📄 Notable* Recent AI/ML arXiv Papers

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📄 SPAR: Experience-Driven Strategy Evolution in Multi-Session B2B Sales
🗓️ Published: 11/1/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01695v1
👥 Authors: Hangming Zhang, Yao Zhao (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation), Haotian Kuang, C. L. Philip Chen, Tong Zhang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Tengyue Ma
Abstract

B2B outbound sales involves high transaction values and relationship-based trust, so closing a deal typically requires multiple rounds of outreach building on prior context. Existing LLM-based sales agents operate within single sessions and cannot carry forward context or refine strategies from experience. Methods that do learn from experience store lessons as unstructured text and treat all outcomes as equally informative, with no mechanism to distinguish a flawed strategy from an external fact...

📄 Xiaomi Auto World Model 2.0: Causal World Models for Real-World Driving and Embodied Intelligence
🗓️ Published: 11/1/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01677v1
👥 Authors: Zhenxin Zhu, Zhijian Huang, Cheng Chi, Yuru Wang, Jianhua Wu, Jiayi Guan, Yonggang Li, Mingfei Tu, Jiakui Hu, Tao Xu (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Xianqi Wang, Hao Li (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Yuechuan Pu, Qizeng Jia, Ruiling Yang, Hongxiao Yu, Xuhan Sheng, Jian Mao, Ruiqiang Zhang, Yu Zhu, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Bing Wang
Abstract

We present Xiaomi Auto World Model 2.0, a unified streaming causal world model for Physical AI. It models and generates causal physical evolution in the real world, and unifies heterogeneous conditioning inputs for view-consistent generation. The architecture integrates View-Temporal Attention (VTA) to capture cross-view spatial dependencies and temporal dynamics, together with Multi-view Rotary Position Encoding (RoPE) to encode positional relationships across views and time. WorldRec 2.0 recon...

📄 GSExplorer: Interactive World Generation with a Persistent 3D Gaussian World State
🗓️ Published: 11/1/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01543v1
👥 Authors: Sicheng Yu, Liu Liu, Xinjie Wang, Xinjiang Wang, Taojun Ding, Wenhao Hu, Beizhen Zhao, Puxin Yan, Zhizhong Su (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Hao Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Interactive world generation requires both accurate local control and stable scene consistency over long rollouts. Existing methods improve local generation through camera or geometry conditioning and extend historical context with memory mechanisms. However, long-horizon exploration remains challenging as target-view guidance becomes incomplete and inconsistencies accumulate across repeated scene updates. We present \textbf{GSExplorer}, a generation--reconstruction framework built around a pers...

📄 HiGenTrans: Hierarchical LLM Knowledge Transfer for Generative Recommendation
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01129v1
👥 Authors: Zhuohang Jiang, Yuxin Chen, Haohao Qu, Zefei Luo, Yunlong Wang, Xu Yuan, Haojie Ding, Boheng Zhang, Fan Yang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Hongyang Wang, Jun Wang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Zhongbo Sun, Wenqi Fan, Li Qing, Wenwu Ou, Peng Jiang
Abstract

Generative recommendation promises to simplify conventional multi-stage recommender systems by generating item Semantic IDs (SIDs) autoregressively. However, two obstacles limit its effective- ness in industrial settings: interaction-only supervision underuses the semantic knowledge encoded in pretrained language models, while beam-search likelihood ranks token sequences rather than directly estimating item relevance. To address these limitations, we propose HiGenTrans, a three-level framework t...

📄 Efficient Image Denoising on Smartphone GPUs: Mobile AI 2026 Challenge Report
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00974v1
👥 Authors: Andrey Ignatov (possible past Eth Zurich affiliation), Georgy Perevozchikov, Radu Timofte (possible past Eth Zurich affiliation), Haodong Wu, Desheng Cai, Nikolay Falaleev, Faraz Kayani, Sarmad Kayani, Asad Ahmed, Dmitry Ignatov, Kihwan Yoon, Ganzorig Gankhuyag, Yoonsuk Kang, The Van Le, Jin Young Lee, Sunzhe Yang, Qiuhai Yan, Kang Chen, Tingting Wang, Faming Fang
Abstract

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in mobile photography. Despite a large number of solutions proposed for this task, the majority of them are trained on synthetically produced noisy images, and are additionally too computationally heavy for processing full-resolution images on mobile devices. This creates a need for efficient deep learning-based models that are not only performant but can also be deployed on constrained mobile hardware. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem...

