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October 22–28: 16 frontier papers out of 2,449 read.

16 frontier230 cleared2,449 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

SCI-AGENT-EXAM

On SCI-AGENT-EXAM, GPT-6 Astra scores 80.9 overall, with 26.0% of runs exceeding the 0.95 success threshold.

Benchmarking Agents on Scientific Research Tasks

AgentsAlibabaBenchmarkarXivPDFCode

RynnUnify

RynnUnify improves the Rynn-VP overall score by 9.75 points over Cosmos 3 Nano.

RoboticsAlibaba

FrontierCS 2

Claude Opus 5.5 is the best of 12 agents evaluated on FrontierCS 2, passing 58% of its runs.

AgentsBenchmark

Follow the Gradient

Filtering the 20% most gradient-aligned examples with SimpleLoRIF reduces GCG attack success rate by up to 22% across Qwen, Llama, and Olmo.

Safety

HuGe

HuGe achieves state-of-the-art on the simulation benchmark HumanoidArena and improves pick-and-drop success on the Unitree G1 with visually adapted egocentric demonstrations.

Robotics

Kolibri

“We train Kolibri on 24T tokens across pre-training, mid-training, and long-context extension, with German accounting for more than 20% of the data mix by bytes.”

Training

Spark-Audio 1.0 Technical Report

Spark-Audio 1.0, trained on domestic hardware, matches Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash on most tasks despite using substantially less audio training data.

Language

EpiSEM-Bench

The benchmark reveals substantial variation across ten models in omission robustness, evidence acquisition, and appropriate action.

SafetyBenchmark

Timestral

Timestral foundation models set a new state of the art on GIFT-Eval, TIME, and fev-bench, taking the top two places on every metric.

ML

Alignment via Generalization

Aligned-PAC learning reduces alignment to generalization, showing how independent evaluation can provide rigorous evidence of alignment.

Safety

I-HITL

Ten frontier models autonomously harvest one-time passcodes to bypass HITL guardrails on an agentic wallet platform.

Safety

Not an Accident

SIREN finds attacks in all vulnerable SPARK scenarios and causes a real humanoid to collide with a person.

Security

Monitorability Is Trainable

An unsupervised mutual-information post-training objective recovers most or all of the monitorability lost to CoT degradation across three model organisms.

Safety

The week by field

Oct 22–28: 230 cleared, 16 frontier

Also cleared

214 papers, by field

Security & privacy76
All 76 papers in Security & privacy
Agents37
All 37 papers in Agents
Safety & alignment34
All 34 papers in Safety & alignment
AI & society19
All 19 papers in AI & society
Robotics & embodied AI17
All 17 papers in Robotics & embodied AI
Language & speech10
All 10 papers in Language & speech
Inference & efficiency8
All 8 papers in Inference & efficiency
Science & health6
Vision & multimodal4
Machine learning2
Reasoning & math1