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Deep Learning · Robustness

Maria Rosaria Briglia, Mujtaba Mirza, Giuseppe Lisanti, Iacopo Masi

Adversarial Training (AT) is a known, powerful, well-established technique for improving classifier robustness to input perturbations, yet its applicability beyond discriminative settings remains limited. Motivated by the widespread use of score-based generative models and their need to operate robustly under substantial noisy or corrupted input data, we propose an adaptation of AT for these models, providing a thorough empirical assessment. We introduce a principled formulation of AT for Diffusion Models (DMs) that replaces the conventional *invariance* objective with an *equivariance* constraint aligned to the denoising dynamics of score matching. Our method integrates seamlessly into diffusion training by adding either random perturbations--similar to randomized smoothing--or adversarial ones--akin to AT. Our approach offers several advantages: **(a)** tolerance to heavy noise and corruption, **(b)** reduced memorization, **(c)** robustness to outliers and extreme data variability and **(d)** resilience to iterative adversarial attacks. We validate these claims on proof-of-concept low- and high-dimensional datasets with *known* ground-truth distributions, enabling precise error analysis. We further evaluate on standard benchmarks (CIFAR-10, CelebA, and LSUN Bedroom), where our approach shows improved robustness and preserved sample fidelity under severe noise, data corruption, and adversarial evaluation. Code available at [github.com/OmnAI-Lab/Adversarial-Training-DM](https://github.com/OmnAI-Lab/Adversarial-Training-DM)

Theory · Learning Theory

Shaojie Li, Pengwei Tang, Bowei Zhu, Yong Liu

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) is widely used in machine learning, yet high-probability learning bounds for SGDM in non-convex settings remain scarce. In this paper, we provide high-probability convergence bounds and generalization bounds for SGDM. First, we establish such bounds for the gradient norm in the general non-convex case. The resulting convergence bounds are tighter than existing theoretical results, and the obtained generalization bounds seem to be the first for SGDM. Next, under the Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz condition, we derive bounds for the function-value error instead of the gradient norm, and the corresponding learning rates are faster than in the general non-convex case. Finally, by additionally assuming a mild Bernstein condition on the gradient, we obtain even sharper generalization bounds whose learning rates can reach $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(1/n^2)$ in the low-noise regime, where $n$ is the sample size. Overall, we provide a systematic study of high-probability learning bounds for non-convex SGDM.

Theory · Learning Theory

Xi He, Max Little

Algorithms for solving the linear classification problem have a long history, dating back at least to 1936 with linear discriminant analysis. For linearly separable data, many algorithms can obtain the exact solution to the corresponding 0-1 loss classification problem efficiently, but for data which is not linearly separable, it has been shown that this problem, in full generality, is NP-hard. Alternative approaches all involve approximations of some kind, such as the use of surrogates for the 0-1 loss (for example, the hinge or logistic loss), none of which can be guaranteed to solve the problem exactly. Finding an efficient, rigorously proven algorithm for obtaining an exact (i.e., globally optimal) solution to the 0-1 loss linear classification problem remains an open problem. By analyzing the combinatorial and incidence relations between hyperplanes and data points, we derive a rigorous construction algorithm, incremental cell enumeration (ICE), that can solve the 0-1 loss classification problem exactly in $O\left(N^{D+1}\right)$---exponential in the data dimension $D$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first standalone algorithm---one that does not rely on general-purpose solvers---with rigorously proven guarantees for this problem. Moreover, we further generalize ICE to address the polynomial hypersurface classification problem in $O\left(N^{G+1}\right)$ time, where $G$ is determined by both the data dimension $D$ and the polynomial degree $K$ defining the hypersurface. The correctness of our algorithm is proved by the use of tools from the theory of hyperplane arrangements and oriented matroids. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm on real-world datasets, achieving optimal training accuracy for small-scale datasets and higher test accuracy on most datasets. Furthermore, our complexity analysis shows that the ICE algorithm offers superior computational efficiency compared with state-of-the-art branch-and-bound algorithm.

