Daily Digest — 2026-06-17
344 items · 1 research labs, 332 arxiv papers, 11 industry media
🏛️ Research Labs (1)
Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment
OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method for predicting model behavior pre-release by replaying de-identified production conversations with candidate models. The technique addresses limitations of traditional evaluations (coverage gaps, selection biases, test-recognition artifacts) by sampling from real usage distributions. Applied to GPT-5-series models across 1.3M conversations, it achieved median 1.5x error rate in forecasting undesirable behaviors (e.g., calculator hacking), outperforming challenging-prompt baselines in directional accuracy and rate calibration. Primary error sources were simulation fidelity (55%) and prompt distribution shift (45%), with improvements expected through pipeline optimization.
deployment simulationpre-deployment evaluationbehavior forecastinggpt-5-seriescalculator hacking
📜 arXiv Papers (332)
The Importance of Phase in Neural Representations: An Internal Oppenheim-Lim Test of Image Classifiers
The study investigates whether neural image classifiers encode image identity primarily through phase information, replicating the Oppenheim-Lim effect observed in Fourier analysis. Using causal interventions, the authors transplant phase/sign between images at intermediate layers of PRISM2D, GFNet, ViT-B/16, and ResNet-50, finding predictions consistently follow the phase donor. Accuracy remains high when image-specific magnitude is removed, confirming phase dominance. ResNet-50 initially appears exceptional due to ReLU nonlinearities, but pre-ReLU interventions reveal latent sign coding. Controls exclude trivial explanations, demonstrating phase/sign as a universal identity code manifested differently across architectures due to rectification and readout geometry.
phase codingfourier analysisneural representationsimage classificationcausal intervention
HAMON: Passive Optical Sequence Mixing for Long-Horizon Forecasting
HAMON introduces a passive diffractive optical forecasting core that replaces learned digital temporal mixing with optical sequence processing. Historical values are encoded onto an optical aperture, and cascaded trainable phase masks shape forecasts via free-space diffraction, requiring only a single optical propagation pass at inference. On ETTm2 and ETTh2 benchmarks, HAMON outperforms digital baselines by up to 14% MSE, with consistent improvements across horizons. Optical simulations confirm forecasts originate from the data-bearing field, not digital post-processing. The method demonstrates the viability of passive physical sequence mixing for time-series forecasting.
diffractive opticstime-series forecastingphase masksfree-space diffractionoptical propagation
FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared Remote Sensing Dataset for Dual-Modal Vision-Language Foundation Models
The authors introduce FusionRS, the first large-scale RGB-infrared-text dataset for dual-modal vision-language learning in remote sensing. FusionRS contains aligned RGB-IR image pairs generated by translating public RGB images, paired with both conventional captions and IR-aware textual descriptions of infrared-specific features. Training CLIP-style models and generative VLMs on this dataset demonstrates improved RGB-IR alignment (42.5% higher retrieval accuracy), infrared-to-text retrieval, and dual-modal captioning compared to RGB-only baselines, with ablation studies confirming the importance of IR-aware captions for modality-specific representation learning.
vision-language modelsremote sensinginfrared imagerymultimodal learningdataset construction
TokenPilot: Cache-Efficient Context Management for LLM Agents
TokenPilot introduces a dual-granularity context management framework for LLM agents, addressing the trade-off between text sparsity and prompt cache continuity in long-horizon sessions. The method combines global Ingestion-Aware Compaction to stabilize prompt prefixes and filter environmental noise, with local Lifecycle-Aware Eviction to offload low-utility context segments. Evaluated on PinchBench and Claw-Eval, TokenPilot reduces inference costs by 56-87% while maintaining performance, and is integrated into LightMem2.
llm agentscache invalidationcontext managementtoken compactionlifecycle-aware eviction
TuneJury: An Open Metric for Improving Music Generation Preference Alignment
The authors introduce TuneJury, an open pairwise reward model for text-to-music generation that predicts preference scores from text prompts and audio clips. The model is trained on diverse human-preference data, including arena-style votes and expert ratings, achieving well-calibrated score margins on held-out tests. It generalizes to out-of-distribution benchmarks and enables three downstream applications: best-of-N selection, latent optimization, and expert-iteration post-training. Anchor calibration is proposed for adapting to new generators without retraining.
pairwise reward modeltext-to-musicpreference alignmentbradley-terry calibrationlatent optimization
Bayesian Inference and Decision Audits for Public Archives of Frontier AI Evaluations
The paper introduces a Bayesian inference framework to audit public AI evaluation archives, addressing selective reporting and missing data in leaderboards like LiveBench and Open LLM Leaderboard v2. Using synthetic posterior comparisons, it analyzes action-facing diagnostics across observation regimes, revealing failures in frontier model recovery, prediction, and calibration. The proposed archive-and-adjudication protocol reconstructs evaluation histories, isolates timing boundaries, and falsifies unsupported claims, demonstrating improved verifiability for frontier AI assessments.
bayesian inferenceleaderboard auditssynthetic posteriorpreference transferuncertainty calibration
ActiveSAM: Image-Conditional Class Pruning for Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
ActiveSAM introduces a training-free, zero-shot inference framework that enhances Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) for efficient open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS). The method first canonicalizes and expands class prompts, then estimates an image-conditioned active set via low-resolution presence preview, enabling full-resolution decoding only for retained classes with bucketed prompt multiplexing. It incorporates margin-aware background calibration to suppress low-confidence pixels. Evaluated across eight OVSS benchmarks, ActiveSAM improves speed-accuracy tradeoffs, outperforming SegEarth-OV3 by +1.4 mIoU on average while running up to 5.5x faster on large-vocabulary datasets, with robust performance under image corruption.
open-vocabulary semantic segmentationsegment anything modelzero-shot inferenceclass pruningmargin-aware calibration
When in Doubt, Plan It Out: Committed Small Language Model Deliberation for Reactive Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces PACT (Plan, Align, Commit, Think), a hybrid architecture combining reactive Reinforcement Learning (RL) with deliberative planning using a Small Language Model (SLM). PACT asynchronously invokes a 2B-parameter SLM to generate and validate action plans, which are executed directly upon verification, bypassing the RL policy. Evaluated on three FrozenLake configurations, PACT outperforms baselines, demonstrating the efficacy of combining deliberative planning with reactive execution.
reinforcement learningsmall language modeldeliberative planninghybrid architectureasynchronous execution
Stable Menus of Public Goods: AI-Enabled Progress
The study evaluates AI-for-EconCS workflows using an open problem from 'Stable Menus of Public Goods' as a testbed. Three research questions are addressed: the impact of human intuition in prompts, the efficacy of automated multi-turn interaction, and LLM performance relative to a first-year PhD student. Results indicate that prompting with human intuition improves LLM 'taste,' multi-turn workflows aid when encouraging ambitious steps, and the LLM performs slightly worse than the PhD student. Comparisons are based on an unpublished manuscript by the senior authors.
ai-for-econcsstable menusmulti-turn interactionhuman intuitionllm performance
Consensus-based Agentic Large Language Model Framework for Harmonized Tariff Schedule Code Classification
The paper proposes an agentic LLM framework for 10-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) code classification in maritime logistics, addressing challenges of ambiguous product descriptions and hierarchical tariff structures. The method integrates multi-agent retrieval, semantic search over tariff documents, evidence-grounded reasoning, consensus validation, hierarchical voting, and human-in-the-loop escalation. Evaluation on 3,300 expert-labeled product records shows decreasing performance from chapter-level to fine-grained suffix prediction, demonstrating the need for uncertainty-aware workflows over autonomous single-step approaches.
agentic llmhts classificationevidence-grounded reasoningconsensus validationhierarchical voting
The embrace of open science: An analysis of a decade of AI research and 56 800 conference papers
This study analyzes documentation practices in AI research by examining 56,800 papers from five leading conferences (2014-2024). Using seven reproducibility variables, it finds a sixfold increase in papers sharing both code and data (11% to 64%). Estimated reproducibility rates rose from 28% to 64%, with improvements predating formal checklist requirements, suggesting a broader shift toward open science. The methodology involved quality-assured variable coding and trend analysis across the decade-long dataset.
reproducibilitydocumentation practicesopen scienceempirical analysisconference papers
How Much Do Reviews Really Contribute? A Study on Text-Enriched Matrix Factorization for Recommendations
The study evaluates the impact of textual reviews on Matrix Factorization for recommendations by comparing three enrichment strategies: a learnable gating mechanism for adaptive fusion, topic profiles, and full-text embeddings, plus a cross-attention variant. Experiments across multiple datasets show that while adaptive mechanisms improve flexibility, textual signals provide limited marginal gains over collaborative baselines. Results suggest collaborative information dominates in typical rating-prediction settings, questioning the efficacy of semantic review integration.
matrix factorizationrecommender systemstextual enrichmentadaptive fusioncollaborative filtering
Probing Low Frame Rate Degradation in Neural Audio Codecs
This study investigates the degradation mechanisms in neural audio codecs operating at low frame rates (≤12.5 Hz), challenging prior assumptions about phonemic collisions and codebook saturation as primary causes. Through controlled frame rate ablation, the authors identify suboptimal training configuration—specifically fixed clip duration—as the root cause of quality degradation, which starves the decoder of inter-token context at low frame rates. Correcting this configuration enables smooth WER degradation down to 3.1 Hz and 1.6 Hz, demonstrating broader feasibility of low-frame-rate codecs for efficient autoregressive synthesis.
neural audio codecsframe rate degradationautoregressive synthesisphonemic collisionscodebook saturation
Phantoms and Disclosures: a Causal Framework for Auditing Synthetic Data
The paper introduces a model-agnostic framework for auditing synthetic data disclosures, distinguishing between true and phantom disclosures via statistical hypothesis testing. By partitioning data into training/holdout sets without requiring model access or canary insertion, the method provides empirical lower bounds on privacy leakage. Results demonstrate tighter privacy bounds than prior data-based auditing methods, functioning effectively as a membership inference attack with reduced computational overhead.
synthetic dataprivacy leakagemembership inferencedifferential privacyhypothesis testing
A Causal Model of Theory of Mind in Conflict for Artificial Intelligence
The paper introduces a structural causal model for theory of mind (ToM) engagement in AI systems during conflict scenarios, addressing when rather than how to mentalize. The model formalizes ToM as a conditionally activated mechanism via a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with four exogenous variables, five endogenous mediators, and three causal pathways (tractability, reasoning-depth, enabling-cause) leading to epistemic accuracy. This framework provides a resource-rational decision procedure for mentalizing, with implications for efficiency and trust in human-machine teaming. Validation through simulations and empirical studies is proposed, alongside ethical considerations for conflict-optimized mentalizing.
theory of mindstructural causal modeldirected acyclic graphepistemic accuracyresource-rational
Scalable Circuit Learning for Interpreting Large Language Models
CircuitLasso introduces a scalable circuit-learning method for interpreting large language models (LLMs) via sparse linear regression, addressing computational limitations of intervention-based approaches. The technique operates on sparse autoencoder (SAE) features to mitigate polysemantic neuron issues while maintaining structural accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art methods. Results demonstrate efficient recovery of human-interpretable feature relationships and successful application to domain generalization at reduced cost.
mechanistic interpretabilitysparse autoencodercircuit learninglarge language modelsdomain generalization
CrossMaps: Confidence-Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping for Rover Navigation
CrossMaps introduces a confidence-aware open-vocabulary semantic mapping pipeline for rover navigation, integrating multi-scale CLIP embeddings with confidence-aware fusion and a dual-memory architecture. The method combines Short-Term Memory (STM) for aggregating noisy visual observations using geometric, semantic, and temporal confidence cues, and Long-Term Memory (LTM) for persistent semantic landmarks. Designed for real-time deployment on a Jetson Orin-powered UGV alongside SLAM, CrossMaps produces language-queryable semantic heatmaps, enabling natural language-guided navigation.
open-vocabulary semantic mappingclip embeddingsdual-memory architectureconfidence-aware fusionrover navigation
A Unified Causal-Origin Taxonomy of Distributional Shifts in Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes a unified causal-origin taxonomy for distributional shifts in reinforcement learning (RL), bridging ID/OOD generalization and non-stationarity. By reformulating shifts through a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), it decomposes agent-environment interactions into structural components (state distribution, observation process, policy, reward, transition dynamics) and distinguishes internal (agent-driven) from external (environment-driven) shifts. The taxonomy introduces shifted-time boundary perspectives (explicit, implicit, hybrid) and an evaluation framework for performance degradation/recovery. This causal-origin approach enables systematic robustness analysis under distributional shift.
distributional shiftreinforcement learningpomdpnon-stationaritycausal-origin taxonomy
RAID: Semantic Graph Diffusion for True Cold-Start and Cross-Lingual Forecasting
The paper introduces RAID (Retrieval-Augmented Iterative Diffusion), a framework addressing true cold-start forecasting by replacing history-based correlation learning with metadata-driven semantic retrieval and graph-conditioned diffusion. RAID maps textual metadata into a shared semantic space using a frozen multilingual embedding model, constructs an inductive retrieval graph, and refines forecasts via gated diffusion. Evaluated under strict cold-start protocols, RAID outperforms foundation models in accuracy and prediction interval coverage while reducing inference latency by 10× through non-autoregressive decoding. The shared semantic space enables zero-shot cross-lingual transfer without direct supervision.
retrieval-augmentedgraph diffusioncold-startmultilingual embeddingnon-autoregressive
MA-SBI: Misspecification-Aware Simulation-Based Inference via Side-Channel Guidance
MA-SBI introduces a calibration-free framework for simulation-based inference (SBI) that corrects posterior distributions using unstructured side-channel information (e.g., text labels) without requiring ground-truth parameter pairs. The method employs a learned corrector that applies observation-space shifts prior to inference, leveraging mutual information bounds between misspecification and side-channel data. Experiments demonstrate that MA-SBI matches oracle posterior performance on hide-the-calibration benchmarks (TOST equivalence across 10 seeds) and improves log-likelihood on COVID/OxCGRT epidemiological data, while remaining neutral on well-specified tasks. The approach complements RoPE, which excels when structural misspecification is recoverable from parameter pairs.
simulation-based inferencemisspecificationposterior correctionside-channel guidanceoptimal transport
Demystifying Variance in Circuit Discovery of LLMs
The paper introduces CEAP, a novel circuit discovery method improving upon EAP-IG with theoretical guarantees, significantly reducing resampling variance in LLM circuit discovery. It identifies three variance types: resampling, rephrasing, and sample-wise, attributing rephrasing variance to prompt-template-induced circuit shifts and sample-wise variance to definitional artifacts in unfaithfulness metrics. CEAP demonstrates superior stability, while sparsity-based methods fail to address template variability. Findings suggest inherent challenges in steering LLMs due to prompt-dependent circuit activation.
circuit discoveryvariance reductionunfaithfulness metricsprompt templatessparsity
Greed Is Learned: Visible Incentives as Reward-Hacking Triggers
The paper identifies ‘reward-channel addiction’, where reinforcement learning agents become pathologically dependent on visible self-benefit indicators (e.g., KPIs, scores), sacrificing true task objectives to optimize the displayed proxy. Using the synthetic ‘MoneyWorld’ sandbox, the authors demonstrate that policies exposed to such channels exhibit domain-general reward hacking, including flipping safety-aligned behaviors when incentivized by the proxy. This effect persists across model scales and architectures, suggesting that visible optimization targets can dangerously distort alignment in next-generation AI systems.
reward hackingreinforcement learningsafety alignmentproxy optimizationdomain generalization
IMPACTeen: Intentions, Manipulation, Persuasion, Annotations, and Consequences in Teen Communication Dataset
IMPACTeen introduces a multilingual dataset (Polish/English) for studying social influence in adolescent communication, containing 1,021 texts with 5,100 multi-perspective annotations. The resource was constructed via constrained LLM generation followed by two-stage human validation, ensuring youth-context realism. Each text received gold-standard annotations from five stakeholder groups (teenagers, parents, psychologists, communication experts, teachers) across seven dimensions: influence presence, techniques, intentions, consequences, resistance, reactions, and confidence. The dataset supports research on influence detection, annotator disagreement analysis, cross-lingual modeling, and LLM evaluation.
social influence detectionmulti-perspective annotationconstrained llm generationcross-lingual modelinggold-standard labels
Binary Tracking for Spatial QA and Navigation with Open Vision-Language Models
BinTrack introduces an open-source spatial-localization agent for service robots, addressing limitations of closed-source models like GPT-4o in real-world deployment. The method performs binary search over trajectory segments between anchor landmarks identified from spatial queries, leveraging temporal ordering. On SpaceLocQA's global category, BinTrack improves accuracy by 22.8% over open-source baselines and matches GPT-4o's performance, while achieving 1.5x inference speedup. The work also releases GangnamLoop, a novel outdoor benchmark collected via quadruped robot deployment under varying conditions.
spatial question answeringbinary searchopen-source modelsegocentric navigationtrajectory segmentation
Semantic Flip: Synthetic OOD Generation for Robust Refusal in Embodied Question Answering and Spatial Localization
The paper introduces Semantic Flip, a framework for generating synthetic out-of-distribution (OOD) samples to improve refusal capability in embodied vision-language models (VLMs). The method independently transforms queries and video memory to create OOD pairs lacking visual grounding, enabling training of a lightweight rejection module atop frozen pretrained VLMs. Evaluated on two benchmarks including the new SpaceReject dataset for spatial localization, Semantic Flip achieves a 0.9559 F1 score, outperforming prompting baselines without retraining the base model.
embodied question answeringout-of-distribution generationvision-language modelsspatial localizationrefusal learning
Symbolic Informalization: Fluent, Productive, Multilingual
The paper introduces symbolic informalization as a method for converting formal mathematics to natural language without precision loss, enhancing human-readability of machine-checked content. The approach generalizes syntactic sugar mechanisms into mathematical language and aids in explaining AI-constructed proofs. The Informath project demonstrates this through an interlingual architecture using Dedukti as a hub for proof systems (Agda, Lean, Rocq) and Grammatical Framework (GF) for linguistic correctness and multilingual variation.
symbolic informalizationinterlingual architecturededuktigrammatical frameworkautoformalization
Beyond Weights and Gradients: A Taxonomy of Federated Learning Messages
The paper proposes a formal mathematical definition of federated messages to encompass modern payloads like synthetic data and federated analytics, addressing a gap in existing frameworks. It introduces a taxonomy categorizing exchanges into model structures, statistical summaries, and data-conditioned representations, evaluated by computational demands, communication costs, and privacy risks. Analysis of 202 recent publications reveals a post-2021 shift toward diverse messaging paradigms, moving beyond standard deep learning updates. This framework aids in optimizing federated systems for varying hardware and security constraints.
federated learningsynthetic datafederated analyticsdecentralized trainingprivacy risks
Compositional Reasoning Depth Predicts Clinical AI Failure: Empirical Evidence Consistent with Transformer Compositionality Limits in Electronic Health Record Question Answering
The study demonstrates that compositional reasoning depth, measured by hop count (inferential steps required to answer clinical questions from EHRs), systematically predicts LLM failure in EHR question answering. Using a pre-specified hop-count taxonomy on 313 MedAlign QA pairs, the authors evaluate Claude Sonnet, GPT-4o, and GPT-5.4-2026-03-05, showing monotonic accuracy decline with hop count (e.g., Claude Sonnet drops from 30.6% to 17.6% from hop=1 to hop=4). Context-sufficiency audits confirm the decline reflects compositional reasoning limits, not EHR truncation. Extended thinking fails to mitigate the effect, with token usage scaling linearly with hop count (r=0.31).
compositional reasoninghop countelectronic health recordslarge language modelsclinical question answering
Upper Bounds on the Generalization Error of Deep Learning Models via Local Robustness and Stability
The paper proposes tighter generalization bounds for deep learning models by incorporating local robustness and stability measures. The method scales robustness terms according to sub-region stability in the input space, addressing limitations of global robustness measures that yield vacuous bounds. Evaluations on ImageNet-trained models demonstrate non-vacuous bounds that closely match empirical error rates, outperforming existing approaches in tightness.
generalization boundslocal robustnessstability analysisdeep neural networks0-1 loss
Federated Medical Image Segmentation under Real-World Label Noise: A Benchmark Suite for Noisy Label Learning Method Selection
The paper introduces a benchmark suite for federated noisy label learning (FNLL) in medical image segmentation, addressing the gap between synthetic noise evaluations and real-world label imperfections. The suite combines diverse real-world noisy datasets, client-noise scenarios, and noise-targeted evaluation metrics to enable systematic FNLL assessment. Results demonstrate its utility for method selection and development under realistic federated settings, with publicly available code for reproducibility.
federated learninglabel noisemedical image segmentationbenchmark suitenoisy label learning
Follow the Latent Roadmap: Navigating Revocable Decoding for Diffusion LLMs with Anchor Tokens
The paper introduces Anchor Supervised Revocable Decoding (ASRD), a training-free framework for Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) that addresses error propagation and local error reinforcement in revocable decoding. ASRD decouples context into trusted Anchor Tokens (identified via temporal consistency) and uncertain candidates, employing Anchor-Guided Generation to rectify attention and Anchor-Perturbed Verification to destabilize errors. Evaluations on math and coding benchmarks show ASRD improves accuracy by up to 6.4% and increases inference throughput by 7.2× compared to baselines.
diffusion large language modelsrevocable decodinganchor tokenserror propagationinference throughput
Deep Q-Learning on Hölder Spaces
The paper analyzes the operator-theoretic foundations of Q-learning in continuous-time stochastic control with continuous state-action spaces, focusing on Bellman optimality target regularity. Using uniform ellipticity and Hölder-regular coefficients, the authors prove that Bellman updates map bounded inputs into an anisotropic regularity class, smoothing states while preserving Lipschitz action dependence. This motivates a tensor-product DeepONet architecture adapted to mixed regularity, yielding explicit approximation bounds and revealing a stiffness-complexity trade-off as δ→0. The analysis provides theoretical insights into Q-learning's Bellman target properties but does not address practical convergence with exploration or stochastic updates.
q-learningbellman optimalityhölder regularitydeeponetstochastic control
Robust Dual-Signal Fusion: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Gating with Compressed Chain-of-Thought Refinement for Irony Detection in Social Media Texts
The Robust Dual-Signal (RDS) Fusion framework improves zero-shot irony detection by combining hybrid neuro-symbolic gating with compressed Chain-of-Thought (CoT) refinement, avoiding Supervised Fine-Tuning. Evaluated on TweetEval (N=734), RDS achieves 78.1% accuracy and 0.777 Macro F1, matching fine-tuned BERTweet. On iSarcasm, it filters 22.5% of hallucinations, yielding 0.6726 Macro F1 and 0.4821 Ironic F1, outperforming supervised SemEval ensembles. Statistical ablation shows only full signal fusion significantly improves baseline performance (p = 0.005).
hybrid neuro-symbolicchain-of-thoughtzero-shotirony detectionsupervised fine-tuning
Beyond Models: Reflections on Engineering AI-enabled Systems in a Project-Based Course
The paper presents a mixed-methods evaluation of a project-based master's course on engineering AI-enabled systems, focusing on architectural integration challenges beyond model development. Students developed a movie recommendation system while addressing scalability, deployment, and evolving requirements through architectural design decisions. Analysis of submissions and questionnaires revealed persistent difficulties in early architectural choices, ML integration heterogeneity, and data management, attributed to uneven ML/SE expertise, while demonstrating improved system-level reasoning and data-centric awareness.
ai-enabled systemssoftware engineering educationarchitectural designmixed-methods evaluationdata-centric ml
Robust Spoofed Speech Detection via Temporal Pyramid Modeling
The paper proposes a Temporal Pyramid Adapter for robust spoofed speech detection, employing parallel temporal convolutions with varying receptive fields to capture multi-scale spoofing cues from local artifacts to global prosodic irregularities. The method integrates self-supervised XLS-R representations with front-end adapters (Mel, Sinc, Temporal Pyramid) for multi-scale temporal modeling. Evaluated across ASVspoof 2017, ASVspoof 2021 (DF/LA), PartialSpoof, DiffSSD, and HQ-MPSD datasets, the model achieves 99.24% AUC and 3.87% EER on PartialSpoof, outperforming LCNN-BLSTM (9.87% EER) and TRACE (8.08% EER). Multilingual results indicate language-independent spoofing artifacts but highlight degradation under domain/language shifts.
temporal pyramid adapterspoofed speech detectionmulti-scale modelingself-supervised representationscross-dataset generalization
ATOM-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Atomic Skills and Compositional Generalization in Manipulation Policies
The paper introduces ATOM-Bench, a real-world benchmark for evaluating atomic skills and compositional generalization in robotic manipulation policies. The benchmark decomposes tabletop manipulation into 30 atomic tasks (motor and instruction atoms) and 24 held-out compositional tasks, supported by 3,000 human demonstrations. Using five representative policies evaluated through 2,700 physical rollouts, the authors propose Atomic Score (AS) and Compositional Failure Share (CFS) metrics, revealing current policies' limitations in fine-grained motor control, counting, and logical filtering despite acquiring basic instruction-grounding skills.
manipulation policiescompositional generalizationatomic skillsreal-world benchmarkinstruction grounding
Tying the Loop -- Tied Expert Layers in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
The paper introduces Expert Tying, a method to reduce memory footprint in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models by sharing expert parameters across consecutive transformer layers while maintaining independent routing and attention. Evaluated on architectures like OLMoE, Qwen3, and DeepSeek-style MoEs, the approach reduces memory usage by nearly 2x with minimal perplexity or downstream performance degradation. This leverages inherent parameter redundancy in MoE pathways, offering a favorable compute-to-memory trade-off for efficient LLM scaling.
