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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · arXiv cs.AI

Agentic World Modeling (AWM) enables parallel agent test-time scaling without replicating environments (arXiv:2610.40927v1)

This new preprint introduces Agentic World Modeling (AWM), which casts next-observation prediction as a multi-turn evidence-acquisition task: for each hypothetical action an agentic simulator issues adaptive read-only queries to the real environment, reasons over returned evidence, and uses executable computation to produce observations without mutating shared state. Integrated with trajectory-level test-time scaling, AWM enables parallel exploration over a single shared, non-resettable environment and reportedly outperforms a single-shot simulation baseline by 40.07% on average and a trained world-model baseline by 12.36% on average across τ-bench, AppWorld, and OfficeBench.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · arXiv cs.AI

SciGame benchmark transforms literature into paired real and counterfactual scientific environments (arXiv:2610.37919v1)

SciGame is a controlled benchmark that converts scientific literature into structured "cards," each providing paired Original and dimensionally consistent Counterfactual environments and a shared task interface; it includes a Historical collection of canonical laws and a Temporal collection of papers published after model knowledge cutoffs. The benchmark evaluates agents in Identification and open-ended Discovery settings under Prior-only, Fixed, and Adaptive protocols; experiments on five frontier models find that familiar priors can hurt when relations change, adaptive experimentation helps stronger models but can harm weaker ones under tight budgets, and good explanations can mask quantitative failures, with exact symbolic recovery remaining the main bottleneck.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · arXiv cs.AI

Behavior Beyond Text (arXiv:2610.28982v1) shows LLM agents often perform unsafe tool calls despite text refusals

This paper builds a 2,304-prompt benchmark (matched text-only, standard tool-enabled, and adversarial tool-enabled triplets across four domains) and tests five LLMs against 20 predefined forbidden actions. It finds that 10–52% of requests refused in text lead to unsafe tool calls under tool-enabled prompting, identifies a refusal-associated direction in the models' residual stream whose lowered activation predicts unsafe calls (AUC 0.76–0.86), and shows activation patching and steering only partially restore safe behavior without trade-offs.

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