Recent research explores enhancing AI reasoning and safety across diverse domains, from autonomous vehicles to medical diagnosis. For autonomous vehicles, frameworks like RAIL (arXiv:2601.11781) and TIDE (arXiv:2601.12141) focus on risk-aware decision-making and planning with temporally extended goals, improving safety and efficiency in complex scenarios. In healthcare, LLMs are being developed for rare disease diagnosis (MIMIC-RD, arXiv:2601.11559) and personalized treatment planning (LIBRA, arXiv:2601.11905), while multi-agent systems like Psych=eChat (arXiv:2601.12392) and CURE-Med (arXiv:2601.13262) aim to improve medical reasoning, safety, and ethical alignment.
Advancements in LLM reasoning capabilities are evident across various fields. For mathematical reasoning, frameworks like Process In-Context Learning (PICL, arXiv:2601.11979) and SCULPT (arXiv:2601.12842) dynamically integrate demonstrations and use constraint-guided search to improve accuracy. Neuro-symbolic approaches, such as CodeLogician (arXiv:2601.11840), combine LLMs with formal reasoning engines for precise software analysis, while MARO (arXiv:2601.12323) learns reasoning from social interaction. Agentic reasoning is a key theme, with frameworks like POLARIS (arXiv:2601.11816) and AgentGC (arXiv:2601.13559) focusing on auditable, policy-aligned operations and efficient data compression, respectively. The temporal awareness of LLMs is also being scrutinized, with findings indicating failures in real-time deadline adherence (arXiv:2601.13206).
Ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems is a critical research area. AEMA (arXiv:2601.11903) provides a process-aware framework for evaluating multi-agent LLM systems, while DriveSafe (arXiv:2601.12138) introduces a taxonomy for safety-critical driving assistants. Prompt injection mitigation is addressed by systems like MirrorGuard (arXiv:2601.12822) and through semantic caching in agentic AI (arXiv:2601.13186), aiming for secure and sustainable deployments. Furthermore, research is exploring how LLMs can be evaluated for deception quality (arXiv:2601.13709) and how to improve their reasoning through techniques like metacognitive reflection (MARS, arXiv:2601.11974) and adaptive restarts for thinking traps (TAAR, arXiv:2601.11940).
Key Takeaways
- AI reasoning and safety are advancing across domains like autonomous vehicles and healthcare.
- New frameworks enhance LLM reasoning for mathematics, software analysis, and social interaction.
- Agentic reasoning systems are being developed for auditable operations and efficient data handling.
- LLMs show limitations in temporal awareness and real-time deadline adherence.
- Research focuses on robust AI safety through evaluation frameworks and prompt injection mitigation.
- Metacognitive reflection and adaptive restarts improve LLM reasoning and mitigate thinking traps.
- Neuro-symbolic approaches combine LLMs with formal methods for precise analysis.
- Multi-agent systems are crucial for complex tasks like medical diagnosis and scientific discovery.
- Evaluating LLM deception quality and developing trustworthy AI are key research priorities.
- Data generation methods are evolving to overcome annotation bottlenecks in document intelligence.
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- MIMIC-RD: Can LLMs differentially diagnose rare diseases in real-world clinical settings?
- Risk-Aware Human-in-the-Loop Framework with Adaptive Intrusion Response for Autonomous Vehicles
- Multi-agent DRL-based Lane Change Decision Model for Cooperative Planning in Mixed Traffic
- Imandra CodeLogician: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning for Precise Analysis of Software Logic
- MyGram: Modality-aware Graph Transformer with Global Distribution for Multi-modal Entity Alignment
- AEMA: Verifiable Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy and Controlled Agentic LLM Systems
- LIBRA: Language Model Informed Bandit Recourse Algorithm for Personalized Treatment Planning
- Learn Like Humans: Use Meta-cognitive Reflection for Efficient Self-Improvement
- Process In-Context Learning: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning via Dynamic Demonstration Insertion
- Kernel-Based Learning of Safety Barriers
- Are LLMs Ready for TOON? Benchmarking Structural Correctness-Sustainability Trade-offs in Novel Structured Output Formats
- Human Emotion Verification by Action Languages via Answer Set Programming
- UniMo: Unified Motion Generation and Understanding with Chain of Thought
- DriveSafe: A Hierarchical Risk Taxonomy for Safety-Critical LLM-Based Driving Assistants
- Docs2Synth: A Synthetic Data Trained Retriever Framework for Scanned Visually Rich Documents Understanding
- Beyond Human Annotation: Recent Advances in Data Generation Methods for Document Intelligence
- A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time
- Reasoning Stabilization Point: A Training-Time Signal for Stable Evidence and Shortcut Reliance
- PRISM: Learning Design Knowledge from Data for Stylistic Design Improvement
- A self-evolving multi-role collaborative framework with fine-grained difficulty guidance for innovative mathematical problem generation
- POLARIS: Typed Planning and Governed Execution for Agentic AI in Back-Office Automation
- AI Co-Scientist for Knowledge Synthesis in Medical Contexts: A Proof of Concept
- MARO: Learning Stronger Reasoning from Social Interaction
- Are LLMs Smarter Than Chimpanzees? An Evaluation on Perspective Taking and Knowledge State Estimation
- Large Language Model for OWL Proofs
- Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models
- Rethinking the AI Scientist: Interactive Multi-Agent Workflows for Scientific Discovery
- Actionable Interpretability Must Be Defined in Terms of Symmetries
- Real-Time Deadlines Reveal Temporal Awareness Failures in LLM Strategic Dialogues
