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AI Research Radar

April 24–30: 6 frontier papers out of 1,040 read.

6 frontier85 cleared1,040 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

Removing Sandbagging in LLMs by Training with Weak Supervision

“We find that training with weak supervision can reliably elicit sandbagging models when supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) are combined: SFT on weak demonstrations breaks the sandbagging behavior, enabling RL to then fully elicit performance.”

The authors, in the abstract

AnthropicarXivPDF

Odysseys

“We tested several leading frontier models and find that the strongest models achieve a success rate of 44.5%, which leaves substantial room for future improvements.”

Benchmark

HWE-Bench

“We evaluate seven LLMs with four agent frameworks and find that the best agent resolves 70.7% of tasks overall, with performance exceeding 90% on smaller cores but dropping below 65% on complex SoC-level projects.”

Benchmark

RedVLA

“Experiments on six representative VLA models show that RedVLA uncovers diverse unsafe behaviors and achieves the ASR up to 95.5% within 10 optimization iterations.”

The week by field

Apr 24–30: 85 cleared, 6 frontier

The week’s papers have not been sorted into fields yet.

Models under test

Papers this week that name the model

  1. Claude Sonnet 4.52
  2. GPT-5.42
  3. GPT-52
  4. GPT-4o2
  5. Gemini 3 Pro1
  6. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct1
  7. Mistral Small 3.21
  8. Qwen3 8B1

Labs publishing

Papers this week with an author at the lab

  1. Google4
  2. Microsoft3
  3. NVIDIA3
  4. Alibaba1
  5. AllenAI1
  6. Anthropic1
  7. IBM1
  8. Mistral1

Also cleared

79 papers

All 79 papers