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FilingLoop: Evaluating and Evolving LLM Agents for Corporate Disclosure Review and Revision

arXiv:2610.37905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public disclosure repositories such as SEC EDGAR support informed investment through web access to corporate filings. Supporting their review with language model agents requires discovering unstated deficiencies across related documents, acquiring missing company facts, and verifying that requested revisions satisfy evidence-backed requirements. Existing financial question-answering evaluations provide limited evidence of these interactive capabilities. We introduce \textbf{FilingLoop}, an interactive benchmark and a self-evolving agent framework for corporate disclosure review and revision. Grounded in historical U.S.\ Securities and Exchange Commission correspondence, FilingLoop reconstructs 380 predominantly IPO review tasks from 96 compan

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Evaluating and improving AI agents for sequencing protocol understanding

arXiv:2610.37851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing scientific-agent benchmarks rarely evaluate whether agents can reconstruct the exact molecular structures and generation workflows specified by sequencing protocols, a capability critical for analyzing customized sequencing assays. We introduce LibStructBench, a document-grounded benchmark for reconstructing sequencing-library structures and molecular workflows. Our experiments show that frontier agents often produce approximately correct reconstructions but remain unreliable at exact reconstruction, particularly in molecular-state representation and workflow connectivity. Switching the underlying language model produced larger average performance differences than switching agent harnesses, with a statistically significant difference

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FlatCake: A Flat KVCache Storage Architecture for LLM Serving

arXiv:2610.38355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV cache reuse accelerates LLM serving, but existing systems manage host DRAM and NVMe SSD as a tiered hierarchy where DRAM acts as an intermediate cache. Production LLM workloads break both premises of this hierarchy. First, bimodal reuse defeats DRAM temporal filtering, since workloads are dominated either by one-shot blocks with long reuse distances or by multi-gigabyte agentic sessions that exceed DRAM capacity, putting SSD on the critical read path. Second, DRAM staging and eviction-ordered layout bottleneck SSD restoration. Holding host staging buffers for in-flight prefixes causes contention under load that aborts prefetches, while incremental eviction scatters a session's blocks across the SSD and prevents large sequential reads. We p

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Seq@K: Evaluating Language Models Under Sequential Feedback

arXiv:2610.37859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents differ fundamentally from prior intelligent systems in their ability to learn from natural language in context. This capability enables agents to iteratively refine their answers in response to feedback, a prevalent mode of operation in modern agentic workflows. However, the community primarily ranks models by metrics such as Pass@1 or Pass@K, which cannot capture how they utilize feedback on prior attempts. We introduce Seq@K, a natural evaluation protocol that measures whether a model can solve a problem within K sequential attempts, provided feedback after each previous failure. Unlike multi-turn agentic benchmarks that examine long-horizon planning, Seq@K isolates and formalizes the core capability of refinement from

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KORA: Deterministic-First Execution Control for AI Workloads

arXiv:2610.35869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI applications often invoke a model before they determine whether inference is necessary. That default is useful for ambiguous generative tasks, but it is poorly matched to work that is structured, deterministic, policy-bound, lookup-oriented, or directly verifiable. KORA introduces deterministic-first execution control: a pre-inference control layer that represents requests as task paths, attempts deterministic or structured routes first, validates route outcomes, records telemetry, and escalates to a model-candidate path only when deterministic handling is insufficient. This paper presents KORA as a deterministic-first execution-control architecture and reports bounded evidence from reproducible benchmark and validation workloads. In a rep

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Async-RBench: Benchmarking Asynchronous Task Execution in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.32429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly execute tasks asynchronously: a main agent continues working while its subagents run, and the task state may change before their results arrive. The main agent must decide which work to update or preserve and which checks to repeat, while avoiding prohibited changes. Final task success alone does not reveal whether these results were handled correctly, and natural asynchronous arrivals are hard to reproduce. We introduce Async-RBench, a benchmark for asynchronous task execution in LLM agents, with 200 executable tasks covering eight scenarios. A scenario controller regulates result delivery using predefined task-state conditions, while an Event Response Contract (ERC) specifies what each response

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Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB: A Hybrid Vision-Language Model for Local AI

arXiv:2610.33039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer vision-language model that optimizes speed and intelligence per GB of memory used for local agentic workloads. Derived from the Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B model family, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB combines Star Elastic compression with 2-bit Quantization-Aware Distillation for memory-constrained deployment. The model is optimized for reasoning, agentic tool use, and web & terminal interactions. We also trained a LiLiCorr speculative drafter that is released alongside the model to reach our target inference speed. The resulting model achieves a higher accuracy than leading models with similar memory footprints and speed across many benchmarks for general agentic ca

