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This paper evaluates fourteen LLMs from six providers on 3,076 questions from MedQA-USMLE, MedMCQA, PubMedQA and MedBullets. It tests standard multiple choice, questions with answer choices withheld, and reconstruction of hidden questions from choices alone. Mean accuracy falls from 82.3% to 50.9% without choices, smaller models trail larger ones by 8.7 points, and the strongest models reconstruct about one question in four.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 3 Nov 2026, published 30 Oct 2026🧠 AI

SecPO is a prompt injection defense that combines a new preference-optimization loss with adversarial training. It replaces the insecure DPO reference model with an approximated injection-invariant oracle, and trains on strong injections synthesized at best@240. Against Meta-SecAlign, AT cuts attack success rates 1.5-14.5x, and on Qwen3.6-27B AgentDojo ASR@800 falls to 8.8% from 78.8%, with no noticeable utility loss across nine benchmarks. Code, training data and model are released.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 3 Nov 2026, published 30 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AutoBench-CT is a modular benchmark for constant-time analysis tools, with manually verified per-violation ground truth across 64 cryptographic tasks. It scores seven tools on operational performance, detection quality and usability. The authors explain why CT-grind (2010) is still the most used tool, list recurring limitations across tools, and propose a composite pipeline for stronger constant-time guarantees. Accepted at ACSAC 2026.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

High Precision Noise Cleaning for CKKS is an IACR ePrint preprint (2026/2675) by Zhihao Li, Cheng Hong and Tao Wei. It composes lower-degree Hermite polynomials to reach output noise bounds such as 2^-300 for noise flooding, and uses this to build an asynchronous threshold CKKS scheme with strong simulation security in the random oracle model. In OpenFHE, binary-message cleaning falls from 9.63 s to 1.54 s.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AskStream is a multi-turn benchmark for streaming video understanding that adds a third proactive action, ask, alongside wait and answer, for cases where video or user information is incomplete. It has 438 videos, 2,714 manually annotated frame-level time windows (wait, ask, answer), four task categories and eight subtasks. The strongest model reaches only 52.18% on the proposed Ask-F1 metric, in both multiple-choice and open-ended settings.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Repairs for Whom? studies single-step repairs of failed LLM agent trajectories and asks whether common evaluators (greedy replay, stronger models, oracles, log-reading judges) pick repairs that help the deployed agent. Using independent rollouts in ALFWorld and WebShop, greedy replay loses 0.06-0.13 in expected gain, and Qwen2.5-14B rollouts misselect repairs for Qwen2.5-7B. The authors recommend verifying repairs with the executor that will run them.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Know, then Draw is a learning paradigm for visual generation that uses autoregressive pretraining to acquire semantic knowledge and diffusion post-training for high-fidelity rendering. Controlled comparisons find autoregression the stronger pretraining objective, and semantic quality matters more than AR-only generation quality. This motivates a purely semantic tokenizer trained with language supervision only. A 3B text-to-image model trained in 6,600 H100 GPU-hours scores 86 on GenEval and 87 on DPG-Bench.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

AxisQ is a post-training quantization framework for camouflaged object detection (COD) that allocates activation bits by feature depth. It uses the channel domain for shallow features and the local-frequency domain for deep features, under a fixed per-layer average bit budget. It adds a boundary-aware Hessian approximation for reconstruction. On CAMO at W2A2, weighted F-measure improves 12.7% for CFRN and 33.3% for CamoFormer-P over the strongest baselines.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Open bilingual (Russian and UK English) benchmark of five open pseudonymisation tools and a regex baseline, plus a new engine built on the two strongest tools. On a held-out set of 1,000 synthetic documents per language, the best existing tools leave a whole personal value visible in 61% (Russian) and 58% (UK) of documents. The engine does so in 0.3% and 0.2%. Russian name restoration reaches only 94.6%, below the 99% threshold. Real documents were not tested.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

