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This calls into question whether retai","authors":["Niklas Muennighoff","Zhengyang Wang","Zeyi Chen","Weijia Shi","Binyuan Hui","John Yang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26070v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26070v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:37:15Z"},{"title":"$R^3$: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning","abstract":"Reasoning in language allows foundation models to spend more test-time compute on hard problems, such as those requiring decomposition, constraint tracking, and prediction of future consequences. Whether this mechanism can improve robotic manipulation remains unclear, where long-horizon tasks require tracking partial progress, reasoning about object relations, recovering from mistakes, and steering noisy low-level po","authors":["Lehong Wu","Yuxiao Qu","Zheyuan Hu","Ivan Zhang","Limin Wei","Zackory Erickson"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26053v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26053v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:25:10Z"},{"title":"How Much Rank Does LoRA Need? Rank-Error Bounds for Transformer Attention","abstract":"Choosing the rank of a low-rank adaptation (LoRA) update is usually an empirical task. In this paper, we provide a task-dependent theory of the approximation error achievable at each LoRA rank for Transformer attention. We fix a pretrained attention head, a target attention function, and a distribution over inputs from the downstream task, and bound the smallest expected Kullback--Leibler (KL) error achievable by a r","authors":["Gerard Conangla Planes"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26052v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26052v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:25:03Z"},{"title":"The Value of Human Expertise","abstract":"We consider optimization applications with unknown parameters where the decision maker believes that the optimal value of the nominal problem-the optimization problem they would have solved if the true parameters were known-is unlikely to be large. This belief derives from information that humans have that is not captured in datasets, obtained from domain knowledge and interacting with the physical world. We propose ","authors":["Bradley Sturt"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26051v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26051v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:24:52Z"},{"title":"Trace Integrity for LLM Data Agents: A Vision for Auditable Structured Reasoning in Real-World Systems","abstract":"Answer accuracy is an insufficient reliability signal for LLM data agents. In structured-data tasks, a benchmark-correct answer can be produced by an invalid trace. This paper introduces Trace Integrity, a deployment reliability criterion for evaluating whether the computation recorded behind an answer is explicit, executable, schema-valid, operator-faithful, replayable, answer-consistent, and auditable. We identify ","authors":["Srimonti Dutta","Akshata Kishore Moharir"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26036v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26036v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:15:24Z"},{"title":"DualOPSD: Adaptive Privileged Teachers for On-Policy Self-Distillation","abstract":"On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) uses a privileged copy of the student model to provide dense supervision without an external teacher. OPSD keeps this privileged teacher fixed, even though the student distribution and output style change during training. We propose DualOPSD, an asymmetric alternating framework that adapts both policies. The student first learns from the privileged teacher. The teacher then moves to","authors":["Yutong Chen","Guangfu Guo","Zhichao Xu","Kunpeng Liu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26019v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26019v1","published":"2026-08-26T17:01:21Z"},{"title":"Imitation Learning for Connection-Tableau Construction","abstract":"An automated theorem prover builds a proof step by step, choosing at each point what to add and what to remove. We cast this construction as a policy acting in a transition system induced by a formal calculus, which fixes which steps are sound: for clausal connection tableaux, leanCoP-style search and plCoP/rlCoP-style planning then become stateful policies over one interface, and policy-learning methods apply direct","authors":["Fredrik Rømming","Mantas Bakšys","Martin S. Fixman","Sean B. 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We further build a complete pipeline for memory-aware SLM training, long-horizon evaluation, and decoupled deployme","authors":["Zhifei Xie","Jiaqi Lang","Ze An","Yifan Zhao","Dongchao Yang","Kai Li"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26005v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26005v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:50:05Z"},{"title":"AsymSpec: Context-Asymmetric Speculative Decoding for Agentic LLMs","abstract":"Agentic LLM pipelines face escalating inference costs as context accumulates across retrieval, tool use, and multi-turn interactions. To control latency, deployments routinely compress inputs, but this degrades task accuracy. Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates generation losslessly, yet it assumes the drafter and verifier share an identical context, preventing SD from resolving the accuracy-overhead trade-off. We ","authors":["Sheng Liang","Yongyue Zhang","Nathanael Brian","Hang Lv","Hao Wang","Chen Zhang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26004v1","arxiv_id":"2608.26004v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:50:02Z"},{"title":"ProgRouter: Online Progress-Guided Orchestration for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows under Quality-Cost Tradeoffs","abstract":"Multi-agent large language model (LLM) workflows have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving complex, open-ended tasks through collaborative reasoning among specialized LLM agents, but they incur substantial operating costs due to repeated LLM invocations and long-horizon context accumulation. Existing cascade routing methods make one-shot, query-level decisions and cannot adapt to the dynamic, state-dependent na","authors":["Somgyuan Li","Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem","Shiqiang Wang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25992v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25992v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:42:02Z"},{"title":"Multi-Granularity Context-Enhanced RAG over Multimodal Knowledge Graphs","abstract":"Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely used to mitigate hallucination issues in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In particular, knowledge graph (KG)-based RAG leverages structured knowledge to provide (M)LLMs with high-quality external information. Building on these works, recent studies have explored multimodal knowledge graphs (MMKGs) as knowledge bases for GraphRAG","authors":["Zongyu Wu","Yilong Wang","Xiaochen Wang","Minhua Lin","Zhichao Xu","Fenglong Ma"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25986v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25986v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:38:02Z"},{"title":"FRAME: separating sampling variation from representational cause in medical imaging fairness","abstract":"Subgroup performance differences are the standard evidence for fairness bias in medical imaging, and the usual response removes the demographic information that a model encodes. Here we introduce Fair-model Reference And Mechanism Evaluation (FRAME), a two-step framework for auditing such a claim. The first step derives a fair-model reference, the distribution of the difference under exact fairness at the observed su","authors":["Mahshad Lotfinia","Daniel Truhn","Andreas Maier","Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25981v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25981v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:34:33Z"},{"title":"SciMIF: Understanding Multimodal Instruction Following in Scientific Domains","abstract":"Understanding instruction-following capabilities in scientific domains is essential for effectively leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to advance the development of scientific fields. In this work, we introduce SciMIF, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the capability of MLLMs in following complex scientific instructions. Specifically, based on an extensive analysis of 22 distinct tasks across 5 ","authors":["Ye Shen","Yuting Zheng","Dun Pei","Zijian Chen","Wenlong Zhang","Qi Jia"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25973v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25973v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:30:20Z"},{"title":"PANDA - Prototype-Anchored Alignment for Partially Unpaired Multimodal Learning, with Applications to Alzheimers MRI and TCGA Pathology","abstract":"Multimodal medical prediction often faces incomplete pairing: auxiliary modalities with complementary signal are available for only a subset of subjects (or none) and cannot be assumed at deployment. We introduce PANDA (Prototype Anchored Data Alignment), a two-stage framework that transfers auxiliary information to a primary-modality model without auxiliary inputs at inference. Stage 1 learns a shared embedding from","authors":["Sheethal Bhat","Mahfuzur Rahman Chowdhury","Paula Andrea Perez-Toro","Stephan Wunderlich","Rose Dawn Bharat","Siming Bayer"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25970v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25970v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:28:20Z"},{"title":"Quantitative Analysis of $ω$-Regular Robust MDPs","abstract":"Robust Markov Decision Processes (RMDPs) generalize classical MDPs by allowing uncertainty in transition probabilities and optimizing against their worst-case realization. We consider $(s,a)$-rectangular RMDPs with \\emph{linearly defined} uncertainty sets and study parity objectives, which are a canonical representation of $ω$-regular objectives. An uncertainty set is linearly defined if it is described by linear ine","authors":["Ali Asadi","Krishnendu Chatterjee","Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady","Mehrdad Karrabi","Alipasha Montaseri","Ali Shafiee"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25968v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25968v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:26:13Z"},{"title":"LivingRAG: Augmenting Graph RAG with Experience","abstract":"Graph-based RAG improves multi-hop question answering by organizing evidence as a knowledge graph. However, most existing RAG systems process each query in isolation and discard useful reasoning from the LLM's response after inference. As a result, later related queries need to retrieve evidence and reason from scratch. We propose LivingRAG, a Graph RAG framework with writable and reusable reasoning experience. Livin","authors":["Yuzhuo Cui","Zongye Zhang","Qingjie Liu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25960v1","arxiv_id":"2608.25960v1","published":"2026-08-26T16:21:06Z"}],"history":{"events":[{"year":2008,"text":"After a ceasefire was reached in the Russo-Georgian War, Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War"},{"year":1980,"text":"A bomb was planted at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, which the FBI later described as the most complex improvised explosive device ever created.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey's_Resort_Hotel_bombing"},{"year":1978,"text":"A conclave elected Albino Luciani as Pope John Paul I, succeeding Paul VI.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1978_conclave"},{"year":1970,"text":"Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 50,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender 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