AdaFocus achieves better accuracy on long-video benchmarks with roughly 33 times fewer visual tokens by combining query-aware adaptive sampling and zero-cache disk-based refinement.
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MLLMs display a large perception-reasoning gap on perspective-conditioned spatial reasoning tasks from omnidirectional images, with sharp accuracy drops on advanced tasks like egocentric rotation, though partial gains are possible via RL reward shaping.
BLADE uses Bayesian list-wise alignment with dynamic estimation to create a self-evolving target that overcomes limitations of static references in LLM-based recommendation, yielding sustained gains in ranking and complex metrics.
STRIDE uses a meta-planner for entity-agnostic reasoning skeletons and a supervisor for dependency-aware execution to improve retrieval-augmented multi-hop QA.
SWD-Bench evaluates repo-level docs through functionality detection, localization, and completion QA tasks on 4170 entries from PRs, showing best docs raise SWE-Agent issue-solving rate by 20%.
SMTPO uses multi-task SFT to improve simulator feedback quality and RL with fine-grained rewards to optimize multi-turn preference reasoning in LLM-based conversational recommendation.
ToolPRM provides fine-grained intra-call process supervision via a new dataset and reward model, outperforming outcome and coarse-grained alternatives on function-calling benchmarks.
SecureWebArena is a new benchmark suite for holistic security evaluation of LVLM-based web agents using diverse simulated environments, attack taxonomies, and multi-layered failure analysis across reasoning, behavior, and outcomes.
IMAGEO-Bench evaluates 10 LLMs on image geolocalization across global street scenes, US POIs, and private images, revealing closed-source model advantages and biases favoring high-resource regions.
LLM-based methods achieve higher F1-scores than traditional approaches for equivalent mutant detection in Java and C, with fine-tuned code embeddings performing best and showing cross-lingual generalization.
TeleCom-Bench reveals LLMs reach 90% on telecom intent and entity tasks but drop to 30% on solution generation and root cause analysis in live network scenarios.
Generative AI enables scalable, context-aware spear phishing by extracting profiles from public social media, producing emails that outperform real-world phishing samples in personalization and lower recipient suspicion.
Introduces VURB benchmark and VUP-35K dataset to train discriminative and generative video reward models that achieve SOTA performance on VURB and VideoRewardBench.
SensingAgents is a multi-agent LLM framework that reaches 79.5% zero-shot accuracy on IMU activity recognition by using position-specific analysts, debating advocates, and a final decision agent, beating prior agent and deep-learning baselines.
Pro2Assist continuously tracks user progress in procedural tasks from AR-glasses sensors and delivers proactive step-aware assistance, outperforming baselines in step accuracy and timing.
Reinforcement learning on MIR features combined with cargo-fuzz validation reduces false positives in Rust static memory safety analysis, raising precision from 25.6% to 59.0% and accuracy to 65.2%.
GeoDecider introduces a coarse-to-fine agentic workflow using LLMs for explainable lithology classification from well logs, combining a base classifier, tool-augmented reasoning, and geological refinement to outperform baselines on benchmarks.
EPM-RL uses PEFT followed by RL with agent-based rewards from judge models to create a trainable in-house product mapping model that improves on fine-tuning alone and beats API baselines in quality-cost while enabling private use.
Infection-Reasoner, a 4B VLM, reaches 86.8% accuracy on wound infection classification while producing rationales rated mostly correct by experts, via GPT-5.1 distillation followed by reinforcement learning.
VB-Score shows three major LLMs have severe failures in medical entity recognition and factual consistency, with 13.8% lower performance on chronic conditions affecting older and minority groups, indicating condition-based algorithmic discrimination.
RoTRAG retrieves Rules of Thumb to ground LLM reasoning for harm detection and severity classification in multi-turn dialogues, reporting roughly 40% relative F1 gains and 8.4% lower distributional error on two safety benchmarks while cutting redundant retrieval.
