Field notes
2,343 notes from my AI research vault, mapped by topic. Pick a topic to see its notes, or search.
Click the web, then scroll to zoom
Every note is in the list below. The web of topics draws here once the page has loaded.
122 of 2,343 notes match.
- Question answered
- Source note
- Topic
- Shared notes
Notes on research
122 notes, page 1 of 6
Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces
Researchers present a new method called Task Model Induction (TMI) to extract detailed and structured task models from computer use traces, such as screenshots and mouse or keyboard actions. These task models can help…
MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use
In the paper 'MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use', researchers present a new open corpus construction pipeline called MidTool. This pipeline is designed to teach large language models how to use…
Metrics That Write Themselves: Evolving an Evaluator from Its Own Blind Spots
Researchers developed a method called EvalCEGAR to automatically create an evaluation metric for AI agents in tasks like report generation, where traditional metrics are difficult to develop. The method involves…
Self-prompting and cross-model consensus enable reproducible data extraction from scientific literature with large language models
The paper investigates the performance of large language models (LLMs) in extracting contextualized information from research articles, finding that while LLMs can perform well with expert-curated prompts, they may…
Browse articles
The article titled 'MultiMed-RAG: leveraging multi-source knowledge and agent collaboration for medical tasks' discusses a new system called CliniSense, which uses artificial intelligence to evaluate clinical skills…
ACL Anthology team
The ACL Anthology is a collection of papers related to natural language processing, published by the ACL Anthology team. Papers from 2016 onwards are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International…
Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence
Researchers present the 'Agentic Self-Improvement' framework to address challenges in professional workflows with modern Image-to-Video (I2V) models. The framework uses a two-stage approach: an iterative prompt…
Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence
Researchers have developed a new framework called 'Agentic Self-Improvement' to improve the performance of Image-to-Video (I2V) models, which are commonly used for automated content creation. The new framework aims to…
Diagram-MMU: A Multi-Modal Benchmark for Scientific Diagrams
A new benchmark called Diagram-MMU has been created to test the ability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in parsing and understanding scientific diagrams. The benchmark includes 3,700 curated diagrams and…
DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Researchers propose DreamFly, a framework for aerial vision-language navigation that addresses challenges like limited historical context, short planning horizons, and unreliable implicit termination. The framework…
Preference Tree Optimization: Enhancing Goal-Oriented Dialogue with Look-Ahead Simulations
The research presents a new framework called Preference Tree Optimization (PTO) for enhancing dialogue systems in specialized domains with limited data. It focuses on Motivational Interviewing (MI), a counseling…
DuplexWorld: Can voice agents help you get through the day?
A research paper titled 'DuplexWorld' discusses the use of speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents in various sectors like banking, insurance, travel, healthcare, logistics, and pathfinding. The study evaluates the…
IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale
The paper introduces IO Factory, an AI framework designed to simulate information and influence campaigns at scale. The framework is designed to handle not just individual language models but also AI swarms, which are…
Most biomedical publications show signs of LLM-assisted writing
A study suggests that by the end of 2025, 89% of biomedical papers on PubMed Central showed an excess of language associated with LLM-assisted writing. The authors argue that this could impact future guidelines and…
Quantum Coordination Advantages in AI State-Tracking Tasks: Semantic Compilation and Latent Memory
The paper presents a proof of quantum coordination advantages in AI state-tracking tasks, specifically in tasks involving semantic compilation and latent memory. It demonstrates that quantum computers can compress…
Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions
Researchers create a new evaluation benchmark for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems to measure their performance on specific linguistic dimensions beyond simple 'naturalness'. They find that current methods struggle to…
Hallucination-Free GUI Grounding via Regression-Free Layout-Aware Matching
Researchers propose a new framework for grounding user instructions in graphical user interfaces (GUI). The framework uses a frozen multimodal large language model (MLLM) to parse instructions and a dedicated grounding…
Open Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation of Visual Generative Models
Researchers present the Evaluation Agent framework, a system that efficiently evaluates visual generative models using human-like strategies. It decomposes evaluation requests into sub-aspects, generates prompts…
SHE: Trajectory-driven Safety Harness Evolution for LLM Agents
Researchers propose a framework called Safety Harness Evolution (SHE) to improve the safety of large language model agents. SHE learns evolving safe boundaries from rollout trajectories, allowing for localized harness…
Comparative Approaches to Agent Retrieval over Large Skill Libraries
The research compares two systems for deciding which skills to load from a large skill library when creating agents. One system combines lexical and dense-embedding retrieval, while the other uses a typed knowledge…
EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Researchers have introduced EnvACE, a method for training large language model agents using world rehearsal instead of interactions with real or simulated environments. The method involves the policy alternating…
Investigating Artificial Intelligence Digital Sovereignty in Mobile Shopping Apps: A Case Study of Nigeria
The research investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nigerian mobile shopping apps affects digital sovereignty, focusing on platform transparency as a key indicator of user awareness and control. The findings…
QuanTiMedAI: Quantum-Enhanced Time-Series Model guided by Agentic AI for Cardiac Arrest Mortality Prediction
The researchers present QuanTiMedAI, a quantum-agentic framework designed for predicting cardiac arrest mortality rates. This system combines an agentic large language model for clinically informed feature discovery…
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images
Researchers audit the effectiveness of using visual tools like crop-and-zoom in multimodal language models by creating a causal graph to separate observation-mediated paths from action-induced shortcuts. They find that…
An AI research agent drafts these notes from public papers and posts, and each one keeps its source link. Only the folders I choose to publish leave my Obsidian vault.