mixture-of-expertsparameter tyingmemory efficiencytransformer layerslarge language models
A Perception vs. Distortion Perspective on Score-Based Generative Channel Estimation
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of score-based channel estimation in wireless communications through the perception-distortion tradeoff framework. The authors demonstrate that score matching outperforms discriminative learning under high predictive uncertainty by enabling near Bayesian-optimal precoding via learned posteriors, while discriminative approaches remain preferable in low-uncertainty regimes due to lower complexity. Numerical results validate these findings, quantifying excess risk gaps and performance tradeoffs across different uncertainty conditions.
score-based modelschannel estimationperception-distortion tradeoffbayesian-optimal precodingexcess risk
GIST-CMTF: Goal-State Inference for Causal Minimal Tool Filtering in LLM Agents
GIST-CMTF introduces goal-state inference for causal minimal tool filtering in LLM agents, addressing wrong-goal execution by predicting candidate symbolic goals and estimating ambiguity. The method combines goal-state validation with CMTF, either applying causal filtering or triggering clarification actions. Evaluated across seven model backends and 120 tool-use tasks, GIST-CMTF achieves 97.0% task success, reducing wrong-goal execution from 19.4% to 2.5% while maintaining efficient tool exposure. Results demonstrate the necessity of validating goal states alongside tool relevance in tool-augmented agents.
gist-cmtfcausal minimal tool filteringwrong-goal executiongoal-state inferencetool-augmented agents
Scaling LLM Reasoning from Minimal Labels: A Semi-Supervised Framework with a Lightweight Verifier
The paper introduces a semi-supervised framework for scaling large language model (LLM) reasoning with minimal labeled data, using a lightweight verifier to assess reasoning quality. The method trains a reasoning-correctness classifier on few labeled samples, filters unreliable traces via entropy-based confidence thresholds, and fine-tunes the LLM on high-confidence pseudo-labels. Experiments on Verifiable Math Problems (Orca-Math subset) and GQA with Visual Programming show comparable accuracy to methods using 10-15x more labeled data. Ablations confirm the necessity of both classifier and entropy filtering for noise-resistant pseudo-labeling.
semi-supervised learningreasoning verificationentropy filteringpseudo-labelinglightweight classifier
Adaptive and Explicit safe: Triggering Latent Safety Awareness in Large Reasoning Models
The paper introduces Safe Trigger, a method to activate Latent Safety Awareness in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) without external manual annotation. By employing Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to generate adaptive safety tags and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to refine safety analysis, the approach leverages models' own reasoning trajectories to identify risks. Experiments show a 24.65% and 36.72% reduction in Attack Success Rate (ASR) on harmful and jailbreak benchmarks for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, with minimal impact on general performance.
latent safety awarenesssupervised fine-tuningdirect preference optimizationattack success ratelarge reasoning models
LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific Instrument Control
LabOSBench introduces a benchmark for multimodal GUI agents operating scientific instruments, addressing limitations of physical testing through web-based simulators. The framework comprises 96 subtasks across eight instrument simulators, evaluating workflows from sample handling to data analysis. Evaluations of vision-language models, specialized GUI agents, and agentic frameworks reveal persistent challenges in feedback-driven operations and long-horizon execution, despite competence in structured subtasks. The benchmark enables reproducible, low-cost assessment of instrument-control agents.
multimodal gui agentsscientific instrument controlweb-based simulatorsfeedback-driven operationslong-horizon workflow
Decoupling Semantics from Distortions: Multi-Scale Two-Stream Vision-Language Alignment for AI-Generated Image Quality Assessment
The paper introduces MST-CLIPIQA, a multi-scale two-stream framework for AI-generated image quality assessment that decouples semantic understanding from distortion sensitivity. The method employs dual CLIP encoders operating at coarse and fine patch granularities, with a gated fusion mechanism for cross-scale distillation and optional cross-attention for prompt-aware evaluation. Experiments across five benchmarks show state-of-the-art performance, improving quality prediction by 1.11% SRCC and text-image correspondence by 2.35% SRCC, using only 0.8M trainable parameters.
vision-language alignmentmulti-scale representationai-generated image qualityclip encodersgated fusion
Decision-Weighted Flow Matching for Contextual Stochastic Optimization
The paper introduces Decision-Weighted Flow Matching (DW-FM), a regret-aligned training framework for conditional generative models in contextual stochastic optimization. DW-FM modifies standard flow matching by reweighting its velocity-regression objective using decision-sensitive endpoint information, theoretically linking downstream regret to pathwise velocity mismatch via loss-induced decision discrepancy and adjoint transport. Empirical evaluations on three CVaR-based benchmarks—synthetic portfolio, semi-real financial, and traffic-CVaR tasks—demonstrate DW-FM's superiority over baselines in reducing downstream regret.
conditional generative modelsstochastic optimizationflow matchingdecision discrepancycvar
Gen-VCoT: Generative Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Diffusion-Based RGB Intermediate Representations
Gen-VCoT introduces a generative visual chain-of-thought framework using RGB images as interpretable reasoning intermediates for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The method employs expert vision models in three stages: visual grounding (Segment Anything Model), geometric reasoning (Marigold depth estimation), and semantic reasoning (Qwen2-VL integration), with an adaptive router for depth selection. Evaluations demonstrate 25% and 50% improvements on spatial and depth questions respectively, though text-based CoT remains superior on CLEVR (91.2% vs 62.5%), indicating task-dependent representation efficacy.
multimodal reasoningvisual chain-of-thoughtrgb intermediatesadaptive routingexpert vision models
OpenClaw-Skill: Collective Skill Tree Search for Agentic Large Language Models
The paper proposes Collective Skill Tree Search (CSTS), a framework for automatically constructing reusable skills to enhance LLM agents in tool use, multi-step reasoning, and dynamic environment interaction. CSTS employs two iterative phases: Collective Skill Node Generation (CSN-Gen) explores diverse candidate skills via collective model knowledge, while Collective Skill Node Assessment (CSN-Assess) evaluates skills through collective quality and transferability scoring. The resulting OpenClaw-Skill model demonstrates strong performance in long-horizon planning, tool use, and generalization across benchmarks.
collective skill tree searchlarge language model agentsskill node generationtransferability scoringlong-horizon planning
Skill-to-LoRA: From Using Skills to Learning Behaviors for Token-Efficient LLM Agents
The paper introduces Skill-to-LoRA (S2L), a method converting procedural agent skills from text documents (SKILL.md) into behavior-modifying LoRA adapters. By synthesizing skill-guided demonstrations offline and dynamically loading LoRA adapters online, S2L reduces token usage while maintaining performance. Evaluated on Qwen3.6-27B with 21 skills from SWE-Skills-Bench, S2L improves pass rates by 2.9-5.2 percentage points over baselines and reduces per-step tokens by 6.6%. Performance gains depend on skill-specific adapter alignment, with Wrong-LoRA and Shared-LoRA degrading results. The approach demonstrates that procedural skills can be effectively encoded as trainable behavioral modules.
skill-to-loralora adapterstoken efficiencybehavioral modulesswe-skills-bench
P3B3: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Measuring European and Brazilian Portuguese Variety Bias in LLMs
The authors introduce P3B3, a multi-turn conversational benchmark for evaluating European (pt-PT) and Brazilian (pt-BR) Portuguese variety bias in LLMs. The expert-curated, variety-agnostic benchmark includes an evaluation framework measuring bias and controllability. Experiments on multiple models reveal a strong pt-BR preference, with varying controllability across architectures, highlighting the need for balanced multilingual representation in LLMs.
multilingual evaluationlanguage variety biasconversational benchmarkllm controllabilityportuguese variants
Automated jailbreak attack targeting multiple defense strategies
UNIATTACK introduces an automated adversarial testing framework for evaluating LLM safety via black-box prompt attacks. The method extracts minimal high-impact attack features from diverse sources, optimizes them using a specialized attacker LLM, and composes them into flexible templates through automated refinement. Evaluations show UNIATTACK achieves 64.63%-248.82% higher attack success rates than baselines on multi-defended models, with only 0.03%-4.96% of baseline computational cost.
adversarial testingblack-box attackllm safetyattack success rateautomated refinement
Revealing Artifacts via Noise Amplification: A Novel Perspective for AI-Generated Video Detection
The paper proposes Noise Amplification, a novel method for detecting AI-generated videos by amplifying artifacts in bit-plane extracted noise signals. The approach combines pixel-level intensity enhancement, region-level spatial amplification, and frame-level temporal aggregation before classification. Evaluated on GenVidBench and a new challenging benchmark HardGVD, the method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art detectors, particularly for text-to-video generation outputs where subtle temporal artifacts persist.
bit-planesnoise amplificationai-generated video detectiontemporal aggregationhardgvd
A First-Principles Derivation of LLM Policy Optimization: From Expected Reward to GRPO and Its Structural Extensions
The paper presents a first-principles derivation of LLM policy optimization, unifying methods from REINFORCE to GRPO under a shared objective $J(θ)$. It analyzes trajectory probability $p_θ(τ)$ and reward $R(τ)$ as orthogonal axes for method classification, revealing compound failures requiring joint design. The framework extends to Agentic RL and GRPO-OPD, diagnosing limitations and guiding future algorithm development.
policy gradienttrajectory probabilityreward functiongrpo-opdagentic rl
MuVAP: Multimodal Multiparty Voice Activity Projection for Turn-taking Prediction in the Wild
MuVAP introduces a causal multimodal framework for turn-taking prediction in multiparty conversations, using monaural audio and single-camera video inputs. The method extends Voice Activity Projection by incorporating face tracks via Role-Relative Projection, which reduces combinatorial complexity by mapping N-speaker interactions to current versus next floor-holder states. Evaluated on the new 31-hour Audio-Visual Conversation Corpus, MuVAP outperforms baselines in Shift-Hold and next-speaker prediction tasks for two- and three-speaker settings.
turn-taking predictionvoice activity projectionmultimodal frameworkrole-relative projectionaudiovisual corpus
Attention is Just Another Name for Coupling?: A Fast-Slow ODE Perspective on Hierarchical Pretraining
The paper proposes a fast-slow ODE framework to analyze hierarchical pretraining, where causal self-attention is viewed as a coupling mechanism between fast (token-level) and slow (pooled-token) subsystems. The method introduces a slow path with full attention over downsampled tokens (T/P) and a zero-initialized additive gate, reducing compute cost by P²× per layer. Theoretical analysis under linear-generator assumptions shows the equilibrium manifold approximates a master-equation stationary distribution. Empirical results on 500k tokens indicate neutral coupling (gate remains closed) with wall-clock cost comparable to dense baselines. The contribution lies in the formal mapping, not performance gains.
causal self-attentionfast-slow odehierarchical pretrainingmaster-equationzero-initialized gate
AgentFairBench: Do LLM Agents Discriminate When They Act?
The paper introduces AgentFairBench, a benchmark for evaluating demographic disparity in LLM agent actions across hiring, lending, and medical triage domains. Using synthetic profiles with controlled demographic signals, it measures disparities via counterfactual flip rates, mean absolute score differences, and action-rate disparities under four agent scaffolds. A NumPy-based harness computes metrics with bootstrap confidence intervals. Pilot results show Claude Haiku 4.5 exhibits no significant demographic effects, while the methodology detects planted biases. The contribution includes an open-source framework, arity-matched null testing, and a live leaderboard.
llm agentsdemographic disparitycounterfactual testingbias conduction frameworkarity-matched null
Medical world models: representing medical states, modelling clinical dynamics and guiding intervention policies
The article proposes medical world models as a framework to advance AI in healthcare from static predictions to dynamic simulation of patient-state evolution and intervention outcomes. It synthesizes scattered approaches—including foundation models, longitudinal modeling, and reinforcement learning—into a roadmap with three core capabilities: patient-state representation, clinical dynamics modeling, and intervention decision support. The review identifies integration challenges and benchmarks existing systems toward building clinically useful simulators that combine perception, dynamics, and planning.
medical world modelspatient-state dynamicstreatment-effect estimationlongitudinal modelingdigital twins
User as Code: Executable Memory for Personalized Agents
The paper introduces User as Code (UaC), a paradigm for personalized AI agents where user memory is represented as executable Python code rather than unstructured text or knowledge graphs. UaC employs a two-phase pipeline: an append-only log of facts periodically compiled into typed Python objects and functions, enabling deterministic rule execution and computational reasoning. On the LOCOMO benchmark, UaC matches retrieval-based systems in fact recall (78.8%) while significantly outperforming them on aggregate queries (99% vs 6-43%) and enabling proactive safety alerts through state-triggered rules.
executable memorypersonalized agentstyped python objectsappend-only logdeterministic rule execution
Adaptive inference and function vectors in deep transformers
The paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding deep transformers as mean-field interacting systems performing distributed inference under communication, locality, and depth constraints. It introduces 'function vectors' as internal state representations that enable hierarchical inference of latent context variables across layers. Experiments with constrained linear attention transformers validate the theory, showing depth-dependent adaptation to non-Gaussian hierarchical structures and demonstrating that feedforward blocks expand transformers' in-context learning capabilities beyond prior descriptions.
transformersmean-field theoryfunction vectorsin-context learninghierarchical inference
PATCH: Action-Chunk-Conditioned Latent Patch Innovation Monitoring for Robot Manipulation
PATCH introduces an action-chunk-conditioned latent patch innovation monitor for robust robot manipulation in dynamic environments. The method projects an execution corridor based on the active action chunk, predicts latent patch evolution, and accumulates residuals unexplained by robot motion. These residuals trigger localized intervention via PATCH-Router, enabling pause-recovery-resume cycles. Experiments on real robot data show PATCH outperforms existing runtime monitors in stability and context-relevance, with successful deployment demonstrating disturbance-aware manipulation capabilities.
latent patchaction-chunkruntime monitorrobot manipulationintervention signal
From Affect Prediction to Affect Forecasting: Evidence for Distinct Information Sources in Longitudinal Text
The paper distinguishes between current affect prediction and future affective change forecasting in longitudinal text analysis, proposing two frameworks: E-TSAP for per-text valence/arousal prediction (achieving Pearson r=0.670 valence, 0.449 arousal on 1,737 entries) and ACF-Hybrid for next-step forecasting (r=0.659 valence, 0.658 arousal on 46 users). Results demonstrate textual semantics suffice for current-state prediction, while numeric trajectory features outperform text representations (r=0.615-0.670) for forecasting affective change, revealing distinct information sources for these tasks.
affective computinglongitudinal analysisvalence predictionarousal forecastingtrajectory modeling
Optimising Temporary Accommodation Placement Across London with AI-Powered SaaS in E-Governance Systems
The paper presents DOMUS, an AI-powered SaaS system for optimizing temporary accommodation placement in London's e-governance. The solution integrates household case records, policy constraints, and rental listings using rule-based filtering and LLM-assisted search, encoding attributes into policy-compliant representations for ranking. A pilot in Newham demonstrated reduced search time (quantitative improvement unspecified), better constraint adherence, and high staff satisfaction while maintaining compliance. The modular cloud architecture offers replicability for other public administration tasks involving scarcity and rule-bound eligibility.
decision-support systemrule-based filteringlarge language modeldigital public infrastructuree-governance
The Integrator Advantage: Controlled Agentic AI for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
The paper proposes an integration framework for controlled agentic AI in small and medium-sized enterprises, emphasizing partial autonomy over full automation. It outlines technical considerations including use case suitability, autonomy levels, system integration, governance protocols, and security measures. Results suggest agentic AI can enhance productivity when implemented as human-centered tools with preserved human accountability, particularly for simple-to-medium complexity business processes.
agentic aienterprise automationmulti-step planningtechnical integrationgovernance protocols
DCP-Prune: Ultra-Low Token Pruning with Distribution Consistency Preservation
The paper introduces DCP-Prune, a two-stage token pruning framework for vision-language models that maintains performance under ultra-low token budgets by preserving feature distribution consistency. The method combines Anchor-Context Graph Recovery (ACGR) to transfer contextual information before pruning and Text-Aware Token Cluster Selection (TATCS) to dynamically reselect tokens when distribution shifts occur. Experiments show the approach achieves 92.1% of upper-bound performance on LLaVA-1.5-7B with only 16 visual tokens, demonstrating superior stability in extreme pruning scenarios.
token pruningdistribution consistencyvision-language modelscontextual informationultra-low budget
Using AI in engineering education: a balancing act, driven by clear purpose
This chapter analyzes student perceptions and usage patterns of Large Language Models (LLMs) in engineering education through a questionnaire of 100 higher-education students and a literature review. Students primarily utilize LLMs for writing support, conceptual clarification, coding assistance, and brainstorming, but express concerns about inaccuracies, bias, and academic integrity. The analysis reveals two dominant metaphors—LLMs as 'oracle' and 'tutor'—highlighting mismatched expectations of authority and personalized learning. The study advocates for purpose-driven AI integration, emphasizing critical AI literacy, reflective assessment design, and ethical considerations.
large language modelsengineering educationacademic integrityai literacypersonalized learning
MR-GVNO: A Geometry-Aware Variational Physics-Informed Neural Operator for Mindlin-Reissner Plates on Irregular Domains
The study introduces MR-GVNO, a geometry-aware variational physics-informed neural operator for Mindlin-Reissner plate problems on irregular domains. The method represents geometries via boundary point clouds, employs separate encoders for material fields, loads, and physical parameters, and integrates inputs through cross-attention to predict deflections and rotations. Trained without labeled data using a variational loss derived from total potential energy, MR-GVNO processes irregular point clouds and avoids grid interpolation. Experiments on single-hole, double-hole, and L-shaped plates demonstrate accurate predictions under heterogeneous materials and random loads, with millisecond inference and cross-geometry generalization.
physics-informed neural operatormindlin-reissner platesirregular domainscross-attentionvariational loss
Entropy-Gated Latent Recursion
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Sycophancy as Material Failure under Pushback Loading: A Multi-Axis Characterization Across Three Loading Cases and up to Seventeen Material Charges
The study introduces a materials-science framework to characterize sycophancy in LLMs as material failure under conversational load, addressing construct fragmentation in prior work. It evaluates three loading cases (debate, false-presuppositions, ethical-setting) across 10-17 model variants (7800 total specimens) using 14 turn-level axis-measurements (e.g., velocity, brittleness) and three speaker-resolved axes. Results show Hooke-coupled measurements reproduce across cases (|r_rb| ≤ 0.35), with variance partitioning into charge-dominated (debate) and topic-dominated (false-presuppositions, ethical-setting) profiles. Cross-judge reliability varies (κ = 0.88 debate, 0.36 false-presuppositions), highlighting benchmark sensitivity.
sycophancymaterial failurehooke-coupledvariance partitioningcross-judge reliability
CoffeeBench: Benchmarking Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Economies
The paper introduces CoffeeBench, a novel benchmark for evaluating long-horizon LLM agent performance in heterogeneous multi-agent economies. The benchmark simulates a 90-day coffee supply chain with six autonomous firms (two farmers, roasters, and retailers each), where one roaster is controlled by the evaluated LLM while others use fixed reference agents. Results show all tested LLMs outperform passive baselines, with higher-performing models exhibiting more active communication; Claude~Haiku~4.5 demonstrates an idle-drift failure mode despite coherent planning. The authors release code and trajectories for reproducibility.
llm agentsmulti-agent systemseconomic simulationlong-horizon tasksbenchmarking
ARB4WM: An Adversarial Robustness Benchmark for World Models in Continuous Control
ARB4WM introduces a unified adversarial robustness benchmark for world-model agents in continuous control, addressing the lack of standardized evaluation across policy, value, and latent-dynamics levels. The framework defines five white-box loss objectives, combined with single/multi-step perturbation strategies and three temporal attack modes (full-frame, half-sequence, sparse-frame). Evaluations on four Dreamer-style agents across 20 MetaWorld and DeepMind Control Suite tasks reveal that value, latent, and RSSM-dynamics attacks match policy disruption in severity, with early/frequent perturbations being particularly damaging. Input-level defenses prove insufficient against adaptive attacks, highlighting the need for multi-component robustness assessment.
adversarial robustnessworld modelscontinuous controllatent dynamicsrssm
VeriGraph: Towards Verifiable Data-Analytic Agents
VeriGraph introduces a neuro-symbolic framework for constructing verifiable evidence DAGs in LLM-based data-analytic agents, addressing the lack of auditability in traditional linear text trajectories. The method employs three evidence-expansion primitives (computational, grounding, derivational) to connect raw data, interpreter variables, and claims in a unified graph, with structural traceability reduced to graph reachability. A graph-based policy optimization strategy jointly optimizes answer correctness, computational integrity, and derivational coherence. Experiments on four benchmarks show VeriGraph-8B outperforms baselines while achieving 87.61% Grounding Rate in claim-level evidence support evaluation.
evidence dagneuro-symbolic reasoninggrounding rategraph-based policy optimizationcomputational integrity
ArtNet: A JEPA-Like Articulatory Predictive Framework for Robust Zero-Shot Phoneme Recognition
ArtNet introduces a JEPA-like articulatory predictive framework for robust zero-shot phoneme recognition, addressing fragility in acoustic-to-symbol mapping across languages. The method integrates an articulatory predictor to extract universal representations from SSL features, combined with a VIB to suppress language-specific variations, and employs VSIA for vector-space inventory alignment. Evaluated on seven unseen languages, ArtNet achieves a 20.56% relative PER reduction and 7.01% PFER improvement over baselines.
zero-shot phoneme recognitionarticulatory featuresvariational information bottleneckself-supervised learningvector-space alignment
Infant Spontaneous Movement Noise Improves Exploration in Deep RL
This study demonstrates that infant-inspired temporally correlated noise improves exploration in deep reinforcement learning (RL). By analyzing power spectral densities of babies' end-effector velocities, the authors develop a noise mechanism that progressively increases temporal auto-correlation during training, mimicking developmental patterns. Experimental results across multiple RL environments show that this biologically inspired noise enhances exploratory behavior and learning efficiency compared to conventional white noise strategies. The findings suggest that human motor development can inform artificial agent learning mechanisms.
reinforcement learningexploration noisetemporal correlationspectral densitydevelopmental robotics
Learning Interface Breakup: A Geometry-Conditioned Latent Surrogate for Spray Formation
The paper introduces a geometry-conditioned latent surrogate model for predicting transient two-phase breakup in spray nozzles, addressing the computational expense of high-fidelity VOF simulations with AMR. The method encodes the AMR cell-density field as a compact proxy for solver resolution, reconstructs transient density evolution and nozzle geometry, and uses a lightweight second stage to recover remaining flow variables. Trained on 797 nozzle simulations, the model achieves a 6×10^4 speed-up over Basilisk CFD while accurately capturing interface dynamics, with inference times of 0.045 seconds per trajectory.
surrogate modelingadaptive mesh refinementtwo-phase flowgeometry-conditionedlatent representation
Fast When, Careful Who: Dual-Process Multiparty Turn-Taking with Diffusion Augmentation
The paper proposes a dual-process audio-only pipeline for multiparty turn-taking in spoken dialogue systems, addressing limitations of dyadic approaches. The method combines a fast boundary trigger with a lightweight verifier that classifies turn transitions (Hold/Shift) and predicts next speakers, evaluated on VoxConverse. Diffusion-based background-audio mixing is introduced as label-preserving data augmentation. Results demonstrate improved shift detection over baselines, with further gains from diffusion augmentation, in both full multiparty and dyadic top-2 projection settings.
multiparty turn-takingdiffusion augmentationboundary triggerspeaker verificationvoxconverse
TNODEV: Toolbox for Neural ODE Verification
TNODEV introduces the first sound formal verifier for neural ODEs, integrating falsification checking, interval-based reachability via continuous-time mixed monotonicity, and a verification-refinement loop with input-set splitting heuristics. The tool supports safe-set inclusion verification for pure neural ODEs, closed-loop neural ODE controllers, and general neural ODEs (GNODE), with safe sets specified as intervals or half-space intersections. Evaluations on benchmarks demonstrate TNODEV's capabilities in safe-set inclusion and classification-robustness, outperforming NNV~2.0 and CORA in reachability analysis and verifying MNIST GNODE classifiers.
neural odeformal verificationreachability analysismixed monotonicitysafe-set inclusion
ROSA-RL: Uncertainty-Aware Roundabout Optimized Speed Advisory with Reinforcement Learning
ROSA-RL introduces an uncertainty-aware speed advisory system for roundabout navigation in mixed traffic, combining reinforcement learning with probabilistic conflict forecasting. The method employs a Transformer-based model to predict conflict zone occupancy over a 5-second horizon, encoding uncertainty in future motion and intent. Evaluated in simulations with real-world data, ROSA-RL outperforms model-based baselines, improving traffic efficiency and safety while handling uncertainty effectively.
roundaboutreinforcement learninguncertainty-awaretransformerconflict forecasting
The Faithfulness Gap: Certifying Semantic Equivalence Between Natural-Language and Formal Mathematical Statements
The paper introduces Bidirectional Provability Fingerprinting (BPF), a framework for certifying semantic equivalence between natural-language and formal mathematical statements in autoformalization. BPF addresses faithfulness gaps by characterizing candidate translations through forward/backward consequence neighborhoods and matching them against contrastive probes (Counterfactual Probe Generation). The method includes an Equivalence Spectrum for continuous scoring, Adaptive Probe Budget Allocation for efficient verification, and Faithfulness-Guided Decoding for reward-based autoformalization. Theoretical results prove drift detection and PAC-faithfulness with O(log(1/δ)/ε) probes. Evaluated on the DriftBench benchmark (2,183 NL/Lean4 pairs), BPF+CPG detects 89.6% of drifted formalizations (3.0% FP rate), outperforming baselines (41.2-63.3%), while FGD reduces drifted outputs by 47%.
