Structured Reasoning, LLM Agent Fuzzing, and Multimodal Segmentation

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Today’s research covers everything from reasoning-based recommender systems to fuzzing LLM agents through indirect prompt injection. If you care about secure model deployment, vision-language grounding, compressed inference, or how to scale social simulations with LLMs you’re in for a treat.

Here’s what stood out:

• R2Rec introduces structured interaction-of-thought chains to boost recommendation accuracy and interpretability outperforming classic LLM-based recsys by over 130%.

• EnIGMA shows how interactive tools like debuggers can drastically improve an LM agent’s ability to solve CTF challenges, setting new records on three major security benchmarks.

• AGENTFUZZER presents a black-box fuzzing approach that exposes how indirect prompt injection can quietly subvert LLM agents, no access to internals required.

• Refer to Anything tackles the problem of segmenting images and videos based on multimodal prompts, bridging language and vision to allow free-form semantic querying.

• DREAM dives into multimodal safety, using risk disentanglement to align large models without sacrificing task performance.

• PAM builds on Segment Anything, letting models caption, explain, and recognize regions in video and images with LLM precision and lightweight speed.

• KV Cache Compression introduces inference-time hyper-scaling using an 8× compression technique that maintains reasoning quality on long-context tasks.

There’s also new work on fast Shapley-based data valuation, test-time training via MesaNet, politics-altering LLM bias, and what social simulations with LLMs can teach us about ourselves.

Let’s get into it 👇

Contents

1. Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation

2. EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities

3. AGENTFUZZER: Generic Black-Box Fuzzing for Indirect Prompt Injection against LLM Agents

4. Refer to Anything with Vision-Language Prompts

5. Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos

6. DREAM: Disentangling Risks to Enhance Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models

7. Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting

8. Power Law Guided Dynamic Sifting for Efficient Attention

9. Fast-DataShapley: Neural Modeling for Training Data Valuation

10. Inference-Time Hyper-Scaling with KV Cache Compression

11. The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

12. MesaNet: Sequence Modeling by Locally Optimal Test-Time Training

13. Biased AI can Influence Political Decision-Making

14. LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method

15. Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation

Authors: Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li

Source and references: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05069v1

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Introduction

This paper explores the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommendation tasks, with a focus on enhancing their reasoning capabilities to improve performance and interpretability.