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 21

What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning

arXiv:2607. 16938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor observations directly to observed paths for open-loop evaluation and often effective driving in closed-loop evaluation.

By Kalpana Panda, Wesley Maia, Vinti Agarwal, Ross Greer
arXiv AI
Jul 21

DataFlow-Harness: A Grounded Code-Agent Platform for Constructing Editable LLM Data Pipelines

arXiv:2607. 16617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate data-processing workflows, yet coding agents typically produce scripts that are not automatically materialized as persistent, editable platform artifacts.

By Runming He, Zhen Hao Wong, Hao Liang, Zimo Meng, Chengyu Shen, Xiaochen Ma, Wentao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning Framework for LLM Guardrails

arXiv:2607. 17575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose ARBITER, a novel LLM guardrail framework that introduces two key ideas: (i) dual-hypothesis reasoning, a reasoning method for LLM guardrails that explicitly considers both safe and unsafe interpretations of a prompt before making a safety decision, and (ii) multi-component supervised fine-tuning (MC-SFT), a structured training loss for reasoning-based guardrails that decomposes LLM outputs into logical components and weights them according to their importance.

By Md Asiful Islam, Mihai Surdeanu
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Democratizing AI with Small Language Models: Structured Benchmarking and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Local Deployment

arXiv:2607. 16202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI democratization is not primarily a question of matching frontier-scale generality; it is a question of whether capable models can be selected, audited, and specialized under hardware and governance constraints that ordinary institutions can actually satisfy.

By Daniel Cersosimo
arXiv AI
Jul 21

An Explicit World Model Based on Data-First Ontology: DaoQL Multimodal Storage Validation and Counterfactual Reasoning Evaluation

arXiv:2607. 17269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models encode world models implicitly in neural weights, which exposes four structural risks in high-precision domains such as medicine and finance: hallucination, frozen knowledge, poor explainability, and poor modifiability.

By Zhanbo Li, Shifeng Wu, Xiangjin Meng, Wenjie Cai
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Reward-Driven LLM Agent Workflows: Synthesizing POMDP Routing and Self-Correction for Autonomous Decision-Making

arXiv:2607. 17038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses key technical challenges in current large language model (LLM) agent applications, including long-horizon planning, sparse reward attribution, and dynamic environmental interaction, by designing and optimizing an intelligent agent workflow.

By Amez Amanj Ali, Kuo-Kun Tseng