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Beyond Gain: Measuring Skill Internalization for Agent Skill Retirement

arXiv:2610.32322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents retrieve skills from public hubs that hold up to about 100,000 entries and serve many models. As models improve, a hub must find the skills a given model has internalized, meaning it can do without them, and retire them for that model, yet internalization has not been measured with known reliability. Published rules that compare runs with and without a skill retire on the gain alone. The gain is near zero both for an internalized skill and when neither the model nor the skill delivers the capability, a state we call uncovered. We instead withhold the skill, score the model on a task synthesized from it, and trust a high unaided score only when another model gains from the skill, since nearly half of high scores come from tasks no m

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Solvent: Long-Horizon Reasoning for Multi-Step Retrosynthesis

arXiv:2610.32308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step retrosynthesis requires recursively transforming a target molecule through successive reaction steps into purchasable building blocks, and recent work has begun to draw on large language model (LLM) reasoning to tackle the task. In its latest evolution, LLM reasoning has entered the long-horizon regime: models pursue objectives across interdependent steps, interact with environments, and adapt to feedback. This shift has markedly advanced LLM capabilities, as illustrated by breakthroughs in AI-driven mathematical research. At this frontier, we introduce Solvent, an 8B LLM that successfully extends long-horizon reasoning to multi-step retrosynthesis. Through a two-round post-training curriculum, Solvent learns to interleave iterativ

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DMAIC-Bench: From Self-Reflection to Self-Restraint for Agents in Multi-Stage Analytical Tasks

arXiv:2610.32305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-stage analytical tasks require LLM agents to use intermediate evidence to decide whether to continue, redirect or stop. Self-reflection, in which an agent critiques its output, is widely studied, yet a critique does not show whether evidence changed the next action. We call that capability self-restraint. Existing agent benchmarks largely measure task completion or output quality and leave it untested. DMAIC-Bench evaluates it with 97 seeded tasks across 15 industrial cases in four sectors, built around Lean Six Sigma's explicit statistical prerequisites. Paired counterfactual variants require opposite actions at the same workflow position, distinguishing warranted restraint from indiscriminate stopping. We assess execution traces with

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LeafSkill: Efficient Leaf-Level Action Grounding for Recursive LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.32412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive large language model (LLM) agents solve long-horizon tasks through decomposition, execution, and environmental feedback. Yet after producing an atomic subtask, they often invoke the same large model again to translate a familiar instruction into an executable action. We observe that high-level planning is task-specific, whereas leaf-level action grounding recurs across tasks and can be checked against environment-admitted actions. We introduce LeafSkill, an external reuse layer that retrieves semantically related grounding experience, binds action templates to current objects and admissible actions, and uses a lightweight 1.7B selector to choose a bound action or defer the unchanged subtask to the original agent. Skills remain outsi

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A Unified Queueing-Based Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Serverless Autoscaling Strategies under Bursty Workloads

arXiv:2610.35564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serverless computing platforms must preserve quality of service (QoS) while adapting to highly bursty and unpredictable workloads. To cope with workload fluctuations while satisfying QoS requirements and service-level agreements (SLAs), these platforms rely on automatic resource scaling. Commercial function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms employ different autoscaling strategies to dynamically adjust the number of active function instances and the available processing capacity. In this work, three representative autoscaling strategies are modeled and compared: scale-per-request (SPR), concurrencylevel scaling (CLS), and metric-based scaling (MBS). To enable systematic evaluation independent of proprietary platform-specific implementations, we de

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Prefix Keys and Values Matter Late: RIPE Caching for Self-Speculative Decoding in Looped Language Models

arXiv:2610.34436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A looped language model runs one block of layers $R$ times per token, so its key-value (KV) cache holds $R$ planes per recurrent layer, and self-speculative decoding (draft with a few loops, verify with all $R$) reads them all. We find that prefix keys and values matter late: at equal perturbation size, loops 25-32 are $e^{15.0}$ (Huginn-0125) and $e^{12.8}$ (Raven-Llama) times more sensitive than loops 2-9, and the planes approach the last one geometrically, at 0.88 and 0.81 per loop. Whether the deepest plane alone suffices then depends on how ripe the late planes are: on Raven, storing only it is indistinguishable from a bf16-to-fp32 change; on Huginn, 1% of positions carry 74% of its error. We turn this into RIPE, which stores the deepest

