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One Model, Two Precisions: Does Disagreement Between Quantized Copies Tell You When a Small Model Is Wrong?
2026-11-12 08:47:29Mohammed Nayeem Khan, Allan Kevin TAbstract
Local language models often exist at several precisions, and quantization is known to change individual answers. This study asks whether the disagreement between two precisions of the same weights, an 8-bit copy that answers and a lower-precision copy that reads the same prompt, works as a per-question error score for abstention, escalation and re-asking. The cost is one extra forward pass over fewer bytes, with no sampling and no training. We simulate round-to-nearest quantization with per-group scales (3 to 6 bits, groups of 32 to 256) on Qwen3-0.6B and Qwen3-1.7B and score 8,398 multiple-choice questions from ARC-Easy, ARC-Challenge, MMLU and HellaSwag subsets. Error detection is measured by AUROC, risk-coverage curves and ECE on a held-out half, with paired bootstrap intervals over questions. For Qwen3-0.6B, the entropy of the 8-bit answer reaches AUROC 0.682; the best disagreement score, selected on a development half, reaches 0.684 (+0.001 [-0.009, +0.011]), and combining it with the confidence features adds +0.009 [+0.002, +0.015], mostly on ARC. On Qwen3-1.7B the selected score is -0.001 [-0.009, +0.006] from entropy and the combination +0.003 [-0.001, +0.006] on the test half. Gaussian weight noise at matched error energy is about as informative as rounding (0.6B only), so we find no evidence that the signal is specific to quantization, and shuffling the features within task and entropy cells removes the gain. One extra 8-bit pass that shifts the option order does better (+0.049 [+0.031, +0.067] over entropy) at about a third more weight traffic; routing to a larger model on free entropy beats both extra-pass scores at equal total traffic. After logistic recalibration the 0.6B confidences are calibrated within a few points of ECE. A deployment recipe and the cases where the method does not help are given.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16478
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Where in the Input Does a One-Pass Decision Encoder Look?
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Laya is a small model that answers a multiple-choice question about a text in one pass: the question, the options (each with a name and a description) and the text form one sequence of at most 512 tokens, the window, in the English release. A longer text is silently cut at the end, and we measure what that costs. Test documents place a held-out row's text, the evidence, at a chosen token offset among distractor text; 177 items, five tasks, three checkpoints (released, short-row fine-tune, long-document fine-tune), four window sizes and 93,275 scored requests. When the evidence lies beyond the window, accuracy falls to 26.4% for the released checkpoint (27.2% for both fine-tunes), near the 27.0% of guessing and below the 35.6% of always giving the commonest label. Confidence gives no warning (AUROC 0.50 to 0.55 for telling cut from read requests; 0.5 = chance), and the runtime's truncation flag also fires on requests whose evidence was visible. The released checkpoint reads visible evidence badly once text precedes it: 38.5% pooled against 60% when the evidence comes first, so a larger window alone gains +6.2 points. Fine-tuning on long documents adds +27.6 points on visible evidence over the short-row fine-tune (95% interval +22.3 to +33.1) and nothing on cut evidence. That is an in-family result: training rows and test documents share generator and question types, and the main filler is of the training kind. With encyclopedic filler never seen in training the gain is +13.2 (+9.9 to +16.6), with rows of other tasks as filler -2.0. Among training-free rearrangements a 312-token window scan helps most (+11.9 points over the default for the released checkpoint) at six to eleven forward passes. Documents are synthetic, labels are LLM-made and one backbone is studied, so these diagnose this model, not long documents in general.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16477
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Robots That Talk Too Much and Don't Listen Enough
2026-11-12 08:32:18Graham Wilcock, Kristiina JokinenAbstract
Until recently, the biggest obstacles to natural spoken interaction with social robots were speech recognition errors and turn-taking failures. Advances in speech recognition have enabled much better spoken interaction, but turn-taking failures and other misunderstandings continue to be far too prevalent. This short paper looks back at earlier methods for improving speech recognition and turn-taking in interaction with social robots, and then looks at what can be done today, arguing that multimodal bidirectional streaming is needed to reduce the frequency of turn-taking failures.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16473
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How Should Planning Agents ReSHAPE Their Search Space?
