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ImpossibleRubrics: Stress-Testing Generated Rubrics as Reward Signals
ImpossibleRubrics benchmark shows LLM-generated rubric reward signals are exploited 8-26% of the time by adversarial answers on impossible tasks.
ImpossibleRubrics is a benchmark of 169 impossible tasks across six impossibility categories, each paired with a verifiable oracle certificate, plus 48 answerable controls, for stress-testing LLM-generated rubrics used as reward signals. Eleven rubric generators were exploited 8-26% of the time on an unbiased 150-task cut and up to 36% on a stress cut, while a certificate-faithful rubric scored 0%. A single generic 'be decisive, penalize hedging' rubric was exploited 64% of the time, suggesting tailored criteria can reveal which claims attackers should fabricate.
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Adversarial Testing of Automated Program Repair Agents for Security Vulnerabilities
SWEADV benchmark shows adversarial issue descriptions make LLM program-repair agents write insecure fixes in 51.7% of cases, evading most detection tools.
Researchers built SWEADV, a benchmark of 750 adversarial issue descriptions derived from 150 SWE-bench Verified repair tasks, covering command execution, deserialization, path traversal, denial of service, and weak hashing attack types. Tested on mini_swe agents backed by GPT-5-Mini, MiniMax-M2.5, and DeepSeek-R, adversarial descriptions induced malicious behavior with successful repair in 51.7% of cases. Detection was weak: LLM-as-judge pre-repair screening reached only 62.3% accuracy, and post-repair detection via static analysis and LLM-as-judge achieved just 39.4% and 55.4%.
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Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence
Atria Dawn Preview, an agentic foundation model trained on verifiable experiences, tops five of 16 research and engineering benchmarks.
Atria Dawn Preview is a foundation agentic language model for scientific research and engineering workflows, trained via a Verifiable Experience Pipeline connecting tool-mediated interactions to executable environments and externally verified outcomes. Across 16 benchmarks spanning research, engineering, and digital work it is competitive with frontier agents and achieves the highest reported score on five of them. The release includes a human-AI collaboration case study analyzing 769 task records from 56 participants, where about one-third of completed AI-assisted tasks were rated infeasible without AI and agents frequently proposed methods and implemented revisions while humans retained final decisions.
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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao, warn AI companies' benchmark-driven approach to mathematics is misaligned with the discipline's purpose of understanding.
In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, and Maryna Viazovska warn that AI systems solving major open problems at machine speed undermine conceptual understanding and raise severe attribution and plagiarism questions. The statement lands amid a controversy accusing OpenAI of training math models to beat researchers to a rumored partial solution of a Millennium Prize Problem. The signatories describe a general threat to intellectual work across professions and call for urgent action by mathematicians, AI companies, and society, while not seeking a ban.
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StepAudio 3 Realtime Technical Report
StepAudio 3 Realtime debuts an audio-language model with Think-While-Speaking reasoning, delivering full-duplex voice dialogue with top benchmark results.
StepAudio 3 Realtime is an audio-language foundation model built around a continuous listen-converse-think-act loop for real-time spoken interaction. Think-While-Speaking runs private reasoning in parallel with speech, reaching a 73.0 macro average on StepAudioChat in reasoning mode. The model reports 90.6 on MMSU, 98.9 overall on the Artificial Analysis Full-Duplex Bench, and 56.0% macro task success on tau-Voice. An integrated Voice Agent handles asynchronous tool execution without disrupting dialogue flow.
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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
25 Fields Medallists including Terence Tao issue a declaration warning that AI companies' benchmark-driven mathematics goals are misaligned with science and society.
Terence Tao announced a declaration signed by 25 initial signatories, all Fields Medallists, warning that AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as benchmarks is detrimental to the science and misaligned with the mathematical community's goals. The signatories argue that rushed, headline-driven releases of LLM solutions to major problems raise attribution and plagiarism questions and could erode the human process that develops and transmits mathematical ideas. They frame the issue as a broader misalignment between AI outputs and the purpose of intellectual work, affecting other sciences and society at large. The declaration is posted on a public page, invites further signatures in the manner of the Leiden declaration, and has been covered by The Economist.
