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SelfSearch: Reward-Free Search for Self-Improving Agents

Jungwoo Yang, In Jin Kong, Yohan Jo · Sep 29, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 95% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics CodingMultilingual
  • Advances in the coding capabilities of LLM agents allow them to inspect and modify their own instructions, tools, and execution procedures.
  • We introduce SelfSearch, a reward-free search procedure in which agents modify themselves using records of previous self-improvement episodes.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: high protocol signal.

Score: 85% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Simulation Env General
  • We introduce UserProxyBench, an evaluation layer over the tau-bench family, and the User Fidelity Score (UFS), which measures adherence to the benchmark's private user instructions using task-grounded rubric criteria scored independently of…
  • Holding the agent fixed at GPT-5.5 and varying only the user proxy across 375 enterprise tasks changes mean task reward by 15.2 points, while 24.4% of successful episodes contain a user-specification violation.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: high protocol signal.

Score: 85% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Math
  • In three open-weight families, removing a fitted source direction lowers source compliance by 65-80 percentage points while removing a user or assistant direction has far smaller effects, and removing the user direction shows the reverse…
  • An authority direction fitted on trivia also transfers to PIQA and multi-turn SYCON dialogues without refitting, and removing it lowers wrong-source compliance by tens of percentage points in four of five families with no detected change in…
Open paper
Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages

Fernando López, Pablo Gómez, David Solans, Paulo Villegas, Jordi Luque · Sep 29, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Multilingual
  • Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored.
  • Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx).
Open paper
SkillCoach: Self-Evolving Rubrics for Evaluating and Enhancing Agentic Skill-Use

Jiayin Zhu, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo, Dengbo He, Sulong Xu, Simiu Gu · Jul 2, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 88% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics General
  • We introduce SkillCoach, a self-evolving rubric framework for evaluating and enhancing agentic skill-use.
  • Experiments show that evolved rubrics substantially improve evaluation quality, expose failures hidden by final accuracy, and provide stronger supervision signals than outcome-only filtering for enhancing agentic skill-use.
Open paper
One Success Isn't Reliability: Thinkingbox, a Sandbox and Benchmark for Agents in Stateful Business Workflows

Zhuochun Li, Youngmin Ko, Ali Keramati, Nicola Ferri, Susana Palmaz Lopez Pelaez, Liang-Chun Tsai · Aug 20, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 93% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Tool Use Coding
  • Recent agent benchmarks increasingly ground evaluation in executable environments, from code repair to web navigation, app APIs, and function calling.
  • In this paper, we introduce Thinkingbox, a sandbox for tool-agent-user interaction that provides isolated MCP-compatible tool sessions, complete execution traces, and outcome evaluation over terminal backend state.
Open paper
Beyond Retrieval: Query-Conditioned Reuse of Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

Yifei Li, Heng Wang, Lingling Zhang, Muye Huang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiashuai Liu · Aug 13, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 93% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Simulation Env Long Horizon General
  • Retrieval can identify a past trajectory that may matter, yet it does not specify how an acting agent should use that trajectory after users, entities, constraints, or environment state have changed.
  • We identify this post-retrieval reuse step as a distinct bottleneck for long-horizon trajectory memory and formulate an evaluation framework that holds candidate retrieval, target state, model, decoding, and tool budget fixed while varying…
Open paper

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

Score: 93% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Tool Use Coding
  • Coding-agent efficiency cannot be characterized by token count or model price alone.
  • We model efficiency as cost per successful task induced by the agent trajectory.
Open paper
ToolHazard: Scaling Adversarial Environments for Security Evaluation and Alignment of LLM-based Agents

Yutao Mou, Pengfei Yang, Zhe Yin, Zhangchi Xue, Xiaotian Luan, Dingyao Yu · Aug 12, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 88% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Simulation Env Tool Use General
  • Large language model (LLM) agents integrated with external tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injections embedded in environmental states.
  • To bridge this gap, we propose **ToolHazard**, a scalable adversarial environment synthesis framework that reduces human engineering and supports expansion with additional seed domains and compute.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 73% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior.
  • Memory evaluation must test both stated decisions and tool-call choices.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 68% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • Safety evaluations for language models increasingly depend on judgments about ambiguous natural-language behaviour: whether a model has followed an instruction, refused appropriately, complied with a policy, resisted an embedded command, or…
  • Existing benchmarks often compress these distinctions into pass/fail labels, obscuring whether failures arise from capability limits, policy ambiguity, instruction conflict, scaffold failure, or unstable evaluator judgments.
Open paper
LakeQuest: A Three-Domain Benchmark for Grounded Question Answering across Data Lakes