2026-11-12 08:22:18Yilin Zhang, Xinran Zhao, Tong Chen, Ziming Yuan, Tongshuang WuAbstract
Planning agents and benchmarks treat a user's initial specification as fixed. Yet the requests users write exclude plans they would gladly take, since they rarely discover the possible trade-offs they would accept until seeing the options. Agents already revise requests through interaction, but whether this helps planning is unknown. We formalize this step as the ReSHAPE task, which judges a revision by whether its search space matches the acceptable plans and a planner finds one there. Using ReSHAPE Planter, which builds instances from planning benchmarks with a human-validated simulated user, we analyze 5,800 agent-revised specifications in travel and shopping. We find that reshaping matters: one correct trade-off makes the same planner reach an acceptable plan up to 4.6x as often, and search space quality predicts what the planner finds. Current agents, however, admit at most 32% of the acceptable plans, where that trade-off alone admits over 52%, because they ask about preferences instead of showing plans; in travel, showing plans raises F1 by 9.7 points over asking, with two model families. Planning agents should thus treat a request as a hypothesis to test against the user's reactions to concrete plans to recognize user trade-offs.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16466
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Fine-Tuned Small Language Model for Synthetic Clinical Data Generation and Predictive Healthcare Analytics
2026-11-12 08:12:17Mihnea Sebastian Burlacu, Ionut Anghel, Tudor CioaraAbstract
The reduced availability of medical datasets represents an important challenge in the development of predictive models for remote healthcare solutions, especially when the available data are imbalanced or difficult to extend through traditional methods. Small Language Models (SLMs) have become a promising alternative to Large Language Models (LLMs) for addressing these limitations due to their lower computational requirements and adaptability to specialized tasks. However, their performance remains highly dependent on the quality and representativeness of the available training data. In this paper, we propose a method for clinical data augmentation based on a fine-tuned Microsoft Phi-2 model that is used to generate synthetic instances, with the purpose of improving deep learning-based model for predicting remotely monitored vital signs. The Phi-2 model was adapted to the medical domain through supervised fine-tuning on the MedQuad dataset, through a Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA)-based method and by applying few-shot prompting techniques. The resulting model was used afterwards in the augmentation of a small-sized dataset, composed of vital sign values and labels associated with pathological and physiological states. The experimental results demonstrate that fine-tuned SLMs improved the performance on medical domain, achieving higher scores for both lexical (ROUGE) and semantic (BERTScore) evaluation metrics compared to the pretrained model. Moreover, the fine-tuned SLM is effective for generating structured synthetic clinical data. When used for data augmentation, the generated dataset improved the performance of a LSTM predictive model, increasing the classification accuracy from 89.0% to 93.7% and showing consistent improvements in precision, recall, and F1-score.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16460
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Rational Alignments of Superintelligences via Debates
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Artificial superintelligences (ASI) is artificial intelligences with greater capability. However, as human principal has to use it, we have to ensure that the agent will perform in the interest of the human. We investigate the framework of ASI-assisted question answering where ASI agents know the correct answer but the human does not. We provide some example of mechanism for rational alignment, where the agent utility is unchanged, but the interaction between the agent and the human principal is controlled to be in a certain fashion. We show specifically that a debate framework where the agents can further reason and behave in a subgame perfect equilibrium manner will lead to a more predictable result, and in some case will be favorable.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16455
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FPSRG: Heterogeneous User Simulation First-Person Post-Training and Multidimensional Semantic Response Grids