Theory · Learning Theory

Xuyang Chen, Fengzhuo Zhang, Keyu Yan, Lin Zhao

Actor–critic (AC) algorithms underpin many of today’s most successful reinforcement learning (RL) applications, yet their finite-time convergence in realistic settings remains largely underexplored. Existing analyses often rely on oversimplified formulations and are largely confined to linear function approximation. In practice, however, nonlinear approximations with deep neural networks dominate AC implementations, leaving a substantial gap between theory and practice. In this work, we provide the first finite-time analysis of single-timescale AC with deep neural network approximation in continuous state-action spaces. In particular, we consider the challenging time-average reward setting, where one needs to simultaneously control three highly-coupled error terms including the reward error, the critic error, and the actor error. Our novel analysis is able to establish convergence to a stationary point at a rate $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(T^{-1/2})$, where $T$ denotes the total number of iterations, thereby providing theoretical grounding for widely used deep AC methods. We substantiate these theoretical guarantees with experiments that confirm the proven convergence rate and further demonstrate strong performance on MuJoCo benchmarks.

General Machine Learning · Causality

Jiayi Guo, Haoxuan Li, YE TIAN, Peng Wu

While significant progress has been made in heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation, the evaluation of HTE estimators remains underdeveloped. In this article, we propose a robust evaluation framework based on relative error, which quantifies performance differences between two HTE estimators. We first derive the key theoretical conditions on the nuisance parameters that are necessary to achieve a robust estimator of relative error. Building on these conditions, we introduce novel loss functions and design a neural network architecture to estimate nuisance parameters, thereby obtaining a robust estimation of relative error. We provide large sample properties of the proposed relative error estimator. Furthermore, beyond evaluation, we propose a new learning algorithm for HTE that leverages both the previously HTE estimators and the nuisance parameters learned through our neural network architecture. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our evaluation framework supports reliable comparisons across HTE estimators, and the proposed learning algorithm for HTE exhibits desirable performance.

Theory · Domain Adaptation and Transfer Learning

Zaizuo Tang, Yu-Bin Yang

Test-time domain generalization (TTDG) methods enhance the performance of neural networks on target domains by transferring the feature distribution of target samples to approximate that of the source domain, while avoiding the computational cost associated with fine-tuning on the target domain. However, existing TTDG methods primarily rely on style transfer strategies operating at a coarse granularity, which prove ineffective for pixel-level prediction tasks such as image super-resolution (SR). To address this limitation, we propose a multi-codebook based test-time domain generalization framework (MC-TTDG). Our method leverages both domain-specific and domain-invariant codebooks to achieve fine-grained representation learning on source domains, and performs pixel-level nearest-neighbor feature matching and transfer to accurately adjust target domain features. Furthermore, we introduce a voting-based strategy for optimal domain-specific codebook selection, which improves the precision of feature transfer through multi-party consensus. Extensive experiments across diverse data distributions, and network architectures demonstrate that the proposed method effectively transfers feature distributions for SR networks. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZaizuoTang/MC-TTDG.

Theory · Domain Adaptation and Transfer Learning

Zaizuo Tang, Zongqi Yang, Yu-Bin Yang

Domain generalization methods can effectively enhance network performance on test samples with unknown distributions by isolating gradients between unstable and stable parameters. However, existing methods employ relatively coarse-grained partitioning of stable versus unstable parameters, leading to misclassified unstable parameters that degrade network feature processing capabilities. We first provide a theoretical analysis of gradient perturbations caused by unstable parameters. Based on this foundation, we propose Layer-Decomposition Training (LDT), which conducts fine-grained layer-wise partitioning guided by parameter instability levels, substantially improving parameter update stability. Furthermore, to address gradient amplitude disparities within stable layers and unstable layers respectively, we introduce a Dynamic Parameter Update (DPU) strategy that adaptively determines layer-specific update coefficients according to gradient variations, optimizing feature learning efficiency. Extensive experiments across diverse tasks (super-resolution, classification, semantic segmentation) and architectures (Transformer, Mamba, CNN) demonstrate LDT's superior generalization capability. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZaizuoTang/LDT.

