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Received β€” 4 April 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Labels Matter More Than Models: Rethinking the Unsupervised Paradigm in Time Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2511.16145v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a critical data mining task often constrained by label scarcity. Consequently, current research predominantly focuses on Unsupervised Time-series Anomaly Detection (UTAD), relying on increasingly complex architectures to model normal data distributions. However, this algorithm-centric trend often overlooks the significant performance gains achievable from limited anomaly labels available in practical scenarios. This paper challenges the premise that algorithmic complexity is the optimal path for TSAD. Instead of proposing another intricate unsupervised model, we present a comprehensive benchmark and empirical study to rigorously compare supervised and unsupervised paradigms. To isolate the value of labels, we introduce \stand, a deliberately minimalist supervised baseline. Extensive experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that: (1) Labels matter more than models: under a limited labeling budget, simple supervised models significantly outperform complex state-of-the-art unsupervised methods; (2) Supervision yields higher returns: the performance gain from minimal supervision far exceeds the incremental gains from architectural innovations; and (3) Practicality: \stand~exhibits superior prediction consistency and anomaly localization compared to unsupervised counterparts. These findings advocate for a paradigm shift in TSAD research, urging the community to prioritize data-centric label utilization over purely algorithmic complexity. The code and benchmark are publicly available at https://github.com/EmorZz1G/STAND.
Received β€” 2 April 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

ATP-Bench: Towards Agentic Tool Planning for MLLM Interleaved Generation

arXiv:2603.29902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interleaved text-and-image generation represents a significant frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), offering a more intuitive way to convey complex information. Current paradigms rely on either image generation or retrieval augmentation, yet they typically treat the two as mutually exclusive paths, failing to unify factuality with creativity. We argue that the next milestone in this field is Agentic Tool Planning, where the model serves as a central controller that autonomously determines when, where, and which tools to invoke to produce interleaved responses for visual-critical queries. To systematically evaluate this paradigm, we introduce ATP-Bench, a novel benchmark comprising 7,702 QA pairs (including 1,592 VQA pairs) across eight categories and 25 visual-critical intents, featuring human-verified queries and ground truths. Furthermore, to evaluate agentic planning independent of end-to-end execution and changing tool backends, we propose a Multi-Agent MLLM-as-a-Judge (MAM) system. MAM evaluates tool-call precision, identifies missed opportunities for tool use, and assesses overall response quality without requiring ground-truth references. Our extensive experiments on 10 state-of-the-art MLLMs reveal that models struggle with coherent interleaved planning and exhibit significant variations in tool-use behavior, highlighting substantial room for improvement and providing actionable guidance for advancing interleaved generation. Dataset and code are available at https://github.com/Qwen-Applications/ATP-Bench.

Trace2Skill: Distill Trajectory-Local Lessons into Transferable Agent Skills

arXiv:2603.25158v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equipping Large Language Model (LLM) agents with domain-specific skills is critical for tackling complex tasks. Yet, manual authoring creates a severe scalability bottleneck. Conversely, automated skill generation often yields fragile or fragmented results because it either relies on shallow parametric knowledge or sequentially overfits to non-generalizable trajectory-local lessons. To overcome this, we introduce Trace2Skill, a framework that mirrors how human experts author skills: by holistically analyzing broad execution experience before distilling it into a single, comprehensive guide. Instead of reacting sequentially to individual trajectories, Trace2Skill dispatches a parallel fleet of sub-agents to analyze a diverse pool of executions. It extracts trajectory-specific lessons and hierarchically consolidates them into a unified, conflict-free skill directory via inductive reasoning. Trace2Skill supports both deepening existing human-written skills and creating new ones from scratch. Experiments in challenging domains, such as spreadsheet, VisionQA and math reasoning, show that Trace2Skill significantly improves upon strong baselines, including Anthropic's official xlsx skills. Crucially, this trajectory-grounded evolution does not merely memorize task instances or model-specific quirks: evolved skills transfer across LLM scales and generalize to OOD settings. For example, skills evolved by Qwen3.5-35B on its own trajectories improved a Qwen3.5-122B agent by up to 57.65 absolute percentage points on WikiTableQuestions. Ultimately, our results demonstrate that complex agent experience can be packaged into highly transferable, declarative skills -- requiring no parameter updates, no external retrieval modules, and utilizing open-source models as small as 35B parameters.
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