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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2611.04867

更新于 2026-11-08

One Assistant, Many Memories: Benchmarking Real-World Group Assistance When Recall Is Not Enough

Zhanghao Hu, Linhai Zhang, Qian Zhao, Qi Zhu, Yuan Hua, Di Liang, Jiasheng Si, Xin Zhao 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

The value of memory lies not only in recall but in using it to provide appropriate assistance. Recent benchmarks test memory use in personalisation and agentic tasks, but seldom evaluate assistance without fixed answers or integration across multiple participants. Group chats make both challenges more acute: an assistant must integrate information from multiple members, track revisions and conflicts over time, and produce one response for the group. Yet existing group memory benchmarks rely on synthetic conversations and inherit constrained evaluation from general memory benchmarks, focusing on recall against fixed answers or decisions over a closed set. We introduce GroupAssistBench, the first memory benchmark from real-world group conversations with a deployed group assistant, covering 80,299 messages in 50 groups and costing over $53K. Over the same histories, GroupAssistBench evaluates memory recall (L1) with reference answers and memory use (L2) with service requests without fixed answers across single, distributed, and conflicting memories (M1--M3). Requests are verified to require group history, memories are anchored to their sources, and L2 uses tailored rubrics with penalties derived from real user feedback. Across evaluations of frontier models with full context, retrieval methods, and memory systems, the strongest memory system rivals full context on recall but falls far behind on use, especially for distributed and conflicting memories. Together, two additions that relate retrieved memories and bind remembered facts as response constraints bring consistent gains, showing that group memory systems must improve use, not recall alone.

cs.CL · cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04003

更新于 2026-11-03

WASP-Mem: Let Agent Organize Procedural Memory. Human Spend Effort on Diagnosis

Peizhi Niu, Ge Shi, Vaibhav Gorde, Sarthak Ghosh, Christos Faloutsos, Min Cheng, Kevin Chen

原文摘要

LLM agents struggle to automate complex enterprise procedures because static, pre-built harness cannot capture proprietary policies, undocumented behaviors, or state-dependent recovery paths that surface only during execution. Procedural memory accrued from agent experience offers a training-free path to closing this gap -- yet unlike episodic records or semantic facts, it must consolidate repeated successes and diagnosed failures into reusable actions and recovery strategies. We introduce WASP-Mem (Wiki-based Agent-Synthesized Procedural Memory), a nimble but effective method that distills execution traces and feedback into persistent, interlinked wiki pages, enabling continual agent learning. On TheAgentCompany benchmark, WASP-Mem raises the checkpoint pass rate by 4.6-6.1% over the strongest baseline we compared across three models while requiring 57-61% less storage. We further present a systematic controlled study spanning consolidation method, feedback type, trace ingestion scope, and refinement rounds. Our results reveal that prescriptive knowledge organization such as human defined schemas and explicit deduplication rules hurts performance rather than closing the procedural-knowledge gap. In contrast, human diagnosis converts failed traces into corrective knowledge and drives sustained improvement: a single round of human diagnosis outperforms four rounds of self-judgment by 7.0-10.9%. These findings point to a simple division of labor: let agents organize procedural memory, and invest human effort where it matters most -- diagnosis.

cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.03982

更新于 2026-11-03

SLATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Long-Horizon API Selection in E-commerce Tool Use

Rongzhe Wei, Ge Shi, Min Cheng, Sarthak Ghosh, Vaibhav Gorde, Leman Akoglu, Pan Li, Na Zhang

原文摘要

Enterprises increasingly want LLM agents to automate standard operating procedures over their software stacks -- mapping each step of a procedure to the right call among thousands of internal APIs, without hand-authored step-to-API mappings. The core difficulty is API selection at scale: choosing and composing the correct tools over a long horizon, judged only by whether the overall task succeeds. Current tool-use benchmarks do not test this regime -- they expose only a handful of tools, evaluate single-step invocation, or grade multi-step behavior with subjective LLM-as-a-judge scores that penalize valid alternative trajectories. We introduce SLATE (Synthetic Large-scale API Toolkit for E-commerce), a large-scale benchmark that tests large-toolset, long-horizon API selection in a realistic enterprise domain. SLATE couples (i) queries decomposed into hierarchical, tool-grounded procedures over a ~1,000-tool e-commerce library, (ii) a deterministic, context-aware simulator that returns recorded outputs for matching calls and default responses otherwise, and (iii) an end-to-end task-success metric -- a task succeeds when it reaches every reference outcome -- that credits diverse-but-valid trajectories while remaining fully automatic and reproducible. Experiments with six open decision models and the language models they are built on, from 3B to 12B parameters, show that even the best model completes only 5.0% of the tasks, establishing SLATE as a challenging testbed for reliable enterprise tool use. We release SLATE, its simulator, and the evaluation harness at https://geshijoker.github.io/slate/

cs.CL · cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.03223

更新于 2026-11-02

Do Agents Still Follow the Rules? Benchmarking Rule Compliance under Agent Context Compaction

