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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2606.16813v1Lead article

GIST-CMTF: Goal-State Inference for Causal Minimal Tool Filtering in LLM Agents

Rahul Suresh Babu, Rohit Shukla

his paper introduces GIST-CMTF, a method to improve LLM agents' tool selection by first inferring the user's intended goal. It addresses the issue of "wrong-goal execution" by predicting potential goals and then applying causal minimal tool filtering (CMTF) or prompting for clarification if ambiguity exists. This approach significantly enhances task success rates for LLM agents by ensuring they pursue the correct objective.

Motivation. Current skill construction paradigms generally face several limitations: (a) Skill Fragmentation , capturing merely local procedures for isolated subtasks; (b) Limited Diversity , suffering from the inherent biases of a single model; and (c) Poor Transferability , exhibiting clear performance drops across different LLM backbones. To tackle these challenges, we propose CSTS, a novel tree-search-based skill construction framework that constructs structured, diverse, and generalizable tree of skills , empowering LLMs in solving sophisticated tasks in real-world systems.
Motivation. Current skill construction paradigms generally face several limitations: (a) Skill Fragmentation , capturing merely local procedures for isolated subtasks; (b) Limited Diversity , sufferin…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.16774v1

OpenClaw-Skill: Collective Skill Tree Search for Agentic Large Language Models

Tianyi Lin, Chuanyu Sun et al.

This paper introduces Collective Skill Tree Search (CSTS), a novel framework for automatically constructing reusable skills for LLM agents. CSTS uses an iterative process of generating diverse skill candidates from multiple models and then having those models …

cs.AIarxiv:2606.16769v1

Skill-to-LoRA: From Using Skills to Learning Behaviors for Token-Efficient LLM Agents

Tianyi Zhang, Zhonghao Qi

This paper introduces Skill-to-LoRA (S2L), a novel method for representing and utilizing agent skills in Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead of relying on lengthy skill descriptions at runtime, S2L learns skill-specific LoRA adapters that capture the behavio…

Text skill and LoRA skill representations. Text skills keep the prompt, metadata, and full skill body in every agent step. LoRA skills use the skill body and demonstrations offline, then keep only prompt/metadata at runtime while loading LoRA weights onto the model.
Text skill and LoRA skill representations. Text skills keep the prompt, metadata, and full skill body in every agent step. LoRA skills use the skill body and demonstrations offline, then keep only pro…
Comparison of cache alignment behaviors. While the Original Agent Loop maintains continuous layouts to achieve cumulative cache hits , previous management systems execute text truncation or compaction that mutates input boundaries, inadvertently triggering severe backend KV cache misses .
Comparison of cache alignment behaviors. While the Original Agent Loop maintains continuous layouts to achieve cumulative cache hits , previous management systems execute text truncation or compaction…
cs.AIarxiv:2606.17016v1

TokenPilot: Cache-Efficient Context Management for LLM Agents

Buqiang Xu, Zirui Xue et al.

TokenPilot tackles the rising inference costs of LLM agents by efficiently managing their context. It employs a dual-granularity approach: **Ingestion-Aware Compaction** stabilizes prompt prefixes and filters environmental noise at the entry point, while **Lif…

cs.CLarxiv:2606.17053v1

Context-Aware RL for Agentic and Multimodal LLMs

Peiyang Xu, Bangzheng Li et al.

This paper introduces ContextRL, a reinforcement learning method that enhances LLMs' ability to pinpoint crucial information within complex contexts. By training LLMs to select the correct supporting context from similar options, ContextRL encourages fine-grai…

Context unawareness manifests across both agentic and multimodal systems. Left: In an agentic code-editing setting, the model has access to the relevant source file but fails to maintain consistency with the surrounding context across edits. As a result, it removes the definition of variable i i that is subsequently referenced, causing a runtime error. Right: In a multimodal reasoning setting, the model fails to correctly ground its answer in the visual evidence. Although the relevant information is present in the figure, it misreads the y y value of g ​ ( x ) g(x) as 2 2 rather than 3 3 as x → − 1 x\( \to \)-1 , leading to an incorrect prediction.
Context unawareness manifests across both agentic and multimodal systems. Left: In an agentic code-editing setting, the model has access to the relevant source file but fails to maintain consistency w…
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cs.CL
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Contrastive-Difference CKA Reveals Concept-Specific Structural Alignment Across Language Model Architectures

Xueping Gao

This paper introduces **Contrastive-Difference CKA (CKA_Delta)**, a novel method to analyze how different language model architectures represent high-level concepts. CKA_Delta effe…

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cs.CL
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Speaking the Language of Science: Toward a General-Purpose Generative Foundation Model for the Natural Sciences

Mingyang Li, Yurou Liu et al.

LOGOS unifies diverse scientific tasks by representing scientific objects and their spatial interactions as discrete tokens within a shared autoregressive framework. This "scientif…

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cs.AI
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Adaptive and Explicit safe: Triggering Latent Safety Awareness in Large Reasoning Models

Ke Miao, Jiaxin Li et al.

This paper introduces "Adaptive and Explicit Safe" (AES), a method to leverage Large Reasoning Models' (LRMs) inherent ability to detect safety risks. AES first uses Supervised Fin…

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cs.AI
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Bayesian Inference and Decision Audits for Public Archives of Frontier AI Evaluations

Yanan Long

This paper proposes a Bayesian inference framework to analyze public AI evaluation archives, recognizing they are incomplete time series rather than definitive leaderboards. The co…

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cs.AI
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Compositional Reasoning Depth Predicts Clinical AI Failure: Empirical Evidence Consistent with Transformer Compositionality Limits in Electronic Health Record Question Answering

Sanjay Basu

This paper proposes "hop count," a measure of reasoning steps needed to answer clinical questions from EHRs, as a predictor of AI failure. The core method involves annotating quest…

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