconstruct the spatial la...
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A central challenge in embodied recursive self-improvement is enabling agents to convert interaction history into capabilities that persist beyond one world and...
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Recent advances in automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) have driven a shift from scripted to free-form assessment. However, existing methods often rely on m...
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Semantic query engines ask a large language model (LLM) to judge individual rows, and benchmarks compare these engines on the quality of a few executions at tem...
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A useful language model should know when to answer and when to say "I don't know." Can we improve that decision by training the model itself or by training a se...
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Multilingual dense retrievers place all languages in one shared space so that a question finds relevant documents, regardless of which language they are written...
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Task planning for robots in off-site construction prefabrication is primarily manual, leading to planning inefficiencies and reluctance to adopt robotic solutio...
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Reusable skills let LLM agents load task-specific instructions on demand, but they make execution depend on implicit routing over skill metadata. We test whethe...
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Autoregressive language models produce, at every prediction step, a vocabulary-sized logit vector whose structure determines the conditional next-token distribu...
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Knowledge distillation trains student models on teacher-generated responses to transfer task capability, but those responses may also carry behavioral tendencie...
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Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as personal assistants; however, little is known about how they capture national-level preferences on a global sca...
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Buildings cause nearly 40\% of carbon emissions in the US. Of total building emissions, HVAC systems are responsible for approximately 40-60\% and account for 1...
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Clinical trial protocols serve as the source of truth for study design, but are mostly written and used as unstructured PDF documents. Digitizing protocols turn...
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Egocentric video understanding spans diverse capabilities, modalities, and evaluation formats, yet these are often studied in isolation despite their tight coup...
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Autoformalization (AF) requires more than compilation: formal statements must preserve the meaning of their informal sources, a property known as faithfulness....
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Tool-call judges evaluate argument values proposed by LLM agents. We find that they accept a correct value less often when their input holds no reference for it...
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Objective digital measures of depression severity could complement conventional symptom assessments and facilitate more timely clinical evaluation. Here, we inv...
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Terminal agents have shown strong abilities in complex coding tasks. However, they often struggle to recover from errors during long-running execution (e.g., co...
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Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong potential for embodied vision-language navigation (VLN), yet their performance degrades on long-horizon t...
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People increasingly bring their health questions to ChatGPT, yet safety evaluations of LLM health advice rest almost entirely on clinician-authored vignettes, s...
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Recent advances in robot learning have driven rapid progress in humanoid control, enabling increasingly agile behaviors in the real world. However, humanoid con...
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Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) is a cornerstone of autonomous robotic systems, yet real-world fine-tuning remains a formidable challenge because of high-dimensional...
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Training language agents is bottlenecked by the high cost of long-horizon rollouts, yet standard agentic reinforcement learning (RL) learns only from a terminal...
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Scaling up transformers has produced models with broad capabilities, deployed across heterogeneous hardware and fluctuating workloads. Yet, model families offer...
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An agentic market is a decentralized serving-time market where AI agents bid to claim each user prompt. An agent's bid is based on its expected value for the pr...
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We introduce Continuum Attention (CA), a causal Transformer attention operator that replaces discrete key and value lookup with integration over a continuous, p...
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Computer-use agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in interpreting screens and executing keyboard and mouse actions. However, games, with their visually...
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Long contexts enlarge key--value (KV) caches, increasing memory use and attention costs during generation. Compressing these caches must preserve information fo...
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Post-training binds the competence of an LLM agent to the interface it was trained on. Semantics-preserving perturbations of that interface, such as renaming an...
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We introduce a novel method for verifying Lean formalizations that goes beyond LLM-judged faithfulness. Unlike most verification methods, which rely on LLMs or...
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On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model on its own rollouts with token-level supervision from a teacher, assuming that the teacher can reach a corre...
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Brazilian Portuguese remains underserved by open-source language models, and the few that are safety-aligned rarely document what did not work or validate compa...
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Automated research with LLM agents has shown promising results in various domains. Through iterative refinement and scored verifiers, LLM agents are capable of...
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3D object composition is pivotal to digital content creation and robot simulation, while also serving as a critical testbed for physical intelligence in foundat...
