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PACE: A Proxy for Agentic Capability Evaluation

Yueqi Song, Lintang Sutawika, Jiarui Liu, Lindia Tjuatja, Jiayi Geng, Yunze Xiao · Jul 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: high protocol signal.

Score: 89% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Coding
  • We introduce PACE, a framework that constructs proxy benchmarks by selecting instances from existing non-agentic evaluations whose aggregate scores most reliably predict model performances on agentic benchmarks.
  • We apply PACE to the 4 target agentic benchmarks in this paper, which yields PACE-Bench, the concrete proxy benchmark that we evaluate in the paper.
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An LLM-Based Framework for Intent-Driven Network Topology Design

Kholoud El-Habbouli, Fen Zhou, Stephane Huet · Jul 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Overall, this work provides a systematic benchmark for understanding how LLMs handle structural and resilience constraints in topology synthesis, and supports informed model selection for AI-driven network design.
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PARTREP: Learning What to Repeat for Decoder-only LLMs

Andikawati P Widjaja, Yongjun Kim, Hyounghun Kim, Jaeho Lee · Jul 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 84% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Across eight benchmarks (including MMLU, GSM8K, and RULER) and three model families (Qwen2.5, Llama3.2, Gemma4), PartRep retains most of the gains of full repetition while using only 59.4\% of its KV cache and 79.0\% of its prefill FLOPs.
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Uncertainty Quantification for Computer-Use Agents: A Benchmark across Vision-Language Models and GUI Grounding Datasets

Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati, Devashri Naik, Amanda Sofie Rios, Nilesh Ahuja, Omesh Tickoo · Jun 24, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 84% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Computer-use agents turn vision-language model (VLM) predictions into executable GUI clicks, so reliable uncertainty estimates are essential for rejection, calibration, miss-severity ranking, and spatial safety regions.
  • We present Argus, a cross-regime benchmark for post-hoc UQ in single-step executable GUI grounding: a 27-method open-weight matrix over 4 VLM agents and 4 datasets, plus an 8-method closed-source matrix across 3 frontier vendors where…
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SWAN: Semantic Watermarking with Abstract Meaning Representation

Ziping Ye, Gourab Dey, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Charith Peris, Anil Ramakrishna, Weitong Ruan · May 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 88% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics General
  • In contrast to existing watermarking methods, which typically encode signatures by adjusting token selection preferences during text generation, SWAN embeds the signature directly in the sentence's semantic representation.
  • Empirical evaluation on the RealNews benchmark shows SWAN matches state-of-the-art detection performance on unaltered watermarked text, while significantly improving robustness against paraphrasing, increasing detection AUC by up to 13.9…
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: high protocol signal.

Score: 89% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Tool Use General
  • We systematically benchmark five such methods: ROUGE-L, semantic similarity, BERTScore, a Natural Language Inference (NLI) detector based on a FEVER-trained DeBERTa model, and a score-level ensemble of similarity and NLI.
  • We evaluate them across all three tasks of the HaluEval benchmark: question answering (QA), dialogue, and summarisation.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 79% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • We evaluate the workflows using the Abt-Buy, Walmart-Amazon, WDC Products, DBLP-ACM, and DBLP-Scholar benchmarks, and compare the performance of student models trained with machine-labeled data to the performance of the same models trained…
  • Our experiments show that student models trained using the machine-labeled sets perform approximately on par with models trained on the benchmark training sets, with the remaining differences in both directions staying below two F1 points.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 79% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • For picking an answer, the vote has already settled within a few dozen draws, the modal ceiling; for scoring a benchmark, sooner still, the correlation ceiling.
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SEAD: Competence-Aware On-Policy Distillation via Entropy-Guided Supervision

Chia-Hsuan Lee, Zelei Cheng, Yu Wang, Renkun Ni, Sambit Sahu, Shi-Xiong Zhang · Jun 26, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 79% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • On OLMo-3 (7B to 32B), SEAD achieves +4.8 avg accuracy over vanilla OPD across six math benchmarks, with ablations confirming super-additive interactions.
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The Generalization Spectrum: A Chromatographic Approach to Evaluating Learning Algorithms

Jinghan Zhang, Zerui Cheng, Shiqi Chen, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Jiashuo Liu · Jun 24, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 79% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • Traditional evaluations measure a learning algorithm's final performance on an i.i.d.
  • We introduce the Generalization Spectrum, an evaluation framework designed to expose this hidden dimension.
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Measuring Reasoning Quality in LLMs: A Multi-Dimensional Behavioral Framework