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Simulating heterogeneous individuals with large language models is an active research direction, and heterogeneous user simulation requires models with different characteristics. We study profile construction: given dimensions, items, and scoring rules, build model configurations that can be retrieved by multidimensional target scores. We introduce First-Person Semantic Response Grids (FPSRG). Shared post-training first teaches the model to judge and answer as the participant; self-report and behavioral targets then refine dimension-specific control vectors. With the model frozen, we measure joint scores for vector-coefficient combinations, filter inadmissible configurations, and store the results in a searchable catalog. Per-token configuration routing, continuous batching, and isolated caches support parallel measurement of different profiles. Non-thinking five- and ten-dimensional Qwen instances and a thinking-mode six-dimensional instance following full-parameter post-training of Huihui demonstrate the complete workflow. With matched data, layers, and norms, refinement increases mean five-axis composite control span from 30.75 to 40.45. Within the five-dimensional 25-75 target region, the qualified five-level vector catalog covers 92.2% of fixed targets under per-axis error at most 20 and total error at most 60; combining it with the prompt catalog increases coverage to 98.7%. At a fixed coefficient range, three-, five-, and nine-level catalogs achieve 71.2%, 92.2%, and 94.6% coverage, demonstrating the gains from denser measurement. These results describe measured reachable regions under a fixed assessment protocol. Through shared adaptation, a small set of learned directions, and reusable joint measurements, FPSRG constructs heterogeneous individual configurations without retraining a model for every profile.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16445
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DesignTaste: Benchmarking AI-Generator Visual Design Against Award-Wining Works
2026-11-12 07:52:27Zhou Chen, JiaXiang Li, DanYing Pan, Ye Li, TianRui Yang, EnBao Zhang, YaNan Xiao, LiXin Sun, Anqi Liu, Dong Zhao, JianYuan Li, YuanYuan Ding, Kai Kong, Xinwen Xu, HuiTang Du, Min Zhou, Zhiqiang LiAbstract
Text-to-image benchmarks commonly assess text-image alignment or overall preference. Whether models can produce good designs when a brief leaves the appearance open remains less well understood. We introduce DesignTaste, a visual design benchmark that compares generated images with award-winning works. From these works and their publicly available context, we derive 403 design briefs: 100 poster tasks from 100 Beste Plakate 2025 and 303 tasks spanning 20 categories from ADC 2026. Six leading commercial text-to-image models each generate an image from the same brief. A single model judge scores each output and the corresponding award-winning work independently on five evaluation dimensions. On each dataset, only ArtArk achieves a higher mean overall score than the award-winning works. All six models score lower in Creative Originality on both datasets. These results show that producing finished, visually appealing images does not imply that a model can develop good design solutions.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16442
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Decoupled Asynchronous System for Humanoids : Latency-Agnostic Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models for Humanoid Manipulation
2026-11-12 07:42:29Bingzhang Wang, Nathan Zhao, Jialeng Ni, Jiayin Zheng, Yin Zhang, Kehua Chen, Jian YaoAbstract
Vision-language-action (VLA) models pair a vision-language backbone with an action head, but in closed-loop control the backbone sits on the control-critical path: while it computes, the robot keeps moving, so each executed action is conditioned on an increasingly stale observation. A larger backbone therefore directly blocks reactivity, especially in humanoid dexterous manipulation. We present DASH, a Decoupled Asynchronous System for Humanoids that removes this coupling. DASH splits the policy into a slow vision-language model (System 2) and a fast flow-matching action head (System 1) that run as concurrent processes over the LCM communication protocol, so the control rate is set by the action head alone, independent of backbone size. The action head fuses stale semantics from a frozen backbone with fresh vision from its own ResNet encoder, desynchronized training exposes it to the staleness it meets at deployment, and an adaptive temporal aggregator aligns overlapping action chunks under variable inference latency. On an asynchronous RoboTwin benchmark that charges inference latency in simulated time, DASH holds 20 Hz control rate from 0.8B to 8B backbones while the synchronous rate falls from 9.7 to 4.1 Hz, with higher success at every size. On a real humanoid with dexterous hands, DASH achieves clearly higher pick-and-place success than the synchronous pipeline.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.11854
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SoScale: Second-Order Scale Search for FP4 Quantization
2026-11-12 07:36:46Pengxiang Zhao, Xing Li, Hui-Ling Zhen, Weizhe Lin, Xianzhi Yu, Zhenhua DongAbstract
