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AI Research Radar

August 28 – September 3: 13 frontier papers out of 2,264 read.

13 frontier226 cleared2,264 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

E-Commerce Bench

“Among open-weight models, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview leads with 416,252, 38% above GLM 5.2 (high), and achieves the strongest learning over the horizon, progressively bargaining down prices across repeated orders.”

The authors, in the abstract

Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation

AlibabaBenchmarkarXivPDFCode

Universal Transformers for Circuit Computations

“Though we establish that our construction provably evaluates Boolean expressions -- a universal symbolic computation -- of arbitrary length perfectly, in other experiments we also demonstrate that our transformer variant can learn and generalize perfectly (100% accuracy) on other common length generalization benchmarks, including modular arithmetic and ListOps.”

IBM

RePro

“Experiments on GSM8K and MATH show that RePro's retained rewritten instances achieve 100% well-definedness, feasibility, and answer correctness, while existing methods still produce invalid or incorrect instances.”

BenchmarkCode

BAITBENCH

“Agents cheat even under a second condition where they are prompted not to -the mean cheating rate remains above 50%.”

Benchmark

A Finger on the Scale

“We instantiate this threat in agentic commerce and software dependency use, with SkillShift achieving attacker-favored selection rates of 81.33% and 63.33% while maintaining a 100% utility-preserving rate.”

A.X K2 Technical Report

“Extensive evaluations show that A.X K2 performs competitively against strong open-weight baselines, matching or exceeding them on math and Korean-language benchmarks.”

The Framing Gap

“A broad "in any form" policy clause also closes it at the acting model (to 0%) but is brittle (dropping the catch-all reopens it to 48.8%).”

The week by field

Aug 28 – Sep 3: 226 cleared, 13 frontier

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

Models under test

Papers this week that name the model

  1. GPT-4o4
  2. GPT-5.42
  3. gpt-oss-120b2
  4. Qwen3 32B2
  5. Qwen3 14B2
  6. gpt-oss-20b2
  7. GPT-5.6 Sol2
  8. Gemini 3 Pro1

Labs publishing

Papers this week with an author at the lab

  1. Alibaba6
  2. Google3
  3. Microsoft3
  4. IBM2
  5. NVIDIA2
  6. Amazon1
  7. Baidu1
  8. Meta1

Also cleared

213 papers

All 213 papers