Creates LoCoMo benchmark dataset for very long-term LLM conversational memory and shows current models struggle with lengthy dialogues and long-range temporal dynamics.
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Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents
Creates LoCoMo benchmark dataset for very long-term LLM conversational memory and shows current models struggle with lengthy dialogues and long-range temporal dynamics.
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Fork-Think with Confidence
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Query-Aware Spreading Activation for Multi-Hop Retrieval over Knowledge Graphs
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ECHO: Learning Epistemically Adaptive Language Agents with Turn-Level Credit
ECHO is a clipped policy-gradient method that uses posterior-sensitive rewards to give turn-level epistemic credit in multi-turn information-seeking tasks, outperforming trajectory-level GRPO on a new Clue Selector Game benchmark.
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CrypFormBench: Benchmarking Formal Analysis Capability of Large Language Models for Cryptographic Schemes
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Lost in Aggregation: A Multi-Scale Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM Spatial Navigation
A new diagnostic benchmark decomposes LLM spatial navigation into three cognitive scales and shows that cross-scale aggregation, not single-level deficits, causes failure beyond small mazes.
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Structured Inference with Large Language Gibbs
Large Language Gibbs uses LLM next-token conditionals as MCMC transition operators for iterative resampling of structured variables, aiming to produce a stationary distribution that compromises across all local conditionals.
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Lost in a Single Vector: Improving Long-Document Retrieval with Chunk Evidence Aggregation
DICE aggregates independently encoded document chunks into a single vector to reduce evidence dilution in long-document dense retrieval, reporting gains on LongEmbed especially beyond 4k tokens.
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Locality Does Not Imply Reachability: Boundary Repair in Block-Sparse Causal Attention
Fixed block causal masks create reachability boundaries where representations depend only on block prefixes, formalized via dependency sets and phase-conditioned coverage functions, with a parameter-free boundary bridge repair.
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SuperMemory-VQA: An Egocentric Visual Question-Answering Benchmark for Long-Horizon Memory
SuperMemory-VQA provides 4,853 human-verified QA pairs from 52.9 hours of egocentric AI glasses recordings to benchmark AI systems on realistic long-horizon memory tasks including an unanswerable option.
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Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding for Reputation Mechanisms
VLMs preserve linearly separable visual magnitudes and can compare them, yet collapse at symbolic mapping because visual and textual number spaces remain fractured and disjoint.
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What Gets Cited: Competitive GEO in AI Answer Engines
Across 252,000 paired trials on six LLMs, topical relevance and list position emerged as the strongest drivers of first citation in competitive RAG, with price information and recency providing consistent secondary gains.
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Debug Like a Human: Scaling LLM-based Fault Localization to Processor Design via Block-Level Instruction-Oriented Slicing
BluesFL uses block-level instruction-oriented slicing with LLMs to localize 24 bugs at Top-1 in a 19K-line RISC-V processor, a 242.9% gain over prior SOTA of 7 bugs.
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ContractBench: Can LLM Agents Preserve Observation Contracts?
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RoPE Distinguishes Neither Positions Nor Tokens in Long Contexts, Provably
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Zero-Shot Goal Recognition with Large Language Models
Frontier LLMs show uneven zero-shot performance on goal recognition in PDDL domains: some scale with accumulating evidence toward landmark-based accuracy while others stay anchored to world-knowledge priors.
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LLM-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search over Knowledge Graphs: Composing Mechanistic Explanations for Drug-Disease Pairs
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When Stored Evidence Stops Being Usable: Scale-Conditioned Evaluation of Agent Memory
A new evaluation protocol shows agent memory reliability degrades variably with added irrelevant sessions depending on agent, memory interface, and scale.
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BERAG: Bayesian Ensemble Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
BERAG applies Bayesian ensemble weighting of individual documents via token-by-token posterior updates in retrieval-augmented generation, yielding gains on knowledge-based visual QA tasks.
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Synthesizing Multi-Agent Harnesses for Vulnerability Discovery
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HorizonBench: Long-Horizon Personalization with Evolving Preferences
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Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Diverse Models
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Lost at the End: Primacy Bias in Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering
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Open-ended Multi-agent Autocurricula via Visual Inspection of Policies with Multi-modal LLMs
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MemDefrag: Latent Memory Defragmentation for Large Language Models
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On the Limits of Steering Vectors for Preference-Aligned Generation
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SeKV: Resolution-Adaptive KV Cache with Hierarchical Semantic Memory for Long-Context LLM Inference
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Stop Hand-Holding Your Coding Agent: Engineering the Loops that Replace Step-by-Step Prompting
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VADAOrchestra: Neurosymbolic Orchestration of Adaptive Reasoning Workflows
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Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery
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SproutRAG: Attention-Guided Tree Search with Progressive Embeddings for Long-Document RAG
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RSRank: Learning Relevance from Representational Shifts
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IVIE: A Neuro-symbolic Approach to Incremental and Validated Generation of Interactive Fiction Worlds
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miniReranker: Efficient Multimodal Reranking through Visual Cache Reuse and Interaction Sparsity
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AURA: Intent-Directed Probing for Implicit-Need Surfacing in Situated LLM Agents
AURA improves implicit-need coverage by 0.07 over ReAct baselines on a 100-query benchmark by inserting an intent inference step controlled by a gap score, while cutting probes 82% on factual tasks.
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RAMPART: Registry-based Agentic Memory with Priority-Aware Runtime Transformation
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The Invisible Lottery: How Subtle Cues Steer Algorithm Choice in LLM Code Generation
Incidental prompt cues induce large, systematic shifts in the algorithm families chosen by LLMs during code generation across thousands of controlled trials.
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Traj-Evolve: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Patient Trajectory Modeling in Lung Cancer Early Detection
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Memory Shot for Long-Term Dialogue
MemShot renders local dialogue spans as structured visual memory units to improve long-term dialogue modeling in LLMs, achieving competitive benchmark performance with 70x faster memory construction.
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Eywa: Provenance-Grounded Long-Term Memory for AI Agents
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When Should Models Change Their Minds? Contextual Belief Management in Large Language Models
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Adaptive Mass-Segmented KV Compression for Long-Context Reasoning
AMS KV compression adaptively partitions the cache by attention mass regions and assigns quotas to protect contiguous reasoning blocks during long-context LLM inference.
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SVR-MAD: A Bayesian-Inspired Framework for Posterior-Guided Multi-Agent Debate
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