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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Exploit or conform? How norm utility prompting changes the way LLMs use community beliefs

arXiv:2611.04048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) serve both as tools for aiding human decision-making in everyday life and as models of human agents in experimental simulation studies. Alignment on prototypical social decisions -- such as whether to cooperate on a collective action -- therefore has immediate practical consequences for researchers and for society at large.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Recursa: Toward Recursively Self-Improving Foundation Model Systems

arXiv:2611.04035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models in changing environments can encounter unfamiliar domain knowledge that their original training did not cover. However, new domains rarely provide large amounts of expert-created training data or reliable supervisory signals for further training.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

ROCm InferaSim: Cut LLM Serving Trial Costs and Deploy the Best Configuration

arXiv:2611.04032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serving an LLM efficiently depends on the engine, how the model is split across GPUs, precision, scheduler settings, speculative decoding, KV-cache management, and prefill-decode disaggregation. The best configuration depends on the model, hardware, workload, and objective. Operators usually find it by trial and error.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Controlling Action-Head Co-Adaptation to VLM Representation Anisotropy

arXiv:2611.04006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern learning systems increasingly combine pretrained models with downstream heads. Despite the growing importance of such modular designs, how the downstream model co-adapts to the geometry of pretrained representations remains relatively underexplored.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

A Guideline-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework for Personalized Exercise Prescription from Clinical and Wearable Data

arXiv:2611.03983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Translating population-level exercise guidance into individualized prescriptions requires integrating clinical and wearable data, including diagnoses, medications, functional limitations, and baseline activity, with condition-specific recommendations, a process difficult to scale beyond specialist rehabilitation settings.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

What Is This Memory Useful For? Measuring Task-Conditioned Utility in Long-Term Agent Memory

arXiv:2611.03930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A stored experience may answer one future question and offer little help with another. We measure this task-conditioned utility rather than assigning each memory a single importance score. A task-blind writer stores a memory without seeing the later task; a frozen reader then answers that task with and without the memory, using identical filler.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

ProofPaths: An AI Agent Framework for Assessing Student Reasoning

arXiv:2611.03882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Students can use large language models to complete assignments, but a correct solution does not establish whether they understand the reasoning behind it. Individualized interviews can probe that understanding but require recurring staff effort.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Predictive gains, causal losses: why interventional competence cannot be learned from data alone

arXiv:2611.03861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retaining predictive gains can require persistent errors in a model's response to interventions. For deterministic predictors with finite second moments under squared-error loss, any observational advantage over the best predictor using only an outcome's direct causes requires dependence on other inputs, regardless of the learning rule.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Performance, Scalability and Maintenance: An Experimental Study of RPA vs. Autonomous Agents in the Healthcare Domain

arXiv:2611.03853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare information systems are fragmented, and retrieving data from legacy web portals is a recurrent need. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is deterministic but sensitive to interface changes, whereas autonomous agents based on large language models (Agent Process Automation, APA) promise adaptability at a higher computational cost.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Low-Rank Hierarchical Merging for Efficient Long-to-Short Reasoning

arXiv:2611.03834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-to-Short (L2S) model merging seeks to combine the strong reasoning capability of long chain-of-thought models with the concise style of base models, but existing methods that rely on linear interpolation and first-order activation statistics fail to capture how the loss landscape responds to parameter displacement, leading to degraded accuracy on hard tasks.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

VagueBench: Benchmarking the Robustness of Embodied Agents on Ambient Context Illusions

arXiv:2611.03765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly deployed in open-world environments, yet current robustness evaluations remain biased toward hazardous instructions and jailbreak vulnerabilities. A more fundamental issue is largely overlooked: agents are rarely tested under semantically sufficient but contextually minimal instructions (i.e., common in real-world human communication)…

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Reasoning is topologically simple

arXiv:2611.03739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formulate and investigate the hypothesis that reasoning text has simpler co-occurrence topology than non-reasoning text, and that higher-quality reasoning has simpler co-occurrence topology than lower-quality reasoning. We discuss and test applications to AI safety and AI evaluation.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

From Logs to Faults: Reference-Free Fault Localization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines

arXiv:2611.03725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are widely used for domain-specific question answering, yet locating faults remains manual and time-consuming. Fault localization is challenging because RAG pipelines consist of interdependent stages, where faults can propagate downstream, masking their origin, or remain undetected even when the final answer is correct.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Counterexample-driven autonomous research with application to excess radiated energy in a Z-pinch

arXiv:2611.03721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in artificial-intelligence-assisted mathematics show that open-ended machine search can outperform human mathematicians, yet transferring this paradigm to physics requires refactoring the research workflow. We introduce Simjecture, an open-source framework in which language-model agents pursue human-defined physical conjectures.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Unsatz: Evaluating Scientific Discovery Without a Given Ansatz

arXiv:2611.03713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before a scientist fits any parameter, they must decide what the model contains: which quantities exist, which are hidden, how they interact, and how they are measured. Physicists call such a trial form an ansatz. Benchmarks for automated equation discovery mostly supply it, by fixing the variables, a library of candidate terms, or a law to be modified.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

Training LLM Agents to Automate LLM Post-Training with RSI-Dojo

arXiv:2611.03698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) aims to enable AI systems to autonomously build and improve AI systems themselves, including models, harnesses, and underlying infrastructure. Within this broader agenda, a central capability is enabling agents to train and improve base models.

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Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04

LOLPlay: Benchmarking Real-Time Visual Agents in League of Legends

arXiv:2611.03685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual agents need to coordinate reasoning and action while their environment evolves during inference. We introduce LOLPlay, a benchmark in native \emph{League of Legends} with 36 champion-specific tasks spanning resource management, combat, cooperation, and objectives.

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