Context managers summarize or evict old messages so agents can operate beyond a finite window. This creates a reliability problem: removing history that still shapes the model's computation may change later actions, while retaining everything defeats compression. We study plans because agents create them early and are...
Tool-using LLM agents make early choices about what to search for, which evidence to trust, and what to do next. A wrong early choice can steer every later tool call, so an agent may produce a coherent but incorrect result. Existing evaluation does not reveal this process: final-answer scoring comes only after completi...
While RL has become a promising tool for refining world models, existing methods largely rely on conservative rollouts near the training distribution, limiting exploration, behavioral diversity, and richer dynamic discovery. In this work, we challenge this conservative paradigm. We argue that the core limitation is not...
Production LLM agents increasingly depend on real-time search, yet native search grounding bundles retrieval policy, provider choice, evidence injection, cost, latency, and generation behavior behind a single model-provider boundary. This coupling makes grounding hard to inspect, tune, reuse, or port, and can trigger S...
As Large Language Model based agents enter autonomous scientific research, their ability to resist pseudoscience becomes increasingly important. Otherwise, such systems may rapidly generate plausible yet misleading studies that contaminate academic literature and erode trust in science. We present PseudoBench, an adver...
Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Huacan Liu et al.· 0 citations
Standard accuracy metrics cannot explain why LLMs handle variable tracking but fail on semantically equivalent loops. We study an internal lifecycle of code reasoning in which models first brew the answer, making it linearly recoverable many layers before it becomes self-decodable, and then diverge into one of four res...
Siyue Chen, Yifu Guo, Yuquan Lu et al.· 0 citations
The results suggest that generative engine optimization (GEO) should be studied not only as a security risk, but also as an emerging marketing practice that shapes market competition.
World model has emerged as a powerful paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling agents to represent their environments, predict future states, and evaluate possible actions before acting. However, existing world models have largely been developed for visual or physical domains such as computer vision, robotics, gam...
Feature engineering remains a cornerstone of tabular data analysis, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for its automation, giving rise to LLM-powered Automated Tabular Feature Engineering (LATTE). However, the field lacks standardized, cost-aware evaluation platforms, and the combinat...
On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a central post-training tool for large language models (LLMs), providing dense per-token teacher supervision along the student's own rollouts. In this work, we identify a common structural cause underlying OPD, which we call prefix failure. Under prefix failure, dense per-token s...
Li Jiang, Haoran Xu, Yichuan Ding et al.· 0 citations
Single-edit updates in large language models can trigger ripple effects across local knowledge neighborhoods: desirable propagation to related facts and unintended perturbation of preserved ones. Existing methods address these two effects separately, without explicitly modeling their coupling. We challenge this separat...
Haoben Huang, Shuxin Liu, Ou Wu et al.· 0 citations
LLM-based Web agents are increasingly deployed on edge servers to carry out long-horizon tasks on behalf of users with low latency. However, the lightweight models that fit on edge servers often struggle with long-horizon tasks that require persistent memory, subgoal tracking, and reflection. Fine-tuning edge models af...
Yannan Wang, Longli Yang, Zhen Liu et al.· 0 citations