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Summary An AI assistant might recommend how to approach a friend, then be asked to interpret that friend's reaction. The reaction may look like an independent confirmation of the assistant's earlier assumption about the situation, even though the recommended approach may have played a role in producing it.
arXiv:2610.22511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating language models and agents requires combining benchmark accuracy, judge-based assessment, runtime performance, tool-use behavior, and retrieval quality. Differences in interfaces, metric semantics, and trace formats complicate these comparisons and can hide failures in agentic workflows.
arXiv:2610.22444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to jointly localize a target in space and time given a natural-language query. Despite continued advances, existing STVG benchmarks remain largely centered on localizing targets through instance-specific descriptions, leaving them largely decoupled from long-form reasoning increasingly emphasized in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
arXiv:2610.22428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a small language model the vocabulary is the single largest part. In Gemma 3 270M the embedding table holds 168M of 268M parameters, and because quantisation methods leave the embedding in 16-bit, it is also most of the file once the rest of the model is compressed. We ask what that table actually buys.
arXiv:2610.22516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern commerce, firms and platforms typically use customer features from different sources to personalize prices: some features are verified using seller records or third-party data, while others are self-reported and may be strategically manipulated by buyers seeking lower prices.
arXiv:2610.23470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended search combined with foundation models has produced advances such as faster algorithms, new results on open mathematical problems, and self-improving agents. We extend this paradigm to recommendation for decision-making, focusing on decisions where the set of possible choices is fixed but the reasons for choosing them are not.
arXiv:2610.22474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Figures are essential for scientific communication, and the field of Visual Question Answering (VQA) aims to test the figure understanding capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs). Here, we investigate the accuracy of several low-cost LMMs on domain-specific VQA tasks for astronomical images of the sky.
arXiv:2610.22454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running prompt tokens through fewer routed experts during prefill is a simple way to make mixture-of-experts (MoE) serving cheaper, yet it is unclear what this damages. We locate the damage with token-, layer- and attention-path interventions on short-answer question answering in four MoE families.
arXiv:2610.22430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of multivariate time series requires models that simultaneously capture variable-specific dynamics and cross-variable interactions.
arXiv:2610.22468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action nominal constructions (ANCs) express events in nominal form, with their argument marking following patterns found in clauses or ordinary noun phrases. In this paper, we investigate how different grammatical configurations affect language models' learning of ANCs and related constructions, and how these learning preferences compare with typological distributions in natural languages.
arXiv:2610.22507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Command-line interface (CLI) agents increasingly execute longer-horizon tasks, yet existing benchmarks either assume that user instructions remain fixed throughout execution or evaluate task outcomes without capturing runtime collaboration quality.
arXiv:2610.22373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly used as autonomous orchestrators in distributed and multi-agent systems, yet a control gap remains: no protocol-level mechanism allows human operators to inject binding directives that persist across planning cycles.