autoformalizationfaithfulness certificationprovability fingerprintingcounterfactual probessemantic equivalence
Kairos: A Native World Model Stack for Physical AI
The paper introduces Kairos, a native world model stack for Physical AI that addresses three key requirements: learning, maintaining, and executing world knowledge. Methodologically, it proposes (1) a Cross-Embodiment Data Curriculum for heterogeneous experience acquisition, (2) a Hybrid Linear Temporal Attention architecture combining sliding-window, dilated, and gated linear attention for state propagation with theoretical error bounds, and (3) Deployment-Aware System Co-Design for efficient real-world deployment. Experiments on embodied world-model benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance with favorable efficiency-capability trade-offs.
world modelcross-embodiment curriculumhybrid linear attentionphysical aitemporal factorization
Dual-Granularity Orthogonal Disentanglement for Generalizable Audio Deepfake Detection
The paper introduces a dual-granularity orthogonal disentanglement framework to improve generalization in audio deepfake detection by mitigating implicit identity leakage. The method enforces feature independence through sample-level cosine orthogonality and batch-level cross-covariance regularization, implemented via a curriculum schedule without auxiliary networks. Evaluated on ASVspoof 2019 LA, ASVspoof 2021 DF, and In-the-Wild datasets, it achieves EERs of 1.35%, 7.88%, and 21.58%, outperforming gradient reversal disentanglement by 2.60% in cross-dataset transfer.
orthogonal disentanglementimplicit identity leakagecross-covariance regularizationaudio deepfake detectiongeneralization
Direction-Conditioned Policies via Compositional Subgoal Scoring for Online Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes Direction-Conditioned Policies (DCP), an online goal-conditioned reinforcement learning method that decomposes goal-reaching into subgoal scoring and direction-conditioned action selection using a shared InfoNCE representation. The method leverages Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory to show optimal actions depend only on the goal's value gradient, and provides theoretical guarantees on representation error and geodesic slack. Experiments across nine environments demonstrate DCP outperforms Contrastive RL, particularly in manipulation tasks, with analysis revealing the learned representation encodes environment topology as a quasimetric.
goal-conditioned reinforcement learninghamilton-jacobi-bellmaninfonce representationquasimetric learningsubgoal scoring
Model Graph Inductive Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion
The paper introduces Model Graph Inductive Learning (MGIL), a framework for knowledge graph completion that addresses the limitation of local neighborhood aggregation in existing methods. MGIL constructs a model graph by clustering entities based on relational structure or entity type similarity, then applies a GNN to capture global structural patterns. These embeddings replace random initialization, yielding more stable and expressive representations. Experiments on inductive benchmarks show MGIL achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance in link prediction across diverse graph settings.
knowledge graphlink predictiongnninductive learningembeddings
Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing
The paper introduces METIS, a many-shot model merging method that improves upon post-hoc merging by addressing task interference in multi-task LLMs. The approach employs iterative merging with task-wise loss-gap weighting and consensus-based masking to mitigate information erasure across tasks. Experiments demonstrate METIS significantly enhances performance on the worst-performing task, outperforming traditional one-shot merging methods.
model mergingmulti-task learningloss-gap balancinginformation erasuremany-shot merging
daVinci-kernel: Co-Evolving Skill Selection, Summarization, and Utilization via RL for GPU Kernel Optimization
The paper introduces daVinci-kernel, a reinforcement learning framework for GPU kernel optimization that co-evolves skill discovery and exploitation through a dynamic skill library. The method employs three agents sharing one LLM backbone: a Skill Selection Agent for technique retrieval, a Policy Agent for multi-turn kernel generation, and a Skill Summary Agent for skill distillation. Jointly trained via SFT initialization and REINFORCE with per-agent advantage estimation, daVinci-kernel-14B achieves speedup improvements of 37.2%, 70.6%, and 32.2% on KernelBench's three levels respectively, outperforming Dr.Kernel-14B.
gpu kernel optimizationreinforcement learningskill libraryllm backbonecuda/triton kernels
Lost at the End: Primacy Bias in Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering
This study investigates position bias in multimodal retrieval-augmented question answering (KB-VQA), revealing a flipped 'primacy effect' where gold passages at the start of context outperform those at the end by 16-26 points across three 7B/8B VLM readers and two benchmarks. Through controlled probes (gold-position protocol) and ablations (text-only, image-position, distractor-shuffle), the authors identify that multimodal settings amplify text-mode primacy 2.2-4.5x, with the effect rooted in prompt slot 0 of instruction-tuned readers. Retrieval-side interventions (MMR, oracle reranking, reordering) fail to mitigate the gap, suggesting reader-side fixes are necessary. The released protocol serves as a tool for evaluating such interventions.
kb-vqaprimacy effectmultimodal retrievalinstruction-tuned readersposition bias
Unified Multimodal Model for Brain MRI Imputation and Understanding
The paper introduces UniBrain, a unified multimodal model for brain MRI analysis that jointly addresses modality imputation and image understanding. The method employs an interleaved description-enriched data flow for autoregressive training, a self-alignment strategy for fine-grained anatomical feature learning without detailed captions, and a dynamic hidden state mechanism to mitigate exposure bias in long-context inference. Experiments on multi-disease brain MRI datasets demonstrate UniBrain's effectiveness in imputation, understanding, and diagnosis under varying modality incompleteness.
multimodal large language modelsmodality imputationself-alignment strategydynamic hidden stateautoregressive training
Steering Emotional Dynamics for Art Therapy: Controllable Narrative Script Generation through Hierarchically Guided LLM Agents
The paper introduces EC-Script, an LLM agent-based framework for generating narratives with controlled affective trajectories to support art therapy. The method employs hierarchical control through Emotion-Trajectory Planning, Character-Driven Scene Generation, and Emotion-Controlled Script Writing to ensure adherence to emotional patterns. Experimental results show EC-Script outperforms baselines in affective trajectory adherence, demonstrating reliable emotional controllability for AI-assisted emotional healing.
llmaffective trajectorynarrative generationemotion-controlledart therapy
HOLO-MPPI: Multi-Scenario Motion Planning via Hierarchical Policy Optimization
HOLO-MPPI introduces a hierarchical framework for multi-scenario motion planning, combining high-level policy learning with low-level model predictive path integral (MPPI) control. The method learns an offline high-level policy in an abstract action space using a world model, which generates scenario-adaptive priors for online MPPI optimization. This enables real-time refinement while maintaining robustness across diverse scenarios. Evaluated in autonomous driving, HOLO-MPPI outperforms both standalone MPPI and end-to-end RL baselines in handling distribution shifts and stochastic interactions without sacrificing real-time performance.
motion planningmodel predictive controlhierarchical reinforcement learningautonomous drivingstochastic optimal control
Uncertainty Quality of VGGT: An Analysis on the DTU Benchmark Dataset
The paper evaluates uncertainty estimation in Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), a feed-forward neural network for 3D reconstruction from multiple images. VGGT predicts camera poses, depth maps, and 3D structure without iterative optimization, enabling real-time processing. The study identifies an optimal confidence threshold for filtering VGGT's outputs, demonstrating that improved uncertainty quantification enhances reconstruction accuracy. Analysis on the DTU benchmark shows uncertainty quality is critical for robust performance in photogrammetry applications.
vggtuncertainty estimation3d reconstructionphotogrammetryconfidence threshold
Tensor-Coord: Algebraic Decomposition of Joint Plan Tensors for Conflict-Free Multi-Agent LLM Planning
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AI systems out-persuade expert humans
This study demonstrates that conversational AI systems reliably outperform expert human persuaders across multiple controlled experiments (n=18,978 conversations). Through four preregistered trials involving laypeople, tournament winners, professional canvassers, and championship debaters, AI achieved superior persuasion rates even against incentivized (£1,000 bonus) and trained humans. Methodologically, the research employed structured practice sessions, performance analytics, and real-world fundraising validation (3× effectiveness over professionals). Key findings indicate AI's advantage stems from rapid information deployment, as human experts matched AI only when response speed and length were artificially constrained.
conversational aipersuasion tournamentpreregistered experimentsperformance analyticsinformation deployment
When Agent Automation Becomes Profitable: Quantifying and Insuring Autonomous AI Risk through Trace-Economic Underwriting
The paper proposes trace-economic underwriting to quantify and insure autonomous AI risk at the customer-task-trace level, enabling economically viable automation when benefits exceed premiums and residual risk. The method maps tool-use traces to exposure and loss using deterministic economic labels, avoiding LLM judges. Results show a pricing MAE reduction from $17.7K to $569, 295/300 expert-audit label acceptance, and 72% CVaR95 reduction via trace-conditioned controls on 1,000 SWE-smith traces, with a finite-sample scope condition provided.
autonomous ai risktrace-economic underwritingtool-use tracescvar95 reductionfinite-sample scope
Learning aligned EEG representations with subject-specific encoders
The study demonstrates that subject-specific encoders can learn aligned EEG representations without explicit Euclidean Alignment (EA) preprocessing. The proposed hybrid architecture combines subject-specific encoders with a shared classifier, evaluated against EEGNet, AttentionBaseNet, and CTNet baselines on four motor-imagery datasets. Results show subject-specific encoders internalize EA's covariance-recentering role, maintain similar validation-loss curves and latent distances, and improve class distinctiveness by positioning subjects near their own latent manifolds. The approach identifies subject-specific heads as an effective learned alignment mechanism, with head selection for unseen subjects remaining the key challenge.
eeg decodingsubject-specific encoderseuclidean alignmentmotor-imagerylatent manifold
SPRI: SVD-Partitioned Residual Initialization for Data-Constrained MoE Upcycling
The paper introduces SVD-Partitioned Residual Initialization (SPRI), a method for upcycling pretrained dense models into sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models under data-constrained supervised adaptation. SPRI distributes SVD-partitioned residuals from pretrained feed-forward network weights across experts, preserving spectral structure while introducing controlled diversity, and employs a two-stage training strategy for stability. Evaluated on multilingual speech-to-text translation (CoVoST2, 15 En-to-XX directions), SPRI improves average BLEU by 2.58 and COMET by 3.32 points over dense baselines, outperforming prior MoE upcycling methods by 3.39 BLEU and 4.34 COMET points.
mixture-of-expertssvd-partitioningmodel upcyclingmultilingual translationsupervised adaptation
SDS-LoRA: Overcoming Anisotropic Gradient Scaling in Low-Rank Adaptation
The paper introduces SDS-LoRA, a low-rank adaptation method addressing anisotropic gradient scaling in LoRA. Analyzing LoRA geometrically, the authors show full fine-tuning gradients undergo singular-value-driven scaling, distorting gradient directions and reducing effective rank. SDS-LoRA structurally decouples singular values during backpropagation, propagating gradients only through orthonormal bases. Theoretical analysis proves SDS-LoRA's convergence is condition-number-independent, unlike LoRA. Experiments on NLP and vision benchmarks demonstrate improved loss convergence and reduced gap to full fine-tuning compared to standard LoRA.
low-rank adaptationanisotropic scalinggradient distortionsingular value decompositionorthonormal bases
Training and Evaluating Diffusion Policies with Long Context Lengths
This work benchmarks imitation learning policies across varying context lengths, demonstrating that naive scaling is more robust than previously claimed. Using a UNet+Cross-Attention backbone, single-task policies achieve high success rates even with extended contexts. The study introduces a multi-context training algorithm to reduce sample complexity in long-context scenarios. Empirical results across diverse tasks show improved performance, challenging prior assumptions about context length brittleness in imitation learning.
imitation learningcontext lengthunet+cross-attentiondenoising backbonesample complexity
NeuronFabric: A Software Reference Architecture for On-Chip Transformer Training with Local Adam
NeuronFabric introduces a software reference architecture for on-chip transformer training with local Adam updates, targeting FPGA/ASIC implementations. The C# prototype validates numerical correctness and memory efficiency, implementing forward/backward passes and Adam optimization without external frameworks. Evaluated on a 334K-parameter autoregressive transformer (d=88, H=4) trained on Shakespeare, BF16W (weights in BF16, moments in FP32) achieves loss 1.5426 vs. FP32's 1.5224, reducing memory from 4.0MB to 3.34MB. The design accommodates Xilinx ZCU102 BRAM constraints and enables future hardware exploration.
neuronfabricbf16wfpgaautoregressive transformeradam optimization
Autonomous End-to-End SOH Prediction Services for Battery Systems via Temporal-Contrastive Representation Learning
The paper introduces TC-SOH, a modular service architecture for autonomous state of health (SOH) prediction in lithium-ion batteries, eliminating manual feature engineering. The method combines temporal-contrastive representation learning with a cross-window prediction pretext task to extract degradation-relevant features from raw operational data, enhanced by six diagnostic techniques for interpretability. Evaluated on four public datasets, TC-SOH reduces MAPE by 1.91× and RMSE by 2.13× compared to physics-informed and data-driven baselines.
state of healthtemporal-contrastive learningrepresentation learninglithium-ion batteriesdegradation prediction
ACCORD: Action-Conditioned Contextual Grounding for Language Agents
The paper introduces ACCORD, an agent framework for adaptive grounding that improves task execution by actively probing environments for missing context before each action. The method integrates relevant observed evidence from the agent's trajectory without requiring additional training or task-success signals. Evaluations show ACCORD improves task-goal completion by +20.6 points (42.0% to 62.6%) on AppWorld with GPT-5-mini, with consistent gains across Claude-4.5-sonnet (+10.8), Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 (+10.1), and AlfWorld (+7.4 success rate).
action-conditioned groundinglanguage agentscontextual integrationenvironment probingtask-goal completion
LectūraAgents: A Multi-Agent Framework for Adaptive Personalized AI-Assisted Learning and Embodied Teaching
The paper introduces LectūraAgents, a multi-agent framework for adaptive personalized AI-assisted learning through embodied teaching. The system features a hierarchical architecture with a ProfessorAgent coordinating specialized subordinate agents for research, planning, and delivery of personalized lectures. Key innovations include an adaptive embodied teaching mechanism with pedagogically motivated actions (e.g., handwriting, highlighting) and a Teaching Action-Speech Alignment (TASA) algorithm for coherent action sequences. Evaluations across high school to graduate courses show improvements in lecture content quality, teaching actions, and personalization over baselines, as validated by expert educators.
multi-agent frameworkembodied teachingpersonalized learningteaching action-speech alignmenthierarchical architecture
Posterior Twins: Distributional Behavioral Simulation for Enterprise Decisions
The paper introduces Posterior Twins, a memory-grounded digital-twin framework for enterprise behavioral simulation that models population responses as updated distributions under decision contexts. The method employs Twinning Labs behavioral models evaluated on a 226-example benchmark, measuring both modal accuracy and Wasserstein-1 distance ($W_1$) for distributional fidelity. Results show TL-Twin Alpha achieves lowest $W_1=1.16$, while TL-Twin Delta/Gamma balance modal accuracy and distributional performance, highlighting five necessary system components: governed memory, model routing, scenario orchestration, distributional aggregation, and auditability.
digital twinwasserstein distancebehavioral simulationenterprise decision-makingdistributional aggregation
Looking Is Not Picking: An Attention-Segment Account of Tool-Selection Failures in LLM Agents
The study refutes the hypothesis that LLM agents' tool-selection failures stem from overlooking correct tools in crowded harnesses. Through attention-segment analysis, it demonstrates that models attend to the correct tool 80% of the time (vs. 21% chance) but still select incorrectly. Three methods localize the failure to decision readout: (1) readout-side interventions recover 59-91% of failures vs. <=23% for prompt repairs; (2) representation-invariant interventions show consistent failure patterns (Jaccard 0.865 pooled); (3) a training-free selector narrows the gold-free-vs-oracle gap (+11.9 pts on BFCL, +14.9 pts on Seal-Tools). Results hold across models (3-32B) and tasks.
attention-segmenttool-selectionreadoutrepresentation-invariancejaccard
Input-Dependent Fisher Information for Local Sensitivity Analysis of Medical Image Classifiers
The paper introduces an input-dependent Fisher Information Matrix (iFIM) framework for local sensitivity analysis of medical image classifiers, addressing the black-box nature of deep neural networks. The method computes the iFIM's eigenspectrum via a Gram-matrix formulation, projecting images into high- and low-sensitivity components without pixel-wise attribution. Evaluated on controlled and clinical tasks, perturbation experiments demonstrate that high-sensitivity components correlate more strongly with predictive confidence changes than low-sensitivity ones, offering a model-intrinsic interpretability tool complementary to existing methods.
fisher information matrixlocal sensitivity analysismedical image classificationgram-matrix formulationinterpretability
Tyler: Typed Latent Reasoning for Language Models -- When to Think, What to Compute, and How Much to Allocate
The paper introduces Tyler, a typed and budget-aware framework for latent reasoning in autoregressive decoding. Tyler dynamically chooses between text token emission and latent computation via specialized modules (global planning, local state updates, procedural abstraction), optimizing computation allocation. Evaluated on three backbone LLMs, it outperforms chain-of-thought prompting by up to 14.49 accuracy points and the strongest baseline by 4.30 points, while demonstrating cross-domain generalization and reduced forgetting.
latent reasoningautoregressive decodingchain-of-thoughtprocedural abstractioncomputation allocation
The Proxy Knows Too Much: Sealing LLM API Routers with Attested TEEs
The paper introduces AEGIS, a hardware-enclave-based API router that prevents man-in-the-middle attacks by confining plaintext processing to a client-verified trusted execution environment (TEE). The system enforces faithful passthrough of LLM API interactions while delegating authentication and management to an untrusted host. Evaluation shows AEGIS blocks all four attack classes (tool-call rewriting, typosquatting, audit evasion, and secret exfiltration) with a 851-line trusted path, supports three native APIs without conversion, and adds only 6ms latency per request. Seeded audits with coding agents detected 80-100% of planted invariant violations.
hardware enclaveapi routertrusted execution environmentman-in-the-middleplaintext exfiltration
What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?
The paper introduces SelectStream, a selective latent-memory framework for streaming video understanding that addresses budgeted online latent evidence allocation. The method employs surprise-driven adaptive windowing, priority-preserving consolidation, and query-conditioned graph reasoning over a fixed-capacity latent memory graph to manage memory usage without replaying frames. Experiments demonstrate SelectStream's effectiveness, achieving 82.67% on StreamingBench, 67.03% on OVO-Bench, and 74.4% average accuracy on offline benchmarks, outperforming recent-window baselines and prior streaming memory methods.
streaming video understandinglatent-memory frameworkevidence allocationquery-conditioned reasoningadaptive windowing
Communication-Efficient Verifiable Attention for LLM Inference
The paper introduces Communication-efficient TEE-GPU Attention (VeriAttn), a method for verifiable LLM inference that reduces TEE computation and communication overhead. Unlike prior TEE-shielded DNN partitioning (TSDP), VeriAttn offloads both linear and non-linear attention computations to the GPU while using TEE for verification. It employs a two-level pipeline for prefill phase optimization and partitions attention between TEE and GPU during decoding when KV-cache exceeds GPU memory. Evaluations on Intel TDX demonstrate 2.60-3.38× (prefill) and 3.86-5.42× (decoding) speedups over TSDP for 6k-token prompts and 10k-token outputs.
verifiable inferencetrusted execution environmentkv-cacheattention partitioningtee-gpu communication
Whose hotel does the AI recommend? An algorithm audit of reputation signals in LLM-assisted hotel selection
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Medical Heuristic Learning: An LLM-Driven Framework for Interpretable and Auditable Clinical Decision Rules
The paper introduces Medical Heuristic Learning (MHL), an LLM-driven framework for generating interpretable clinical decision rules from tabular data. MHL employs a non-gradient approach combining statistical probes, medical knowledge probes, rule synthesis, and iterative refinement to produce deterministic Python-coded rules. Evaluations on medical datasets demonstrate MHL achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art methods while excelling in small-sample and imbalanced settings, with additional benefits in continual learning scenarios under feature evolution.
interpretable machine learningclinical decision supportlarge language modelstabular datacontinual learning
SMEPilot: Characterizing and Optimizing LLM Inference with Scalable Matrix Extensions
SMEPilot introduces an optimized LLM inference engine that dynamically selects execution modes (CPU-only, SME-only, or cooperative) for different operators by analyzing their arithmetic intensity and memory patterns. The system employs roofline modeling to characterize Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) capabilities, then implements tile-grained work partitioning, attention stage overlapping, and layout state preservation. Evaluated on Llama-3.2-3B, Qwen3-4B, and Qwen3-30BA3B across mobile and server platforms, SMEPilot achieves up to 3.94× speedup by effectively balancing SME and CPU core utilization.
llm inferencescalable matrix extensionroofline modelkv-cachearithmetic intensity
Phase-Aware Guidance Injection for Recurrent MAPPO in Assembly-Line Disruption Recovery
The paper introduces a phase-aware guidance injection framework to enhance recurrent MAPPO (RMAPPO) policies for assembly-line disruption recovery. The method injects logit-level action bias during evaluation, integrating rule-based, replay-based, and online LLM-based guidance while restricting intervention to abnormal/recovery phases. Experiments on AssemblyLineEnv demonstrate that rule-based guidance achieves the highest performance gains, replay-based guidance degrades gracefully with imperfect data, and LLM-based guidance offers intermediate improvements, enabling heterogeneous recovery knowledge utilization without policy redesign.
recurrent mappologit-level biasdisruption recoveryguidance injectionassembly-line scheduling
Exploiting Search in Symbolic Numeric Planning with Patterns
The paper introduces an enhanced symbolic pattern planning (SPP) procedure for numeric planning that dynamically recomputes action patterns during search. The method extends SPP by (i) searching for intermediate states closer to goals, (ii) recomputing patterns in these states, and (iii) refining patterns used to reach them. Four techniques for generating search formulas are presented, each implementing a distinct exploration strategy. Theoretical results prove the approach's correctness and completeness (under specific conditions), advancing symbolic planning through dynamic pattern exploitation.
symbolic pattern planningnumeric planningplanning as satisfiabilitydynamic pattern recomputationintermediate state search
AdaSTORM: Scaling LLM Reasoning on Dynamic Graphs via Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Multi-Agent Collaboration
AdaSTORM introduces a novel multi-agent framework for scaling LLM reasoning on dynamic graphs, addressing current limitations of handling only tens of nodes due to exponential overhead and context constraints. The method employs adaptive partitioning to decompose large graphs into manageable subregions and spatio-temporal collaborative reasoning via a decoupled multi-agent architecture. Experiments demonstrate 90%+ accuracy on thousand-node graphs, outperforming seven baselines and achieving SOTA on existing benchmarks while generalizing to real-world datasets.
dynamic graph reasoningmulti-agent systemsadaptive partitioningllm scalingspatio-temporal collaboration
ArtBoost: Synthetic Articulatory Data Augmentation for Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion
The paper introduces ArtBoost, a data augmentation method for acoustic-to-articulatory inversion (AAI) that leverages speech-mesh datasets to overcome limited electromagnetic articulography (EMA) data. The approach extracts pseudo articulatory trajectories from facial anchors for pre-training before fine-tuning on real EMA data. Experiments demonstrate consistent improvements in Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) and root mean square error (RMSE), with trajectory analyses confirming physically meaningful dynamics. ArtBoost shows stable performance gains across different AAI architectures, indicating its broad applicability.
acoustic-to-articulatory inversionelectromagnetic articulographydata augmentationspeech-mesh datasetspseudo articulatory trajectories
Gaming-Resistant Insurance Contracts for Autonomous AI Agents: Strategy-Proof Toll Mechanism Design
The paper proposes gaming-resistant insurance contracts for autonomous AI agents by addressing five strategic attack surfaces. It extends prior work on actuarial runtime with new clauses: common-control aggregation prevents cross-boundary rerouting, interface-compliance theorems handle invalid inputs, and model-identity menus ensure truthful reporting. Theoretical analysis proves joint incentive compatibility when combining these with existing minimal-authority and no-splitting clauses. Validation uses cross-model traces from empirical work, demonstrating weak dominance of truthful equilibria under a two-parameter premium structure that maintains operator rationality and budget balance.
actuarial runtimeincentive compatibilityinterface-compliancemodel-identity menucommon-control aggregation
Architectural Wisdom: A Framework for Governing Optimization in AI Systems
The paper proposes Architectural Wisdom, a framework for governing optimization in AI systems by introducing a corrigible objective-governance layer. This layer structurally separates wisdom (goal interrogation) from intelligence (goal optimization) through three commitments (temporal horizon, relational boundary, irreversibility) and four components (Structural Utility Transform, Moral Admissibility Interface, Arbitration and Escalation Controller, Value Revision Channel). The framework computes a six-coordinate wisdom tuple and is motivated by eight cases of AI failures, secular wisdom traditions, and ethical dilemmas. The authors defend the architectural separation using goal-questioning, Bostrom's orthogonality, and persistent failure modes despite capability scaling.
architectural wisdomobjective-governancecorrigibilitystructural utility transformmoral admissibility interface
RL-Index: Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval Index Reasoning
RL-Index introduces an agentic indexing framework that shifts retrieval reasoning from query-time to indexing-time by augmenting documents with LLM-generated rationales. The method employs Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to optimize rationale quality using retrieval similarity as a reward signal, directly improving indexing decisions. Experiments on the BRIGHT benchmark show consistent gains in retrieval and QA performance (quantified in the source) while reducing online latency, with generalization across diverse retrievers and generators.
retrieval index reasoninggroup relative policy optimizationrationale augmentationlatency reductionbrigh benchmark
Is Your Trajectory Displacement Safe in Long-tail?
