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Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2607.19336v1Lead article

Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment

Grace Hui Yang, Pranav N. Venkit, Hooman Sedghamiz, Enrico Santus, Victor Dibia

his paper bridges the gap between LLM agent research and real-world deployment. Its core method involves analyzing practical challenges like robustness and safety encountered during deployment, drawing on case studies in pharmaceuticals and finance. The key contribution is identifying successful design patterns and mitigation strategies for failure modes, offering a roadmap for building reliable agentic systems.

Construction of the RFE rubrics.
Construction of the RFE rubrics.
cs.AIarxiv:2607.19219v1

Beyond Score Prediction: LLM-Based Essay Scoring and Feedback Generation via Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Rewards

Xuefeng Jin, Jiashuo Zhang et al.

This paper introduces RLAES, a novel framework that uses reinforcement learning to jointly optimize essay scoring and feedback generation in LLMs. Its core contribution is the Rubric-based Feedback Evaluation (RFE) system, which uses an LLM-as-judge and fine-g…

cs.AIarxiv:2607.19345v1

Copy Less, Ground More: Overcoming Repetitive Copying in Long-Context Reasoning via Evidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Lizhe Fang, Weizhou Shen et al.

This paper addresses the problem of repetitive copying in long-context reasoning by Large Language Models. Their core method, GEAR, uses reinforcement learning to reward models not only for correct answers but also for grounding their reasoning in relevant evi…

Perfect-response rate vs. instruction count N N , by format (color) and model (panel), pooled across system and user-turn placement. All five models converge to a perfect-response rate of zero by N = 80 N=80 , regardless of format.
Perfect-response rate vs. instruction count N N , by format (color) and model (panel), pooled across system and user-turn placement. All five models converge to a perfect-response rate of zero by N = …
cs.AIarxiv:2607.19257v1

Prompt Design at Scale: How Format, Instruction Count, and Context Length Shape Instruction Adherence and Hallucination in Large Language Models

Netanel Eliav

This paper investigates how prompt design choices impact large language model performance. Through controlled experiments, it reveals that the number of instructions, their format, and context length significantly affect instruction adherence and hallucination…

cs.LGarxiv:2607.19223v1

AdaFlash: Adaptive Speculative Decoding via On-Policy Distilled Diffusion Drafters

Yu-Yang Qian, Hao-Cong Wu et al.

AdaFlash accelerates large language model inference by improving speculative decoding with diffusion drafters. It addresses the high variance in diffusion drafters' draft quality by introducing an adaptive framework that uses on-policy distillation to create s…

Illustration of the high variance issue in diffusion drafters. (a) Probability density of the acceptance rate across three task domains (chat, code, and math), showing substantial distributional differences. (b) Box plots of the acceptance length over five different datasets. (c) Per-token acceptance probability for two nearly identical prefixes differing by only one token; the acceptance lengths diverge drastically, revealing high token-level variance of diffusion drafters.
Illustration of the high variance issue in diffusion drafters. (a) Probability density of the acceptance rate across three task domains (chat, code, and math), showing substantial distributional diffe…
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ABot-World-0: Infinite Interactive World Rollout on a Single Desktop GPU

Fan Jiang, Zhaoxu Sun et al.

This paper introduces ABot-World-0, an action-conditioned video world model enabling real-time, long-horizon agent interaction. Its core method involves a novel training pipeline t…

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Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia et al.

This paper introduces Agentic Real2Sim, a framework that automates the creation of physics-based simulations from real-world recordings of object-robot interactions. It leverages v…

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Athena-Brain Technical Report: An Efficient Robot Brain for General Intelligence and Embodied Interactio

Jialian Li, Junhong Liu et al.

This paper introduces Athena-Brain-8B, an 8-billion parameter LLM designed as an efficient on-device "brain" for embodied AI. Its core method involves a multi-stage post-training p…

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AutoJourn: Multi-Perspective Summarisation, Bias Detection and Bias Neutralisation for LLM-Generated News in Automated Journalism

Himel Ghosh, Ahmed Mosharafa et al.

AutoJourn is a system for automated journalism that addresses bias in LLM-generated news. Its core method involves extracting diverse perspectives from social media, generating bal…

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CodeRescue: Budget-Calibrated Recovery Routing for Coding Agents

Qijia He, Jiayi Cheng et al.

This paper introduces CodeRescue, a method for coding agents to intelligently decide whether to retry with a cheaper model or escalate to a more expensive one after a failure. It t…

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