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🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs. AI Authors: Dongki Kim, Namkyeong Lee, Surag Nair, Carl Edwards, Xiner Li, Edward De Brouwer, Jenna Lynn Collier, Sung Ju Hwang, Gabriele Scalia, Ehsan Hajiramezanali Title: AutoSciBench: Autonomous Benchmark Generation for Evaluating Scientific Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05140v1 Abstract: As agents rapidly evolve, existing benchmarks can become saturated, limitin...

🤗 Upvotes: 83 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. LG, cs. MM Authors: Team Kandinsky, Julia Agafonova, Bulat Akhmatov, Mikhail Aksyutin, Grigorii Alekseenko, Anastasia Aliaskina, Olga Androsova, Vladimir Arkhipkin, Anna Averchenkova, Alexander Belykh, Serafima Bocharova, Sofiya Bogakovskaya, Anton Bukashkin, Mark Bulygin, Kirill Buzygin, Irina Cheremnykh, Kirill Chernyshev, Mikhail Chernyshov, Vladimir Chernyy...

🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Liancheng Fang, Zhuowei Li, Youngeun Kim, Tianchen Zhao, Rajat Koner, Jiaye Wu, Linghan Xu, Xuanbai Chen, Xiang Xu, Zheng Zhang, Jakub Zablocki, Nishant Sankaran, Yifan Xing Title: ALoDLM: Adaptively Looped Diffusion Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04198v1 Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable fast generation by predicting multi...

🤗 Upvotes: 112 | cs. CV Authors: Songlin Yang, Xiaotong Zhao, Jiacheng Zhang, Zhe Wang, Toyota Li, Eric Liu, Alan Zhao, Anyi Rao Title: Adaptive Reward Routing: Dynamic Multi-Reward Optimization for Joint Audio-Video Diffusion via Forward-Process RL Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37200v1 Abstract: Multi-reward guided reinforcement learning (i.e., RL) offers a promising way to improve joint audi...

🤗 Upvotes: 58 | cs. AI Authors: Yu Luo, Jiamin Jiang, Yimin Zuo, Xidao Wen, Rongchen Gao, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Guiyang Liu, Cheng Zhang, Fang Situ, Qi Zhou, Dan Pei Title: Beyond Memory: Harnessing Long-Horizon Agents with Explicit Belief States Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01415v1 Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can now undertake increasingly complex tasks, but the way t...

🤗 Upvotes: 49 | cs. CL, cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Hui Ren, Zihan Li, Chang Liu, Huidong Liu, Alexander Schwing Title: Hierarchical Continuous Diffusion Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02193v1 Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive generation for tasks demanding bidirectional reasoning and global constraint satisfaction. Yet the...

🤗 Upvotes: 44 | cs. RO Authors: Puming Jiang, Tianrun Hu, Haozhe Du, Yibo Li, Zhiwei Xue, Xinhu Li, Harold Soh Title: Agent Priors-guided Policy Learning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35690v1 Abstract: Robots that learn from a few demonstrations often require two forms of generalization. Compositional generalization recombines skills to solve new tasks, and skill generalization lets the learne...

🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs. CV Authors: Hyunwook Choi, Dahyun Chung, Hyunsung Kim, Siyoon Jin, Jinhyeok Choi, Junyoung Seo, Seungryong Kim Title: World Observer: Joint Actor-Observer Generation for Persistent World Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02162v1 Abstract: How can a world model continuously observe regions beyond the actor's current view? Video world models simulate how an environment e...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. LG, cs. MA, cs. SE Authors: Sungho Park, Wonjoong Kim, Jue Zhang, Wook-Shin Han, Pengfei Gao, Chanyoung Park, Yongqiang Yao, Rao Fu, Elsie Nallipogu, Qingwei Lin, Victor Rühle Title: ActiveSaddler: Automated Curriculum Learning for Agent Harness Optimization Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00906v1 Abstract: Automated harness optimization can substantially impr...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Changdae Oh, Qi Zeng, Qi Qi, Andrey Zhmoginov, Deren Lei, Yun He, Hoang Phan, Hangoo Kang, Azalia Mirhoseini, Sharon Li Title: Sharpening Tax in Post-Training Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01509v1 Abstract: An emerging hypothesis about reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of large language models (LLMs) is that it merely sharpens existing behaviors...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CL Authors: Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Chengrui Fan, Jianpeng Chen, Han Chen, Tianyi Zhou, Dawei Zhou Title: A Missing Piece for Trustworthy AI Reviewers: From Benchmarking Rhetorical Robustness to SciCore Review Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39027v1 Abstract: AI reviewers can assign different judgments to manuscripts that report the same science in different wording, potenti...

🤗 Upvotes: 29 | cs. CV Authors: Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Yu-Ju Tsai, Jian-Kai Zhu, Fengbo Lan, Yu-Lun Liu, Yung-Yu Chuang, Kaipeng Zhang, Zhixiang Wang Title: ROWBench: Do Video Models Render What the Program Specifies? Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02205v1 Abstract: Programmable world models separate executable dynamics from visual generation, offering a promising foundation for next-gener...