📄 4K Image Super-Resolution on Mobile NPUs: Mobile AI 2026 Challenge Report
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00963v1
👥 Authors: Andrey Ignatov (possible past Eth Zurich affiliation), Georgy Perevozchikov, Radu Timofte (possible past Eth Zurich affiliation), Fubin Ren, Shihao Wang, Liwen Zhang, Zhe Xu, Zhipei Lei, Minjian Zhang, Kailing Tang, Dingyong Gou, Yanlin Wu, Cong Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Xiaohui Cui, Kihwan Yoon, Ganzorig Gankhuyag, Heo Myeongcheol, Yonghyun Park, Juho Jung, Sungjei Kim, Phuong-Nam Nguyen-Pham, Nam-Tien Le, Tinh-Anh Nguyen-Nhu, Matin Fazel, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Xinrui Li, Xusheng He, Jianlong Wu, Mohsin Ikram, Dmitry Ignatov, Hao Chen, Long Sun, Jiangxin Dong, Jinshan Pan, Jinhui Tang, Siyue Teng, Yuxuan Jiang, Fan Zhang, David Bull, Zhe Xiao, Jun Xiao, Zhi-Song Liu, Jiayi Pei, Songtao Wu, Hong Shang, Kuanhong Xu
Abstract

Image super-resolution is widely used on mobile devices for upscaling various types of image data. This creates a need for efficient deep learning-based models that are not only performant but can also be deployed on neural processing units (NPUs) present in the majority of mobile and IoT chipsets. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design fast solutions that can upsample images from Full HD to 4K resolution while running on popular mobile NPUs f...

📄 Microphone Geometry Aware Regional Target Speaker Extraction
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00894v1
👥 Authors: Shitong Xu, Niki Trigoni (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation), Andrew Markham (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation)
Abstract

Regional target speaker extraction (RSE) aims to extract speech originating from a specified angular region, relaxing the requirement for precise target speaker location when performing location based speech extraction. However, existing RSE methods typically assume a fixed microphone array configuration and microphone number, limiting their applicability to unseen microphone geometries and varying numbers of microphones. In this work, we propose a geometry-aware RSE framework capable of extract...

📄 X-World 1.6: Building Controllable Virtual Cities with World Models
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00596v1
👥 Authors: Xpeng, :, Boyang Wang, Boyi Sun, Chaoda Zheng, Dongbin Zhang, Guangfeng Jiang, Hanlong Chen, Hongbin Lin, Jianlei Zheng, Jinhao Deng, Kai Yang, Kangjie Chen, Linkun Xu, Minqi Wang, Puyi Wang, Rongliang Cheng, Ruixin Liu, Shijia Chen, Shuang Deng, Sijia Chen, Sin Wai Choo, Tianyuan Xie, Xiangyu Li, Xianming Liu (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Xingjie Liu, Xinlong Zheng, Xuejie Lv, Xuezhi Yang, Yi Guo, Yixiao Zeng, Yu Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yuecheng Ma, Yuhao Wang, Yuqi Zhang, Yuxin Peng
Abstract

Deploying generative world models for end-to-end closed-loop evaluation and policy learning requires precise scenario control, consistent observations, and sustained generation quality during extended interactions. This report presents \emph{X-World~1.6}, advancing X-World~1.0 toward a more reliable and versatile driving simulator. The upgraded base model offers finer-grained control over traffic semantics, including traffic lights and road markings, together with improved spatial consistency ac...

📄 Agentic Context Management for Multi-Turn Human-AI Conversations
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00518v1
👥 Authors: Matthew Ho, Chenglong Wang, Baolin Peng, Nebojsa Jojic, Philippe Laban, Michel Galley (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation), Jianfeng Gao (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation), Lianhui Qin
Abstract

LLMs degrade in multi-turn conversation partly because of context pollution: the model's own earlier outputs stay in context and anchor later turns, so an early misreading of the user's intent can persist after the user corrects it. Assistant omission (AO), dropping every assistant message, removes this pollution but fails when interaction is referential: later turns refer back to drafts, decisions, and tool-call results that exist only in assistant turns. We propose Agentic Conversation Context...

