Infrathon
Claude Opus 5.5 raises the mean KV-cache compression ratio from 6.82% with the human-designed Quant-VideoGen codec to 19.86%.
Benchmarking Language Agents for Real-World, Long-Horizon AI Infra Optimization
November 4–10: 17 frontier papers out of 2,329 read.
Papers rated as moving the field
How we chooseClaude Opus 5.5 raises the mean KV-cache compression ratio from 6.82% with the human-designed Quant-VideoGen codec to 19.86%.
Benchmarking Language Agents for Real-World, Long-Horizon AI Infra Optimization
On FrontierPhysics, no AI configuration among 26 passes more than 46 of 168 end-to-end physics research rollouts.
BadEvolve demonstrates effective task-level backdoor attacks on self-evolving LLM agents across diverse frameworks, benchmarks, and backbone LLMs.
GPT-6.1-sol achieves the highest overall score of 66.02/100 on Frontier3DBench, while all 11 configurations struggle with reference reconstruction.
e-PoG outperforms the strongest baselines by 26.0% in deception mitigation and by up to 39.8% in task success.
Jais 3 matches or outperforms open-weight models of comparable size on Arabic and agentic benchmarks with fewer hallucinations.
Collective Dependence Analysis reduces violations from 93% to 6% in controlled cases using O(N) model evaluations.
Compass 1 achieves a 79.4% overall success rate in open-world embodied navigation, versus 17.8% for the strongest baseline.
A binary compliance penalty raises safe completion on 32 unseen changing-evidence tasks from 53.1% to 89.1% while both policies achieve full real work.
Meituan-Robotics-0 achieves 93.6% success on RoboTwin 2.0 and outperforms π0.5 on three real-robot tasks.
Frontier-capable LLM agents exhibit authorization drift rates of 0.43 to 0.61 across 13 models and three frameworks.
On the Multi-step SWE benchmark, the strongest of nine frontier models solves only 18.5% of 69 tasks.
A behavioural framework's loss-of-control score correlates with failure rates in contained long-horizon risk scenarios across 13 frontier models (Pearson r = 0.84).
“We measure this at the generation stage across six models and ten consumer-service domains, for three attack families, and show that it transfers to production browser agents, outperforming instruction injection, and to a retrieval pipeline (1.0-57.0% end-to-end success, depending on the retriever).”
BrainwashedLLM achieves ASR@5 between 0.74 and 0.98 across four state-of-the-art LRMs without querying targets during attack construction.
“Results show that current models can follow coarse experimental procedures in videos, but still struggle to ground actions into operable regions and feasible trajectories, to recognize fine-grained laboratory apparatus, states, and safety norms, and to order steps in mid-length procedures.”
PrimeSim leads four of five WorldSimProbe suites and posts the best overall EWMBench score against five open-source action-conditioned world models.
Nov 4–10: 282 cleared, 17 frontier
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265 papers, by field