- RAG: A Random-Forest-Based Generative Design Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Design of Metamaterials with Complex Functional Response Requirements
- Improving the Safety and Trustworthiness of Medical AI via Multi-Agent Evaluation Loops
- The Geometry of Thought: How Scale Restructures Reasoning In Large Language Models
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- Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics
- Human-AI Collaborative Inductive Thematic Analysis: AI Guided Analysis and Human Interpretive Authority
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- SL-CBM: Enhancing Concept Bottleneck Models with Semantic Locality for Better Interpretability
- AgenticRed: Optimizing Agentic Systems for Automated Red-teaming
- ChatAD: Reasoning-Enhanced Time-Series Anomaly Detection with Multi-Turn Instruction Evolution
- Leveraging ChatGPT and Other NLP Methods for Identifying Risk and Protective Behaviors in MSM: Social Media and Dating apps Text Analysis
- AgentGC: Evolutionary Learning-based Lossless Compression for Genomics Data with LLM-driven Multiple Agent
- LifeAgentBench: A Multi-dimensional Benchmark and Agent for Personal Health Assistants in Digital Health
- Foundations of Global Consistency Checking with Noisy LLM Oracles
- Hidden in Plain Text: Measuring LLM Deception Quality Against Human Baselines Using Social Deduction Games
- Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering
- SCRIPTMIND: Crime Script Inference and Cognitive Evaluation for LLM-based Social Engineering Scam Detection System
- ARC: Active and Reflection-driven Context Management for Long-Horizon Information Seeking Agents
- Partial Reasoning in Language Models: Search and Refinement Guided by Uncertainty
- TIDE: A Trace-Informed Depth-First Exploration for Planning with Temporally Extended Goals
- Optimal Power Allocation and Sub-Optimal Channel Assignment for Downlink NOMA Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Improving Large Molecular Language Model via Relation-aware Multimodal Collaboration
- FutureX-Pro: Extending Future Prediction to High-Value Vertical Domains
- ToolPRMBench: Evaluating and Advancing Process Reward Models for Tool-using Agents
- Survival is the Only Reward: Sustainable Self-Training Through Environment-Mediated Selection
- SCULPT: Constraint-Guided Pruned MCTS that Carves Efficient Paths for Mathematical Reasoning
- Actionable Advice from Reviews via Mixture of LoRA Experts: A Two-LLM Pipeline for Issue Extraction and Business Recommendations
- Psych\=eChat: An Empathic Framework Focused on Emotion Shift Tracking and Safety Risk Analysis in Psychological Counseling
- Mining Citywide Dengue Spread Patterns in Singapore Through Hotspot Dynamics from Open Web Data
- Failure Modes in Multi-Hop QA: The Weakest Link Law and the Recognition Bottleneck
- MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes
- How Clinicians Think and What AI Can Learn From It
- STEP-LLM: Generating CAD STEP Models from Natural Language with Large Language Models
- MedConsultBench: A Full-Cycle, Fine-Grained, Process-Aware Benchmark for Medical Consultation Agents
- Empowering All-in-Loop Health Management of Spacecraft Power System in the Mega-Constellation Era via Human-AI Collaboration
- Logic-Guided Multistage Inference for Explainable Multidefendant Judgment Prediction
- Teaching Large Reasoning Models Effective Reflection
- Vision Language Models for Optimization-Driven Intent Processing in Autonomous Networks
- VIRO: Robust and Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Verification for Referring Expression Comprehension
- MirrorGuard: Toward Secure Computer-Use Agents via Simulation-to-Real Reasoning Correction
- MagicGUI-RMS: A Multi-Agent Reward Model System for Self-Evolving GUI Agents via Automated Feedback Reflux
- Responsible AI for General-Purpose Systems: Overview, Challenges, and A Path Forward
- Prompt Injection Mitigation with Agentic AI, Nested Learning, and AI Sustainability via Semantic Caching
- CURE-Med: Curriculum-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Medical Reasoning
- PepEDiff: Zero-Shot Peptide Binder Design via Protein Embedding Diffusion
- A Lightweight Modular Framework for Constructing Autonomous Agents Driven by Large Language Models: Design, Implementation, and Applications in AgentForge
- SpatialBench-UC: Uncertainty-Aware Evaluation of Spatial Prompt Following in Text-to-Image Generation
- Context and Transcripts Improve Detection of Deepfake Audios of Public Figures
- Towards Efficient and Robust Linguistic Emotion Diagnosis for Mental Health via Multi-Agent Instruction Refinement
- Reasoning While Recommending: Entropy-Guided Latent Reasoning in Generative Re-ranking Models
- TruthTensor: Evaluating LLMs Human Imitation through Prediction Market Drift and Holistic Reasoning
- Reasoning is a Modality
- DSAEval: Evaluating Data Science Agents on a Wide Range of Real-World Data Science Problems
- Resilient Routing: Risk-Aware Dynamic Routing in Smart Logistics via Spatiotemporal Graph Learning
- Understanding Mental States to Guide Social Influence in Multi-Person Group Dialogue
- Motion-to-Response Content Generation via Multi-Agent AI System with Real-Time Safety Verification
- Reasoning or Fluency? Dissecting Probabilistic Confidence in Best-of-N Selection
- DARC: Decoupled Asymmetric Reasoning Curriculum for LLM Evolution
- Human Simulation Computation: A Human-Inspired Framework for Adaptive AI Systems
- Look-Ahead-Bench: a Standardized Benchmark of Look-ahead Bias in Point-in-Time LLMs for Finance
- Virtual Urbanism: An AI-Driven Framework for Quantifying Urban Identity. A Tokyo-Based Pilot Study Using Diffusion-Generated Synthetic Environments
- Autonomous Knowledge Graph Exploration with Adaptive Breadth-Depth Retrieval
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- Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning
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