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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Safe Harness Self-Evolution: A Theoretical Analysis of Feasibility and Limits

Qianshu Cai, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Nie +6

Harness self-evolution is the process by which an agent modifies its prompts, tools, code, or orchestration in response to task feedback while keeping the underlying language model…

cs.CL2026

Execution-grounded evaluation reveals hidden failures in language-model calculations for environmental science

Maohao Ran, Chendong Ma, Yanting Zhang +4

Large language models are increasingly used for quantitative work in the environmental sciences, yet existing evaluations score only final answers, leaving calculation process unob…

cs.LG2026

A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran +6

Latent world models are trained to predict future states in a learned representation and are then deployed inside a planner that selects actions by simulating them forward. Current…

cs.AI2026

Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models for Interpretable Credit Card Fraud Detection

Cooper Lin, Yanting Zhang, Maohao Ran +7

E-commerce platforms and payment solution providers face increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, ranging from identity theft and account takeovers to complex money laundering ope…

cs.AI2026

Crisis-Bench: Benchmarking Strategic Ambiguity and Reputation Management in Large Language Models

Cooper Lin, Maohao Ran, Yanting Zhang +6

Standard safety alignment optimizes Large Language Models (LLMs) for universal helpfulness and honesty, effectively instilling a rigid "Boy Scout" morality. While robust for genera…

cs.AI2026

CaveAgent: Transforming LLMs into Stateful Runtime Operators

Maohao Ran, Zhenglin Wan, Cooper Lin +21

LLM-based agents are increasingly capable of complex task execution, yet current agentic systems remain constrained by text-centric paradigms that struggle with long-horizon tasks…