Benchmarks and evaluation

Leaderboards, eval harnesses and ablations — the contested business of deciding which model is actually better.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Leveraging Error Diversity in Group Rollouts for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605. 17333v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) typically samples multiple responses per prompt and assigns binary rewards based on individual correctness, yet the collective structure of the group output, specifically the distribution of errors, is largely discarded.

By Wenpu Liu, Yuqi Xu, Weichu Xie, Yongfu Zhu, Shuai Dong, Ziyue Wang, Wenqi Shao, Xiaoying Zhang, Tong Yang, Nan Duan, Jiaqi Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

ShallowBench: Benchmarking Generative Drug Design Models on Shallow-Pocket Targets

arXiv:2606. 06717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable success in structure-based drug design, they predominantly rely on deep binding pockets and struggle to sample effective ligands for challenging low-pocketability targets, such as the historically "undruggable" oncology targets KRAS and MYC.

By Saket Reddy, Shiwei Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 8

TSAQA: Time Series Analysis Question And Answering Benchmark

arXiv:2601. 23204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series data are integral to critical applications across domains such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and environmental science.

By Baoyu Jing, Sanhorn Chen, Lecheng Zheng, Boyu Liu, Zihao Li, Jiaru Zou, Tianxin Wei, Zhining Liu, Zhichen Zeng, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiao Lin, Yuchen Yan, Dongqi Fu, Jingchao Ni, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Task Planning Under Complex Logical Constraints

arXiv:2606. 06877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object affordances, spatial relationships, and sequential action dependencies.

By Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Sebastian Scherer, Jiaoyang Li, Chen Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

SW-$A^2$-Bench: Benchmarking Autonomous Software Agent Generation for Agentic Web

arXiv:2604. 04226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Agentic Web is emerging as a paradigm in which autonomous software agents interact with online resources and with each other to accomplish user goals.

By Linyao Chen, Bo Huang, Qinlao Zhao, Shuai Shao, Zhi Han, Zicai Cui, Ziheng Zhang, Guangtao Zeng, Wenzheng Tang, Yikun Wang, Yuanjian Zhou, Zimian Peng, Yong Yu, Weiwen Liu, Hiroki Kobayashi, Weinan Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

arXiv:2606. 06464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A long-standing finding in the causal learning literature is that adults struggle to identify conjunctive causal rules, where an effect requires the simultaneous presence of multiple causes, while performing better in disjunctive settings.

By Mandana Samiei, Eunice Yiu, Anthony GX-Chen, Dongyan Lin, Jocelyn Shen, Blake A. Richards, Alison Gopnik, Doina Precup
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Exploring Agentic Tool-Calling Decisions via Uncertainty-Aligned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 06976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents often make suboptimal tool-use decisions, including unsupported tool invocation and hallucinated direct responses, which may accumulate errors throughout multi-step interactions.

By Yijin Zhou, Linqian Zeng, Xiaoya Lu, Wenyuan Xie, Dongrui Liu, Junchi Yan, Jing Shao
arXiv AI
Jun 8

OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 06741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents requires adaptation after deployment, but existing approaches assume a usable learning loop, such as curated skills, successful trajectories, or verifier signals.

By Zhiling Yan, Dingjie Song, Hanrong Zhang, Wei Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Lifang He, Philip S. Yu, Ran Xu, Xiang Li, Lichao Sun
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Closed-Form Spectral Regularization for Multi-Task Model Merging

arXiv:2606. 07289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging combines several independently fine-tuned experts into a single multi-task model without any training data, reducing the storage, serving, and decentralized-development costs of large foundation models.

By Yongxian Wei, Runxi Cheng, Xingxuan Zhang, Li Shen, Chun Yuan, Peng Cui, Dacheng Tao