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Model releases, architecture work and prompting research on large language models — from frontier-lab announcements to the arXiv papers behind them.

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arXiv AI
Aug 5

Should We Type or Talk to LLM Agents? A Comprehensive Study of Voice and Keyboard Input Perturbations

arXiv:2608. 03970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human input reaches language models by typing or speaking, and each channel leaves a distinct signature: orthographic noise for keyboards; for voice, disfluency from conventional transcription and restructuring from AI-backed dictation tools.

By Zizhao Hu, Nathan Elijah Segura, Mohammad Rostami, Jesse Thomason
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ReflectRL: Learning from Golden Negative Trajectories via Reflective-to-Direct Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 03972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy training has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, and is often enhanced by golden trajectories from stronger expert models.

By Jinhe Bi, Chennan Zhou, Zengjie Jin, Aniri, Shuo Lu, Wenke Huang, Hu Cao, Xun Xiao, Zhihong Zhu, Volker Tresp, Fei Shen, Yunpu Ma, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Preferred, Not Safer: Pairwise Preference Is a Poor Proxy for Clinical Safety

arXiv:2608. 02617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We evaluate whether clinician pairwise preferences provide a reliable signal of clinical safety in large language model (LLM) evaluation using expert feedback from MOOVE (Massive Open Online Validation and Evaluation), a clinician-led platform collecting blinded pairwise preferences alongside multi-criterion rubric ratings.

By Fay Elhassan, David Sasu, Alexandra Kulinkina, Lars Henning Klein, Mary-Anne Hartley
arXiv AI
Aug 5

CUADebug: Diagnosing and Repairing Computer-Use Agent Failures

arXiv:2608. 02643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) operate real desktop and web interfaces through screenshots, mouse and keyboard actions, and stateful UI feedback, yet their failures remain difficult to diagnose and repair.

By Weijia Zhang, Kunlun Zhu, Zeyi Liu, Yinting Chen, Tianyi Ma, Jiateng Liu, Jiaxun Zhang, Bingxuan Li, Xiangru Tang, Heng Ji, Jiaxuan You
arXiv AI
Aug 5

MDArena: Evaluating Coding Agents on Realistic Molecular Dynamics Workflows

arXiv:2608. 02642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accelerating scientific discovery is among the most consequential applications of AI, and computational biomolecular simulation stands out as a particularly promising target within this broader effort.

By Nithishwer Mouroug Anand, Wei-Tse Hsu, Kyle Vaccaro, Eden James Gage, Jonathan David Colburn, Linda Xi Phan, Minjoon Seo, Kevin Guan, Philip C. Biggin
arXiv AI
Aug 5

IR2Solve: Structured Intermediate Representations for Cost-Efficient Optimization Autoformulation

arXiv:2608. 02641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver-ready formulations, but direct code generation is brittle: schema, indexing, and semantic errors can cause compilation failures, infeasible models, or incorrect objectives, while iterative repair, search, and multi-agent workflows increase inference cost.

By Penglin Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Jungang Xu, Xinchi Wei, Xiuqi Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Don't Regenerate, Debug: A Domain-Specific Agent for Repairing Near-Miss Hardware Operators

arXiv:2608. 02712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kernel generation for hardware accelerators such as GPUs and NPUs has become a proving ground for large language models (LLMs), and state-of-the-art systems raise correctness through pipelines that couple LLMs with agentic reinforcement learning and evolutionary search.

By Yansong Sun, Shenxiu Wu, Siyuan Chen, Runlin Hou, Junhao Qiu, Junming Cao, Shudi Shao, Zhichao Lu, Qingfu Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608. 02958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies trained by behavior cloning fail silently: from the action stream alone, a collapsing rollout looks much like one making clean progress, because imitation supplies no notion of progress.

By Inkyu Sa, Konstantin Stulov, Rajat Bhageria