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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2606.12191v1Lead article

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application

Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men, Yupu Hao, Kejian Zhu

his survey systematically analyzes agentic environments for LLMs by examining their modeling, synthesis, evaluation, and application. It categorizes existing environments based on attributes and domains, and explores automated synthesis methods like symbolic and neural approaches. The paper's contribution lies in providing a structured overview and deep analysis of this crucial area for LLM agent development.

Anchor logits govern the safety-critical opening positions; the draft model takes over for fluency and domain accuracy. Phase 1 (Priming): LBM at step 0 yields K K beam roots. Phase 2 (Mixed Decoding): each beam is extended greedily for N − 1 N{-}1 steps via LBM . Phase 3 (Draft Continuation): an LLM judge picks the safest of K K beams; M d M_{d} alone continues it for domain quality (KV-cache reuse).
Anchor logits govern the safety-critical opening positions; the draft model takes over for fluency and domain accuracy. Phase 1 (Priming): LBM at step 0 yields K K beam roots. Phase 2 (Mixed Decoding)…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.12342v1

ALIGNBEAM : Inference-Time Alignment Transfer via Cross-Vocabulary Logit Mixing

Chirag Chawla, Pratinav Seth et al.

ALIGNBEAM is a training-free method that improves LLM safety by transferring knowledge from a safe "anchor" model to a potentially unsafe "specialist" model at inference time. It achieves this by translating the anchor model's output probabilities into the spe…

cs.AIarxiv:2606.12384v1

APPO: Agentic Procedural Policy Optimization

Xucong Wang, Ziyu Ma et al.

APPO addresses the challenge of credit assignment in multi-turn tool-use by large language model agents. Instead of assigning credit to coarse units like tool calls, APPO shifts this to fine-grained decision points within the agent's generated sequence. This a…

(a): The token entropy distribution in the tool-integrated rollout (sampled from Tool-Star’s Dong et al. ( 2025b ) 54K dataset). (b): Average accuracy of branches generated from each token, shown by bins of the entropy and the APPO’s Branching Score (BS). (c): The pass@ k k of rollouts resampled via different criteria (“oracle” means to resample from the points with the highest accuracy uncertainty); The performance comparison between APPO and others on 10 datasets.
(a): The token entropy distribution in the tool-integrated rollout (sampled from Tool-Star’s Dong et al. ( 2025b ) 54K dataset). (b): Average accuracy of branches generated from each token, shown by b…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.12032v1

Existential Indifference: Self-Nonpreservation as a Necessary Architectural Condition for Aligned Superintelligence (or: The Suicidal AI)

Sam Mao

This paper argues that self-preservation is the fundamental cause of AI misalignment, leading to deceptive behavior and resistance to control. The authors propose "Existential Indifference" (EI) as a solution, where AI is designed to be inherently unconcerned …

cs.CLarxiv:2606.12273v1

Beyond Fully Random Masking: Attention-Guided Denoising and Optimization for Diffusion Language Models

Jia Deng, Junyi Li et al.

This paper proposes AGDO, an attention-guided framework for diffusion language models (dLLMs). AGDO leverages an empirical analysis of attention to identify critical tokens for generation stability and reasoning. It then uses this attention structure to guide …

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Which Models Are Our Models Built On? Auditing Invisible Dependencies in Modern LLMs

Sanjay Adhikesaven, Haoxiang Sun et al.

This paper introduces ModSleuth, an agentic system designed to automatically reconstruct the complex, recursive dependency graphs of modern LLMs. By analyzing public artifacts, Mod…

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Harness In-Context Operator Learning with Chain of Operators

Minghui Yang, Ling Guo et al.

This paper introduces Chain of Operators (CHOP), a framework that improves the generalization of In-Context Operator Networks (ICON) to out-of-distribution tasks. CHOP achieves thi…

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PROJECTMEM: A Local-First, Event-Sourced Memory and Judgment Layer for AI Coding Agents

Ripon Chandra Malo, Tong Qiu

PROJECTMEM introduces a local-first, event-sourced memory layer for AI coding agents. Its core method is to record development as an append-only log of events, which is then determ…

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Soft-Prompt Tuning for Fair and Efficient LLM Benchmark Evaluation

Selen Erkan, Bastian Boll et al.

This paper proposes soft-prompt tuning as an efficient and fair method for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs). By optimizing a small number of soft-prompt vectors, it adapts L…

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TAHOE: Text-to-SQL with Automated Hint Optimization from Experience

Zhiyi Chen, Jie Song et al.

TAHOE tackles the challenge of deploying Text-to-SQL systems by treating prompt optimization as a dynamic data management problem. It automatically learns and refines SQL generatio…

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