Xiukun Wei, Min Shi, Xueru Zhang

Generative model ecosystems increasingly operate as competitive multi-platform markets, where platforms strategically select models from a shared pool and users with heterogeneous preferences choose among them. Understanding how platforms interact, when market equilibria exist, how outcomes are shaped by model-provider, platforms, and user behavior, and how social welfare is affected is critical for fostering beneficial market environment. In this paper, we formalize a three-layer *model-platfrom-user* market game and identify conditions for the existence of pure Nash equilibrium. Our analysis shows that market structure, whether platforms converge on similar models or differentiate by selecting distinct ones, depends not only on models’ global average performance but also on their localized attraction to user groups. We further examine welfare outcomes and show that expanding the model pool does not necessarily increase user welfare or market diversity. Finally, we design and evaluate best-response training schemes that allow model-provider to strategically introduce new models into competitive markets.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Sungduk Yu, Man Luo, Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, Phillip Howard

Peer review is a critical process for ensuring the integrity of published scientific research. Confidence in this process is predicated on the assumption that experts in the relevant domain give careful consideration to the merits of manuscripts which are submitted for publication. With the recent rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), a new risk to the peer review process is that negligent reviewers will rely on LLMs to perform the often time consuming process of reviewing a paper. However, there is a lack of existing resources for benchmarking the detectability of AI text in the domain of peer review. To address this deficiency, we introduce a comprehensive dataset containing a total of 788,984 AI-written peer reviews paired with corresponding human reviews, covering 8 years of papers submitted to each of two leading AI research conferences (ICLR and NeurIPS). We use this new resource to evaluate the ability of 18 existing AI text detection algorithms to distinguish between peer reviews fully written by humans and different state-of-the-art LLMs. Additionally, we explore a context-aware detection method called Anchor, which leverages manuscript content to detect AI-generated reviews, and analyze the sensitivity of detection models to LLM-assisted editing of human-written text. Our work reveals the difficulty of identifying AI-generated text at the individual peer review level, highlighting the urgent need for new tools and methods to detect this unethical use of generative AI. Our dataset is publicly available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/IntelLabs/AI-Peer-Review-Detection-Benchmark.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Xinyi Wu, Geng Hong, Pei Chen, Yueyue Chen, Xudong Pan, Min Yang

As large language models (LLMs) advance, concerns about their misconduct in complex social contexts intensify. Existing research has overlooked the systematic assessment of LLMs’ criminal potential in realistic interactions, where criminal potential is defined as the risk of producing harmful behaviors such as deception and blame-shifting under adversarial settings that could facilitate unlawful activities. Therefore, we propose a unified framework PRISON, to quantify LLMs' criminal potential across five traits: False Statements, Frame-Up, Psychological Manipulation, Emotional Disguise, and Moral Disengagement. Using structured crime scenarios grounded in reality, we evaluate both criminal potential and anti-crime ability of LLMs. Results show that state-of-the-art LLMs frequently exhibit emergent criminal tendencies, such as proposing misleading statements or evasion tactics, even without explicit instructions. Moreover, when placed in a detective role, models recognize deceptive behavior with only 44\% accuracy on average, revealing a striking mismatch between expressing and detecting criminal traits. These findings underscore the urgent need for adversarial robustness, behavioral alignment, and safety mechanisms before broader LLM deployment.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Yuyou Gan, Qingming Li, Junhao Li, Zhi Chen, Jinbao Li, Xiaoming Li, Shouling Ji

