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      <description>Foundational work established LLMs as planners for embodied and tool-using agents, while critical studies exposed limits in autonomous plan generation. Recent preprints focus on reinforcement learning, grounding, world models and evaluation environments.</description>
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      <description>Retrieval-augmented generation has moved from a fine-tuning recipe to a broad engineering field. Current work covers evaluation, graph indexing, iterative retrieval, multimodal reading, and attacks on the retrieval path.</description>
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      <description>Surveys and taxonomies define alignment, while critiques of RLHF and defense-in-depth analyses probe technique limits. Recent preprints turn to auditing misaligned models, safety bounds under time limits, and the role of trust in human-AI decisions.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work covers assistant training, theory, AI feedback and critiques. Recent preprints focus on reward hacking, personalized and group-conditioned alignment, safety, and evaluator bias.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work frames vision-language and large multimodal models as general-purpose systems and begins to evaluate them holistically. Recent preprints extend the idea to spatial audio, microscopy, plasma physics and geometry.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work defines circuits, causal abstraction and identifiability. Recent preprints apply sparse autoencoders, activation analysis and refusal directions to safety, uncertainty, robotics and looped language models.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work set up self-taught tool use, large-scale tool datasets and function-calling benchmarks. Recent preprints focus on distilling agents, adversarial safety training and agents that build their own tools.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational benchmarks span real-world traversal, deterministic website replicas, multi-shop tasks and large-scale evaluation. Recent preprints add hybrid search-and-operate tasks, misleading charts, evolving web apps, and cheaper agent decision-making.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Early work showed models use long inputs unevenly. Current work targets better training recipes, retrieval and memory alternatives, and cutting the serving cost of long inputs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work showed that step-by-step prompts elicit reasoning in large models. Recent preprints probe what those chains encode, how to verify and distill them, and how to compress them into latent states.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Foundational work covers surveys, planning, fine-tuning and test-based evaluation. Recent preprints move toward verifier-grounded reinforcement learning, algorithmic diversity benchmarks, and training and decoding for diffusion language models.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>10 foundational papers with 3,521 combined citations, plus the latest arXiv preprints.</description>
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