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Computer Vision / Efficiency & Inference By Jiayi Song 2026-08-18 21
EDITBRIDGE: Towards Faithful and Efficient Ultra-High-Resolution Image Editing

EditBridge uses a diffusion bridge framework to enable 4K image editing by reducing attention complexity to linear scaling.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Andrei Cristian Popescu 2026-08-17 12
Looped Language Models Improve Compositional Tool Calling

The researchers developed Ouro models that use recurrent stack iterations to improve performance on complex, compositional tool-calling tasks.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By George Andrikopoulos 2026-08-19
Tuning the Stochastic Machine: A Systems Engineer's Operating Model for Human-AI Engineering

The paper introduces a structured operating model for AI assistants that uses persistent rule files to prevent repetitive errors and improve task performance.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Sher Badshah 2026-08-18
Judge, Retrieve, or Abstain: Uncertainty-Guarded LLM Judging with Provable Risk Guarantees

The paper introduces a routing system that manages LLM uncertainty by deciding whether to trust a model's internal knowledge or trigger a web search to verify facts with statistical error guarantees.

Agents / Reinforcement Learning By Christophe D. Hounwanou 2026-08-18
Policy-Invariant Reward Shaping from LLM Feedback: A Framework for Hybrid RL Agents

The paper demonstrates that using LLM progress scores to shape rewards for reinforcement learning agents does not alter the underlying optimal policy of the agent.

Benchmarks & Evals By Adrian Hayler 2026-08-17 23
Advancing Open and Reproducible Relational Learning: RelArena-α, TabPFN-Rel and RPI

The paper introduces RelArena-alpha, a unified open-source framework designed to standardize evaluation, tuning, and benchmarking for relational learning models.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Liya Zhu 2026-08-18
StartupBench: Benchmarking General-Purpose Agents on Market-Validated End-to-End Workflows

The researchers introduced StartupBench to evaluate AI agents using end-to-end workflows derived from actual market-validated startup products.

Reinforcement Learning / Reasoning By Yixuan Wang 2026-08-17 98
Learn What's Left, Not What's Mastered: Saturation Aware Advantage Reweighting for Multi-Reward Policy Optimization

The paper introduces SA-MRPO, a method that dynamically reweights reward objectives during reinforcement learning to prioritize underperforming metrics instead of treating all goals as equally weighted.

Agents / Computer Vision By Rui-Huan Wang 2026-08-18
aDSL: Agentic 3D Creation via Joint Agent-Program Design

The paper introduces aDSL, a domain-specific language and agent-based system designed to reliably convert natural language instructions into functional 3D programs and geometry.

Agents / Robotics By Hongyan Feng 2026-08-18 29
Embodied-Navigator: Point, Think, Memorize, and Align for Efficient Navigation

TAMP-Nav improves embodied navigation by combining efficient 3D spatial grounding with selective reasoning and a multi-level reward training approach.

Agents / Reinforcement Learning By Zhiyuan He 2026-08-18 7
Agent Lightning v1.0: Towards Harnessed Agentic RL

Agent Lightning v1.0 provides a declarative framework to manage the complex training loops required for agents that interact with external environments.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Zhi Zheng 2026-08-18 22
Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements

The paper introduces Agentic ESOpt, a method for fine-tuning LLM agents that replaces traditional backpropagation with population-based parameter perturbations to reduce memory requirements during training.

Efficiency & Inference / Benchmarks & Evals By Jhen-Ke Lin 2026-08-18
Grading Needs a Rubric, Not Intelligence

The paper presents a two stage grading pipeline that uses high end models for rubric extraction and small models for cost effective, consistent scoring of examination questions.

Agents / Safety & Alignment By Guanchu Wang 2026-08-15 15
Understanding Cognition-Induced Risks in Agentic AI Systems

The paper defines a framework to categorize cognitive risks in agentic AI and proposes mitigation strategies to maintain human control over autonomous systems.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Harold Haodong Chen 2026-08-17 20
GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation

GenRouter optimizes agentic image generation by dynamically routing prompts through a library of primitive operations to reduce latency and execution costs.

Benchmarks & Evals / Efficiency & Inference By Luis M. Sanchez 2026-08-17
The Commercial Tax: Rent-vs-Own Blind Spots in Multi-Hop Retrieval Benchmarks

This paper reveals that popular multi-hop retrieval benchmarks ignore commercial licensing and deployment costs, misleading engineers who select models for production use.

Benchmarks & Evals / Agents By Weiliang Chen 2026-08-17
HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds

The authors introduce HarnessEval-W, an agentic evaluation pipeline that decomposes world model testing into verifiable reasoning sequences to overcome the limitations of fixed, non-verifiable metrics.

Multimodal / Efficiency & Inference By Pengyu Wang 2026-08-15 38
MOSS-VL Technical Report

MOSS-VL introduces an architecture and training curriculum that allows vision-language models to process incoming video frames and generate responses simultaneously.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Ziheng Qin 2026-08-15 32
StateM: Reaching 95.3% Raw Accuracy, or a \$15 Frontier Run, on Terminal-Bench 2.1 via Harness Scaling

The paper introduces a runtime system called StateM that uses harness scaling to improve agent task performance without modifying model weights.

Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Zihan Ding 2026-08-16 32
UI-Mate: Advancing Open-Weight Foundation GUI Agents with In-Context Demonstrations

UI-Mate-27B improves desktop automation performance through in-context demonstrations and specialized training on task-driven benchmarks.