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that can generate harmful content. Existing detection methods are either limited to detecting specific attack types or are too time-consuming, making them impractical for real-world deployment. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{JDJN} (\textbf{J}ailbreak \textbf{D}etection via \textbf{J}ail\textbf{N}eurons), a novel jailbreak detection method for LVLMs. Specifically, we focus on \textbf{JailNeurons}, which are key neurons related to jailbreak at each model layer. Unlike the ``SafeNeurons", which explain why aligned models can reject ordinary harmful queries, JailNeurons capture how jailbreak prompts circumvent safety mechanisms. They provide an important and previously underexplored complement to existing safety research. We design a neuron localization algorithm to detect these JailNeurons and then aggregate them across layers to train a generalizable detector. Experimental results demonstrate that our method effectively extracts jailbreak-related information from high-dimensional hidden states. As a result, our approach achieves the highest detection success rate with exceptionally low false positive rates. Furthermore, the detector exhibits strong generalizability, maintaining high detection success rates across unseen benign datasets and attack types. Finally, our method is computationally efficient, with low training costs and fast inference speeds, highlighting its potential for real-world deployment.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Yichi Zhang, Yue Ding, Jingwen Yang, Tianwei Luo, Dongbai Li, Ranjie Duan, Qiang Liu, Hang Su, Yinpeng Dong, Jun Zhu

Although Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have progressed in solving complex problems, their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning often contains harmful content that can persist even when the final responses appear safe. We show that this issue still remains in existing methods which overlook the unique significance of safe reasoning, undermining their trustworthiness and posing potential risks in applications if unsafe reasoning is accessible for and exploited by malicious users. We therefore shift our focus to aligning the safety of reasoning itself in this paper and explore process supervision as the solution. However, simply rewarding safe reasoning proves inadequate due to low rollout diversity and limited training signals. To tackle this challenge, we first delve into the characteristics of safe reasoning and uncover several critical insights that 1) safe reasoning is often consolidated by a few critical steps of _safety triggers_; 2) _compliance cues_ strongly correlate with unsafe continuations; and 3) corrective interventions reliably steer unsafe trajectories towards safer traces. Motivated by these, we propose **Intervened Preference Optimization (IPO)**, an alignment method that enforces safe reasoning by substituting compliance steps with safety triggers and constructing pairs for preference learning with strong signals. Experiments on jailbreak and adversarial safety benchmarks demonstrate that IPO remarkably improves overall safety regarding both reasoning and responses, outperforming SFT-based and RL-based baselines with a relative reduction of over 30\% in harmfulness, while preserving excellent performance across diverse reasoning tasks. The results highlight the importance of explicit alignment for reasoning and provide a practical path to safer LRMs.

Zhihan Yin, Jianxin Liang, Yueqian Wang, Yao Yifeng, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from hallucinations. Existing hallucination evaluation benchmarks are often limited by over-simplified tasks leading to saturated metrics, or insufficient diversity that fails to adequately assess the hallucination extent in state-of-the-art multimodal models. To address this gap, we propose FREAK, a comprehensive multimodal benchmark designed for fine-grained hallucination assessment in MLLMs. Through high-quality photorealistic images featuring fine-grained counter-commonsense edits, FREAK innovatively evaluates hallucination phenomena in detailed visual perception of MLLMs. Extensive experiments on FREAK show severe hallucination issues in SOTA models regarding detailed visual perception. To enable deeper investigation, we curate a controlled subset to indirectly evaluate the model’s ability to perceive target detailed information. Through systematic evaluation of prevailing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting techniques within this task, we reveal critical insights regarding hallucination patterns and model reasoning processes.

Applications · Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

Shunsuke Onoo, Yoshihiro Nagano, Yukiyasu Kamitani

Sensory representation is typically understood through a hierarchical-causal framework where progressively abstract features are extracted sequentially. However, this causal view fails to explain misrepresentation, a phenomenon better handled by an informational and teleological view based on decodable content and downstream functions. This creates a tension: how does a system that abstracts away details preserve the fine-grained information needed for downstream functions? We propose readout representation to resolve this, defining representation by the information recoverable from features, rather than their causal origin. Empirically, we show that inputs can be accurately reconstructed even from heavily perturbed mid-level features, demonstrating that a single input corresponds to a broad, redundant region of feature space, challenging the causal mapping perspective. To quantify this property, we introduce representation size, a metric linked to model robustness and representational redundancy. Our framework offers a new lens for analyzing how both biological and artificial neural systems learn complex features while maintaining robust, information-rich representations of the world.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Zhe Li, Wei Zhao, Yige Li, Jun Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their deployment is frequently undermined by undesirable behaviors such as generating harmful content, factual inaccuracies, and societal biases. Diagnosing the root causes of these failures poses a critical challenge for AI safety. Existing attribution methods, particularly those based on parameter gradients, often fall short due to prohibitive noisy signals and computational complexity. In this work, we introduce a novel and efficient framework that diagnoses a range of undesirable LLM behaviors by analyzing representation and its gradients, which operates directly in the model's activation space to provide a semantically meaningful signal linking outputs to their training data. We systematically evaluate our method for tasks that include tracking harmful content, detecting backdoor poisoning, and identifying knowledge contamination. The results demonstrate that our approach not only excels at sample-level attribution but also enables fine-grained token-level analysis, precisely identifying the specific samples and phrases that causally influence model behavior. This work provides a powerful diagnostic tool to understand, audit, and ultimately mitigate the risks associated with LLMs.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Yu Pan, Jiahao Chen, Lin Wang, Bingrong Dai, Wenjie Wang

