arXiv:2607. 26574v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safety classifiers ("guards") are the dominant black-box defense for vision-language models, yet a guard judges an input's surface form, not its meaning: a harmful request re-encoded as set theory, formal logic, a classical language, code, or text rendered inside an image slips past a guard that would block it in plain language - the decode gap.
By Haoyu Zhang, Zhuoxi Wang, Shibo Zheng, Yi Feng, Xiao Luo, Zijian Xiao, Haowen Xu, Xiangchen Guan, Mohammad Zandsalimy, Shanu Sushmita
arXiv:2606. 22357v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language models are widely used in assistant settings, where controlling behavioral attributes is often essential.
By Narges Ghasemi, Amir Ziashahabi, Salman Avestimehr, Jonathan May
arXiv:2607. 11505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training for large language models typically couples policy exploration with model optimization, hindering the reuse of high-reward behaviors from policy exploration.
By Daocheng Fu, Rong Wu, Yu Yang, Jianbiao Mei, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai, Xuemeng Yang, Yong Liu, Botian Shi, Yu Qiao
arXiv:2605. 12530v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM fairness should be evaluated through in-situ behavioral pattern rather than standardized-test Q&A benchmarks.
By Zeyu Tang, Sang T. Truong, Deonna Owens, Shreyas Sharma, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Brando Miranda, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv:2608. 08964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The generation of mathematically precise diagrams from tex- tual prompts has emerged as a critical yet underexplored capability of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Harish Kashyap, Kiran Byadarhaly, Sriram Chakaravarthy, Sanyukta Tuti, Aryan Mistry
arXiv:2608. 09348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Density estimation underlies many unsupervised tasks on tabular data such as anomaly detection, out-of-distribution detection, and data augmentation.
By Patryk Marsza{\l}ek, Jacek Tabor, Marek \'Smieja
arXiv:2608. 08468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills---structured packages of instructions and scripts that augment LLM-based agents---are rapidly proliferating, yet their security properties remain under-explored.
By Xinze Chen, Chi Zhang, Ping Ji, Yimin Liu
arXiv:2608. 08652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present \LegoLM{}, a structured weight-sharing compression framework for large language models grounded in a systematic study of why global weight sharing fails and how to fix it.
By Joseph Bingham
arXiv:2608. 08722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for systems that are optimized against the evaluation signal measure something different from what they claim.
By V\'ictor Gallego
arXiv:2608. 08829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering edits the behaviour of a frozen language model by adding a learned vector to its residual stream, and current practice fixes the injection layers globally per task.
By Muhammad Faishal Adly Nelwan, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono
arXiv:2608. 08958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tree Search-based test-time scaling of LLMs is a powerful tool for automated scientific coding.
By Xuefei Julie Wang, Hao Cui, Michael P. Brenner, Subhashini Venugopalan
arXiv:2608. 08994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving relevant evidence from noisy web data is challenging, particularly in sensitive domains containing incomplete reports, heterogeneous language, and irrelevant content.
By Joshua Castillo, Santosh Nukavarapu, Ravi Mukkamala
arXiv:2608. 09080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in medical question answering and clinical reasoning tasks.
By Maryam Tahermazandarani, Adnan Mahmood, Fahmida Islam, Quan Z. Sheng
arXiv:2608. 09251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-based multi-agent systems have recently shown strong potential for complex, long-horizon tasks.
By Peiwen Li, Shiyang Zhang, Yangtian Zhang, Sizhuang He, David van Dijk, Rex Ying
arXiv:2608. 09260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have advanced Text-to-SQL by enabling natural language interfaces to databases without task-specific fine-tuning.
By Geonho Lee, Min-Soo Kim
arXiv:2608. 09468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State Space Models (SSMs), as a mainstream research direction of linear Transformers, aim to achieve higher efficiency than standard Transformers in long-context modeling.
By Yu Guo, Lei Duan
arXiv:2608. 09526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world cyberattacks often require sustained progress across multiple hosts and network segments, making multi-hop cyber ranges essential infrastructure for studying and improving LLM agents' ability to sustain complete attack chains.
By Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin, Shaofei Li, Zhan Shen, Pengli Wang, Ziming Wang, Yifeng Cai, Ning Jia, Yuxin Ren, Peng Jiang, Yao Guo, Ding Li
arXiv:2608. 09745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) converts feedback into dense token-level supervision on trajectories generated by the policy to be optimized, providing a useful complement to reinforcement learning with sparse outcome rewards.
By Zhuo Sun, Entong Li, Yanlong Zhao, Xiaoyuan Cheng, Wenxuan Yuan, Kaiyu Li, Che Liu, Huihang Liu, Harrison Bo Hua Zhu, Li Zeng
arXiv:2608. 09930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Text-to-Speech (TTS) evaluation methods (Mean Opinion Score (MOS) predictors and Audio Large Language Models (Audio-LLM) judges) are expected to reflect human perception, yet it is unclear how well they capture the distinct aspects of speech that listeners actually perceive.
By Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah, Lindsay Devon Brin, Hoang H Nguyen, Anke Koelzer, Rachel Hansen, Tara Bogavelli, Fanny Riols
arXiv:2504. 18587v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, as demonstrated by systems such as OpenAI's O1~\cite{o1} and DeepSeek-R1~\cite{r1}.
By Tianbing Xu