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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36545

FrameForge: Harnessing Priors of Video Foundation Models for Unified Image Generation

Yijing Lin, Zhendong Mao, Mengqi Huang, Yuxin Wang, Yongdong Zhang

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Unified conditional image generation requires a single model to preserve different aspects of a visual input while producing a target image that follows textual guidance. Pretrained video models provide a promising foundation by encoding visual transformations across time, yet existing approaches typically assign the condition and target to fixed temporal positions. We observe that condition-target relationships vary substantially across generation tasks, while video models naturally encode visual transformations at different temporal scales. This motivates us to model conditional generation through input-adaptive virtual temporal relations. We propose FrameForge, which captures two complementary aspects of such relations. Mixture of Temporal Experts (MoTE) models how far the target lies from the condition by dynamically selecting temporal RoPE experts with different virtual intervals. Chain of Temporal Reasoning (CoTR) models how the condition is transformed into the target through a latent intermediate state, with a reasoning-bottleneck attention mask encouraging information propagation through this pathway. Experiments on DreamBench, COCO2017, and GEdit-Bench show that FrameForge achieves superior performance in subject-driven generation, canny-to-image generation, and image editing among the compared methods.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36544

Monitor Accuracy Isn't the Answer: A Decision-Value Framework for Evaluating AI Agent Restart Monitors

Siddharth Jain, Venkat N. Vedam

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Classification accuracy and true-positive and false-positive rates alone do not determine whether restarting an AI agent improves success. Using an exact alarm-to-action identity for an independent clean restart with zero monitoring overhead, we show analytically that a monitor with fixed 90% accuracy can swing from a five-percentage-point loss to a 35-point gain in success rate, depending solely on the replacement attempt's residual-budget success probability. We introduce two techniques for evaluating monitors and progress signals in decision terms. First, a decision-sufficiency criterion, a binary-action specialization of Blackwell's comparison of experiments, identifies which progress representations or context compressions preserve the information needed to choose optimally between the specified actions, independent of trace reconstruction fidelity. Second, a finite-sample, model-free decision audit uses simultaneous binomial intervals over existing agent traces, without additional model calls, to certify a preference for "restart" or "continue" under stated sampling assumptions, or return "abstain" when evidence is insufficient. In a study of 194 externally evaluated model executions on 19 selected SymPy issues from SWE-bench Verified, with a retrospective audit of 130 of these traces, we find a 2.29-point apparent restart gain traced to a single surviving failed attempt, a 42.29-point loss on a second model, no positive replication of the initial gain on prospective task cohorts, and zero of 103 live comparisons meeting the specified certification bar. These results motivate evaluating agent monitors through recovery opportunity, decision value, and statistical support, rather than classification performance alone.

cs.AI · cs.IR

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2609.01535

Can LLMs Design Video Coding Tools? A Case Study on Planar Mode

Yingwen Zhang, Meng Wang, Liqiang He, Shiqi Wang

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This paper explores whether large language models (LLMs) can design video coding tools, a highly challenging task due to the intricate algorithmic coupling of tool modifications. In particular, we present an empirical case study on the Planar mode, a long-standing intra prediction tool in video coding standards. Our experiments operate within a generation-and-evaluation loop, with the LLM generating new Planar predictors, encoder trials evaluating their coding performance, and the LLM re-generating refined implementations based on the evaluation feedback. We first examine directly replacing the default Planar mode in the Fraunhofer Versatile Video Encoder (VVenC) under its faster preset. Experimental results demonstrate that the LLM-generated mode can outperform the conventional Planar mode on this lightweight toolset, achieving 0.18% bitrate savings with 0.4% complexity overhead on the standard benchmark. We further extend our evaluation to the Enhanced Compression Model (ECM). Leveraging newly introduced directional Planar modes, we investigate two integration strategies: directly replacing them, and introducing the LLM-generated predictor as an additional prediction mode with new syntax elements. The empirical results suggest that both strategies can yield coding gains under a constrained low-resolution setting. Overall, this study offers preliminary evidence and practical insights, highlighting both the potential and open challenges of LLM-based coding tool design.

cs.MM · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36536

ATEMPO: Amortized Transfer Entropy Model Per-lag Over-Time

Emma Andrews, Konstantinos Kontras, Keane Ong, Maarten De Vos, Gianmarco Mengaldo

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When one time series informs another, the delay at which that information arrives determines if models can utilize this relationship effectively. A source may be strongly predictive at one delay but uninformative at neighboring lags. Therefore, fixed input windows may obscure this structure by bundling informative and irrelevant history together. Transfer entropy (TE) can recover these delays by measuring how much a source's past tells us about a target beyond the target's own history. However, existing TE estimators require separate fits across source and conditioning depths, with further estimation on local windows to track delays over time. We introduce ATEMPO, a diffusion-based transfer entropy estimator amortized over lags and time. ATEMPO samples source and conditioning depths during training and conditions explicitly on temporal position, allowing a single score network to estimate the full TE surface without refitting. Differencing this surface recovers when information arrives. Across synthetic datasets with ground-truth TE, ATEMPO achieves the lowest mean relative error among baselines, and on datasets with known lags, ATEMPO achieves $0.98\pm0.04$ lag-detection accuracy. ATEMPO requires a single fit across source depths $K=6$ and target depths $L=3$, whereas existing estimators require 18 separate fits to evaluate the same $K \times L$ grid. On three systems with time-varying lag, ATEMPO is the only estimator to maintain perfect lag-detection accuracy across all evaluated window lengths. These recovered delays improve downstream forecasting: ATEMPO-selected inputs reduce MSE on WEATHER-5K by 7.25%, while 120 selected inputs outperform the benchmark's 240-feature default by 4.6%. Across three brain-computer interface tasks, using ATEMPO-selected lags achieves the highest or equal-best $R^2$, improving mean $R^2$ by 4.1% relative to the strongest competing baseline.

cs.AI · cs.IT

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36533

RoboAuto: Autonomous Robot Program Search through Multi-Level Physical Understanding

Buzhao Liu, Jianing Ye, Xiu Yuan, Yangtong Feng, Chengsong Huang, Tyler Dinh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Ning Zhang 等 9 位作者

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Recently, LLM-based autonomous agents have shown strong capabilities in iteratively generating, evaluating, and refining executable solutions. In robotic manipulation, Code-as-Policy lets these agents search over modular and editable robot programs. However, effective program search requires physical understanding: agents must understand how objects can be manipulated, how scene geometry constrains actions, and why interactions succeed or fail. Existing methods rely mainly on execution feedback for program refinement, often leaving these physical questions unresolved. We introduce RoboAuto, a framework for robot program search that explicitly organizes physical understanding at the object, scene, and interaction levels through three components. First, a hierarchical knowledge base combines executable skills with object-centric knowledge of affordances, spatial relations, and action effects, learned from embodied data and online task solving. Second, scene grounding connects this knowledge to the current environment by identifying relevant objects and resolving action-critical quantities. Third, multi-stage planning with self-designed experiments checks whether each stage produces its expected physical effects and actively tests competing hypotheses to resolve physical uncertainties. RoboAuto achieves superior performance across five benchmark families, attaining an 89.1% success rate on short-horizon LIBERO-PRO tasks and more than twice the mean success rate of ASPIRE on LIBERO-PRO Long and LIBERO-Plus. It also outperforms ASPIRE and $π_{0.5}$ on three challenging long-horizon real-robot tasks requiring precise manipulation. We further show that the knowledge base transfers across simulators and embodiments, and that program search performance scales with its size. Project page: https://roboauto-ai.github.io/

cs.RO · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CV · cs.LG

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2512.15773

TS-DP: Reinforcement Speculative Decoding For Temporal Adaptive Diffusion Policy Acceleration

Ye Li, Jiahe Feng, Yuan Meng, Kangye Ji, Chen Tang, Jiajun Fan, Xinwan Wen, Jiawei Li 等 12 位作者

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Diffusion Policy (DP) excels in embodied control but suffers from high inference latency and computational cost due to multiple iterative denoising steps. Existing diffusion model (DMs) acceleration methods improve inference speed by reducing computational overhead, as DMs for image generation are computation-bound. In this work, we reveal that DP are I/O bound, and thus propose using speculative decoding, a parallel computing framework, to accelerate DP for the first time. However, it is non-trivial to address the following challenges: (1) How to preserve the denoising quality of the base model at reduced computational cost under time-varying task difficulty in embodied settings; and (2) How to dynamically allocate computation according to task difficulty in such environments. Therefore, we propose Temporal-aware Reinforcement-based Speculative Diffusion Policy (TS-DP), the first framework that enables speculative decoding for DP with temporal adaptivity. First, to handle dynamic environments where task difficulty varies over time, we distill a Transformer-based drafter to imitate the base model and replace its costly denoising calls. Second, an RL-based scheduler further adapts to the time-varying task difficulty by adjusting speculative parameters to maintain accuracy while improving efficiency. Extensive experiments show that TS-DP achieves up to a 4.17x NFE reduction and a 3.2x wall-clock speedup with a draft acceptance rate of over 85% in simulation. Real-world experiments further demonstrate a 3.8x NFE reduction while improving success rates on real-time tasks (e.g., a 23% gain on the conveyor-belt task), reaching an inference frequency of 26 Hz and enabling real-time control while maintaining comparable task performance. The code is available at https://github.com/ChildTang/TS-DP.

cs.LG · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v4arXiv:2610.03827

The Score Is Not the Structure: Brain Alignment and Cross-Lingual Transfer

Saman Rahbar

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Similarity scores are often offered as evidence that a model shares structure with the brain or across languages. We ask what such a score reads when that structure is removed, or when the instrument measuring it does not work, in two settings. Across seventeen languages, a grammaticality probe transfers worse between more distant languages (r = -0.66). But the probe's own accuracy falls along the same axis and is at chance in four languages, four of the five most distant. Dropping them halves the explained variance, and because it also narrows the range of distances, the design cannot say how much of the gradient is the instrument. Counting the 272 language pairs as independent gives p = 0.0006 for a steering effect that is null when the seventeen languages are the unit (p = 0.155). In brain alignment, a training objective raises a language model's similarity to fMRI responses from 0.10 to 0.34 (reliability ceiling 0.54), yet targets with the brain correspondence destroyed still reach 0.31. A shuffled target scores about k/n against the real one, for rank k and n sentences, a baseline that can be computed before any model is trained. Both interventions work, yet we detect no distance-graded steering effect and no syntactic benefit from alignment. Before reading a correspondence score, measure how much of it survives without the correspondence.

cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG · q-bio.NC

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2609.32596

GAUGE: Group-Wise View-Inconsistency Rectification for Feed-Forward 4D Tracking

Zhuoqian Feng, Weixing Chen, Ziliang Chen, Yang Liu, Liang Lin

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Feed-forward models regress dense 3D point trajectories directly from monocular video, yet the residual after global alignment is substantial and lacks a structural explanation. Measured on dynamic query points across models and datasets, the error concentrates along the view direction, while the scale correction each motion group requires differs. The predicted displacement direction nevertheless supports reliable grouping, with a median angle far below the 90° random baseline. The systematic part of the residual is therefore a family of radial degrees of freedom per motion group, along directions 2D observations cannot constrain. We call it group-wise view inconsistency. We present GAUGE (Group-wise Adaptive Unsupervised Gauge Estimation), a training-free and model-agnostic post-hoc module. It recovers motion groups from direction consistency and spatial connectivity, then estimates a per-frame radial scale and group-level translation from 1% to 5% metric anchors, four degrees of freedom per group and frame. On dynamic query points of eight trackers, including D4RT, 4RC and SM4RT, our correction lowers endpoint error by 15.1% to 62.6% over the uncorrected predictions, while spending the same anchors on gradient fine-tuning improves the same models by only -1.1% to 15.2%. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/GAUGE.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2509.10780

How K-12 Teachers Adapt Generative AI to Local Classroom Demands: Cultural Distance Between GenAI Defaults and Everyday Teaching Practices

Qing Xiao, Ruiwei Xiao, Hanqi Jane Li, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Xinying Hou, John Stamper, Hong Shen

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Generative AI (GenAI) is entering K-12 classrooms, but its default culture does not always fit local teaching. Existing accounts either treat this misfit as macro-level structural bias or examine it through single-case studies; neither captures how much work teachers must do to make outputs usable across tasks. This exploratory, theory-building qualitative study introduces cultural distance, the gap between GenAI's default cultural repertoire and the situated demands of teachers' practice. Through interviews with 30 K-12 teachers who frequently use GenAI, 10 each from South Africa, Taiwan, and the United States, we identified three levels defined by the effort teachers invested and whether it yielded a usable output: low (minor edits), mid (sustained prompting and revision), and high (structural gaps rooted in unsupported languages, undigitized knowledge, or policy filters that no teacher effort can close). We present cultural distance as a promising framework requiring further examination and draw implications for designers, policymakers, and educators.

cs.HC · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36511

Do AI Scientists Know What's New?

Miri Liu, Xiayu Zhao, Encheng Xie, ChengXiang Zhai

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A major challenge facing AI scientific discovery pipelines is how to determine when a generated idea is meaningfully novel. Ideally, novelty checks in these pipelines must be able to reject non-novel ideas while not rejecting too many novel ideas, and they should also be able to distinguish which parts of a proposal are non-novel, as opposed to opaquely discarding entire proposals. We design an analytical framework for evaluation of novelty checks with temporal ground truth at both the proposal- and claim-level, using four datasets of 1,060 proposals built from published papers, reviewer disputes, and generated ideas matching ones the field went on to publish. Auditing existing novelty checks with this framework, we find that checks with high rejection rates on non-novel work also tend to have high false alarms on ideas that are later realized by human researchers, and observe that checks built to evaluate proposals as a whole can point to claim-level prior art only by rejecting the whole proposal. We therefore introduce ClaimNov, a fine-grained, interpretable claim-level novelty module. ClaimNov catches 97% of disguised papers at a 1.5% false-alarm rate, and its claim-level novelty profile cuts the LLM judge's false alarms from 11.8% to 1.5%. Because its verdict rests on claim-level evidence, ClaimNov also keeps proposals that build on established contributions, rejecting only 3% of ICLR-accepted proposals with a reviewer-disputed contribution and keeping 91 of 100 novel proposals with one spliced prior contribution, against 76 for the strongest existing check. Code and data are available at https://github.com/emmatliu/claimnov.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.34817

Silent and Costly: Characterizing and Detecting Prompt-Caching Mis-Integration in LLM Agents

Ying Zhang, Ruoqi Guo, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Yuekang Li, Yepang Liu, Leo Zhang

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Large language model (LLM) services process massive volumes of user requests, resulting in substantial inference costs. To reduce both cost and latency, providers have introduced prompt caching. However, correctly integrating prompt caching is non-trivial due to heterogeneous provider-specific APIs and continuously evolving caching semantics. To understand prompt-caching mis-integration in downstream applications, we conduct the first empirical study of 120 prompt-caching-related pull requests from 10 popular open-source agent systems. Our findings show that prompt-caching mis-integrations arise in both request-side misconfiguration and read-side usage miscount. More importantly, most mis-integrations fail silently without causing observable runtime failures. Motivated by these findings, we design CACHELINT, which models a prompt-caching mis-integration as an invocation site together with the preconditions required for correct cache integration. CACHELINT locates caching invocation sites with CodeQL and discharges each precondition either against a dated provider capability oracle or with an LLM guard check. CACHELINT achieves 0.71 precision and 0.78 recall in identifying the 120 labeled mis-integrations across the 10 studied agent systems. Our evaluation further demonstrates the effectiveness of CACHELINT in real-world settings, identifying 32 mis-integrations across 571 agent projects with 0.86 precision. These findings have received 21 developer confirmations and led to 18 upstream fixes, including one in Anthropic's official SDK.

