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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2609.31395v1Lead article

ActKV: Efficient LLM Agents through Action-Guided KV Cache Management

Zihan Wang, Cheng Tang, Lei Gong, Chao Wang, Wenqi Lou

ctKV addresses the memory burden of LLM agents by prioritizing KV cache entries crucial for action generation. Its core method employs action-oriented eviction and confidence-driven budget allocation to retain relevant information, enabling more efficient and higher-throughput agentic inference. This contributes the first KV cache compression framework specifically designed to optimize agent performance by focusing on action quality.

Figure 1. Agentic Workflow …
Figure 1. Agentic Workflow …
Overview of DIAL framework. (a) Pairwise evaluation combines abundant, scalable LLM judgments with limited, higher-fidelity human judgments. (b) Empirical examples illustrate two distinct challenges: position bias and human-preference misalignment. (c) DIAL jointly models LLM and human comparisons to separate judge-specific position effects from latent LLM preferences, learn shared preference structure across judges, and adaptively calibrate toward human preference.
Overview of DIAL framework. (a) Pairwise evaluation combines abundant, scalable LLM judgments with limited, higher-fidelity human judgments. (b) Empirical examples illustrate two distinct challenges: …
cs.AIarxiv:2609.31215v1

DIAL: Position-Debiased LLM Judges with Adaptive Human Preference Calibration

Zesheng Cai, Yingqi Fan et al.

DIAL addresses the limitations of LLM judges by developing a framework that combines LLM and human comparisons. It separates position biases in LLM judgments, learns their underlying preferences, and then adaptively calibrates these to align with human prefere…

cs.AIarxiv:2609.31473v1

Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments

Bovard Doerschuk-Tiberi, Yao Yan et al.

The paper introduces Kaggle Game Arena, a platform for evaluating LLMs through competitive gameplay. Its core method involves head-to-head matchups in structured game environments, allowing for dynamic performance assessment as models improve. The contribution…

Game Arena infrastructure.
Game Arena infrastructure.
cs.AIarxiv:2609.31468v1

PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents

Pavel Kireyev

This paper introduces PriceBench, a benchmark designed to diagnose the price, quality, and brand preferences of Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as booking agents. By analyzing LLM booking choices using a logit model, the benchmark reveals that more capable…

cs.LGarxiv:2609.31458v1

Nonparametric In-Context Learning under Growing Geometric Complexity: Minimax Optimality and Local Geometry-Adaptivity of Transformers

Jaehee Seo, Jisu Kim

This paper analyzes how Transformers perform in-context learning on data with complex, varying geometric structures. The core method involves developing a novel local-polynomial estimator that adapts to these heterogeneous manifolds. The key contribution is es…

Schematic growing mixture geometry. Different pieces represent components with potentially different intrinsic dimensions and sampling masses; additional or closer pieces illustrate variation in K n K_{n} and δ 0 , n \( \delta_{0,n} \) . The point clouds indicate bounded covariate perturbations. Local chart regularity remains uniformly controlled, and the regression bandwidth stays below the reach and separation scales.
Schematic growing mixture geometry. Different pieces represent components with potentially different intrinsic dimensions and sampling masses; additional or closer pieces illustrate variation in K n K…
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AgentXploit: Autonomous Repository-to-Runtime Red-Teaming for AI Agents

Weida Liang, Shi Qiu et al.

AgentXploit is an autonomous system for pre-deployment red-teaming of AI agents. It uses a two-agent approach: an Analyzer Agent discovers potential attack paths within the agent's…

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Beyond Approved Actions: Runtime Validation of Persistent Outcomes in Agent Workflows

Haoran Zhang, Hengtong Zhang et al.

This paper introduces EffectMatch, a runtime validation system for LLM agents that interact with software. Its core method is to collect and compare persistent changes made by an a…

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Compact Documentation for Coding Agents: A Benchmark, an Optimizer, and Why It Does Not Transfer

Md Shohel Arman, Igor Molybog

This paper introduces a benchmark for evaluating code documentation by testing if regenerated code passes original tests, finding completeness, not length, is key. They developed a…

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DeepEdu-v1: Efficient and Scalable Agentic LLMs for Vietnamese Education

Quang Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen et al.

This paper introduces DeepEdu-v1, an AI tutoring system for Vietnamese education designed to address data sovereignty and curriculum alignment issues. Its core method, the SCALE fr…

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Evaluating Cultural Awareness of LLMs for Haitian Creole

Christelle Clervilsson, Yanzhu Guo

This paper introduces the first systematic evaluation of cultural awareness in LLMs for Haitian Creole. It uses a benchmark of culturally relevant prompts to assess specificity, bi…

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