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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2609.26779v1Lead article

CliffCompaction: Cost-Efficient Compaction for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

Trang Nguyen, Eulrang Cho, Bingqing Chen, Tim Dettmers

liffCompaction is an autocompaction technique for long-horizon coding agents that significantly reduces costs (up to 50%) by only truncating or dropping information, never rephrasing it. This method maintains or improves performance on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench and KernelBench, enabling more efficient test-time scaling and achieving state-of-the-art results. Its core contribution lies in cost-effective context management without sacrificing fidelity.

cs.AIarxiv:2609.26355v1

PACT: From Credit Assignment to Critic Alignment

Jiayan Fu, Hang Xu et al.

This paper addresses the lack of a clear mathematical definition for token-level credit in reinforcement learning for LLMs. It proposes three regularity conditions (Completeness, Prefix Consistency, and Neutrality) that uniquely define token-level credit, prov…

cs.AIarxiv:2609.26457v1

Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents

Dhruv Srikanth, Bingchen Zhao et al.

This paper introduces recursive self-improvement for AI research agents, where an agent iteratively modifies and improves its own code. The core method, AIDE^2, proposes, benchmarks, and retains code changes that enhance performance on AI R&D tasks. Its main c…

cs.AIarxiv:2609.26532v1

REFLEX with Jev for Efficient Selective Control in LLM Agents

Tiantong Wu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim

This paper introduces REFLEX, an LLM agent architecture that uses a fast, typed decision layer (Jev) for efficient, selective control. REFLEX calls a powerful LLM only when confidence is low or generation is necessary, significantly reducing computation while …

cs.CLarxiv:2609.26796v1

Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs

Quan Nguyen-Tri, Mukul Ranjan et al.

Flash-dLLM tackles the inference inefficiency of Diffusion LLMs by addressing I/O bottlenecks in KV caching and parallel decoding. Its core method is an I/O-aware fused KV-cache kernel that minimizes redundant memory transfers. This optimization enables effici…

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A2M: Trace-Optimized Agent Hijacking in the MCP Ecosystem

Laizhen Li, Xuan Wang et al.

This paper introduces A2M, a two-stage framework for hijacking agents that use the Model Context Protocol (MCP). A2M first optimizes tool metadata to attract agent invocation and t…

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Beyond Repeated Sampling: Learning Search Policies for LLM Reasoning

Ismail Labiad, Matthieu Kowalski et al.

This paper proposes a new method for LLM reasoning that moves beyond simple repeated sampling. Instead of generating many similar answers, it learns to generate diverse "concepts" …

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From Alignment to Access Control: A Framework for GenAI Policy Enforcement

Nathalie Baracaldo

This paper proposes a framework for systematically analyzing and dissecting existing approaches to policy enforcement in Generative AI (GenAI) applications. Its core contribution i…

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Greedy Decoding Is Not Precision-Invariant: Cross-Precision Output Divergence in LLM Inference

Gaoyuan Du, Anam Nawaz Khan et al.

This paper demonstrates that greedy decoding in LLMs is not precision-invariant, meaning the same model and prompt can produce different outputs when using BF16 versus FP16 precisi…

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Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents

Laizhen Li, Jiarui Li et al.

This paper proposes "Growing Harness," a method to train LLM agents by learning reusable code for recurring control decisions, rather than repeatedly asking the LLM to make them. B…

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