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Across multiple steering benchmarks, we show that SKOP achieves the best joint steering-utility trade-off, reducing utility degradation by 5-7x while retaining over 95% of vanilla steering efficacy.
To overcome these limitations, we present MANTRA, a framework for automatically synthesizing machine-checkable compliance benchmarks from natural-language manuals and tool schemas.
Safety benchmarks are routinely treated as evidence about how a language model will behave once deployed, but this inference is fragile if behavior depends on whether a prompt looks like an evaluation.
Paradoxically, we observe that tool-enabled evaluation can degrade reasoning performance even when the strong thinking models make almost no actual tool calls.
In contrast, fully unstructured teams enable adaptability and exploration but suffer from inefficiencies such as error propagation, inter-agent conflicts, and wasted resources (measured in time, tokens, or file operations).
Human label variation has been established as a central phenomenon in NLP: the perspectives different annotators have on the same item need to be embraced.
Laughter is a social non-vocalization that is universal across cultures and languages, and is crucial for human communication, including social bonding and communication signaling.
Agentic RAG extends this paradigm by replacing single-step retrieval with a multi-step process, in which the large language model (LLM) acts as a search agent that generates intermediate thoughts and subqueries to iteratively interact with…
In this paper, we introduce a new multi-genre benchmark (more than 1000 samples) for semantic segmentation in conversational Arabic, focusing on dialectal discourse.
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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To support further research on open mathematical reasoning, we release the full QED-Nano pipeline, including the QED-Nano and QED-Nano-SFT models, the FineProofs-SFT and FineProofs-RL datasets, and the training and evaluation code.
We introduce Paper Reconstruction Evaluation (PaperRecon), an evaluation framework in which an overview (overview.md) is created from an existing paper, after which an agent generates a full paper based on the overview and minimal…
For evaluation, we introduce PaperWrite-Bench, a benchmark of 51 papers from top-tier venues across diverse domains published after 2025.
Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models, current reward modeling heavily relies on experimental feedback data collected from human annotators under controlled and costly…
Extensive experiments across diverse LLM backbones and benchmark datasets validate that CausalRM effectively learns accurate reward signals from noisy and biased observational feedback and delivers substantial performance improvements on…
Under the same Llama3.1-8B backbone, our approach achieves an 8.2-point improvement in macro-F1 at only 20% of the training cost of standard SFT, and provides explicit supporting evidence for each predicted code, enabling human auditing and…
The models were developed through a four-stage training pipeline: continued pre-training on Portuguese and Brazilian legal corpora, long-context extension to 128K tokens, supervised fine-tuning on instruction data spanning chat, code, legal…
We evaluate the models on six benchmark categories: conversational capabilities in Brazilian Portuguese, knowledge of Brazilian legislation, long-context understanding, instruction following, standardized exams, and agentic capabilities…
On this unified benchmark, we evaluate four approaches: (i) encoder-based classification fine-tuning, (ii) zero- and few-shot prompting, (iii) instruction tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and (iv) Supervised Fine-Tuning…
A key benefit of self-play for post-training LLMs is its minimal supervision costs: self-play avoids the need for high-quality input-output pairs traditionally constructed by humans or expensive proprietary models.
We propose POP, a self-play framework that uses the same LLM to synthesize evaluation rubrics along with each input-output pair.
Across five model configurations, two families, and three benchmarks, we find that 52--88% of chain-of-thought tokens are produced after the answer is recoverable from a partial prefix.
Extensive evaluations across 1.5B--14B parameter models demonstrate that APC reduces expected editing costs from 19% to 50% while preserving standard HC performance.
Using roughly 48 execution-verified HumanEval training solutions, tuning a single initial state matrix per recurrent layer, with zero inference overhead, outperforms LoRA by +10.8 pp (p < 0.001) on HumanEval.
Cross-domain transfer is significant on MATH-500 (+4.8 pp, p = 0.00002, 8 seeds) and GSM8K (+2.8 pp, p = 0.0003, 10 seeds); a text-to-SQL benchmark (Spider) shows no transfer, consistent with the trajectory-steering mechanism.
Experiments on LLaDA and Dream across math and coding benchmarks show that TRIMS significantly improves the accuracy-parallelism trade-off over both standard MDLM training and train-free acceleration baselines, while achieving competitive…
In this paper, we propose Agent Q-Mix, a reinforcement learning framework that reformulates topology selection as a cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problem.
Across seven core benchmarks in coding, reasoning, and mathematics, Agent Q-Mix achieves the highest average accuracy compared to existing methods while demonstrating superior token efficiency and robustness against agent failure.
As agent systems evolve, however, the central problem has shifted from isolated invocation to multi-tool orchestration over long trajectories with intermediate state, execution feedback, changing environments, and practical constraints such…
We comprehensively review recent progress in multi-tool LLM agents and analyzes the state of the art in this rapidly developing area.
While Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) show potential for complex clinical decision support, the field remains hindered by architectural fragmentation and the lack of standardized multimodal integration.
To address these challenges, we present MedMASLab, a unified framework and benchmarking platform for multimodal medical multi-agent systems.
We introduce Vibe Code Bench, a benchmark of 100 web application specifications (50 public validation, 50 held-out test) with 964 browser-based workflows comprising 10,131 substeps, evaluated against deployed applications by an autonomous…
We identify self-testing during generation as a strong performance predictor (Pearson r=0.72), and show through a completed human alignment study that evaluator selection materially affects outcomes (31.8-93.6% pairwise step-level…
To bridge this gap, we present DeEscalWild, a novel benchmark dataset curated from a multi-stage pipeline of in-the-wild police-civilian interactions extracted from publicly available video repositories.
Extensive experiments demonstrate that SLMs fine-tuned on this data significantly outperform their base counterparts across ROUGE-L, BLEU-4, METEOR, BERTScore, Realism Score, and human evaluation metrics.
Across Llama-3.1 and Qwen2.5 models, future-aligned tuning improves future alignment over unaligned baselines (up to +10.6% overall FAS), and domain-expert human evaluation corroborates improved proposal quality.
Finally, we demonstrate practical impact by implementing two model-generated proposals with a code agent, obtaining 4.17% accuracy gain on MATH from a new prompting strategy and consistent improvements for a novel model-merging method.
We introduce SAHOO, a practical framework to monitor and control drift through three safeguards: (i) the Goal Drift Index (GDI), a learned multi-signal detector combining semantic, lexical, structural, and distributional measures; (ii)…