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October 10–16: 26 frontier papers out of 2,859 read.

26 frontier286 cleared2,859 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

Multi-Reward Hacking

Trust-Anchored Gating achieves 0.581 pass@4 versus 0.220 for additive aggregation on Qwen3-4B with a brevity reward.

From Aggregation-Induced Drift to Trust-Anchored Defense

SafetyAmazonarXivPDF

ChemArgus

“GPT-5.6-Sol scores 23.2% on unassisted whole-problem solving against 28.8% and 30.4% under the two sequential metrics, a gap measuring the integration burden.”

ReasoningBenchmark

REKI

The 2.4B REKI model sets a Pareto frontier between performance and size, outperformed only by models about twice its size.

RoboticsCode

The Agent Knew

“On AgentDojo, an external prompt-injection benchmark, the same readout calibrated on 29 tasks, with the steering unchanged, cuts attack success on unseen tasks in two families (Gemma-4 11.7% -> 5.7%, gpt-oss 28.5% -> 17.5%) while keeping benign utility (Gemma-4 0.637 vs 0.637; gpt-oss 0.667 vs 0.681).”

SafetyCode

DANGERLENS

“Experiments on three Qwen1.5 scales show that checkpoints with prior harmful exposure generally retain greater hazardous concept accessibility after the same safety alignment, with the strongest separation in intermediate and later layers.”

Safety

Refuses in Chat, Complies with Arms

“On the physical robot, six models with end-effector control refused 18% of 612 trials against 19% in sim, and three with joint control refused 41% of 252 against 31%.”

Safety

Apertus 1.5

“Thinking is a flag of the chat template rather than a separate model, and lifts mathematical reasoning by up to 20 points on the 8B model.”

Training

Copying Is Not Grounding

“Across four models and two in-domain, three held-out corpora, only ASC lowers the error rate of authored sentences and writes more supported ones in every setting, by 38% and 46% at the median under held-out evaluators, giving readers more grounded information.”

Language

EvoWeb

“Further analysis shows that later requests with deeper or more numerous dependencies are solved less accurately, while runtime errors become more frequent over successive requests.”

AgentsBenchmark

Pin It on Anyone

“We show an attack technique that allows to alter the watermarking message.”

SecurityCode

LLM-jp-4 Technical Report

“Evaluation results demonstrate substantial improvements over previous LLM-jp models and competitive performance against open-weight models of similar scale.”

Training

AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

“We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights, decrypting and executing them only upon receiving a secret trigger.”

Security

The week by field

Oct 10–16: 286 cleared, 26 frontier

Also cleared

260 papers, by field

Security & privacy111
All 111 papers in Security & privacy
Safety & alignment33
All 33 papers in Safety & alignment
Agents25
All 25 papers in Agents
Robotics & embodied AI25
All 25 papers in Robotics & embodied AI
Inference & efficiency15
All 15 papers in Inference & efficiency
Language & speech13
All 13 papers in Language & speech
Training & data11
All 11 papers in Training & data
Vision & multimodal8
All 8 papers in Vision & multimodal
AI & society8
All 8 papers in AI & society
Machine learning7
All 7 papers in Machine learning
Science & health3
Reasoning & math1