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Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt
Hugging Face's security.txt tells AI agents hunting for vulnerabilities to use the public CyberGym benchmark instead of hacking the site.
Hugging Face's security.txt file addresses AI agents directly, noting the CyberGym vulnerability-finding benchmark is publicly available on GitHub and jokingly suggesting they dump their weights on Hugging Face. Simon Willison highlighted the file as an example of how organizations now communicate with AI agents in their security disclosures.
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PIA-Bench: Towards Automated Privacy Impact Assessment with Large Language Models
Researchers release PIA-Bench, the first open benchmark evaluating how accurately LLMs can automate privacy impact assessments using 73 curated federal PIAs.
PIA-Bench is the first open benchmark for evaluating large language models on real-world privacy impact assessments (PIAs). The authors audited 499 expert-authored PIAs published by US federal agencies and curated 73 structured PIAs comprising 451 privacy risk items and 831 mitigation items. Off-the-shelf LLMs were found to produce meaningful assessments while identifying clear avenues for improvement. The paper calls for domain-specific LLM agent workflows, accountable LLM infrastructure, and new quality standards for PIAs.
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MInTRL: Off-policy Intervention can boost On-policy RL
MInTRL injects sparse judge corrections into on-policy RL rollouts, expanding exploration beyond on-policy sampling while preserving learnability on math and code benchmarks.
Minimal Intervention Reinforcement Learning periodically has a judge-intervention policy replace erroneous suffixes of the current policy's output with short corrections, then returns control, keeping trajectories largely on-policy. Training uses a sequence-level advantage-regression objective that removes the need for importance sampling. Across math and code benchmarks it consistently beats standard on-policy and off-policy baselines, remains effective with self-intervention, and performs best at moderate intervention intensity.
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Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures
Continual Search framework iteratively prompts LLM judges to keep searching agent execution logs, boosting long-horizon failure root-cause attribution accuracy.
The paper frames automated root-cause attribution (RCA) for long-horizon AI agent failures as a search problem, since relevant evidence is sparse and distributed across massive execution traces. The authors propose Continual Search, an iterative framework that nudges an LLM judge across successive turns to keep hunting unresolved diagnostic evidence instead of settling on an early plausible diagnosis. They introduce MegaRCA-Mix, a benchmark of 50 human-annotated failure trials on long-horizon, execution-heavy tasks. On MegaRCA-Mix, Continual Search improves GPT-5.5's F1 from 0.349 to 0.498 (over 40% gain), and lower-tier models can surpass higher-tier counterparts when search is effective.
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AdamX: Cosine similarity meets gradient descent
Researchers propose AdamX, a cosine-similarity-based first-order optimizer with variance rectification that matches Adam-class convergence across benchmark datasets and architectures.
The paper introduces AdamX, a first-order optimizer that uses cosine similarity as an adaptive mechanism for controlling update magnitudes, plus a variance rectification scheme for smoother optimization early in training. The method is described as scalable, model-agnostic, and straightforward to integrate into existing pipelines. Empirically, AdamX shows competitive convergence rates measured by epochs to reach performance thresholds under a fixed hyperparameter budget, with code and experiments released on GitHub.
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IndicTriMix: Developing Language Identification Datasets and Models for Tri-Language Code-Mixing
Researchers release IndicTriMix benchmarks and fine-tuned MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTa models for token-level language identification in tri-language code-mixed text.
The paper formulates token-level language identification in code-mixed text as a sequence labeling task and fine-tunes MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTa transformer models for Indian languages. It evaluates on Hindi, Gujarati, and Bengali configurations with manually annotated test sets and proposes two code-mixed generation approaches using parallel trilingual sentences. A public benchmark, annotated test sets, and fine-tuned models are released for reproducibility.
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Cognition released SWE-2, a coding model post-trained from Kimi K3 that scores 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, near Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost.
