Evaluator-guided reasoning presents a local control problem at every step: trust the current answer, return a fallback, or spend more inference. We formulate this choice as a compute-aware three-action controller, scoring terminal actions by predicted answer success and expansion by a rollout-based continuation-success...
Text-to-video models often generate the visual concepts requested in natural language prompts but fail to satisfy their intended ordering, timing, and persistence requirements. We propose representing these requirements as specifications in a formal Temporal Logic, and introduce Temporal Specification Guidance (TSG), a...
Avishree Khare, Hideki Okamoto, Bardh Hoxha et al.· 0 citations
A self-improving agent has to decide which new skills to keep, and in practice it keeps whatever earns a high reward, convinces a judge model, or compresses its library, even when the skill is wrong. That is fine until the answers have to be exactly right: over a table of transactions, a total is either right or wrong....
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Yi-Rou Ge, Yi-Xi Li et al.· 0 citations
A reasoning trace retained at answer time plays two roles: it can raise accuracy, and it can compete with the current evidence when the two disagree. We disentangle these roles by crossing verified evidence versions with the traces generated from each and answering from the same traces and evidence under two configurat...
Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Jian Li· 0 citations
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Multi-modal agents have made significant progress in interacting with open worlds. However, their ability to self-evolve remains limited. Supervised fine-tuning enables imitation but not active experience organization, while outcome-based reinforcement learning promotes exploration yet underuses intermediate trajectory...
Runxuan Liu, Jingqi Shi, Baoxin Wang et al.· 0 citations
The closed world asks AI for specialized competence and lets it manufacture the iid data its theory assumes: a fixed criterion licenses collecting examples until the task is covered. The open world asks for versatility --- taking up tasks a machine was not built for, from few examples and with little prior from a human...
The ARIA framework for MAS-agnostic runtime inspection and amendment is developed, designed to integrate with any MAS that exposes execution trajectories and supports continuation replacement, and a compact model is taught to recognize when intervention is needed and how to correct an ongoing run.
This paper challenges the understanding capabilities of existing AI paradigms and emerging world models by asking a fundamental question: How quickly can reality change before an intelligent system can no longer reliably perceive, reason, and act? We formulate this as a theory- and model-agnostic challenge in which sys...
Symbolic regression searches for an equation that explains observed data. Numerical error is commonly used to guide the search, but it alone can favor an accurate surrogate over a candidate with the right structure. We propose L2G-SR, a framework for LLM-based symbolic regression that guides search with a learned struc...
Le-Jing Huang, Xiang-Yu Wang, Hao-Wei Lin et al.· 0 citations
Formal inequality proving requires mathematical reasoning and exact computation, often connected through intermediate lemmas and goal reformulations. We introduce IneqAgent, an agentic framework combining LLM reasoning with symbolic computation for inequality proving in Lean4. Lemma-level Monte Carlo Tree Search coordi...
Gao-Lei He, Jin-Hui Li, Ruo-Bing Zuo et al.· 0 citations
Representation-based safety defenses for vision-language models (VLMs) often learn to separate harmful from benign inputs, but separation alone does not establish what a risk score means or when it should be trusted. We introduce Counterfactual Neighborhood Risk Fields (CNRF), an evidence-grounded framework for selecti...
Tianshi Wang, Jingsong Wang, Fengling Li et al.· 0 citations
Correctness feedback suppresses the very evidence that specification-completeness auditing is designed to uncover: programs that satisfy a written contract but violate intended behavior. We demonstrate this objective reversal on 12 Verus/Rust tasks across four model families under matched call budgets. Independent no-f...