arXiv:2604. 09297v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to configure coding agents for software engineering (SE) tasks, yet current practice treats them as static, hand-crafted assets, or evolved on pass rate alone.
By Jingzhi Gong, Ruizhen Gu, Zhiwei Fei, Yazhuo Cao, Lukas Twist, Alina Geiger, Shuo Han, Dominik Sobania, Federica Sarro, Jie M. Zhang
arXiv:2608. 06253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metabolomics knowledge is distributed across heterogeneous resources and remains difficult to translate into predictive representations.
By Dohyun Ku, Min Gu Kwak, Francisco J. Pasquel, Jing Li
arXiv:2608. 05232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The work of Tang et.
By Patrizia Kaye
arXiv:2608. 05161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs are deployed into environments where domains evolve, yet extending a fine-tuned model's capabilities without full retraining remains an unsolved practical challenge.
By Josh McGiff, Salma Mekaoui, Robert Shanahan, Nikola S. Nikolov
arXiv:2608. 06310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in reward modeling show a paradigm shift from discriminative reward models to generative reward models.
By Chenglong Wang, Ziming Zhu, Yifu Huo, Bei Li, Qiaozhi He, Yan Ding, Xiaoyang Hao, Yuxin Gao, Tianhua Zhou, Xiaojia Chang, Tongran Liu, Jingbo Zhu
arXiv:2608. 05367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual analysis aims to predict potential outcomes under hypothetical scenarios, offering valuable insights for decision-making.
By Zonghao Yang
arXiv:2608. 06202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) benchmark evaluations are routinely used to support claims about model safety, reliability, and deployment readiness.
By Ro Encarnaci\'on, Tina Behzad, Emma Lurie, Dana\'e Metaxa
arXiv:2608. 05371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models learn latent states that summarize interaction histories, evolve over time, and support prediction, simulation, or planning.
By Hailong Jiang, Emran Hossain, Feng Yu, Jianfeng Zhu, Guilin Zhang, Wulan Guo
arXiv:2608. 06004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) are currently the best approach to tabular prediction problems.
By Christian Kl\"otergens, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Tom Hanika
arXiv:2608. 05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose large language model agents have achieved strong performance on tool-augmented tasks, yet they rely on assumptions break down in blockchain environments.
By Jiacheng Wei, Zhaoxin Fan, Xin Wen, Yuqin Lan, Dongrun Li, Wenjun Wu, Faguo Wu, Xiao Zhang
arXiv:2608. 05643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling improves LLM reasoning by using additional inference compute, but wider sampling alone can suffer from diminishing returns: new rollouts often repeat existing answer patterns instead of adding useful reasoning diversity.
By Ahsan Bilal, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Lena Trigg, Ali Subhan, Muhammad Ali, Dean F. Hougen
arXiv:2608. 05872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Large Language Models (LLMs) execute layers sequentially.
By Pawe{\l} Batorski, Abtin Pourhadi, Akylgali Aitaza, Przemys{\l}aw Spurek, Paul Swoboda
arXiv:2608. 06197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents for long-horizon tool use typically relies on interactions with real or synthesized executable environments, whose construction and verification are costly, or on external simulators that are difficult to ground.
By Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Yifu Guo, Zhengxi Lu, Yuquan Lu, Jinyang Huang, Yan Xu, Yasheng Wang, Weinan Zhang, Xingshan Zeng, Weiwen Liu
arXiv:2502. 14671v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) representations are known to align with brain activity during language processing, but it remains unclear what drives this alignment.
By Maryam Rahimi, Mohammad Reza Daliri, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
arXiv:2608. 06135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude are widely used for information retrieval and problem-solving.
By Anjali Gangadhar Katageria, Shobha Rani, Raghu Nandan Sengupta
arXiv:2608. 05734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subliminal Learning (SL) is a surprising type of generalization displayed by modern language models.
By Ethan Hadley, Eren Gultepe
arXiv:2608. 06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to \textit{syntactic structure}.
By Haris Riaz, Hyungji Kim, Mihai Surdeanu
arXiv:2608. 06115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting how a population will answer a new question is a long-standing goal.
By Pranav Dahiya
arXiv:2608. 06301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration code surrounding them.
By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya, Shehab Yasser, Vijay S. Kalmath, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue
arXiv:2608. 03228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing low rank KV cache methods preserve either model weights or key variance, neither of which directly reflects the attention scores used during inference.
By Lin Zhang