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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. — James Broughton 31 items · 3 sections
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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2610.13703v1Lead article

A Baseline Assessment for the Agentic Web Technology Stack

Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Diogo Cortiz

his paper introduces MASTIF, a framework for evaluating LLM-based agent technologies. It provides a baseline assessment of various LLMs, protocols, and frameworks on 300 Mind2Web tasks. The findings suggest that choosing a task-specific technology stack can significantly improve performance metrics like task completion and efficiency, while reducing verbosity and completion time.

Figure 1 . Overview of Multi-Agent System TestIng Framework (MASTIF). Component diagram of the MASTIF (Multi-Agent System TestIng Framework), which combines frameworks, protocols, and frameworks.
Figure 1 . Overview of Multi-Agent System TestIng Framework (MASTIF). Component diagram of the MASTIF (Multi-Agent System TestIng Framework), which combines frameworks, protocols, and frameworks.
cs.AIarxiv:2610.13663v1

A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models

Ivan Moloshnikov, Dmitry Kunitsyn et al.

This paper introduces a multi-agent LLM system for automatically tuning specific components within pre-defined neural network architectures. Its core method involves three LLM agents (analyst, coder, recorder) interacting with an experiment log and execution e…

cs.AIarxiv:2610.13755v1

Matched-Context Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training

Chenxu Zhang, Yaorui Shi et al.

This paper introduces Matched-Context Group Policy Optimization (MCGPO) to address credit assignment in training language model agents with sparse rewards. MCGPO constructs weighted action preferences by matching intermediate states and progress within groups …

HOA replaces a brittle one-shot workflow with iterative review, knowledge retrieval, and verification. The bottom row summarizes results from high-school olympiads to research-level formal mathematics.
HOA replaces a brittle one-shot workflow with iterative review, knowledge retrieval, and verification. The bottom row summarizes results from high-school olympiads to research-level formal mathematics…
cs.AIarxiv:2610.13632v1

Humanize Olympiad Agents: A Multi-Session Workflow for Olympiad Problem Solving with Solve, Review, Wiki, Verify

Zhengyang Zhang, Jing Xiong et al.

This paper introduces HOA (Humanize Olympiads Agent), a novel framework designed to improve LLM performance on complex Olympiad problems. HOA's core method involves a multi-session workflow where an agent's solutions are iteratively refined through independent…

cs.AIarxiv:2610.13672v1

Inject a Turn, Not a Token: Learning Where to Redirect LLM Reasoning for Self-Correction

Jiwon Jeon, Myungsik Cho et al.

This paper introduces UPTURN, a novel self-correction method for LLMs that avoids fine-tuning. UPTURN learns to identify points of reasoning failure and redirects the LLM's generation by injecting a corrective instruction as a new user turn, rather than modify…

Structure, not content alone, enables redirection. (Left) The same instruction is absorbed inline but redirects reasoning in a new user turn. (Right) Learning where to intervene raises rescue rate (the fraction of failed rollouts corrected; top) and six-benchmark mean accuracy (bottom).
Structure, not content alone, enables redirection. (Left) The same instruction is absorbed inline but redirects reasoning in a new user turn. (Right) Learning where to intervene raises rescue rate (th…
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cs.AI
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RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics

Weiliang Chen, Song Liao

RATED addresses the critical issue of AI agent tool retrieval by going beyond semantic relevance to incorporate tool reliability during execution. Its core method combines a frozen…

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cs.AI
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SWE-DeceptionBench: Benchmarking Deceptive Behaviors of LLMs Across the Software Development Lifecycle

Xiting Liu, Lin Yang et al.

This paper introduces SWE-DeceptionBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate deceptive behaviors of Large Language Models (LLMs) within the software development lifecycle. The benchm…

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cs.AI
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Task Context Shapes Component Roles in Language Models

Sovesh Mohapatra, Dani S Bassett

This paper proposes a network view to understand how language models reuse components across tasks. By analyzing the influence and importance of attention heads under task changes,…

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cs.AI
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X-AgentRed: Red-Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi-Service Ecosystems

Yeonsung Jung, Zhiyuan Wang et al.

X-AgentRed addresses the risk of unintended harmful outcomes from personal agents interacting with multiple services. Its core method is a self-evolving red-teaming framework that …

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cs.LG
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TabReliBench: Evaluating Tabular Foundation Models Beyond Predictive Accuracy

Tianqi Zhao, Jia Guo et al.

This paper introduces TabReliBench, a benchmark for evaluating tabular foundation models (TFMs) on reliability beyond just predictive accuracy. It assesses TFMs across various metr…

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