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Efficiency & Inference / Multimodal By Xiaoyu Zhan 2026-08-27 7
Magpie: Real-Time World Renderer for Interactive Games

Magpie is a real-time renderer that uses foundation models to generate game visuals by processing white-box frames as a continuous denoising condition.

Agents / Training & Fine-Tuning By Dewu Zheng 2026-08-27
SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

The researchers introduced SWE-Prime, a method that selects a small, high-quality subset of training trajectories to improve software engineering agent performance.

Efficiency & Inference By Paweł Liskowski 2026-08-27
Compositional Online Learning for Semantic Data Processing Systems

The paper introduces a layered composition framework for semantic data processing that integrates online learning components to reduce the cost of LLM-based query execution.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Liyan Tang 2026-08-27
WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution

WikiSkill improves AI agent performance by consolidating execution traces into a structured, persistent wiki that informs future skill development.

Reasoning / Efficiency & Inference By Yufan Wu 2026-08-27
CritICL: Inference-Time Weak-to-Strong Generalization from Small Language Model Failure Modes

CritICL improves large language model performance by providing targeted, failure-aware critique examples in the prompt to steer reasoning away from common pitfalls.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Yang Xiao 2026-08-27 25
PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents

The PILOT harness allows AI agents to improve their performance in real time by employing a supervisor that provides live feedback and distills successful strategies during task execution.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Tianjie Ju 2026-08-27
UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City

The paper introduces UrbanGround, a sandbox environment using real-world 3D mapping data to evaluate how well MLLM agents navigate complex urban settings.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Xingshan Zeng 2026-08-27
What Makes Good Agentic Data? An ACE Lens on Data Generation for LLM Agents

The ACE framework establishes a formal structure for evaluating and improving the data generated to train autonomous AI agents.

Multimodal / Benchmarks & Evals By Yuandong Pu 2026-08-27
PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?

The paper introduces PAWBench, a new evaluation framework that measures how well video generation models predict the physical outcomes of various scenarios.

Reasoning / Reinforcement Learning By Aozhe Wang 2026-08-27
TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization

TTPO improves the reasoning accuracy of language models during test time by using label-free policy optimization that bypasses the need for manual ground-truth data.