{
  "task_id": "arxiv_004",
  "domain": "ARXIV",
  "autonomy_type": "ordered table",
  "oracle_output_cardinality": 5,
  "instruction": "I am compiling a reading list of certified robustness defense research from the first half of 2020. I want to find arXiv papers whose first version was submitted between January and June 2020 and whose title or abstract explicitly focuses on smoothed classifiers, randomized smoothing and its variants, certified defenses against backdoor or poisoning attacks, or partition aggregation. Start with arXiv records whose first submission date falls between January and June 2020. Check whether the title or abstract explicitly mentions randomized smoothing, de-randomized smoothing, transformation-specific smoothing, smoothed classifiers, certified defenses against backdoor/poisoning, or partition aggregation. Then retain only papers whose primary category is Machine Learning; do not include records that are only cross-listed from other primary categories. Next, confirm that these papers actually had a version update in 2021, and check whether the current arXiv record clearly indicates formal publication or acceptance information. Finally, output a table sorted by the date of each paper's earliest 2021 version in ascending order, with columns: arXiv ID, defense family, threat/topic cue, cue location, v1 submitted, first 2021 version, date of that version, primary category, publication clue. If no qualifying items exist, output NONE.",
  "start_url": "https://arxiv.org/search/advanced",
  "output_format": "Finally, output a table sorted by the date of each paper's earliest 2021 version in ascending order, with columns: arXiv ID, defense family, threat/topic cue, cue location, v1 submitted, first 2021 version, date of that version, primary category, publication clue. If no qualifying items exist, output NONE.",
  "oracle_answer": "arXiv ID|defense family|threat/topic cue|cue location|v1 submitted|first 2021 version|date of that version|primary category|publication clue\n2002.10733|De-randomized smoothing; Randomized smoothing|patch attacks|Title + Abstract|2020-02-25|v3|2021-01-08|cs.LG|NeurIPS 2020\n2006.04062|Smoothed classifiers; Randomized smoothing|certified L2 robustness|Title + Abstract|2020-06-07|v4|2021-01-08|cs.LG|NeurIPS 2020\n2003.08904|RAB; Randomized smoothing|backdoor attacks|Title + Abstract|2020-03-19|v4|2021-02-26|cs.LG|IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023\n2006.14768|Deep Partition Aggregation|general poisoning attacks; label-flipping poisoning attacks|Title + Abstract|2020-06-26|v2|2021-03-18|cs.LG|ICLR 2021\n2002.12398|Transformation-specific smoothing; Randomized smoothing|semantic transformations|Title + Abstract|2020-02-27|v4|2021-09-17|cs.LG|2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21)",
  "metadata": {
    "State-Gated Retrieval": [
      "Only include arXiv papers whose v1 submission date falls between 2020-01-01 and 2020-06-30.",
      "The title or abstract must explicitly focus on randomized smoothing, de-randomized smoothing, transformation-specific smoothing, smoothed classifiers, certified defenses against backdoor or poisoning attacks, or partition aggregation.",
      "The current primary category must be cs.LG.",
      "The paper must have had a version update in 2021, and the current record must clearly indicate formal publication or acceptance information."
    ],
    "dependency_type": "Data + Control",
    "intra_chain": true,
    "inter_chain": true,
    "data_dependency": [
      "root searches yield candidate arXiv IDs",
      "candidate abstract pages yield v1 date, primary category, full Submission history, cue location, and current publication clue",
      "final rows depend on deduplication plus detail-page validation"
    ],
    "control_dependency": [
      "candidate filtering must use the original-submission window together with full 2021 version-history validation, because valid rows can have later newest versions",
      "cross-listed hits whose primary category is not the target category must be excluded, with category validation on detail pages",
      "searches must cover the broader certified-defense family, including partition-aggregation and backdoor/poisoning variants, rather than smoothing-only entries",
      "topic+venue hits must be confirmed by detail-history validation that a 2021 version actually exists"
    ],
    "freeze": {
      "historical_window": "v1 submitted from 2020-01-01 through 2020-06-30; version-history event in 2021"
    },
    "answer_type": "multi-row ordered table"
  },
  "rubric": {
    "inclusion_conditions": [
      "Only include arXiv papers whose v1 submission date falls between 2020-01-01 and 2020-06-30.",
      "The title or abstract must explicitly focus on randomized smoothing, de-randomized smoothing, transformation-specific smoothing, smoothed classifiers, certified defenses against backdoor or poisoning attacks, or partition aggregation.",
      "The current primary category must be cs.LG.",
      "The paper must have had a version update in 2021, and the current record must clearly indicate formal publication or acceptance information."
    ],
    "exclusion_conditions": [
      "Exclude records whose current primary category is not cs.LG, even if semantically related.",
      "Exclude records that are only broadly related to robustness, defense, or backdoor/poisoning but do not meet the required certified-defense semantics.",
      "Exclude records that have no version update in 2021 or no current publication clue."
    ],
    "normalization": {
      "field_separator": "|",
      "record_separator": "\n",
      "header_row": "required literal first row shown in the oracle",
      "schema": [
        "arXiv ID",
        "defense family",
        "threat/topic cue",
        "cue location",
        "v1 submitted",
        "first 2021 version",
        "date of that version",
        "primary category",
        "publication clue"
      ],
      "dedup_key": "bare arXiv ID without version suffix",
      "date_format": "YYYY-MM-DD",
      "defense_family_extraction": "record every qualifying defense family actually present and join multiple families with `; ` in the emitted field",
      "threat_topic_cue": "keep the shortest qualifying threat or topic cue that justifies inclusion",
      "cue_location": {
        "Title": "qualifying cue appears only in the title",
        "Abstract-only": "qualifying cue appears only in the abstract",
        "Title + Abstract": "qualifying cue appears in both title and abstract, or title carries only a generic cue while the abstract carries the specific family name"
      },
      "publication_clue": "keep the shortest phrase that still preserves venue or publication-status information",
      "sorting_or_selection": {
        "primary": "date of the earliest 2021 version ascending",
        "secondary": "arXiv ID ascending"
      },
      "stop_condition": [
        "all corrected result pages are exhausted",
        "all unique candidate IDs are opened to abstract-page depth",
        "for every surviving candidate, the abstract page, current browse context, Comments field, and full Submission history are checked before emitting the final ordered table"
      ]
    }
  }
}