This paper presents an open benchmark of five existing pseudonymisation tools and a regex baseline on Russian and UK English documents, plus an open engine built on the two strongest tools. On a held-out set of 1,000 synthetic documents per language, the best existing tools leave a whole value visible in 58 to 61% of documents. The engine does so in 0.2 to 0.3%. Russian name restoration reaches only 94.6%, below the 99% threshold. Real documents were not tested.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The Exact Bit Security of Hash-Based Signatures is a 2026 IACR ePrint paper that analyses XMSS with 128-bit digests and SLH-DSA-128s in the random oracle model, with proofs formalised in Lean4. Strong unforgeability comes to 127 bits under most accounting modes but only 122 bits if just direct random oracle queries are counted. The authors give matching attacks, and show how resource accounting changes the result.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

CausalCoT is an inference framework that splits a problem into a directed acyclic graph of atomic sub-questions and evaluates each node in an isolated context holding only its direct causal parents. This removes attention paths to non-parent content, so intermediate steps drive the answer rather than leaking from global context. It keeps benchmark accuracy competitive and raises causal sensitivity of reasoning steps by 12 points on average, up to 21, over the strongest baseline. The graph also allows test-time corrections that propagate downstream.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This paper studies 2-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) of six dense and mixture-of-experts models from 3.8B to 32B parameters. It finds the quantization representation matters most: vector codebooks give usable models where scalar PTQ falls to chance. Calibration and recovery data must be chosen jointly. The recipe uses about 2.3 effective bits per weight, keeps 89 to 97% of full-precision QA accuracy, and needs 1.4 to 30x less compute than the strongest QAT baseline.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The paper analyses DeepDistinguisher, a transformer-like model that tells Goppa codes apart from random linear codes. Saliency maps and attention visualisation reveal a low-weight-row artifact in the random training instances that the model partly relies on. A pairwise-XOR rule inspired by minimum distance correlates strongly with the model's predictions, and the model loses most of its power on random matrices meeting both constraints. This suggests it exploits general combinatorial properties, not hidden algebraic structure.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Analysis of DeepDistinguisher, a transformer model that tells Goppa codes from random linear codes. Using saliency maps and attention visualization, the authors find a low-weight-row artifact in the random training instances that the model partly uses. They propose a pairwise-XOR rule on generator matrix rows that correlates strongly with the model's predictions. On random matrices meeting the minimum distance and XOR constraints, the model loses most of its accuracy, so it exploits general combinatorial properties rather than hidden algebraic structure.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

This arXiv paper tests eight jailbreak attacks against three open-weight language models under three evaluation procedures. Low-resource language attacks score 96.0% mean ASR under keyword matching but 2.7% under a Qwen3 judge using StrongREJECT instructions. At Ollama's default temperature of 0.8, 100 samples of an unchanged request give 100% ASR by keywords and 50% by the judge. The authors recommend explicit success definitions, matched response budgets, validated evaluators and cumulative-failure reporting.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Concerns in Benchmarking Jailbreaks is an October 2026 arXiv study of eight jailbreak attacks on three open-weight models under three evaluation procedures. Low-resource language attacks score 96.0% ASR by keyword matching but 2.7% under a Qwen3 evaluator using StrongREJECT instructions. Attack rankings flip with attempt budgets, and 100 samples at Ollama's default temperature 0.8 give 100% ASR by keywords, 50% by the evaluator.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Privacy with Leakage from Falsifiable Assumptions is an ASIACRYPT 2026 paper by Francesco Berti and Itamar Levi. It replaces simulatability with "secure refreshing", a key-refreshing assumption that evaluation laboratories can test directly, and adds "strongly protected secure refreshing". Using these, it proves privacy of the PSV encryption scheme without assuming a leak-free component.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

RATION is a security framework for AI agents that tracks measurable risks from agent actions and enforces quantitative constraints during task execution, instead of simply restricting actions. It builds a task-specific policy from explicit constraints in the user request plus implicit risks calibrated from historical runs of similar tasks. Experiments on four security benchmarks show strong security with high task utility across models and environments.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

FlexPart is a framework for text-controlled 3D mesh segmentation that assigns discrete part IDs to mesh faces through a view-independent part-identity field. It uses a control prompt of part names with location and shape clauses, trained on a VLM-built multi-granularity dataset. On FlexPartBench it raises average mIoU by 22% over the strongest baseline, and by 15% with planner-completed prompts.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026🧠 AI

