AI News Archive: June 8, 2026 — Part 22
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- Safe-RULE: Safe Reinforcement UnLEarning
Offline safe reinforcement learning (Safe RL) enables policy learning without online interactions, making it suitable for safety-critical systems such as robotics systems. However, its reliance on static datasets exposes offline Safe RL to data poisoning attacks, where adversaries inject malicious s...
- FuseFSS: Efficient Secure LLM Inference with Function Secret Sharing
Two-server secure inference allows a client to query a hosted large language model (LLM) without revealing prompts or embeddings. Recent GPU systems based on function secret sharing (FSS) make linear layers efficient, but fixed-point nonlinearities and helper operations remain a bottleneck because e...
- SecureClaw: Clawing Back Control of LLM Agents
Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents face two distinct security failures: unauthorized external actions and exposure of sensitive plaintext inside the runtime before any final output check can intervene. Existing defenses usually protect one boundary, either the planner/runtime or the action...
- Model Poisoning Against Federated Model Adaptation with Chain of Bit-Flips
Federated Learning (FL) allows a set of clients to collectively train a global model without sharing local training data. Giving the responsibility of the training to decentralized actors may lead to poisoning attacks: clients controlled by malicious third party potentially poison the training datas...
- Emergence of Context Characteristics Sensitivity in Large Language Models
During instruction fine-tuning (IFT), large language models (LLMs) learn to follow instructions by using the provided context to answer a query. While prior work has studied how context characteristics correlate with context usage by the LLM, this analysis has been limited to inference time, leaving...
- Closing the Prior-Posterior Loop: Self-Reflective Molecular Design with Analysis-Driven LLM Iteration
Can a general-purpose large language model design molecules with the precision of a seasoned chemist? Current LLM-based frameworks answer this question with scalar feedback loops-generate, score, reject-that amount to informed trial-and-error. Here we show that replacing a single number with the ful...
- From Rigid to Dynamic: Entropy-Guided Adaptive Inference for Long-Context LLMs
Existing sparse attention and KV cache compression methods for long-context LLM inference typically apply fixed sparsity patterns or uniform budgets across all attention heads, overlooking the substantial variation in attention behavior among heads and contexts. We observe two distinct entropy patte...
- Deterministic Integrity Gates for LLM-Assisted Clinical Manuscript Preparation: An Auditable Biomedical Informatics Architecture
Objective. Large language models (LLMs) increasingly draft clinical research manuscripts, but their fluency can hide fabricated citations, numbers that drift from source tables, and unmet reporting-guideline items. Existing tools generate text without verifying it, and self-critique inherits the bli...
- Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines
World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data or simulating real world environments, with many works proposing their integration into the robot learning pipeline. While highly practical, in this ...
- LLM-Orchestrated Conformance Checking in Stroke Care Without Computer-Interpretable Guidelines
Objective: Conformance checking in healthcare seeks to assess whether patient care pathways adhere to clinical guidelines. However, its practical application often depends on the availability of formal, machine-interpretable representations of guidelines, such as Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (C...
- Memory Beyond Recall: A Dual-Process Cognitive Memory System for Self-Evolving LLM Agents
Long-term memory for an LLM agent is more than retrieving the right passage at the right time. Current memory systems collapse belief revision, causal coupling, and cross-domain abstraction into a single retrieval surface tuned for surface recall, and consequently struggle on implicit personalisatio...
- Emergent alignment and the projectability of ethical personas
Work on `emergent misalignment' shows that finetuning LLMs on narrow tasks can induce broadly misaligned behavior. This supports the `persona selection' (PSM) hypothesis: during pre-training, LLMs learn to simulate different characters and perspectives, which can be elicited and refined during post-...
- A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales
Automated L2 speech assessment can assign proficiency labels, but often lacks interpretability. We propose a rubric-guided SpeechLLM for multi-aspect, multi-granular assessment, trained with a hybrid objective combining supervised fine-tuning and Bounded Direct Preference Optimization. The model joi...
