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The work identifies a "uniformity trap" in which language-style token-wise MoE routing, combined with uniform expert-usage regularization, scatters neighboring patches of the same object across different experts in video diffusion, causing routing fragmentation and structural distortion; it proposes SplitMoE, which bifurcates the expert pool into semantic and generic experts and uses prototype-guided routing with pull-push regularization so tokens cluster by semantic attributes, outperforming traditional load-balanced MoE on VBench-2.0 and T2V-CompBench under an equivalent activated-parameter budget, while revealing a coarse-to-fine denoising pattern in which semantic-expert weight peaks in the early high-noise stage around steps 10-15 and then shifts toward generic experts.

The work introduces the "Think Before You Score" paradigm and the Thinking Reward Model (TRM), which first generates a case-adaptive rubric for each task condition and candidate output, then inspects the candidate criterion by criterion and aggregates the evidence into a fine-grained pointwise reward; it also proposes PD-GRPO to use pairwise preference supervision for better discrimination while mitigating score polarization, and reports state-of-the-art results among open-source reward models on image generation and editing reward-modeling benchmarks, highly competitive with proprietary alternatives, with TRM-guided reinforcement learning consistently improving diverse visual generation models.

The work introduces Context Language Models (CLMs), which mirror a model's live context as a freely editable file that the model can rewrite with Bash, shifting context management from external harness control to an intrinsic model capability; applied zero-shot to existing models such as Qwen3.6-27B and GPT5.6-Sol, CLMs achieve 11.4% higher accuracy with 21.5% fewer prefix-reuse FLOPs than the strongest baseline on BrowseComp-Plus, 5% higher scores with 59% fewer FLOPs on 12-hour EdgeBench, and 65% greater end-to-end speedup at the same compute on a 24-hour multi-repository agent-swarm task, and can further learn context-management strategies through natural-language instructions, textual evolution, and online reinforcement learning.

The work introduces APM-Bench, which reformulates egocentric streaming interaction as multi-session life trajectories (549 sessions, 104 trajectories, 2,719 candidates, averaging 69 minutes of video per trajectory) and evaluates general video models and eight specialized memory systems on cross-session understanding, real-time perception, and adaptive response, plus an evidence-availability-aware test; results reveal a clear utility-latency-storage trade-off: raw video memory gives the strongest cross-session performance but needs GiB-scale storage and high latency, text summaries cut storage to the KiB scale at the cost of cross-session performance, event-structured memory shows the strongest utility among specialized systems, and adaptive response remains difficult even with rich history

The work proposes ReImaGin, a training-free multimodal agent framework in which a multimodal LLM calls a free-form generate_image tool backed by an instruction-following image generation model inside its reasoning loop; across six tasks—depth perception, puzzle completion, occlusion counting, collision prediction, multi-view spatial reasoning, and path tracing—it consistently outperforms text-only reasoning and the fixed specialist vision-tool baseline Visual Sketchpad, with gains of up to 25% on path tracing and about 40% relative on occlusion counting, and it further shows that effective visual reasoning strategies can be discovered automatically via prompt optimization.

The work formulates attack and defense for tool-using language-model agents as partially observed state control (SEAD), derives from it an execution-feedback tree-search attacker (DART) and a pre-execution defender that can run read-only state investigations (SAGE), and reports across 187 malicious tasks and four target models that DART exceeds baselines by 18.8–35.9 percentage points under both semantic and executable criteria, while SAGE preserves 95.79% of benign trajectories, intercepts 92.73% of harmful paths on recorded trajectories, and reduces DART's executable attack success from 48.0% to 4.0% online.

By keeping the original diffusion or flow-matching objective and adding an adversarial loss to the predicted output at non-high-noise timesteps, this study jointly improves distribution fidelity, coverage, prompt alignment, and perceptual quality on the DeCo and PixelGen pixel backbones, attributing the gain to restored missing natural-image high-frequency power, while the same procedure yields no comparable gain in the tested latent diffusion configurations.

The work proposes StoryEngine, a state-grounded agentic framework that separates an authoritative semantic plan from fallible generated pixels, using story-state propagation, grounded render planning, and a bounded evaluation-guided repair loop to produce long-form multi-shot video; on a self-built 60-story benchmark with two video backbones, Veo 3.1 and Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, it outperforms ViMax, MovieAgent, and the planner-free Direct I2V baseline on all metrics of narrative realization, cross-shot coherence, and visual consistency.

Through controlled pretraining experiments, this study systematically examines when recurrence helps, where it should be applied, and how it should be conditioned in looped language models (LoopLMs), finding that extra loops beyond the training horizon improve reasoning (e.g., a reasoning score rising from 28.52 to 31.49) while degrading knowledge (from 62.80 to 52.11), that non-recurrent output layers improve robustness to under-unrolling, and that the proposed history-state injection (especially channel-wise) combined with timestep conditioning better preserves knowledge under extended unrolling and improves robustness across inference budgets.

The authors define and formalize behavioural side-channel leakage in browser-use agents, introduce the AgentTell benchmark of 20 scenarios and 100 tasks, and evaluate six backbones across 9,760 sessions, finding that agents carrying a secret reveal it through task-directed action choices in 61.1% of sessions despite an explicit privacy instruction, that agents still leak in 56.7% of sessions where their own memory states the secret must not be shared, and that in 34.5% of leaking sessions their final responses falsely assure users that no information was disclosed.