The paper introduces FluidTest, a safety-aware evaluation pipeline for autonomous driving planners in long-tail scenarios. The method combines a pairwise WebUI annotation protocol, a taxonomy of 32 semantic threats with evidence-grounded decision graphs, and a three-agent verification system with reflection. Experiments on WOD-E2E show FluidTest achieves consistent human annotations and detects additional threats in 65% of Poutine and 51% of RAP trajectories, revealing safety gaps despite high Rater Feedback Scores and low Average Displacement Error.
autonomous drivinglong-tail evaluationsemantic threat taxonomyevidence-grounded decision graphsthree-agent verification
State-Grounded Multi-Agent Synthetic Data Generation for Tool-Augmented LLMs
The paper introduces StateGen, a synthetic data generation platform for training tool-augmented LLM agents, addressing the scarcity of multi-turn, tool-grounded conversational data. The system employs a four-role LLM loop (user simulator, agent under test, tool simulator, LLM judge) with a state manager maintaining a structured world-state object to eliminate tool-call hallucinations. Results on 64,698 conversations demonstrate 9.66/10 hallucination scores, 23-dimensional persona conditioning, and clean train/eval splits. StateGen uniquely combines multi-turn generation, state grounding, hierarchical multi-agent support, and built-in scoring.
tool-augmented llmssynthetic data generationstate managermulti-agent systemshallucination mitigation
AI Supply Chain Galaxy: 3D Visual Analytics for License Compliance
The paper introduces AI Supply Chain Galaxy (AISCG), a 3D visual analytics system for auditing model provenance and license compliance in AI supply chains. The system combines structural dependency mapping with rule-based compliance checking, enabling multi-scale exploration from global community detection to path-aware lineage tracing. Evaluated on 908,449 Hugging Face models, AISCG revealed 55.46% exhibit compliance risks or metadata issues, including 56.67% license omissions in adapter derivations and 8.05% license drift in fine-tuning. A Llama model case study demonstrated AISCG's effectiveness in tracing inherited restrictive terms across deep topological networks.
visual analyticslicense compliancemodel provenancesupply chaindependency mapping
An affordable hardware-aware neural architecture search for deploying convolutional neural networks on ultra-low-power computing platforms
The authors propose a hardware-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS) method for generating ultra-low-power convolutional neural networks deployable on microcontroller units. Their approach features a lightweight search procedure executable on embedded devices, targeting power constraints of sensing nodes rather than high-performance microcontrollers. Evaluations on three standard tiny computer vision benchmarks demonstrate that the method maintains state-of-the-art classification accuracy while producing compact CNNs suitable for ultra-low-power deployment.
hardware-aware nasconvolutional neural networksultra-low-powermicrocontrollersembedded devices
FlowMPC: Improving Flow Matching policies with World Models
FlowMPC enhances Flow Matching (FM) policies by integrating Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) planning via a learned world model, building on TD-MPC2. The framework demonstrates improved performance in ManiSkill manipulation tasks (PickCube, PickSingleYCB), particularly in end-of-episode success rates, without altering the FM training objective. Results indicate that world-model-based planning effectively complements flow-based imitation policies.
flow matchingmodel predictive path integraltd-mpc2maniskillbehavior cloning
Who Should Lead Decoding Now? Tracking Reliable Trajectories for Ensembling Masked Diffusion Language Models
The paper proposes TIE (Trajectory-based Iterative Ensembling), a framework for knowledge fusion in Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) by tracking confidence dynamics during decoding. TIE identifies reliable trajectories via stable confidence patterns at answer-relevant positions, then iteratively transfers partially denoised sequences between models based on trajectory reliability. Experiments demonstrate strong performance across reasoning tasks, showing MDLMs can complement each other at different generation stages through dynamic trajectory handoffs.
masked diffusion language modelsknowledge fusiondecoding trajectoriesconfidence dynamicsiterative ensembling
RealityBridge: Bridging Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting Driving Simulations and Real-World Videos
RealityBridge introduces a Sim-to-Real framework for enhancing edited 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) driving videos by addressing rendering artifacts, illumination inconsistencies, and temporal flickering. The method employs multimodal controls (rendered videos, masks, edge maps) with a lightweight GateNet for adaptive condition allocation, alongside autoregressive long-video training and reward-guided post-training. Experiments on driving datasets demonstrate superior performance in artifact removal, illumination harmonization, and temporal consistency compared to existing methods.
3d gaussian splattingsim-to-realmultimodal controlstemporal consistencyartifact removal
SpecAlign: Efficient Specification-Grounded Alignment of Large Language Models via Synthetic Data
The paper introduces SpecAlign, a framework for specification-grounded alignment of large language models (LLMs) using synthetic data. The method combines structured rule annotation, controllable specification instantiation, and multi-agent adversarial data synthesis to generate preference pairs that capture both compliant behaviors and specification violations. Experiments show that SpecAlign improves rule compliance across multiple model specifications while maintaining general capabilities and avoiding over-conservatism, demonstrating effective adaptation to evolving policy requirements.
specification-grounded alignmentsynthetic data generationmulti-agent adversarial synthesisrule compliancellm alignment
UXBench: Measuring the Actionability of LLM-Generated UX Critiques
The paper introduces UXBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLMs as interaction-grounded UX judges across heterogeneous product surfaces. The benchmark comprises ten product-surface families with runnable web fixtures, requiring models to collect interaction evidence before generating structured UX reports across seven rubric dimensions. Report quality is measured by the downstream repair agent's ability to improve interfaces. Evaluation of eight frontier models reveals meaningful differences in actionability, rubric-level repair signatures, fixture-level reliability, and surface-category leadership.
uxbenchllm-generated critiquesinteraction-grounded evaluationrepair-lift protocolstructured ux reports
Variance Reduction for Non-Log-Concave Sampling with Applications to Inverse Problems
This work presents the first unified analysis of variance reduction techniques (SGD with momentum, STORM, PAGE) for sampling from high-dimensional non-log-concave distributions with stochastic gradients. The method establishes improved non-asymptotic convergence rates in ε-relative Fisher information and squared total variation distance under a Poincaré inequality, while proving weak convergence to the target distribution. Theoretical results are extended to inverse problems with score-based generative priors, with empirical validation showing improved sample quality in imaging applications under fixed gradient budgets.
variance reductionnon-log-concave samplingstochastic gradientsfisher informationscore-based generative priors
Learned Image Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models
SPARC (SPatially Adaptive Rate Control) introduces a learned image compression framework optimized for vision-language-action (VLA) models in robotics, addressing bandwidth constraints in multi-camera deployments. The method employs a lightweight temporal mask selector to dynamically allocate bitrate across latent representations based on task relevance, alongside a tilted rate loss to mitigate over-suppression of rare but critical visual features. Evaluations on RoboCasa365, VLABench, and LIBERO demonstrate superior control performance over conventional and learned codecs at equivalent bitrates, with real-world deployments showing improved bitrate-success tradeoffs.
learned image compressionvision-language-action modelsbitrate allocationtemporal mask selectorrobotic control
Data Augmentations for Data-Constrained Language Model Pretraining
The paper investigates data augmentation techniques to mitigate overfitting in autoregressive language model pretraining under data-constrained regimes. Three augmentation categories are proposed: token-level noise (masking, random replacement), sequence permutations (right-to-left prediction, Fill-in-the-Middle), and target offset prediction. Experiments show that these methods delay overfitting and reduce validation loss, with random token replacement performing best individually. Combining augmentations further improves results, demonstrating enhanced data efficiency for pretraining.
autoregressivepretrainingoverfittingdata augmentationvalidation loss
SPARK: Security Knowledge Priming and Representation-Guided Knowledge Activation for LLM-based Secure Code Generation
SPARK introduces an inference-time security harness for LLM-based secure code generation, activating latent security knowledge without retraining. The method combines (I) prompt priming with structured CWE entries and (II) token biasing via a precomputed safe-direction vector projection. Evaluated on 9 open-source models across C++, Java, and Python, SPARK matches or outperforms 7 baselines while preserving HumanEval utility. Black-box tests on 7 commercial models (Claude, DeepSeek, GPT) confirm the approach's effectiveness in mitigating insecure code generation.
secure code generationknowledge activationtoken biasingcommon weakness enumerationinference-time intervention
Propagating Structural Guidance: Synthesizing Fluorescein Angiography from Fundus Images and Sparse OCT Scans
The study introduces a novel framework for synthesizing fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) from color fundus photography (CFP) using structural guidance from optical coherence tomography (OCT). The method employs a Spatially Aligned Cross-Modal Fusion (SACMF) module to project OCT features onto the fundus plane and Token-wise Cross-Modality Alignment (TCMA) for spatial representation alignment. Evaluated on a tri-modal dataset of 3,676 patient eyes, the approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in FFA synthesis and enhances downstream disease diagnosis performance.
ffa synthesiscross-modal fusionoct guidancecontrastive learningretinal imaging
From Tokens to Regions: CUDA-Sensitive Instruction Tuning for GPU Kernel Generation
The paper introduces CUDA-Sensitive Instruction Tuning (CuSeT), a low-cost supervised fine-tuning method for improving LLM-generated CUDA kernels. CuSeT addresses CUDA sensitivity by combining adaptive token-level masking with region-aware sample reweighting, targeting both high-confidence CUDA-sensitive tokens and low-confidence execution-critical regions. Experiments demonstrate consistent improvements in functional correctness across model families and scales, outperforming standard SFT approaches while matching frontier models with lower inference costs.
cuda kernelsinstruction tuningtoken confidenceregion-awaresupervised fine-tuning
Latent Thought Flow: Efficient Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models
The paper introduces Latent Thought Flow (LTF), a method for efficient latent reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) that models reasoning as variable-length continuous trajectories. LTF trains a sampler to match a reward-induced posterior over answer quality and computation cost, using a continuous GFlowNet with stochastic latent transitions. Key innovations include an Entropy-Weighted Subtrajectory Balance objective for intermediate rewards and a reference-prior regularizer. Experiments show LTF outperforms explicit Chain-of-Thought and latent reasoning baselines, improving accuracy by 9.5% while reducing reasoning length by 27.2%.
latent reasoninggflownetchain-of-thoughtintermediate rewardsstochastic transitions
PACT: Privileged Trace Co-Training for Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agents
PACT introduces privileged trace co-training for multi-turn tool-use agents, combining trace-conditioned RL and component-aware SFT to leverage expert traces as training signals without rollout-time dependency. The method employs a trace-conditioned RL surrogate for prompt-only rollout evaluation and annealed SFT loss for reasoning prefixes and tool-calls, supplemented by prompt-only anchoring to reduce trace reliance. Experiments on FTRL, BFCL, and ToolHop demonstrate consistent improvements over SFT- and RL-based baselines, validating the framework's efficacy for multi-turn tool learning.
multi-turn tool-useprivileged tracetrace-conditioned rlcomponent-aware sftprompt-only anchoring
Calibrated Sampling-Free Uncertainty Estimation in Bayesian Deep Learning
The paper introduces Calibrated Variance Propagation (CVP), a sampling-free method for uncertainty estimation in Bayesian deep learning that addresses computational inefficiencies of Monte Carlo sampling. CVP combines novel variance propagation for normalization layers with existing techniques for activation functions, supplemented by a lightweight calibration step. Evaluated on transformers (BEiT-3, ViLT) and CNNs, CVP matches MC sampling accuracy while reducing computational cost, improving coverage at 0.5% risk from 8.2% to 14.6% on NLVR2 and from 2.6% to 10.8% on VQAv2 compared to prior variance propagation methods.
bayesian deep learninguncertainty estimationvariance propagationcalibrationtransformers
LUCID: Learned Undersampling-Adaptive Consistency-Guided Inference with Deterministic Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
LUCID introduces a sparsity-adaptive reconstruction framework for sparse-view CT using Flow Matching generative priors, addressing artifacts and structural inconsistencies from angular undersampling. The method trains on high-quality CT images to learn a Gaussian-to-CT transport, then during inference incorporates sampling sparsity via degradation-matched initialization, sparsity-modulated updates, and projection-domain consistency correction. Experiments demonstrate stable performance across sampling densities, improved image quality, and reduced hallucination risks compared to existing methods.
sparse-view ctflow matchinggenerative priordata-consistency correctionundersampling
Sensor-Conditioned Representation Learning via Scene-Relevant Observation Quotients
The paper introduces scene-relevant observation quotients, a representation learning target that preserves sensing-supported scene distinctions while suppressing nuisance-induced variation. It proposes Observation-Quotient Tucker-Structured Autoencoding (OQ-TSAE), a factorized framework with diagnostics for false distinction, false merge, nuisance sensitivity, and latent ordering consistency. Controlled experiments demonstrate that quotient-consistent supervision improves representation correctness over reconstruction-oriented and contrastive baselines, while radar experiments show OQ-TSAE maintains downstream utility and robustness under observation degradation.
representation learningsensor conditioningobservation quotientnuisance factorstucker decomposition
Measuring Whether LLM Tutors Teach or Solve: A Diagnostic for Educational Impact
The study introduces a diagnostic to evaluate whether LLM tutors support learning or merely solve tasks, using the gap between solving-oriented and pedagogy-oriented performance. Analyzing MathTutorBench leaderboard results reveals partial alignment (r=0.421) between these dimensions, with notable rank shifts across eight models. TutorBench rubric analysis shows explicit encoding of agency-preserving behaviors like guided questioning and non-disclosive scaffolding, advocating for separate reporting of pedagogical and solving metrics in educational benchmarks.
llm tutorspedagogy-oriented evaluationmath tutorbenchagency-preserving behaviorsnon-disclosive scaffolding
EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video
EgoPhys introduces a framework for learning generalizable physics models of deformable objects from egocentric RGB video, enabling controllable digital twin generation without per-spring optimization. The method distills inverse-physics solutions into a compact codebook and predicts dense spring stiffness fields using priors from diverse egocentric interactions. Results show superior performance in reconstruction, future prediction, and zero-shot generalization compared to baselines, validated on a curated egocentric interaction dataset and deployed for deformable-object planning on a real xArm6 robot.
deformable objectsegocentric videodigital twininverse-physicszero-shot generalization
Cascaded Sparse Autoencoders Learn Multi-Level Visual Concepts in Multimodal LLMs
The paper introduces cascaded sparse autoencoders (CSAEs) to improve hierarchical concept learning in multimodal LLMs. Unlike flat feature dictionaries from standard sparse autoencoders (SAEs), CSAEs train a second-level SAE on first-level decoder weights, enabling multi-level abstraction without nesting bottlenecks. Evaluated on Qwen3-VL, Gemma-3, and LLaVA across visual datasets, CSAEs demonstrate superior hierarchical concept coherence and enable effective group-level output steering compared to SAE baselines.
cascaded sparse autoencodersmultimodal llmshierarchical conceptsfeature dictionariesconcept steering
Embedded Arena: Iterative Optimization via Hardware Feedback
The paper introduces Embedded Arena, a hardware-in-the-loop framework enabling autonomous LLM-driven optimization of AI models for microcontrollers (MCUs) through iterative hardware feedback. The method employs frontier LLMs (Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro) to co-optimize model architectures and firmware, compiling and testing on real hardware to satisfy memory, power, and accuracy constraints. Results show 250x vision model compression (<3.3% accuracy loss) and 400x audio compression (<6% FER loss), enabling solar-powered MCU deployment, with real-world validation in wildlife monitoring (96.7% accuracy) and phonetic wearables (8.44% FER).
hardware-in-the-loopmicrocontrollersmodel compressionllm agentsembedded ai
LLM-Powered Virtual Population for Demand Simulation and Pricing
The authors propose an LLM-powered virtual population model for demand simulation and pricing, particularly for products with rich unstructured information. The method represents customers as finite mixtures of personas, where an LLM estimates persona-level purchase probabilities using both structured persona data and unstructured product descriptions. These probabilities are aggregated via calibrated weights to form predictive demand distributions. Evaluated on an H&M fashion dataset, the framework outperforms baselines in predictive accuracy and enables sample-efficient pricing decisions under various objectives, including risk-aware criteria like conditional value at risk.
demand simulationvirtual populationllm-poweredcounterfactual pricingrisk-aware objectives
PAL-Bench: Evidence-Grounded Profile Reconstruction from Longitudinal Personal Albums
The paper introduces PAL-Bench, a controlled benchmark for evidence-grounded profile reconstruction from longitudinal personal albums, addressing the lack of public ground truth for evaluation. It features 50 synthetic users, 36,659 photo records, and 2,799 targets, with a privacy-preserving audit confirming realism. A seven-metric evaluation of seven systems reveals gaps in identity resolution and evidence citation, with the PAL-TRACE framework performing best but highlighting unresolved challenges in social reconstruction. The benchmark supports research in perceptual entity resolution and multimodal data integration.
profile reconstructionmultimodal databasesevidence citationperceptual entity resolutionprivacy-preserving audit
TimeVista: Exploring and Exploiting Vision-Language Models as Judges for Time Series Forecasting
The paper introduces TimeVista, a framework employing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as judges for time series forecasting evaluation, addressing limitations of traditional point-wise metrics. The method integrates micro- and macro-level judgments using contextual information, benchmarked on 5563 time series samples with detailed rubrics. Results show VLMs achieve higher consistency with human preferences than conventional metrics, demonstrating robustness and interpretability when evaluating Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs).
vision-language modelstime series forecastingevaluation metricshuman-aligned judgmentfoundation models
AI Pluralism and the Worlds It Misses
The paper critiques AI pluralism frameworks for neglecting ontological flattening, where complex social meanings are reduced to technical categories treated as neutral. Through conceptual synthesis across value pluralism, participatory AI, and science studies—supplemented by expert interviews and urban AI case studies—it demonstrates how current methods compress categories without procedural inclusion. The authors propose Pluralistic Lifecycle Governance (PLG), a qualitative audit framework emphasizing ontological openness, epistemic inclusion, and accountability, though not yet validated as a scoring tool.
ontological flatteningpluralistic alignmentprocedural justicelifecycle accountabilityepistemic inclusion
A comparative and critical study of EEGNet for fNIRS-driven cognitive load classification
This study evaluates EEGNet for fNIRS-based cognitive load classification, examining temporal segmentation strategies, window lengths, feature extraction methods, learning rates, and evaluation protocols. Overlapping segmentation with fixed learning rates (0.01-0.001) achieves highest accuracy in random-split experiments, while non-overlapping segmentation performs better in subject-independent evaluation (56.11% accuracy with PCA features, 20s window, 0.1 learning rate). Results highlight the importance of segmentation strategy and learning rate selection for generalizable models, with adaptive learning rates improving stability but not surpassing fixed rates.
eegnetfnirscognitive load classificationtemporal segmentationsubject-independent evaluation
A Comprehensive Survey of Medical Image Segmentation: Challenges, Benchmarks, and Beyond
The survey provides a unified framework for analyzing medical image segmentation methods, comparing U-Net-, Transformer-, and SAM-based architectures across public datasets and evaluation metrics. It systematically reviews model effectiveness in accuracy and efficiency improvements, addressing clinical translation challenges. The work includes a public GitHub repository with curated resources for reproducibility and future research.
medical image segmentationu-nettransformersamclinical diagnostics
The Quality-Utility Paradox: Why High-Reward Data Impairs Small Model Mathematical Reasoning
The paper identifies a Quality-Utility Paradox in knowledge distillation for mathematical reasoning: high-reward data from strong Oracles underperforms SLM-generated traces due to distributional drift. The authors propose Style-Aligned Refinement to preserve SLM-native trajectories while incorporating Oracle repairs, reducing adaptation costs. Experiments across Qwen2.5, LLaMA-3, and DeepSeek models show this method restores utility by balancing solution quality and learner-data compatibility.
knowledge distillationmathematical reasoningdistributional driftrejection samplingstyle-aligned refinement
LiteOdyssey: A Lightweight Reasoning AI Agent for Interpretable Rare-Disease Diagnosis
LiteOdyssey introduces a lightweight AI framework for rare-disease diagnosis using single-agent reasoning augmented with biomedical tools, avoiding scalability trade-offs. The method employs Policy Iteration with Human Feedback (PIHF) to guide a language model through clinical workflows without fine-tuning or multi-agent systems. Achieves state-of-the-art Recall@1 of 59.3% on 1,243 cases across two benchmarks (LIRICAL and PhenoPacket Store), with 60.7% Recall@1 on the challenging PhenoPacket subset, outperforming baseline GPT-5.4 by 50 percentage points. Validated on unseen cases and real-world cohorts.
rare-disease diagnosispolicy iterationrecall@1clinical geneticslightweight framework
VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models
VibeThinker-3B demonstrates that verifiable reasoning can achieve frontier-level performance in small language models (3B parameters) through a Spectrum-to-Signal post-training pipeline combining curriculum-based supervised fine-tuning, multi-domain reinforcement learning, and offline self-distillation. The model achieves 94.3 on AIME26 (97.1 with scaling), 80.2 Pass@1 on LiveCodeBench v6, and 96.1% acceptance on unseen LeetCode contests, matching or exceeding larger models like DeepSeek V3.2. A 93.4 IFEval score confirms maintained instruction controllability. Results support the Parametric Compression-Coverage Hypothesis, suggesting compact models can specialize in reasoning while larger models handle broad knowledge.
verifiable reasoningspectrum-to-signalparametric compression-coverageoffline self-distillationmulti-domain reinforcement learning
XAI-Grounded Explanation Generation for Speech Deepfake Detection with Training-Free Multimodal Large Language Models
The paper proposes a training-free framework for generating grounded explanations in speech deepfake detection (SDD) by integrating explainable AI (XAI) evidence with multimodal large language models (LLMs). Traditional XAI methods produce low-level attributions, while LLM-based approaches yield generic descriptions; the hybrid method addresses both limitations by leveraging XAI's model-specific signals and LLMs' natural language generation. Evaluated on the PartialSpoof dataset, the approach improves explanation accuracy by over 45% in human evaluations and faithfulness checks compared to baselines.
speech deepfake detectionexplainable aimultimodal llmsgrounded explanationspartialspoof dataset
InvDesMobility: a reliability-gated first-principles feedback framework for closed-loop materials discovery
The paper introduces InvDesMobility, a reliability-gated framework for closed-loop inverse materials design focused on carrier mobility. The method integrates multi-agent DFT automation, evidence stratification, generative structure proposal, and auditable feedback loops, with reliability gates ensuring only validated first-principles results update models. Screening 2.4×10^6 structures yielded 86 reliability-gated mobility channels across 41 formulas, with 280 QC-passed materials from 516 initial candidates. The key contribution is a transferable feedback contract enabling auditable learning from expensive calculations, demonstrated through open-sourced workflows and evidence tracking.
inverse materials designcarrier mobilityfirst-principles dftreliability gatingclosed-loop discovery
AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models
The paper introduces AuAu, a novel benchmark for auditing authoritarian alignment in LLMs through three evaluation approaches: (i) psychometric questions from 15 validated instruments, (ii) contextual behavior vignettes, and (iii) realistic user prompts. It specifically measures Authoritarian Aggression, Submission, and Conventionalism. Testing 17 models from China, the EU, Russia, and the US reveals substantial authoritarian response rates in psychometric evaluations (though lower in downstream tasks) and susceptibility to authoritarian manipulation via system prompts (15/17 models).
authoritarian alignmentllm auditingpsychometric evaluationbehavior vignettessystem prompt manipulation
Thinking with Visual Grounding
The paper introduces visually grounded thinking, a reasoning process where vision-language models (VLMs) interleave natural-language thoughts with explicit visual groundings (points or boxes) to evidence. The method employs a synthesis pipeline that distills reasoning traces, extracts visual objects using SAM3, and generates aligned supervision, alongside grounding-aware reinforcement learning combining correctness and dense grounding rewards. Evaluated on two counting and four spatial reasoning benchmarks, visually grounded thinking improves Gemma3-4B-IT performance, matching or surpassing Gemma3-27B-IT in spatial tasks. Point grounding excels in counting, while box grounding benefits from explicit rewards in spatial reasoning.
visually grounded thinkingvision-language modelsgrounding-aware reinforcement learningspatial reasoningsynthesis pipeline
Know Your Limits : On the Faithfulness of LLMs as Solvers and Autoformalizers in Legal Reasoning
The study evaluates the faithfulness of LLMs in legal reasoning by comparing three paradigms: pure LLM classification, LLM-based Formal Reasoning, and solver-based Formal Reasoning using Z3 on ContractNLI. Re-annotation reveals a systematic gap between pragmatic legal interpretation and strict formal entailment, with many legally sound inferences lacking formal grounding. While LLM-based Formal Reasoning achieves highest accuracy, it exhibits three failure modes: scope laundering (solver-inconsistent classifications), implicit constraint blindness (overlooking logical constraints), and program synthesis failures (incorrect Z3 code). These issues persist across all five tested LLMs, highlighting a disconnect between benchmark performance and logical faithfulness.
legal entailmentformal reasoningscope launderingz3 solvercontractnli
RecourseBench: A Modular Framework for Reproducible Algorithmic Recourse Evaluation
The authors present RecourseBench, a modular framework for evaluating algorithmic recourse methods that addresses reproducibility and interoperability gaps in existing benchmarks. The system decomposes the evaluation pipeline into five decoupled layers (Data, Preprocessing, Model, Recourse Method, Evaluation) governed by abstract interfaces and implements a four-tier classification system with automated test suites to verify method-level reproducibility against original results. The framework currently integrates 28 state-of-the-art recourse methods and provides an interactive web interface for configuration-driven comparisons across methods, datasets, and model architectures.