A prompting method that forces GPAI models to state SE best practices before deciding reduces prompt-induced cognitive biases by 51% on average across eight tested biases.
Open-source AI model development shows far less collaboration and openness than classic open-source software; users innovate by adapting models rather than improving them.
GLANCE introduces a bi-loop multi-agent framework with global-local coordination mechanisms that outperforms baselines by up to 33% on music-grounded nonlinear video editing tasks using a new MVEBench benchmark.
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AdaFocus: Adaptive Relevance-Diversity Sampling with Zero-Cache Look-back for Efficient Long Video Understanding
AdaFocus achieves better accuracy on long-video benchmarks with roughly 33 times fewer visual tokens by combining query-aware adaptive sampling and zero-cache disk-based refinement.
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Beyond Localization: A Comprehensive Diagnosis of Perspective-Conditioned Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs from Omnidirectional Images
MLLMs display a large perception-reasoning gap on perspective-conditioned spatial reasoning tasks from omnidirectional images, with sharp accuracy drops on advanced tasks like egocentric rotation, though partial gains are possible via RL reward shaping.
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Beyond Static Best-of-N: Bayesian List-wise Alignment for LLM-based Recommendation
BLADE uses Bayesian list-wise alignment with dynamic estimation to create a self-evolving target that overcomes limitations of static references in LLM-based recommendation, yielding sustained gains in ranking and complex metrics.
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STRIDE: Strategic Iterative Decision-Making for Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Hop Question Answering
STRIDE uses a meta-planner for entity-agnostic reasoning skeletons and a supervisor for dependency-aware execution to improve retrieval-augmented multi-hop QA.
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Evaluating Repository-level Software Documentation via Question Answering and Feature-Driven Development
SWD-Bench evaluates repo-level docs through functionality detection, localization, and completion QA tasks on 4170 entries from PRs, showing best docs raise SWE-Agent issue-solving rate by 20%.
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User Simulator-Guided Multi-Turn Preference Optimization for Reasoning LLM-based Conversational Recommendation
SMTPO uses multi-task SFT to improve simulator feedback quality and RL with fine-grained rewards to optimize multi-turn preference reasoning in LLM-based conversational recommendation.
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ToolPRM: Fine-Grained Inference Scaling of Structured Outputs for Function Calling
ToolPRM provides fine-grained intra-call process supervision via a new dataset and reward model, outperforming outcome and coarse-grained alternatives on function-calling benchmarks.
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SecureWebArena: A Holistic Security Evaluation Benchmark for LVLM-based Web Agents
SecureWebArena is a new benchmark suite for holistic security evaluation of LVLM-based web agents using diverse simulated environments, attack taxonomies, and multi-layered failure analysis across reasoning, behavior, and outcomes.
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From Pixels to Places: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Image Geolocalization Ability in Large Language Models
IMAGEO-Bench evaluates 10 LLMs on image geolocalization across global street scenes, US POIs, and private images, revealing closed-source model advantages and biases favoring high-resource regions.
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Large Language Models for Multi-Lingual Equivalent Mutant Detection: An Extended Empirical Study
LLM-based methods achieve higher F1-scores than traditional approaches for equivalent mutant detection in Java and C, with fine-tuned code embeddings performing best and showing cross-lingual generalization.
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TeleCom-Bench: How Far Are Large Language Models from Industrial Telecommunication Applications?
TeleCom-Bench reveals LLMs reach 90% on telecom intent and entity tasks but drop to 30% on solution generation and root cause analysis in live network scenarios.
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Context-Aware Spear Phishing: Generative AI-Enabled Attacks Against Individuals via Public Social Media Data
Generative AI enables scalable, context-aware spear phishing by extracting profiles from public social media, producing emails that outperform real-world phishing samples in personalization and lower recipient suspicion.
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Video Understanding Reward Modeling: A Robust Benchmark and Performant Reward Models
Introduces VURB benchmark and VUP-35K dataset to train discriminative and generative video reward models that achieve SOTA performance on VURB and VideoRewardBench.
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SensingAgents: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework for Robust IMU Activity Recognition
SensingAgents is a multi-agent LLM framework that reaches 79.5% zero-shot accuracy on IMU activity recognition by using position-specific analysts, debating advocates, and a final decision agent, beating prior agent and deep-learning baselines.
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Pro$^2$Assist: Continuous Step-aware Proactive Assistance with Multi-modal Egocentric Perception for Long-horizon Procedural Tasks
Pro2Assist continuously tracks user progress in procedural tasks from AR-glasses sensors and delivers proactive step-aware assistance, outperforming baselines in step accuracy and timing.
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Mitigating False Positives in Static Memory Safety Analysis of Rust Programs via Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning on MIR features combined with cargo-fuzz validation reduces false positives in Rust static memory safety analysis, raising precision from 25.6% to 59.0% and accuracy to 65.2%.
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GeoDecider: A Coarse-to-Fine Agentic Workflow for Explainable Lithology Classification
GeoDecider introduces a coarse-to-fine agentic workflow using LLMs for explainable lithology classification from well logs, combining a base classifier, tool-augmented reasoning, and geological refinement to outperform baselines on benchmarks.
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EPM-RL: Reinforcement Learning for On-Premise Product Mapping in E-Commerce
EPM-RL uses PEFT followed by RL with agent-based rewards from judge models to create a trainable in-house product mapping model that improves on fine-tuning alone and beats API baselines in quality-cost while enabling private use.
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Infection-Reasoner: A Compact Vision-Language Model for Wound Infection Classification with Evidence-Grounded Clinical Reasoning
Infection-Reasoner, a 4B VLM, reaches 86.8% accuracy on wound infection classification while producing rationales rated mostly correct by experts, via GPT-5.1 distillation followed by reinforcement learning.
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Beyond Semantic Similarity: A Component-Wise Evaluation Framework for Medical Question Answering Systems with Health Equity Implications
VB-Score shows three major LLMs have severe failures in medical entity recognition and factual consistency, with 13.8% lower performance on chronic conditions affecting older and minority groups, indicating condition-based algorithmic discrimination.
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RoTRAG: Rule of Thumb Reasoning for Conversation Harm Detection with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
RoTRAG retrieves Rules of Thumb to ground LLM reasoning for harm detection and severity classification in multi-turn dialogues, reporting roughly 40% relative F1 gains and 8.4% lower distributional error on two safety benchmarks while cutting redundant retrieval.
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Mitigating Prompt-Induced Cognitive Biases in General-Purpose AI for Software Engineering
A prompting method that forces GPAI models to state SE best practices before deciding reduces prompt-induced cognitive biases by 51% on average across eight tested biases.
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From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative Development Paradigm Divergence
Open-source AI model development shows far less collaboration and openness than classic open-source software; users innovate by adapting models rather than improving them.
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GLANCE: A Global-Local Coordination Multi-Agent Framework for Music-Grounded Non-Linear Video Editing
GLANCE introduces a bi-loop multi-agent framework with global-local coordination mechanisms that outperforms baselines by up to 33% on music-grounded nonlinear video editing tasks using a new MVEBench benchmark.
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TestDecision: Sequential Test Suite Generation via Greedy Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
By proving test suite coverage is monotone submodular and training LLMs with RL to maximize marginal gains, TestDecision improves branch coverage 38-52% and bug detection up to 95% over base models on ULT and LiveCodeBench.
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RelianceScope: An Analytical Framework for Examining Students' Reliance on Generative AI Chatbots in Problem Solving
RelianceScope is a new analytical framework that maps AI reliance into nine engagement patterns across help-seeking and response-use, situated in students' prior knowledge and instructional context, validated on programming course logs.
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BEAR: Towards Beam-Search-Aware Optimization for Recommendation with Large Language Models
BEAR is a cheap token-level top-B regularizer for LLM-based recommendation, but its central claim that this condition is necessary for beam-search survival is incorrect.
