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  1. HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · ai, machine learning, evaluation

    The paper introduces HarnessOpt-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating the ability of Language Models (LLMs) to optimize the harnesses surrounding them, which includes prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration…

  2. iARCS: Iterative Agentic RL for Controllable 3D Scene Generation

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · ai, machine learning, reinforcement learning

    The paper presents iARCS, an iterative agentic reinforcement learning framework for enhancing the performance of synthetic 3D scene generators by adapting them to meet task-specific functional constraints, such as…

  3. QuanTiMedAI: Quantum-Enhanced Time-Series Model guided by Agentic AI for Cardiac Arrest Mortality Prediction

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · machine learning

    The researchers introduce QuanTiMedAI, a framework for predicting cardiac arrest mortality using agentic AI and quantum enhancement in time series models. The system combines an agentic large language model for…

  4. Tytan: Interactive Neurosymbolic Construction of Analytic Semantic Schemas from Relational Data

    Source note · Aug 6, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning

    Researchers have developed a system called TYTAN that can automatically construct an analytic semantic schema from a relational database, helping to reduce the need for manual knowledge acquisition and potentially…

  5. A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning

    Researchers have developed a new framework called A-SR for symbolic regression. This framework uses a self-evolving agentic system that shifts control from expression edits to role-conditioned evidence views. It…

  6. A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models

    A research paper introduces a new framework called A-SR for symbolic regression. A-SR is designed to discover closed-form equations from data and uses a self-evolving agentic system that coordinates formula discovery…

  7. Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Observation-Calibrated Self-Distillation

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · ai, machine learning, reinforcement learning

    Researchers propose Observation-Calibrated Self-Distillation (OCSD) to address a confounding issue in On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), a method used to train large language model agents. OCSD aims to attribute…

  8. Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · ai, machine learning, evaluation

    The paper introduces CoCoEvolve, a method aimed at improving the consistency between chart, table, and code representations in AI systems. The method optimizes models based on agreement between different…

  9. From Score Matrices to Football-Aware Match-State Simulation: An Auditable LLM Harness for Exact-Score Reranking

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · machine learning, large language models

    The paper presents an auditable information harness that combines dynamic Poisson-family models and large language models (LLMs) to forecast football scores. The system goes through four iterations, each improving on…

  10. InsightEmb: Learning Action-Intent Embeddings for Agentic Insight Retrieval

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · ai, machine learning

    The paper proposes a new method called InsightEmb for learning action-intent embeddings to improve agentic insight retrieval, which helps self-improving agents make better decisions by using insights from prior…

  11. MultiPathFormer: Towards a Foundation Model for Multipath Wireless Propagation

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · machine learning

    In the paper 'MultiPathFormer: Towards a Foundation Model for Multipath Wireless Propagation', the authors propose a new approach for training wireless foundation models. Instead of pre-training on channel tensors…

  12. OctoLong: Mid-Training On Cross-Repository Code Contexts Enhances Long-Context Modeling

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, nlp

    The research presents a new approach called OctoLong for creating longer contexts for language models. It uses an AST parser, a language server backend, and a package manager to retrieve code references from various…

  13. OctoLong: Mid-Training On Cross-Repository Code Contexts Enhances Long-Context Modeling

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · machine learning, natural language processing, programming

    In this research, a new pipeline called OctoLong is introduced to enhance the training of language models (LM) by providing them with long code contexts. This is done through the use of an AST parser, a language server…

  14. OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing

    The paper introduces a new method called On-Policy Self-Distillation with Visual Modality Balance (OPD-V) to improve the visual reasoning of multimodal large language models. The authors argue that previous methods…

  15. CACHE-UK: A Stability-Aware Memory Editor for Sequentially Updated Quantized LLMs in Finance

    Source note · Jul 30, 2026 · ai, machine learning, language model

    Researchers introduce CACHE-UK, a framework designed for efficiency and accuracy in deploying large language models (LLMs) in the dynamic field of finance. The system addresses the 'quantization stability crisis' that…

  16. One Human, $N$ Agents: Audit-Budget Allocation for LLM Agent Fleets under Miscalibrated, Correlated Confidence

    Source note · Jul 30, 2026 · ai, machine learning, language models

    The paper presents a study on auditing multiple Language Learning Models (LLMs) with limited budgets, where human auditors have to evaluate self-reported confidence that may be miscalibrated and correlated. The…

  17. ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

    Source note · Jul 30, 2026 · ai, machine learning, evaluation

    The study presents ORCA-bench, a benchmark for evaluating the performance of large language models in oncall root cause analysis (RCA). The benchmark exposes a microservice system with six days of data and 1,079 RCA…

  18. WIDE: Boosting Adaptive LLM Inference via Token-level Dynamic Width Pruning

    Source note · Jul 30, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, language models

    Researchers introduce WIDE, a dynamic token-level pruning framework for improving the efficiency of large language models (LLMs). The framework allows each token to select attention and FFN channel groups dynamically…

  19. A First Look at Coding Agents' Compliance with AI Contribution Rules in Open-Source Communities

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · machine learning, ai ethics

    The study investigates whether AI-generated code in open-source communities complies with the established contribution rules. The researchers find that current AI models rarely read or follow the rules on their own…

  20. Budget-Aware LLM Discovery via Cost-Calibrated Frontier Utility

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, language models

    Researchers have developed a new method for controlling large language models during scientific discovery tasks. The method, called CostAda, takes into account the costs associated with each action in addition to the…

  21. CoCaRS: Correlation Calibration-Based Redundancy Suppression for Heterogeneous Knowledge Distillation

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · machine learning, deep learning

    The research introduces Correlation Calibration-based Redundancy Suppression (CoCaRS), a method for knowledge distillation in heterogeneous settings where teacher and student models have different architectures. The…

  22. From Passive Video to Editable Experience: Physically Grounded Experience Synthesis for Embodied Intelligence

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · ai, machine learning, robotics

    Jia Luo introduces Pegasus, a framework to help robots learn from human manipulation videos by translating the human demonstrations into data that can be understood by robots. The method involves creating an…

  23. Improving Item Discoverability in e-Commerce Search via Related Intent Generation

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · machine learning, language models

    The researchers present a scalable system called 'discovery-augmented search' that aims to improve the discoverability of items in e-commerce marketplaces, particularly grocery. This system uses intent-conditioned…

  24. SciFigQual-Bench: A Benchmark for Scientific Figure Quality Assessment with Full-Manuscript Context

    Source note · Jul 29, 2026 · machine learning, data analysis

    Researchers propose SciFigQual-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating the quality of scientific figures in computer science papers across five dimensions. The dataset includes over 6,000 images from top conferences between…

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