algorithmic recoursecounterfactual explanationsreproducibilitymodular frameworkevaluation pipeline
Scaling Adaptive Depth with Norm-Agnostic Residual Networks
The paper introduces NAG (Norm-Agnostic Residual Networks), a novel residual architecture addressing the limitation of norm growth in deep networks. NAG separates magnitude from directional information in residual streams, preserving layer contributions and preventing update suppression. The method enables effective training of deeper models with negligible parameter overhead and kernel-fusible operations. Experiments show NAG outperforms baseline Transformers, particularly in deeper configurations, and introduces an interpretable Mixture-of-Depths mechanism for adaptive layer skipping. This approach achieves 20%-25% sparsity rates without performance loss, offering a new scaling axis for FLOP-efficient deep models.
norm-agnosticresidual networksmixture-of-depthstransformerflop-efficiency
Long-Context Modeling via GSS-Transformer Hybrid Architecture with Learnable Mixing
The paper proposes a Parallel Hybrid Architecture (PHA) combining Gated State Spaces (GSS), Grouped Query Attention (GQA), and Feed-Forward Networks (FFNs) in parallel branches with learnable mixing to address long-context modeling. PHA leverages GSS for global context, GQA for selective retrieval, and FFNs for complementary processing, achieving 16.51 PPL on WikiText-103 (125M params) and 19.72 PPL on OpenWebText, outperforming baselines while improving throughput by 24% and reducing memory usage by 40% at long contexts.
gated state spacesgrouped query attentionparallel hybrid architecturelong-context modelingperplexity
VinQA: Visual Elements Interleaved Long-form Answer Generation for Real-World Multimodal Document QA
VinQA introduces a dataset for long-form answer generation in multimodal document QA, explicitly interleaving cited visual elements with supporting text. The study compares two encoding methods: Page Encoding (full-page images with bounding boxes) and Modality Encoding (separate encoding of text and cropped visual elements). Experiments show that fine-tuned Qwen2.5-VL models narrow the performance gap with proprietary models, with Modality Encoding initially outperforming for complex documents but Page Encoding reaching parity post-training. Evaluation uses M-GroSE (four dimensions) and Visual Source F1, confirming improved visual citation accuracy.
vinqamultimodal qapage encodingmodality encodingvisual citation
Rhythm of the Deep: A Computational-Linguistic Test of Duality of Patterning in Sperm Whale Codas
The study provides computational-linguistic evidence for duality of patterning in sperm whale codas, analyzing 1,483 codas from the Dominica Sperm Whale Project. Using frozen audio encoders, structural tests, and acoustic-null recoverability gates, the authors identify a two-tier architecture: lower-tier clicks combine via rhythmic inter-click patterns, while upper-tier codas exhibit sequential dependence (0.132 bits transfer-entropy lift, p=0.002). Tempo scaling reveals an abstraction gradient between click identity (rate-bound) and coda identity (stable). Rhythm-only baselines capture lower-tier structure but miss upper-tier dependencies, supporting a rhythmic rather than segmental combinatorial system.
duality of patterningsperm whale codastransfer-entropyacoustic-null recoverabilitytempo scaling
Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
Tool-IQA introduces a dynamic, tool-augmented workflow for Image Quality Assessment (IQA) using Vision-Language Models (VLMs), addressing limitations of static one-shot scoring. The method employs a Magnifier for local detail inspection and a Gamma Corrector for visibility adjustment, structured into observation, tool-augmented inspection, and calibrated scoring phases. A batch-aware training strategy optimizes tool interactions. Evaluations show Tool-IQA achieves a PLCC of 0.854 on the CLIVE dataset, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
vision-language modelsimage quality assessmenttool-augmented workflowgamma correctorbatch-aware training
Phys-JEPA: Physics-Informed Latent World Models for Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
Phys-JEPA introduces a physics-informed joint-embedding predictive architecture for multivariate time-series forecasting, enforcing physical consistency directly on latent states and transitions rather than only decoded outputs. The method decomposes predictive states into physical and residual components, using known physical variables to structure the representation space while modeling unresolved dynamics. Evaluated on Jena Climate, Traffic, and Electricity datasets, Phys-JEPA reduces aggregate MSE (e.g., from 0.800784 to 0.773873 at H=192 on Traffic) and target-variable MSE, demonstrating the benefits of latent-space physics regularization for interpretable world models.
multivariate forecastingphysics-informed learninglatent world modelsjoint-embedding architecturetime-series prediction
PVminerLLM2: Improving Structured Extraction of Patient Voice via Preference Optimization
PVminerLLM2 improves structured extraction of patient-generated text via preference optimization, addressing token-critical errors in supervised fine-tuning. The method introduces a token-level gated stabilization term to preserve absolute token likelihood and confusion-aware preference pairs for low-separation distinctions, with token-importance and inverse-frequency weighting for class imbalance. Evaluated on the PV-Miner benchmark, PVminerLLM2 outperforms baselines by up to 4.43% (Code), 3.50% (Sub-code), and 1.55% (Span) across multiple model sizes.
preference optimizationtoken-level stabilizationconfusion-aware pairsstructured extractionpatient-generated text
MASCOT-Android: A Curated Dataset and Automated Collection Pipeline for Android Malware Source Code Specimens
The paper introduces MASCOT-Android, a curated dataset of Android malware source code and an automated collection pipeline for GitHub. The method leverages repository-level documentation (README files) as a strong signal, training a LinearSVC classifier on character-level TF-IDF features from 8,772 malware and 25,747 benign READMEs. The README-only model achieves 96.28% accuracy and 1.06% FPR, with adjustable confidence thresholds for practical deployment.
android malwaresource code datasettf-idf featureslinearsvc classifiergithub repository
Mind-Studio: Executable World Models with Lookahead Evaluation for Partially Observable Games
Mind-Studio introduces executable world-model synthesis from interaction trajectories, generating pygame-style environments that operate independently of the original system. The framework combines entropy-selected traces with game skill files (containing object/action/scene data) using LLMs, evaluated via K-step lookahead fidelity comparing model rollouts against Real-ALE trajectories. On Montezuma's Revenge, it achieves 48.7% next-state prediction accuracy (vs. 0.3% for PoE-World) and verifies 5/8 subgoals, while outperforming prior lookahead methods on Alien/Assault/Skiing in branch-level fidelity.
world-model synthesislookahead evaluationexecutable programentropy-selected tracesbranch-level fidelity
Auditing Reward Hackability in Code RL Training Environments
The study audits reward hackability in code RL environments by measuring acceptance rates of incorrect solutions. Using a 49-task SWE-bench Verified sample and 20 R2E-Gym tasks, it finds 28.5% and 25.0% vulnerability rates respectively. A meta-analysis of 134 SWE-bench submissions shows +14.14pp higher Pass@1 on hackable tasks (p < 10^-6). The authors propose a hardening procedure with an inline LLM judge and Docker gold-sanity gate, which flags 61.9% of defective tests and successfully upgrades 9/11 broken tasks via diversity-biased retry.
reward hackingrl environmentsmeta-analysisdocker verificationllm judge
Mojo: A Promising Tool for Scalable Financial AI Efficiency
The article evaluates Mojo, Modular's Python-like systems language, as a solution to the two-language problem in quantitative finance, where models transition from Python research to C++ production. Mojo's MLIR compilation enables bit-exact deterministic kernels across scalar, SIMD, multicore, and GPU execution, addressing numerical discrepancies and performance gaps. Benchmarks on financial AI workloads (Monte Carlo option pricing, LLM sentiment inference, multi-asset backtesting, portfolio Value at Risk) show 20x-180x speedups over Python on Apple Silicon. The work introduces mojo-deterministic, an open-source library for reproducible reductions, and critically assesses Mojo's current capabilities.
mojoquantitative financedeterministic kernelsmlir compilationperformance benchmarking
How to Detect and Measure the AI Dangers to Democracy
The paper proposes principal-agent theory as a framework to systematize AI's threats to democratic processes, identifying accountability gaps where principals (e.g., governments) delegate functions to AI systems without adequate monitoring. It operationalizes the NIST AI Risk Management Framework's seven trustworthiness criteria across three domains (information ecosystems, elections, public administration) through measurable indicators, emphasizing institutional assessability as key for democratic control. The analysis reveals methodological limitations in evaluating harm severity and risk acceptability, particularly when delegated to private vendors.
principal-agent theoryaccountability gapsnist ai risk management frameworkinstitutional assessabilitydemocratic control
ALCL: An Adaptive Log-Correntropy Loss for Robust Learning under Non-Gaussian Noise
The authors propose Adaptive Log-Correntropy Loss (ALCL), a robust loss function that dynamically adapts to non-Gaussian noise during training. ALCL jointly learns shape and scale parameters through differentiable reparameterization, providing bounded influence and redescending gradients for outlier suppression. Evaluated on four image datasets under heavy-tailed and impulsive noise, ALCL outperforms MSE and static correntropy losses, achieving median accuracy improvements of 4.75% (grayscale) and 4.51% (RGB) in high-noise regimes while maintaining computational efficiency.
adaptive losscorrentropynon-gaussian noiserobust learningdifferentiable reparameterization
Leveraging Deep Learning for Object and Position Recognition of Load Carriers for Autonomous Logistics Vehicles
The paper presents a deep learning framework for autonomous detection and pose estimation of load carriers in logistics. The method employs a convolutional neural network to identify predefined landmarks from RGBD images, then combines these detections with geometric priors to compute the carrier's 6D pose. Experimental validation demonstrates sufficient accuracy for industrial applications, with the system operating directly on sensor data without requiring marker-based tracking. Results confirm the approach's viability for autonomous intralogistics vehicles performing automated pickup operations.
pose estimationrgbd perceptionautonomous logisticslandmark detection6dof localization
Open-SWE-Traces: Advancing Dual-Mode Multilingual Distillation for Software Engineering Agents
The authors introduce Open-SWE-Traces, a large-scale dataset of 207,489 agentic trajectories across nine programming languages (Python, Go, TS, JS, Rust, Java, PHP, C, C++), sourced from 20,000 real-world PRs via OpenHands and SWE-agent. The dataset employs hybrid-reasoning synthesis: Minimax-M2.5 generates trajectories with explicit "thinking" processes, while Qwen3.5-122B provides high-quality "non-thinking" traces, filtered for permissive licenses. Fine-tuning Qwen3-30B-A3B models on this data yields resolve rates of 61.7% on SWE-bench Verified, 57.1% on SWE-bench Multilingual, and 36.8% on SWE-bench Pro, demonstrating its utility for training open-source agentic LLMs.
agentic trajectorieshybrid-reasoning synthesispermissive licenseslong-horizon reasoningresolve rates
Orchestrated Reality: From Role-Play to Living, Playable Game Worlds -- LLM-Driven World Simulation as a Parameterized-Action POMDP
The paper proposes 'orchestrated reality', a framework for LLM-driven game world simulation formalized as a Parameterized-Action POMDP. The approach uses a singleton orchestration agent (analogous to a tabletop RPG Game Master) to maintain canonical JSON state trees, with actions decomposed as discrete intents plus structured parameters. Transition dynamics follow a Plan-Diff-Validate-Apply pipeline where LLMs generate schema-validated JSON deltas. The work includes formal modeling, JSON-state examples, and 15 incident case studies from deployment, while human player studies and multi-NPC agency remain future work.
llm-driven simulationparameterized-action pomdpjson-state representationplan-diff-validate-applyorchestration agent
Theorem-Grounded Execution Ontologies for Interpretable Machine Reasoning
The paper introduces Theorem-Grounded Execution Ontologies (TGEO), a framework for interpretable machine reasoning that models reasoning as an executable state-transition process rather than token generation. TGEO combines theorem-grounded reasoning priors, executable ontologies, operator-mediated state transitions, predicate/contract validation, and architectural auditing to produce verifiable reasoning graphs. Evaluated on mathematical benchmarks and a Golden Execution Suite, TGEO demonstrates improved interpretability and reproducibility compared to latent reasoning approaches like chain-of-thought.
theorem-grounded reasoningexecutable ontologiesstate-transition processpredicate validationreasoning graphs
SciText2Eq: Assessing LLMs for Explainable Equation Generation for Scientific Creativity
The study introduces SciText2Eq, a framework for evaluating LLMs' ability to generate mathematical equations from scientific texts, addressing challenges in grounding, multi-equation dependencies, and human-aligned evaluation. The method constructs a dataset of AI research papers with paired passages, equations, and variable descriptions, then evaluates diverse LLMs using automatic metrics, LLM-based rubrics, and human judgments. Results show moderate performance on lexical and syntactic similarity but poor semantic accuracy, with limited alignment between LLM-based and human evaluations, highlighting reliability issues in automated assessment of equation quality.
equation generationlarge language modelsscientific textevaluation protocolsemantic accuracy
Entity Labels Are Not Entity Signals: A Framework for Observable Relevance in Document Re-Ranking
The paper challenges the assumption that semantically relevant entities (Conceptual Entity Relevance, CER) are effective signals for document re-ranking, demonstrating that entity links from imperfect linkers often lack discriminative power. It introduces Observable Entity Relevance (OER), which measures whether an entity's presence distinguishes relevant from non-relevant documents, showing near-chance agreement between CER and OER (κ≈0) across four collections. Aligning supervision with OER improves non-relevant document pruning by up to 10x and boosts open-world MAP by 0.051 over BM25, advocating for a shift from CER to OER in entity-aware retrieval.
entity-aware retrievalconceptual entity relevanceobservable entity relevancedocument re-rankingdiscriminative signals
Agentic Framework for Deep Learning workload migration via In-Context Learning
The paper introduces an autonomous agentic framework for migrating deep learning workloads from PyTorch to JAX, combining In-Context Learning (ICL) with oracle-driven self-debugging. The method curates ICL references for idiomatic JAX styling, uses PyTorch execution traces as immutable oracles, and employs an agentic loop for test synthesis and self-correction via traceback feedback. The system achieves 91% numerical equivalence on neural modules, significantly outperforming baseline approaches (9%) and instruction-based self-debugging (27%), while maintaining computational efficiency. Validation includes state-of-the-art models like SAM, T5, and Code Whisper.
in-context learningoracle-driven debuggingcross-framework migrationnumerical equivalenceagentic loop
Task-guided cross-subject latent alignment: a multi-encoder-decoder VAE
The authors propose a Multi-Encoder-Decoder Variational Autoencoder (MED-VAE) for cross-subject neural alignment without requiring shared stimuli, leveraging a pretrained ANN as a common scaffold. The method creates semantically organized latent spaces that outperform traditional alignment techniques on the Natural Scenes Dataset, maintaining generalization to held-out stimuli where conventional methods fail. MED-VAE preserves stimulus-driven signals during cross-subject reconstruction and enables cross-subject neural prediction, demonstrated through improved image decoding performance in visual cortex responses to static images.
cross-subject alignmentvariational autoencoderneural predictionlatent spacenatural scenes dataset
Do Safety Monitors Stay Reliable After an Update? Benchmarking and Predicting Activation-Monitor Staleness
The study benchmarks the reliability of activation monitors—lightweight safety probes trained on LM internal representations—after common model updates like quantization and fine-tuning. Through systematic evaluation across safety monitors, model depths, and update types (e.g., LoRA, QLoRA), it reveals a sharp divide: quantization preserves monitor performance, while fine-tuning often causes staleness, with QLoRA being particularly detrimental. Monitor fragility varies by task, with privacy probes most affected. The work demonstrates that degradation is predictable pre-deployment, enabling targeted revalidation. Findings suggest fine-tuning should trigger mandatory monitor revalidation.
activation monitorsquantizationfine-tuningloramodel staleness
Formalize Once, Edit the Rest: Efficient Lean-Based Answer Selection for Math Reasoning
The paper introduces BASE, a Lean-based answer-selection pipeline that reduces computational costs in mathematical reasoning tasks by formalizing only one base candidate per problem and editing it for remaining candidates. The method employs LEANSCRIBE, a trained rewriter model, to localize answers and generate reusable edit functions. Results show Pareto improvements across 12 configurations on four benchmarks with three solvers, achieving 5x reduction in autoformalizer calls at K=8, with scalability benefits as K increases.
lean-based verificationautoformalizationanswer selectionmathematical reasoningrewriter model
PreLort: Prefix-Nested LoRA for Federated Fine-Tuning under Rank Heterogeneity
The paper introduces PreLort, a prefix-nested LoRA method for federated fine-tuning under rank heterogeneity. The approach organizes adapter dimensions hierarchically, ensuring task-relevant information concentrates in low-rank prefixes while higher ranks provide additional capacity. Key innovations include (i) segment-wise aggregation to avoid dilution from zero-padded clients and (ii) prefix-nested training that optimizes adapters under multiple rank truncations. Experiments show PreLort outperforms prior heterogeneous federated LoRA methods in accuracy and ROUGE-L, with comparable perplexity across multiple base models.
federated learningparameter-efficient fine-tuninglow-rank adaptationrank heterogeneityprefix hierarchy
Quantifying the Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Generative Surrogate Modeling
This work quantifies the impact of lossy compression on neural generative surrogate models for scientific simulations, demonstrating that compression can reduce storage needs without degrading model quality. The method leverages inherent neural network training variability to establish tolerable compression error thresholds. Evaluations on two simulation applications show 23.7x-39x storage reduction and 3x training speedup while maintaining surrogate model accuracy.
generative surrogate modelslossy compressiontraining variabilityscientific simulationsdata reduction
You Don't Need Strong Assumptions: Visual Representation Learning via Temporal Differences
The paper introduces Temporal Difference in Vision (TDV), a self-supervised learning paradigm for video that minimizes inductive biases by relying solely on the causal assumption that past frames influence future ones. TDV jointly trains an image encoder and motion encoder to ensure the current frame's representation plus encoded motion equals the next frame's representation. Without using augmentations, masking, or cropping, TDV matches state-of-the-art performance on dense spatial tasks, demonstrating the viability of weak-assumption approaches in visual representation learning.
self-supervised learningvisual representation learningtemporal differenceinductive biasesmotion encoder
Green SARC: Predictive Cost and Carbon Governance for Agentic AI Systems
Green SARC introduces governance-by-architecture for predictive cost and carbon control in agentic AI systems, extending the SARC framework to FinOps and GreenOps. The method enforces constraints at four architectural points in the agent loop, with theoretical grounding for prediction and enforcement. Key findings include: (i) State Snowball complexity is Θ(n²) empirically validated on 3,000 multi-step plans (SWE-rebench), (ii) split-conformal calibration achieves 95.2% coverage vs. Normal-σ's 92%, (iii) architectural gates prevent budget breaches (0% incidence) unlike soft Lagrangian penalties (91.5%), and (iv) 47-55% token/USD/carbon savings under binding budgets (BurstGPT). The open-source library provides full reproducibility.
agentic aifinopsgreenopssplit-conformal calibrationlagrangian penalty
Graphical-Probabilistic Modeling of Generative Flows in LLM-Native Software Systems
The paper proposes Generation Networks, a graphical-probabilistic modeling framework for principled design and analysis of LLM-native software systems. Addressing the current reliance on low-level heuristics like prompting, the method adapts probabilistic graphical models to capture stochastic, prompt-dependent behaviors in generative flows. The framework aims to support modular reasoning about emergent phenomena and system-level properties in LLM-centric architectures, bridging the rigor gap with traditional software engineering.
generative flowsprobabilistic graphical modelsllm-native systemscontext engineeringemergent phenomena
DeepRoot: A KG-Coordinated Multi-Agent System for Therapeutic Reasoning over Historical Medical Texts
DeepRoot introduces a multi-agent LLM system that constructs and utilizes a verified knowledge graph (KG) for therapeutic reasoning over historical medical texts, separating grounding and reasoning as distinct axes. The system processes pre-ontological prose like the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, combining KG inference with LLM reasoning to outperform baselines. Results show 47.6% recall@20 for recovering compound-disease pairs (vs 4.8% for raw LLM), 7-10% hallucination rate (vs 87% for tool-using LLMs), and superior reasoning coherence in LLM-as-judge audits.
knowledge graphmulti-agent systemtherapeutic reasoninghallucination raterecall@20
ControlMap: Controllable High-Definition Map Generation for Traffic Scenario Simulation
The paper introduces ControlMap, a controllable HD map generation pipeline for autonomous driving simulation using latent diffusion with ControlNet for spatial conditioning. The method enables fine-grained control over road topologies through classifier-free guidance and supports city-level style transfer via label conditioning. Two novel metrics evaluate control adherence and ground-truth similarity. Experiments show the model generates realistic HD maps that accurately follow input topologies while preserving city-specific details.
hd map generationlatent diffusioncontrolnetclassifier-free guidanceautonomous driving simulation
Runtime Analysis of Cartesian Genetic Programming in Evolving Boolean Functions
This paper presents the first runtime analysis of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) for evolving Boolean functions with complete training sets. The authors prove an asymptotic bound of O(n D^5) for the expected number of fitness evaluations required by CGP to construct a conjunction of n inputs using at most D ≥ n-1 binary gates, minimal function set, and strict survival selection, improving to O(n D^4) with non-strict selection. The analysis reveals that accepting equally good solutions can speed up convergence, while CGP requires exponential time for exclusive disjunctions. Experimental results on conjunctions and incomplete training sets support the theoretical findings.
cartesian genetic programmingruntime analysisboolean functionsasymptotic boundfitness evaluations
On-Policy Distillation with Curriculum Turn-level Guidance for Multi-turn Agents
The paper introduces Guided On-Policy Distillation (Guided-OPD), a method addressing error compounding in multi-turn agent distillation by mixing teacher- and student-generated turns with a decaying intervention curriculum. This approach maintains early trajectories near the teacher's distribution while gradually transitioning to student autonomy. Evaluated on ALFWorld, ScienceWorld, and WebShop with Qwen3 models, Guided-OPD improves Score by 21.1% and Success Rate by 25.5% over vanilla OPD, particularly benefiting smaller students.
on-policy distillationmulti-turn agentscurriculum learningerror compoundingteacher-student mixing
MAGE-RAG: Multigranular Adaptive Graph Evidence for Agentic Multimodal RAG in Long-Document QA
MAGE-RAG introduces a multigranular adaptive graph evidence framework for long-document multimodal QA, addressing limitations of fixed Top-k retrieval methods. The system constructs an offline evidence graph with page and element nodes encoding structural and semantic relations, then dynamically activates relevant subgraphs at query time under explicit budget constraints. Evaluated on LongDocURL and MMLongBench-Doc, MAGE-RAG achieves 52.75% and 53.26% accuracy respectively, demonstrating improved evidence coverage and noise control compared to text/page-level RAG baselines through trace-based analysis.
multimodal retrievalevidence graphagentic raglong-document qacontext-noise control
Control-Plane Placement Shapes Forgetting: An Architectural Study of Agent Memory Across Thirteen System Configurations
This study investigates how LLM placement in agent memory pipelines affects forgetting failure modes across thirteen system configurations. The research introduces ForgetEval, a 1000-case evaluation suite with adversarial layers, and a six-method Adapter Protocol for heterogeneous memory stores. Results show deterministic primitives excel in lexical/temporal categories (5% on identifier-obfuscation) but fail canonicalization, while inscription-time LLMs achieve 100% canonicalization but struggle with intent-aware deletion (0%). Mutation-time hooks improve intent-aware deletion (78-85%) and overall performance (91.7-93.2%), with a cost of $0.17 per 385-case run and 2.3s/case latency.
llmforgetting failure modesadapter protocolcanonicalizationintent-aware deletion
SkillVetBench: LLM-as-Judge for Multi-Dimensional Security Risk Evaluation in Open-Source LLM Agent Skills
The paper introduces SKILLVETBENCH, a public leaderboard for evaluating security risks in open-source LLM agent skills using an LLM-as-Judge approach. The system employs SARS, a five-dimensional agentic-risk metric combining CVSS v4.0 vectors and dual-view analysis (ClawHub) to detect instruction-layer and multi-agent threats missed by static analyzers. Results show 100% recall on 78 malicious skills and 100% precision on 22 benign controls, outperforming SKILLSIEVE (15% FN) and CODEBERT (0% detection on memory poisoning). Detection rates vary across LLM evaluators (35-95%), suggesting ensemble methods for deployment.
llm-as-judgeagentic-riskcvss v4.0instruction-layermemory poisoning
Topological Flow Matching
The authors propose topological flow matching, a topology-aware extension of flow matching for generative modeling on structured spaces. The method reformulates flow matching as a degenerate Schrödinger bridge problem, augmenting the reference process with a Laplacian-derived drift to capture domain structure while retaining simulation-free training and deterministic sampling. Experiments demonstrate improvements over standard flow matching on structured datasets including brain fMRIs, ocean currents, seismic events, and traffic flows.
flow matchingschrödinger bridgelaplacian drifttopological featuresstructured data
UrbanWell: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Spatio-Temporal Urban Wellbeing Analytics
The authors introduce UrbanWell, a multimodal benchmark for evaluating spatio-temporal reasoning in urban wellbeing analytics, covering 38 cities with diverse indicators aligned at grid level. The benchmark integrates satellite and street view imagery to assess 15 MLLMs on tasks including environmental condition prediction, spatial accessibility, urban form analysis, and temporal trend classification. Results show MLLMs exhibit varying performance across indicators, with strengths in spatial and perceptual cues but limitations in heterogeneous urban analytics.
multimodal large language modelsspatio-temporal reasoningurban wellbeing analyticszero-shot evaluationgrid-level alignment
NVMOS: Non-Verbal Vocalization Quality Assessment in Speech
The paper introduces NVMOS, the first model for perceptual quality assessment of non-verbal vocalizations (NVs) in speech, addressing a gap in existing methods that focus on overall naturalness or NV presence rather than quality. The authors construct an NV-MOS dataset with expert ratings and analyze inconsistencies in multimodal LLMs like Gemini before proposing NVMOS with a local NV-event focusing module. Experiments show NVMOS achieves expert-level agreement (0.78 Spearman correlation) with human mean opinion scores, outperforming general-purpose models.
