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#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

BENCHCOMPASS: From Scores to Signals for Training and Harness Decisions in Payment-Domain LLMs

Payment operations are a critical financial infrastructure, but the value of large language models in this domain remains unclear because payment rules change quickly, evidence is fragmented, and decisions depend on transaction state, participant role, region, and payment rail. Existing benchmarks do not isolate whether failures come from missing payment-rule knowledge, poor use of supplied evidence, or brittleness under imperfect harness inputs. We introduce BENCHCOMPASS, a payment-domain benchmark whose construction pipeline builds scenario-grounded tasks from typed evidence packs, applies LLM-based quality checks, creates task-input attack variants, and reserves final item admission for domain experts. The release contains an expert-reviewed Pro benchmark covering payment knowledge, context-grounded scenario reasoning, and Attacked Open robustness, plus a lower-assurance Normal pool for inspection and future curation. Across 16 model variants, BENCHCOMPASS shows qualitatively different failure modes: missing parametric payment knowledge, incomplete reasoning over supplied rules, and failure to reject plausible but invalid workflows. The benchmark remains unsaturated: the best frontier model reaches 89.6% on Open Context-Grounded Reasoning and 81.7% under attacked inputs, while a representative 32B open-weight model reaches 69.8% and 42.6%. Benchmark data and code are available at https://github.com/ant-intl/BenchCompass.

Si-Jie Dong, Wei-Feng Ren, Xuan-Wei Hu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

ARC: Fair Relative Advantage Comparison in Open-Ended Real-World Interaction

Open-ended real-world interaction admits multiple valid behaviors: an agent may answer directly, ask for clarification, provide progress updates, or confirm before acting. This flexibility breaks a core assumption behind group-based RL: rollouts compared within a group are no longer guaranteed to be behaviorally comparable. As a result, reward-model preferences over interaction style can distort relative advantages and steer optimization toward reward-preferred behaviors rather than context-appropriate ones. We formalize this as a \textit{reward fairness problem} and propose \textbf{ARC} (Advantage Regularization via Conditioning), a training recipe that restores fairer relative comparison through strategy-conditioned rollout grouping, together with hybrid rewards and entropy regularization. We study ARC in our proposed \inter, a novel paradigm for responsive, steerable, and execution-aware user-agent interaction that decouples user-visible communication from latent reasoning and tool use. \inter\ also provides the annotation and distillation pipeline for constructing \inter-86K, our strategy-annotated training corpus for supervised and RL training. Empirically, ARC substantially strengthens the core $\tau/\tau^2$ tool-use benchmarks, while \inter\ reduces time-to-first-token from 4.91s to 1.27s relative to a think-style baseline. Together, these results suggest that a central bottleneck in open-ended interactive learning is not only how agents are rewarded, but whether their behaviors are compared fairly in the first place. The ARC implementation and \inter-86K training data will be released.

Yongqi Tong, Tan Li Hui Faith, C. Marcus et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Ask, Condition or Abstain: Reinforcement Learning for Missing-Premise Reasoning

ACA-RL supports a new mission for NLP evaluation: measuring whether models can recognize when a task is underdetermined and handle uncertainty, not only whether they can answer fully specified questions.

Yong-Qi Tong, Zhenyu Zhang, Zimou Liu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

STAGE: Controlled Objective Admission for Multi-Preference LLM Alignment

This work proposes \methodname, a stability-guided active-set controller for controlled objective admission, a stability-guided active-set controller for controlled objective admission in reward-vector RLHF, which positions objective-entry timing as a concrete control variable in reward-vector RLHF.

Yong-Qi Tong, Z. Zhang, Ruirui Wang et al. · 0 citations

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