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CKG-LLM: LLM-Assisted Detection of Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities Based on Knowledge Graphs
CKG-LLM uses LLMs to generate executable queries over contract knowledge graphs for detecting access control vulnerabilities and reports superior performance versus existing tools.
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The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models
Topological features of reasoning-trace embeddings correlate with Smith-Waterman alignment to expert AIME solutions more than graph metrics do, but the paper does not validate this out of sample.
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Hierarchical Long-Term Semantic Memory for LinkedIn's Hiring Agent
HLTM structures textual data into a schema-aligned memory tree for scalable ingestion and low-latency retrieval in LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant, reporting over 5% higher answer correctness, over 10% higher retrieval F1, and a better latency tradeoff, with full production deployment.
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SAKE: Self-aware Knowledge Exploitation-Exploration for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
SAKE is an agentic framework for GMNER that uses uncertainty-based self-awareness and reinforcement learning to balance internal knowledge exploitation with adaptive external exploration.
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Think Before You Code: Dual Reasoning for the NLSafety-Utility Trade-Off in LLM Code Generation
A two-part 'audit then review then code' prompt stops code LLMs from copying harmful words into identifiers, while a new 12-level score measures the correctness-safety trade-off.
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EviCare: Enhancing Diagnosis Prediction with Deep Model-Guided Evidence for In-Context Reasoning
EviCare uses deep model-guided evidence to enhance LLM in-context reasoning for accurate diagnosis prediction from EHRs, outperforming baselines by 20.65% on average and 30.97% for novel diagnoses on MIMIC datasets.
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From Intent to AI Pipelines: A Controlled Agentic Framework for Non-AI Expert Scientists
DDAP is a controlled agentic framework that guides non-experts via four LLM-assisted stages to construct competitive AI pipelines for business, biology, and health domains.
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To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built
Survey of 860 developers reveals 22 desired AI systems for non-coding tasks with explicit constraints on authority, provenance, and quality signals, framed as bounded delegation where AI handles assembly work but not core craft.
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REFLEX: Self-Refining Explainable Fact-Checking via Verdict-Anchored Style Control
By steering activations along directions learned from base-vs-fine-tuned disagreements, REFLEX reports 64.99 macro-F1 on RAW-FC fact-checking with only ~465 self-refined contrastive samples and no retrieval.
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Fall into a Pit, Gain in a Wit: Cognitive-Guided Harmful Meme Detection via Misjudgment Risk Pattern Retrieval
PatMD improves harmful meme detection by retrieving misjudgment risk patterns to guide MLLMs, reporting 8.30% average F1 and 7.71% accuracy gains on 6,626 memes across 5 tasks.
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SHE: Stepwise Hybrid Examination Reinforcement Learning Framework for E-commerce Search Relevance
SHE is a new RL framework using stepwise hybrid examination rewards to improve reasoning quality and accuracy in large-scale e-commerce query-product relevance prediction.
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Policy-Grounded Dynamic Facet Suggestions for Job Search
A policy-grounded retrieval-augmented framework with SLM scoring generates real-time personalized facet suggestions that boost engagement and job search outcomes.
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To Redact, or not to Redact? A Local LLM Approach to Deliberative Process Privilege Classification
A 9B local LLM using chain-of-thought and error-based few-shot prompting classifies deliberative sentences for FOIA redaction with better recall and F2 than prior models and near commercial LLM performance.
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SOM: Structured Opponent Modeling for LLM-based Agents via Structural Causal Model
SOM uses a Structural Causal Model to create an explicit graph of opponent observation-to-action links, allowing LLMs to reason along those paths for more accurate and stable predictions in multi-agent settings.
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A Reproducibility Study of Metacognitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation
MetaRAG is only partially reproducible with lower absolute scores than originally reported, gains substantially from reranking, and shows greater robustness than SIM-RAG under extended retrieval features.