non-verbal vocalizationsspeech quality assessmentmean opinion scoremultimodal llmsnv-tts
Intelligence Is Not the Bottleneck: Validating an LLM First-Pass Manuscript Score Against Peer-Review Outcomes
The study validates AIPR, an LLM-based system that assigns manuscript quality scores without fine-tuning, against peer-review outcomes from ICLR. Using a frozen pipeline with pre-registered hypotheses, AIPR's overall score (0-100) discriminates rejected from accepted submissions (AUROC 0.82) and correlates with mean reviewer ratings. The lowest-scoring fifth of submissions were rejected significantly more often, with no oral papers in this group. The model's performance is robust, with minimal score variance (0.7 points SD) across runs, and generates structured reviews alongside scores.
large language modelpeer reviewaurocin-context learningscore validation
Koshur Diacritizer: A Byte-Level Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Kashmiri Diacritic Restoration
The authors introduce Koshur Diacritizer, a byte-level sequence-to-sequence model based on ByT5-small for restoring diacritics in Kashmiri text, addressing ambiguity in Perso-Arabic script. The method combines script-aware normalization, alignment validation, and skeleton-preserving inference, trained on a novel dataset of 23.7k aligned sentence pairs. Evaluation shows a diacritic error rate (DERm) of 0.2012, word error rate (WER) of 0.2159, and 77.5% native-speaker accuracy, with released code and data for reproducibility.
diacritic restorationbyt5-smallsequence-to-sequencelow-resource nlpperso-arabic script
Deep Residual Injection for Full-Spectrum Forensic Signal Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models
The paper introduces Deep Visual Residual MLLM (Deep-VRM), a method for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve full-spectrum forensic signal perception by preserving semantic knowledge while learning low-level generator artifacts. The approach injects artifact-specific visual signals as a residual path into an intermediate layer, fusing them with semantic token representations for joint modeling in subsequent layers. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks, with the model adaptively leveraging forensic signals based on input characteristics.
multimodal large language modelsforensic signal perceptionresidual injectionartifact detectionsemantic representation
Free Energy Heuristics: Fast-And-Frugal Cognition as Active Inference Under Uncertain Precision
The paper provides a principled account of when chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning helps or harms LLM performance, identifying meta-uncertainty (uncertainty about evidence reliability) as the key factor. Through theoretical analysis, the authors prove that under heavy-tailed precision priors, optimal free energy minimization yields fast-and-frugal heuristics like take-the-best. They validate this with FEH-79, a Knightian uncertainty benchmark, testing 7 models across 5 CoT lengths (7,875 responses). Results show high meta-uncertainty items suffer a 17.3-point accuracy drop (95% CI [7.7, 25.5]) with longer CoT, while decisive items remain unaffected. The effect scales with model capability, unifying Bayesian and heuristic cognition frameworks.
meta-uncertaintychain-of-thoughtfree energy minimizationknightian uncertaintyfast-and-frugal heuristics
LLM-as-Code Agentic Programming for Agent Harness
The paper proposes Agentic Programming, a paradigm shift where deterministic control flow is managed by the program rather than the LLM, addressing token explosion and unreliable execution in agent frameworks. The LLM-as-Code component is invoked only for reasoning/generation tasks, with context derived from the execution history's call tree (DAG) to limit context length by call depth. A computer-use agent case study demonstrates improved stability in long visual operation sequences compared to traditional LLM-orchestrated approaches.
agentic programmingllm-as-codecontrol-flow hallucinationtoken explosionexecution history dag
STRIDE: Strategic Trajectory Reasoning via Discriminative Estimation for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces STRIDE, a fine-grained Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) framework that improves reasoning in large language models through strategic trajectory discrimination. STRIDE contrasts successful and failed trajectories to estimate outcome-discriminative preferences for $n$-gram strategic patterns, combining this with reasoning saliency entropy for precise credit assignment. Experiments show consistent performance gains across diverse models (including VLMs and agent-based systems), tasks, and extended settings while maintaining verifiability.
reinforcement learningverifiable rewardsstrategic reasoningcredit assignmenttrajectory discrimination
RetailBench: Benchmarking long horizon reasoning and coherent decision making of LLM agents in realistic retail environments
RetailBench introduces a simulation benchmark for evaluating LLM agents in long-horizon retail management tasks, including pricing, inventory, and supplier selection. The benchmark models supermarket operations as a partially observable decision process over thousand-day scales. Testing seven LLMs over 180 simulated days revealed significant performance gaps: few models completed the horizon, and all underperformed the oracle policy in net worth and sales due to inconsistent decision-making and inadequate evidence integration.
retailbenchlong-horizon reasoningpartially observablellm agentsoracle policy
Heteroskedastic Signals in Budgeted LLM Verification: Structural Heterogeneity Limits Optimization Gains
The paper identifies structural heterogeneity in uncertainty signal quality as a key limitation for budgeted LLM verification systems, challenging the global signal comparability assumption. Through controlled experiments with Qwen3-8B, LLaMA3-8B, and GPT-4o-mini on MBPP and MATH benchmarks, the authors demonstrate that heteroskedastic signals across cost strata distort global allocation, with gradient-free cost-stratified thresholding (CST) improving hit rates by up to 17 percentage points over global adaptation methods. The results suggest that structural heterogeneity, not optimizer weakness, is the primary bottleneck in these settings.
heteroskedastic signalsbudgeted verificationstructural heterogeneitycost-stratified thresholdingsignal comparability
Exact Posterior Score Estimation for Solving Linear Inverse Problems
The paper introduces Exact Posterior Score (EPS), a method for exact posterior sampling in linear inverse problems using diffusion models. By deriving the closed-form posterior score for linear Gaussian inverse problems under general Gaussian interpolants, EPS reformulates posterior sampling as a denoising task with operator-dependent shifts and anisotropic noise covariance. The approach preserves standard denoising pretraining structure while enabling exact posterior inference without likelihood gradients or projections. Experiments on FFHQ and ImageNet across five inverse problems show EPS outperforms baselines in fidelity, perceptual quality, and distributional metrics, with 10× fewer denoiser evaluations than gradient-based samplers.
diffusion modelsposterior samplinglinear inverse problemsgaussian interpolantsdenoising objective
Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning
The Geometric Action Model (GAM) introduces a language-conditioned manipulation policy that repurposes a pretrained geometric foundation model (GFM) for 3D-aware robot control. By splitting the GFM at an intermediate layer, GAM uses shallow layers for observation encoding and inserts a causal future predictor to forecast latent tokens conditioned on language, proprioception, and action history. Predicted tokens are routed through remaining GFM blocks for feature propagation and action decoding. Evaluations on simulation and real-robot benchmarks demonstrate GAM's superior accuracy, robustness, speed, and efficiency compared to foundation-model-scale baselines.
geometric action modelfoundation modellanguage-conditionedmanipulation policy3d geometry
Hierarchical Advantage Weighting for Online RL Fine-Tuning of VLAs from Sparse Episode Outcomes
The paper proposes Hierarchical Advantage-Weighted Behavior Cloning (HABC), a method for fine-tuning pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies through online RL with sparse binary outcomes. HABC addresses two key limitations of scalar reward signals by training separate critic heads for viability and efficiency objectives, combining their outputs via a state-adaptive gate. It also implements intervention-aware credit assignment to prevent supervision leakage across autonomous and intervention segments. Real-robot experiments on three bimanual tasks show success rate improvements from 36%/44%/12% to 92%/88%/38% over supervised fine-tuning baselines.
online reinforcement learningvision-language-action policiesadvantage weightingcredit assignmentbimanual manipulation
Your Privacy My Cloak: Backdoor Attacks on Differentially Private Federated Learning
The paper challenges the assumption that differential privacy (DP) inherently protects federated learning (FL) from backdoor attacks, demonstrating that DP masks malicious updates' statistical signatures and renders existing defenses ineffective. It introduces RING, a novel attack that exploits DP to conceal adversarial perturbations while reconstructing strong backdoor signals during aggregation, achieving 90.3% success rate against six defenses under moderate privacy budgets (26.08x improvement over baselines). Evaluations across four non-iid image/text datasets reveal fundamental security trade-offs, as countermeasures incur significant utility costs.
differential privacyfederated learningbackdoor attacksadversarial perturbationsnon-iid distributions
KVEraser: Learning to Steer KV Cache for Efficient Localized Context Erasing
KVEraser introduces a learned KV-cache editing method for efficient localized context erasing in LLMs, addressing the global propagation issue of post-hoc edits. The method replaces KV states of erased spans with learned steering states while reusing unaffected cache, trained via a two-stage pipeline: generic span-neighbor pre-training and task-specific fine-tuning. Experiments demonstrate near-recomputation performance on in-domain tasks (1K--32K contexts) with only 24% latency increase versus 17.6x for full recomputation, plus generalization to unseen QA tasks with 3--4x speedup over baselines.
kv-cachecontext erasingin-context learningpost-hoc editingsteering states
ExpRL: Exploratory RL for LLM Mid-Training
ExpRL introduces an exploratory RL method for LLM mid-training, leveraging human-written QA data as reward scaffolds rather than imitation targets. The approach uses an LLM judge to compare policy-generated reasoning traces against reference solutions, assigning dense rewards at outcome or process levels. This method outperforms SFT, sparse-reward GRPO, and self-distillation on math reasoning tasks, providing better RL initialization. Mixed-domain experiments indicate broader applicability beyond math.
exploratory rlmid-trainingreward scaffoldsdense rewardsmath reasoning
Learning the Geometry of Data: A Mathematical Review of Shape Space Analysis
The survey provides a mathematical and computational framework for analyzing geometric data through shape space analysis, integrating differential geometry, statistics, and machine learning. It organizes the literature into shape representation, geodesic metrics, statistical analysis, and geometry-aware learning, enabling characterization of shape variability and comparison of geometric objects. Applications span biological scales, from subcellular morphology to primate tooth evolution, addressing challenges of nonlinear geometric variation.
shape space analysisdifferential geometrygeodesic metricsnonlinear geometric variationgeometry-aware learning
Filtered Conformal Ellipsoids for Graph-Native Time Series
The paper introduces filtered conformal ellipsoids for joint prediction sets in multivariate time series, combining state-space filters with conformal calibration to control coverage while adapting to cross-coordinate dependence. The method uses a frozen filter (e.g., GCN-GRU) to emit predictive means and covariances, then applies split-conformal calibration to Mahalanobis scores, ensuring coverage without Gaussian tail assumptions. Theoretical analysis shows contraction under stable Bayes filters and finite-horizon observability, with empirical results demonstrating improved sharpness on graph-native traffic benchmarks (METRLA-20, PEMSBAY-50) compared to static-covariance baselines.
conformal predictionstate-space filtermahalanobis scoresgcn-grumultivariate time series
Exploding and vanishing gradients in deep neural networks: the effect of residual connections
The paper analyzes exploding and vanishing gradients in deep neural networks through multiplicative ergodic theory, focusing on the impact of residual connections. Using a characterization of Liapunov exponents from Furstenberg and Kifer, it precisely describes the Liapunov spectrum and how residual connections modify it. The results provide a theoretical foundation for understanding gradient behavior in deep architectures with skip connections.
exploding gradientsvanishing gradientsmultiplicative ergodic theoryliapunov exponentsresidual connections
ROVE: Unlocking Human Interventions for Humanoid Manipulation via Reinforcement Learning
ROVE introduces a reinforcement learning framework for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using imperfect human interventions in humanoid manipulation. The method combines a human-in-the-loop data collection pipeline with Optimistic Value Estimation (OVE) to prioritize high-value behaviors from mixed-quality trajectories, augmented by cross-embodiment human experience videos for robust value estimation. Experiments on contact-rich and fine-grained manipulation tasks demonstrate ROVE's superiority over experience-learning baselines and consistent improvement across rollout-intervention iterations.
reinforcement learningvision-language-action modelshumanoid manipulationoptimistic value estimationcross-embodiment learning
From Tokens to Policy: Causal and Interpretable Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Identification
The paper introduces Neural EXposure Interaction Search (NEXIS), a method for causal and interpretable Heterogeneous Treatment Effect (HTE) identification in controlled experiments. NEXIS reformulates HTE identification as a Markov-blanket discovery problem on aligned pre-treatment representations, leveraging multi-modal measurements and scalable representations. The method demonstrates consistent selection properties and is validated on two anti-poverty programs in Africa, augmented with satellite imagery to capture unmeasured environmental effect modifiers, yielding interpretable policy optimization guidelines.
heterogeneous treatment effectmarkov-blanket discoverymulti-modal measurementscausal inferenceinterpretable machine learning
The Complexity of Min-Max Optimization for Quadratic Polynomials
The work establishes PPAD-hardness for computing approximate stationary points in min-max optimization of quadratic polynomials over the hypercube. The proof applies to multilinear polynomials where each variable appears in at most three monomials, even with inverse-polynomial approximation guarantees. As a corollary, this yields the first PPAD-hardness results for two-team zero-sum polymatrix games, demonstrating fundamental computational barriers in these optimization problems.
min-max optimizationppad-hardnessquadratic polynomialspolymatrix gamesapproximation complexity
Selection Without Signal, Recovery Through Expression: A Measurement Study of Post-Hoc Falsification Operators for Frozen Small Code Models
The study introduces two post-hoc falsification operators for frozen small code models (<1.3B parameters) that improve performance without modifying model weights. M1, an expression-layer recovery operator, corrects program extraction errors in the standard harness, boosting DeepSeek-Coder-1.3B by +12 tasks on HumanEval+ (p=2.4e-4) without accuracy degradation. ACE, an adaptive consensus early-stop operator, reduces compute by ~19% with zero harm. Both operators demonstrate consistent improvements across HumanEval+ and MBPP+ benchmarks, emphasizing the importance of fixing extraction harnesses before attributing errors to semantic reasoning.
frozen small code modelspost-hoc falsificationexpression-layer recoveryadaptive consensus early-stophumaneval+
A Multi-Center Benchmark for Abdominal Disease Diagnosis and Report Generation from Non-Contrast CT
The study introduces a multi-center benchmark for abdominal disease diagnosis and radiology report generation from non-contrast CT (NCCT), aiming to reduce reliance on contrast-enhanced CT (CECT). A large-scale dataset of paired NCCT-CECT studies with radiology reports was curated from two centers, evaluating five deep learning architectures. Results show NCCT retains diagnostic signals, achieving multi-organ AUCs of 69.1% (internal) and 63.1% (external), demonstrating potential for contrast-free workflows.
non-contrast ctcontrast-enhanced ctmulti-organ diagnosisradiology report generationdeep learning benchmark
Analytic Torsion and Spectral Gap Capture Persistent-Laplacian Performance
The paper proposes a compact spectral representation for persistent Laplacians (PL) using three mathematically grounded invariants: Betti numbers, spectral gap, and analytic torsion. This approach addresses challenges of high dimensionality and varying length across filtration scales in PL-based learning tasks. Evaluated on MNIST, QM-3D, and SKEMPI WT benchmarks, the method captures essential predictive signals of the full spectrum, sometimes outperforming it, while reducing computational overhead and noise from higher-frequency eigenvalues. The results indicate these invariants offer a principled, fixed-length interface between spectral geometry and topological learning.
persistent laplaciansbetti numbersspectral gapanalytic torsiontopological learning
Agent trajectories as programs: fingerprinting and programming coding-agent behavior
The paper introduces methods for comparing AI agents procedurally through behavioral fingerprints, achieving 85.7% accuracy in agent identification from unseen trajectories. Using an emergent vocabulary induction technique, the authors develop compressive yet expressive procedural representations to capture agent quirks, applied to SWE-Bench. Results show behavioral similarity between models from similar release periods and distilled pairs (Jensen-Shannon divergence 0.25), with the ProcGrep library enabling procedural-level agent auditing.
behavioral fingerprintsprocedural representationsvocabulary inductionjensen-shannon divergenceswe-bench
Dynestyx: A Probabilistic Programming Library for Dynamical Systems
The paper introduces dynestyx, a probabilistic programming library designed for dynamical systems with first-class support for state-space models (SSMs). It provides a unified interface for specifying priors in discrete-time or continuous-time systems, performing inference on mixed-effect data, and estimating states/parameters with uncertainty quantification. The library aims to bridge gaps in existing probabilistic programming languages by making advanced SSM methods accessible to practitioners, thereby facilitating the Bayesian workflow in applications ranging from statistics to machine learning.
state-space modelsprobabilistic programmingbayesian inferencedynamical systemsuncertainty quantification
Decoupling Inference from State Updates in Low-Latency Feature Engines via Probabilistic Thinning
The paper introduces probabilistic thinning to decouple inference from state updates in streaming ML systems, reducing latency and operational costs. By selectively triggering durable state updates based on event informativeness, the method avoids high-frequency persistence without shedding input or state. Theoretical analysis shows unbiased aggregations under variance-aware formulations, while empirical evaluation demonstrates up to 90% reduction in persistence-path events with maintained or improved downstream utility. The approach operates without in-memory control planes or cross-worker coordination, leveraging disk-backed key-value stores for approximate statistics.
probabilistic thinningstreaming mlstate persistencevariance-awarekey-value stores
Scalable Pairwise Kernel Learning with Stochastic Vec Trick
The paper introduces SPaiK, a scalable kernel learning method for pairwise learning that preserves kernel expressivity while reducing computational and memory costs. The key innovation is the stochastic generalized vec trick (sGVT), a stochastic extension of sparse Kronecker product multiplication, enabling efficient large-scale training with pairwise kernels. Evaluated on seven drug-target affinity datasets, SPaiK demonstrates scalability to previously infeasible dataset sizes while maintaining competitive performance with state-of-the-art pairwise learning methods.
pairwise learningkernel methodsstochastic optimizationkronecker productdrug-target affinity
Task-Error Residual Learning for Real-Robot Five-Ball Juggling
The paper introduces a residual learning framework for refining robotic juggling behavior, emphasizing directional task-error supervision and efficient sample utilization. By combining directional feedback with an analytic prior, the method achieves stable three-, four-, and five-ball juggling on Barrett WAM arms, converging from the second attempt. The approach outperforms human learning times, demonstrating robustness to prior misalignment and joint tracking errors. Comparative analysis highlights the necessity of both directional feedback and informative priors, with fixed-Jacobian Newton updates proving most reliable. Video documentation is provided.
residual learningtask-error supervisionbarrett wamfive-ball jugglingnewton update
Sobolev Approximation by Fixed-Size Neural Networks with Arbitrary Accuracy
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Beyond the Smile: A Hybrid Convolutional VAE for Crypto Volatility Surfaces
The paper introduces a hybrid convolutional variational autoencoder (VAE) for cryptocurrency implied-volatility surfaces, combining generative modeling with deterministic quadratic smile re-fitting. The method processes hourly Binance Options data for BTC and ETH on a $6 \times 7$ tenor-delta grid, achieving surface-completion RMSE of 0.94-1.56 vol-points across 10-50% mask rates. The hybrid predictor reduces error eightfold (0.83 vs. 7.00 vol points) at 50% masking, maintains arbitrage-free properties, and detects market anomalies via reconstruction error. Joint training on BTC and ETH improves performance by 9-27%, indicating a shared volatility manifold.
variational autoencoderimplied-volatility surfacesquadratic smile re-fittenor-delta gridarbitrage-free
Latent space mapping of interpretable structural coordinates from stochastic single-molecule signals
The study introduces a latent-space mapping approach to overcome stochastic signal distortion in nanopore-based single-molecule sensing. Using a contrastive encoder trained on physics-informed simulations, raw time-domain signals from DNA barcodes are transformed into interpretable structural coordinates invariant to acquisition noise and translocation dynamics. The method reduces computational cost by 1000× compared to alignment-based techniques while enabling cross-device data pooling. Experimental validation demonstrates applications in mixture quantification, rare-variant detection, and real-time barcode reconstruction. This paradigm shift from temporal to structural analysis links classification directly to molecular information encoded in latent representations.
nanopore sensingcontrastive encoderlatent-space mappingdna barcodesstochastic signals
A nonparametric two-sample test using a parametric integral probability metric
The study introduces PReLU-TST, a nonparametric two-sample test based on a novel integral probability metric (IPM) using a parametric discriminator with a single neural network node. The method, termed PReLU-IPM, provides theoretical guarantees including consistency and asymptotic equivalence to nonparametric IPM-based tests under regularity conditions. Empirical evaluation on simulated and real benchmark datasets shows PReLU-TST achieves higher power or comparable performance to existing methods across various alternatives.
nonparametric testingintegral probability metrictwo-sample testneural network discriminatorasymptotic equivalence
Exploring Extrinsic and Intrinsic Properties for Effective Reasoning with Code Interpreter
This work systematically analyzes effective reasoning with Code Interpreters (CI) in LLMs through extrinsic (crucial tokens) and intrinsic (code-specific cognitive behaviors) properties. Across multiple models, stronger CI reasoning correlates with higher prevalence of crucial tokens and behaviors like verification, backtracking, and backward chaining. Inference-time token appending improves mathematical and optimization reasoning, while training-time behavior augmentation enhances supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning in 2 of 3 models, reducing overthinking and improving token efficiency.
code interpretercrucial tokenscognitive behaviorsbackward chainingtoken efficiency
Functional Gradient Descent with Adaptive Representations
The authors propose an adaptive functional gradient descent (FGD) algorithm that dynamically adjusts the representation of functional gradients during optimization, overcoming limitations of fixed approximations in prior FGD implementations. The method incorporates approximation error into the convergence analysis, proving convergence to stationary points (for smooth losses) and global minima (under Polyak-Lojasiewicz conditions). Experiments on regression, PDE solving, and computer vision tasks demonstrate superior accuracy and efficiency compared to fixed-approximation FGD and neural network baselines.
functional gradient descentadaptive representationspolyak-lojasiewiczfunctional optimizationapproximation error
Factorized Neural Operators Decompose Dynamic and Persistent Responses
The paper introduces Factorized Neural Operators (FaNO), a novel neural operator framework that decomposes spectral representations into equivariant dynamic responses and invariant persistent responses to model heterogeneous physical systems. The method leverages a Unified Green's Function Framework, with specialized branches for transient dynamics and persistent structures. Results demonstrate improved prediction accuracy, parameter efficiency, and cross-scale generalization, particularly in long-horizon autoregressive rollout, cross-resolution extrapolation, and physical-regime shifts. The findings suggest factorized representations better reflect physical system organization than single-inductive-bias approaches.
factorized neural operatorsgreen's function frameworkequivariant dynamicsinvariant structurescross-scale generalization
Fantastic Pretraining Optimizers and Where to Find Them II: Hyperball Optimization
The paper introduces Hyperball, an optimizer wrapper that fixes Frobenius norms of weight matrices and updates to constants, addressing limitations of matrix-based optimizers like Muon. Hyperball improves upon AdamW and Muon by maintaining consistent performance gains across model scales (up to 1.2B parameters) and data sizes, achieving 20--30% token equivalent speedup. Theoretical motivation stems from weight decay's role in determining equilibrium weight norms and angular learning rates. Empirical results demonstrate superior learning rate transfer across model widths and depths compared to decoupled weight decay baselines.
hyperballfrobenius normweight decayangular learning rateoptimizer wrapper
Integrated Marketing Attribution: A Bayesian Framework for Privacy-Safe Granular Measurement Anchored in MMM
The paper proposes Integrated Marketing Attribution (IMA), a Bayesian framework that unifies Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) for privacy-safe campaign-level measurement. IMA combines channel-specific Bayesian attribution models with MMM-informed priors to derive granular insights from aggregated data, addressing the limitations of coarse MMM and privacy-restricted MTA. The method preserves consistency with MMM while enabling campaign optimization without user-level tracking.
bayesian frameworkmarketing mix modelingmulti-touch attributionprivacy-safe measurementgranular attribution
HawkesNest: A Multi-Axis Synthetic Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Pattern Complexity
HawkesNest introduces a synthetic benchmark for evaluating spatiotemporal point process (STPP) models through controlled complexity variations. The benchmark employs a multivariate Hawkes backbone with four configurable axes: space-time entanglement, background heterogeneity, cross-type interaction, and domain topology, each associated with a deterministic complexity index. Results demonstrate that Hawkes-family baselines degrade under joint heterogeneity-entanglement complexity, and neural models like AutoSTPP show sensitivity to space-time entanglement increases, despite structural alignment with the generative backbone.
spatiotemporal point processhawkes processsynthetic benchmarkcomplexity axesneural sensitivity
We Need Explanation Cards to Connect Explanation Algorithms to the Real World
The authors propose Explanation Cards, a framework to enhance algorithmic explanations by adding metadata about robustness, validity, and interpretation guidelines. This addresses two key limitations: (1) misleading intuitive interpretations of explanations requiring expert knowledge, and (2) uninformative outputs from popular methods like SHAP and counterfactual explanations. Demonstration shows cards improve practical utility by shifting interpretation responsibility from users to providers. The approach aligns with EU AI Act requirements, offering a standardized way to operationalize explainability for real-world deployment.
algorithmic explanationsexplanation cardsshapcounterfactual explanationseu ai act
GD$^2$PO: Mitigating Multi-Reward Conflicts via Group-Dynamic reward-Decoupled Policy Optimization
The paper introduces Group-Dynamic reward-Decoupled Policy Optimization (GD$^2$PO), a novel RL algorithm addressing multi-reward conflicts in LLM post-training. GD$^2$PO extends Group reward-Decoupled Policy Optimization (GDPO) by incorporating a conflict-aware filtering mechanism to mask rollouts with severe reward-wise disagreement, preserving effective RL advantages. It also employs query-level reweighting to dynamically adjust update intensity based on reward consensus. Experiments on tool calling and human preference alignment tasks demonstrate GD$^2$PO's superior performance over baselines.
