PreprintNot peer reviewedPreprint benchmark finds life-assist AI agents vulnerable to attacks 25-60% of the timeOriginal title: Risky-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Safety Risks in Real-World Life-Assist DeploymentsA preprint introduces Risky-Bench, a safety benchmark showing seven AI agents fail realistic safety tests at rates between 25% and 60%.Jingnan Zheng et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers report shallow exits in depth-based LLM inference resist jailbreaks betterOriginal title: Exploring Jailbreak Vulnerability Across Depth-Based Dynamic Inference in Large Language ModelsA preprint finds that letting large language models answer from earlier layers can make them harder to jailbreak than using the full depth.Lass Najmuldeen et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Geely GoertekA preprint proposes budget-aware precision allocation for LLM KV cache quantizationOriginal title: MultiAlloc: Budget-Aware Precision Allocation for KV Cache QuantizationA new preprint describes MultiAlloc, which splits a fixed KV cache memory budget between layer and token precision based on offline profiling.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Bridgewater AIA LabsBenchmark finds AI data-science agents struggle with causal identification and abstentionOriginal title: CausalDS: Benchmarking Causal Reasoning in Data-Science AgentsA preprint introduces CausalDS, a synthetic benchmark showing agents recover causal graphs well but fail at identification, abstention and uncertainty.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers report a lightweight fix for knowledge conflicts in retrieval-augmented generationOriginal title: SPARK: Adaptive Parametric Knowledge Participation for Faithful Retrieval-Augmented GenerationA preprint describes SPARK, a method that learns to adaptively control how much a language model relies on its internal knowledge versus retrieved text.Ruochang Li et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedA preprint describes a distributed MoE redesign cutting cross-GPU communicationOriginal title: Federation of Experts: Communication Efficient Distributed Inference for Large Language ModelsResearchers report an architecture that groups experts and KV heads to shrink communication overhead in distributed LLM inference.Muhammad Shahir Abdurrahman et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom WorkatoResearchers report adaptive data scheduling boosts LLM reasoning RL trainingOriginal title: Learning at the Right Pace: Adaptive Data Scheduling Improves LLM Reinforcement LearningA preprint reports that scheduling training data by semantic clusters and policy difficulty improves reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning over uniform sampling.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom SiemensResearchers propose ontology-grounded, reasoner-checked benchmarks to test LLM logicOriginal title: Ontology-Grounded, Reasoner-Verified Benchmarks for Evaluating LLM Reasoning in Scientific AIA preprint presents a pipeline that builds multiple-choice reasoning tests from OWL ontologies, with wrong answers verified false by a reasoner.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedPreprint proposes comparing tool choices before acting to guide long-horizon LLM agentsOriginal title: Choosing Before Acting: Comparative Value Estimation for Long-Horizon Tool-Use AgentsA preprint reports a trained value-comparison model that helps agents pick better next tool calls, improving task success.Yu Li et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers propose Dev-Primitives to give code components agent-like reasoning in software tasksOriginal title: Harness Engineering for Software Engineering via Modular Executable Dev-PrimitivesA preprint introduces HERMES, a harness wrapping repository components with resident LLMs to improve software engineering agents.Haibo Jin et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Google DeepMindStudy links fine-tuning behaviour spread to a model’s ‘default persona’Original title: The Persona Hierarchy Model: Understanding Contextual Generalization in Fine-Tuning LLMsA preprint proposes that fine-tuned behaviours spread widely when training nudges a model's shared default persona rather than a context-specific one.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedA preprint reports 2-bit KV cache compression for looped transformersOriginal title: ResidualQuant: KV Cache Quantization for Looped Transformers with 2-Bit ResidualsResearchers report a quantisation method that shrinks KV cache memory in looped transformers while keeping accuracy close to full precision.Heejun Kim et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers trace LLM forgetting to output embeddings of rare tokensOriginal title: A Deafening Silence: Catastrophic Forgetting Lives in the Output Embeddings of Tokens the Data Never SpeaksA preprint reports that catastrophic forgetting during fine-tuning concentrates in output embeddings of under-exposed tokens, and a simple optimizer tweak reduces much of it.Jonghyun Han et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Kuaishou TechnologyResearchers report a reward model that rivals test-based code RL trainingOriginal title: CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Reward ModelsA preprint describes CodeScaler, a reward model that matches or beats execution-based reinforcement learning for code generation while cutting inference latency.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedPreprint reports strategy-guided RL framework boosts long-horizon agent performanceOriginal title: StraTA: Incentivizing Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Strategic Trajectory AbstractionA preprint introduces StraTA, which adds an explicit trajectory-level strategy to agentic reinforcement learning, reportedly improving efficiency and task success.Xiangyuan Xue et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Google DeepMindA preprint presents a unified benchmark comparing RL and foundation-model agentsOriginal title: Agentick: A Unified Benchmark for General Sequential Decision-Making AgentsResearchers report a 37-task benchmark showing no single agent paradigm dominates sequential decision-making, with reasoning harnesses giving large gains.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers propose a stepwise reward derived from a model’s own likelihood signalsOriginal title: Stepwise Intrinsic Rewards for Reasoning in Large Language ModelsA preprint reports a self-generated process reward that credits reasoning steps without human-labelled annotations or auxiliary models.Xiangwei Wang et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom HuaweiPreprint proposes MetaPermit, a meta-attribute policy system for securing AI agent tool callsOriginal title: MetaPermit: Scalable and Auditable Access Control for AI Agents via LLM-Inferred Meta-AttributesA preprint describes MetaPermit, which infers abstract 'meta-attributes' with an LLM and lets a fixed policy decide whether agent tool calls are allowed.Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedResearchers report new bioengineering benchmark exposes gaps in top AI modelsOriginal title: BioEVAL: A global, multi-institutional benchmark of large language and multimodal models for bioengineeringA multi-institutional preprint finds leading LLMs score well on bioengineering recall but struggle more with experimental reasoning and visual data.Shun Ye et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedPreprint proposes dynamic budget allocation for testing when LLMs jailbreak or failOriginal title: How Many Iterations to Jailbreak? Dynamic Budget Allocation for Multi-Turn LLM EvaluationResearchers report a method that adaptively spends a fixed interaction budget to more reliably bound how many turns it takes for an LLM to jailbreak or complete a task.Shai Feldman et al. · Added 1 Nov 2026