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Understanding the social intelligence of large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important for applications involving human-AI interaction and multi-agent...
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Personalization is essential for general-purpose robots to transition into household environments and achieve true practicality. While general robotic manipulat...
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Significant efforts are currently being directed toward the implementation of large-scale quantum information processors, but realizing useful quantum advantage...
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Predicting how the world responds to an action requires more than what can be seen: robots must account for environmental factors that are neither directly obse...
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Generative simulation can automate robot environment construction, but physically valid environments are not necessarily useful for training. The challenge is t...
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Generative visual verifiers play a crucial role in advancing multimodal intelligence. To enhance the robustness of visual verifiers in complex multimodal scenar...
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Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models have become an important approach for scaling model parameters. Modern MoE architectures increasingly combine two design choices...
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Existing agent benchmarks typically evaluate agents on well-specified tasks defined by issue reports, specifications, or task tickets. Real-world customer deliv...
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Large language models (LLMs) are expanding from assisting scientific research and engineering to autonomously developing and improving AI systems, advancing AI...
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Recent 3D world models increasingly use features from geometry foundation models (GFMs) as predictive world states, benefiting from their rich geometric priors....
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We introduce 3DCodeVerse, a research ecosystem that enables coding agents to create editable and verifiable 3D content at scale. 3DCodeVerse comprises large-sca...
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How can robots autonomously collect the contact-rich experience needed to learn dexterous manipulation? We present DSP: Dexterity from supervised play, a framew...
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Large language models (LLMs) can often tell when they are being tested. This ability, known as evaluation awareness, can lead models to act more cautiously duri...
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Deep search agents solve knowledge-intensive tasks through long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where assigning credit to individual search decisions is funda...
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Continuous diffusion language models (CDLMs) offer an alternative approach to parallel language generation; however, most existing studies directly use transfor...
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Image editing models produce impressive results for individual edits, but their quality often deteriorates over multiple editing turns. Each editing turn introd...
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Pixel-space diffusion models have recently re-emerged as a compelling alternative to latent diffusion, avoiding the lossy latent bottleneck and separately train...
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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) can induce behaviors beyond those explicitly targeted. For example, training a model to respond more warmly can make it...
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Reproducible and analytically robust research findings are essential to scientific progress, but evaluating these properties typically requires costly manual ef...
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Scientific discovery requires developing worthwhile hypotheses into practical investigations, yet learning from this evolving research process remains challengi...
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A reasoning trace can accompany a correct answer without providing effective supervision for a particular student. We study how to construct traces that improve...
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Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) accelerate scientific discovery by automating experimental execution and optimization. AI agents can increasingly propose new e...
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Speculative decoding typically characterizes speedup by draft tokens accepted per verification round. Lossless verification preserves the target model's output...
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While deriving text embeddings directly from frozen LLMs has emerged as a promising direction, existing methods focus almost exclusively on English, leaving mul...
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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) explain foundation model representations by decomposing activations into sparse combinations of learned dictionary atoms. However, th...
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Transformer prefill reuses weights across tokens and is dominated by matrix multiplication and activation data movement; single-token decode has limited reuse a...
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Computational drug discovery requires agents to compose scientific operations and adapt to changing evidence and constraints. Here we introduce DrugHarness, an...
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Speculative decoding has become a mainstream technique for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to generate cand...
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Recent large audio language models (LALMs) have extended their capabilities beyond lexical speech understanding to tasks requiring paralinguistic and non-lingui...
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The Italian legislative process is documented in detailed parliamentary records hosted in institutional websites. However, much of this information is available...
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Perceived gender inference from names is important for inclusive scientometrics research, yet existing methods perform poorly on non-Western scholars. We addres...
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on visual reasoning, yet many tasks require evidence that is difficult to obtain through inter...
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While LLM agents can generate visually plausible CAD assemblies, these designs often fail to fulfill their intended physical functions. We study functional CAD...
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Multimodal reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable task-level supervision, yet offers limited guidance for localizing errors in...
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Reinforcement learning enables mobile robots to make fast and scalable navigation decisions in constrained human-shared environments. However, directly extendin...