Michael Solodko, Steven Gong, Guangwei Yu, Satya Krishna Gorti, Jesse C. Cresswell, Victor Zhong · Jul 14, 2026

Citations: 0

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

Score: 73% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Medicine
  • Current benchmarks abstract away this noisy discovery process, failing to evaluate end-to-end performance.
  • To bridge this gap, we introduce LakeQuest, a human-validated benchmark of 9,846 QA pairs designed to evaluate the end-to-end retrieve-and-synthesize pipeline over realistic data lakes.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 63% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Tool Use Coding
  • Agents learn to act through interaction with environments, yet the environments used for training are often manually constructed or synthesized around predefined tasks and benchmarks.
  • We introduce AgentMercury, a scalable framework for synthesizing executable environments from high-level business scenarios.
Open paper
Beyond Pixel Diffs: Benchmarking Image Change Captioning for Web UI Visual Regression Testing

Licheng Zhang, Bach Le, Pengtao Zhao, Naveed Akhtar · Jul 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
General
  • On every change, it re-renders user interface (UI) screenshots, compares each one against an approved baseline image, and routes any detected difference to a human reviewer who decides whether it is an intended update or an unintended…
  • To address the gap, we propose a new task, Web UI Image Change Captioning (WUICC), which sits at the intersection of VRT and image difference captioning (IDC), and release WUICC-bench, its first dataset and benchmark for the task.
Open paper
Beyond Surface Forms: Symbolic Edits as a Test for Logical Reasoning with LLMs

Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda, Wray Buntine, Ehsan Shareghi · Aug 31, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
General
  • The results from this automated stress test enable an evaluation of language models across different dimensions and help measure the reliability of their reasoning.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 58% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
General
  • Therefore, we introduce adult attachment theory into LLM evaluation and use the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) scale to characterize attachment anxiety and avoidance.
  • To evaluate emotional companionship capabilities of LLMs in realistic interaction scenarios, we present an emotional companionship benchmark, ECBench, spanning four scenarios including emotional support, collaborative tasks, conflict…
Open paper

Match reason: Matched by broad semantic/index fallback. Eval-signal density: moderate protocol signal.

Score: 45% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
General
  • A grok-4.6-high reader on the same packets scores 476/474, while a maximum-reasoning-effort agentic variant regresses to 461/465.
  • A second judge agrees with the headline judge on 493/500 rows (98.6%) in each pass and scores both passes 472/500; the official judge also flips three verdicts when re-scoring byte-identical pass-1 answers.
Open paper
A Benchmark & Dataset for Detecting AI-Manipulated Visual Evidence in the Court System

Kelly McConvey, Sajad Ebrahimi, Nima Jamali, Jalehsadat Mahdavimoghaddam, Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Maksym Taranukhin · Sep 29, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 50% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
LawCoding
  • Existing image-forensics benchmarks provide important resources for face manipulation, classical tampering, and general synthetic-image detection, but they are not organized around the forms of visual evidence submitted in courts, the…
  • We introduce the CIFAR Synthetic Evidence Corpus for Detecting AI-Manipulated Images, a benchmark for evidentiary image authentication in court and justice-system contexts.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 50% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
General
  • We present ASCEND (Autonomous Scientific Computing Engine and Novel Discovery), an AI-powered agent interface that runs the agent on the researcher's own laptop, reaching Slurm-managed clusters and a GPU workstation over a multiplexed…
  • We report four recorded cases: (1) the agent closed a failure-recovery loop on a planted tensor-device fault, submitting, diagnosing, repairing and resubmitting with job-level artifacts preserved; (2) it reproduced the published evaluation…
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/3 across title and protocol fields. Eval-signal density: sparse protocol signal.

Score: 43% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Medicine
  • (2006) drug-class benchmark, we compare expert assignment against one mechanical procedure, substring matching against a MeSH vocabulary drawn from the benchmark, across a bag-of-words logistic regression classifier (seven reruns) and…
  • BiomedBERT under canonical evaluation gives +0.020, a difference of 0.001 from the bag-of-words 10-fold result.
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