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When Local Monitors Miss Compositional Harm: Diagnosing Distributed Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems

"As multi-agent, tool-using LLM systems are deployed, a common safety net is a runtime monitor that checks each message, tool call, or step on its own. We show this net has a fundamental hole. A distributed backdoor splits a harmful payload across agents, so every local check passes while the assembl..."
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AIDEΒ²: The First Evidence of Recursive Self-Improvement

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Knowledgeless Language Models: Suppressing Parametric Recall for Evidence-Grounded Language Modeling

"Language models encode substantial factual knowledge in their parameters, which can lead to unreliable behavior when this knowledge is outdated, incomplete, or misaligned with the provided context. In this work, we study whether modifying the pretraining signal can systematically shift models away f..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Resist and Update: Counterfactual Report Coordinates for Incentive-Compatible LLMs

"Aligned language models routinely misreport under non-evidential incentive pressure: they agree with a confident user or overstate certainty even when their internal belief is unchanged. We cast this as a failure of internal incentive-compatibility (IC) and present a method for learning and certifyi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Who Grades the Grader? Co-Evolving Evaluation Metrics and Skills for Self-Improving LLM Agents

"Self-evolving agent systems improve by creating, revising, and retiring their own skills, but every such loop rests on a hidden assumption: a reliable evaluation metric already exists. In many real applications it does not. We make three claims. First, metrics can be \emph{evolved}: our metric loop..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

LLM Judges Can Be Too Generous When There Is No Reference Answer

"LLM judges are increasingly being used to evaluate open-ended model responses, often in no-reference settings where a ground-truth answer is unavailable. However, can they reliably assess in such evaluation setups? We explore this question in this paper through a two stage pipeline with a) calibrati..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Toward Localizing and Repairing Bias in Transformer Attention Heads

"Transformer language models are increasingly used as software components, yet biased outputs remain difficult to localize and repair inside the model. Existing fairness testing and repair methods largely operate at the input-output or retraining level, while recent work suggests that bias-related be..."
πŸ’Ό JOBS

Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success

"Failure attribution for LLM-based agentic systems, i.e., identifying which steps in a failure trajectory caused the task to fail, is critical for debugging and improving these systems. Existing approaches either rely on prompting-based pipelines, which are computationally expensive, or require post-..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Can LLMs Write Reliable Rubrics? A Meta-Evaluation for Experiment Reproduction

"Rubric-based evaluation is a promising approach for assessing open-ended outputs from LLM-based research agents, particularly in paper reproduction, where direct paper-to-repository comparison is prone to hallucination. However, constructing paper-specific rubrics requires substantial expert effort,..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

The Illusion of Robustness: Aggregate Accuracy Hides Prediction Flips under Task-Irrelevant Context

"As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they are increasingly deployed in context-rich settings where task inputs are often accompanied by long, partially irrelevant context. In a controlled setting, we find that state-of-the-art models often appear robust to task-irrelevant context at th..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Win by Silence: Deletion Non-Monotonicity, Autonomous Exploitation, and Typed-State Gating in LLM Plan Evaluation

"Plan evaluators can reward a strategic plan for becoming less explicit. This paper studies that failure in a staged expected-value scorer for LLM-generated venture routes. Proposition 1 gives the score change from deleting an interior transition while retargeting its predecessor and retaining downst..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Accelerating Masked Diffusion Large Language Models: A Survey of Efficient Inference Techniques

"Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer a theoretical advantage in parallel generation over standard autoregressive models. However, parallel generation alone does not guarantee practical speedups. Realizing this efficiency requires specialized inference mechanisms, such as diffusion-aware cac..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MemOps: Benchmarking Lifecycle Memory Operations in Long-Horizon Conversations

"Long-term memory has become a foundational capability for LLM-based agents that accompany users across extended, multi-session interactions. Existing benchmarks, however, evaluate such memory almost exclusively through downstream question answering, scoring only the correctness of a final answer. Th..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Do AI Agents Know When a Task Is Simple? Toward Complexity-Aware Reasoning and Execution

"Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate multi-step engineering and informatics workflows, yet they rarely ask how much effort a task actually requires. They often follow a maximum-context-first strategy--re-reading files and dependencies they have already seen--turning a one-line edi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Watermark Forensics for Generative Models: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

"A watermark in a generative model's output is usually asked only whether a text is machine-made. The same mark can do more: attribute it to the user who produced it, extract a hidden payload, or localize the part that survives editing. These form a forensic ladder, and we ask what each rung costs in..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Requential Coding: Pushing the Limits of Model Compression with Self-Generated Training Data

"Compression is fundamental to intelligence. A model that can represent its training data as a short code has discovered regularities that enable generalization. Large neural networks may learn functions far simpler than their parameter counts suggest, but it is challenging to construct codes that re..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Evaluating Large Language Models on Misconceptions in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations

"Patients seeking medical information often ask questions that embed incorrect assumptions or misconceptions. In such cases, safe medical communication requires not only answering the question, but identifying and correcting the underlying false belief. These interactions naturally unfold over multip..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Prompt Used for "A Proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture" [pdf]

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

An Exact Instrument for State Usage in Selective State-Space Models, and the Input-Driven Migration It Reveals

"Selective state-space models such as Mamba route information through a bank of first-order modes whose input coupling is set by a learned selection mechanism. We give an exact instrument for measuring how a trained model uses these modes. Because the state matrix is diagonal, each channel's output d..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Inside the Unfair Judge: A Mechanistic Interpretability Account of LLM-as-Judge Bias

"Existing studies of LLM-as-judge scoring bias work predominantly at the input-output level: they perturb inputs, measure score deltas, and propose prompt-level mitigations. We argue that the same biases admit a representation-level account in the judge's hidden state, complementary to the input-outp..."
🌐 POLICY

The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Auto-SFT optimizes parameters for LoRA fine-tuning

πŸ”„ OPEN SOURCE

Open Models are ready for agents. Their APIs are not

βš–οΈ ETHICS

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

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πŸ—žοΈ THE WEEK, EDITED

AI Week in Review: July 6-12, 2026

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 with desktop agents, Meta undercut everyone on API pricing, Nvidia pushed its next-gen rack to 2028, and the industry quietly discovered that its newest models are worse at the tasks they were supposedly built for.

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