Sep 29, 2026
Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts
What the paper is about Precise instruction following in image generation, such as satisfying object counts and spatial relations, remains an open challenge...
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Sep 29, 2026
Reasoning with Continuous Latent Diffusion
What the paper is about Continuous diffusion generates complete reasoning solutions through iterative refinement in latent space.
Sep 29, 2026
PhoneCLI: From App Interfaces to Callable Commands for Mobile Agents
What the paper is about Mobile GUI agents operate through a perception--action loop: at each step they screenshot the device, invoke a vision--language model...
Sep 29, 2026
Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills
What the paper is about Users of Workday's deployed LLM-based agents often request features which can be addressed by defining named procedures, also kno...
Sep 29, 2026
Shockingly Simple Self-retrospection Improves Agentic Models Without RL
What the paper is about People learn not only by repeating successful actions, but also by recounting and explaining their experiences, revising their unders...
Sep 29, 2026
FinAutoRubric: Expert-Guided Automatic Rubric Generation for Evaluating Financial Research Agents
What the paper is about Evaluating finance research agents requires rubrics that reflect expert standards and fix the values correct as of an information cut...
Sep 29, 2026
Verifier Errors in RLVR: Reward Hacking, Limits of Feedback, and Selective Control
What the paper is about In reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), imperfect verifiers can reward incorrect responses, creating opportunities...
Sep 29, 2026
Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science
What the paper is about Large language models (LLMs) excel at structured, verifiable tasks, but their low-entropy bias can produce homogeneous and predictabl...
Sep 29, 2026
Failure-Transparent Agents: Benchmarking Post-Failure Reporting in Tool-Using Language Models
What the paper is about Tool-using agents can fail twice: a required tool can fail, and the agent can then report success without the evidence needed to just...
Sep 29, 2026
Not All Thinking is Created Equal: Latent Reasoning Discovers a Recurrent Search Algorithm for Depth Generalization
What the paper is about Large Language Models can perform multi-step reasoning and improve task performance through different forms of intermediate computati...
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