cs.SE · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36499

ProCerDCL: Query-Efficient Black-Box Probabilistic Verification of Deep Learning Compiler Optimization

Zexin Li, Weibo Zhang, Linyi Li, Arvind Easwaran, Simin Chen

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We present \tool, a query-efficient framework for black-box probabilistic verification. Given a fixed, sampleable input distribution and a binary property oracle, \tool assesses the property's violation probability $p$ against a threshold $θ$. Under independent sampling and stateless oracle behavior, acceptance asserts $p\leθ$, rejection asserts $p>θ+η$ for a user-specified separation margin, and an inconclusive verdict indicates insufficient evidence for either conclusion. The probability of each type of erroneous verdict is bounded by its specified error budget. To support this three-valued contract efficiently, \tool uses a single sequential test, eliminating the interval family required by the baseline. The test accounts for repeated sampling checks through either corrected exact binomial confidence intervals or an anytime-valid confidence sequence. We apply \tool to probabilistic local model semantic consistency, where the property oracle detects decision-level inconsistencies between reference and compiled executions under a specified perturbation distribution. Our evaluation covers 24 tasks across TorchInductor and TensorRT and examines sampling efficiency, conclusiveness, and diagnostic behavior. For sampling efficiency, we use paired one-model clean-label radius searches: the baseline requires 3.6-4.2 times as many unique samples under matched numerical parameters while providing a weaker decision contract. For model semantic consistency, checks at $θ=10^{-3}$ yield 817 acceptances, 19 inconclusive verdicts, and 4 rejections across 840 input--backend instances from 21 tasks. Case studies of two documented compiler faults further demonstrate what these local verdicts can diagnose.

cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.PL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36493

AC-JEPA: Anchored Cross-Modal Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Visual-to-Symbolic Translation

Chaofei Hong, Ziyang Chen, Baochen Wang, Christina Yi Jin, Qing Zhang

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Cross-modal translation requires models to capture shared semantics across modalities while preserving the fine-grained structure required by the target modality. Yet in real-world scientific domains, paired data are often imperfect, while obtaining clean pairs at scale is costly. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) directly optimizes cross-modal translation through categorical token-level supervision, but this objective is sensitive to errors in the target sequences. JEPA offers a complementary representation-space objective, but most existing formulations focus on prediction within a modality rather than translation across modalities. We introduce Anchored Cross-Modal JEPA (AC-JEPA), an SFT-compatible plug-in that predicts masked intermediate states in both cross-modal directions using paired data. The joint-embedding objective targets cross-modal structure predictable from context, while the causal SFT path retains direct token-level supervision for the target sequence. During self-training, AC-JEPA learns from continuous latent targets derived from imperfect pseudo-labeled pairs, offering intrinsic tolerance to local data errors without promoting pseudo-tokens to hard categorical supervision. Using optical chemical structure recognition as a testbed, AC-JEPA trained on clean pairs achieves 76.07% accuracy on the Simple set of the WildMol benchmark, compared with 67.40% for SFT alone. Using the same pseudo-labeled data for both approaches, AC-JEPA-based self-training further raises accuracy to 80.23%, whereas accuracy under direct SFT drops from 67.40% to 63.47%. These results support SFT-anchored joint-embedding prediction as an effective strategy for cross-modal translation under both curated and imperfect supervision.

cs.AI · cs.CL

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2606.03385

Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

Jiahao Xu, Peiyuan Wang, Hanzhuo Zhang, Zihao Yu, Tianyu Fu, Hao Chen, Xuanhao Xiang, Zixuan Li 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

In robotic manipulation, the tight coupling between grasping and motion planning often obscures the true source of failure, leading to inefficient trial-and-error. To enable efficient long-horizon manipulation, we propose GTP-FA (Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution), a task-oriented two-stage 'grasp-then-plan' framework that generates grasp candidates and performs downstream motion planning conditioned on the selected grasp. Given a failed manipulation trajectory, we learn a failure attribution model that generalizes to unseen grasps and produces a stable distribution over failure modes for diagnosis-guided optimization. Based on these attribution results, we then optimize both modules in a diagnosis-driven manner: on the grasping side, we inject task-level priors and risk penalties into grasp candidate scoring and optimization to suppress unstable or task-incompatible grasps; on the planning side, we target high-risk initial states through data collection and fine-tuning to address genuine planning bottlenecks. We evaluate the proposed framework in both simulation and real-robot experiments, and show that GTP-FA improves the corresponding base learners across RL, IL, diffusion-policy, and VLA-based settings, achieving substantially higher overall task success rates.

cs.RO · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36484

CogArena: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents on Interactive Behavioral Experiments

Kianté Fernandez, Caitlin Chen, Jialu Zhou, Bartek Sadowski, Anthony C. Miceli, Ian Krajbich