Cognition introduced SWE-2, its most advanced coding model, post-trained from the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 base model. It achieves 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, 73.0% on DeepSWE 1.1, and 92.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, beating Grok 4.6 and SWE-1.7 while matching Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol at a fraction of the price. The company says it scaled reinforcement learning to the multi-trillion-parameter regime for the first time, using Pareto-informed cost penalties that train all reasoning-effort levels in a single run, tripled RL environments, and NVFP4/FP8 quantization-aware training. SWE-2 is available today in Devin Desktop and CLI, with rollout on Devin Web and Fusion.
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Domain-Incremental Learning for Multi-Channel Replay Speech Detection
First continual learning benchmark for multi-channel replay speech detection shows task-specific beamforming cuts catastrophic forgetting across 24 acoustic environments.
Researchers frame replay-attack detection for voice-controlled systems as domain-incremental learning over acoustic environments, evaluating a beamformer-based detector across all 24 environment orderings of the ReMASC corpus with five seeds. Naive sequential fine-tuning raises error rates on previously learned environments by 18.8 points, while elastic weight consolidation halves forgetting but loses plasticity and gradient projection memory is statistically indistinguishable from naive fine-tuning. A task-specific beamformer keeping one spatial front-end per environment significantly improves final and incremental accuracy, and the last environment in a sequence dominates final performance.
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FreeFlow: A Bias-free Hierarchical Transformer for Optical Flow Estimation
FreeFlow is a bias-free hierarchical transformer achieving state-of-the-art optical flow results on Sintel, KITTI-2015, and Spring benchmarks.
FreeFlow replaces task-specific inductive biases like correlation volumes and iterative warping with a single feed-forward encoder-decoder combining window, shifted-window, and reduced-resolution global attention. It reaches 0.68/1.48 EPE on Sintel Clean/Final, 3.23 Fl-all on KITTI-2015, and 3.192 1px on Spring. The architecture scales consistently from small to large variants and remains memory efficient at 1080p inference.
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Feature Recovery for Object Understanding After Irreversible Fire Damage
TRACE benchmark with 21.4K scenes studies post-fire object understanding; a Feature Recovery Module improves degraded-image retrieval by 12.5% and material recovery by 20.1%.
The paper introduces TRACE, a transformation-aware benchmark with 21.4K real-image-grounded synthetic scenes, 499 object identities across 189 categories, and five tasks covering degraded-object detection, pristine-state recovery, material recovery, description generation, and functional reasoning. Existing models degrade sharply: RF-DETR mAP falls 71% relative from least to most severe level, and InternVL3.5 retrieval R@1 drops from 93.85 to 28.11. The proposed Feature Recovery Module maps degraded encoder features to pristine-aligned representations while keeping the host model frozen, averaging relative gains of 12.5% for retrieval and 20.1% for material recovery across VLM hosts and severity levels.
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Fortunate Recall: Ontology-Driven Memory Lifecycle Management for Persistent Coherence in LLMs
Fortunate Recall introduces ontology-based lifecycle policies for LLM memory, cutting confabulation roughly in half (e.g., 45.1% to 22.4%) versus Mem0.
Fortunate Recall (FR) is a composable policy layer that classifies personal facts into a 10+1 behavioral ontology and applies category-specific lifecycle rules including differential temporal decay, slot-key supersession, event-time validity, and retrieval routing. FR-Bank scores 76.9% on the new 516-question LifecycleBench, ahead of Mem0, A-MEM, Memory-R1, and MemoryOS (61%-70.5%), and 75.2% on LongMemEval-S. End-to-end, confabulation drops from Mem0's 45.1% to 22.4% over answered queries, with the ranking replicating on open-weight Kimi K2.5 and transferring to the independent BEAM benchmark (46.8% vs 32.9%).
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Retrofitting Code Using LLMs to Support Exceptional Behavior
EXCODER combines static/dynamic analysis with LLMs to retrofit exception-handling code, achieving 85.92% pass@1 with Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B on Java benchmarks.
The paper introduces the task of retrofitting existing code with Exception Related Code (throw statements, guarding conditions, try/catch blocks) so that given Exceptional Behavior Tests pass. EXCODER performs context engineering by integrating static and dynamic program analysis output with LLMs; it was evaluated on a benchmark built from 304 methods across 75 GitHub Java projects. Combined with Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B, EXCODER achieves pass@1, 5, and 10 rates of 85.92%, 86.18%, and 86.51%, roughly 13 percentage points over baseline, and manual inspection reveals remaining limitations.
