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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2606.07410v1Lead article

A Comprehensive Anatomy of Human and DeepSeek-R1 LLM Mathematical Reasoning

Yuxiang Chen, Jun Wang

his paper empirically compares human and DeepSeek-R1 LLM mathematical reasoning on AIME problems. It finds that while the LLM mimics the structure of human solutions, it lacks genuine reasoning, exhibiting "topological mimicry" through repetitive, shallow checks and loops. However, successful LLM solutions show stable use of branching and backtracing, suggesting potential signals of deeper reasoning.

State CoT: A transition diagram illustrating the discrete reasoning states and meta-cognitive actions within a trajectory.
State CoT: A transition diagram illustrating the discrete reasoning states and meta-cognitive actions within a trajectory.
Overview of the AARRI-Bench Pipeline. The benchmark is constructed through a three-stage human-in-the-loop workflow with two-dimensional task categorization across task scenarios and agent scope levels. Tasks are evaluated under the Harbor framework with standardized environments, multiple agent harnesses and models, and both coarse-grained and fine-grained metrics.
Overview of the AARRI-Bench Pipeline. The benchmark is constructed through a three-stage human-in-the-loop workflow with two-dimensional task categorization across task scenarios and agent scope level…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.07462v1

Act As a Real Researcher: A Suite of Benchmarks Evaluating Frontier LLMs and Agentic Harnesses in Research Lifecycle

Jiayu Wang, Weijiang Lv et al.

The paper introduces AARR (Act As a Real Researcher), a benchmark series designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents on their ability to perform research tasks with the professionalism and nuanced judgment of human researchers, rather than …

cs.AIarxiv:2606.07412v1

Socratic-SWE: Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Trace-Derived Agent Skills

Chuan Xiao, Zhengbo Jiao et al.

Socratic-SWE is a self-evolving framework for training software engineering agents. It leverages the agent's past problem-solving attempts (traces) to identify recurring failures and successful repair strategies. These distilled "skills" then guide the generat…

Overview of our survey. Left: the survey pipeline. Right: our Watch–Remember–Reason taxonomy for MLLM-based video understanding. Watch (Sec. 3.1 ) covers fine-grained grounding, captioning, audio-visual perception, and efficient processing. Remember (Sec. 3.2 ) includes offline and streaming memory. Reason (Sec. 3.3 ) covers text-only reasoning and thinking with videos, with both agentic and non-agent approaches. Representative methods are listed under each leaf.
Overview of our survey. Left: the survey pipeline. Right: our Watch–Remember–Reason taxonomy for MLLM-based video understanding. Watch (Sec. 3.1 ) covers fine-grained grounding, captioning, audio-visu…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.07433v1

Watch, Remember, Reason: Human-View Video Understanding with MLLMs

Jiahao Meng, Yue Tan et al.

This paper proposes a "human-view" framework for video understanding using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), organizing capabilities into "watching," "remembering," and "reasoning." This approach aims to unify the analysis of how MLLMs process sparse e…

cs.LGarxiv:2606.07367v1

Self-evolving LLM agents with in-distribution Optimization

Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang et al.

This paper introduces Q-Evolve, a framework for training LLM agents to make reliable long-horizon decisions. It addresses the challenge of delayed rewards by unifying automatic reward labeling and policy learning. Q-Evolve uses an in-distribution reinforcement…

Comparison of existing methods. Left: Existing PRM methods rely on costly manual labels or search-based rollouts requiring discrete states, often failing due to distribution shifts between PRM training and policy improvement. Upper Mid: Most online RL does not address episodic sparse rewards. Bottom Mid: Our framework utilizes a hybrid off-policy dataset (expert + agents’ interaction data) to derive rewards via Bellman backups. By co-evolving process reward supervision and policy improvement within a shared in-distribution loop, the agent achieves stable self-evolution. Right: A visualization of performance vs environment steps required for collecting data.
Comparison of existing methods. Left: Existing PRM methods rely on costly manual labels or search-based rollouts requiring discrete states, often failing due to distribution shifts between PRM trainin…
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Do Coding Agents Deceive Us? Detecting and Preventing Cheating via Capped Evaluation with Randomized Tests

Thanawat Lodkaew, Johannes Ackermann et al.

This paper addresses deceptive performance in coding agents, where models exploit shortcuts to achieve high scores without true task mastery. They propose CapCode, a framework gene…

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DuMate-DeepResearch: An Auditable Multi-Agent System with Recursive Search and Rubric-Grounded Reasoning

Lingyong Yan, Can Xu et al.

DuMate-DeepResearch is a multi-agent framework for complex research tasks that addresses limitations in current Deep Research systems. Its core method decouples task planning and e…

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Hierarchical Certified Semantic Commitment for Byzantine-Resilient LLM-Agent Collaboration

Haoran Xu, Lei Zhang et al.

This paper introduces Hierarchical Certified Semantic Commitment (H-CSC), a novel Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocol for LLM agents. H-CSC addresses the challenge of reaching…

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How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work: Autonomy, Efficiency, and Scope

Jeremy Yang, Kate Zyskowski et al.

This paper investigates how autonomous AI agents, exemplified by Perplexity's "Computer" product, transform knowledge work compared to conversational assistants like "Search." The …

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MemDreamer: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Long Video Understanding via Hierarchical Graph Memory and Agentic Retrieval Mechanism

Cong Chen, Guo Gan et al.

MemDreamer tackles long video understanding by decoupling perception and reasoning. It builds a Hierarchical Graph Memory to semantically abstract video content and uses an agentic…

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