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The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break

arXiv:2604.11978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents perform strongly on short- and mid-horizon tasks, but often break down on long-horizon tasks that require extended, interdependent action sequences. Despite rapid progress in agentic systems, these long-horizon failures remain poorly characterized, hindering principled diagnosis and comparison across domains. To address this gap, we introduce…

Narrative-Driven Paper-to-Slide Generation via ArcDeck

arXiv:2604.11969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ArcDeck, a multi-agent framework that formulates paper-to-slide generation as a structured narrative reconstruction task. Unlike existing methods that directly summarize raw text into slides, ArcDeck explicitly models the source paper's logical flow. It first parses the input to construct a discourse tree and establish a global commitment document,…

GoodPoint: Learning Constructive Scientific Paper Feedback from Author Responses

arXiv:2604.11924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While LLMs hold significant potential to transform scientific research, we advocate for their use to augment and empower researchers rather than to automate research without human oversight. To this end, we study constructive feedback generation, the task of producing targeted, actionable feedback that helps authors improve both their research and…

Self-Monitoring Benefits from Structural Integration: Lessons from Metacognition in Continuous-Time Multi-Timescale Agents

arXiv:2604.11914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-monitoring capabilities -- metacognition, self-prediction, and subjective duration -- are often proposed as useful additions to reinforcement learning agents. But do they actually help? We investigate this question in a continuous-time multi-timescale agent operating in predator-prey survival environments of varying complexity, including a 2D partially observable variant. We first show…

The Non-Optimality of Scientific Knowledge: Path Dependence, Lock-In, and The Local Minimum Trap

arXiv:2604.11828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Science is widely regarded as humanity's most reliable method for uncovering truths about the natural world. Yet the emph{trajectory} of scientific discovery is rarely examined as an optimization problem in its own right. This paper argues that the body of scientific knowledge, at any given historical moment, represents a emph{local…

LABBench2: An Improved Benchmark for AI Systems Performing Biology Research

arXiv:2604.09554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimism for accelerating scientific discovery with AI continues to grow. Current applications of AI in scientific research range from training dedicated foundation models on scientific data to agentic autonomous hypothesis generation systems to AI-driven autonomous labs. The need to measure progress of AI systems in scientific domains correspondingly must not…

Linear Programming for Multi-Criteria Assessment with Cardinal and Ordinal Data: A Pessimistic Virtual Gap Analysis

arXiv:2604.09555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) is used to rank alternatives based on various criteria. Key MCA methods, such as Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods, estimate parameters for criteria to compute the performance of each alternative. Nonetheless, subjective evaluations and biases frequently influence the reliability of results, while the diversity of data…

Seven simple steps for log analysis in AI systems

arXiv:2604.09563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems produce large volumes of logs as they interact with tools and users. Analysing these logs can help understand model capabilities, propensities, and behaviours, or assess whether an evaluation worked as intended. Researchers have started developing methods for log analysis, but a standardised approach is still missing. Here we…

Turing Test on Screen: A Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agent Humanization

arXiv:2604.09574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of autonomous GUI agents has triggered adversarial countermeasures from digital platforms, yet existing research prioritizes utility and robustness over the critical dimension of anti-detection. We argue that for agents to survive in human-centric ecosystems, they must evolve Humanization capabilities. We introduce the ``Turing Test on Screen,'' formally modeling…

AHC: Meta-Learned Adaptive Compression for Continual Object Detection on Memory-Constrained Microcontrollers

arXiv:2604.09576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying continual object detection on microcontrollers (MCUs) with under 100KB memory requires efficient feature compression that can adapt to evolving task distributions. Existing approaches rely on fixed compression strategies (e.g., FiLM conditioning) that cannot adapt to heterogeneous task characteristics, leading to suboptimal memory utilization and catastrophic forgetting. We introduce Adaptive…