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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 Computer Vision
6d ago

Artemis: Geometry-Grounded Multi-Agent Driving World Models with Shared 3D State and Progressive Memory Update

arXiv:2610.07031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video world models have witnessed the paradigm shift from single-agent to multi-agent involvements, which can reveal more complicated dynamics a...

By Sitian Shen, Jiuming Liu, Mengmeng Liu, Yian Wang, Michael Ying Yang, Francesco Nex, Hao Cheng, Daniele De Martini, Ayush Tewari, Per Ola Kristensson
arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

World Models' Last Exam in Physics

arXiv:2610.08791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models can produce visually convincing yet physically inconsistent sequences, raising concerns about their reliability for prediction and p...

By Mingju Gao, Qingle Liu, Yuzhao Peng, Xinjie Lin, Ziming Qin, Zheng Jiang, Wenyi Li, Calvin Xiao, Youjie Zheng, Kaisen Yang, Qinhuai Na
arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models

arXiv:2610.07922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future prediction with robot control, yet existing systems often vary the video backbone, interaction structure, su...

By Heng Yu, David D. Yuan, Juze Zhang, Changan Chen, Yao Feng, Michelle Baldonado, Steve Cousins, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

Extending Music Annotation Schemas: Zero-Shot Prediction or Few-Shot Adaptation?

The paper investigates how to extend music annotation schemas when new attributes need to be added to commercial music catalogs. It compares zero‑shot prediction using audio‑language models, learning from pretrained representations, and supervised adaptation on existing annotations, using a benchmark built on the MGPHot dataset. The findings show that supervised adaptation outperforms zero‑shot prediction even with limited annotation budgets, while reusing frozen representations remains the best option for very modest budgets.

By Christos Plachouras, Emmanouil Benetos, Johan Pauwels
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

SkillFormer: Skill-Decomposed Adaptation for Audio Language Models

SkillFormer is a method for audio language models that decomposes audio understanding into skill‑specific low‑rank adapters and uses a learned router to activate the appropriate adapters at inference time. The router selects which adapters to engage based on the question, allowing different parameters to be used for tasks such as pitch comparison versus genre classification. An alternating training schedule updates each adapter on its own skill cluster before jointly calibrating the router, reducing gradient conflicts and adding fewer than 4% of the base model’s parameters. The approach improves average accuracy by 2.5 to 4.1 points across three distinct models on MMSU, MMAU‑Pro, and MMAR, achieving balanced gains across perception, reasoning, and semantic subcategories.

By Lee Seung-woo, Bowen Qi, Kim Min-jun, Jang Won-young
arXiv AI
6d ago

Principles that Guide, Actions that Inform: Agent Evolution via Knowledge Abstraction

The paper introduces SAGA, a framework that enables large language model agents to evolve by abstracting experiences into reusable principles, procedures, and episodic descriptions. SAGA transforms interaction trajectories into hierarchical knowledge with explicit applicability conditions, linking them back to execution evidence. Experiments on ScienceWorld and ALFWorld show that this execution–abstraction feedback loop improves task performance, and ablation studies confirm the importance of contextual instantiation and action regulation.

By Bowen Ye, Yongchao Xu, Junkai Ma, Xiang Yin, Wenzhao Li
arXiv AI
6d ago

Small Language Models for Smart Data Model Classification at the Edge: A Cost-Aware Hybrid Approach

The paper introduces a cost‑aware hybrid approach that uses small, open‑source language models to classify smart data models (SDMs) in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. It benchmarks general‑purpose, reasoning‑specialized, and code‑specialized models across domain‑specific datasets, highlighting their suitability for edge devices with limited resources. The study also compares these lightweight models to large language models and near‑zero‑cost baselines such as TF‑IDF and a lightweight sentence encoder to demonstrate practical performance gains.

By Cristian Martella, Angelo Martella, Antonella Longo, Motaz Saad