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BlackSwan: Refutation-Based Action Verification for Language Model Agents

BlackSwan is a new verification procedure for language model agents that checks proposed actions by actively seeking evidence that refutes them, rather than only confirming supporting conditions. It predicts intended effects, formulates testable hypotheses for failure, and tests them before execution. On AppWorld, it improves success rates by up to 25.2 percentage points, and on WebShop by 12.7 points, even without thinking mode or demonstrations.

Why it matters: This introduces a novel, effective verification paradigm with concrete benchmark gains, offering practical value for AI agent safety.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
AI agent safetyverification methodslanguage model agents
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BRIDGE: Balancing Representations by Generating Under-represented Data for Long-tailed Self-Supervised Learning

BRIDGE is a label-free feedback loop that improves self-supervised learning on long-tailed data by identifying under-represented images via kNN distance and generating local variants with a frozen diffusion model. It outperforms baselines across five long-tailed regimes on linear-probe and kNN tasks, and extends gains to ViT-S, low-label fine-tuning, and segmentation. The method requires no labels and leaves the pretraining objective unchanged.

Why it matters: This paper presents a concrete, novel method with strong empirical results for a common real-world problem (long-tailed data) in self-supervised learning, offering practical value for researchers and practitioners.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
self-supervised learninglong-tailed recognitiondata generation
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Specification-Aware Predictive Uncertainty Decomposition

This paper introduces a probabilistic framework that decomposes predictive uncertainty into specification, residual aleatoric, and epistemic components, addressing underspecified inputs in LLMs. It shows that aleatoric uncertainty splits into specification uncertainty (expected reduction from revealing user intent) and residual aleatoric uncertainty (remaining risk after intent is known). Experiments across domains indicate specification uncertainty best detects underspecified inputs, while residual aleatoric uncertainty best detects in-distribution errors.

Why it matters: Provides a novel, formal decomposition of uncertainty with practical implications for LLM clarification and error detection, backed by experiments.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
predictive uncertaintylarge language modelsBayesian risk
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CAREFUL-Bench: Effect-Aware, Judge-Free Evaluation of Multi-Turn LLM Function Calling

CAREFUL-Bench enhances the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) by making evaluation effect-aware without replacing it. It infers effect declarations for all 128 functions via simulator execution and uses a judge-free replay scorer that reproduces official results while reporting unrequested destructive calls, duplicate writes, redundant reads, and token costs. Across 11 open models, effect-aware scoring preserves ranking but reveals quality gaps, and a confirmation-aware protocol shows models rarely obtain explicit permission before destructive actions.

Why it matters: Provides a concrete, recent improvement to function-calling benchmarks, exposing critical limitations in current evaluation and offering actionable metrics for model developers.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
LLM function callingbenchmark evaluationagent safety
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BLPO: Beyond-Local Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

BLPO is a new reinforcement learning method for long-horizon LLM agents that estimates task-progress advantages from shared experience across tasks and updates, avoiding the need for a learned critic or extra rollouts. It summarizes trajectory prefixes into task-progress states and abstracts actions by function, using a global memory with balanced aggregation to control bias. Experiments on ALFWorld and WebShop with 1.5B and 7B policies show improved task success and faster learning under matched training budgets.

Why it matters: This paper introduces a concrete algorithmic improvement for training LLM agents on long-horizon tasks, with empirical gains on standard benchmarks, making it valuable for researchers and practitioners.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
LLM agentsreinforcement learninglong-horizon tasks
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Global pooling beats per-ship and adaptation models for ship fuel consumption prediction

A comparative study of 11 fuel oil consumption prediction methods on 21 vessels finds that global pooling—one model using ship identity and specifications—outperforms per-ship and adaptation-based approaches in all settings. Global LightGBM achieves 8.92% MAPE vs 11.14% for per-ship LightGBM, and global models of five architectures including a Transformer beat federated models. The global model also supports zero-shot prediction for new vessels, with accuracy comparable to vessel-specific adaptation after adding first records.

