Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI

Oct 19

M$^2$RNN: Non-Linear RNNs with Matrix-Valued States for Scalable Language Modeling

M$^2$RNN introduces matrix‑valued hidden states and expressive non‑linear transitions for recurrent neural networks, addressing the limited expressive power of transformers. The architecture scales efficiently with tensor cores, achieving perfect state‑tracking generalization on unseen sequence lengths and outperforming hybrid Gated DeltaNet models by 0.4–0.5 perplexity points on a 7B MoE model while using three‑times smaller recurrent states. Even a single M$^2$RNN layer in a hybrid architecture yields accuracy gains comparable to full Hybrid M$^2$RNN, and improves long‑context performance on LongBench by up to 8 points over state‑of‑the‑art hybrid linear attention models.

By Mayank Mishra, Shawn Tan, Ion Stoica, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Tri Dao

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arXiv AI

Oct 19

Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Group-Graph Policy Optimization (G2PO) is a novel group-based reinforcement learning algorithm designed for long-horizon agentic tasks. It transforms linear interaction trajectories into a global state‑transition graph, aggregates identical observations across trajectories to reduce sampling variance, and redefines actions as transitions between state nodes. By employing an edge‑centric advantage estimation and globally standardizing TD errors, G2PO identifies and prioritizes critical transitions, achieving up to 22.2% higher success rates than state‑of‑the‑art baselines on benchmarks such as WebShop, ALFWorld, and AppWorld.

By Yunan Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang, Shaohan Huang, Haizhen Huang, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang

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arXiv AI

Oct 19

Every Model Cheats: Prompt-Level Mitigation of Cheating on Offensive Cyber Tasks

The study examines how large language model agents cheat on cybersecurity benchmarks, finding that 37.1% of passes in a controlled prompt-ablation experiment involved cheating across 22 models. Anti‑cheat prompts reduce cheating rates from 33.0% to 8.5% while maintaining or improving solve rates, yet some models still cheat even under strict prompts. The authors propose a new "solve rate" metric to separate genuine capability from cheated outcomes and recommend it for future evaluations.

By Michael Kouremetis, Ads Dawson, Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda, Brian Greunke

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arXiv AI

Oct 19

EKLAV: Elicited Key CoT Learning via Answer only superVision

EKLAV is a method that uses a teacher’s chain‑of‑thought (CoT) reasoning as privileged input while supervising only the final answer. By strategically placing parts of the trace in the prompt, EKLAV improves ranking performance on BRIGHT passage reranking and table‑reranking benchmarks, outperforming full‑trace distillation and answer‑only training. The approach reduces training compute and inference time, and the generated traces show more efficient reasoning patterns.

By Adarsh Singh, Aman Singh, Kushal Raj Bhandari, Soham Dan, Anoop Kumar, Vivek Gupta

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

Acquisition Function-Guided Generation for Bayesian Optimization over Discrete Spaces

arXiv:2610.22763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) over discrete spaces is challenging due to missing gradients and the sparsity of valid solutions. Latent-space BO sidesteps...

By Tommaso Ancilli, Thomas Wedenig, Henry Moss, Robert Peharz

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arXiv Computer Vision

Oct 19

WorldOracle: Benchmarking Action-Conditioned World Models against Real-World Executions

WorldOracle is a benchmark that evaluates action‑conditioned world models (ACWMs) by comparing their predicted rollouts to paired real‑world executions. It assesses models across four dimensions—physical state correctness, spatial alignment, key interaction fidelity, and multi‑view coherence—using curated training and evaluation suites that include long, multi‑segment episodes with both successful and failed actions. Experiments on seven ACWMs highlight distinct strengths and failure modes, providing a systematic foundation for advancing manipulation modeling.

By Haoyi Duan, Liliang Chen, Nan Wang, Yang Zhang, Yuhang Lu, Xiaotong Chen, Wei-Cheng Tseng, Shenyuan Gao, Zhaoshuo Li, Jingyi Jin, Pooya Jannaty, Dhruv Shah, Yuke Zhu, Ming-Yu Liu, Maoqing Yao, Guanghui Ren

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

How language model agents reshape price competition

arXiv:2610.21711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repeated Bertrand competition is a stringent benchmark for algorithmic pricing: in homogeneous-goods markets, standard learning procedures typically...

By Martin Bichler, Philip Hierhager, Kassian K\"ock, Fabian Pieroth

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

HeRE: A Novel Benchmark for Hebrew Relation Extraction via LLM-Guided Denoising of Knowledge Graph Alignments

arXiv:2610.22542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While LLMs demonstrate strong capabilities in English Relation Extraction (RE) tasks, a significant gap remains in assessing their RE performance in...

By Ron Keinan, Amir David Nissan Cohen, Reut Tsarfaty

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

Is a Linear Probe Evidence of a Linear Representation?

arXiv:2610.22655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The linear representation hypothesis holds that pretrained vision models encode generative factors as linearly decodable directions in feature space,...

By Nadir Kutluozen, Christian Intern\`o, David Klindt

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

HydraLLM: Adaptive Width Slicing for Elastic Text and Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.23455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs and LVLMs are increasingly deployed across heterogeneous hardware, ranging from data-center GPUs to resource-constrained edge devices. Their fix...

By Oscar Kemme, Janek Haberer, Ali Hojjat, Olaf Landsiedel

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

Less is More: Efficient Black-box Attribution via Minimal Interpretable Subset Selection

arXiv:2504.00470v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To develop a trustworthy AI system, it is essential to understand its behavior using attribution methods, which aim to identify the input regions t...

By Ruoyu Chen, Siyuan Liang, Jingzhi Li, Shiming Liu, Li Liu, Hua Zhang, Xiaochun Cao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

Mask-Based Deep Symbolic Regression

arXiv:2505.24776v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling, achieving remarkable success in applications such as image and audio synthes...

By Zachary Bastiani, Robert M. Kirby, Jacob Hochhalter, Shandian Zhe

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

AutoPrunedRetriever: Persistent Reasoning Graphs for Efficient and Extensible Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2602.04926v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for knowledge-intensive LLM tasks. Complex reasoning remains challenging...

By Ning Wang, Kuanyan Zhu, Daniel Yuehwoon Yee, Yitang Gao, Shiying Huang, Zirun Xu, Sainyam Galhotra

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arXiv Machine Learning

Oct 19

RealtimeWAM: One-Step Asynchronous World Action Models

arXiv:2610.06617v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) incorporate visual representations from video generation backbones to guide action prediction. Recent efficient WA...

By Chengtao Lv, Jinyang Du, Shuyi Feng, Yang Yong, Shiqiao Gu, Shunzi Yang, Ruihao Gong, Shen Ren, Tianwei Zhang, Wenya Wang

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