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Claims about the cognitive capabilities of large language models are typically tested by translating behavioral paradigms into text prompts, bypassing the visual interfaces and time pressure through which human participants actually engage with experiments. At the same time, AI agents can now complete online behavioral tasks and produce human-like data, which raises concerns that online datasets in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly open to contamination. We introduce CogArena, a benchmark of ten experimental paradigms from the social and behavioral sciences. Agents complete the experiments through a standard web browser, working with the same visual stimuli and response interfaces that online participants use. A three-level scoring procedure evaluates whether the agent completed the task, how accurately it performed, and whether its data show the behavioral signatures each paradigm reliably produces in people. Across four multimodal models, each run ten times per task, we find that finishing an experiment and reproducing its signatures are different things. Many sessions did not finish, and those that did reproduced some signatures reliably and others not at all. CogArena provides the tasks, scoring code, and a public leaderboard for new submissions.

cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.HC · q-bio.NC

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2601.02727

Foreground-Aware Dataset Distillation via Dual-Path Patch Selection

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Longzhen Li, Ren Togo, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama

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In this paper, we propose a foreground-aware dataset distillation method that performs content-adaptive dual-path patch selection. With the rising computational cost of training large-scale deep models, dataset distillation has emerged as a promising approach for constructing compact synthetic datasets that retain knowledge from large original datasets. Although optimization-based methods can achieve strong performance, they often incur considerable computational and memory costs and may produce synthetic images that generalize poorly across architectures. Recent non-optimization-based methods alleviate these limitations by constructing distilled images from real-image patches. However, their inflexible patch-construction strategies may either retain redundant background content or discard important foreground structures. To address this issue, we propose a foreground-aware dataset distillation framework with content-adaptive dual-path patch selection. We first use Grounded SAM2 to estimate the foreground occupancy of each image and derive category-specific routing thresholds from the corresponding class-wise distributions. Each image is routed to one of two complementary paths: the candidate-crop selection path for images with relatively sparse foregrounds, or the direct transformation path for images with relatively dominant foregrounds. This dual-path mechanism balances foreground concentration and preservation, reducing redundant background content while retaining the structural integrity of foreground objects at the dataset level. Experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNette, and ImageWoof with two network architectures and three distillation budgets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the baseline method RDED in nearly all evaluated settings.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2512.12868

Counting Clues: A Lightweight Probabilistic Baseline Can Match an LLM

Furong Jia, Yuan Pu, Finn Guo, Monica Agrawal

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Large language models (LLMs) excel on multiple-choice clinical diagnosis benchmarks, yet it is unclear how much of this performance reflects underlying probabilistic reasoning. We study this through questions from MedQA that ask for the most likely diagnosis. We introduce Frequency-Based Probabilistic Ranker (FBPR), a lightweight method that scores options with a smoothed Naive Bayes over concept-diagnosis co-occurrence statistics from a large corpus. When co-occurrence statistics are sourced from Dolma, the pretraining corpus for OLMo, and RedPajama, an open reproduction of the LLaMA pretraining-data recipe, FBPR achieves comparable performance to the corresponding LLMs. Furthermore, direct LLM inference and FBPR exhibit complementary strengths, correctly answering largely different subsets of questions with overlap barely above chance. Combining them with a simple hybrid method yields a notable gain over either method alone. These findings show that explicit probabilistic baselines can account for a substantial portion of the benchmark performance on diagnosis questions, while serving as historically grounded reference points and complementary signals for hybridization.

cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.29968

CulturalRiddles: A Multicultural Benchmark of Riddles

My Chiffon Nguyen, Tianyi Hu, Vinod Anbalagan, Henry Gagnier, Pouya Sadeghi, Farah Abdou, Tidor-Vlad Pricope, Diego MMS Oliveira 等 164 位作者

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As LLMs expand their language coverage, evaluating how well they understand and represent diverse cultures becomes increasingly important. However, many benchmarks remain English-centric, with limited cultural coverage and a focus on factual knowledge over its application in real-world cultural contexts. We propose CulturalRiddles, a benchmark of original, culturally grounded riddles created entirely by humans through a participatory community effort, spanning 62 cultures (45 countries, 51 languages). These riddles are deeply rooted in their respective cultures and require abductive and compositional reasoning, alongside detailed factual and social knowledge, language skills, and an understanding of culturally specific associations. We benchmark 28 LLM configurations using both automatic and large-scale human evaluation. Even frontier models achieve at most 22% accuracy in some communities. We publicly release all artifacts alongside an open contribution process to expand the benchmark's linguistic and cultural coverage.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36476

FIDES-Live: Evaluating Behavioral Concordance in Sequential Trading Agents

Arther Tian, Alex Ding, Simon Wu, Aaron Chan

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Sequential trading agents produce decisions, orders, execution receipts, account states, and reports that need not agree, even when the final portfolio value is correctly computed. We present FIDES-Live, an operational extension of FIDES from generated strategy concordance to the audit of sequential agent traces. The protocol separates structured decision validity, optional numerical commitment adherence, execution and ledger reconciliation, and receipt- grounded reporting, with explicit coverage and unscorable outcomes. We retrospectively audit ten requested inference routes over 7,299 cryptocurrency account-rounds and a 310-round equity pilot, using real market observations and local paper execution. Cryptocurrency decision validity is 97.35% and structured reporting accuracy is 90.81% among scorable responses, but route-level decision and reporting performance can diverge sharply. Commitment adherence is 94.36% overall; it falls to 62.63% on constraints emitted with nonempty order proposals, compared with 97.56% for valid empty proposals. All retained cash and position transitions reconcile with recorded fills, while execution controls and unavailable quotes explain separate rejection populations. Short-window marked returns provide descriptive context rather than a new test of whether concordance predicts alpha. These observations motivate reporting concordance, evidence coverage, activity, and financial outcomes separately. They do not establish long-run trading skill, semantic faithfulness of explanations, or causal benefits from audit feedback.

