Daily Issue
Vol. I — No. 32
17 · 07
Friday, 17 July 2026
Generated 2026-07-17 10:16
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. — Dixie Carter 38 items · 3 sections
§ 0

The Morning

Local weather 1
This morning in
London
Clear sky
Today's range
28.9°16.7°
currently 22.5°
Feels
23.3°
Rain
2%
Wind
4 km/h
Humid
48%
Rise
05:04
Set
21:10
§ I

From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2607.15095v1Lead article

Digital Pantheon: Simulating and Auditing Coalition Formation with LLM Agents

Dylan Van Mulders, Matthias Bogaert, Dirk Van den Poel

his paper introduces "Digital Pantheon," a novel multi-agent framework for simulating political coalition formation using LLMs. It combines SFT, DPO, and RAG to create partisan agents that are both ideologically aligned and factually grounded. The framework's contribution lies in enabling realistic, interpretable simulations of complex political negotiations, demonstrated on a real-world election scenario.

Overview of the individual party alignment model process.
Overview of the individual party alignment model process.
Test accuracy of our method and baseline methods on two mathematical reasoning and two code generation benchmarks. All methods use LLaDA-8B-Instruct as the base model and are evaluated with a generation length of 128. Full results are provided in Table 1 .
Test accuracy of our method and baseline methods on two mathematical reasoning and two code generation benchmarks. All methods use LLaDA-8B-Instruct as the base model and are evaluated with a generati…
cs.AIarxiv:2607.15200v1

Mask-Aware Policy Gradients for Diffusion Language Models

Haran Raajesh, Kulin Shah et al.

This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning method for Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) by treating generation as a two-stage action Markov Decision Process. This approach decomposes the policy gradient into token prediction and masking decisi…

cs.AIarxiv:2607.14989v1

OmniaBench: Benchmarking General AI Agents Across Diverse Scenarios

Chengyu Shen, Yujie Fu et al.

OmniaBench introduces a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating general AI agents by creating diverse, executable scenarios derived from real-world applications. Its core method involves constructing a hierarchical taxonomy of domains and synthesizing tasks acr…

cs.AIarxiv:2607.15163v1

Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin et al.

This paper investigates how to effectively scale Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) for humanoid robots. Their core method involves coordinating three key components: a motion tracking learning paradigm, specific behavioral data, and model architecture. The mai…

cs.AIarxiv:2607.15257v1

SearchOS-V1: Towards Robust Open-Domain Information-Seeking Agent Collaboration

Yuyao Zhang, Junjie Gao et al.

This paper introduces SearchOS-V1, a multi-agent framework for robust open-domain information seeking. Its core method is to represent search progress as explicit, shared state, moving beyond the limitations of implicit tracking in current systems. This explic…

SearchOS interface for a long-horizon information-seeking task. The workspace exposes the orchestration trace, pipeline parallel agent activity, and relational schema coverage.
SearchOS interface for a long-horizon information-seeking task. The workspace exposes the orchestration trace, pipeline parallel agent activity, and relational schema coverage.
№06
cs.AI
9

When Words Are Safe But Actions Kill: Probing Physical Danger Beyond Text Safety in Hidden-State Risk Space

Weimeng Wang, Ziqiang Wang et al.

This paper investigates the distinction between text-based safety and physically grounded danger in Large Language Models (LLMs). It demonstrates that these two types of danger are…

№07
cs.LG
9

LongStraw: Long-Context RL Beyond 2M Tokens under a Fixed GPU Budget

Changhai Zhou, Kieran Liu et al.

LongStraw addresses the challenge of training Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents with extremely long contexts (over 2 million tokens) within a limited GPU budget. Its core method i…

№08
cs.AI
8

ANet Patu-1: The Value of Connection in the Agent Network

Mu Yuan, Jinke Song et al.

This paper introduces ANet Patu-1, a self-organizing consensus protocol for AI agents. It models the value of agent networks based on coordination group size, deriving properties f…

№09
cs.AI
8

Can LLMs Build a MaxSAT Solver from Papers? The CoreForge Experience

Ruben Martins

CoreForge demonstrates the feasibility of using LLMs like ChatGPT and Codex to construct an unweighted MaxSAT solver by interpreting research papers. The project's core method invo…

№10
cs.AI
8

RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies

Yunfan Jiang, Yevgen Chebotar et al.

RoboTTT introduces a novel method for scaling robot policy context to 8,000 timesteps by integrating Test-Time Training (TTT) into foundation models. This allows the model to compr…

§ II

The Town Square

Hacker News 9
compiled overnight by google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite · end of issue no. 32 · thank you for reading