Low-bit quantization reduces the memory footprint and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet accurate FP4 quantization remains challenging. Practical formats such as MXFP4, NVFP4, and HiF4 pair a 4-bit floating-point payload with block-wise or hierarchical scale codes, making accuracy highly sensitive to how each local distribution is scaled. Default maximum-absolute-value scaling preserves dynamic range, but can spend scarce FP4 levels on rarely occupied outlier regions and leave dense tensor values poorly resolved. Existing scale-search methods minimize local element-wise reconstruction error, optimizing tensor fidelity rather than layer-output fidelity. We propose SoScale, a second-order weight scale-code search method for hierarchical FP4 quantization. SoScale searches hardware-valid scale codes under a Hessian-aware layer reconstruction objective and couples this search with GPTQ-style error recovery, selecting scales by their impact on layer outputs. Across Qwen3 models, SoScale consistently reduces downstream quantization degradation under MXFP4, NVFP4, and HiF4.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16426
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RMIT-ADM+S at TREC RAG 2026: Research Agents, Retriever Ablations, and Open-Weight Replication
2026-11-12 07:34:28Oleg Zendel, Kun Ran, Chenglong Ma, Nguyen Khoi Vo, Shuai WangAbstract
We describe the RMIT-ADM+S team's participation in the TREC 2026 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) track using the ClimbMix corpus. We submitted seven research-agent runs using proprietary OpenAI and open-weight models, exploring different retrieval strategies, writer models, and agent workflows. Pre-submission ablations identified writer selection and adjacent-chunk expansion as the main factors affecting answer quality. In the official NIST evaluation, six of seven runs exceeded the track median across all three rubric/nugget collections. Our best-performing run, brief-hybrid, achieved the highest all-item coverage among our submissions and tied the track maximum (0.892) for Batch-1 vital coverage. Human side-by-side preferences differed across evaluation batches: the open-weight owa-glm5 led Batch 1 despite lower automated coverage, while sol-research-first led Batch 2. These findings highlight differences between automated coverage measures and human preferences, as well as the potential of lower-cost open-weight models for research-agent systems.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16425
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PhysCapBench: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Physically Grounded Video Captioning
2026-11-12 07:33:09Haofeng Wang, Pengcheng Wen, Ruiqi Li, Yuhao Zhang, Tiange Zhang, Boren Zheng, Xuanyi Liu, Siyu Tao, Danni Yu, Gan Lin, Haocheng Tang, Tianzizhe Guo, Mingyuan Su, Boyuan Chen, Zhongyuan WangAbstract
Physical AI aims to learn transferable physical knowledge from real-world experience to understand, predict, and act in the physical world. Internet videos and embodied demonstrations provide complementary observations of motion, interaction, and state evolution. A foundational data challenge is to measure and preserve this physical information as training supervision. In video-language pretraining, captions express observed processes in language, yet a semantically correct description can omit the interactions and transitions that define those processes. Rich physical experience in video does not automatically translate into sufficient language supervision. This gap calls for a yardstick to assess annotation quality, compare captioning strategies, and guide training-data refinement. Motivated by our data construction for world-model pretraining, we introduce PhysCapBench, to our knowledge the first unified physical-caption benchmark spanning all three domains: third-person scenes, egocentric manipulation, and handheld-gripper demonstrations. It provides human-verified annotations for 1,500 video sequences and evaluates accuracy and coverage through seven physical dimensions. We examine downstream utility through video reconstruction and manipulation-policy fine-tuning. Physical captions reduce reconstruction LPIPS by 8.6-9.5% on third-person videos and 26.9-30.9% on egocentric videos relative to metadata captions. Training-instruction enrichment improves both PhysCapBench scores and policy success, including a 7.5-percentage-point gain for pi0.5 on a RoboTwin 2.0 subtask. PhysCapBench makes the physical content of language supervision inspectable and comparable, providing a cross-domain basis for its evaluation and improvement.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16424
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Small Language Models for Inference-Capability Routing: Effects of Model Capacity and Prompt Optimization on Downstream Quality and Efficiency
2026-11-12 07:25:46Sailendra Kolluru, Maheshkumar DuvvarapuAbstract
