Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 30

CLOSER-VLN: Closed-Loop Self-Verified Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2606. 28397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language navigation (VLN) has recently advanced with large language and multimodal models, enabling agents to follow natural-language instructions in unseen environments without training a task-specific navigation policy.

By Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma, Junfeng Chen, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Learning the structure of open quantum systems

arXiv:2606. 30358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We design an algorithm for learning the coefficients of an $n$-qubit constant-local Lindbladian to $\varepsilon$ error with $O(g d^2 \log(n) / \varepsilon^2)$ total evolution time, where $g$ is the single-site energy and $d$ is the (approximate) degree of the interaction graph.

By Laura Lewis, Ewin Tang, John Wright
arXiv AI
Jun 30

The Human Creativity Benchmark

arXiv:2606. 30561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI evaluation frameworks treat evaluator disagreement as noise to be resolved.

By Aspen Hopkins, Allison Nulty, Alexandria Minetti, Anoop Pakki, Angad Singh
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Lumos-Nexus: Efficient Frequency Bridging with Homogeneous Latent Space for Video Unified Models

arXiv:2605. 31603v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Connector-based video unified models have demonstrated strong capability in instruction-grounded video synthesis, but integrating a large high-fidelity generator into the unified training loop is computationally prohibitive, limiting achievable visual quality.

By Jiazheng Xing, Hangjie Yuan, Lingling Cai, Xinyu Liu, Yujie Wei, Fei Du, Tao Feng, Hai Ci, Jiasheng Tang, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang, Yong Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Break the Brake, Not the Wheel: Untargeted Jailbreak via Entropy Maximization

arXiv:2605. 10764v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies show that gradient-based universal image jailbreaks on vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit little or no cross-model transferability, casting doubt on the feasibility of transferable multimodal jailbreaks.

By Mengqi He, Xinyu Tian, Xin Shen, Shu Zou, Jinhong Ni, Zhaoyuan Yang, Weikang Li, Xuesong Li, Jing Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Rehearsed Multi-Agent Live Product Demonstrations with Real-Time Voice Question Answering

arXiv:2606. 30294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live product demonstrations are a recurring, high-cost activity in software organizations: a human presenter must select features, dispatch the corresponding interactions on a running application, narrate them coherently, and answer questions in real time.

By Rahul Khedar, Mayank Malhotra, Avinash Karn, Mouli V, Prakhar Mehrotra
arXiv AI
Jun 30

BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2606. 28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critic-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), avoids training a value function (critic) and reduces memory and compute overhead relative to critic-based PPO pipelines for aligning large language models.

By Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang