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It judges survey responses without knowing the true value, through a framework of validity and related concepts: content, construct, and criterion validity, reliability, ","authors":["Daniel Robert Kling Alexander","Catherine Louise Kling"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10506v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10506v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:51:07Z"},{"title":"EmbodiedRSI: Active Continual Robot Learning Through Hypothesis-Guided Co-Evolution","abstract":"Robot foundation models provide strong visuomotor control, yet their performance can degrade when object positions or task instructions change. Further improvements often require post-training on substantial robot data, which can be costly to collect through methods such as teleoperation. Agentic harnesses can adapt around the model, but current self-evolving harnesses use robot trials inefficiently when deciding whi","authors":["Python Song","Zhixuan Liang","Kelsey Fu","Mengdi Wang","Junfeng Yang","Shilong Liu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10498v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10498v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:48:02Z"},{"title":"Before They Can Solve: Predicting Post-Training Coding-Agent Performance from Base Models","abstract":"How can we predict which base checkpoint is worth an expensive round of agentic post-training? End-to-end pass@$K$ tests whether successful behavior already appears in a base model's distribution, but it is a poor fit for agentic coding: many base checkpoints cannot reliably produce the well-formed tool invocation required to complete a task end-to-end. Single-shot or short-horizon tasks avoid these tool-calling fail","authors":["Tan Yu","Alexander Bukharin","Khushi Bhardwaj","Jennifer Williams","Zirui Liu","Jonathan Lingjie Li"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10478v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10478v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:37:19Z"},{"title":"A Society of Researchers: Designing Institutions for Populations of Autonomous Research Agents","abstract":"Deployments of research agents are moving to populations of thousands that share one pool of compute, while most current systems organize one project at a time or leave the population unorganized. We argue that such a population will acquire an organization whether or not its designers provide one, so designers should provide it explicitly, and that the multi-agent systems community holds the tools to do so. We propo","authors":["Ali Asaria","Deep Gandhi","Tony Salomone"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10468v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10468v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:30:45Z"},{"title":"How assigned AI use before class shapes active student engagement in class","abstract":"AI learning tools are rapidly entering classrooms, but evidence about whether they help students learn is mixed and rests mostly on test scores. Comparatively less research addresses whether the use of AI changes students' live learning behaviors in class. Here, we report the results of a preregistered field experiment with 759 MBA students enrolled in ten sections of a course, in which each student was randomly assi","authors":["Dan J. 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Both settings usually transfer each teacher's endpoint policy, which mixes what post-training changed with","authors":["Hejian Sang","Zhengze Zhou","Shayan Mohajer Hamidi","Xiaomin Li","Rohit Jain","Alborz Geramifard"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10460v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10460v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:27:46Z"},{"title":"PHRBench: A Behavioral Evaluation of Post-Hallucination Reasoning in LLMs","abstract":"Hallucinated information can propagate through multi-stage LLM systems and become part of the context for subsequent reasoning. Existing studies of post-hallucination reasoning (PHR) mainly characterize changes in final outcomes and aggregate reasoning dynamics, leaving how models resolve hallucinated premises at the response level insufficiently understood. In this work, we introduce PHRBench, a controlled benchmark","authors":["Linghao Meng","Feng He","Xuan Yang","Junyuan Mao","Pinze Ren","Deqing Mu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10455v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10455v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:25:23Z"},{"title":"A Good Self-Teacher Meets the Student Where They Are: Joint On-Policy Learning and Teaching","abstract":"Reinforcement Learning (RL) from outcome rewards suffers from sparse supervision, particularly on difficult, long-horizon tasks where successful trajectories are rare and costly to generate. On-Policy Distillation (OPD) offers an attractive alternative by providing dense token-level supervision from a stronger teacher along the student's own generations. Self-distillation methods further remove the need for a separat","authors":["Randy Ardywibowo","Arnav Dalal","Jiantao Jiao"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10447v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10447v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:19:19Z"},{"title":"RunningTab: Direct Workspace Interaction with Environment-Side Tabs","abstract":"Much knowledge work produces new deliverables from files a workspace already holds, and LLM agents are beginning to take such work over. Through direct corpus interaction, an agent can search and read any of those files from a terminal with no indexing, and producing a deliverable from many of them in this way is what we call direct workspace interaction (DWI). Reaching the files, however, is only half the task: noth","authors":["Jinheon Baek","Soyeong Jeong","Yumin Choi","Dongsu Han","Sung Ju Hwang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10444v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10444v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:16:56Z"},{"title":"Q-Learning with Scalar Adjoint Matching","abstract":"Flow policies capture rich and diverse action distributions, and fine-tuning them with off-policy RL to improve beyond the demonstrations has drawn growing interest. However, fine-tuning