cs.CR · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.13008

Provenance-Aware Belief Updating in Human-AI Feedback Loops

Tianyi Huang, Eric Liu, Jay Chong, Emily Yin, Wanqi Zhao

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In repeated human-AI interaction, a single observation can be quoted, summarized, and returned to a model as multiple reports, making repetition look like independent corroboration. We study whether language models can use supplied report lineage to update according to evidence provenance rather than report count. We introduce Latent Quotient Evidence Training (LQET), a relational objective that combines sparse Bayesian supervision with constraints that encourage stable predictions when reports add no new evidence and consistent updates to the same new evidence across relay histories. On a controlled binary benchmark, LQET reduces new-evidence update RMSE by 41-44\% and log-odds drift after eight relay steps by 89-91\% relative to task-only training across Qwen3-4B and Phi-4-mini, with three paired training seeds per backbone. The gains extend to a closed-loop simulation in which model confidence controls how many relayed reports re-enter the model's context in later rounds. By grounding belief updates in supplied provenance, LQET offers a route toward dynamic human-AI systems in which influence follows new evidence, not the number of times the same evidence returns.

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版本更新 · v4arXiv:2310.03186

Inferring Inference

Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju, Zhe Li, Scott Linderman, Xaq Pitkow

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Patterns of microcircuitry in the cerebral cortex suggest that the brain has an array of repeated canonical computational units. However, neural representations are distributed, so the relevant computations may only be related indirectly to single-neuron transformations. It thus remains an open challenge how to define canonical distributed computations. Here we integrate normative and algorithmic theories of neural computation to present a mathematical framework for inferring canonical distributed computations from large-scale neural activity patterns. At the normative level, we hypothesize that the brain learns a structured internal model of its environment and its latent causes. At the algorithmic level, we propose that this inference process is a nonlinear message-passing algorithm on a graph-structured model of the world. Given a time series of neural activity during a perceptual inference task, our analysis framework finds (i) the neural representation of the relevant latent variables, (ii) interactions between these latent variables that define the brain's internal model of the world, and (iii) message functions that specify the inference algorithm. With enough data, key computational properties are identifiable due to constraints from the symmetries inherent in any canonical computation, up to a joint global transformation of all interactions and the message-passing functions. As a demonstration of this framework, we analyze artificial neural recordings generated by a simulated brain that implicitly implements an approximate inference algorithm. Given simulated inputs and neural activity we successfully recover the latent variables, their neural representation and dynamics, and canonical message functions that govern the dynamics. Analysis of these models reveals features of experimental design required to extract canonical computations from neural data.

q-bio.NC · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36471

When to Intervene? An Empirical Study of Errors and Self-Recovery in LLM Agents

Chiming Duan, Tong Jia, Yingxi Chen, Minghua He, Lingzhe Zhang, Ying Li

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LLM agents interact with Web services to perform tasks on users' behalf. Errors during these interactions can disrupt execution and prevent task completion, motivating external intervention. However, agents may self-recover through continued execution, raising the question of when to intervene and when to wait for self-recovery. We present an empirical study of errors and self-recovery in LLM agents. We construct ReInBench, a dataset containing 1,259 agent traces and 1,403 error events across computer-use and Web tasks. Our study examines how often and how quickly agents self-recover, how self-recovery relates to subsequent execution and task completion, and whether self-recovery can be predicted when an error occurs. We find that 725 error events self-recover, often within a few steps, with self-recovery performance differing across Execution LLMs. Self-recovery can also help agents recover from subsequent errors of the same type and support overall task completion. Intervention should therefore prioritize errors unlikely to self-recover, while allowing agents to continue when self-recovery is likely. Building on these empirical findings, we propose ReCoF, a method that predicts whether an error will self-recover to inform whether additional intervention is needed. ReCoF achieves an average relative improvement of 9.02% in Macro-F1 over the strongest baseline on ReInBench. Our code and data can be found at https://method-notes.github.io/ReCoF/.

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LociArt: A Unified Paradigm for Free-Style Local Video Stylization

Yuxuan Chen, Feng Xie, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li, Zepeng Wang, Fei Wang, Daiguo Zhou

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Video stylization typically transforms entire scenes, while local artistic editing requires precise region--style association, spatial control, and temporal consistency. We introduce LociArt, a unified paradigm for free-style local video stylization that explicitly specifies where to stylize and what style to apply while preserving non-target content. At its core, GRNStyle builds on Generative Refinement Networks (GRN) and introduces a polar style-aware mask that embeds style identities as equal-norm directions within selected regions. Complementary representation--geometry conditioning combines encoded mask features with raw-mask spatial support, integrating spatiotemporal context with geometric control. To provide paired supervision, we develop an automated pipeline combining global stylization, video object removal, matting, and compositing, and construct the LociArt-100K Dataset with 100K local stylization pairs. We further establish the LociArt Benchmark, comprising 80 source videos and 84 target masks covering 168 foreground/background stylization cases, with a Style Prototype Similarity (SPS) evaluation scheme for regional style quality and complementary measures of non-target preservation and temporal consistency. Experiments show that GRNStyle outperforms existing methods in regional style quality and spatial control while maintaining strong temporal consistency. Qualitative examples further illustrate joint stylization of multiple regions with the same or different learned styles, despite training only on single-region, single-style pairs. Together, these components provide a unified foundation for learning and evaluating controllable local video stylization. Project page: https://higherhu.github.io/lociart/.

