Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 24

CANN Bench: Benchmarking Agent Generated Kernels against Real NPU and Algorithmic Limits

arXiv:2607. 20518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are now capable of writing, compiling, and iteratively optimizing low-level operator kernels on different hardware platforms.

By Xue-Jian Gao, Deng Pan, Yueming Su, Jiasheng Li, Bin Du, Fengming Zhu, Chengdi Ma, Junyi Fan, Qichen Liao, Chengqiu Hu, Xinxian Chen, Lingchao Zheng, Jun Li, Jiwei Yang, Yuwei Fan
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Evaluating and Guarding Citation Faithfulness in Agentic Scientific Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 20527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLM systems such as OpenScholar and PaperQA2 read the scientific literature and return cited answers, and both they and their benchmarks already check whether those citations hold, with a fixed attribution model or human graders.

By Taewan Goo, Junsik Kim, Kyulhee Han, GwonYul Jo, Jong-Soo Kim, Tae-Hyung Kim
arXiv AI
Jul 24

NVIDIA-labs OO Agents: Native Python Object-Oriented Agents

arXiv:2607. 20709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional agent development is split across prompt templates, tool schemas, callback code, and workflow graphs.

By Paul Furgale, Severin Klingler, James Nolan, Matt Staats, Gaia Di Lorenzo, Elisa Martinez Abad, Christian Sch\"uller, Razvan Dinu, Alessio Devoto, Pascal Berard, Gal Kaplun, Elad Sarafian, Riccardo Roveri, Leon Derczynski, Ricardo Silveira Cabral
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Profiling Lightweight Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 20806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lightweight large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed locally on personal computers and are expected to play a growing role in resource-constrained edge and mobile environments.

By Tomohiro Harada, Enrique Alba, Gabriel Luque
arXiv AI
Jul 24

AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research

arXiv:2607. 21461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints.

By Shuqi Lu, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo, Zhang Zhang, Hui Wang, Hongwang Xiao, Zheng Liu, Lei Xiong, Jiahao Wang, Sen Wang, Xiyan Jiang, Wanli Li, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Bingyu Yan, Ziyi Xia, Yingxia Shao, Kang Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Di He, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zhongyuan Wang, Zheng Liu