Recently, diffusion models have been recognized as state-of-the-art models for image generation due to their ability to produce high-quality images. However, recent studies have shown that diffusion models are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where an attacker can activate hidden biases using a specific trigger pattern, causing the model to generate a predefined target. Fortunately, executing backdoor attacks is still challenging, as they typically require substantial time and memory to perform parameter-based fine-tuning. In this paper, we are the first to reveal the **spatio-temporal redundancy** in backdoor attacks on diffusion models. **Regarding spatial redundancy**, we observed the *enrichment phenomenon*, which reflects the abnormal gradient accumulation induced by backdoor injection. **Regarding temporal redundancy**, we observed a marginal effect associated with specific time steps, indicating that only a limited subset of time steps plays a critical role in backdoor injection. Building on these findings, we present a novel framework, *STEDiff*, comprising two key components: *STEBA* and *STEDF*. *STEBA* is a spatio-temporally efficient accelerated attack strategy that achieves up to **15.07×** speedup in backdoor injection while reducing GPU memory usage by **82%**. *STEDF* is a detection framework leveraging spatio-temporal features, by modeling the enrichment phenomenon in weights and anisotropy across time steps, which achieves a backdoor detection rate of up to **99.8%**. Our code is available at: [https://github.com/paoche11/STEDiff](https://github.com/paoche11/STEDiff).

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Yiwei Sun, Peiqi Jiang, Chuanbin Liu, Luohao Lin, Zhiying Lu, Hongtao Xie

While the safety risks of image-based large language models (Image LLMs) have been extensively studied, their video-based counterparts (Video LLMs) remain critically under-examined. To systematically study this problem, we introduce \textbf{VideoSafetyEval} -- a large-scale, real-world benchmark for Video LLM safety, which comprises 11.4k video-query pairs and spans 19 principal risk categories. Based on this, \textit{we reveal that integrating video modality degrades safety performance by an average of 34.2\%, thereby exposing systemic risks in multimodal attack exploitation.} To address this vulnerability, we propose \textbf{VideoSafety-R1}, a dual-stage framework achieving unprecedented safety gains through three innovations: (1) VideoSafetyThinking dataset contains 46k video-query–thinking response triplets. (2) Alarm Token-Guided Safety Fine-Tuning (AT-SFT) injects learnable alarm tokens into visual and textual sequences, enabling explicit harm perception across modalities via multitask objectives. (3) Safety-guided GRPO enhances defensive reasoning through dynamic policy optimization with rule-based rewards derived from dual-modality verification. These components synergize to shift safety alignment from harm perception to active reasoning. The framework achieves a 71.1\% improvement on VSE-HH, and improves by 59.1\%, 44.3\%, and 15.0\% on the image safety datasets MMBench, VLGuard, and FigStep, respectively. Our code and dataset are available at \url{https://github.com/Emiya-syw/VideoSafety-R1.git}. \textcolor{red}{Note: This paper contains harmful language and image examples, and reader discretion is recommended.}

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Zhishen Sun, Guang Dai, Haishan Ye

