LiteSearch‑VL demonstrates that distilling released agent trajectories into small vision‑language backbones can transfer the agent’s behavioral contract, enabling a 2B model to produce usable answers in 28.4% of cases on multimodal benchmarks. The approach uses parameter‑efficient LoRA adapters and synthetic step‑level preferences derived from GPT‑5 hard negatives to refine tool use and query quality. While synthetic preference learning and tool distillation provide incremental improvements, the main bottleneck identified is answer verification rather than search depth.
By Saeed Khaki, Nima Safaei, Kamal Ginotra
CrossAudit proposes a Git‑native, cross‑vendor audit protocol for autonomous research pipelines, ensuring each work increment is reviewed by an agent from a different vendor against a human‑written rulebook. Audit outcomes, disputes, and rulings are stored as git commits, providing a replayable, versioned supervision history. The authors implemented the protocol with GitHub Actions and Python, deployed it in a computational‑chemistry pipeline, and conducted a seeded‑defect trial that revealed differing interpretations of the same rulebook by two vendors.
By Zhaohe Dong, Yuhao Chen
arXiv:2608.30976v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world time-series forecasting is rarely a one-shot model invocation: practitioners must formulate tasks, connect data and models, incorporate doma...
By Xiaoyu Tao, Mingyue Cheng, Ze Guo, Bokai Pan, Qi Liu, Shijin Wang, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2608.18734v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 4D understanding and reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied AI agents operating in dynamic physical environments. However, existing vis...
By Kumal Hewagamage, Isuranga Senavirathne, Sasika Amarasinghe, Hasitha Gallella, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Ranga Rodrigo
arXiv:2607.16862v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: LiDAR place recognition supports loop closure, relocalization, and multi-agent map management. As robotic platforms increasingly combine LiDARs wit...
By Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, George Nikolakopoulos
arXiv:2608.29096v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The ongoing changes in software engineering requirements have created a substantial need for automated tools which can create secure source code from...
By Pravin Game, Vipin Ramakrishnan, Prathamesh Wagh
arXiv:2608.29114v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to reason over accumulated observations while continuously exploring unseen regions. However, ex...
By Yuxiang Xiao, Xibei Chen, Xin Zhou, Jie Chen, Yifeng Zhang, Guillaume Sartoretti
arXiv:2608.30165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Scientific progress depends not only on finding solutions, but on learning the rules that explain why they work and using that understanding to desig...
By Arya S. Rao, Rodrigo I. Castro, Sager J. Gosai, Kenneth B. Hsu, Yasha Ektefaie, Shantanu Singh, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Steven K. Reilly, Ryan Tewhey, Eric S. Lander, Pardis C. Sabeti
arXiv:2606.13120v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Search Agents -- large language models augmented with search tools -- have intensified the need for future-proof evaluation benchmarks. Existing be...
By Yunhan Wang, Jiaan Wang, Lianzhe Huang, Xianfeng Zeng, Fandong Meng
arXiv:2511.20022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong understanding of driving scenes, drawing interest in their...
By Seungjun Yu, Seonho Lee, Namho Kim, Jaeyo Shin, Junsung Park, Wonjeong Ryu, Raehyuk Jung, Hyunjung Shim
arXiv:2608.29204v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative AI-based software engineering agents are becoming routine contributors to real-world software projects. On GitHub, developers can assign t...
By Jonan Richards, Kosei Horikawa, Youmei Fan, Yutaro Kashiwa, Mairieli Wessel
arXiv:2605.30947v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: LLM-based research agents have advanced rapidly in science and engineering, where research is organized around executable experiments, code, and qu...
By Yating Pan, Jiajun Zhang, Jun Wang, Qi Su
arXiv:2608.29426v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reliable semantic representations derived from city-scale 3D models are increasingly important for urban analysis, infrastructure monitoring, autonom...
By Alexander Rusnak, Sophia Kovalenko, Jingru Wang, Ismail Moudden, Xiru Wang, Fr\'ed\'eric Kaplan
arXiv:2608.28778v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate camera-LiDAR calibration for multimodal sensor fusion. In practice, calibration can drift due to vibration...
By Liangkai Liu, Qingzhao Zhang, Kang G. Shin
arXiv:2608.28672v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles operate in dynamic, ever-changing environments where new scenarios and edge cases constantly emerge. As a result, static learning...
By Yuheng Zhu, Man-Ki Yoon
arXiv:2608.29241v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Clinical voice agents are now deployed in routine care, where real patients do not wait their turn: they interrupt. These systems typically use a casca...
By Zachary Ellis, Spencer Hazel, Adam Brandt, Yajie Vera He, Ernest Lim, Jared Joselowitz
arXiv:2605.29224v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: AI agents augment large language models with external tools such as web retrieval, enabling grounded and up-to-date responses. However, incor...
By Aditya Nawal, Manit Baser, Mohan Gurusamy
arXiv:2608.29133v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: History is not preserved in complete, continuous form. Accounts of a person's activities, relationships and historical contexts are scattered across te...
By Yifeng Lu, Zijie Yang, Jie Li, Qingkai Min, Yue Zhang
arXiv:2608.25920v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MASs) are increasingly applied to long-horizon complex tasks, their reliability has emerge...
By Zhongwen Luan, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ming Hu, Yue Yang, Jiongchi Yu, Xiaohong Chen
arXiv:2608.28597v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Online surveys are a foundational data collection instrument in a variety of fields, with attention checks serving as critical guardians of response qu...
By Sourav Panda, Hillmer Chona, Rupak Kumar Das, Shreyash Kale, Shikha Soneji, Jonathan Dodge