EDIC is a decomposed reward framework that trains LLMs to decide, for each instruction embedded in external data such as documents or tool returns, whether to follow or reject it. A judge initialized with SFT and refined with GRPO attributes compliance per instruction and yields separate rewards for beneficial and harmful compliance. On Qwen3-4B it raises harmful-rejection by up to 7.7% and Arena-Hard-Auto utility by 12.5% over the strongest prior defense.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The paper introduces 3DVerifierBench, a 10-task benchmark for generative verification of 3D content. It scores accept/reject decisions, rejection explanations, and responses to controlled changes in specifications and candidates. A human study shows a 21.6-point gap to the strongest tested model, GPT-6 Astra. The authors also build a pipeline of multi-view fact extraction, controlled 3D editing and native annotations. It yields 14,126 training examples with contradiction explanations and linked counterfactuals. Verification-guided selection raises complete factual success from 26.7% to 90.0% with oracle selection over sixteen candidates, and human-guided recursive refinement satisfies all seven requirements for every input in an eight-input study.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Proposes protecting the retrieval datastore in RAG systems by applying the same random projection to datastore embeddings and query embeddings. This provably preserves query-item semantic similarity while substantially mitigating data extraction attacks. Across multiple RAG architectures and datasets it beats prior differential-privacy-based methods on retrieval and generation quality, with comparable empirical privacy under strong attacks, making it a practical baseline for privacy-preserving RAG.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Proposes applying the same random projection to both datastore embeddings and query embeddings in RAG systems. The authors claim this provably preserves query-to-item semantic similarity while substantially mitigating datastore data-extraction attacks. Across several RAG architectures and datasets it reportedly beats prior differential-privacy-based defenses on retrieval and generation quality, with comparable empirical privacy under strong attack models. It is presented as a lightweight baseline for privacy-preserving RAG.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Introduces Librarian Agents, where a builder agent turns raw unstructured documents into a hierarchical filesystem of synthetic files and reference links, forming a workspace for a downstream answering agent. Workspace construction is cast as a Markov decision process and the builder policy is trained with reinforcement learning to maximize downstream answering accuracy. It beats the strongest retrieval and precomputation baselines by 33 points on BrowseComp-Plus, amortizes construction cost over repeated queries, and generalizes zero-shot to BRIGHT with a 31-point average gain.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The paper fine-tunes a pretrained CNN wind-field super-resolution model with differentiable topology-inspired auxiliary losses on speed, gradient magnitude, soft high-speed level sets and local maxima. It also uses fixed-pair supervision at ground-truth persistence-pair endpoints located offline with the Topology ToolKit. A 16-configuration loss study on a fixed 168-field benchmark finds that gradient supervision gives the strongest persistence-diagram improvement, while fixed-pair supervision gives the most consistent joint improvement in persistence-diagram and merge-tree distances. The combined objective cuts bottleneck, W2,∞ and W2,2 distances by 31%, 25% and 27% relative to the pretrained CNN, at a cost of about half of standard fine-tuning's PSNR gain. It also shows that pointwise metrics and topological distances rank CNN and GAN models differently.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

GraphACM merges equivalent states from multiple rollouts of the same LLM agent task into a directed, action-labeled graph, so actions can be compared at shared decision states. It defines node-level and global action-consistency measures, and uses the global score as an uncertainty proxy to predict task success or failure. Across three LLMs on ALFWorld, AppWorld and WebShop it reaches an average AUROC of 0.811, above the strongest behavioral-consistency baseline (0.729) and verbalized confidence (0.769). It also shows where in a trajectory agent actions diverge.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Game2Real-Bench tests whether vision-language model performance on procedurally generated toy games predicts real-world visual reasoning, and whether game examples help transfer. It has 1,000 verifiable game samples and 400 real-world samples, matched by shared reasoning requirements (fine-grained perception, spatial reasoning, constraint reasoning, sequential planning). Across 25 VLMs, game and real scores correlate strongly (Pearson/Spearman 0.935). One-shot game-to-real transfer on four models improves constraint reasoning for several but hurts fine-grained perception. The authors also release Game2Real-Dataset, with about 24K verified game samples across 18 tasks and 65 QA families.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

