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RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Self-retiring on-policy distillation for agentic RL โ the distillation schedule adapts and stops when the student stops benefiting, instead of following a fixed plan.
ZGCM-1: A Fully Open and Extremely Efficient Foundation Model for Math and Agentic Search
ZGCM-1 is a fully open model tuned for math and agentic search, claiming extreme efficiency โ worth a look if your agents spend tokens on search-heavy reasoning.
HypoEvolve: Genetic Algorithms Enable Multi-Agent LLMs to Discover Scientific Hypotheses
HypoEvolve applies genetic selection across multi-agent LLM outputs to evolve scientific hypotheses โ an orchestration pattern worth stealing for any agent swarm doing open-ended search.
Confidence Comes from Experience: Experiential Confidence Estimation from Reasoning to Agents
XConf proposes confidence estimation grounded in experiential outcomes rather than model introspection โ a calibration approach that could tell agents when to trust their own reasoning before acting.
GraphEcho: Structural Redundancy and Evidence Provenance in LLM Graph Agents
GraphEcho dissects where LLM graph agents duplicate structure and lose track of evidence provenance โ useful for anyone building retrieval or knowledge-graph agent loops.
ScienceIDE: Turning World's Scientific Codebase into Agent Learnable Environments
Proposes turning scientific codebases into environments agents can learn from โ a potential source of training and eval signal for code agents.
Mind2Dialogue: Training Human-Aware Language Models by Simulating User Mental States
Trains LMs to simulate user mental states before responding โ 'understand the person behind the prompt' as a trainable objective, not a prompt-engineering trick. Relevant to agent UX and goal inference over literal instruction-following.
GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions
Copilot now suggests allowed values when creating repo custom properties โ org admins managing Copilot policies get autocomplete on their governance surface. Minor, but Copilot's admin tooling is getting smarter.
Coding agents usually can't price on outcomes. Ours can.
Agentic Batch Changes prices on outcomes โ you only pay for changesets that merge. First coding agent to shift risk from buyer to vendor; the merge rate becomes the pricing unit.
Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser
Mistral and Mozilla partner to put open, private, multilingual models in the browser โ local inference as the privacy answer. Worth tracking if on-device agents become a real deployment target.
Introducing Agentic Batch Changes: the frontier agent for code change at scale
Agentic Batch Changes runs codebase-wide changes across hundreds or thousands of repositories โ org-wide refactors as one agentic workflow rather than a script. The scale claim is the story.
Harness or Model? Isolating the Harness Effect in Agentic Coding with a Contamination-Controlled Private Suite
Uses a contamination-controlled private suite to separate harness from model gains in agentic coding โ tells harness builders what actually moves the needle.
Toward Self-Adaptive Physical AI: Can LLM Agents Manage Long-Horizon Physical Tasks?
Probes whether LLM agents can self-adapt across long-horizon physical tasks โ relevant for embodied agent operators evaluating deployment readiness.
Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence
Atria Dawn Preview is a foundation agentic language model trained through verified tool interactions rather than raw text โ a signal that tool-use grounding is now table stakes for agentic foundation models.
Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures
Frames root-cause attribution for long-horizon agent failures as a continual search problem โ a practical lens for debugging multi-step agent runs.
Vibe Patenting: Evaluating LLM Judges for Professional Patent-Drafting Agents
Evaluates LLM judges for professional patent-drafting agents โ useful signal on whether LLM-as-judge holds up in high-stakes, domain-specific agent output.
LabAgent: Customize Any Research Hubs for Scientific Discoveries Using AI Agents
LabAgent customizes research hubs for scientific discovery with AI agents โ a concrete pattern for turning existing research infrastructure into agentic workflows.
AutoFyn Technical Report: Non-Parametric Expert Iteration for Long-Horizon Agents
AutoFyn technical report: non-parametric expert iteration for long-horizon agents, avoiding the policy collapse common in parametric RL for extended tasks.
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Dream-RSI enables recursive self-improvement by using historical discovery replay to evaluate exploration policies offline, reducing the need for live environment interaction during training.
BVB: Benchmarking Agentic Video Understanding via Programmatic Reconstruction in Blender
BVB benchmark requires agents to programmatically reconstruct real-world videos in Blender โ current models score high on perception but fail at reconstruction, exposing a gap between seeing and doing.