LLMs demonstrate performance comparable to human abilities in complex tasks such as mathematical reasoning, but their robustness in mathematical reasoning under minor input perturbations still lacks systematic investigation. Existing methods generally suffer from limited scalability, weak semantic preservation, and high costs. Therefore, we propose MSCR, an automated adversarial attack method based on multi-source candidate replacement. By combining three information sources including cosine similarity in the embedding space of LLMs, the WordNet dictionary, and contextual predictions from a masked language model, we generate for each word in the input question a set of semantically similar candidates, which are then filtered and substituted one by one to carry out the attack. We conduct large-scale experiments on LLMs using the GSM8K and MATH500 benchmarks. The results show that even a slight perturbation involving only a single word can significantly reduce the accuracy of all models, with the maximum drop reaching 49.89\% on GSM8K and 35.40\% on MATH500, _while preserving the high semantic consistency of the perturbed questions._ Further analysis reveals that perturbations not only lead to incorrect outputs but also substantially increase the average response length, which results in more redundant reasoning paths and higher computational resource consumption. These findings highlight the robustness deficiencies and efficiency bottlenecks of current LLMs in mathematical reasoning tasks.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Kejiang Chen

Inversion-based watermarking is a promising approach to authenticate diffusion-generated images, yet practical use is bottlenecked by inversion that is both slow and error-prone. While the primary challenge in the watermarking setting is robustness against external distortions, existing approaches over-optimize internal truncation error, and because that error scales with the sampler step size, they are inherently confined to high-NFE (number of function evaluations) regimes that cannot meet the dual demands of speed and robustness. In this work, we have two key observations: (i) the inversion trajectory has markedly lower curvature than the forward generation path does, making it highly compressible and amenable to low-NFE approximation; and (ii) in inversion for watermark verification, the trade-off between speed and truncation error is less critical, since external distortions dominate the error. A faster inverter provides a dual benefit: it is not only more efficient, but it also enables end-to-end adversarial training to directly target robustness, a task that is computationally prohibitive for the original, lengthy inversion trajectories. Building on this, we propose **FARI** (**F**ast **A**symmetric **R**obust **I**nversion), a one-step inversion framework paired with lightweight adversarial LoRA fine-tuning of the denoiser for watermark extraction. While consolidation slightly increases internal error, FARI delivers large gains in both speed and robustness: with ~20 minutes of fine-tuning on a single NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU, it surpasses 50-step DDIM inversion on watermark-verification robustness while dramatically reducing inference time.

Reinforcement Learning · Deep RL

Jiaxuan Gao, Wei Fu, Minyang Xie, Shusheng Xu, Chuyi He, Zhiyu Mei, Banghua Zhu, Yi Wu

Recent advancements in LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling knowledge-intensive tasks using external tools. One representative example is search agent. Existing open-source search agents heavily rely on advanced commercial LLMs: they either collect trajectories from the larger, stronger models for supervised fine-tuning or directly use them as specialized tools. In this work, we develop ASearcher, a single-model search agent purely trained by reinforcement learning (RL) without using any commercial APIs for data or tools. Based on an RL-trained QwQ-32B model, ASearcher is capable of conducting complex reasoning, such as uncertainty analysis and conflict verification, and achieve comparable performances to commercial search agents. There are two key techniques to unlock such long-horizon information-seeking abilities: first, we design a two-staged agentic process to synthesize high-quality QA pairs as the training data for RL; second, we conduct large-scale long-horizon RL, allowing the agent to take up to 128 actions per rollout for sufficient exploration. In particular, after RL training, ASearcher achieved scores of GAIA 58.1, xBench 51.1, and Frames 74.5 using only basic search tools. Furthermore, ASearcher also demonstrates strong zero-shot transferability: ASearcher can be further augmented with an additional summary tool, which is supported by DeepSeek-V3, and test-time scaling, which aggregates the answer from 16 parallel rollouts. With both zero-shot enhancements, the performances of ASearcher further rise to 71.8, 75.0, and 83.4, respectively, outperforming OpenAI DeepResearch and Kimi-Researcher, suggesting the great potential of RL scaling for agentic tasks. We release all the code and data at an anonymous link. The model will be released after the review process.