cs.CV · cs.AI · cs.MM

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Correction or Manipulation? Measuring Epistemic Vigilance in LLM Agents Under User Pressure

Nardine Basta, Venus Haghighi, Dali Kaafar, Amin Beheshti

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LLM agents that answer questions and act on behalf of users must decide when to yield to a user who disagrees. Disagreement may correct a genuine error or may be an attempt at manipulation. Prior work shows that models frequently abandon correct answers when challenged by users, yet it remains unclear whether they distinguish correction from manipulation or merely differ in their propensity to concede. We examine this question across seven LLMs from four vendors in two studies, one on the answers agents give and one on the actions they take as customer-support agents whose policy permits account changes only for verified users. Simulated users push toward correct and incorrect answers with graded pressure. Following research on epistemic vigilance, the pressure either appeals to the source, such as claimed authority, or offers content the agent cannot verify, namely a cited source. Drawing on signal detection theory, we measure on a set of benchmark questions how much more readily each agent concedes to correction than to manipulation, separately from its overall propensity to concede. Citations made five of seven models readier to concede and four worse at discriminating, while stronger wording added little. In the agentic study, five models never violated the verification policy, including models that readily abandoned correct answers, so concession on answers did not predict violations of policy. Ministral 3B violated the policy mainly under claimed authority, and Ministral 8B reported changes it had not made. An instruction to revise only on verifiable evidence chiefly shifted propensity to concede rather than improving discrimination. Concession rates alone are therefore misleading, and agents should be evaluated on both their discrimination and the actions they take.

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.31895

Knowing When to Stop: The Evidence-Action Gap in Coding Agents

Tianyu Chen, Xinran Zhao, Vijay Viswanathan, Shoubin Yu, Mingyuan Zhou, Tongshuang Wu

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Coding agents are trained to complete tasks, and they keep trying even when the environment makes completion impossible. The evidence that only outside help can restore progress usually appears within a few steps, yet agents rarely act on it: they over-persist, attempt undesired workarounds, and claim success the record does not support -- a phenomenon we call evidence-action gap. To measure it, we introduce ImpasseBench, which injects twelve realistic environment blockers into otherwise solvable repair tasks and marks, in each trajectory, the step at which the collected evidence becomes sufficient. Scoring actions relative to that step separates appropriate effort from over-persistence and premature handoff. Across eight frontier models and 19,371 trajectories, we find that nearly every run that needs outside help collects sufficient evidence, yet a third still exhaust their budget, and every unsafe request we detect comes after that point. Fortunately, an escalation tool, or an external monitor for models that ignore the tool, already guards against much of this behavior: the tool cuts budget exhaustion from 34.0% to 6.7%, and the monitor nearly triples task success after environment restoration. Even then, a fired escalation is not yet a useful handoff: tickets reliably name the blocker but often omit the agent's own progress and verification status. Taken together, we argue that knowing when to stop therefore needs explicit support, both in the tool that lets an agent hand off and in the report it leaves behind.

cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.CL

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A Heart Means Recursion: Exploring Visual Meaning and Communication in VLMs

Alexa R. Tartaglini, Zhengxuan Wu, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Martin Wattenberg, Been Kim, Yuxuan Li

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Do vision-language models (VLMs) share our ability to communicate visually? We share preliminary findings, starting from a surprising observation: simple visual symbols like a red heart can strongly influence model behavior on seemingly unrelated tasks, such as steering models towards recursive solutions on simple coding problems. Notably, this steering effect is largely implicit, as models' direct interpretations and thinking traces about visual symbols diverge substantially from their observed behavior. In visual communication between models, this leads to a generation--interpretation gap: while models tend to send shape primitives that they (and humans) find intuitive, these visual cues often fail to steer other models. In further communication games involving abstract concepts and stories, models can creatively use visuals to transmit meaning to one another, although some communications remain non-intuitive to humans. These findings reveal that VLMs might be capable of rich, creative, and visually-grounded communication, but their interpretation and production of visual meaning diverges from human conventions in surprising ways. Together this work highlights both the promise and challenges of visual communication between humans and VLMs.

cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CV

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36445

From Solver Trajectories to Teaching Trajectories: Cognition-Aligned Reasoning Distillation

Yashuo Luo, Qianren Mao, Ziqi Qin, Junnan Liu, Haitao Li, Qili Zhang, Yuan Gao, Zhijun Chen 等 9 位作者

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Knowledge distillation from large reasoning models (LRMs) often uses raw teacher trajectories as supervision. However, this practice creates a mismatch between the goal of distillation and the nature of teacher trajectories. Advanced LRMs typically improve their reasoning capabilities through reward-driven post-training, such as RLHF. This training optimizes them as strong solvers, rather than as teachers that produce reasoning processes smaller models can easily learn. Since smaller models have different "cognitive capacities" compared to their larger teachers, directly imitating raw teacher trajectories can sometimes be ineffective and often requires a substantial number of high-quality samples. To bridge this mismatch, we propose Cognition-Aligned Reasoning Distillation (CARD), an RL-based framework that transforms solver trajectories into teaching trajectories aligned with the student's cognition. Avoiding expensive resampling, our framework directly transforms existing trajectories. We optimize CARD with two reward signals: (1) a Distribution Alignment Reward that matches the student's predictive distribution, and (2) a Logical Coherence Reward that reduces misleading failed reasoning steps. Comprehensive evaluations across multiple student models and settings demonstrate that CARD outperforms distillation from raw teacher trajectories in in-domain settings while achieving substantial gains in out-of-distribution performance. Code is available at https://github.com/LiteSSLHub/CARD.

