arXiv:2609.38296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can influence people’s beliefs, yet little is known about whether and how…
AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks
arXiv:2609.38288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AREX-2, an effort to advance the self-improving capability of LLM agents, which we define as…
Improving OCR Faithfulness via Gated and Attenuated On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.38282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models may rewrite anomalous text in images into linguistically plausible expressions,…
CARAT: Do Materials LLMs Reason or Recite?
arXiv:2609.38340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a materials LLM answers a question about crystal structure, does it reason from the structure or copy…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-10-01 06h : 12 posts
12 posts published in the last hour 03:32Estimation of Room Impulse Responses from Handclaps 03:32Position: Let’s Strengthen Verifiability If We Can’t Enforce Reproducibility 03:32When Should LLMs Trust Their Own Revisions? A Risk-Aware Study of Intrinsic Self-Correction 03:32Mara Chain: Rethinking Failure…
Estimation of Room Impulse Responses from Handclaps
arXiv:2609.35839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Handclaps provide an equipment-free excitation for room acoustics, but their unknown and variable source…
Position: Let’s Strengthen Verifiability If We Can’t Enforce Reproducibility
arXiv:2609.35854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the field of Machine Learning, many papers contain empirical results supporting claimed statements or…
When Should LLMs Trust Their Own Revisions? A Risk-Aware Study of Intrinsic Self-Correction
arXiv:2609.35832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrinsic self-correction asks a language model to revise its own answer without receiving new external…
Mara Chain: Rethinking Failure as a Stepping Stone for AI System Auto-Evolution
arXiv:2609.35855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizing deployed AI systems increasingly amounts to editing prompts, skills, harnesses, and code…
Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence
Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded…
Beyond Rule-Based Mutation Testing: Test-Aware Mutant Generation Using Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.35841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mutation testing evaluates test-suite adequacy by injecting synthetic faults into program code. However,…
Constructing Challenging Browser-Use Tasks by Controlled Environment Interventions
arXiv:2609.35814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As browser-use agents improve, benchmarks keep pace by collecting new tasks, websites, and applications,…
How to Run Statistics over LLM Judges and Trust the Results: Calibrated Inference for Small-Sample AI Evaluation with evalstats
arXiv:2609.35815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers across academia increasingly base significance claims on LLM judge scores and small-sample…
Less Uniform Discrete Diffusion is More Powerful and Scalable
arXiv:2609.35817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although uniform diffusion language models (UDLMs) represent a promising diffusion paradigm, scaling…
PrimeSeeker: Capability-Oriented Supervision for Deep Search Agents
arXiv:2609.35816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model search agents are often trained with synthetic questions whose difficulty is…
$\tau$-Multilingual: Benchmarking Voice Agents Across Languages
arXiv:2609.35820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: English-only benchmarks expose only a narrow slice of voice-agent behavior. We introduce…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-10-01 05h : 11 posts
11 posts published in the last hour 02:32TRACE: Deployable Tree-Relational Structure Enhancement for Oncology LLMs 02:32When Successful Memories Mislead Embodied Agents:Memory Adaption For Task-Conditioned Execution 02:32Can Multimodal Large Language Models Generate and Detect Multimodal Social Media Fake News? 02:32Lookahead-R: Budget-Aware…
TRACE: Deployable Tree-Relational Structure Enhancement for Oncology LLMs
arXiv:2609.35810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in oncology applications, but their predictions are often…