Yiwei Zha, Qingyu Meng, Herbert Bos, Min Chen

原文摘要

LLM agents compact long histories to fit their context windows, but the compacted context must still carry the operating rules that govern later actions. Prior work shows that violations rise after compaction, but measures compliance outside a complete agent harness and does not identify where each violation comes from. We introduce ARCBench(Agent Rule Compliance Benchmark), a configurable benchmark built on the open-source pi agent harness. Its tool-calling agent loop lets us measure rule compliance from actions taken during execution, bringing the evaluation closer to deployed agent workflows. Using ARCBench, we examine where violations after compaction come from, and how different compaction configurations and adversarial settings change their sources. We find that compaction rarely deletes the rule: most violations after compaction occur while the rule is still in the compacted history, with the agent treating a later request as permission, ignoring the rule, and proceeding anyway. Where violations come from depends on the configuration: how the rule is delivered decides whether the agent would break it even without compaction, while the compaction strategy and budget decide whether the rule survives. The strongest compactor-targeted attack more than doubles violations by corrupting the rule in the summary and changing how the agents behave, whereas the strongest defense restores the rule in most summary but still violates. Finally, retaining a rule does not guarantee compliance: compacted runs that retain the rule violate more than twice as often as runs with the full history.

cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-industry.33ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Learning from Textual Radiology Reports: A Benchmark Dataset for Coronary CT Angiography

Sudharshan Balaji, Zhiyu Liu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Shuo Lei, Yimin Chen, Yang Xiao, Shone O. Almeida, Mathew Joseph Karivelil 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

While coronary imaging is widely used for anatomical assessment, CCTA reports play a distinct last-mile role in clinical care. Ratherthan serving as an intermediate signal, CCTA provides an assessment of coronary disease severity (known as the CAD-RADS score) toguide patient management. However, real-world clinical text exhibits substantial heterogeneity in terminology and structure, leadingto inconsistent interpretation by automated systems, even for clinically similar cases. Recent work leverages a direct application ofLLMs for automated CAD-RADS scoring, but is limited by small, non-public, and homogeneous clinical data. We introduce CCTA-RADS, the largest publicly available dataset of 940 real-world CCTA reports from a major cardiovascular center, each annotated with CAD-RADS scores. Our analysis reveals that direct approaches, including state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-o3) and fine-tuned BERT models underperform on diverse real-world clinical data. To address these limitations, we propose a two-stage pipeline that decouples structuring from classification: an LLM-based parser normalizes heterogeneous reports into structured format, followed by fine-tuned BERT classification. This approach substantially improves the F1-score by 6%-13% compared with direct methods. We deploy our system as an interactive web interface that allows clinicians to upload CCTA reports for automated CAD-RADS assessment with SHAP and LIME explainability visualizations.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track) · 2026 · 正式发表

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1384ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Spectral Characterization and Mitigation of Sequential Knowledge Editing Collapse

Chi Zhang, Mengqi Zhang Shandong University, Xiaotian Ye, Runxi Cheng, Zisheng Zhou, Ying Zhou Shandong University, Pengjie Ren Shandong University, Zhumin Chen Shandong University

原文摘要

Sequential knowledge editing in large language models often causes catastrophic collapse of the model’s general abilities, especially for parameter-modifying methods. Existing approaches mitigate this issue through heuristic constraints on parameter updates, the mechanisms underlying such degradation remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we present a systematic spectral analysis of sequential knowledge editing and show that a model’s general abilities are closely associated with dominant singular directions of pretrained weight matrices. These directions are highly sensitive to perturbations and are progressively disrupted by repeated edits, closely tracking the collapse in both editing efficacy and general performance. Building on this insight, we propose REVIVE, a plug-and-play framework that prevents model collapse by explicitly preserving this dominant subspace. REVIVE analyzes parameter updates in the spectral basis of the original weights and filters out components that would interfere with the dominant subspace. Extensive experiments across multiple models and benchmarks show that REVIVE consistently improves editing efficacy while substantially preserving general abilities under long-horizon sequential editing, including extreme settings with up to 20,000 edits.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1754ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Revealing Procedural Reasoning Structures in Chain-of-Thought Training via Span-Level Gradient Organization

Jia Liu South China University of Technology, Pazhou Laboratory and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiaxin Luo, Weiwen Xu Alibaba Group, Jonathan M. Garibaldi The University of Nottingham Ningbo China and University of Nottingham, Xiao-Kun Wu Renmin University of China, Yixue Hao, Min Chen South China University of Technology and Pazhou Laboratory

原文摘要

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables large language models to produce multi-step reasoning, yet how such reasoning-related structure is expressed during training remains poorly understood. We present Gradient-based Structural Developer (GSD), an unsupervised framework with a principled gradient aggregation view that tracks span-level gradient during fine-tuning on reasoning benchmarks to understand how models develop structured, step-by-step reasoning capabilities. Our analysis shows that while gradients at the level of individual tokens are often noisy, aggregating gradients over contiguous reasoning-related spans reveals stable and recurring directional alignment across samples. We refer to these directionally aligned patterns as aligned sequential stresses, reflecting consistent gradient organization associated with similar reasoning procedures. Beyond capturing semantically similar reasoning instances, such gradient alignment also reveals structurally similar but semantically diverse cases that share common procedural organization. These findings position GSD as a diagnostic framework for analyzing how procedural reasoning structures emerge during training, with downstream selection results serving as auxiliary evidence correlating gradient alignment with adaptation efficiency.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.2216ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Reinforced Efficient Reasoning via Semantically Diverse Exploration

Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren Leiden University, Jiahong Zou, Liu Yang, Zhiwei Xu Shandong University, Xuri Ge Shandong University, Zhumin Chen Shandong University, Xinyu Ma Baidu 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning of large language models (LLMs). Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based extensions improve upon vanilla RLVR (e.g., GRPO) by providing tree-based reasoning rollouts that enable fine-grained and segment-level credit assignment. However, existing methods still suffer from limited exploration diversity and inefficient reasoning. To address the above challenges, we propose reinforced efficient reasoning via semantically diverse explorations, i.e., ROSE, for LLMs. To encourage more diverse reasoning exploration, our method incorporates a semantic-entropy-based branching strategy and an \varepsilon-exploration mechanism. The former operates on already sampled reasoning rollouts to capture semantic uncertainty and select branching points with high semantic divergence to generate new successive reasoning paths, whereas the latter stochastically initiates reasoning rollouts from the root, preventing the search process from becoming overly local. To improve efficiency, we design a length-aware segment-level advantage estimator that rewards concise and correct reasoning while penalizing unnecessarily long reasoning chains. Extensive experiments on various mathematical reasoning benchmarks with Qwen and Llama models validate the effectiveness and efficiency of ROSE. Codes are available at https://github.com/ZiqiZhao1/ROSE-rl.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.351ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

S2O: Early Stopping for Sparse Attention via Online Permutation

Yu Zhang, Songwei Liu bytedance, Chenqian Yan ByteDance Inc., Linsheng ByteDance Inc., Beichen Ning, Fangmin Chen, Xing Wang ByteDance

原文摘要

Attention scales quadratically with sequence length, fundamentally limiting long-context inference.Existing block-granularity sparsification can reduce latency, but coarse blocks impose an intrinsic sparsity ceiling, making further improvements difficult even with carefully engineered designs.We present S2O, which performs early stopping for sparse attention via online permutation.Inspired by virtual-to-physical address mapping in memory systems, S2O revisits and factorizes FlashAttention execution, enabling inference to load non-contiguous tokens rather than a contiguous span in the original order.Motivated by fine-grained structures in attention heatmaps, we transform explicit permutation into an online, index-guided, discrete loading policy; with extremely lightweight preprocessing and index-remapping overhead, it concentrates importance on a small set of high-priority blocks.Building on this importance-guided online permutation for loading, S2O further introduces an early-stopping rule: computation proceeds from high to low importance; once the current block score falls below a threshold, S2O terminates early and skips the remaining low-contribution blocks, thereby increasing effective sparsity and reducing computation under a controlled error budget.As a result, S2O substantially raises the practical sparsity ceiling.On Llama-3.1-8B under a 128K context, S2O reduces single-operator MSE by 3.82\times at matched sparsity, and reduces prefill compute density by 3.31\times at matched MSE; meanwhile, it preserves end-to-end accuracy and achieves 7.51\times attention and 3.81\times end-to-end speedups.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

版本更新 · v5arXiv:2403.05530Google Research

更新于 2024-12-17

Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

Gemini Team, Petko Georgiev, Ving Ian Lei, Ryan Burnell, Libin Bai, Anmol Gulati, Garrett Tanzer, Damien Vincent 等 1137 位作者

原文摘要

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 1.5 family of models, representing the next generation of highly compute-efficient multimodal models capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context, including multiple long documents and hours of video and audio. The family includes two new models: (1) an updated Gemini 1.5 Pro, which exceeds the February version on the great majority of capabilities and benchmarks; (2) Gemini 1.5 Flash, a more lightweight variant designed for efficiency with minimal regression in quality. Gemini 1.5 models achieve near-perfect recall on long-context retrieval tasks across modalities, improve the state-of-the-art in long-document QA, long-video QA and long-context ASR, and match or surpass Gemini 1.0 Ultra's state-of-the-art performance across a broad set of benchmarks. Studying the limits of Gemini 1.5's long-context ability, we find continued improvement in next-token prediction and near-perfect retrieval (>99%) up to at least 10M tokens, a generational leap over existing models such as Claude 3.0 (200k) and GPT-4 Turbo (128k). Finally, we highlight real-world use cases, such as Gemini 1.5 collaborating with professionals on completing their tasks achieving 26 to 75% time savings across 10 different job categories, as well as surprising new capabilities of large language models at the frontier; when given a grammar manual for Kalamang, a language with fewer than 200 speakers worldwide, the model learns to translate English to Kalamang at a similar level to a person who learned from the same content.

cs.CL · cs.AI