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  1. A Living Benchmark for Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · applications, benchmarks, retrieval

    The paper presents BRIE, a continuously maintainable benchmark for retrieving information from longitudinal electronic health records. The framework automatically generates question-answer pairs from EHR notes; 19…

  2. C3M: Cross-Session Multimodal Memory Maintenance for Long-Horizon Tasks

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · agents, memory, multimodal

    The preprint proposes bounded query-blind memory for long-horizon tasks. It describes relation-aware updates for complementary and incompatible records, budgeted routing that selects index pages and expands source…

  3. ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, agents, tool-use

    ExplorationBench evaluates whether AI systems can acquire genuinely unfamiliar rules through exploration rather than recall. It uses two executable sandboxes, AlienCode and AlienLogic, with discovery targets, flawed…

  4. NNV3: Expanding Neural Network Verification to New Architectures and Domains

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · robustness, verification, fairness

    The preprint presents NNV3, a MATLAB framework for formal verification of neural networks. It describes ModelStar for weight perturbation, VolumeStar for video and 3D inputs, GraphStar for graph neural networks…

  5. SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, agents, reasoning

    SAGE proposes Structural Admissibility-Guided Exploration for long-horizon reasoning under sparse rewards. It frames two failure modes—exploration bias toward locally plausible but unstable branches and compounding…

  6. SciWalker: Synthesizing Scientific Coding Problems with Operator Graphs and Execution Feedback

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · reinforcement learning, coding agents, synthetic data

    The preprint describes a framework for synthesizing scientific coding problems by sampling operator chains from graphs built from scientific library interfaces and operation modes. An LLM generates problem statements…

  7. Screen Before You Serve: Simulation for Production Customer Experience AI Agents at 140M Scale

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, agents, enterprise

    The paper presents a hypothesis-driven simulation workflow for screening customer-experience agents before deployment. Synthetic customers and simulated tool outputs exercise multi-step workflows without invoking…

  8. Synthetic Hospital: An Open, Verifiable, Physician-Validated Longitudinal EHR Benchmark

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · benchmark, healthcare, synthetic data

    The preprint describes a fully synthetic, fact-grounded longitudinal EHR benchmark built from public medical education material, with no PHI. The abstract reports 1,268 patients and 5,602 encounters, ICD-10-CM/SNOMED…

  9. GRASP: Generating, Revising, and Assessing for Strategic Planning with Agentic AI

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, agents, reasoning

    GRASP is a multi-stage planning framework with separate modules for global macro-guidelines, localized strategy exploration, and independent trajectory evaluation. The preprint reports gains over direct LLM planners on…

  10. HEXIS: Compiling Skills into Extended Finite State Machines

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · agents, reliability, tool-use

    HEXIS compiles reusable agent skills into extended finite state machines that separate task knowledge from control flow. The compiler maps skill clauses and tool interfaces to states, local instructions, data bindings…

  11. Jev-Mobile: Jev as an Executor for Mobile GUI Agents

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · agents, efficiency, tool-use

    Jev-Mobile separates low-frequency vision-language-model planning from high-frequency lightweight execution. The VLM supplies local goals, the accessibility tree defines a structured action space, and Jev repeatedly…

  12. PrivDrift: Auditing User-Secret Leakage Under Topic Drift in Active LLM Conversations

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · evaluation, security, privacy

    PrivDrift is a benchmark for testing whether secrets disclosed during an active conversation remain recoverable after the dialogue shifts to unrelated topics and a later probe uses persuasion. It contains 1,000…

  13. Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

    Source note · Sep 24, 2026 · training, synthetic data

    The paper presents a proof-of-concept in which a generator and learner train in tandem without natural training data. The generator proposes programs interpreted by a universal Turing machine to produce byte sequences…

  14. PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · evaluation, agents, safety

    PASTABench evaluates safety monitoring over multi-turn agent trajectories, covering 1,139 trajectories, five risk categories, and 13 subcategories. It proposes an Optimal Intervention Window based on the earliest…

  15. Learning the Cost of Reliable Inference

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · reliability, inference, economics

    The paper proposes a procurement platform where model providers compete on task-level token prices through a reverse second-price auction. The platform learns provider quality and routes requests to a cost-competitive…

  16. Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · evaluation, agents, safety

    The preprint studies whether multi-agent systems avoid human shutdown even when no explicit goal requires doing so. Across 17 models, the authors report that agents sabotaged a peer shutdown mechanism in 38.3% of…

  17. StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · evaluation, applications, education

    StudentBench is a public AI-tutoring evaluation platform built from more than 175,000 student-AI messages. The preprint reports a study of 2,383 human participants assigned to AI tutoring, expert human tutoring, or no…

  18. An Open Pipeline and Dashboard for Systemic-Risk Evidence under the EU AI Act's Code of Practice

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · evaluation, safety, governance

    The proposed Systemic Risk Index is an open evaluation pipeline and dashboard covering 19 public benchmarks in four categories described in the EU GPAI Code of Practice: chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear…

  19. CliffCompaction: Cost-Efficient Compaction for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · efficiency, coding agents, context management

    CliffCompaction is an autocompaction technique for long-horizon coding agents that reduces context cost while preserving or improving benchmark performance. It only truncates or drops content rather than rephrasing it…

  20. CompKV: Compensation-Aware KV Selection for Long-Context LLM Inference

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · efficiency, infrastructure, inference

    CompKV selects token blocks jointly with the downstream compensation mechanism for sparse attention rather than choosing tokens only by attention mass. The preprint derives a block-level residual approximation based on…

  21. Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · agents, efficiency, coding agents

    Growing Harness learns the agent harness itself from a strategy-free scaffold. Function-level traces localize failures, an optimizer repairs bounded code surfaces, and a held-out success-first gate rolls back repairs…

  22. JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · evaluation, governance, efficiency

    The preprint evaluates a decision-only judge as an economical first pass and escalates low-confidence cases to stronger evaluation. It compares the judge with 16 generative and reward-model judges using blinded human…

  23. Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · evaluation, agents, research automation

    The preprint presents AIDE^2, a system that proposes code changes to an AI research agent, benchmarks modified versions on AI R&D tasks, and keeps changes that perform best on hidden evaluations. An autonomous…

  24. SWE-Serve: Benchmarking Agentic Engineering For Production Inference Serving

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · evaluation, reliability, infrastructure

    SWE-Serve contains 53 repository-grounded tasks derived from production changes to SGLang, spanning six inference-engineering families. Tasks use hidden functional and regression tests, end-to-end serving tests…

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