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Alaa Abdelmoaty Named Vice President of ISODS Egypt
We are excited to share that Alaa Abdelmoaty Elbiomy Eldreny is taking on the role of Vice President for ISODS Egypt! Many of you already know Alaa from her work as a Tech Society representative with us. Over the past few years, she has been a steady presence in our community, bringing together her background in academic research and her passion for teaching.
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SkillCT: A Multidimensional Benchmark and Execution-Free Baseline for Agent Skill Assessment
arXiv:2610.38147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills package instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks and are increasingly distributed through public Web repositories. However, existing skill benchmarks primarily focus on downstream task execution, insufficiently assessing specification quality, behavioral robustness, semantic alignment, and responsibility boundaries. Their reliance on task-specific tools, environments, and repeated executions limits scalability and…
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Decompose, Don't Expand: Capability-Independent AI Systems by Construction
arXiv:2610.38144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recurring design choice in building AI systems is whether, when a task is too hard for a model, to expand the model (make it larger, better-prompted, fine-tuned), or to decompose the task (extract the parts that admit a deterministic solution to a host, leaving the model only the irreducibly fuzzy residue). We make three claims. First, that many tasks commonly delegated whole to a model are in fact deterministic tasks with a small generative…
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Post-Training Large Language Models with LLMON
arXiv:2610.38120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) treat all context tokens uniformly, lacking explicit separation between executable instructions and passive data. This leads to prompt injection vulnerabilities, ambiguous instruction binding, and unreliable execution control. We present a post-training methodology using LLMON (LLM Object Notation), a framework that enables separating instructions from data and requires explicit identifier-based execution. We construct…
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Too Hard, Too Easy, Just Right: Performance-Driven Challenge Adaptation in Virtual Reality Firefighter Training
arXiv:2610.38117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective firefighter training requires practice under dynamic and stressful emergency conditions, yet real-world live-fire exercises are costly, risky, and difficult to scale. Virtual Reality (VR) offers a safe and controllable alternative, but many existing VR firefighter training systems rely on fixed scenarios or provide limited difficulty adaptation, making it difficult to maintain an appropriate level of challenge for skill development as…
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AI-Driven Digital Twin Framework for Warehouse Logistics Automation Optimization
arXiv:2610.38101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, warehouse logistics optimization has increasingly focused on intelligent, data-driven systems to enhance operational efficiency. Conventional static product placement strategies are being progressively replaced by dynamic slotting approaches that can adapt to real-time variations in warehouse conditions. In this work, we present a novel framework that employs a reinforcement learning agent integrated within a FlexSim-based Digital…
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Evaluating Causal Reasoning in LLMs: A Case Study in the Challenges of Procedural Generation
arXiv:2610.38100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) appear to represent and reason about a large range of phenomena. In particular, recent studies have examined whether LLMs can accurately reason about causation. One of the most commonly used benchmarks for evaluating formal causal reasoning in LLMs is CLadder, a framework for procedural generation of benchmark data sets that was released in 2023. Experiments with CLadder appear to indicate that LLMs can perform formal…
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