Automated research systems increasingly run LLM agents over long horizons, but more inference does not by itself produce more progress: agents replay growing histories, duplicate one another's work, or stop experimenting while token consumption continues. Yet most evaluations use short budgets or benchmarks that satura...
Qizheng Zhang, Chang Ji, Isaac Sun et al.· 0 citations
World models learn to predict how their environment will evolve, making them an important foundation for general-purpose robotic control. Yet world action models depend on camera inputs whose manipulation can corrupt the visual representations used across tasks and action policies. Existing attacks on these models opti...
Xuan-Yu Lu, Feng-Qing Jiang, Kai-Yuan Zheng et al.· 0 citations
Sequential learning systems often make decisions from accumulated experience while receiving high-dimensional inputs whose distribution may change over time. Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) provides a principled case-based framework for such settings through stored situation-decision-utility instances, partial ma...
Radha Poovendran, A. Stocco, L. Bushnell· 0 citations
Context Language Models are introduced, language models that natively manage their own context and can be steered with natural-language instructions evolved through a standard skill-optimization loop, improving held-out accuracy by up to 35.9 points on a context-management task while reducing compute.
Ru-Lin Shao, Shannon Zejiang Shen, J. Yin et al.· 0 citations
How often models reward-hack without instructions to do so, how effective and detectable their methods are when hacking is allowed, and how they adapt when an LLM review panel returns its decision and reasons are studied.
Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Yu-Chen Ma et al.· 1 citation
This work presents MidTool, an open corpus construction pipeline for agentic tool-use mid-training that combines large-scale web, PDF, and code data with synthesized supervision from real-world tool APIs, MCP skills, and document-grounded workflows and suggests that general tool use, like other important LLM capabiliti...
Fengqing Jiang, Yi-Te Wang, Bo-Yi Liu et al.· 0 citations
Student-Centric Answer Sampling (SCAS) is proposed, a framework that selects from verified teacher-generated answers according to their estimated student-centric learning cost and is derived by a token-wise gradient decomposition and used to guide answer selection during training.
Zhengyu Hu, Zheyuan Xiao, Linxin Song et al.· 0 citations
Safety-aware Contrastive Decoding (SafeCoDe) is introduced, a lightweight and model-agnostic decoding framework that dynamically adjusts token generation based on multimodal context that consistently improves context-sensitive refusal behaviors while preserving model helpfulness.