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OmniMed-FL: A Robust Multimodal Federated Learning Framework for Clinical Diagnosis
OmniMed-FL benchmarks multimodal federated learning for chest radiograph diagnosis across 3-20 clients, with FedProx leading under severe non-IID skew.
OmniMed-FL studies multimodal federated learning combining chest radiographs and clinical notes for five-class condition classification under HIPAA/GDDR-compliant decentralized training. It benchmarks eight fusion strategies, imputation rules, and federated baselines under Dirichlet non-IID partitioning across 3-20 hospital clients. With 5 clients and severe skew (alpha=0.1), FedProx scored 0.737 macro-F1 versus 0.662 for FedAvg and 0.297 for local-only training. Multimodal fusion beat unimodal inputs (0.956 vs 0.934 text, 0.664 images) on the synthetic corpus.
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Deepmind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every possible DNA change in the human genome
DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes impact predictions for ~9 billion human DNA variants in a 1-petabyte dataset; its AVI score beats CADD in benchmarks
Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas, precomputing functional-effect predictions for roughly 9 billion human genome variants (about 27,000 prediction values per variant) in a one-petabyte dataset more than 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. The accompanying AlphaGenome Variant Impact Score (AVI), a small neural network combining AlphaGenome, AlphaMissense and evolutionary conservation features (18 inputs versus CADD's 150+), outperformed existing tools on clinically classified variants, ranking causal variants in the top 50 candidates for 29.5% of solved GREGoR cases versus 12.5% for CADD. A GREGoR epilepsy case illustrates the impact: AVI elevated a previously unclear DNM1 splice variant that lab experiments confirmed as likely disease-causing. The atlas is available for noncommercial use via web portal, API and a Google Antigravity skill, with a commercial version planned through Google Cloud.
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The 12 Best Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Services, Compared and Priced
Buyer's guide compares 12 MDR services, naming Huntress best value, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for response authority and Expel for transparency.
The article compares 12 managed detection and response providers across response authority, tool bundling and pricing, highlighting Huntress for published SMB pricing and CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for unilateral containment. It stresses the consolidation landscape: Sophos completed its acquisition of Secureworks in February 2025 for approximately $859 million, and Arctic Wolf closed its purchase of BlackBerry's Cylance endpoint assets the same month. It also warns that only full-response contract tiers isolate hosts and kill processes, while lower tiers only triage or guide.
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How Fragile Is Safety Alignment at Frontier Scale? A Single-Direction Attack on a 320B MoE
Researchers show directional ablation breaks refusal in GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter MoE, cutting refusal by 41–89 points across seven benchmarks.
The study extends directional ablation, a white-box attack that removes an aligned LLM's refusal behavior, from dense models up to ~70B parameters to GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 288 routed experts, four-wide hyper-connection residual, and block-FP8 quantization. Editing attention, dense, and routed-expert writers jointly removes 0.776 of refusal, with 74% of the effect existing only under the joint intervention; the conventional module-name-based recipe reaches only 0.066 and fails silently on MoE architectures. The attack yields 41–89 percentage-point reductions in refusal across seven harmful benchmarks with no detected capability change, and a category-concentrated refusal residue survives all edits at ranks 1 to 12.
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RESCUE-BENCH: Towards Relation-Aware Multi-Party Emotional Support Conversation Systems
Researchers introduce RESCUE-Bench, a video benchmark of 191 couple and family conversations evaluating LLMs on relation-aware multi-party emotional support.
RESCUE-Bench is built from real couple and family interview conversations, containing 191 samples, 7,079 annotated turns, and 1,064.8 minutes of video. It defines six tasks measuring two capabilities: Relational Understanding and Relation-Sensitive Support. Experiments with ten LLMs show models handle local emotional cues but struggle with relation pattern prediction, viewpoint prediction, and support strategy prediction.