📄 AStockArena: Beyond Returns, Can We Entrust Real Capital to the Decisions of Financial Agents?
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00515v1
👥 Authors: Zeyu Liu, Sing Kwong Lai, Xuanzhi Feng, Haoyang Shang, Yang Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Zihao Fang, Xuan Liu (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in dynamic financial trading, yet real-time trading benchmarks mainly evaluate agents by cumulative returns and risk-adjusted performance. Such outcome metrics cannot show whether trades are faithfully reported, supported by available evidence, and consistent with account states. We introduce AStockArena, a real-time decision-auditing benchmark for continuous trading in China's A-share market. Under shared market conditions and execution constra...

📄 Exo: An Architecture for Self-Improving Systems at Runtime
🗓️ Published: 10/30/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00463v1
👥 Authors: Alexander Krentsel, Sylvia Ratnasamy (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Ion Stoica (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Martin Casado, Ankur Goyal
Abstract

Agent harnesses govern how language models act in an environment; designing their policies by hand is difficult, while automated techniques require representative datasets and costly executions. We present Exo, an agent runtime architecture for safe learning during ongoing work that collapses the optimization loop into task execution, allowing agents to revise both their harness and their strategies for further improvement. A minimal protected mechanism layer preserves execution history and gove...

📄 From Weeks to Hours: Fast and Principled SFT Data Generation for Reasoning LLMs
🗓️ Published: 10/31/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00554v1
👥 Authors: Hongyi Henry Jin, Wenhan Yang (possible past Peking University affiliation), Meysam Ghaffari, Carlos Morato, Baharan Mirzasoleiman (possible past Eth Zurich affiliation)
Abstract

Reasoning-oriented post-training enables large language models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks via multi-step inference. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on high-quality reasoning traces is a particularly efficient approach, but its effectiveness depends critically on careful data curation. Existing pipelines rely on a costly generate-then-filter paradigm: large pools of long reasoning traces are produced by multiple teacher models and subsequently filtered for difficulty and diversity using additiona...

📄 SpBench: An Agent-Native Framework for Cross-Engine Lakehouse Benchmarking
🗓️ Published: 10/30/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00449v1
👥 Authors: Lyndon Shi, Nic Crouch, Yi Hu, Zihao Ye, Choden Konigsmark, Eric Vandenberg, Dionysios Logothetis (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Kuba Niemiec, Krzysztof Gadomski, Yuxiong He (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

SpBench is an agent-native framework for cross-engine lakehouse benchmarking, in production use for benchmarking Snowpark, Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark, and other execution environments across standardized suites -- such as TPCx-BB and TPC-DI -- and custom benchmarks distilled from production workload patterns. It runs continuously across a broad portfolio of workloads, guiding the performance roadmap and detecting regressions for production-scale data engines. Benchmarking has historically...

📄 Counting on Dummies: Privacy Amplification with Observable Counts and Truncated Batches
🗓️ Published: 10/30/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.42139v1
👥 Authors: Vitaly Feldman (possible past Ibm (United States) affiliation), Audra Mcmillan, Kunal Talwar (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

In many practical deployments of Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), the server processes data in batches. Randomly sampling these batches allows for better privacy bounds via privacy amplification results. Most sampling schemes with provable privacy amplification, including Poisson sampling and random allocation, result in variable batch sizes. The privacy guarantee of these schemes requires that the batch sizes are not revealed. In distributed settings, the server perf...

📄 A Better Critic Matters for Distribution Matching Distillation
🗓️ Published: 10/30/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.42135v1
👥 Authors: Zongze Wu, Xianbang Wang, Zhengyang Geng, Mingdeng Cao (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Zhoutong Zhang (possible past Massachusetts Institute Of Technology affiliation), Richard Zhang, Eli Shechtman, Ruiming Cao
Abstract

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) trains a few-step student using the difference between a teacher's score and an online critic's estimate of the student distribution's score. We investigate what the critic needs, in capacity and in information, to provide a reliable training signal. On the capacity side, controlled experiments across seven SiT model sizes on ImageNet show that increasing teacher size while keeping a small critic fixed can degrade student quality and cause training collap...

*Notable papers are those with at least two authors from a "big" AI/ML lab.