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
Oct 21

Interdomain Attention: Beyond Token-Level Key-Value Memory

The paper introduces Interdomain Attention (IA), a hybrid architecture that blends softmax attention with recurrent memory within a single layer, leveraging a kernel regression perspective to compress keys and values into a state‑space model (SSM) memory. IA reconstructs the attention matrix implicitly from memory states, preserving the computational efficiency of SSMs while achieving performance gains. Experiments on models ranging from 125 M to 1.3 B parameters show IA surpasses an S4D baseline at matched memory size, outperforms standard Transformers on perplexity and common‑sense reasoning, and matches or exceeds SSM‑based models on genomic downstream tasks.

By Naoki Kiyohara, Harrison Bo Hua Zhu, Riccardo El Hassanin, Zhuo Sun, Wenlong Chen, Samir Bhatt, Yingzhen Li
arXiv AI
Oct 21

LightCRS: Lightweight Multi-Domain Conversational Recommendation System

LightCRS is a lightweight, query‑conditioned framework that enables unified multi‑domain multimodal conversational recommendation by precomputing multimodal product representations with frozen encoders and fusing them online via a compact 5.3M‑parameter module using cross‑attention. The system shares parameters across all domains and employs an inter‑candidate Transformer to compare candidates jointly. On the newly constructed MM‑R2A‑25 benchmark, LightCRS achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving HR@1 by 35.4% over the strongest baseline and reducing per‑query latency by 266×, while joint multi‑domain training alone boosts HR@1 by 15.2% compared to single‑domain models.

By He Ma, Lan You, Qiyang Wu, Chen Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Harness Self-Evolution for Long-Horizon Terminal Agents

The paper introduces RiseHarness, a framework that iteratively refines agent harnesses while keeping model weights fixed. It uses successful and failed runs under the same configuration to analyze failures, combining agent trajectories with runtime monitor traces to understand interactions between model actions and execution components. The framework then searches other harness frameworks for relevant implementations, adapts them, and validates changes through behavioral checks and repeated task evaluation, ultimately integrating mechanisms from multiple frameworks to improve reliability across tasks.

By Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li, Junyao Yang, Zhongzhi Li, Yue Yu, Haitao Mi, Dongruo Zhou, Leoweiliang
arXiv AI
Oct 21

CUA-Recovery: Benchmarking Error Recovery in Long-Horizon Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2610.27645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As computer-use agents (CUAs) move to long-horizon workflows spanning multiple applications, undetected errors can silently corrupt persistent state an...

By Xu Hu, Haoming Li, Yuxiang Wang, Jinxin Yang, Kangshuo Li, Licheng Wang, Dingyi Kang, Jiayu Song, Tianhao Wang, Zhanhua Hu, Xu Yang, Qiannan Li, Bingzhe Li, Feng Chen
arXiv AI
Oct 21

COMPASS: Routing via Capability-Oriented Model Profiling with Adaptive Search, Selection, and Tool Use

COMPASS is an agentic router that uses a capability-oriented model profiling approach to select large language models (LLMs) efficiently. It follows a routing recipe, gathers performance and cost evidence through tools, and can inspect candidate answers before making a selection. In evaluations on LLMRouterBench and DeepSWE, COMPASS improves accuracy while reducing model‑call cost compared to specialized and trained routing baselines, and it can adapt to new models without retraining.

By Amin Rezaei, Pouya Parsa
arXiv AI
Oct 21

MOSS: A Production Framework for Monitoring and Diagnosing Semantic Failures in Search and Recommendation Systems

MOSS (Model Sanity Service) is a production framework that embeds LLM-based relevance scoring into a continuous monitoring loop for recommendation, search, and offer surfaces, using targeted sampling, strategy-aware prompting, and structured alerting to diagnose semantic failures. It has been deployed for over six months at a large U.S. retailer, identifying two confirmed serving defects and quantifying a 76.4% reduction in alert rate for a backfill blending fix. Benchmark results show that LLM judges outperform non-LLM baselines on both recommendation and search tasks, demonstrating that a single LLM monitoring framework can deliver actionable quality signals across multiple product discovery surfaces.

By Alina Nesen, Prathyusha Kanmanth Reddy, David Relyea, Rohit Avinash Mujumdar, Samaneh Karimi, Bo Shen, Jordan Hashemi
arXiv AI
Oct 21

MMedAgent-Plus: Scaling Multimodal Medical Agents across Modalities, Tasks and Workflows

arXiv:2610.27233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical workflows often require multiple interdependent analyses, but existing specialist and generalist AI models are not designed to coordinate the...

By Ruoxin Wang, Yuanting Pan, Binxu Li, Ruiyang Ji, Yaqian Chen, Jiayuan Ding, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang, Mingjie Li, Yu Zhang, Ehsan Adeli, Kilian Pohl, Zhe Xu, Zihao Lin, Haoyu Dong, Yixin Wang