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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2605.23590v1Lead article

Co-ReAct: Rubrics as Step-Level Collaborators for ReAct Agents

Jiazheng Kang, Bowen Zhang, Zixin Song, Jiangwang Chen, Xiao Yang

o-ReAct introduces a novel framework where rubrics act as step-level collaborators for ReAct agents during inference. By injecting rubrics into the agent's context at each decision point, Co-ReAct provides explicit guidance on what to target in evidence seeking, reasoning, and self-evaluation, leading to more focused and effective multi-step reasoning trajectories. This approach moves beyond rubrics as mere evaluators to become active guides for agent actions.

Overview of Co-ReAct. (i) Collect: sample candidate next actions at each branching point and rank them with multi-judge expert consensus. (ii) Train: GRPO with a Spearman reward between the rubric-induced ranking and the expert ranking. (iii) Infer: the trained rubric drives a five-tuple (Rubric, Reason, Act, Verify, Observe) loop.
Overview of Co-ReAct. (i) Collect: sample candidate next actions at each branching point and rank them with multi-judge expert consensus. (ii) Train: GRPO with a Spearman reward between the rubric-induced ranking and the expert ranking. (iii) Infer: the trained rubric drives a fi…
DiLaDiff: hybrid continuous-discrete diffusion with self-distilled latent. The latent space is crafted with encoder ℰ \( \mathcal{E}_{\phi} \) and decoder 𝐱 θ {\( \mathbf{x} \)}_{\( \theta \)} and learned a posteriori with a diffusion process with denoiser 𝐳 ψ {\( \mathbf{z} \)}_{\( \psi \)} . The latent diffusion trajectories are further self-distilled with MeanFlow student 𝐮 η ​ ( 𝐳 τ , τ , r ) \( \mathbf{u}_{\eta} \)({\( \mathbf{z} \)}_{\( \tau \)},\( \tau \),r) .
DiLaDiff: hybrid continuous-discrete diffusion with self-distilled latent. The latent space is crafted with encoder ℰ \( \mathcal{E}_{\phi} \) and decoder 𝐱 θ {\( \mathbf{x} \)}_{\( \theta \)} and le…
cs.AIarxiv:2605.23605v1

DiLaDiff: Distilled Latent-Augmented Diffusion for Language Modeling

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Tomas Geffner et al.

DiLaDiff addresses the token correlation issue in diffusion language models by introducing a continuous latent space. This latent space, learned via an auto-encoder and a latent diffusion model, captures semantic relationships. A consistency model then distill…

cs.AIarxiv:2605.23899v1

From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption: A Systematic Study of Model-Generated Agent Skills

Zisu Huang, Jingwen Xu et al.

This paper systematically studies the full lifecycle of model-generated skills for language agents, from experience generation to skill extraction and consumption. Their core contribution is a utility-grounded evaluation framework that reveals model-generated …

Overview of our study design. We evaluate the full trajectory-to-skill lifecycle across three stages: experience generation, skill extraction, and skill consumption.
Overview of our study design. We evaluate the full trajectory-to-skill lifecycle across three stages: experience generation, skill extraction, and skill consumption.
cs.AIarxiv:2605.23551v1

Goal-Conditioned Agents that Learn Everything All at Once

Michael Matthews, Matthew Jackson et al.

This paper introduces Learning Everything All at Once (LEO), a method for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning. LEO efficiently utilizes all transitions by performing off-policy updates for every possible goal simultaneously, overcoming the computational in…

cs.AIarxiv:2605.23825v1

It's the humans, not the data: Geopolitical bias in LLMs originates in post-training, amplified by the language of the prompt

Stuart Bladon, Brinnae Bent

This paper demonstrates that geopolitical bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily emerges during the post-training (chat tuning) phase, not from the initial training data. The authors found that LLMs often develop a bias favoring the country of their de…

Overview, seven families. (A) Per-country preference base → \( \to \) post-trained; for the six non-GLM bases, cross-country spread \( \sigma \) grows post-training (Qwen 3.9 → 30.3 3.9\( \to \) 30.3 pp). (B) Post-training \( \Delta \) in China-favourability (EN, coherent subset). 3/3 Western labs shift anti-China; 3/4 Chinese labs shift pro-China; Yi shifts anti-China after prefill correction. GLM is shown with its (atypical) base preserved for completeness; see § Bias Is Created by Post-Training, Not Pretraining . The legend’s low-compliance encoding is described in § What MCQ Compliance Tells Us About Validity . (C) ZH − - EN shift on post-trained models: 5/7 descriptively pro-China but population-level claim is not statistically separable from the base trend (§ Linguistic Identity Modulates the Post-Training Bias ).
Overview, seven families. (A) Per-country preference base → \( \to \) post-trained; for the six non-GLM bases, cross-country spread \( \sigma \) grows post-training (Qwen 3.9 → 30.3 3.9\( \to \) 30.3 …
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MemAudit: Post-hoc Auditing of Poisoned Agent Memory via Causal Attribution and Structural Anomaly Detection

Zhewen Tan, Yilun Yao et al.

MemAudit is a post-hoc framework for auditing poisoned memory in LLM agents. It uses causal attribution to identify memories that causally influence harmful outputs and structural …

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cs.LG
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Push Your Agent: Measuring and Enforcing Quantitative Goal Persistence in Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Yuandao Cai, Yuzhang Zhu et al.

This paper introduces Quantitative Goal Persistence (QGP) to measure how well LLM agents complete tasks requiring a specific number of distinct items. Their benchmark, PushBench, u…

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cs.CL
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ARES: Automated Rubric Synthesis for Scalable LLM Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoyuan Li, Keqin Bao et al.

ARES automates the creation of question-answer pairs and corresponding weighted rubrics from raw text, enabling scalable reinforcement learning for LLMs on open-ended tasks. This f…

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cs.CL
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OpenSkillEval: Automatically Auditing the Open Skill Ecosystem for LLM Agents

Jiahao Ying, Boxian Ai et al.

This paper introduces OpenSkillEval, an automatic framework for evaluating LLM agents and the skills they use. It addresses the challenge of assessing the growing open-source skill…

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cs.AI
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AI Assurance: A Comprehensive Testing Strategy for Enterprise AI Systems

Chitra Badagi, Divye Singh et al.

This paper proposes a new AI assurance strategy for enterprise AI systems, shifting from traditional correctness verification to continuous risk reduction. It emphasizes treating e…

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