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Reasoning / Safety & Alignment By Yiting Qu 2026-08-20
EchoCoT: Extracting Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Large Reasoning Models

Researchers developed a method to extract near-verbatim chain-of-thought reasoning traces from black-box reasoning models using adversarial API injection techniques.

Reasoning / Benchmarks & Evals By Mattia Carletti 2026-08-20
When Text and Numbers Disagree: Evidence Arbitration in Large Language Models

Researchers evaluated how large language models weigh conflicting evidence, finding they often over-rely on numerical data and external tool forecasts.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Yucheng Jiang 2026-08-20
Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces

The paper introduces TMI, a method that translates noisy, interleaved computer-use logs into structured, hierarchical task models.

Safety & Alignment / Benchmarks & Evals By Sahil Kale 2026-08-20
ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

The authors introduce ConceptGuard, a benchmark that evaluates how effectively LLMs can remove harmful knowledge while retaining benign functionality for dual-use concepts.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Zhuochun Li 2026-08-20 2
One Success Isn't Reliability: Thinkingbox, a Sandbox and Benchmark for Agents in Stateful Business Workflows

Thinkingbox introduces a sandbox and benchmark designed to evaluate how reliably LLM agents perform multi-turn business workflows by verifying persistent backend state changes.

Multimodal / Benchmarks & Evals By Hengyuan Xu 2026-08-20
WithEveryone: Unified Planning and Identity Grounding for Group Image Generation

The paper introduces a unified framework called WithEveryone that generates group images of five to ten specific people by integrating structured planning with identity-aware constraints.

Agents / Multimodal By Yu Chen 2026-08-20
Rule-Compliant Visual Spatial Planning for Multimodal Large Language Models

The researchers developed a framework that improves how multimodal large language models follow natural-language rules when performing spatial planning tasks.

Robotics / Reinforcement Learning By Bhavya Sukhija 2026-08-20 10
EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies

EXIMO leverages a vision-language model to decompose complex robotic tasks into smaller steps, improving the efficiency of training vision-language-action policies.

Efficiency & Inference / Benchmarks & Evals By Christos Koutsiaris 2026-08-20
Daedalus-150M: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid Designed for CPU Inference

The paper introduces Daedalus-150M, a hybrid model combining depthwise convolutions and attention mechanisms to optimize CPU inference efficiency by reducing reliance on key-value cache growth.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Yiyang Feng 2026-08-20
Break It Down, Pass It On: Cross-Task Skill Transfer in LLM Agents

The researchers found that storing skills at the subtask level rather than the task level improves the performance of LLM agents, especially when using natural language notes instead of code.

Computer Vision / Efficiency & Inference By Yudong Jin 2026-08-20
4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video

4DAnyone reconstructs high fidelity 4D human models from single casual videos by using geometric guidance and optimized multiview diffusion techniques to prevent structural drift.

Computer Vision / Benchmarks & Evals By Yigit Ekin 2026-08-20
BeyondMasks: Evaluating Causal and Physical Consistency in Video Object Removal

The paper introduces a new benchmark and evaluation protocol to accurately measure whether video object removal tools correctly eliminate both the object and its associated physical side effects like shadows and reflections.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Atsuyuki Miyai 2026-08-20
Task-CoEvolve: Efficient Harness Optimization via Adaptive Validation Task Selection

Task-CoEvolve optimizes LLM agent harnesses by dynamically selecting a subset of validation tasks to estimate full-set performance, significantly reducing search costs.

Efficiency & Inference / Benchmarks & Evals By Qihang Fan 2026-08-20 14
FlashPrefill V2: Block-Sparse Prefill Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving

FlashPrefill V2 improves large language model serving performance by introducing a block-sparse attention mechanism that integrates natively with paged KV cache and continuous batching systems.

Benchmarks & Evals By Yejin Bang 2026-08-20
ContractScrub: A benchmark for final review of legal contracts

ContractScrub is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how accurately large language models detect errors in legal documents.

Robotics / Efficiency & Inference By Shaoxuan Wang 2026-08-20
RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation

RoMAN-Flow introduces post-training optimization and distillation techniques to eliminate the sequential sampling latency inherent in autoregressive normalizing flows for robotic control.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Zeyu Ren 2026-08-20 2
FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills

FlowEvo is a framework that improves AI agent efficiency by automatically compiling successful task workflows into reusable skills to avoid redundant computation.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Mengru Wang 2026-08-20
MemTrapBench: Benchmarking Cognitive Traps in LLM Memory Use

The paper introduces MemTrapBench to quantify how retrieved memory degrades LLM reasoning and proposes AdaptiveMem as a solution to prevent memory-induced cognitive traps.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Efficiency & Inference By Nayeon Kim 2026-08-20
Let's Scale Step by Step: Compute-Efficient Hyperparameter Transfer for Large-Scale Mixture-of-Experts

The paper introduces a method to extrapolate optimal learning rates for Mixture of Experts models using small-scale proxy runs to avoid expensive full-scale sweeps.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Silin Chen 2026-08-20 15
Repo0: Design-Driven Zero-to-All Code Generation

Repo0 treats code repository generation as a continuous structural evolution problem rather than a one-shot planning task to improve software modularity and functionality.