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This paper addresses the emerging field of semantic communication, focusing on the security challenges specific to digital implementations. It highlights the shift from bit-accurate transmission to task-oriented delivery and the new security risks this introduces. The paper's importance lies in its systematic analysis of the threat landscape for digital SemCom, which is crucial for developing secure and deployable systems. It differentiates itself by focusing on digital SemCom, which is more practical for real-world applications, and identifies vulnerabilities related to discrete mechanisms and practical transmission procedures.
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Digital SemCom typically represents semantic information over a finite alphabet through explicit digital modulation, following two main routes: probabilistic modulation and deterministic modulation.

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This paper introduces OmniAgent, a novel approach to audio-visual understanding that moves beyond passive response generation to active multimodal inquiry. It addresses limitations in existing omnimodal models by employing dynamic planning and a coarse-to-fine audio-guided perception paradigm. The agent strategically uses specialized tools, focusing on task-relevant cues, leading to significant performance improvements on benchmark datasets.
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OmniAgent achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpassing leading open-source and proprietary models by substantial margins of 10% - 20% accuracy.

Paper#LLM🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 19:02

Interpretable Safety Alignment for LLMs

Published:Dec 29, 2025 07:39
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ArXiv

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This paper addresses the lack of interpretability in low-rank adaptation methods for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). It proposes a novel approach using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to identify task-relevant features in a disentangled feature space, leading to an interpretable low-rank subspace for safety alignment. The method achieves high safety rates while updating a small fraction of parameters and provides insights into the learned alignment subspace.
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The method achieves up to 99.6% safety rate--exceeding full fine-tuning by 7.4 percentage points and approaching RLHF-based methods--while updating only 0.19-0.24% of parameters.

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This paper introduces AstraNav-World, a novel end-to-end world model for embodied navigation. The key innovation lies in its unified probabilistic framework that jointly reasons about future visual states and action sequences. This approach, integrating a diffusion-based video generator with a vision-language policy, aims to improve trajectory accuracy and success rates in dynamic environments. The paper's significance lies in its potential to create more reliable and general-purpose embodied agents by addressing the limitations of decoupled 'envision-then-plan' pipelines and demonstrating strong zero-shot capabilities.
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The bidirectional constraint makes visual predictions executable and keeps decisions grounded in physically consistent, task-relevant futures, mitigating cumulative errors common in decoupled 'envision-then-plan' pipelines.

Research#llm🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Dec 25, 2025 02:28

ABBEL: LLM Agents Acting through Belief Bottlenecks Expressed in Language

Published:Dec 24, 2025 05:00
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ArXiv NLP

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This ArXiv paper introduces ABBEL, a framework for LLM agents to maintain concise contexts in sequential decision-making tasks. It addresses the computational impracticality of keeping full interaction histories by using a belief state, a natural language summary of task-relevant unknowns. The agent updates its belief at each step and acts based on the posterior belief. While ABBEL offers interpretable beliefs and constant memory usage, it's prone to error propagation. The authors propose using reinforcement learning to improve belief generation and action, experimenting with belief grading and length penalties. The research highlights a trade-off between memory efficiency and potential performance degradation due to belief updating errors, suggesting RL as a promising solution.
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ABBEL replaces long multi-step interaction history by a belief state, i.e., a natural language summary of what has been discovered about task-relevant unknowns.