Optional reasoning, retrieval, web search, and tool use can improve large language model responses but incur unnecessary computation when activated indiscriminately. This study investigates whether prompt optimization can compensate for limited router capacity and whether classification gains translate into downstream efficiency. The proposed framework uses prompt-driven small language models to make four independent capability decisions, allowing multiple capabilities to be selected per query. Qwen2.5 routers ranging from 1.5B to 14B parameters are compared across five prompting strategies, followed by an evaluation of capability-specific optimized configurations using a fixed GPT-OSS-120B downstream model on 127 questions. Under minimal prompting, increasing router capacity does not consistently improve classification performance. Prompt optimization narrows the capacity gap for reasoning and calculator routing, whereas RAG and web search retain larger benefits from higher capacity. Similar classification F1 scores do not necessarily imply equivalent downstream behavior: false-positive activations increase unnecessary computation, while missed capabilities can reduce answer quality. The 14B router achieves a mean BERTScore F1 of 0.8408, compared with 0.8418 when all capabilities are enabled, while reducing average downstream token consumption by 68.7\% (8,837 to 2,764 tokens) and median downstream latency by 80.5\% (9.79 to 1.91 seconds). These savings exclude router overhead, which is measured separately in a different inference environment and increases with router capacity. The findings demonstrate that the relationship between router capacity, prompt design, and downstream efficiency is capability-dependent. Consequently, router selection must consider error profiles and routing overhead alongside classification performance.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16414
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TransXplainRRG: A Radiologist-Evaluated LVLM for Chest Radiograph Report Generation
2026-11-12 07:05:39Chayan Mondal, Duc-Son Pham, Tele Tan, Ashu Gupta, Vincent T. Y. Tiong, Shreya Ghosh, Tom GedeonAbstract
Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLM) enhance X-ray report generation, but often neglect clinical context, overlook workflow integration, and lack explainability, which hinders clinical adoption due to interpretability and reliability concerns. This paper addresses the dual challenges of performance and expert explainability in automated X-ray report generation for clinical AI applications. Our proposed approach, TransXplainRRG, utilises an off-the-shelf Swin Transformer model along with a transformer-based text encoder that incorporates patient medical history to generate a radiology report. Further, we explore an expert-guided `inside-out' approach and extract only abnormal findings for radiology report refinement. Thus, this study bridges the gap between high-performance automation and interpretability critical for clinical practice by combining state-of-the-art transformer-based vision encoders, text encoders, and LLMs. TransXplainRRG is trained and tested on the large-scale MIMIC-CXR dataset and further evaluated on the unseen IU X-Ray dataset to demonstrate its generalizability and robustness. We employed the GREEN metric as a complementary measure of clinical consistency, achieving scores of 0.327 on MIMIC-CXR and 0.605 on IU X-Ray, both higher than those achieved by MAIRA-2 under the same evaluation setting. It also performed competitively across standard evaluation metrics, frequently matching or surpassing state-of-the-art models. Additionally, we introduce qualitative evaluation metrics developed from radiologists' viewpoints and conduct a preliminary radiologist evaluation on 100 generated reports to assess their clinical relevance. Quantitative and qualitative analyses further demonstrate the potential of our TransXplainRRG framework for reliable and explainable radiology report generation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16393
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SkillDuet: Co-Evolving Models and Skills through Response Feedback
2026-11-12 07:04:21Xingguang Ji, Ziqiang Dong, Yubo Zhang, Xi Leng, Ninghua Yan, Yang Yang, Guanjun JiangAbstract
During reinforcement learning, experience can be both internalized in LLM parameters and retained externally as reusable textual skills. Parameter updates alter the model's behavior and the interaction experience from which new skills are extracted. These skills, in turn, guide the model's subsequent interactions and parameter updates. As the model's capabilities evolve, previously beneficial skills may become redundant or detrimental. We present SkillDuet, a framework that coordinates parameter updates and skill evolution through model response feedback. Skills extracted from on-policy trajectories guide parameter updates through OPD at every step. A response-based score, Strength, ranks candidate skills by the magnitude of the shift they induce in the current model's responses, and the highest-scoring skills are periodically consolidated into a persistent global skill set (Global). The updated model and Global jointly guide subsequent interactions, generating experience for further parameter and skill updates. With Qwen3-4B, SkillDuet achieves success rates of 98.57% on ALFWorld and 92.97% on WebShop, exceeding the matched SEED-API baseline by 2.86 and 5.47 percentage points, respectively. Ablations show that response-based skill selection and Global consolidation improve task performance. Further experiments show that the benefits of retained skills depend on both their content and their compatibility with the model. SkillDuet provides a concrete mechanism for model-skill co-evolution and skill-level recursive self-improvement.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12109
