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

SEAM: Shortcut-Aware Real-Time Detection of Scripted vs. Spontaneous Speech for Interview Guardrails

arXiv:2606. 06837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scripted vs spontaneous speech detection is appealing for interview guardrails, but benchmark performance can be inflated by shortcuts tied to corpus identity, channel conditions, and recording artifacts rather than speaking style itself.

By Vsevolod (V.), Kovalev, Pranay Manocha
arXiv AI
Jun 8

DuMate-DeepResearch: An Auditable Multi-Agent System with Recursive Search and Rubric-Grounded Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 07299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Research (DR) has emerged as a new agentic paradigm to tackle complex, open-ended research tasks, demanding systems that can iteratively frame problems, acquire evidence, verify sources, and synthesize long-form reports.

By Lingyong Yan, Can Xu, Yukun Zhao, Wenxuan Li, Qingyang Chen, Jiulong Wu, Wenli Song, Xiangnan Li, Weixian Shi, Yiqun Chen, Xuchen Ma, Yuchen Li, Jiashu Zhao, Shuaiqiang Wang, Jianmin Wu, Dawei Yin
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Think Fast: Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

arXiv:2606. 07157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many efforts to ensure frontier AI models are safe rely on monitoring their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning.

By Dewi Gould, Francis Rhys Ward, Anders Cairns Woodruff, Rauno Arike, Josh Hills, Alex Serrano, Ida Caspary, Jason Ross Brown, Jo J. Jiao, Patrick Leask, Twm Stone, Ram Potham, Ionut Gabriel Stan, Harry Mayne, Simeon Hellsten, Shubhorup Biswas, Ariana Azarbal, William L. Anderson, Elle Najt, Ryan Greenblatt, Julian Stastny
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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Breaking the Tuning Barrier: Zero-Hyperparameters Yield Multi-Corner Analysis Via Learned Priors

arXiv:2603. 13092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Yield Multi-Corner Analysis validates circuits across 25+ Process-Voltage-Temperature corners, resulting in a combinatorial simulation cost of $O(K \times N)$ where $K$ denotes corners and $N$ exceeds $10^4$ samples per corner.

By Wei W. Xing, Kaiqi Huang, Jiazhan Liu, Hong Qiu, Shan Shen