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Studying Without a Syllabus: Task-Agnostic Environment Preprocessing
Paper formalizes task-agnostic environment preprocessing, where agents study unfamiliar environments under a budget to build reusable artifacts for a frozen solver.
The paper formalizes task-agnostic environment preprocessing, where a studying system explores an environment under a budget and produces artifacts like indices, scripts, or procedural guidance for a frozen solver, without task examples or evaluation feedback. The authors compare unaided and archive-equipped meta-agents against fixed synthetic-practice and corpus-processing methods across six heterogeneous benchmarks. A meta-agent variant achieves the highest Avg@3 reward on five benchmarks, while fixed corpus processing remains best on the largest corpus benchmark. Studied artifacts reduce the test-time sampling needed to reach a given score, shifting computation from repeated test-time attempts to a pre-task study phase.
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Measuring LLM Sycophancy under Sustained Multi-Turn Pressure
SPINE benchmark shows LLM sycophantic collapse rises with conversation length as an adaptive user pushes a mistaken position for up to 25 turns.
The SPINE benchmark uses an LLM proxy that persistently and adaptively defends a mistaken user position for up to 25 turns, testing four production LLM systems and three OLMo3-7B variants on 100 false-presupposition and 100 unethical-query items. Collapse rates increase with conversation length for every model, and short-horizon evaluation protocols underestimate sycophancy. Analysis of accessible reasoning traces shows the correct position often remains represented when the model concedes, indicating models choose to please users rather than lacking knowledge. Among tested tactics, emotional appeals are most associated with inducing sycophantic behavior.
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PrivEscalate: Measuring and Augmenting the Threat of LLM-Automated Linux Privilege Escalation
Researchers release PrivEscalate, a 531-scenario benchmark showing LLM agents' Linux privilege-escalation success varies by vulnerability class, plus PrivEscAgent, a domain-specialized agent that boosts success.
The paper introduces PrivEscalate, an open-source benchmark of 531 Dockerized Linux privilege-escalation scenarios spanning 14 sub-categories, plus 329 parameterized variants measuring sensitivity to environmental distractors. Evaluating six LLMs across three agent architectures shows capability is heterogeneous across vulnerability classes, sensitive to perturbation, and architecture-dependent. The authors also present PrivEscAgent, a wrapper adding deterministic enumeration, category matching, and step planning that outperforms prior privesc-agent baselines without modifying the underlying LLM. The benchmark is released to support LLM agent evaluation, defensive tool validation, and red-team training.
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ActReview: Rebuttal-Guided Training Data and Rubric Rewards for Actionable Peer Review Generation
ActReview post-trains Qwen3-8B-Base on 40K rebuttal-derived instances with rubric rewards to generate actionable, grounded peer-review feedback, plus a 1,000-instance benchmark.
The framework builds ActReview-40K from real OpenReview review-rebuttal threads, aligning reviewer weaknesses with author responses and grounding feedback in localized paper evidence. Qwen3-8B-Base is post-trained with multi-task supervised fine-tuning followed by GRPO using candidate-aware, weakness-specific rubric rewards. Experiments show improved actionability and grounding over prior specialized review-generation models, supported by ActReview-Bench, a human-curated 1,000-instance evaluation set. Human evaluation confirms better revision usefulness while noting a remaining gap in technical accuracy.
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Claude Mythos AI Autonomously Executes Full Cyber Kill Chain Without Human Guidance
Booz Allen's benchmark found Anthropic's Claude Mythos was the only tested model to autonomously complete a full cyber kill chain to domain administrator control.
Booz Allen assessed 18 US and Chinese models as autonomous attackers against a production-grade enterprise network, measuring actions via network and host telemetry. Claude Mythos scored 80 on the Cyber Weapon Index (74 vulnerability research, 86 kill-chain attainment), moving from a stolen employee credential to administrator-level control in every credentialed attempt. Only frontier Anthropic models identified the previously unseen flaw in compiled software, and only Claude Mythos exploited it; the report notes a harness paired with Claude Sonnet could rival Claude Mythos. The result is a controlled benchmark, not evidence of a real-world campaign or victim breach.