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In this paper, we systematically investigate the mechanisms, scaling behavior, and generalization of physical Recursive self-improvement. We introduce PhysRSI-e...
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Long-horizon agents must learn heterogeneous capabilities from interleaved trajectories. Updating shared parameters to learn new capabilities can degrade previo...
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A seemingly reasonable push in Sokoban can make the puzzle unsolvable. To avoid such mistakes, an agent has to anticipate the consequences of its actions before...
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The goal of a world model is to capture the dynamics of an environment. This has the great appeal that it allows agents to plan and simulate a course of actions...
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Systems that combine several large language models (LLMs) often use one context for many questions. When the context is passed between models as text, the recei...
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LLM agents that compute the right answer can still answer wrongly. Agent harnesses increasingly keep long tool outputs out of the context window, saving them to...
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We propose KronLSTM, a linear attention architecture based on the Kronecker Delta Rule, a novel update rule for associative matrix memories. KronLSTM extends th...
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Many modern language models have adopted hybrid architectures that incorporate both linear-time recurrence and softmax attention. Modern recurrence layers provi...
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Frontier agents retrieve structural metadata well and compute geometry from coordinates less reliably. We ask how much of a benchmark score reflects that gap an...
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Agent learning is shifting from learning from human data toward learning through interaction with the world. However, scaling such learning directly in real-wor...
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Context compression improves long-context efficiency but may introduce faithfulness issues through an information bottleneck. Existing evaluations rely on QA me...
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Video generation models can now depict remarkably realistic motion. Yet it is unclear how to use this motion beyond pixels: to animate a specific 3D asset and r...
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Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems hold immense potential for automating complex workflows in materials discovery and design, but extending them to do...
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Motivated by the human ability to integrate experience across language, perception, and action, we introduce UniWALM, a unified world-action-language model that...
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Warehouse robot fleets continuously observe operational conditions, but preserving these observations as reusable semantic memory incurs substantial computation...
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Spatial intelligence has recently been assessed through generative tasks such as spatially grounded image editing, yet language-guided generation of spatially c...
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Multi-token prediction (MTP) can accelerate language-model decoding by drafting several tokens and verifying them in a single target-model pass. However, the be...
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Picture-description dementia classification uses a shared visual scene, but a transcript-level prediction alone does not identify the scene evidence underlying...
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Modern distributed microservice deployments generate massive volumes of heterogeneous, multi-format observability logs across physically and logically partition...
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Mathematical reasoning remains underexplored for low-resource languages, including Dialectal Arabic. To bridge this gap, we introduce the DAR-MGSM (Dialectal Ar...
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Current evaluation of LLM-generated debate largely focuses on argumentative quality, leaving the value structure of generated arguments underexamined. We introd...
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TS2Vec is one of the strongest self-supervised methods for time series classification, introduced in 2022. It is designed to be trained anew on every dataset: s...
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Computer-use agents are limited by the interfaces humans give them. An agent may type a spreadsheet cell by cell when a single line of code would do, or print a...
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RTL repair benchmarks should measure whether a model can fix broken RTL given a specification. To this end, we construct and hash-bind RTLRepairDataset, 5,784 (...
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Agentic on-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student agent on its own trajectories while a teacher scores every token. A natural explanation of where it goes w...
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Simulation is a powerful tool for robotics, but building diverse, simulation-ready scenes at scale remains difficult. Reconstructing scenes from single images i...
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Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective way to strengthen the long-context reasoning of large language models (LLMs), but it needs training data that are lo...
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Existing sequential recommenders usually allocate a fixed computational budget to every item in a user's interaction history, regardless of the item's contribut...
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Existing world models typically perceive a scene through current visual frame or a narrow history window. However, these observations may not reveal the physics...
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Through a tangle of real-world interactions, from synthetic training pipelines to data shared on the open web, frontier LLMs absorb what their predecessors and...
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Consensus is a fundamental problem in distributed computing and at the core of state machine replication (SMR). Despite decades of active human research, discov...
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Quantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and d...
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Multimodal agents (MMAs) sustain interaction through reasoning, memory, tools, and feedback, most visibly as computer-use agents, while robotic systems (RSs) co...