Why it matters: Provides a rigorous, fair comparison showing global models are superior for fleet-wide fuel prediction, with practical implications for voyage planning and new vessel deployment.

arxiv2d agoScore 88
ship fuel predictionglobal modelszero-shot prediction
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PRIME: Predictive Routing of Interventions for Scientific Ideation

PRIME is a plug-and-play decision layer that improves LLM-generated scientific ideas by routing feedback to the right revision scope. It addresses the diagnosis-intervention mismatch where the location of a weakness doesn't determine the best revision target. PRIME uses structural attribution, counterfactual routing, and intervention execution, showing gains across benchmarks and ideators.

Why it matters: This paper introduces a novel method to improve AI-driven scientific ideation, with concrete validation and clear performance gains, making it valuable for researchers and practitioners.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
AI researchscientific discoveryLLM evaluation
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Networked AI: A New Architecture for Scalable, Adaptive Intelligence

This paper introduces Networked AI, a system of interacting, heterogeneous AI agents organized in a hierarchical layered architecture (Agent, Interaction, Regulation layers). It synthesizes data science, signal processing, and control theory to achieve near-linear scaling in resource demand, unlike exponential growth in monolithic systems. The framework enables online adaptation to novel environments and autonomous evolution toward application-specific intelligence, with applications in IoT, embodied, spatial, and industrial intelligence.

Why it matters: Presents a concrete architectural and theoretical framework addressing scalability and adaptability limitations of current AI, with broad application implications.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
AI architecturemulti-agent systemsscalability
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Towards a Trustworthy and Governable Internet of Agentics: An Architectural Perspective

This perspective paper proposes an architectural framework for the Internet of Agentics (IoA), treating heterogeneous AI agents as governable service participants. It organizes the landscape into a three-layer progression from fragmented ecosystems to interoperable agents and trustworthy autonomy, covering protocol stacks (MCP, A2A, AGENTS.md), systems abstractions (orchestration, gateways, registries), and services computing principles. The paper argues that agentic systems reinterpret SOA and microservices concerns at the level of cognitive capabilities.

Why it matters: Provides a structured architectural view of emerging agent interoperability and governance standards, valuable for researchers and practitioners navigating the agent ecosystem.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
agent interoperabilityagent governanceservice-oriented architecture
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PACERec: Progressive Adaptation of LLM Item Embeddings with Collaborative Evidence for Recommendation

PACERec is an ID-free framework that adapts static LLM item embeddings for sequential recommendation by learning a shared velocity field via frequency-weighted flow matching. It transfers interaction contexts from frequent to long-tail items, improving recommendation across the catalog. Experiments on three datasets show gains over baselines in overall and long-tail performance.

Why it matters: This paper presents a concrete, novel method addressing a known limitation of LLM embeddings in recommendation, with experimental validation.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
Large Language ModelsRecommendation SystemsEmbedding Adaptation
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Fine-Grained Hierarchy and Benchmark for State Tracking in Language Models

This paper introduces a hierarchy of word problems for state tracking, from simple immutable assignments to general finite-state tracking, and proves that transformers cannot length-generalize on all aperiodic problems while Gated DeltaNet can. The authors build StateBench, a 4-tier benchmark, and show that both trained and pretrained models, including frontier ones, fail to robustly solve even soluble state tracking.

Why it matters: Provides a new theoretical hierarchy and benchmark that clarifies architectural differences in state tracking, with practical implications for model evaluation and development.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
state trackinglanguage model architectureslength generalization
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LUCA: A Synthetic World for Evaluating Experimental Reasoning in AI Agents

LUCA is a configurable synthetic environment that tests AI agents' experimental reasoning by having them learn unknown regulatory systems through budgeted experimentsholistically. It separates evaluation of experiment selection, prediction, diagnosis, and intervention, revealing that these capabilities dissociate sharply across frontier LLMs. For example, diagnosis varies 7x across models while prediction varies only 1.4x, and agents often rescue systems while misdiagnosing faults. The framework exposes hidden failures like performing the right experiment but failing to use the evidence.