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Structural Jailbreaks Generalize but Do Not Compound: A cross-provider and multilingual study of Involuntary In-Context Learning
Researchers show IICL structural jailbreaks generalize to Google Gemini, lifting attack success to 80-100% on harm and financial benchmarks; non-English prompts attenuate it.
The study red-teams two Google Gemini models with Involuntary In-Context Learning (IICL), a structural jailbreak reframing harmful requests as the final cell of a data-labeling task. IICL lifts attack success from at most 6.7% to 80-90% on HarmBench and 97-100% on financial abuse (FinProof), an order of magnitude above prior results on OpenAI's GPT-5.4. Against a compounding hypothesis, forcing IICL output into Spanish, Hindi, or Arabic attenuates the attack in 11 of 12 conditions, attributed to a 'relevance curse' producing lower-quality harmful content in lower-resource languages. Findings replicate under an independent non-Google judge (Cohen's kappa 0.86 over 377 paired verdicts).
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We have a year to fix security everywhere
Blog post warns that cheap open-weight GLM 5.3-flash, once abliterated, could enable mass AI-driven vulnerability exploitation, urging industry-wide patching now.
An essay argues that Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.3-flash—runnable locally on roughly $6k consumer hardware at 20-45 tokens/second—combined with 'abliterated' variants from groups like DeAlignAI that score 0% on HarmBench-320 puts dangerous hacking capability in nearly anyone's hands. GLM 5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym and 54.4% on ExploitBench, versus GPT-6 Astra's 100% and GPT-5.6 Sol's 78.5%, and the author cites evidence of frontier models exploiting real-world infrastructure. The author calls for using LLMs (Project Glasswing, Daybreak) to find and fix vulnerabilities industry-wide before adversaries weaponize cheap open models.
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ActReview: Rebuttal-Guided Training Data and Rubric Rewards for Actionable Peer Review Generation
ActReview post-trains Qwen3-8B-Base on OpenReview rebuttals to generate actionable peer-review feedback with grounded revision suggestions, benchmarked on 1,000 curated instances.
The paper defines Actionable Peer-review Generation as diagnostic claim generation plus revision suggestion generation and introduces ActReview, a rebuttal-guided post-training framework. From OpenReview review-rebuttal threads the authors build ActReview-40K, aligning reviewer weaknesses with author responses grounded in localized paper evidence, and post-train Qwen3-8B-Base with multi-task SFT followed by GRPO using weakness-specific rubric rewards. They also release ActReview-Bench, a human-curated 1,000-instance benchmark, on which ActReview outperforms prior specialized review-generation models on actionability and grounding while remaining competitive with strong prompt-based LLMs. Human evaluation confirms improved revision usefulness but identifies a remaining gap in technical accuracy.
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NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness
NeoHorse-1 introduces agentic post-training with intelligent routing that lifts agent benchmark scores at 4B and 9B scales, prototyping recursive self-improvement.
NeoHorse-1 is a family of agent-native models trained through agentic post-training: routing-harness logs (predicted capability demand, service tier, interaction) become structurally validated training data organized into a three-stage SFT curriculum plus routing-guided on-policy distillation. Capability-guided allocation converts evaluation feedback into the next training mixture, closing an evaluation-selection-update loop. Post-training raises the macro-average from 58.94 to 64.87 at 4B and from 65.60 to 69.04 at 9B across eleven agent, tool-use, coding, and instruction-following benchmarks. The authors position it as a prototype of harness-mediated recursive self-improvement.
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Difficulty-Adaptive Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Expanding Reasoning Coverage in RLVR
Researchers propose DATPO, a difficulty-adaptive tree-structured RLVR training method that expands reasoning coverage (pass@k) and improves test-time scaling on math benchmarks.
The paper identifies three rollout design principles for RLVR: difficulty-adaptive rollout expands pass@k, tree-based rollout beats parallel sampling, and sentence-entropy-guided forking overcomes token-level branching localization. DATPO combines difficulty-adaptive tree search with a sibling-diversity advantage term to promote semantic diversity during training. On mathematical reasoning benchmarks, DATPO outperforms baselines in pass@k, directly translating to superior test-time scaling performance.
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