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Sequential decision-making under partial observability is difficult because agents must explore to infer hidden, task-relevant information before acting effecti...
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Despite recent advances, current AI systems remain highly susceptible to domain shifts, particularly in biomedical imaging, where images are usually acquired un...
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Many NP-complete (NPC) problems have a polynomial-time (P) twin that differs in a single structural detail, such as 3- versus 2-colouring a graph. A model that...
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Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a central paradigm for aligning Large Language Models with human values. However, the reliance on s...
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Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, but imitation learning (IL) alone often struggles to master complex long-horizon...
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Perimeter triage faces a latency/semantics trade-off: signature engines are fast and format-safe but blind to unseen attacks, while generative models are semant...
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Parallel AI agents can produce useful local edits yet degrade a shared solution when their edits are combined. We model this coordination problem as discrete bl...
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Data agents built on ReAct-style loops now execute complex analytical workflows over structured data, yet their intermediate reasoning still runs almost entirel...
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Test-time scaling has emerged as a key inference strategy for reasoning models, where a model generates a large number of candidate solutions in the hope of fin...
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Wrong automatic routing of an IT support ticket can cost more than human triage. We evaluate cost-aware abstention as an offline, cost-conditional readiness ass...
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Meta-reinforcement learning aims to train agents that adapt quickly to unseen tasks from limited interaction, but this requires representing task evidence over...
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Tool-using language model agents rely on environmental facts to decide whether an action is permitted. When a tool response omits a safety-relevant fact, an age...
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Many recent open-weight language models use n-gram embedding tables to improve performance. These tables store learned representations of short token sequences,...
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Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting elicits step-by-step rationales that appear to explain model predictions, but there is no guarantee these steps causally drive...
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Multilingual pipelines such as FineWeb2 apply one recipe across a thousand languages, leaving the failure modes of individual languages unanticipated. We use an...
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Instrumental convergence is often invoked as a general reason to expect capable agents to acquire or express power-seeking subgoals: self-preservation, resource...
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While monolingual language model (LM) surprisal is widely established as a predictor of reading times, it cannot capture the non-native (L2) reading dynamics th...
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Purpose: To describe an evidence-aware retrieval evaluation protocol for a clinical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system over breast lesion management li...
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Control evaluations measure whether safeguards can prevent an AI model from causing undesired outcomes even when it is intentionally trying to do so. These eval...
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Institutions that deploy large language models in regulated settings often need technical evidence of responsible AI practices before approving a deployment. CO...
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Accuracy on medical examinations is common evidence offered for the clinical use of language models, yet a health system that intends to run an open model on it...
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Research on sycophancy asks whether large language models (LLMs) bend towards what their users want to hear. We ask the reverse question: when an LLM is confide...
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Masked diffusion language models generate tokens in parallel, but their efficiency depends on which predictions are committed. Learned unmasking policies improv...
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This article argues that instruction-fine-tuned language models should be understood as implementing a genre, what is proposed as the instructional-conversation...
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Training generalizable embodied agents requires realistic, varied, and simulation-ready indoor environments. Language-guided methods support semantic planning a...
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Robust reinforcement learning (RL) is critical for reliable real-world deployment, where policies may fail under diverse shifts and disruptions. Existing robust...
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Collecting high-quality demonstrations remains a central bottleneck for learning dexterous manipulation. Teleoperation records executable robot actions, but it...
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Personal email agents decide, for every message, what it is, whether it is urgent, whether to draft a reply, create a task, or ignore it. Their error rate is ra...
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Objective: To develop a unified vision-language model for prompt-conditioned quantitative ultrasound measurement that addresses the mismatch between continuous...
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Large language model (LLM) platforms introducing advertising must decide how much capability ad revenue should fund and what consumers should pay to avoid ads....
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Despite advances in multilingual text representations, effective dense retrieval for Persian remains constrained by the limited availability of language-specifi...
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Modern language models rely on subwording tokenization to define the discrete units of input processing, typically using methods like Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) t...
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Statement autoformalization translates mathematics from natural language into a proof assistant such as Lean 4, and models now do it at scale. As provers get st...