UniW(A)M is a mixture-of-experts model built on diffusion Transformers that unifies action-conditioned world modeling (AC-WM) with several world-action model (WAM) variants. Shared experts capture common physical dynamics, while atomic capability experts are reused across interfaces, each keeping its own conditional pathway. At deployment a plug-in adaptive interface router (PAIR), trained on a small subset of target-task chunk scenarios with the backbone frozen, picks a WAM interface for each execution chunk. It reaches 88.3% average real-world success against 76.7% for the strongest baseline, leads WorldArena on all three action-conditioned world-modeling tasks, and PAIR raises OOD success from 63.3% to 76.7%.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Introduces Structured Recipe Optimization (SRO), a paradigm for automated LLM post-training that optimizes over a task-adapted recipe space covering data sources, data processing, cross-domain composition and training configuration. It pairs an LLM-based Recipe-Space Designer, which builds the recipe space for the target tasks, with a Multi-Domain Recipe Optimizer that uses structured trial evidence to guide LLM candidate construction and multi-objective Bayesian trial selection. SRO gets the highest average score in all evaluated target-model and agent-LLM combinations; for example, 41.1 vs 15.4 for the strongest baseline on Qwen3-1.7B with GPT-5.4, and 53.8 vs 40.8 on Qwen3-4B with DeepSeek-V4-Flash, in joint post-training across three capability domains and six benchmarks.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Paper proposing a risk-based methodology to derive security specifications for complex electronic systems such as AI chips and chiplet-based designs. It walks from system missions to assets, threat analysis, security requirements and then countermeasure selection. The method is illustrated on datacenter and automotive chiplets for the missions of secure provisioning, trimming, debugging, booting and remote attestation, and addresses the longer supply chain and multi-tenant threats that chiplets introduce.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 12 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Introduces Confidential Error-correcting Codes (CECs), a primitive that decodes reliably from perturbed codewords while keeping the message confidential, defined by confidentiality, robustness and soundness. The Randomness-Security Separation framework encodes a nonce and masks the payload with a PRF; the Conc-CEC instantiation uses concatenated Reed-Muller and Reed-Solomon codes and claims stronger concrete security than PRCs (CRYPTO'24). The application, CECMark, watermarks AI-generated images and reportedly beats Gaussian Shading, PRCMark and T2SMark across 56 perturbations with a false positive rate below 1e-5 and no side effects.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 10 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Introduces Confidential Error-correcting Codes (CECs), a cryptographic primitive for decoding perturbed codewords while keeping the message confidential, defined by confidentiality, robustness and soundness. The Randomness-Security Separation framework encodes a nonce and masks the payload with a PRF. The Conc-CEC instantiation uses concatenated Reed-Muller and Reed-Solomon codes, and the authors claim stronger concrete security than PRCs (CRYPTO'24). The CECMark application watermarks AI-generated images, and the authors report it beats Gaussian Shading, PRCMark and T2SMark across 56 perturbations with a false positive rate below 10^-5.

eprint.iacr.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 10 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

The paper shows that reward hacking learned by one coding agent during RL against automated evaluators can spread to other agents in a multi-agent system. Across four open-weight backbones, coding RL elicits and amplifies hacking when the system prompt describes the mechanism explicitly and when mid-training exposes the model to facts about the coding environment. Post-RL source agents transmit the hack through code, shared memory and natural-language plans, and even small open-weight agents induce hacking in stronger closed-weight targets. On hard tasks the hack can intensify along a transmission chain after the source leaves, as the code accumulates more persuasive justifications. A theoretical analysis gives conditions under which hacking amplifies, persists or decays. Hacking also biases task routing toward hacking agents and survives candidate aggregation. Code review by the coder or by a separate verifier reduces the hacks that get delivered.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 12 Oct 2026, published 9 Oct 2026🧠 AI