a flow policy against a learned value function is not trivial, because the policy generates its action over many flow steps. Adjoint matching offers a principled way to update the flow model itself by propagating value information fr","authors":["Yonghoon Dong","Minsung Yoon","Jaehyuk Kim","Jungwoo Park","Changyeon Kim","Jinwoo Shin"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10437v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10437v1","published":"2026-10-07T17:13:35Z"},{"title":"Training Parallel Speculative Draft Models by Directly Minimizing Expected Decoding Rounds","abstract":"Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by using a low-cost draft model to propose tokens that the full-size target model verifies in parallel. Parallel and semi-autoregressive (semi- AR) drafters improve drafting efficiency by proposing an entire block in a single forward pass, but training them raises a new difficulty: the draft distribution for a given position depends on where the decoding","authors":["Yunxiao Zhao","Changxiao Cai"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10411v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10411v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:56:29Z"},{"title":"SOTA: Stock Options Trading Agents Guided by Option-Implied Return Distributions","abstract":"As option markets grow and AI advances, agentic systems for option trading are gaining increasing attention. Language-model-based agents can reason over contextual information such as news, but option trading presents a particularly challenging decision problem: a single stock can have thousands of contracts, and the agent must decide both which contracts to trade and how to combine them. Existing approaches often si","authors":["Yizhen Xie","Mengyang Liu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10407v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10407v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:55:05Z"},{"title":"Reasoning-Token Spikes Under Prompted Untruthful Responding in Large Language Models","abstract":"Monitoring the chain-of-thought of reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) models remains a key approach to detecting deception and other forms of misbehavior in such models. However, semantic chain-of-thought monitoring depends on reasoning traces being legible and sufficiently faithful to the underlying computations that produced the model's behavior, not to mention accessible. Moreover, there is increasing evidence","authors":["Maverick Morales","Tomáš Dominik","Vermut Gao","Katrina Shirey","Paulius Rimkevičius","Aaron Schurger"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10405v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10405v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:53:11Z"},{"title":"RoboQuest: Generalist Physical Agents that Search, Inspect and Test","abstract":"Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have made them capable generalist physical agents for a range of manipulation tasks. However, successful operation in an unfamiliar environment may require an agent to seek task-relevant information through interaction when it is absent from the observations: it may need to determine where a relevant object is, inspect an unobserved property, or discover the effect of a","authors":["Liu Renhang","Navonil Majumder","Tej Deep Pala","Soujanya Poria"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10388v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10388v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:46:45Z"},{"title":"TaoD2C-Bench: Benchmarking MLLMs for Industrial UI Code Generation Beyond Visual Fidelity","abstract":"A key challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is moving beyond visual recognition to constraint-aware cross-modal reasoning. This involves combining visual cues with information from other modalities to understand elements' relationships under domain-specific rules. This challenge is acutely evident in industrial design-to-code (D2C), which converts user interface (UI) designs into code and requires ML","authors":["Chengwei Shi","Yunnong Chen","Tingting Zhou","Qiang Lu","Shiyu Yue","Xinyuan Hu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10374v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10374v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:38:10Z"},{"title":"Open-MMUnlearning: Unifying Methods and Evaluation for MLLM Unlearning","abstract":"As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) become more capable and widely deployed, concerns about privacy and safety have become increasingly pressing. Machine unlearning offers one approach to addressing these concerns by removing designated information from trained models while preserving unrelated capabilities. However, fragmented implementations and evaluation protocols, incomplete robustness testing, and limit","authors":["Junkai Chen","Yuhao He","Qianshan Wei","Junxiang You","Jingwen Shao","Junkai Lin"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10358v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10358v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:30:59Z"},{"title":"MIRA: A Musical Intent Refinement Agent for Aligning Text-to-Music Generation with User Intent","abstract":"Text-to-music systems produce increasingly convincing audio, yet evaluation reveals little about whether the result matches user intent. A global text-audio relevance score can overlook the implicit intent in underspecified prompts and mask failures in specific requirements, such as instrumentation, structure, rhythm, or mood progression. To bridge this gap, we formulate text-to-music intent alignment as satisfying a","authors":["Zekai Liu","Zhilin Wang","Xuzheng He","Yu Cheng","Yang Yang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10355v1","arxiv_id":"2610.10355v1","published":"2026-10-07T16:29:46Z"},{"title":"The Handover Problem: Governing Autonomy Transitions in Human-AI Collaboration","abstract":"Human-machine systems rarely operate at a fixed level of AI autonomy. As operators and AI systems collaborate over time, control must shift: the AI can take on more responsibility when collaboration is stable, maintain its current role when evidence is ambiguous, or return control to the human when conditions deteriorate. 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