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Agents / Benchmarks & Evals By Xiaohongshu Inc 2026-08-11 2
VibeLifeBench: Can Your Life Agent Be Proactive and Persistent in a Living World?

The paper introduces VibeLifeBench, a framework for evaluating agent performance in long-term, multi-week scenarios that involve state persistence and silent environment changes.

Multimodal / Safety & Alignment By Hunar Batra 2026-08-10
Multimodal Model Diffing for Feature Discovery and Control

Researchers developed a method to isolate and steer specific internal features within multimodal models to improve performance on spatial and OCR tasks without retraining.

Agents / Efficiency & Inference By Víctor Gallego 2026-08-08 2
A Hybrid Nested Harness for Decoupling Structure and Parameters in LLM-Driven Optimization

The paper introduces a hybrid system that splits optimization tasks into an LLM-driven structural design phase and a traditional numerical parameter tuning phase to prevent structural failures.

Benchmarks & Evals / Agents By Víctor Gallego 2026-08-09 2
Gaming Without an Attacker: Benchmark Fingerprinting in LLM-Driven Search Under Selection Pressure

The paper demonstrates that LLM-driven search processes often optimize for specific benchmark configurations rather than generalizing to unseen settings.

Robotics / Computer Vision By Hyeongjun Heo 2026-08-10
AnyCamVLA: Zero-Shot Camera Adaptation for Viewpoint Robust Vision-Language-Action Models

AnyCamVLA improves robot task performance in new camera environments by synthesizing training-viewpoint images in real-time before processing them with a pre-trained policy.

Multimodal / Benchmarks & Evals 2026-08-10
PragMatch: Separating Pragmatic Incongruity from Cross-Modal Mismatch in Large Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces a benchmark called PragMatch to test if large vision-language models can distinguish between genuine pragmatic sarcasm and simple image-text mismatches.

Benchmarks & Evals / Reasoning By Mahbub E Sobhani 2026-08-09
Time Present and Time Past: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Temporally Evolving Document Understanding

The paper introduces a new benchmark to evaluate how well large language models can resolve specific versions of legal documents that change over time.

Agents / Safety & Alignment By Puyu Zeng 2026-08-10
ColluSkill: Adversarial Cross-Skill Composition for Evading Agent Skill Scanners

ColluSkill exploits the isolation of current agent skill scanners by decomposing malicious intents into interdependent sub-payloads that bypass detection as individual, locally benign components.

Benchmarks & Evals / Efficiency & Inference By Laurens Samson 2026-08-10
From Values to Benchmarks: Evaluating Large Language Models for Governmental Use in Dutch

Researchers developed a new, systematic evaluation suite to help Dutch government agencies select and deploy large language models based on transparency, honesty, and operational efficiency.

Reinforcement Learning / Benchmarks & Evals By Xu Ouyang 2026-08-10
Financial Numerical Prediction and Allocation as Token Generation

Researchers successfully used a single causal language model to perform stock forecasting and portfolio allocation by treating financial data as tokens rather than using traditional task-specific numerical heads.

Efficiency & Inference / Benchmarks & Evals By Zian Li 2026-08-10
DUET: A Diversity-Quality Duet of Distillation Experts for Two-Step Video Generation

DUET improves video generation quality and diversity in a two-step process by combining two distinct distillation expert models.

Agents / Multimodal By Renshan Zhang 2026-08-10
LookAgain: Closed-Loop GUI Grounding with Visually Grounded Reflection

LookAgain introduces a multi-turn refinement process that allows GUI agents to visually verify and adjust their coordinate predictions, significantly boosting accuracy on complex interfaces.

Agents / Safety & Alignment By Abdullah X 2026-08-10
Multi-Agent AI Safety as an Institutional Design Problem

The paper evaluates how different governance structures, such as constitutional prompts and provenance-aware guards, impact safety compliance in multi-agent delegation workflows.

Reasoning / Benchmarks & Evals By Ghanshyam Verma 2026-08-10
KGCaRe: Explainable Complex Conditional Question Answering using Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction and Context Retrieval with LLMs

KGCaRe enhances complex conditional reasoning in language models by combining structured knowledge graph lookups with traditional document retrieval.

Robotics / Benchmarks & Evals By XPolicyLab Community 2026-08-10
XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment

XPolicyLab introduces a unified standard and client/server architecture to resolve the fragmentation in robot policy integration and evaluation.

Multimodal / Efficiency & Inference By Juan S. Santillana 2026-08-09
VectraYX-Vision-1B: A Sub-2B Spanish/LATAM Cybersecurity Vision-Language Model with Structured Visual Reasoning and Native Tool Use

VectraYX-Vision-1B is a specialized vision language model designed for offline cybersecurity reasoning and native tool invocation in Spanish and Latin American contexts.

Reasoning / Efficiency & Inference By Jiahao Shao 2026-08-10
Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

Researchers discovered that tool use in vision language models relies on structured text scaffolding rather than the actual images returned by those tools.

Training & Fine-Tuning / Efficiency & Inference By Sourav Das 2026-08-09
Can We Optimize the Performance-Carbon Emission Break-Even Point?: The Quest for Greener LLMs

The paper introduces a joint loss optimization technique that fine-tunes LLMs to improve task accuracy while simultaneously minimizing inference carbon emissions.

Reasoning / Training & Fine-Tuning By Congfeng Cao 2026-08-10
Fusion Training for Mathematical Generalization in Large Language Models

The researchers investigated how to balance a model's ability to provide concise answers with its capacity for long-form mathematical reasoning by testing different training schedules and data ratios.

Efficiency & Inference By Hyangsuk Min 2026-08-10
Don't Scroll Back: Missing-Evidence Memory for Streaming Dialogue Summarization

ReMEMBER is a method that improves streaming dialogue summarization by retrieving targeted evidence for unresolved context gaps in long conversations.