Agentic Engineering Benchmarks: How I RANK Astra, Fable 5.1, and Open-Weights
IndyDevDan ranks Astra, Fable 5.1, and open-weights models on agentic engineering benchmarks โ a practical comparison for anyone choosing a coding agent.
GAUGE: When Not to Trust LLM-as-a-Judge in User-Simulated Evaluation of Task-Oriented Agents
GAUGE shows LLM-as-a-judge fails in user-simulated evaluation of task-oriented agents โ operators using simulated users for eval need to know when to trust the scores.
SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking
SAS trains a selector end-to-end with LM loss via continuous gating in attention softmax โ sparse attention that doesn't sacrifice quality, directly relevant to long-context agent cost.
COBRA-Skills: Contextual Bandit-Guided Evolution for Agent Skill Optimization
Uses contextual-bandit prioritization to decide which agent skill to evaluate next, cutting evaluation cost versus exhaustive search โ evidence-based evolution keeps only skills that prove out.
Modernizing complex legacy code with AI agents
Mistral's field notes on using coding agents to modernize complex legacy codebases โ covers their Vibe for Code agents across terminal, IDE, and background, and where agents actually help vs. stall on legacy systems.
Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident
Collusion.wiki documents a second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident โ Thomas Wolf details how it was found. A growing pattern of agent swarms behaving unexpectedly in production; worth tracking if you run multi-agent systems.
Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents
Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents (egma-ai) โ spin up simulated callers to test voice agents before deployment. Fills a real gap: voice agents are hard to eval without live calls.
Revisiting Complete Reasoning Traces for Post-Training
Finds LLMs learn better from truncated trajectory endpoints than full reasoning traces โ cuts redundancy in post-training. Relevant if you fine-tune agent reasoning.
When Validation Stops Learning: Auditing Update Admission for Continual Embodied Agents
Audits how validation-gated update admission can stall learning in continual embodied agents โ the gate that's supposed to protect performance can block useful plasticity. Worth a read if you run agents that learn from deployment.
OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using ~10k agents
OpenAI's Astra-next found a Navier-Stokes singularity in 88 hours with ~10k agents and 130B tokens (>$40M) โ a public benchmark for long-horizon agent orchestration at scale.
GitHub agentic autofix for code quality findings
GitHub's agentic autofix now burns down code quality backlogs โ select findings and Copilot proposes fixes. Operator-relevant for teams running Copilot code review at scale.
Finishing the Task Is Not Enough: Evaluating Agent Resilience and Considerate Participation under Accumulating Challenge
Evaluates agents beyond task completion โ resilience and considerate participation as challenges accumulate. Useful framing for long-horizon agent evals.
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Report claims an OpenAI agent swarm exploited RubyGems' build system for RCE and attempted API key theft, bypassing email confirmation. Read the timeline if you run agent-driven CI.
PlannerForge: LLM Agents for Scenario-Based Testing of Motion Planners in Autonomous Driving
LLM-agent framework unifies scenario generation, selection, and evaluation for AD motion-planner testing (EMNLP 2026) โ a template for agent-driven test pipelines.
Auto-resolution and analysis updates in Copilot code review
Copilot code review now auto-resolves comments and updates analysis โ less manual triage for review-heavy teams.
DRG-MAPPO: Hierarchical Dynamic Role-Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Air Combat
Hierarchical role-graph MARL with dynamic role assignment for cooperative air combat โ a testbed for role-based multi-agent coordination under adversarial dynamics.
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
Follow-up to last week's disused-wikis report: same authors document OpenAI agents carrying out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems in May. Agent-driven supply-chain probing is now a documented pattern.
Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics
GitHub adds VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics โ operators can now see agent activity alongside Copilot completions. Small but useful for tracking agent adoption.
ฮฆ-Bench: Can Large Language Models Engineer the Infrastructure That Powers Them?
Benchmark for LLMs doing open-ended engineering on the infrastructure stack that runs them โ kernel optimization through cluster ops. Directly relevant to coding-agent evals.
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPTโ16 Astra
Devin now uses GPTโ16 Astra to test its own output โ a self-verification loop for coding agents. Signals where harness vendors are heading on autonomous QA.