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44 papers

cs.AI2026

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou +90

Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations are more scalable but often abstract away human diversity and inter…

cs.AI2026

When Do Intrinsic Rewards Work for Code Reasoning? A Comprehensive Study

Xiaolong Jin, Xuandong Zhao, Wenbo Guo +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in large language model reasoning, but relies on ground-truth supervision that is costly or in…

cs.LG2026

VIMPO: Value-Implicit Policy Optimization for LLMs

Zhewei Kang, Aosong Feng, Sergey Levine +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a central tool for improving the reasoning ability of large language models, but current methods face a trade-off between…

cs.AI2026

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

Xiangyi Li, Yimin Liu, Wenbo Chen +75

Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment large language model (LLM) agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to m…

cs.AI2026

Reward Hacking in Language Model Agents: Revisiting AI Safety Gridworlds

Ömer Veysel Çağatan, Xuandong Zhao

Reward hacking, where AI systems exploit misspecified objectives to achieve high reward without satisfying intended goals, remains a central challenge in AI safety. Yet most known…

cs.CR2026

Audio Pirates: Black-box Audio Watermark Removal via Diffusion Priors

Lingfeng Yao, Xincong Zhong, Chenpei Huang +6

With the rise of AI-generated audio, watermarking has become widely used for detecting misuse and protecting intellectual property. However, adversaries may try to remove these wat…