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arXiv AI
Jun 30

Whose Side Is Your Agent On? Multi-Party Principal Loyalty in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 30383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A rapidly growing class of LLM agents is multi-party: the agent acts for a principal (who briefs it, sends follow-ups, and receives results) while also conversing in a separate channel with a counterparty whose interests may diverge (negotiating with a vendor, screening inbound requests, or mediating between employees).

By Bojie Li, Noah Shi
arXiv AI
Jun 30

UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606. 29502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill memories can improve agentic reinforcement learning by reusing past experience as textual guidance, but retrieved skills are not oracular: they may help in one state while misleading the same policy in another.

By Songjun Tu, Chengdong Xu, Qichao Zhang, Yiwen Ma, Yaocheng Zhang, Linjing Li, Dong Li, Xiangyuan Lan, Dongbin Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

A Dual-domain Refinement Network with FBP-based Jacobian Learning for Sparse-view Dual-Energy CT Material Decomposition

Dual-energy CT (DECT) exploits attenuation differences across different X-ray spectra to provide richer material information and has been widely used in medical imaging. While sparse-view acquisition can lower radiation exposure, it makes DECT material decomposition even more challenging, as the problem is nonlinear and ill-posed.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Neural Subspace Reallocation: Continual Learning as Retrieval-Based Subspace Memory Management

We introduce Neural Subspace Reallocation (NSR), which reframes continual learning as memory management over parameter subspaces. Instead of treating Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) modules as disposable per-task adapters, NSR manages them as compressible, retrievable memory units on a frozen backbone through a recurring cycle: (1) compress learned LoRAs via SVD, (2) reserve them in a TaskKnowledgeBank, (3) recall related past LoRAs by embedding similarity to warm-start new or returning tasks, and (4) reallocate the active subspace accordingly, with distillation protecting prior tasks.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Cross-Modal Iteration Distillation for Robust IHD Screening: The IDNet Framework and A New Benchmark

Color Fundus Photography (CFP) offers a low-cost and non-invasive route for ischemic heart disease (IHD) screening, but current studies are limited by scarce public benchmarks and ineffective fusion of retinal images with sparse clinical variables. We propose IDNet, a multimodal framework with a Cross-Modal Distillation Aggregator (CDA) that uses learnable queries to sequentially integrate left-eye, right-eye, and clinical features, mitigating the imbalance between high-dimensional visual features and low-dimensional tabular inputs.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Atompack: A Storage and Distribution Layer for Read-Heavy Atomistic ML Training Datasets

Atomistic machine learning datasets are increasingly used for training: large immutable snapshots are read repeatedly, shuffled across epochs, staged across clusters' storage systems, and republished as reusable scientific artifacts. This workload differs from interactive scientific curation, where mutable records and ad hoc inspection are often more important than random indexed throughput.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Variance Reduction on the Camera Axis: Multi-View Score Distillation for 3D

Score distillation turns a pretrained 2D diffusion model into a 3D generator, but the per-step gradient is estimated from a single randomly chosen view: it is high-variance and blind to global shape consistency. Prior work addresses this by retraining the diffusion prior on multi-view data; this improves consistency but makes the sampling contribution inseparable from prior quality.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

ARKD: Adaptive Reinforcement Learning-Guided Bidirectional KL Divergence Distillation for Text Generation

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing Large Language Models (LLMs), yet methods relying on a single KL objective often fail to balance primary distribution fitting with long-tail probability modeling, limiting both generation quality and generalization. To address this, we analyze the complementary roles of forward and reverse KL divergence (FKL/RKL) in distribution alignment from theoretical and empirical perspectives.