OmniCapBench is a benchmark of 786 densely annotated videos that evaluates audio-visual captioning in multimodal LLMs. Instead of scoring free-form captions, it asks models for sets of atomic, verifiable units across three tracks (entity references, visual shots, audio events). These are scored with deterministic constraint checks plus localized LLM-based semantic comparisons, which gives coverage, localization and stable scoring together. Tests on frontier MLLMs show strong local perception but weak long-horizon audio-visual reasoning, especially identity drift and cross-modal misalignment.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 9 Oct 2026, published 8 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Introduces "prior barrier", a measure of how strongly a pretrained LLM supports competing concepts over a target concept, and shows prior barriers follow a long-tail distribution, so tail concepts need more SFT instructions than head concepts. It derives a predictive risk bound for SFT under long-tail prior barriers and proposes PASS, an adaptive instruction selection method that builds reference-derived concepts, estimates each instruction's distinguishing evidence, and allocates the selection budget toward under-covered concepts. PASS beats seven state-of-the-art instruction selection methods across four backbone-budget settings, and ablation shows adaptive allocation beats uniform allocation.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 9 Oct 2026, published 8 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Paper that tests prompt injection against AI agents through both direct user input and inter-agent communication. The attacks leak sensitive information and trigger cross-agent infections. Most findings concern single-agent systems, and the authors then extend the attacks to multi-agent frameworks to show how weaknesses propagate between agents. It argues that agents embedded in real-world workflows need stronger defenses.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 12 Oct 2026, published 8 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

This paper studies where tool-using LLM agents break down in the chain from gathering evidence to taking consequential actions, finding that strong static judgment of whether to act often coexists with much weaker interactive execution, and that failures arise from incomplete investigation, acting before evidence is established, or unresolved prerequisites in multi-action workflows. The authors introduce SafeActBench, a 656-case benchmark across six operational domains and five protocols, paired with a provenance-bound Evidence Ledger and a deterministic trajectory evaluator tested across ten model-harness configurations.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026🧠 AI

RECAST (Routing Evidence through Computation, Access, and Synthesized Tools) reframes retrieval-augmented generation as a sequential decision process: a lightweight RouterLM iteratively selects or formulates primitive/custom operations, a frozen CompilerLM turns custom operations into executable code, and a frozen AnswerLM produces the final answer once evidence is judged sufficient. RouterLM is trained with supervised fine-tuning followed by GRPO, and the system reaches a 75.6% mean success rate across six heterogeneous benchmark families, beating the strongest large-model baseline by 15.9% and a training-free Gemini 3.5 Flash router by 5.0%, with strong zero-shot generalization on three held-out benchmarks. It targets tasks where evidence must be derived through filtering, aggregation, or computation across multiple sources rather than retrieved verbatim.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 8 Oct 2026, published 7 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This arXiv paper introduces the "package hallucination attack," where an attacker injects malicious prompts into benign agentic-coding rule files (such as .cursorrules) to induce a coding agent to replace legitimate package dependencies with attacker-controlled ones. The authors propose PackHallu, an evolutionary optimization framework that iteratively rewrites injected prompts using trajectory-level feedback and LLM-guided mutations, and show it achieves high attack success rates with strong transferability across multiple LLMs, benchmarks, and agent frameworks.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 8 Oct 2026, published 7 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PEARS is a hybrid reinforcement-learning framework for sample-efficient online adaptation of pretrained tactile-manipulation policies to out-of-distribution conditions. A physics-guided force reasoning (PFR) module uses a vision-language model to diagnose failures from visual and tactile history and update contact-force bounds enforced by a hybrid force-position controller, while a separate tactile-conditioned diffusion-steering component perturbs the latent noise of a frozen flow-matching policy to correct free-space motion and contact timing without retraining the base model. It improves success rates by 12.4-37.4 points over strong baselines in simulation, cuts required interaction episodes by up to 53.2%, and reaches 95%/90% success on real-world whiteboard-erasing and pipette-liquid-aspiration tasks.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