🤗 Upvotes: 27 | cs. CV Authors: Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Yutao Huang, Zhaohua Zhang, Beiduo Chen, Muxi Chen, Chenchen Zhao, Hexuan Deng, Haolin Yang, Geyuan Zhu, Sa Zhu, Jianhuan Zhuo, Qiuyong Xiao, Jianhao Ruan, Yiran Peng, Jiayi Zhang, Tian Ye, Xinlei Yu, Tianwen Jiang, Jihong Zhang, Yuyu Luo Title: AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agent Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/261...

🤗 Upvotes: 134 | cs. LG Authors: Hao Li, MeiJia Chen, Weijie Ren, Donghan Li, Zijun Tian, Jingchun Huang, Naibo Wang Title: The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36484v1 Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match the teacher's next-token distributions on the...

🤗 Upvotes: 120 | cs. AI, cs. CV Authors: Fang Wu, Da Xing, Yanjie Huang, Junxi Wang, Ji Wang, Hejia Geng, Guancheng Wan, Bowen Zuo, Xiaomin Li, Shixiang Tang, Xinyu Xiang, Zehong Wang, Shiyi Du, Peng Xia, Shuangjia Zheng, Yining Hong, Li Erran Li, Jure Leskovec, Yejin Choi Title: UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement Arxiv: http://arxiv.or...

🤗 Upvotes: 68 | cs. CL, cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Meijia Chen, Hao Li, Zheng Lu, Hongshan Lin, Junbai Tian, Yichen Liu, Zijun Tian, Yufan Zou, Shuhan Sun, Hanxin Chen, Zeyu Zhang, Weizhi Du, Yueting Li, Tianyu Shi, Alaa Khamis Title: False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39102v1 Abstract: Self-evolving search agents bu...

🤗 Upvotes: 64 | cs. AI Authors: Hongjin Qian, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo, Wenqing Wei, Jianlyu Chen, Shuqi Lu, Yuyang Hu, Hongwang Xiao, Hui Wang, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zhicheng Dou, Defu Lian, Zheng Liu Title: AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38288v1 Abstract: We present AREX-2, an effort to advance the self-improving capabi...

🤗 Upvotes: 60 | cs. AI Authors: Ziyan Jiang, Jingbo Yang, Jiabao Ji, Yujian Liu, Qiucheng Wu, Tommi Jaakkola, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Chang Title: WorldAuditBench: Interactive 3D World Auditing with Multimodal Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40325v1 Abstract: As interactive 3D worlds are increasingly used to study intelligent behavior, it becomes important to develop efficient pipelines for ide...

🤗 Upvotes: 57 | cs. CL, cs. AI, cs. MA Authors: Minki Kang, Ryo Hachiuma, Shaokun Zhang, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Yonggan Fu, Jindong Jiang, Mingjie Liu, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Yi Dong, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Byung-Kwan Lee Title: Mid-Harness: Scaling Actions Between Model and Harness for Terminal Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39982v1 Abstract: Terminal agents act through stochastic model...

🤗 Upvotes: 41 | cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. LG Authors: Cheng Qian, Kunlun Zhu, Beibin Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji Title: Learning Meta-Skills for Agent Harness Design in Test-Time AI4AI Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38143v1 Abstract: Agent performance depends on both reasoning ability and the environment in which it acts. We study test-time AI-for-AI, asking how a Builder can learn to construct bet...

🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs. CL Authors: Yuhan Guo, Jinming Liu, Liang Xu, Ziqiang Li, Jianguo Huang, Zhicheng Wang, Hu Zhu, Qiuyu Chen, Yuntao Wei, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng Title: EVOKE: Eliciting World Knowledge in Agents for Transferable Decision-Making Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38334v1 Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents for multi-step decision-making, yet tra...

🤗 Upvotes: 29 | cs. AI Authors: Tianxiang Gao, Jinzhe Li, Zhiyuan Li, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu Title: More Choices, Fewer Decisions: Ordinal-Scale Bias in JEV-like Direct-Decision Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38827v1 Abstract: Direct-decision models turn text into low-latency structured labels and scores, making them attractive for classification and automatic evaluation. Yet reliability requ...

🤗 Upvotes: 254 | cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. GT, cs. MA, cs. NE Authors: EverMind AI Title: Raven: The Harness of Harnesses for Composable Agentic Intelligence Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33439v1 Abstract: As large language models advance, AI agents are moving beyond isolated, domain-specific tasks toward long-horizon, cross-domain workflows. This transition exposes two challenges: increasing harnes...

🤗 Upvotes: 189 | cs. CV Authors: Haoyu Zhao, Zihao Zhang, Xudong Wang, Jiaxi Gu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Shuicheng Yan Title: MaLiang-Harness: A Programmable Path to Image and Video Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34309v1 Abstract: Executable programs offer explicit control over how images and videos are constructed, but generating runnable code is only the beginning of visual creat...

🤗 Upvotes: 88 | cs. CV, cs. RO Authors: Zhen Wang, Changpeng Wang, Zhe Liu, Zhangyang Qi, Yuxiang Lu, Zimo Zeng, Donglian Qi, Xi Chen Title: PanoVLN: Towards Effective Panoramic Vision-and-Language Navigation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34759v1 Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced vision-and-language navigation (VLN), enabling models to predict navigation actions from...