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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2610.08775v1Lead article

Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities Into Cheap, Scalable Artifacts?

Ankit Sonthalia, Haritz Puerto, Alexander Rubinstein, Martin Gubri, Seong Joon Oh

his paper introduces "bottling," the ability of LLM agents to autonomously create cost-effective, task-specific solutions for large workloads. The core method involves agents deciding how to tackle an entire unlabelled dataset within fixed resource budgets, potentially by training smaller models or writing programs. The key contribution is demonstrating that strong general LLM performance doesn't guarantee good "bottling" capabilities, with many agents failing to match their zero-shot performance when tasked with creating scalable artifacts.

cs.AIarxiv:2610.08670v1

Principled Under Pressure: Post-Training Decides Whether LLMs Act on Their Own Moral Judgment

Orion Reblitz-Richardson

This paper introduces a novel method to evaluate whether Large Language Models (LLMs) act on their own moral judgments when faced with pressure. By posing scenarios twice – once as an agent's decision and once as a third-person judgment – the researchers can i…

cs.AIarxiv:2610.08691v1

ScienceClaw: Benchmarking Continual Self-Evolution of AI-for-Science Agents Across the Natural and Social Sciences

Mingda Zhang, Wenjin Liu et al.

This paper introduces ScienceClaw, a framework for benchmarking the continual self-evolution of AI-for-science agents. Its core method is fixed-parameter program self-evolution, which integrates task solving, scientific verification, and program updates. Scien…

Figure 1. Task formulation of verifiable program-level self-evolution for AI-for-Science agents. Scientific tasks and domain constraints form sequential task streams. ScienceClaw uses a fixed foundation model with editable Skills and typed Operators to construct executable workflows, and evaluates repairs by source replay, independent validation, transfer, retention, and cost.
Figure 1. Task formulation of verifiable program-level self-evolution for AI-for-Science agents. Scientific tasks and domain constraints form sequential task streams. ScienceClaw uses a fixed foundati…
cs.AIarxiv:2610.08668v1

Semantic Behavioral Watermarking: Paraphrase-Robust and Forgery-Resistant Provenance for LLM Agents

Suxin Ji, Hungtao Wan et al.

This paper introduces Semantic Behavioral Watermarking (SBW), a novel method for embedding provenance in LLM agents' high-level action choices, independent of output tokens. SBW achieves paraphrase robustness by watermarking semantic action clusters and is for…

cs.AIarxiv:2610.08647v1

SquidAgent: Parallelize Wisely, Coordinate Efficiently

Yexiong Lin, Shanshan Ye et al.

This paper introduces SquidAgent, a method for parallelizing LLM-based agents to reduce latency in multi-step tasks. It addresses the inefficiency of existing parallel systems by identifying and mitigating "re-exploration" and "alignment" costs. SquidAgent pro…

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Toward Alignment Scaling Laws: A Framework and First Preregistered Measurements

Jeremy Canale

This paper proposes a framework to study how model alignment scales with capability, treating alignment as a family of measurable scaling relations rather than a single property. T…

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WorldSolver: Can LLM Agents Simulate the Physical Dynamics via Solver Generation?

Siru Jiang, Yongzhe Lyu et al.

WorldSolver introduces a benchmark of 168 physics simulation tasks from computer graphics to evaluate LLM agents' ability to generate physics solvers. The core method involves LLM …

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Towards In-Parameter Memory Augmentation for Large Language Models

Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie et al.

This paper surveys methods for augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs) with "in-parameter memory." The core method involves integrating reusable memory information directly into mo…

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Adaptive Power Sampling for LLM Reasoning

Bingnan Xiao, Chenhao Yang et al.

This paper introduces Adaptive Power Sampling (APS), a method to improve LLM reasoning by adjusting the "sharpening" of the model's output distribution on a per-query basis. Unlike…

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AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model

Sarim Hashmi, Mukul Ranjan et al.

This paper introduces AdvSim2Real, a method for training web agents to resist prompt injection attacks. It co-evolves the agent, a task curriculum, and an injection adversary withi…

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