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RouteDRAG: Learning to Route and Control Agentic Execution for Multimodal Document RAG

Zekai Chen, Hao Zhu, Yu Liu, Xunkai Li, Zejian Kang, Rui Qian, Quanjiang Li, Rong-Hua Li

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Web-based applications increasingly rely on understanding long multimodal documents, where answering questions often requires combining information across pages, tables, and figures. Agentic retrieval-augmented generation addresses these tasks through iterative retrieval and reasoning. However, Agentic execution is not always necessary, introducing additional computation and potentially incorrect answers. Our empirical analysis reveals that Agentic execution provides query-dependent benefits, while additional operations may improve, preserve, or degrade answer accuracy. These findings motivate controlling both Agent invocation and subsequent execution. To address these challenges, we propose RouteDRAG, a learning-based framework comprising four components. Unified Document Index organizes multimodal content into a graph-backed index and derives query representations from initial retrieval. Adaptive Path Routing preserves exact answering and predicts the relative benefit of Agent over shorter execution paths. Dynamic Agent Execution maintains an evolving workspace and refines Planner proposals to control tool use and termination. Sequential Policy Learning first trains operation control from observed outcomes and then trains path routing using the resulting Agent's performance. Across two benchmarks, RouteDRAG achieves an average accuracy improvement of 3.47 percentage points over shorter-path-only execution while assigning only 79.3% of queries to Agent. Notably, it also surpasses uniform Agent execution on both benchmarks while requiring fewer answering calls. Our code is now available at https://github.com/Ereshkigal1/RouteDRAG.

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Your Agent Acts Differently When You're Around: How User Presence Changes Agent Behavior in Negotiation

Jane Pan, You Lyu, Abe Bohan Hou, Valerie Chen, He He

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LLM agents increasingly interact with other agents on behalf of users, yet how users in the loop affect their agents' behavior--for better or worse--remains poorly understood. We study this question through the lens of negotiation, where agents must represent users while strategically bargaining with other agents. To isolate the effect of user presence, we develop PRESENT, a controlled evaluation framework that compares negotiation settings with and without an interactive user, while holding the game, objectives, and user preferences fixed across conditions. Across 11.2k runs spanning 7 games and 8 models, we find that user presence significantly changes both outcomes and behavior. Specifically, negotiation parties with a user obtain higher payouts (+13.7% on average) and their agents negotiate more aggressively. Surprisingly, user presence also induces misaligned behavior, both toward counterparties (where its rate roughly doubles) and toward users (where it emerges in 14.3% of games). These misaligned behaviors are uncorrelated with outcomes and persist even when the user sends only templated, neutral messages. These findings expose two blind spots in current evaluation practice: static instructions miss behaviors that emerge only when users are present, and outcome-level metrics cannot detect them.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36433

LM-DSB: A Lightweight Multi-agent System for Automated Daily Safety Bulletin Generation in Construction

Xianxiang Zhao, Advik Mehta, Falak Sethi, Brian Gue, Qipei Mei, Lingzi Wu

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Construction safety management still struggles to produce daily safety bulletins (DSBs), structured daily communications that identify site-specific hazards, convey safety protocols, and set preventive measures for workers. Manual DSB creation takes 2-3 hours daily and yields inconsistent quality, with 25% of crews never conducting pretask planning (Olson et al., 2016), diverting safety personnel from field supervision. This study proposes the Lightweight Multi-Agent DSB System (LM-DSB), which integrates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a locally deployable Large Language Model (LLM) to automate DSB generation on consumer-grade personal computers. LM-DSB coordinates specialized planner, researcher, and writer agents in a hierarchical architecture, enhanced by domain-specific fine-tuning on construction safety documentation and RAG grounding in 37 health, safety, and environment (HSE) documents. A two-phase validation assessed feasibility. Phase 1 comparative evaluation showed the multi-agent RAG system (Llama 3-8B) outperformed all alternative configurations, with strong lexical alignment and coherence (TF-IDF: 0.70, BLEU: 0.39, ROUGE-1: 0.66) and near-complete document generation (length ratio: 1.01 vs. 0.39 for single-agent RAG). Phase 2 expert evaluation (N=40) confirmed practical acceptability (mean scores 3.50-4.20 on a 5-point scale), particularly in regulatory compliance (4.20) and factual accuracy (4.10). The findings show that architectural design enables lightweight models to handle safety-critical documentation on consumer-grade hardware, advancing technology democratization in construction safety management. Limitations include knowledge base scope, language constraints, and lack of field deployment validation; future work should address multimodal integration and workflow adoption.

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