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RSI-Opt: Recursive Self-Improvement Optimizer Agents For Model Training

arXiv:2610.32026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional neural-network training typically follows a predefined optimization recipe, motivating a LLM agent that monitors training dynamics and adjusts optimizer settings as training progresses, but a fixed agent policy does not accumulate experience across runs. We introduce RSI-Opt, a plug-and-play Recursive Self-Improvement Optimizer Agents which evolves the knowledge that guides this process: a prompt, a playbook of procedures, a library of tested optimizer code, and a decision cadence. A meta-agent rewrites this policy using evidence from earlier runs, and an archive retains evaluated policies for further evolution. Across 5 generations on three training tasks, the meta-agents develop reusable procedures and code and conduct their ow

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$\Psi$-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language World Model

arXiv:2610.32177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans reason about the physical world by flexibly combining different forms of inference as a problem unfolds. Achieving this flexibility is a major open challenge in AI: capabilities often remain separated across specialized models, limiting how they can be composed and jointly adapted to a task. We introduce $\Psi$-0.6, a unified vision-language world model that adaptively composes perception, language, geometry, and simulation within a shared reasoning process we call streams of thought. These streams interleave images, text, and explicit representations of geometry and motion, all of which the model can generate and interpret through a shared token interface. $\Psi$-0.6 surpasses leading open-weight models zero-shot on multi-view spatial

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DirCast: Live Esports Directing and Commentary with a Single Streaming Video-Language Model

arXiv:2610.31734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A live esports broadcast needs a director who chooses which camera goes on air and a caster who talks over that choice, every second and without knowing what comes next. Streaming video language models have learned to commentate, but only over a broadcast that a human director has already produced. We study live broadcast production, in which a model receives the raw camera of every player and must both direct and commentate from the past alone. We present DirCast, a single streaming video language model that does both. Every second it scans all cameras at low resolution, decides with a hold-or-switch director whether and where to cut, and reads the chosen camera at high resolution before it speaks. Its context keeps what went on air and what

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InferSlice: A Reference Architecture for SLO-driven LLM Inference over a Telco Wide-Area Network

arXiv:2610.32638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM inference is increasingly deployed as a core service for enterprise and interactive applications, but sovereignty, compliance, latency and resource-locality requirements can limit the suitability of centralised cloud deployments. Telco operators offer geographically distributed compute and network infrastructure for addressing these constraints. However, existing LLM serving frameworks are designed for tightly coupled data centres and provide limited support for coordinating geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources. We present InferSlice, a reference architecture for Service-Level Objective (SLO)-driven LLM inference over a telco infrastructure, integrating network slicing, GPU partitioning, elastic serving and observability

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Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads

arXiv:2610.32632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RISC-V is emerging as a candidate architecture for high-performance computing (HPC), but its competitiveness against established x86 and Arm processors remains difficult to assess because existing studies use different platforms, workloads, and methodologies, and rarely consider energy efficiency. Our work provides an evaluation of contemporary HPC RISC-V, Arm, and x86 processors using a common software stack and methodology. We characterize the Sophgo SG2044 and compare it with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ across four HPC benchmarks (STREAM, HPL, HPL-MxP, and HPCG) and four representative applications (iPIC3D, PLUTO, OpenFOAM, and llama.cpp). The version of HPL-MxP linked to OpenBLAS built and used for this wo

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Beyond On-Policy vs. Off-Policy: At What Level Should LLM Agent Distillation Follow the Student?

arXiv:2610.31918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling interactive LLM agents requires choosing between teacher-generated demonstrations and student-generated experience, corresponding broadly to off-policy and on-policy distillation. While both have proven effective, we argue that this distinction is inherently hierarchical: the policy that induces an interaction history need not be the same as the policy that generates the token prefix of the current action. We introduce a hierarchical agent distillation framework that formalizes these two levels of on-policiness and enables explicit control over their pairing, mixture proportions, and training schedule. We study this problem through self-distillation, where a frozen teacher has access to task guidance unavailable to the student, and

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BARC-Bench: Benign Asks, Risky Consequences

arXiv:2610.32024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task instructions from users for agents are inherently underspecified, especially regarding safety boundaries--creating behavioral risks. To study these risks, we introduce BARC-Bench, a collection of 110 tasks across nine simulated workspace environments where benign requests leave openings for unsafe actions. In this benchmark, we evaluate agent behavior against safety boundaries established by workspace records, implicit environmental context, and unstated social norms. For example, an agent asked to schedule off-boarding discussions must arrange the meeting without prematurely revealing an employee's resignation through a shared calendar invitation. Evaluating four frontier model configurations across five attempts per task reveals that m

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