- TheoremBench: Evaluating LLMs on Theorem Proving in Formal Mathematics
LLMs have recently achieved strong results on formal proving benchmarks. However, existing evaluations remain heavily concentrated on competition-style problems and often fail to capture how models behave on longer, more dependency-rich mathematical developments. We introduce TheoremBench, a Lean4 b...
- AliyunConsoleAgent: Training Web Agents in Real-World Cloud Environments via Distillation and Reinforcement Learning
We present AliyunConsoleAgent, a web agent framework for automated documentation verification in real-world cloud consoles. Major cloud platforms encompass hundreds of products with rapid feature iteration, causing console UIs to frequently diverge from their corresponding documentation. Verifying t...
- SIFT: Selective-Index For Fast Compute of RAG Prefill by Exploiting Attention Invariance
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) injects LLM queries with relevant documents to improve response quality. This injection increases prompt length and slows time to first token (TTFT). Unlike standard queries, RAG queries have a unique property of context reuse where the same documents recur acros...
- Context-Aware Deep Learning for Defect Classification in Atomic-Resolution STEM
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing materials characterization, yet most applications in electron microscopy rely solely on image contrast, overlooking the chemical and experimental context that shapes image formation. This limitation makes defect classification inherently ambiguous, as sim...
- MeCo: One-Step MeanFlow-based Corrector for Multi-Channel Speech Separation
While discriminative models for multi-channel speech separation excel in reference-based metrics, they often exhibit suboptimal human listening quality. To address this, we propose a novel MeanFlow-based one-step generative corrector (MeCo). MeCo learns a conditional average velocity field to map di...
- Visual Prompting Meets Feature Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection with Dual-Teacher Supervision
Recent Anomaly Detection methods achieve perfect detection and segmentation scores on well-established datasets, such as MVTec. However, many of these methods face challenges when foundational assumptions - such as consistent object scale, viewpoint, background, illumination, and centered placement ...
- From 0-to-1 to 1-to-N: Reproducible Engineering Evidence for MetaAI Recursive Self-Design
Recursive self-design refers to AI-assisted modification of the mechanisms by which an AI system is built, evaluated, and improved. This paper treats MetaAI not as a mature paradigm, but as a working term for a human-seeded, AI-expanded development pattern in which the design space itself becomes a ...
- Do Video Foundation Models Understand Intuitive Physics? A Layerwise Probing Analysis
We study whether pretrained video foundation models encode intuitive-physics information in their frozen representations, and how this information varies across model families, layers, and probe types. Using frozen-feature probing on IntPhys2 and Minimal Video Pairs (MVP), we compare predictive join...
- ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong priors for language-conditioned manipulation, but remain brittle in off-nominal states requiring targeted recovery. We propose ReCoVLA -- a failure-conditioned residual recovery framework that keeps a pretrained VLA policy frozen, uses an external...
- Closure-Validated Circuit Discovery in Attention Heads: Co-activation Proposes, Ablation Disposes
Interpretability increasingly treats groups of components, not individual units, as the basic object, and proposes to find them by clustering co-activation statistics. We ask whether such a cheap signal actually identifies an attention-head circuit. Adapting a sparse-autoencoder clustering recipe to...
- Seeing the Hivemind: A Consensus-Aware Interaction Technique for Mitigating AI Homogenization
People are increasingly using AI for creative tasks such as writing. While adoption continues to grow, this form of use risks undermining individual creativity locally and reducing the heterogeneity of creative output at scale. In response, we introduce the Semantic Repulsion Technique (SRT) and eva...
- CT-VAM: A Cerebello-Thalamic-Inspired Vision-Action Model for Efficient Visuomotor Control
Vision-language-action models have shown strong promise for robot manipulation, yet raw language is primarily needed to specify task intent rather than to be repeatedly processed during high-frequency low-level execution. Motivated by this separation, we propose a cerebello-thalamic-inspired vision-...
- AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratified Ablation of Proprietary Data and Reasoning Skills in Drug-Asset Valuation
AI Scientist agents are often evaluated as if capability were mainly a function of model quality, prompting, or reasoning scaffolds. We test a different hypothesis in drug-asset valuation: for knowledge-intensive scientific decisions, the limiting factor is often the evidence substrate the agent can...
- LargeMonitor: Monitoring Online Task-Free Continual Learning via Large Pretrained Models
Online task-free continual learning (TFCL) requires intelligent agents to sequentially accumulate knowledge from an unbounded, non-stationary data stream under strict single-pass constraints and without any explicit task identifiers. Existing online TFCL paradigms primarily rely on parameter-efficie...
- WeaveBench: A Long-Horizon, Real-World Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents with Hybrid Interfaces
Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly operate in runtimes that combine visual desktop control, command-line execution, code editing, browsers, and external tools. Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate these interfaces as separable capabilities, leaving long-horizon cross-interface orchestra...
- Harness Engineering for Physical AI: Robot Middleware Is the Harness Layer
Robot middleware faces a new role in the era of Physical AI. Learned policies, planners, and vision-language-action (VLA) models now enter deployed robots as causal participants on the control path, but the layer that integrates them with timing, scheduling, and network has not been named. Recent la...
- AI Assurance in UK Defence: Challenges in Operationalising JSP 936
This report examines practical challenges in operationalising JSP 936 Part 1 for AI assurance in UK Defence. Using a structured interpretive review of the directive's requirements, the analysis identifies eight thematic challenge areas adequacy of evidence and argument, management of human interacti...
- Cross-Modal Masking for Robust Silent Speech Synthesis Using sEMG and Lipreading
Speech restoration through silent speech interfaces (SSIs) has emerged as a promising assistive technology for individuals with impaired or absent laryngeal voice production. Among non-invasive SSI modalities, surface electromyography (sEMG) and video-based lipreading provide complementary articulat...
- Beyond Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation
Despite remarkable progress in machine translation (MT), non-AI communities have raised growing concerns about MT systems, suggesting a noticeable gap between technical advancement and the needs of real-world users. For instance, while NLP researchers focus on benchmark performance, end users care a...
- Where Does the Answer Come From? Benchmarking View-Level Visual Evidence Identification in Multi-View MLLMs for Autonomous Driving
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong results on visual reasoning benchmarks, but answer accuracy alone does not indicate whether a model relied on the correct visual evidence. This gap is particularly important in multi-view driving scenes used for autonomous driving, where a mode...
- Gradient-Guided Reward Optimization for Inference-time Alignment
Ensuring the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) under distribution drift requires inference-time adaptation. While inference-time alignment methods such as Best-of-$N$ and rejection sampling are widely used, they frame the task as a sampling-intensive, reward-guided search, leading to two k...
- Civil Court Simulation with Large Language Models
Court simulation bridges legal education and judicial practice, yet human-based simulations are costly and difficult to scale. Large language models (LLMs) offer a scalable alternative, but existing court-simulation research mainly focuses on criminal cases. Civil litigation is more common in practi...
- Code Is More Than Text: Uncertainty Estimation for Code Generation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as code generators, where silently wrong programs pose real safety and reliability risks. Reliable uncertainty estimation (UE) is essential for selective prediction, human-in-the-loop review, and downstream agentic decisions. Yet most existing c...
- Overcoming Decoder Inconsistencies in Whisper for Dravidian and Low-Resource Languages
Multilingual ASR models such as Whisper perform well on high-resource languages but exhibit substantially higher Word Error Rates (WER) for Dravidian languages compared to Indo-Aryan ones. Through linguistic and dataset analysis, we show that Dravidian languages have longer words, higher vocabulary ...
- Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves
The performance of LLM-based agents is jointly shaped by their base models and the harnesses that mediate their interaction with the environment. Because different models exhibit distinct behaviors, effective harness design is inherently model-specific. Yet agent harnesses are still largely engineer...
- Detecting Differences Is Not Understanding Structure: Large Language Models Fail at Graph Isomorphism
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on diverse reasoning tasks, yet their capacity for structural reasoning in graphs remains unclear. We investigate whether LLMs can genuinely understand graph isomorphism -a fundamental problem in graph theory. While LLMs achieve near-per...
- Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios
Effective crisis response requires spatially grounded communication that bridges linguistic guidance of civilians with the physical environment, accounting for structural bottlenecks, evolving threats, and agent-specific contexts. Yet, current NLP research in crisis communication remains mainly limi...
- What Should a Skill Remember? Quality-Cost Trade-offs in Cost-Aware Skill Rewriting for Language Model Agents
Large language model agents increasingly rely on skills: reusable procedural documents encoding workflows, tool use, implementation patterns, validation checks, and domain rules. Skill rewriting is often treated as prompt compression, but shorter skills can make agents more expensive by removing spa...
- PriFT: Prior-Support Guided Supervised Fine-Tuning
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is an efficient approach for downstream task adaptation and often serves as the initialization stage for reinforcement learning (RL), but it can show weaker generalization than RL. A key limitation is its off-policy objective: SFT fits fixed demonstrations token by token...
- LexRubric: A Rubric-Guided Diagnostic Benchmark for Open-Ended Legal Tasks
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to real-world legal tasks, evaluating the reliability of their open-ended legal responses has become essential. These tasks require context-sensitive answers and allow little room for error, motivating fine-grained and diagnostic evaluation th...
- Reasoning Arena: Trace Tournaments When Verifiable Rewards Fall Short
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a leading paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models through outcome-based supervision. However, verifiable rewards frequently become uninformative at the group level: when all sampled traces of a given promp...
- Is Text All You Need? Text as a Universal Information Bottleneck for Speech LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) provide a powerful reasoning backbone for speech understanding, but integrating continuous acoustic signals into a frozen LLM remains challenging. Existing speech-to-LLM interfaces typically operate at two extremes: either enforcing near-discrete token alignment, which b...
- Experience Makes Skillful: Enabling Generalizable Medical Agent Reasoning via Self-Evolving Skill Memory
Medical agent systems are increasingly expected to support interactive clinical decision making rather than only static question answering. In such settings, effective agents must reuse prior experience across evolving cases, yet existing memory mechanisms often retain raw historical traces that are...
- In-Context Learning for the Imputation of Public Opinion Data with Large Language Models
Large language models have been widely evaluated as simulators of individual survey responses. In practice, however, fully unobserved responses are rare; the dominant problem is partial non-response. Imputation aims to restore the overall structure of a survey dataset by filling in these missing val...
- PBSD: Privileged Bayesian Self-Distillation for Long-Horizon Credit Assignment
Long-horizon agentic tasks pose a fundamental credit assignment challenge for outcome-base reinforcement learning: trajectory-level rewards verify final correctness but provide limited guidance on which intermediate reasoning steps or tool interactions contribute to the outcome. The difficulty is es...
- Multi-Hop Knowledge Composition is Bound by Pretraining Exposure
Large Language Models fail at implicit multi-hop reasoning: a model answers "When was $X$ born?" and "Who is $Y$'s closest friend?" correctly but fails on "When was $Y$'s closest friend born?" in a single forward pass, even when both facts are perfectly memorized and individually retrievable. We stu...
- How Far Can Prompting Go for Minimal-Edit Ukrainian Grammatical Error Correction?
Fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) dominate in Ukrainian grammatical error correction (GEC), while API-accessed LLMs remain nearly untested on minimal-edit benchmarks. We evaluate 11 commercial LLMs from four providers and one open-source Ukrainian model on the UNLP 2023 GEC-only benchmark, com...