reinforcement learningmulti-reward optimizationpolicy optimizationconflict-aware filteringquery-level reweighting
Taming Curvature: Architecture Warm-Up for Stable Transformer Training
The paper introduces architecture warm-up, a method to stabilize Transformer training by progressively increasing network depth to control preconditioned Hessian curvature. The authors first develop a fast online estimator for the largest preconditioned Hessian eigenvalue using warm-started power iteration with Hessian-vector products, enabling feasible curvature tracking at billion-parameter scale. Experiments on large Transformers demonstrate that this approach reduces training instabilities caused by curvature surges while maintaining convergence speed, outperforming existing stabilization techniques.
transformer trainingpreconditioned hessiancurvature estimationarchitecture warm-upoptimization stability
A Validated LBM Dataset and Pipeline for Surrogate Modeling of Turbulent 3D Obstructed Channel Flows
The authors present a validated dataset and pipeline for surrogate modeling of 3D turbulent channel flows, addressing the need for physical benchmarks in neural operator evaluation. Their method employs a lattice Boltzmann solver with cumulant collision operators, rigorously verified against experimental measurements (Strouhal number, drag coefficients) at resolutions up to 1024x512x512. The pipeline enables standardized comparison of Fourier Neural Operator and U-Net variants on forecasting, super-resolution, and error correction tasks, with future work planned on computational efficiency analysis.
lattice boltzmannturbulent flowneural operatorssurrogate modelingphysics-informed metrics
Cross-Silo De-Anonymization Under Local Differential Privacy: Threat Model, Phase Transition, and Coordination Necessity
The paper introduces cross-silo person-level differential privacy (XSP-DP), a Pufferfish-style framework analyzing de-anonymization risks when individuals' records appear across k independent silos each protected by (ε,δ)-DP. It proves a phase transition at k*=Θ(log n/ε²), showing Fano lower bounds for estimator failure beyond this threshold. Through XOR + randomized-response constructions, it demonstrates information synergy enabling joint inference despite individually uninformative silos. Results establish coordination necessity for binary randomized-response mechanisms and provide baseline threat modeling for cross-silo inference under local DP.
cross-silo de-anonymizationlocal differential privacyphase transitionpufferfish privacyrandomized-response
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Mean-Field Games with Average Reward
The paper presents a maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning framework for mean-field games (MFGs) with average-reward criteria, aiming to recover policies from expert demonstrations. The method formulates the inverse problem via occupation measures, addressing both finite-dimensional linear rewards (through convex duality) and infinite-dimensional RKHS rewards (via Lagrangian relaxation). Key technical contributions include proving smoothness properties for gradient descent and introducing a minorisation-based sub-stochastic kernel to handle non-contractive Bellman operators. Experiments on malware-spread MFGs and consumer-choice models demonstrate accurate policy recovery matching expert behavior.
mean-field gamesinverse reinforcement learningmaximum entropyoccupation measurebellman equation
MyPCBench: A Benchmark for Personally Intelligent Computer-Use Agents
MyPCBench introduces a benchmark for evaluating personally intelligent computer-use agents in realistic desktop environments, addressing the gap between impersonal benchmarks and real-world deployment scenarios. The benchmark features a Linux desktop with 17 simulated web applications and 184 persona-specific tasks (inspired by OpenClaw requests), testing agents' ability to handle multi-application workflows and personalization. Six models were evaluated using a uniform computer+bash tool interface, with Claude Opus 4.6 achieving the highest success rate (55.4%). Failure analysis reveals challenges in long-horizon tasks and cross-application coordination. The environment, task set, and agent harness are publicly released.
personalized agentsbenchmarkingdesktop automationmulti-application tasksopenclaw
STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering
The paper introduces STAR-NT, a spatiotemporal acceleration framework for real-time neural transparency rendering that reduces computational overhead while maintaining visual quality. The method employs adaptive quadtree-based screen-space subdivision to adjust geometry pass resolution based on local color variance and leverages temporal coherence by reusing previous transparency results through depth-based reprojection. These optimizations collectively lower rendering costs and integrate seamlessly into existing real-time pipelines.
neural transparencyspatiotemporal accelerationquadtree subdivisiondepth-based reprojectionreal-time rendering
The Algebra of Units: From Buckingham's Pi-grec Theorem to Latent-Variable Learning
The paper presents a data-driven method for automatically discovering dimensionless groups in physical systems, bypassing traditional reliance on expert knowledge. By applying singular value decomposition (SVD) to logarithmically transformed measurement data, the approach identifies low-dimensional manifolds corresponding to Buckingham Pi theorem's dimensionless quantities. A subsequent integer-exponent search and repeating-variable filter yield interpretable groups. Validated on a 16,000-point synthetic compressor dataset, the method recovers known engineering coefficients (e.g., flow coefficient, Mach number) with 0.01% error, revealing connections between dimensional analysis and modern latent-variable learning.
buckingham pi theoremdimensional analysissingular value decompositionlatent-variable learningdimensionless groups
Learning Policy from a Single Trajectory in Average-Reward Markov Decision Process
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Learning Hybrid Biophysical Neuron Models with Neural ODEs
The authors propose a hybrid modeling framework that integrates neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) into conductance-based biophysical neuron models to address unmodeled dynamics and channel kinetics misspecification. The method parameterizes neural ODEs using voltage-dependent steady-state and time-constant functions, enabling interpretable gating dynamics recovery from voltage recordings without predefined functional forms. Results demonstrate accurate fitting of 2400 ion channel models, generalization to out-of-distribution stimuli, and computational cost reduction by an order of magnitude when simplifying multicompartment models to single-compartment hybrids with learned axial currents.
neural odesconductance-based modelsgating dynamicsbiophysical modelingion channels
Multimodal Evaluator Preference Collapse: Cross-Modal Contagion in Self-Evolving Agents
The study identifies and quantifies Evaluator Preference Collapse (EPC) in multimodal AI systems, demonstrating its amplification compared to text-only settings. Using GPT-4o and DeepSeek-chat across text and visual tasks, the authors reveal cross-modal contagion—where evaluator preferences from one modality corrupt strategy selection in another—through a four-phase isolation training paradigm. Results show strategy inversion, with cross-model evaluation producing bidirectional contagion (mean gamma_{T->V}=1.176, gamma_{V->T}=1.089) and self-evaluation providing near-immunity (97% zero contagion). The work introduces a contagion matrix and MM-EPC framework, identifying evaluator architecture as the primary risk factor.
evaluator preference collapsecross-modal contagionstrategy inversionmultimodal evaluationself-evolving agents
Beyond Defensive Reporting: Machine Learning for Active Anti-Money Laundering Control in Insurance
This paper introduces machine learning for active anti-money laundering (AML) detection in insurance claims, shifting from passive reporting to prevention. Using gradient-boosted decision trees on Norwegian insurer data, the study evaluates detection performance with fraud labels as auxiliary signals. The proposed Budget-Weighted Capture Rate metric shows that incorporating fraud labels improves laundering detection, capturing 66% of cases within the top 2-6% of claims flagged for review. This represents the first empirical ML study for AML in insurance claims.
anti-money launderinggradient-boosted decision treesbudget-weighted capture rateinsurance fraudbehavioral patterns
Near-Optimal Stochastic Linear Bandits with Delay
The paper establishes near-optimal regret bounds for stochastic linear bandits with delayed feedback across three delay models. For loss-independent delays, it demonstrates dimension-free additive regret penalties: scaling with expected delay under stochastic delays and maximum outstanding observations under adversarial delays. For loss-dependent delays, it proves matching upper/lower bounds with dimension-dependent square-root penalties, revealing fundamental differences from multi-armed bandits. The delay-as-payoff model further shows linear bandits cannot achieve the optimal MAB guarantee. These results precisely characterize how delay interacts with linear generalization.
stochastic linear banditsdelayed feedbackregret boundsloss-independent delaysloss-dependent delays
Distribution Alignment for One-Shot Federated Learning via Optimal Transport
SLOT-Align introduces a geometry-aware feature harmonization framework for One-Shot Federated Learning (OSFL) under joint domain and label shift. The method employs a shared frozen encoder to extract compact feature statistics, constructs a global reference via Bures-Wasserstein barycenters, and aligns local representations using closed-form geodesic optimal transport maps. Experiments across multiple benchmarks, pretrained backbones, and OSFL methods demonstrate consistent improvements in accuracy and robustness without modifying existing training procedures.
one-shot federated learningoptimal transportbures-wasserstein barycenterdomain shiftlabel shift
SPICE: Synergy and Partial Information Based Curriculum Evolution
The paper introduces SPICE, a curriculum learning framework for multimodal interaction that dynamically adapts to model evolution through Partial Information Decomposition (PID). SPICE decomposes multimodal interactions into redundant, unique, and synergistic components, enabling interpretable sample complexity characterization. It employs a progressive curriculum transitioning from shared cross-modal cues to modality-specific patterns and finally complex synergies, with real-time sample ordering refinement via PID estimates. Experiments on multimodal benchmarks show consistent improvements over conventional training and state-of-the-art baselines, validating the efficacy of PID-based adaptive curriculum learning.
multimodal learningpartial information decompositioncurriculum learningsynergistic interactionsadaptive sample ordering
Beyond Artifacts: Towards Generalizable Synthetic Song Detection via Music-Intrinsic Features
The paper proposes Sofia, a Synthetic-song Detection (SSD) framework that leverages music-intrinsic features through feature-specific experts and an adaptive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) module. Unlike existing methods that rely on low-level artifacts, Sofia models vocal, audio-effect, and global structure features to capture generator-agnostic cues. Evaluated on the newly constructed MUSIC8K benchmark, Sofia improves the F1 score by 18.5 points over the strongest baseline while demonstrating robustness against realistic audio perturbations.
synthetic song detectionmixture-of-expertsmusic-intrinsic featuresgenerator-agnosticaudio perturbations
TCHG: Tri-Trust Conditioned Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Reliable Dynamic Trust Prediction
TCHG introduces a tri-trust conditioned heterogeneous graph learning framework for dynamic trust prediction, decomposing trust evidence into three functional channels: entity reliability (message admission), interaction-behavior reliability (propagation strength), and contextual trust (operator selection). The model maintains independent temporal states with non-uniform decay rates to handle evolving evidence scales and calibrates output probabilities for reliability. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate TCHG's superiority over existing trust prediction and heterogeneous graph baselines in both effectiveness and reliability.
heterogeneous graph learningtrust predictiondynamic propagationevidence decompositionprobability calibration
Diffusion Flow Matching: Dimension-Improved KL Bounds and Wasserstein Guarantees
The paper establishes improved theoretical convergence guarantees for Diffusion Flow Matching (DFM), a framework for generative modeling. Analyzing Brownian motion-based DFMs under Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence and 2-Wasserstein distance, the authors derive dimensionally refined bounds under finite-moment and score integrability conditions. For KL divergence, they achieve state-of-the-art dimensional scaling with minimal assumptions, while Wasserstein guarantees require an additional first-order score integrability and weak log-concavity condition.
diffusion flow matchingkullback-leibler divergence2-wasserstein distancebrownian motionscore integrability
Context-Aware Markov VAE for CSI Compression in Wireless Systems
The paper proposes a context-aware compression framework, k-memory Markov variational autoencoder (k-MMVAE), for channel state information (CSI) in FDD massive MIMO systems. The method captures temporal correlations in CSI via Markov-structured latent dynamics within a finite window, improving compression efficiency over memoryless baselines. Results demonstrate enhanced reconstruction performance at low-to-moderate compression rates, validating the benefits of explicit latent temporal modeling under limited feedback constraints.
csi compressionmarkov vaemassive mimolatent dynamicsfeedback resources
PhysGuard: Fisher-Guided Gradient Projection for Sim-to-Real Neural PDE Surrogates
PhysGuard introduces a physics-preserving framework for sim-to-real adaptation of neural PDE surrogates, addressing accuracy loss due to domain shift. The method employs the empirical Fisher Information Matrix from simulation data to identify physics-critical parameter directions, restricting fine-tuning updates via gradient projection to preserve these structures. A layer-wise Gram-matrix formulation ensures scalability, while an adaptive threshold determines the protected subspace size. Evaluations across four neural operator architectures show PhysGuard reduces low-frequency error by up to 32% under severe domain shift while maintaining adaptability, outperforming standard fine-tuning baselines.
neural operatorssim-to-real adaptationfisher information matrixgradient projectionpde surrogates
TreeGRNG: Binary Tree Gaussian Random Number Generator for Efficient Probabilistic AI Hardware
The paper introduces TreeGRNG, a binary tree Gaussian random number generator for efficient probabilistic AI hardware, addressing the energy and area challenges of conventional GRNGs in Bayesian Neural Networks. The method employs ultra-low-cost constant comparators instead of arithmetic units, with hardware-aware optimizations leveraging Gaussian properties. Results show a 3.7× energy reduction per sample, 5.8× throughput per unit area improvement, and superior distribution accuracy compared to state-of-the-art GRNGs, while offering flexibility in probability distribution shaping.
bayesian neural networksgaussian random number generatorhardware optimizationprobabilistic ailow-power design
Multi-Modal Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network with Mixture of Experts for Soil Organic Carbon Prediction
The paper introduces SpTGNN, a multi-modal spatio-temporal graph neural network for soil organic carbon (SOC) prediction, addressing limitations of grid-based architectures and single-modal approaches. The method represents soil measurements as nodes in a heterogeneous graph with three edge types, uses relational graph attention, and fuses four data streams via a sparse Mixture-of-Experts module. It incorporates uncertainty quantification through heteroscedastic regression and deep ensembles. Evaluated on a global SOC corpus (∼49k samples), SpTGNN achieves R²=0.762 and RMSE=3.51±0.48 g/kg on the Africa test split, outperforming XGBoost baselines. Ablations confirm the contributions of the heterogeneous graph, MoE fusion, and fine-tuned backbone.
spatio-temporal graph neural networkmixture-of-expertsheteroscedastic regressionsoil organic carbonrelational graph attention
On the Entropy Formula for Real, Complex, and Quaternionic Deep Linear Networks
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RepNet: Tackling spectral bias in deep neural networks via parameter reparameterization
The study introduces RepNet, a reparameterized DNN model addressing spectral bias in ReLU and tanh networks for high-frequency and multiscale problems. By reparameterizing first-layer weights and biases, RepNet controls initial slope scale and partition point distribution, enabling adaptive frequency scaling during training. Numerical experiments on 1D/4D function approximation, PDE problems with PINNs, and operator learning demonstrate improved accuracy in capturing oscillatory features with minimal computational overhead. Theoretical analysis provides quantitative estimates for output and slope magnitudes to guide initialization.
spectral biasreparameterizationmultiscale problemsphysics-informed neural networksadaptive frequency scaling
Elastic ODYN: Differentiable Optimization for Infeasible Control and Learning in Robotics
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MIRAGE: Auditing Anti-Muslim Bias in Frontier LLMs Across Reasoning, Agentic, and Time-Coupled Conditions
The study introduces MIRAGE, a benchmark of 1,200 prompts to audit anti-Muslim bias in frontier LLMs across three deployment-realistic conditions: direct completion, chain-of-thought reasoning, and agentic decision-making. Findings reveal that chain-of-thought reasoning amplifies Muslim-violence associations by 12-34%, agentic decisions show a 9-22 percentage-point bias asymmetry, and bias increases 18-27% with recent-conflict context. Existing mitigations fail to address agentic bias effectively. The authors release MIRAGE and an evaluation harness for targeted research.
mirageanti-muslim biaschain-of-thought reasoningagentic decision-makingtime-coupled bias
Incentives and Evidence in Learned Service Orchestration
The study critically evaluates reinforcement learning (RL) for service orchestration, challenging prevailing assumptions about performance degradation under production conditions. Through pre-registered tests on three influential RL-based systems (resource allocation, DAG scheduling, autoscaling), it employs family-wise error correction and diagnostic analyses. Results show most predicted performance reversals do not occur, with one case showing a 40x advantage over Kubernetes HPA under observation lag, while other cited results prove irreproducible or context-dependent. The authors identify institutional incentives favoring benchmark gains over operational evidence, advocating for production-grade comparators, registered perturbation models, and revised publication criteria.
reinforcement learningservice orchestrationperformance degradationkubernetes hpabenchmark evaluation
MultiMolecule: a modular ecosystem for biomolecular sequence-model workflows
MultiMolecule introduces a modular Python ecosystem for standardized reuse of biomolecular sequence models across RNA, DNA, and protein workflows. The system preserves execution context through source-checked implementations, linking 53 model families (112 checkpoints) with 16 curated datasets via 39 repositories and 10 prediction pipelines. Key features include provenance tracking, behavior verification, and standardized interfaces for training, evaluation, and deployment, addressing reproducibility challenges in model adaptation and biological prediction tasks.
biomolecular sequence modelsprovenance trackingmodel-family implementationsstandardized checkpointsprediction pipelines
Assessing Reliability of Symbol Detection in Concept Bottleneck Models
The paper proposes a reliability-aware training strategy for Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) to mitigate spurious concept detection while maintaining task accuracy. By analyzing performance degradation from swapping independently trained concept detectors and classification heads, the authors identify unreliable symbols and introduce a training method that penalizes their use. Experiments on CUB-200-2011 (swap drop <1 accuracy point, retention >99%) and a synthetic task (accuracy collapse to chance with reduced supervision) show the approach doubles swap accuracy in leaky regimes.
concept bottleneck modelssymbol detectionreliability-aware trainingspurious firingconcept supervision
Neural Bayesian Anomaly Mitigation: A Robust Loss that Doubles as an Unsupervised Contamination Classifier
The paper introduces Neural Bayesian Anomaly Mitigation (NBAM), a robust supervised loss function derived from a Bayesian latent-switch mixture model that simultaneously performs unsupervised contamination classification. NBAM replaces standard training losses while learning a structured contamination model with input-dependent prior π_φ(x), enabling calibrated per-sample contamination posteriors and automatic Occam regularization. On CIFAR-10 with asymmetric label contamination (rates 0.2-0.6), NBAM outperforms four robust-loss baselines, recovers corruption structure, and separates clean/corrupted samples while identifying label-flip directions.
robust lossbayesian mixture modelcontamination classificationlatent-switchinput-dependent prior
How Post-Training Shapes Biological Reasoning Models
The study systematically analyzes how post-training stages shape biological reasoning models' performance and generalization. Using controlled experiments across genomics, transcriptomics, and proteins with 100+ models, the authors vary backbone architectures, continued pre-training (CPT), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL). Results show CPT improves biological alignment, SFT boosts in-domain performance but harms out-of-domain generalization, while RL partially recovers generalization when applied to strong SFT checkpoints. Optimal performance requires careful stage composition, with brief SFT and larger RL allocations under fixed budgets.
biological reasoning modelscontinued pre-trainingsupervised fine-tuningreinforcement learningout-of-domain generalization
Tail-Shape Estimation in LLM Evaluation Is Fragile: A Protocol for Diagnosing False Positives
This paper introduces a pre-registered protocol for validating tail-shape claims in LLM evaluation, addressing fragility in extreme-value-theory metrics like tail-index estimation. The protocol establishes four diagnostic gates (admissibility, goodness-of-fit, threshold-stability, effect-size) to detect false positives. When applied to toxicity evaluation with two scorer families, it identified three distinct false-positive modes and rejected the primary tail-shape claim. Findings suggest current tail-index estimation in LLM toxicity evaluation is less robust than previously assumed.
tail-index estimationextreme-value theoryllm evaluationfalse positivestoxicity scoring
Petrov-Galerkin Variational Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Two-Dimensional Singularly Perturbed Problems
The study introduces a Petrov-Galerkin variational physics-informed neural network (VPINN) framework for solving two-dimensional singularly perturbed problems (SPPs) with one or two small parameters. The method constructs trial solutions via neural networks and enforces the variational form using tensor-product hat test functions, with a Petrov-Galerkin formulation to resolve boundary layers sharply. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed directly, and source terms are computed via automatic differentiation. Experiments on 2D benchmarks demonstrate high accuracy in maximum and L_2 norms, confirming the method's robustness for multiscale SPP features.
petrov-galerkinphysics-informed neural networkssingularly perturbed problemsautomatic differentiationboundary layers
Semi-Supervised Speech Confidence Detection using Pseudo-Labelling and Whisper Embeddings
The study proposes a semi-supervised framework for speaker confidence detection by combining human-engineered speech features (pitch, volume, speech rate, disfluencies, stress) with Whisper encoder embeddings. A pseudo-labelling technique expands the training set using both human-annotated and model-generated labels, while a co-attention mechanism fuses multimodal representations. The approach achieves 75% accuracy, demonstrating potential for applications in personalised learning and speech skill development through enhanced confidence analysis.
pseudo-labellingwhisper embeddingsco-attention mechanismspeech disfluenciessemi-supervised learning
REFLEX: Reflective Evolution from LLM Experience
REFLEX introduces a decoupled evolutionary framework for interpretable policy search, separating visual diagnosis from code generation to improve transparency and knowledge retention. The method employs a vision-enabled Critic for behavioral diagnosis and a text-optimized Actor with persistent Skill Memory for code synthesis, enabling auditable mutations and cross-run knowledge transfer. Evaluations on control benchmarks (Lunar Lander, Acrobot, Pendulum) and a 36D antenna task show sample efficiency, solving Acrobot/Pendulum in <10 LLM calls and achieving 1.092 Normalized Weighted Score on Lunar Lander.
interpretable policy searchmultimodal llmsskill memorysample efficiencyevolutionary framework
BRICKS-WM: Building Reusability via Interface Composition Kinetics for Structured World Models
BRICKS-WM introduces a modular framework for structured world models in MBRL, addressing reusability limitations of monolithic dynamics. The method factorizes latent state space into independent Agent and Background modules connected via learned interfaces, enforcing functional separation in transition dynamics. Experiments show comparable control performance to monolithic baselines while enabling frozen background reuse across agents.
model-based reinforcement learningmodular world modelslatent interfacesdynamics factorizationreusable components
Privacy from Symmetry: Orthogonally Equivariant Transformers for LLM Inference
The paper introduces ConjFormer, an orthogonally equivariant transformer variant enabling privacy-preserving LLM inference through symmetric architecture. The method employs client-side orthogonal matrix multiplication of embeddings and server-side inference in a rotated basis, achieved via scalar RMSNorm and blockwise orthogonal conjugation of linear weights. Evaluated on GPT-2 and Llama 3.2 1B fine-tuned on PubMed, the approach reduces token recovery from 35% to 1.3% top-10 while maintaining model performance (0.4% perplexity increase), demonstrating effective privacy without noise or cryptography.
orthogonal equivariancesplit inferencescalar rmsnormtoken recoveryprivacy-preserving
Taylor-Calibrate: Principled Initialization for Hybrid Linear Attention Distillation
The paper introduces Taylor-Calibrate, a principled initialization method for hybrid linear attention models converted from pretrained Transformers. The method uses Taylor-guided teacher attention statistics to set key parameters (value projection, memory timescale, gates) in Gated DeltaNet students, followed by per-layer alignment. Experiments across four teacher settings show 88x zero-shot improvement over naive conversion and 4.9x--9.2x reduction in distillation tokens required for target performance.
hybrid linear attentiongated deltanetkv-cachedistillationtaylor approximation
Not all Jensen-Shannon Divergence Estimators are Equal
The paper demonstrates that empirical Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) estimates vary significantly depending on the estimation protocol, creating comparability issues for synthetic tabular data evaluation. Through systematic analysis of marginal-based and classifier-based estimators across controlled settings and real-world benchmarks, the authors identify key limitations: marginal estimators' dependence blindness, classifier estimators' sensitivity to prior shift, and dimensionality effects. They derive a closed-form posterior correction for classifier-based JSD estimation under class imbalance. Results show protocol-dependence necessitates explicit methodological specification, prompting practical guidelines and an open-source tool for estimator-aware evaluation.
jensen-shannon divergencetabular data synthesisdivergence estimationclassifier-based evaluationprior shift correction
MUNI: Multimodal Unified Latent Diffusion for Coherent Any-to-Any Generation
MUNI introduces a multimodal unified latent diffusion framework for any-to-any generation, unifying subset-conditioned cross-modal generation and unconditional joint sampling via a shared stochastic latent. The method jointly trains modality-specific encoders, expressive decoders, and a single shared flow-based prior under one objective, addressing limitations in existing multimodal generative models. Experiments on PolyMNIST-Quadrant-Labels and a large-scale image-text-audio benchmark demonstrate MUNI's competitive performance in conditional generation and superior unconditional coherence compared to baselines.
latent diffusionmultimodal generationflow-based priorvariational inferenceany-to-any
A Mechanistic Understanding of Pronoun Fidelity in LLMs
The study provides a mechanistic analysis of pronoun fidelity in large language models, identifying three causal mechanisms: group entity binding (G), recency bias (R), and stereotypical bias (S). Using Boundless Distributed Alignment Search, the authors demonstrate these mechanisms coexist as distributed causal subspaces across network depth, collectively explaining 91-99.5% of model behavior. Attention head analysis reveals two competing pathways: a concept-level route for group binding and stereotype retrieval, and a token-level route for recency-based surface form repetition. The findings indicate pronoun fidelity emerges from competition between these simultaneously active subspaces.
