Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning is widely used in language model training to improve model performance on a target task while limiting drift from a reference policy. A standard way to balance this trade-off is via a KL-regularized RL objective, although this formulation does not by itself provide a principled way to set the regularization coefficient.
GPT-5. 6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.
Networking research advances by turning hypotheses into empirical evidence, so accelerating it means reducing the lag between ideation (synthesizing a hypothesis) and generating the data that tests it. Consider a concrete case: does a bulk BBR download fairly share its bottleneck with competing real-time Google Meet traffic?
Context: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer natural-language flexibility for automated requirements elicitation but frequently generate structurally invalid requirements and logical inconsistencies, lacking formal correctness guarantees. Objectives: This study aims to eliminate logical inconsistencies and enforce structural conformance in LLM-generated requirements while quantifying the LLM's pre-validation decision uncertainty within a formal domain model.
Evaluation methodologies for language models increasingly combine multiple signals, from automated metrics and LLM-as-judge ratings to human assessments and benchmark suite results. When these signals are aggregated via averaging, evaluation confidence can then substantially exceed the reliability of the weakest signal: a phenomenon we call trust inflation in evaluation.
Functional verification dominates integrated circuit (IC) front-end engineering effort, and a single missed bug that escapes to silicon can trigger a costly respin. Recent large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to automate this process, yet existing LLM-based approaches generate each component through independent single-turn calls with no shared context, leaving interface mismatches undetected and reported coverage disconnected from specification requirements.
We present VetClaw, an edge-cloud multimodal agentic system for early veterinary disease screening. VetClaw uses a camera module as an edge sensing device and sends captured images, together with optional symptom descriptions, to a server-hosted vision-language model for zero-shot disease classification.
A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
In this work, we study the use of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for anomaly detection in an agent-driven game Quality Assurance (QA) pipeline focusing on geometry clipping. In this evaluation, a custom exploration agent navigates a game level to collect visual observations, while the automatic annotation pipeline provides frame-level clipping labels.
AI coding agents are being adopted at historic speed, yet security and risk concerns remain the primary barrier to scaling agentic AI across organizations. Existing security controls for coding agents are not systematically distributed to engineering teams, and vendor-native solutions introduce ecosystem dependencies that may not suit every deployment context.
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By Maria Mouschoutzi
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in recommender systems, but it is often unclear how much performance can be obtained from strong pre-trained backbones alone when they are placed inside a structured recommendation pipeline. In this paper, we present MARS, a modular multi-agent re-ranking framework for repeat-order food delivery recommendation.
Sensory advertising evokes human senses through visual cues, enabling audiences to mentally simulate experiences and increasing persuasive impact. Despite the recent increase in using AI in generating and understanding creative and persuasive content, how advertisements visually evoke sensations remains largely unexplored.
arXiv:2607. 22563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial agent benchmarks require realistic evaluation scenarios that integrate telemetry, failure modes, maintenance records, and domain standards.
By Sagar Chethan Kumar, Rohith Kanathur, Dhaval Patel, Kaoutar El Maghraoui
arXiv:2607. 24577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and drone control, where unexpected behaviors may lead to severe real-world consequences.
By Zhibin Kang, Hanmo You, Dong Wang, Haiming Zheng, Junjie Chen
arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.
By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv:2607. 24348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are difficult to detect and interpret due to their multi-stage and stealthy nature.
By Trung V. Phan, Tri Gia Nguyen, Thomas Bauschert
arXiv:2607. 24343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language-model agents act through structured tool calls whose arguments carry different risks.
By Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Arifur Rahman, Niamul Hassan Samin, Khandaker Rifah Tasnia, Sifat Rahman Ahona, Juena Ahmed Noshin
arXiv:2607. 23624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Third-party API routers have become a common layer that unifies access across increasingly diverse LLM providers.
By Donghao Fu, Jingxin Li, Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong
arXiv:2607. 24582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-video understanding increasingly relies on large vision-language models and tool-augmented reasoning, but most systems apply the same inference procedure to every example regardless of difficulty.
By Jinlong Yang, Wenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin, Sijie Cheng