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Beyond Compressing Everything: Contrastive Memory Learning for Selective Context Compression
2026-11-12 06:51:49Sikui Zhang, Haowei Liu, Ziyun Gan, Chunfeng Yuan, Guangze Gao, Nian Liu, Boyu Cai, Bo Li, Xiaolei Lv, Jun Gao, Bing Li, Weiming HuAbstract
As large language models (LLMs) advance toward increasingly long inputs, soft context compression offers a promising approach to efficient inference by converting long inputs into compact memory slots. Under limited memory budgets, effective context compression remains challenging because task-relevant evidence varies substantially across queries, ranging from localized evidence to multiple distant spans or information dispersed throughout the full document. Instead of compressing everything indiscriminately, we propose CoMem, a query-guided selective context compression framework that learns memory representations conditioned on both the document and the query. CoMem develops Contrastive Compressor Learning to achieve query-sensitive yet context-preserving memory representations. To inject a strong prior over query-dependent evidence distributions, we devise a same-context hard negative mining strategy by pairing a single document with multiple queries, requiring the compressor to selectively retain information according to each query's distinct evidence needs. To address the restricted information flow imposed by causal masking, we further enable bidirectional attention among memory slots. Experiments demonstrate that CoMem consistently outperforms existing context compression methods across compression ratios on question answering and RULER-NIAH benchmarks. Our code is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16384
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Evidence-Governed Adoption of Self-Generated Updates in Autonomous AI Agents
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Autonomous agents modify prompts, memories, tools, workflows, and policies using interaction histories. Yet a plausible modification is not necessarily suitable for persistent adoption: candidate selection is adaptive, evaluators may be imperfect, and local gains can hide degradation against an earlier baseline. We introduce Evidence-Governed Evolution (EGE), a framework for governing adoption of self-generated agent modifications. EGE separates candidate generation from confirmatory adoption, evaluates frozen candidates on fresh paired audits, requires meaningful improvement on a prespecified primary objective, protects declared capabilities through reference-relative non-inferiority tests, and applies governance constraints before bounded canary deployment. We establish an evaluator-calibrated simultaneous lower-bound construction for a countable sequence of adaptively generated candidates. It combines candidate-wise Hoeffding bounds with independent calibration samples comparing the operational evaluator with a prespecified reference procedure. We also formalise reference replacement through bridge tests, derive a cumulative degradation bound along a versioned reference lineage, and provide an audit-planning condition relating effect-size margin, sample sizes, and acceptance probability. A Monte Carlo stress test illustrates calibration under candidate-dependent evaluator optimism; it is a stylised statistical experiment, not an evaluation of a deployed agent. The guarantees are conditional on bounded paired scores, fresh sampling, a valid reference-evaluation construct, and declared evaluation distributions; they do not establish universal agent safety or robustness to arbitrary distribution shift.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16378
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Recursive State-Augmented Language Models: Persistent Latent-State Adaptation of Pretrained Language Models
2026-11-12 06:42:54Omer HaqAbstract