Ali Şenol, Garima Agrawal, Huan Liu · May 23, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Despite remarkable progress on reasoning benchmarks, current LLM evaluation practice remains anchored to final-answer correctness, providing limited insight into how models reason, how reliably they behave under contextual variation, or how…
  • Experiments across multiple LLMs and benchmarks reveal behaviors systematically concealed by single-metric evaluation, including the orthogonality of local logical coherence and correctness, deployment-context-dependent ranking inversions,…
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BeLink: Biomedical Entity Linking Meets Generative Re-Ranking

Darya Shlyk, Stefano Montanelli, Lawrence Hunter · May 21, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Medicine
  • Our method demonstrates strong performance on multiple BEL benchmarks, yielding significant improvements in linking accuracy (3%-24%) while reducing inference time compared to the state-of-the-art.
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Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It's Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning

Ömer Faruk Akgül, Rajgopal Kannan, Willie Neiswanger, Viktor Prasanna · May 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Across three model families, six scales, and six math reasoning benchmarks, ReasonMaxxer matches or exceeds full RL performance while requiring only tens of problems and minutes of single-GPU training, a reduction in training cost of…
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Diagnosing and Mitigating Context Rot in Long-horizon Search

Shijie Xia, Yikun Wang, Zhen Huang, Pengfei Liu · Jun 29, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 84% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • By evaluating four flagship open-source models across three benchmarks, we reveal a prevalent but unnoticed rot phenomenon: extensive context causes models to directly give up or prematurely provide uncertain answers, and this issue is…
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 4/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 88% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Coding
  • Long-horizon LLM agents rely on persistent memory to support interactions across sessions, yet existing memory systems often retrieve context using semantic similarity or broad history inclusion, treating retrieved memories as uniformly…
  • To evaluate this setting, we introduce Causal-LoCoMo, a causally annotated benchmark derived from long conversational data, where each example contains a user request, a structured memory bank, useful memories, irrelevant distractors, and…
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Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 77% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MedicineCoding
  • The recently introduced Retrieval-Augmented Set Completion (RASC) benchmark showed that direct zero-shot large language model (LLM) generation is poorly suited to this task: clinical code systems are large, version-controlled, and not…
  • These results show that retrieval-constrained LLM adjudication can substantially improve value set completion while preserving the safety constraint that all returned codes must come from an auditable candidate pool.
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Latent Performance Profiling of Large Language Models

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ayan Sengupta, Suparna Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Amlan Chakrabarti, Supratik Chakraborty · May 28, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 77% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Large language models (LLMs) frequently achieve impressive scores on standardized benchmarks, yet accuracy alone offers a limited view of their capabilities.
  • With extensive empirical analyses across eight LLMs, spanning a size range of 0.5B-14B, we demonstrate that models with similar benchmark scores can exhibit contrasting latent profiles, such as differences in entropy or adaptability.
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Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 77% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Demonstrations Automatic Metrics Law
  • We benchmark seven models from five providers on 273 validated court decisions from Ukraine's state registry (EDRSR), measuring tokenizer fertility and zero-shot performance on three tasks.
  • To support reproducibility and address the absence of Ukrainian from legal NLP benchmarks, we release a public dataset of 14,452 court decisions spanning 2008-2026, annotated with seven outcome labels across three temporal epochs that…
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Benchmarking LLM Agents on Meta-Analysis Articles from Nature Portfolio

Anzhe Xie, Weihang Su, Yujia Zhou, Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai · Jun 15, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 3/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 72% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Its structured, verifiable workflow makes it an ideal substrate for evaluating systematic scientific reasoning, yet existing benchmarks lack ground truth across the full retrieval-screening-synthesis pipeline.
  • Benchmarking twelve pipeline configurations (nine RAG variants and a protocol-driven agent) reveals a critical screening bottleneck: despite a retrieval ceiling of 90.9% recall at K=200, no system recovers more than 52.7% of ground-truth…
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StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation

Haotian Xia, Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Bin Xu, Lei Hou · May 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/4 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 66% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Coding
  • Although large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced text generation, stories generated by LLMs still diverge from human-authored works regarding complex narrative structure and human-aligned preferences.
  • We find existing reward models struggle to select human-preferred stories, with the best model achieving only 66.3\% accuracy.
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