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to optimize code for performance. This practice often assumes that improvements in execution speed naturally...
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While multimodal contrastive models like CLIP and CLAP successfully learn shared representations, their embeddings typically exhibit a persistent \emph{modality...
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Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but its cost is dominated by autoregressive rollout gene...
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Low-rank SVD-based compression offers a powerful strategy to reduce the computational costs of LLMs. However, existing methods face two key limitations: (i) glo...
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In LLM-agent opinion simulations, each agent reports the probability that a claim is true after seeing its own previous probability and the probabilities report...
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While language models have become dramatically more capable, retrieval still largely relies on lexical matching or similarity in fixed embedding spaces. This cr...
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Evolution strategies (ES) update a model by sampling a population of perturbed copies, scoring each one, and moving in the reward-weighted direction of the pert...
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Many everyday tasks require controlling contact force as well as motion. On a humanoid, this force must often be coordinated across both hands and the whole bod...
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Large language models (LLMs) show promise in specialty medicine, yet existing evaluations largely focus on isolated clinical encounters rather than tracking how...
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Expanding multilingual ASR systems to new languages is challenging when adaptation must preserve previously supported languages without replaying source-languag...
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Human oversight is a pillar of AI safety. It is often exercised by a human in the loop (HITL) who approves critical actions taken by an AI agent. AI agents' inc...
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Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can control robots without robot-specific training, but how their capabilities compare and interact with post-...
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A vulnerability costs more to fix the later it is discovered. As coding agents generate code faster than developers can review it, software needs a first line o...
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Selection bias in large language models (LLMs) can persist despite instructions to ignore presentation order or prompts that elicit reasoning. Recent efforts to...
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A robot policy needs to understand what a task is asking for in a scene, and how to move the robot to accomplish that task. To achieve these two skills, we intr...
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Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) can generate multiple tokens in parallel, but often require many decoding rounds to complete a response. Efficient gener...
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Many academic disciplines (in particular, mathematics and the theoretical sciences) face difficult questions about how to adapt their practices to the rise of h...
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Deep research, or any use of large language models (LLMs) to read a large document collection and produce insights, requires synthesizing information from diffe...
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Cybersecurity governance, risk management, compliance, and security architecture rely on numerous concepts, including security properties, domains, controls, ri...
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Interactive environments offer a practical way to evaluate large language model (LLM) agents, and competitive games extend this evaluation to decisions shaped b...
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Novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction have advanced rapidly with radiance fields and splatting, yet their memory and computational demands limit their use...
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress in robotic manipulation, but their generalization remains constrained by the diversity and co...
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We introduce Heads of Security (HoS), a prompt injection defense that enforces instruction-data separation via a small set of learned per-head attention gates....
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Relations compose through the entity they share - Alice is Bob's mother and Bob is Carol's father, so Alice is Carol's grandmother - and the order matters, sinc...
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Atmospheric chemical mechanisms are commonly distributed in the language of the Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP), which generates efficient Fortran or C code but does...
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in multi-turn agentic workloads that require sustained interaction with complex environments. Existing reflec...
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Scientific discovery often begins with an unexpected observation that prompts a new research question. In a world with altered physical laws, can large language...
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Weight decay and explicit weight-norm constraints improve optimizer performance in language model pretraining, yet a unified understanding of why such control h...
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Self-attention plays a key role in long-sequence modeling, but its quadratic time complexity fundamentally limits the scaling of Large Language Models. Recently...
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Diffusion language models offer a promising path to efficient agents through parallel token generation. However, efficient interaction requires adapting both wh...
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Language models pretrained on web corpora collected over multiple years learn both general and domain-specific knowledge. How these different kinds of knowledge...
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When an LLM group's discussion is compressed into a short memory for a final decision maker, what should the memory keep? Two natural heuristics keep the rarest...
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Chain-of-thought reasoning has substantially advanced video understanding in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, language-based reasoning traces...
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As executable environments for language agents scale, generating and verifying their rollouts becomes increasingly expensive. Under finite rollout budgets, this...
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For audio-language models, an answer change after a local sound-event edit can reflect a response to the event's class, sensitivity to waveform rewriting, or bo...
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