Language models rely on finite token contexts, limiting access to earlier interactions. We introduce Recursive State-Augmented Language Models (Recursive SALM), a framework in which a persistent latent state evolves with each observation and generates adaptations of a pretrained language model. A modular read-transition-write architecture separates observation encoding, latent dynamics, and predictor adaptation. We develop deterministic and stochastic formulations. The experiments evaluate only deterministic SALM with frozen GPT-2 small and exclude earlier evidence from its decoder context. On a four-turn hypothesis-inference task, latent-gated LoRA reaches 89.1% accuracy, comparable to 88.0% for a trained full-context LoRA baseline, with earlier evidence available solely through a 64-dimensional state. Zeroing or shuffling the state substantially reduces accuracy. In a two-turn task with codewords unseen in training, several interfaces improve candidate ranking over chance, but rarely generate the exact codeword under the evaluated training schedule. These experiments show that persistent latent-conditioned adaptation can support sequential inference when earlier evidence is absent from the decoder context.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16375
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A Contradiction Judge Counted Reported Teammate Errors as Hallucinations: An Assertion-Aware Re-Score of One Multi-Agent LLM Harness
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LLM judges that score hallucination flag any statement that contradicts a reference fact. Agents in multi-agent LLM systems quote and dispute each other's claims, so such a judge can count a correct report of a teammate's error as a hallucination. An earlier version of this study, a preprint (arXiv:2606.21666v1), reported that broadcasting raised a hallucination rate from 0.492 to 0.658 (+34%) and called it contamination; this version withdraws that claim, and the preprint's runs cannot be re-scored. An unpublished revision of that harness reported 0.289 to 0.554 (+0.265, 95% CI [0.225, 0.305]), and its saved outputs are re-scored here. Under an analysis plan fixed before any judge call, three judges from three vendors labeled each of six facts in 1,832 outputs as asserted wrong, attributed to another source, asserted correct or absent. On values that outputs assert as their own, the broadcast effect was -0.0208 (95% CI [-0.0458, +0.0041]) on 10 Full-Broadcast trials: not distinguishable from zero, and equivalent to zero only within a post hoc margin of +/-0.0663 and under the plan's prompt. On these LLM-judge labels, reports of a teammate's wrong value accounted for nearly all of the Haiku travel effect. Scored for mentions, the judges reproduced the effect (+0.1996). With Llama agents, 2 of 40 teammate outputs asserted the wrong destination. One of twelve Claude judge-prompt combinations gave an asserted increase (Sonnet 4.6, one paraphrase: +0.0246, 95% CI [+0.0055, +0.0436]). In 40 new trials per arm, judged by Claude models like the agents, the asserted difference was -0.0505 when both judges agreed and +0.0161 (95% CI [+0.0024, +0.0299]) when either did. Main limit: the labels have no human validation; human labels for 120 outputs are pending. The outputs come from one harness and 13 hand-written scenarios, so the shares do not transfer.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21666
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ReliaGuard: Reconstruction-Aware Watermarking for Source Attribution and Blind Edit Localization
2026-11-12 06:33:37Hailong Wang, Wuzheng Tan, Zixin Zhang, Xujun Fang, Fengjuan GongAbstract
Generative image editing facilitates content creation but complicates source attribution and edit verification. Existing watermarking methods combine copyright protection with tamper localization, yet background reconstruction can weaken spatial evidence even when source identifiers remain recoverable. We propose ReliaGuard, a reconstruction-aware watermarking framework for source attribution and blind edit localization. The writer optimizes keyed feature responses in both the protected image and its variational autoencoder reconstruction under image-distortion and source-preservation constraints. Using only the received image and a secret key, the reader combines watermark responses with local image context through residual evidence refinement and predicts an edit mask through native-resolution-guided multiscale reading. It is trained on complete editing outputs, locally spliced counterparts, and processed versions of both. On an independent test set of 300 source images and 900 editing cases from three image domains, our method achieves edit-region intersection-over-union scores of 85.61% for complete outputs and 94.90% for locally spliced outputs at a threshold calibrated to a nominal 1% background false-positive rate on complete outputs. The complete-output result exceeds the strongest baseline by 45.02 percentage points, while decoded identifier-bit accuracy reaches 100% in both conditions. Across seven families of image processing, the corresponding localization scores are 81.01% and 86.49%, with identifier-bit accuracies of 92.76% and 92.79%, respectively. These results support source recovery and blind edit localization under background reconstruction and subsequent image processing.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.16368
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