Automated harness optimization can substantially improve LLM agents by iteratively updating their prompts, tool interfaces, and control logic from execution feedback. However, existing methods primarily optimize how the harness is updated while largely fixing which training scenarios generate the feedback that drives t...
Sungho Park, Wonjoong Kim, Jue Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Contextual security defenses prevent AI agents from taking rogue actions by synthesizing a task-specific policy and enforcing it on the agent's tool calls. In multi-step tasks, however, which actions are valid often depends on what the agent has already done and learned. We present Sapien, a policy engine for enforcing...
CO Tiffany, Wen Zhang, E. Bagdasarian et al.· 0 citations
Legal research is a core and time-consuming legal workflow. Lawyers must identify controlling authority, verify that it remains valid, reconcile statutes and cases, and synthesize a grounded answer. Language model agents are a natural fit for this retrieval-intensive workflow, and automating even part of it would be va...
К. А. Дроздов, Oliver Chen, Langston Nashold et al.· 0 citations
Can a text-to-3D leaderboard change when every generated scene stays fixed? We audit this question for rendered-image evaluation, where camera settings and caption wording become part of the measurement protocol. Across 300 frozen scenes from six generators, we vary eight render and caption factors for 19 alignment eva...
Anson Y. Lam, Shuqing Li, Michael R. Lyu· 0 citations
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Structured tool calls often fail after only a small number of fields violate a schema or an execution contract. Regenerating the complete object enlarges the action surface and makes repeated repair difficult to audit. We introduce ContractRL, a contract-constrained sequential repair protocol that models verifier-guide...
Miao-Bo Hu, Shu-Hao Hu, Xiao-Bo Guo et al.· 0 citations
This work shows that robustness is achieved by moving from Bayesian discrimination entirely to salience, and shows that on 108 confirmatory items, the adversary-robust optimum aligns exactly with the salience pole from prior work.
Findings illustrate a broader challenge for automated reward design: countermeasures must block exploitable shortcuts while preserving the behavior the reward was intended to encourage.
For the tested model and tasks, loading full profession profiles by default does not improve accuracy and costs considerably more; whether selective retrieval of profile sections or open-ended scientific tasks would change this remains to be tested.
Diversity collapse in parallel chain-of-thought has motivated inference-time interventions built on a natural design: when a process reward model (PRM) prunes a chain, its high-PRM prefix is extracted and grafted verbatim as an in-context demonstration into a still-decoding sibling. We isolate this mechanism, PRM-Prune...
Khawaja Murad Ul Hassan, Mehran Ebrahimi· 0 citations
A message-intervention diagnostic is introduced that fixes the evidence and candidate answer while varying only the rationale passed across the reasoner-to-verifier boundary, not merely as a route to higher answer accuracy.
Voice-based interfaces rely on a wake-up word mechanism to initiate communication with devices. However, achieving a robust, energy-efficient, and fast detection remains a challenge. This paper addresses these real production needs by enhancing data with temporal alignments and using detection based on two phases with...
Fernando L\'opez, Jordi Luque, Carlos Segura et al.· 0 citations
Purpose: Understanding how much of routine policing involves vulnerable people could inform resourcing, training, and multi-agency response, yet administrative data provide limited insight. We explore whether an LLM-based classification pipeline, developed on open-source US police data, can be adapted to estimate the p...
A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduAug 31, 2026
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