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

Scaling Textual Gradients via Sampling-Based Momentum

arXiv:2506. 00400v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based prompt optimization, which uses LLM-provided ``textual gradients'' (feedback) to refine prompts, has emerged as an effective method for automatic prompt engineering.

By Zixin Ding, Junyuan Hong, Zhan Shi, Jiachen T. Wang, Zinan Lin, Li Yin, Meng Liu, Zhangyang Wang, Yuxin Chen

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

B3O: Scalable Boltzmann Batch Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2606. 30228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern engineering workflows increasingly rely on massive parallel simulation, driving the need for scalable, large-batch Bayesian Optimization (BO).

By Maximilian Bloor, Liyuan Xu, Hrvoje Stojic, Victor Picheny

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Hierarchical Experimentalist Agents

arXiv:2606. 29315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to take actions in the real world and support human decision-making, yet most agents rely on parametric knowledge, fixed post-training data, retrieval, or search.

By Abhranil Chandra, Sankaran Vaidyanathan, Utsav Dhanuka, Varun Gandhi, Scott Niekum

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving

arXiv:2606. 30560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents are rapidly becoming a major application of agentic LLMs, but serving them efficiently remains challenging.

By Kan Zhu, Mathew Jacob, Chenxi Ma, Yi Pan, Stephanie Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Baris Kasikci

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

SWE-INTERACT: Reimagining SWE Benchmarks as User-Driven Long-Horizon Coding Sessions

arXiv:2606. 30573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SWE-Interact, a new testbed for evaluating coding agents on multi-turn, interactive, user-driven software engineering tasks.

By Mohit Raghavendra, Anisha Gunjal, Aakash Sabharwal, Yunzhong He

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

Shoot from the HIP: Hessian Interatomic Potentials without derivatives

arXiv:2509. 21624v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fundamental tasks in computational chemistry, from transition state search to vibrational analysis, rely on molecular Hessians, which are the second derivatives of the potential energy.

By Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Nikolaj R{\o}nne, Varinia Bernales, Nandita Vijaykumar, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Dynamic Parsing and Updating Natural Language Specification using VLMs for Robust Vision-Language Tracking

arXiv:2606. 29357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language tracking guided by natural language specifications leverages high-level semantic cues of target objects to substantially boost tracking accuracy and robustness.

By Xiao Wang, Liye Jin, Dan Xu, Yuehang Li, Lan Chen, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language

arXiv:2606. 30319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling the bidirectional correspondence between external sensory stimuli and internal neural activity has emerged as a critical frontier in neuroscience.

By Haitao Wu, Qirui Zhang, Zhouheng Yao, Shangquan Sun, Qihao Zheng, Mianxin Liu, Chi Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Chunfeng Song, Changqing Zhang, Jiamin Wu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Selective Memory Retention for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 29178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When does retention matter for memory-augmented LLM agents?

By Pranath Reddy

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

HERO: Improving the Reliability and Sensitivity of Generative Model Evaluation Using Historical Data

arXiv:2606. 29784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable generative AI models critically rely on expert human annotations to evaluate output quality, yet these "gold" labels are expensive to collect and limited in quantity.

By Xinrui Ruan, Zhenyu Zhao, Waverly Wei, Yueshan Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Sui Huang, Jingshen Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

Bridging the NISQ and Fault-Tolerant Regimes: Generative-ML-Assisted Quantum Selected CI for Molecular Simulations

arXiv:2606. 30551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calculation of binding energies for protein-ligand molecular systems requires accurate treatment of the electronic structure, a quantum chemistry problem that scales exponentially on classical hardware, while current quantum hardware remains too noisy for the required circuit depths.

By Anurag K. S. V., Ashish Kumar Patra, Manas Mukherjee, Ruchika Bhat, Sai Shankar P., Rahul Maitra, Jaiganesh G

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Beyond Scaling Law: A Data-Efficient Distillation Framework for Reasoning

arXiv:2508. 09883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities in tasks such as algorithmic coding and mathematical problem-solving.

By Xiaojun Wu, Xiaoguang Jiang, Huiyang Li, Jucai Zhai, Dengfeng Liu, Qiaobo Hao, Huang Liu, Zhiguo Yang, Ji Xie, Ninglun Gu, Jin Yang, Kailai Zhang, Yelun Bao, Jun Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

$\mu$Flow: Leveraging Average Images for Improving Generalisation of Deepfake Faces Detectors

arXiv:2606. 30528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current generative models, including GANs and diffusion models, have reached an outstanding level of photorealism, posing significant risks to privacy and security.

By Orazio Pontorno, Mattia Litrico, Luca Guarnera, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, Sebastiano Battiato

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Towards Generalizable and Evidential Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Based Molecular Structure Elucidation via Large Language Model Agent

arXiv:2606. 29776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the gold standard for molecular structure elucidation, yet interpreting complex spectra for unknown molecules remains a bottleneck reliant on human expertise.

By Zheng Fang, Chen Yang, Yusen Tan, Yunpeng Zhao, Fanjie Xu, Hongxin Xiang, Hanyu Sun, Hanyu Gao, Xiaojian Wang, Wenjie Du, Yuqiang Li, Jun Xia

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

What Drives the Inlier-Memorization Effect? A Theory of Outlier Detection via Early Training Dynamics

arXiv:2606. 29791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Outlier detection (OD) aims to identify anomalous instances by learning the underlying structure of normal data (inliers), and is particularly challenging in fully unsupervised settings where no information about anomalies is available during training.

By Kunwoong Kim, Dongha Kim

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

DRIFT: A Benchmark for Task-Free Continual Graph Learning with Continuous Distribution Shifts

arXiv:2605. 12998v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual graph learning (CGL) aims to learn from dynamically evolving graphs while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.

By Guiquan Sun, Xikun Zhang, Jingchao Ni, Dongjin Song

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

OptiMUS-0.3: Using Large Language Models to Model and Solve Optimization Problems at Scale

arXiv:2407. 19633v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Optimization problems are pervasive in sectors from manufacturing and distribution to healthcare.

By Ali AhmadiTeshnizi, Wenzhi Gao, Herman Brunborg, Shayan Talaei, Connor Lawless, Madeleine Udell

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

Nonlinear mixture model motivated subspace clustering

arXiv:2606. 29261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We derive the linear union-of-subspaces (UoS) model for subspace clustering (SC) from the nonlinear mixture model (NMM) used in blind source separation (BSS) to represent a D-dimensional observation vector as an unknown multivariate nonlinear mapping of C latent variables.

By Ivica Kopriva

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

CAN We Trust Your Results? A Cross-Dataset Study of Automotive IDS Evaluation

arXiv:2606. 30430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing connectivity of modern vehicles has made securing in-vehicle communication networks a critical challenge.

By Beatrix Koltai, Gergely Acs, Andras Gazdag

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 29431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they remain susceptible to hallucination, generating content inconsistent with the input image.

By Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Fenglai Lin, Yiding Sun, Dongshuo Zhang, Wenya Wang, Lin William Cong, Shanghang Zhang

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