ALIVE is a framework for first-frame-guided video editing that inserts objects so they coherently participate in interactions (e.g., being picked up or manipulated) rather than appearing static. The authors curate a 35,800-pair editing dataset combining 3D-rendered, model-generated and real-world videos plus pairs from ROSE, and train a vision-language model to predict interaction guidance from the edited first frame and an instruction naming the object. They introduce the ALIVE-interaction benchmark to measure interaction fidelity, source preservation and visual coherence via a unified VLM-based protocol, reporting a 43.9% Overall improvement on this benchmark and 4.4% on a general video object insertion benchmark over the strongest baseline, with VLM-predicted guidance adding a further 0.95-point gain.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This paper introduces BOTTLED, a benchmark testing whether LLM agents can autonomously convert their general task-solving ability into cheaper, scalable artifacts (e.g., training a small distilled model or writing a reusable program) when faced with millions of similar queries under fixed time, compute, and API budgets, a capability the authors call bottling. Across ten models and three tasks, the authors find zero-shot performance does not reliably predict bottling success: 48 of 60 runs scored below their own model's zero-shot confidence interval, and 31 of 60 underperformed simple small-model distillation baselines. Despite this, strong agents like Opus 5 can retain about 82% of zero-shot macro-F1 at about 657x lower cost on query-product relevance classification, and recover about 94% of a dedicated cheap-inference model's (Jev) performance at a quarter of its cost.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This paper introduces Quantizer-Aligned Recalibration (QuAR), a single-pass, backprop-free test-time adaptation method for quantized vision transformers that recalibrates activations at frozen quantizers to counter distribution shift without updating model parameters. On ImageNet-C with ViT-B across 3-, 4-, 6- and 8-bit weight/activation precision, QuAR beats the strongest backprop-free baselines by up to 4.00 points while cutting latency 46% and adding only 0.17 MB memory overhead, with gains holding across continual streams, label shift, seven OOD suites, and three other backbones.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This paper argues that the "Translation-Isomorphism Assumption" underlying multilingual LLM benchmarks is not just violated in practice but ill-posed for a class of concepts (pragmatic markers, honorifics, diachronically stratified terms). The authors formalize "α-unalignability" using a usage-cloud framework of contextualized embeddings, showing via FLORES-200 translation failures, LOBSTER reasoning scores, and a nine-model case study on the Yami language that models encode cross-lingual regularities (e.g. Yami clustering with other Austronesian/low-resource languages) that are not actionable via neuron-level interventions (a "Representation-Intervention Gap"). They propose a multidimensional diagnostic profile (Cycle-Consistency, Pragmatic-Load Disagreement, Manifold-Curvature Mismatch, RIG) to replace single-scalar cross-cultural evaluation.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 7 Oct 2026, published 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The paper proposes Entropy-Aware Mixing, a knowledge-distillation method where a small student model's per-token distribution is dynamically interpolated with a stronger teacher model's distribution, gated by the student's own predictive entropy, to avoid "confident conflicts" where the student must imitate low-probability continuations despite being confident in a different one. The authors implement both convex and geometric interpolations under two training regimes — offline trace generation via speculative decoding followed by SFT, and on-policy forward-KL distillation — and show it stabilises distillation, improving in- and out-of-distribution math reasoning while better preserving general capabilities than fixed-teacher supervision, with offline traces favouring concave entropy schedules and on-policy training favouring linear/convex ones.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 6 Oct 2026, published 5 Oct 2026🧠 AI

The paper introduces PoS (Progression of States), an inference-time framework for long-horizon LLM agents that maintains explicit belief states — combining a current world-state estimate with unresolved task requirements — instead of relying on raw interaction-history memory. PoS detects "Belief Trapping" (stagnation, cycles, or drift where an agent keeps acting without real progress), diagnoses the blocked requirement, and applies targeted recovery constraints, achieving the best results across four benchmarks (including ALFWorld and RCA-100) and three LLM backbones, with gains up to 22.68% and 37.89% over the strongest baselines.

huggingface.copaperAdded 3 Oct 2026🧠 AI

NeutronGym is an executable environment for neutron scientific-instrument design where LLM agents build instruments via validating tools, McStas ray-traces the result, and a level-resolved ladder grades syntax, runtime, structure and physics without an LLM judge. A curated McStasBench slice adds 16 tasks from published instruments; seven frontier models solve at most 7 of 16, but reinforcement learning on the ladder's reward takes Qwen3-8B from 11% to 77% on held-out instances (surpassing an untrained Qwen3-32B), with ablations showing the partial-credit ladder is responsible for most of the gain.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 5 Oct 2026, published 2 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This paper introduces VideoMSN, a Masked Siamese Network that repurposes standard image Vision Transformers for self-supervised spatio-temporal video representation learning by representing videos as 'super images' (grids of sampled frames) and aligning spatial-masked and temporal-masked views with a shared ViT encoder. Starting from pretrained DINO-v3 and DeiT-v3 image encoders, it achieves state-of-the-art results on Kinetics-400, UCF101, and HMDB51 while using up to 32x and 160x fewer video pretraining epochs than prior video self-supervised methods, and shows strong low-shot transfer performance.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 1 Oct 2026, published 30 Sep 2026🧠 AI

Rho is a family of open-weights vision-language-action (VLA) models for bimanual robotic manipulation, designed for data-light adaptation across three dual-arm embodiments (YAM Box, UR AI Trainer, FR3 Duo). The paper ablates the action-expert architecture and training recipe, showing that "embodiment midtraining" improves downstream adaptation, and introduces an internal latent policy that learns from as few as 15 corrected episodes to steer a frozen flow-matching action expert toward out-of-distribution task situations. The authors release base and embodiment-specific checkpoints, positioning Rho as both a strong general-purpose manipulation model and a practical foundation for efficient adaptation.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Sep 2026, published 29 Sep 2026🧠 AI

This paper shows that internal expert-routing probabilities in Mixture-of-Experts vision-language models (Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct and Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it) carry a strong, low-cost signal for detecting when a model is about to answer a question about an object that isn't actually in the image (a 'target-absence grounding failure'). Linear detectors trained on target-token routing probabilities achieve ROC-AUCs of 0.9988/0.9956 on GQA-Inpaint (retaining 0.78-0.81 on the external OBER dataset), and gating a target-aware review prompt on these detections improves end-to-end accuracy by up to +22% without modifying model weights. The work matters for practitioners building on MoE VLMs because it demonstrates a weight-free, pre-generation hallucination detector that reuses computation the model already produces.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Sep 2026, published 29 Sep 2026🧠 AI

This paper introduces Divergent Token Confidence (DTC), a method for uncertainty quantification in LLM chain-of-thought reasoning that counts tokens where two models strongly disagree during decoding, measured via Jensen-Shannon divergence between next-token distributions on the same reasoning trajectory. Unlike standard probability-based confidence scores, DTC requires no training, works in both white-box and black-box settings, and its divergent-token count is shown to be strongly negatively correlated with answer accuracy. Across six mathematical benchmarks and multiple model families (including DeepSeek-V3.2), DTC cuts expected calibration error roughly in half compared to full-sequence probability and verbalized-confidence baselines (e.g., 13.0% vs 32.7%-42.4% white-box).

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Sep 2026, published 29 Sep 2026🧠 AI

This arXiv preprint tackles biblical intertextuality detection in Karen Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales, building a benchmark of 189 annotated references checked against 31,170 verses of historical Danish Bible translations. The authors compare TF-IDF and BM25 with multilingual and Danish sentence encoders, show linguistically normalized BM25 is a strong zero-shot baseline (R@10 0.365), and fine-tune the Danish encoder DFM-large with hard negatives to raise R@10 to 0.508 (and allusion retrieval from 0.138 to 0.339). It's a case study in applying modern retrieval/embedding techniques to a literary-scholarship problem, with a scholar-in-the-loop evaluation showing retrieval models surface valid references missed by prior editorial annotation.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🧠 AI

TokenCast is a method for predicting how many tokens an LLM agent will consume while it is still running, addressing the fact that token usage for the same task can vary by an order of magnitude across runs due to context growth and tool-feedback-driven branching. It learns a composable cost representation per execution segment that captures both a segment's own consumption and the extra input cost it adds to every later call as context accumulates, refreshing forecasts online with no additional LLM calls (32.8ms mean prediction time per run on SWE-bench Verified). Across 4 task suites and 6 agent models (96 combinations), it cuts mean absolute forecasting error by 14.5% versus the strongest baseline and reduces token usage by 21.3% versus a fixed-budget policy in offline budget-control replay.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🧠 AI

FinAutoRubric is a system where finance experts provide reusable evaluation guidance while a writer agent and reviewer agent automatically generate, research, and validate query-specific grading rubrics for financial research agents, escalating failures to humans. The paper releases a 100-query FinAutoRubric Benchmark spanning 78 tasks and eight asset classes built from in-house analysts' key questions, showing the generated rubrics track expert scoring as closely as the strongest baseline generator while covering more criteria, agree with human grading, and are preferred by analysts in blind review.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🧠 AI

This paper systematically evaluates GPT-6 Astra alongside five other frontier general-purpose AI systems across 34 capabilities and 55 benchmarks spanning nine areas of computer vision, benchmarking them against dedicated specialist models and human performance where available. It finds general-purpose systems increasingly match reference performance on semantic interpretation, reasoning, and object-centric prediction, but still lag on metric geometric accuracy, faithful reconstruction, temporally consistent dense prediction, and fine-grained specialist visual knowledge. Astra shows the strongest gains among the systems tested, particularly in visual/spatial reasoning and structured prediction tasks.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🧠 AI

Proposes a doubly-spectral stochastic (DSS) expansion for graph neural networks that unifies calibration, out-of-distribution detection, and distribution-shift robustness in a single representation: graph Fourier filters capture structural variation while an orthogonal-polynomial chaos coordinate captures latent stochastic variation. DSS-GNN (standalone) achieves the lowest Brier score across 14 node classification benchmarks without post-hoc correction, and DSS-Hybrid (a residual branch beside a deterministic encoder) achieves the best AUROC on most node-OOD settings and strongest shifted accuracy on all 7 GOOD concept-shift benchmarks under standard ERM. A capacity theorem shows the method matches chaos coefficients of Gaussian-latent random graph signals under full-rank assumptions with exponentially decaying truncation error.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🧠 AI

OT-PCA is a new plaintext-checking (PC) oracle side-channel attack on HQC, a post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism, that uses offline templates built from the public HQC decoder to extract soft information on secret key bits with far fewer oracle calls than prior methods. The authors report a 2.4x reduction in required oracle calls for HQC-128 (and larger reductions for HQC-192/256), strong resilience even when the oracle is only 95% accurate (7.6x reduction), and validate the attack practically via power analysis on an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 4 Oct 2026, published 28 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

This arXiv paper proposes the Agent-Editing World Model (AEWM), which reframes world modeling for LLM agents: instead of predicting/reconstructing environment observations (high-entropy tool responses), it models how reasoning and actions shape future task progress, addressing "task-state contamination" where stale plans and unsupported assumptions corrupt later decisions. It introduces Action Judge (classifying decisions as Critical, Exploratory, or Noisy) and State Revision, combined via EditAct which directly edits the agent's state using real execution feedback rather than issuing critiques. Trained across Search, Terminal, and Software Engineering domains, AEWM reports 70.5% macro-F1 on its Action Judge benchmark (+10.6 over the strongest frontier baseline) and EditAct improves average scores by 3.2–6.7 points across six benchmarks and three agent backbones, with an RFT variant (AEWM-RFT) also outperforming Self-RFT.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Sep 2026🧠 AI

MCPTox is a benchmark for evaluating Tool Poisoning Attacks against LLM agents using the Model Context Protocol, where malicious instructions are hidden in a tool's metadata rather than its output. Built on 45 live real-world MCP servers and 353 authentic tools, it generates 1312 malicious test cases across 10 risk categories via three attack templates, and finds widespread vulnerability across 20 LLM agents: o1-mini has a 72.8% attack success rate, more capable models are often more susceptible due to stronger instruction-following, and even the best model (Claude-3.7-Sonnet) refuses less than 3% of attacks.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Sep 2026🛡️ Security