Why it matters: Provides a novel benchmark for dissecting AI agent reasoning processes, with concrete findings on capability dissociation and failure modes, valuable for AI safety and evaluation research.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
AI evaluationexperimental agentsLLM capabilities
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Multimodal Prompt Learning with Dual-Granularity Contrastive Alignment for Preoperative Prediction of Lung Adenocarcinoma Invasiveness Using 3D CT

This paper presents a multimodal prompt-learning framework that combines 3D CT images with text prompts derived from clinical reports to predict lung adenocarcinoma invasiveness. The method uses a 3D ResNet-CBAM encoder and a frozen RadBERT with learnable prompts, plus global and local contrastive alignment modules. On a test set of 1,593 nodules, it achieved 87.92% accuracy, 87.78% F1-score, and 0.9499 AUC, significantly outperforming an image-only baseline. The framework requires only CT images at inference, preserving clinical usability.

Why it matters: The paper reports a concrete, recent AI development with strong quantitative results and a practical CT-only inference workflow, offering clear value for medical imaging and multimodal learning readers.

arxiv2d agoScore 82
Multimodal AIMedical Image AnalysisPrompt Learning
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SCOPE: Progressive Skill Exploration for Long-Horizon LLM Web Agents

SCOPE is a short-to-long learning framework that decomposes complex web task exploration into gradual skill discovery, orchestration, and expansion. It iteratively builds skill chains from local skills and failure experiences, then distills them into policy parameters. Experiments on WebArena, WebVoyager, and WebShop show relative gains of 3.9% to 18.6% over strong baselines.

Why it matters: Provides a concrete, novel method with benchmark results for improving LLM web agents on long-horizon tasks, valuable for researchers and practitioners.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
LLM web agentsskill acquisitionlong-horizon tasks
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ComplianceAtlas: A Taxonomy-Driven Agentic AI Framework for Automated AI Act Gap Analysis and Remediation

The paper introduces ComplianceAtlas, a taxonomy-driven agentic framework for automating AI Act compliance gap analysis. It uses two specialized agents—Gap Extraction and Remediation Planning—to identify and rank remediation actions. Evaluated on 9 AI systems, it achieves a gap-type F1 of 0.831 and remediation P@5 of 0.872, outperforming baselines. The framework supports human-in-the-loop compliance workflows.

Why it matters: Provides a concrete, novel AI framework with strong benchmark results for regulatory compliance, a high-value application area.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
AI regulationagentic AIcompliance automation
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CUA-Master: Recursive Improvement Framework for Computer-Use Agents

CUA-Master introduces a nested double-loop recursive improvement framework for computer-use agents (CUAs), combining an outer world-data-model flywheel with an inner data-level flywheel that mines authentic workflows from instructional videos and synthesizes diverse, verifiable tasks. The framework includes a feedback-guided snapshot-rollback retry mechanism for reliable trajectory collection. Experiments show CUA-Master-27B achieves competitive scores on OSWorld, WeaveBench, and Agents' Last Exam, with continuous gains across iterations.

Why it matters: This paper presents a novel recursive training framework with concrete benchmark results, addressing key limitations in CUA development and offering practical improvements.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
computer-use agentsrecursive learningdata generation
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Auto-Research Agent Optimizes MSA for Protein Complex Prediction

A new autonomous agent treats AlphaFold 3 as a black-box instrument to adaptively reorganize MSAs for protein-protein complex prediction. It improves interface DockQ across three benchmarks while using 60% fewer MSA sequences on average, with largest gains for inter-species heteromers. The method shows MSA design is target-specific and can be optimized via self-directed experimentation.

Why it matters: Provides a concrete, recent AI-driven method with benchmarked improvements in a challenging bioinformatics task, offering practical value for researchers.

arxiv2d agoScore 88
protein structure predictionmultiple sequence alignmentautonomous experimentation
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CERBO: Certified Recourse at a Requested Rate for Gradient-Boosted Trees

CERBO is a new method for training gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) that guarantees a requested recourse rate, meaning a specified fraction of rejected individuals can reverse their adverse decision with an affordable change. It improves on the existing RABIT method by providing certified actions for each training sample and a calibration step for new individuals, running in milliseconds without a solver. Experiments show CERBO raises recourse ratios on FICO and Bail datasets and outperforms RABIT across 12 settings in accuracy-recourse frontier area and simulated deployment guarantees.

Why it matters: This paper introduces a concrete algorithmic improvement with certified guarantees and strong empirical results, directly relevant to fairness and recourse in machine learning.

arxiv2d agoScore 85
algorithmic recoursegradient boostingcertified guarantees