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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Large Decision Models: Repurposing Large Language Models as Single-Pass Decision Makers

Large language models make decisions through parallel prefill and sequential decoding. Although effective, this approach incurs decoding costs and does not explicitly expose decision probabilities. Existing task-specific classifiers require per-task training and offer limited generalization to unseen decision schemas....

Zi-Yi Chen, Yan Zhang, Jian-Hui Wei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Words to World: Benchmarking LLMs in Interactive Physical Environments

Words are increasingly becoming an interface for action: large language models (LLMs) can now invoke tools, operate devices, and make decisions that affect the physical world. However, current benchmarks largely evaluate LLMs through static text responses, offline tool calls, or simulated tasks, leaving open the questi...

Xin-Nan Dai, Kai-Qi Yang, Ya-Xing Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Dependency-Aware Reward Shaping for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

When training large language models with reinforcement learning, terminal rewards provide little guidance about which steps matter. Common methods for assigning step credit overlook that work built on uncorrected mistakes is wasted while independent work remains valid. With only a final success/failure reward, every st...

Zi-Yi Chen, Yan Zhang, Jian-Hui Wei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Oracle Communication: Benchmarking Interactive Intent Alignment Under Miscommunication and Evolving User Intent

Modern LLM agents increasingly tackle complex tasks through interactive, long-horizon exchanges with users, while existing benchmarks generally assume that users always accurately and sufficiently communicate a fixed intent. However, this oracle communication assumption rarely holds in practice: users may miscommunicat...

Zhe-Yuan Zhang, M. Chao, Ke Xiao et al. · 3 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

Complementary Retrieval-Augmented Prompting for Consistent Long-Form Video Generation

While recent video foundation models excel at generating high-quality short videos, long-form video generation remains a critical challenge, where a major bottleneck lies in conditioning independently generated shots to preserve consistent characters, scenes, and objects throughout a story. Existing training-free appro...

Xiang-Han Wei, Xiao-Da Yang, Zhi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?

Robots must often continue a task after a target moves, the viewpoint shifts, or an obstacle appears, even though their earlier observations and committed actions reflect the previous scene. Many simulation robustness benchmarks fix external conditions at reset, leaving this temporal challenge underexamined. We introdu...

Yun-Bei Zhang, Zi-Jian Jin, Yuan-Zhe Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TraceDance: An Automated System for Building Agent Behavior Benchmarks from Real-World Agent Deployment Traces

An agent can complete a task while exhibiting undesirable behavior during execution. Developers need tests for the specific behaviors encountered in deployment, beyond fixed benchmark suites. We present TraceDance, an agent system that constructs targeted benchmarks from deployment traces for user-specified undesirable...

De-Hai Min, Dao-An Zhang, Yiming Zeng et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Self-Boosting Vision-Language Models with Noisy Student On-Policy Self-Distillation

This work proposes NOPD (Noisy Student On-Policy Self-Distillation), a simple yet effective self-distillation approach that improves VLMs without any external models or ground-truth answers, and demonstrates that NOPD is a general approach to enhance VLMs, achieving improvements across three models on 12 benchmarks.

Shuai Wang, Daoan Zhang, Zhe Tang et al. · 0 citations

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