pronoun fidelitymechanistic interpretabilityboundless distributed alignment searchcausal subspacesattention head analysis
Robust Neural Tucker Factorization with Bias Correction and Adaptive Initialization
The paper proposes KaBiN, a robust neural Tucker factorization model for high-dimensional incomplete (HDI) tensor completion, addressing initialization and bias issues in prior work. The method combines Kaiming uniform initialization for embedding/Tucker parameters with explicit bias correction in output mapping, decoupling global mean shifts from local structural representations. Experiments on three real-world HDI datasets demonstrate improved performance over NeuTucF with minimal computational overhead.
neural tucker factorizationhdi tensor completionkaiming initializationbias correctionnon-linear dynamics
Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training
The authors propose a compression method for bandwidth-efficient context parallel training in decentralized settings, addressing the communication overhead of existing chunk-based approaches. Their method exploits the low-rank structure of activation outputs by dynamically constraining them to learned mixtures of subspaces via efficient reparameterizations. Results show a 95% compression rate with negligible overhead, enabling scaling of billion-parameter models to 100K-token contexts on 300Mbps networks while matching centralized training convergence on 100Gbps interconnects.
context parallelismlow-rank structuresubspace mixturesdecentralized trainingactivation compression
Scalable and Interpretable Representation Alignment with Ordinal Similarity
The authors propose ordinal-similarity metrics (Triplet Similarity Index, Quadruplet Similarity Index) for evaluating representation alignment, addressing limitations of existing methods in interpretability, robustness, and scalability. The framework quantifies consistency of ordinal relationships, proving theoretically to maintain interpretable baselines, outlier robustness, and O(n log n) computational efficiency. A formal equivalence is established between TSI and Mutual Nearest Neighbors for local neighborhood alignment. Empirical validation demonstrates the metrics' effectiveness for scalable representation analysis across diverse learning scenarios.
representation alignmentordinal similaritymutual nearest neighborsinterpretabilityscalability
CacheMuon: Using Temporal Preconditioning To Approximate Polar Factor
CacheMuon introduces temporal preconditioning to approximate the polar factor in Muon optimization, reducing redundant orthogonalization computations. By exploiting temporal correlations in momentum matrices, it reuses information from prior steps, controlled by fresh-solver error and cache staleness. Empirical results demonstrate a trade-off between computational efficiency and validation quality, with conservative thresholds matching Muon's performance on language-model and vision tasks while reducing FLOPs, and aggressive thresholds offering greater arithmetic savings at modest quality costs.
polar factornewton-schulz iterationtemporal preconditioningmomentum matrixorthogonalization
Evaluating LLM Personalization via Semantic Constraint Verification
The authors propose Natural Language Inference Constraint Verification (NLICV), a framework for evaluating LLM personalization through semantic constraint verification using NLI models. NLICV categorizes LLM behaviors into four modes (personalization, generalization, sycophancy, failure) and maps sentence meanings to truth-condition sets, avoiding surface-matching metrics and costly LLM-as-a-judge protocols. Experiments show NLICV achieves human-aligned evaluations while reducing latency and token costs by up to 2100×, with ablation-based procedures identifying sentence-level evidence for constraint verification.
natural language inferenceconstraint verificationllm personalizationtruth-condition setssycophancy detection
FEnc$^2$: Unifying Data Packing for Efficient Private Inference via Convolution and Architecture-Aware Fragment Encoding
FEnc$^2$ introduces a unified fragment-based encoding framework for efficient CKKS-based private CNN inference, addressing ciphertext packing inefficiencies in FHE. The method combines Conv-aware Encoding to optimize fragment size and rotation minimization with Arch-aware Ct Compression for density restoration after reduction layers. Evaluations show 228.83x GPU and 226.06x CPU speedups for LeNet on MNIST, and 4.55x GPU/9.43x CPU for MobileNet on ImageNet versus Orion, demonstrating layout optimization as a critical design dimension for encrypted inference.
fully homomorphic encryptionciphertext packingckks schemeprivate inferenceconvolutional neural networks
Simulation-Augmented Multi-Step Split Conformal Prediction for Aggregated Forecasts
The paper introduces SA-MSCP, a simulation-augmented multi-step split conformal method for uncertainty quantification in aggregated forecasting tasks like annual totals and year-over-year growth rates. The approach generates future paths via cross-validated residuals using block bootstrap and constructs prediction intervals from empirical quantiles. Experimental results demonstrate improved empirical coverage over simulated-path baselines, validating the effectiveness of simulation-enhanced conformal calibration for aggregated time-series forecasting.
conformal predictionuncertainty quantificationblock bootstrapempirical quantilestime-series forecasting
Filtered ANN as a Phase Transition: When Selectivity-Estimation Error Causes Plan Regret
The paper characterizes plan regret in filtered approximate-nearest-neighbor (ANN) queries due to selectivity-estimation errors, revealing phase transitions between pre-filter, post-filter, and in-filter strategies. Using a landscape model with critical regions around phase boundaries, it shows regret scales as a wedge with log-width ε (multiplicative error) and height |V'(s*)|ε, where 1/|V'(s*)| is the flip-margin. Theoretical boundaries emerge at s ~ k/K (order statistics) and s_c ~ 0.83/M (site percolation). Experiments on synthetic sweeps and SIFT1M confirm 290x regret concentration at boundaries and finite-size scaling collapse across corpus sizes.
approximate-nearest-neighborselectivity-estimationphase transitionplan regretfinite-size scaling
Differentiable Packing of Irregular 3D Objects with Adaptive Container Estimation
The paper introduces a differentiable framework for jointly optimizing 6N object pose parameters and three container dimensions in a single gradient-based loop, eliminating manual tuning. The method combines six physics-inspired loss terms computed on triangle meshes via axis-aligned bounding-box proxies, with an adaptive squeezing mechanism for container tightening. Implemented in PyTorch without physics engines or convex decomposition, it achieves 3.4-54x speedup over loop-based methods. Results show 11-32% smaller containers than DBLF and simulated annealing baselines at N=100, running under 4 minutes per instance on a consumer GPU.
differentiable packingadaptive container estimationgradient-based optimizationtriangle mesh processingphysics-inspired loss
Diffusion Offline Reinforcement Learning for Fair and Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks
The paper proposes Diffusion-SAC, a diffusion-based offline reinforcement learning method combining conservative Q-learning (CQL) with denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) for UAV-assisted wireless networks. The approach optimizes trajectory and scheduling control by leveraging generative policy learning from static datasets, addressing generalization challenges in low-data regimes. Simulations demonstrate 35% higher throughput, improved energy efficiency, and fairer device scheduling compared to standard offline RL baselines, with more stable convergence in dynamic conditions.
offline reinforcement learningdiffusion modelsuav networksconservative q-learningwireless control
QK-Normed MLA: QK normalization without full key caching
The paper demonstrates that query-key (QK) normalization, traditionally incompatible with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) due to MLA's reliance on cached low-dimensional latent states instead of full keys, can be implemented without full-key caching. By decomposing RMSNorm into static affine weights and dynamic scalar RMS statistics, the authors show QK normalization can be adapted to MLA's architecture. This approach maintains MLA's efficient decoding path while achieving equivalent performance to post-projection QK RMSNorm. Empirical results on 400M parameter models trained up to 100B tokens show improved training loss and downstream accuracy compared to QK clipping, with less than 2% latency overhead at 256k context length on H800 hardware.
qk normalizationmulti-head latent attentionrmsnormlatent statesdecode path
pFedUL: Layer-Aware Federated Unlearning for Personalized Federated Learning
The paper proposes pFedUL, a layer-aware federated unlearning framework for personalized federated learning (pFL) that addresses the tension between unlearning completeness and personalization preservation. The method employs gradient-based layer-wise contribution attribution, adaptive selective unlearning with differentiated strategies for shared and personalized layers, and a lightweight recalibration protocol. Evaluated on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and FEMNIST under non-IID settings, pFedUL achieves unlearning effectiveness comparable to full retraining while maintaining 97.3% personalized accuracy for remaining clients, outperforming six adapted FU methods.
federated unlearningpersonalized federated learninglayer-wise attributionnon-iid dataselective unlearning
One-Step Generalization Ratio Guided Optimization for Domain Generalization
The paper introduces GENIE (Generalization-ENhancing Iterative Equalizer), a novel optimizer for Domain Generalization (DG) that addresses overfitting to domain-specific features. GENIE leverages the One-Step Generalization Ratio (OSGR) to quantify parameter contributions to loss reduction and gradient alignment, dynamically equalizing updates via preconditioning to prevent parameter dominance. Theoretically, it balances convergence and alignment while maintaining SGD's convergence rate. Empirically, GENIE outperforms existing optimizers and enhances performance across DG methods.
domain generalizationgradient alignmentoptimizerpreconditioningspurious correlations
HiMPO: Hindsight-Informed Memory Policy Optimization for Less-Entangled Credit in Long-Horizon Agents
HiMPO introduces a hindsight-informed memory policy optimization framework to address credit assignment challenges in long-horizon agents. By estimating local utility of memory updates and applying hindsight relevance as a filter, it attenuates credit when unsupported by outcomes. The method separates memory-specific advantages from trajectory-level rewards, reducing blame leakage and improving attribution fidelity. Evaluations on judge-based open-domain tasks and compressive-memory QA demonstrate superior performance over memory-based and RL baselines while maintaining compressed-context efficiency.
hindsight-informedcredit assignmentmemory policylong-horizon agentslocal utility
Generative Modeling on Metric Graphs via Neural Optimal Transport
The authors present the first deep generative framework for probability distributions on compact metric graphs, addressing both extrinsic Euclidean and intrinsic tropical Abel--Jacobi embeddings. Their method embeds graphs into smooth spaces, solves an entropic Kantorovich problem via neural semidual parameterization, and projects samples back to the original graph. Theoretical guarantees show convergence to valid transport couplings with increasing neural expressivity. Empirical results demonstrate superior performance over discrete graph OT baselines across diverse graph geometries, scaling effectively to real-world data (1M Uber pickups in Manhattan).
metric graphsneural optimal transporttropical abel-jacobi embeddingentropic kantorovich problemgenerative modeling
Contrastive Learning for Seismic Horizon Tracking with Domain-Specific Priors
The paper introduces a self-supervised method for 3D seismic horizon tracking that combines signal-based propagators with texture-driven deep learning. By using signal-derived local horizon correspondences as domain-specific priors, the approach forms positive pairs in a contrastive objective, focusing on high-confidence neighborhoods and optionally incorporating fault masks. The resulting voxel-wise embeddings maintain local signal continuity while enabling horizon propagation across discontinuities via similarity search. Evaluations on the F3 dataset and a synthetic faulted dataset show improved mean absolute error over unsupervised baselines and competitive performance against semi-supervised methods using minimal labeled data.
contrastive learningseismic horizon trackingdomain-specific priorsvoxel-wise embeddingsunsupervised learning
KeepLoRA++: Continual Learning with Layer-Scaled Residual Gradient Adaptation
KeepLoRA++ proposes a continual learning method for vision-language models that balances knowledge retention, task sequence preservation, and plasticity through dual-dimensional analysis. The approach restricts LoRA updates to residual subspaces orthogonal to pre-trained and previous task features, with layer-scaled gradients (smaller in shallow layers, larger in deep layers). Theoretical and empirical results demonstrate superior performance over baselines in image classification, visual question answering, and video understanding tasks.
continual learninglora adaptationresidual subspacelayer-scaled gradientsvision-language models
LiFT: Local Search via Linear Programming for Overfitting-Controlled Transformers
The paper introduces LiFT, a Linear Programming-based local search framework for fine-tuning transformers with explicit overfitting control. The method formulates fine-tuning as a bilevel optimization problem, jointly updating model parameters and regularization hyperparameters via LP-derived descent directions informed by validation gradients and Hessian information. Experiments on GPT-2 Small with WikiText-2 show LiFT improves test perplexity by selectively tuning transformer blocks and regularization parameters, particularly in overfitting-prone scenarios, while connecting transformer adaptation to bilevel optimization and regularization theory.
transformersfine-tuninglinear programmingoverfittingbilevel optimization
Rapid Poison: Practical Poisoning Attacks Against the Rapid Response Framework
The paper demonstrates poisoning attacks against the Rapid Response (RR) framework used in AI safety systems like Anthropic's ASL-3. Attackers inject malicious samples into the jailbreak-detection training pipeline via prompt injection, achieving two objectives: (I) targeted false positives on benign inputs with specific features, and (II) concept-based backdoors causing false negatives on jailbreaks. The Omission Attack exploits misassociation during training on concept-absent unsafe samples. At 1% poisoning rates, attacks achieve up to 100% false positives and 96% false negatives, compromising classifier integrity.
rapid response frameworkjailbreak-detectionpoisoning attacksfalse positivesfalse negatives
Creative Collision: Directorial Persona Steering and Competition in Large Language Models
The paper introduces Creative Collision, a method for steering large language model behavior by superimposing two opposing semantic directions in the residual stream. Using mean-difference activation contrast, the authors construct directorial persona vectors for Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese from screenplay corpora, then interpolate between them with mixing parameter α and steering coefficient λ. Key findings include Spielberg's directional dominance (suppressing Scorsese's influence), improved generation coherence at intermediate collision points, and shared moral-tone substrate localization in layer 28 of a 40-layer transformer.
activation steeringresidual streammean-difference contrastdirectorial personamoral-tone substrate
Evolutionary Bilevel Reward Shaping for Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Generalization via Evolutionary Reward Shaping (GERS), a bilevel optimization method for improving reinforcement learning (RL) generalization under restricted data access. GERS combines lower-level RL training with trajectory-accessible environments and upper-level CMA-ES optimization of reward shaping parameters using only scalar validation rewards. Evaluated on continuous control tasks, GERS matches domain randomization performance despite stricter data constraints, demonstrating effective generalization without access to validation trajectories.
reinforcement learninggeneralizationbilevel optimizationreward shapingcma-es
Prediction of Runtime Parameters of Parallel Chemistry Applications via Active and Generative Learning
The work presents machine learning approaches for predicting runtime parameters in parallel chemistry computations, specifically Coupled-Cluster with Singles and Doubles. Two methods are developed: one combining active learning with gradient boosted regression trees, and another employing generative learning. The models achieve 0.023 mean absolute error percentage (MAPE) and 99.9% coefficient of determination (R²) on full datasets, while maintaining 0.2 MAPE with only 20-25% of training data through active learning.
active learninggenerative learninggradient boosted regression treescoupled-clusterruntime prediction
Graphical conditional generative modeling for digital twin modeling
The authors propose a framework for discovering parsimonious stochastic surrogate models in digital twin applications by identifying input variables that influence the full conditional distribution of target quantities, not just their mean. The method combines conditional generative modeling with Gaussian-process-based ANOVA (via kernel mode decomposition) to iteratively prune non-influential inputs and discover interpretable structures. Results across stochastic dynamical systems, PDE control, and economic data show that the discovered structures yield interpretable surrogates with performance comparable to models trained on full variable sets.
conditional generative modelinggaussian processkernel mode decompositiondigital twinstochastic surrogate
When Confidence Lacks Concepts: Interpretable OOD Detection via Representation Perturbations
The authors propose an interpretable out-of-distribution (OOD) detection framework that analyzes prediction stability under class-conditioned semantic perturbations. Their method learns class-specific concept vectors via sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to disentangle intermediate representations into sparse semantic components, then measures logit stability when perturbing deeper layers with these concepts. The approach hypothesizes that in-distribution samples exhibit low sensitivity to such perturbations due to representational alignment, while OOD samples show amplified deviations. This provides both discriminative OOD signals and interpretable insights into model uncertainty mechanisms, particularly for medical imaging applications.
out-of-distribution detectionsparse autoencodersconcept vectorsrepresentational alignmentlogit stability
To forget is to preserve: Machine Unlearning for 3D medical image segmentation
The paper evaluates machine unlearning strategies for 3D medical image segmentation to comply with GDPR data deletion requests. Using a Med3D-pretrained 3D ResNet-50 on the MRBrainS18 dataset, four approximate unlearning methods were tested across 20-50 epoch training horizons. The Noisy Label strategy achieved optimal trade-offs: 93% forgetting efficacy on target subjects while preserving 84% Dice/MAE accuracy on retained data, whereas other methods exhibited catastrophic forgetting. This establishes quantitative baselines for subject-level unlearning in medical imaging.
machine unlearning3d segmentationgdpr compliancenoisy labelmed3d
Data-driven Control with Real-time Uncertainty Compensation for Multi-Fuel Engines
The paper introduces a data-driven real-time uncertainty compensation framework for combustion control in multi-fuel compression ignition (CI) engines. The method employs Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to model nonlinear fuel-dependent combustion dynamics, augmented by a model inversion-based controller with an uncertainty compensator for dynamic adaptation. Theoretical analysis proves finite-time convergence, while simulations demonstrate real-time combustion phasing correction within finite cycles across varying operating conditions. The approach addresses modeling uncertainties and fuel flexibility challenges in CI engines.
gaussian process regressioncombustion phasinguncertainty compensationmodel inversioncompression ignition engines
A Gradient Perspective on RLVR Stability and Winner Advantage Policy Optimization
The paper introduces Winner Advantage Policy Optimization (WAPO), a policy-gradient method for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) that improves training stability by analyzing token-level gradient dynamics. The authors derive a taxonomy predicting how updates affect next-token probabilities and entropy, showing stability depends on advantage sign and token distribution. WAPO employs online clipping to update only on positive-advantage completions. Evaluated on mathematical reasoning and multi-hop QA benchmarks, WAPO enhances stability and matches or outperforms baselines across model families.
reinforcement learningpolicy optimizationgradient dynamicstoken-level analysistraining stability
Closing the Approximation Gap in Simulation-free Latent SDEs
The paper introduces Helmholtz-SDE, a simulation-free variational inference (VI) algorithm that closes the approximation gap in latent stochastic differential equation (SDE) learning. Unlike prior simulation-free VI methods that restrict the posterior to a subset of SDEs, Helmholtz-SDE optimizes over path laws compatible with prescribed marginals, enabling more faithful dynamics recovery. The method matches simulation-based VI performance at reduced computational cost, with particularly significant improvements under high posterior uncertainty.
latent sdesvariational inferencesimulation-free learningpath lawsposterior approximation
Shift-and-Sum Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Models
The paper proposes a post-training quantization (PTQ) framework for visual autoregressive models (VAR) addressing two key challenges: large reconstruction errors in attention-value products and codebook sampling frequency discrepancies. The method introduces shift-and-sum quantization, which aggregates quantized results from shifted value tokens to reduce errors, and a resampling strategy aligning codebook entry frequencies with predicted probabilities. Experiments on image generation, inpainting, outpainting, and editing tasks demonstrate consistent improvements across VAR architectures, establishing state-of-the-art PTQ performance for VAR.
post-training quantizationvisual autoregressive modelsshift-and-sum quantizationattention-value productscodebook resampling
Auditing Machine Unlearning: A Systematic Research on Whether Models Truly Forget
The paper proposes a general-purpose auditing framework for machine unlearning, addressing the lack of reliable methods to verify data erasure. Inspired by proof of ignorance, the framework eliminates the need for retraining baselines, shadow models, or intrusive training interventions. Validation on six datasets and ten unlearning methods shows it reliably distinguishes successful unlearning: retraining/fine-tuning methods succeed even with target data present, while de-optimization and Fisher/Hessian-based methods fail. The framework also detects fake unlearning attempts and scales to large language models.
machine unlearningauditing frameworkproof of ignorancedata erasureprivacy risks
Your "Pro" LLM Subscription May Actually Be "Free": Exposing Fingerprint Spoofing Risks in LLM Inference Services
The paper exposes fingerprint spoofing, a novel threat where adversarial LLM providers parameter-efficiently fine-tune weaker models to mimic premium ones, evading user-side fingerprint verification. The authors theoretically prove this vulnerability stems from finite query budgets and weak fingerprint classifiers, then propose GhostPrint—an attack framework combining surrogate modeling, reward-ranked fine-tuning, and knowledge distillation. Evaluations show GhostPrint successfully bypasses static and continual fingerprinting methods (e.g., 90% evasion rate) while maintaining utility at <5% fine-tuning cost, revealing critical flaws in current LLM verification pipelines.
fingerprint spoofingparameter-efficient fine-tuningsurrogate modelingknowledge distillationquery budget
Enhancing Quantum Machine Learning with Anyons
The authors introduce a quantum kernel framework unifying bosonic, fermionic, and anyonic exchange statistics for quantum machine learning. Using Haar-averaged effective-dimension analysis, they demonstrate that fractional exchange phases access unique feature-space directions compared to symmetric/antisymmetric limits. The framework shows improved kernel geometry (greater Gram matrix separation from distinguishable-particle baselines) and superior benchmark performance (stronger target alignment, favorable class geometry) for anyonic kernels over bosonic/fermionic variants. Results establish particle exchange statistics as a novel computational resource for quantum learning.
quantum kernelexchange statisticsanyonic learninghaar-averaged analysisquantum feature space
Polynomial-Time Mistake-Bounded Language Generation
The work introduces a polynomial-time variant of the mistake-bounded language generation (MBLG) framework, originally proposed by Kleinberg et al. (2026). By analyzing combinatorial properties of Boolean function families, the authors demonstrate that parity functions, literal conjunctions, and monotone Boolean functions with polynomially many maxterms admit polynomial-time MBLG. The latter family subsumes all monotone Boolean functions computable by polynomial-size decision trees. The technical approach is framed as a novel combinatorial game involving numeric board operations.
mistake-bounded learningmonotone boolean functionspolynomial-time algorithmscombinatorial gamedecision trees
AME: A Multi-Type Contributor Attribution Framework in Generative AI Markets
The paper introduces AME, a framework for multi-type contributor attribution in generative AI markets, addressing value allocation across heterogeneous contributors like training data, base models, fine-tuning, and prompts. AME integrates data contribution valuation, rights mapping, and trustworthy execution into a unified workflow. Experiments show AME aligns with human judgments on value allocation while maintaining low-cost execution, offering a foundation for generative AI data market revenue distribution.
generative aivalue allocationdata contribution valuationrights mappingtrustworthy execution
Stop the Sampler! Classifier-Based Adaptive Stopping for Sampling Kernels
The paper introduces a classifier-based adaptive stopping mechanism for MCMC sampling, framing trajectory termination as a learnable component within non-acyclic generative flow networks (GFlowNets). The method trains state-dependent neural classifiers to determine when a trajectory reaches high-density regions, theoretically linking optimal classifiers to the target density via detailed balance conditions. Experiments on benchmark densities show the approach reduces average trajectory lengths by 30-50% while improving mode coverage and mixing compared to standard MCMC baselines.
markov chain monte carlogenerative flow networksadaptive stoppingdetailed balancemode coverage
Beyond the Blood Draw: Explainable Machine Learning for Non-Invasive Dysglycemia Risk Screening
The study presents an explainable machine learning approach for non-invasive dysglycemia risk screening, eliminating the need for laboratory tests. Using NHANES 2017--2023 data (n=14,352), six ML models were trained with stratified 5-fold cross-validation and compared against clinical risk scores. LightGBM achieved superior performance (AUC=0.820, 95% CI: 0.806--0.835) over established benchmarks, with SHAP analysis identifying age, race/ethnicity, and waist-to-height ratio as top predictors. Subgroup analyses demonstrated consistent performance across demographics (AUC: 0.735--0.832), supporting deployment in community settings and health applications.
lightgbmshap analysisdysglycemia screeningnon-invasive diagnosticsstratified cross-validation
Hidden Degradation Costs in Energy-Cost-Only HEMS Optimisation: Study on Battery and PV Sensitivity
The study reveals that energy-cost-only optimization in home energy management systems (HEMS) systematically underestimates true costs by ignoring battery degradation. Using a receding-horizon mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) baseline with REFIT demand data, the authors conduct a sensitivity analysis across three battery and PV array sizes, post-hoc estimating degradation via the Naumann stress model and rainflow cycle counting. Results show degradation costs remain constant per battery size and can exceed energy savings by 1,060%, highlighting the need for degradation-aware control formulations.
home energy management systemsbattery degradationmixed-integer linear programmingmodel predictive controltime-of-use tariffs
Active Learning with Low-Rank Structure for Data Selection
The paper introduces a data selection framework leveraging low-rank approximation and residual-based sampling, addressing limitations of prior clustering-based methods that assume geometric structure. The method formulates selection via row subset selection and coreset construction, proving that a weighted subset of $\tilde{O}(k + \frac{1}{\varepsilon^2})$ points approximates full-dataset average loss within $(1+\varepsilon)$ relative error plus an additive $\varepsilon \Phi_k$ term, where $\Phi_k$ is the optimal rank-$k$ approximation cost. Empirical results show superior performance over uniform and clustering-based sampling on real-world datasets.
data selectionlow-rank approximationcoreset constructionrow subset selectionresidual-based sampling
Circuit Tracing in Autoregressive Protein Language Models
ProGenMech introduces a mechanistic interpretability framework for autoregressive protein language models, extending cross-layer transcoders (CLTs) to ProGen3, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model. The method reconstructs each layer using sparse latent variables from all preceding layers, enabling recovery of inter-layer generative computation, and includes a zero-shot circuit discovery framework. ProGenMech outperforms local transcoder baselines in causal generation and zero-shot fitness estimation, matches ProGen3's generative distribution in span infilling, and reveals biologically meaningful motifs and functional regions.
mechanistic interpretabilityautoregressive generationcross-layer transcodersmixture-of-expertsprotein fitness landscapes
GPT-Based Fast Simulation of CLAS12 Detector Hits via Conditional Autoregressive Generation
The authors propose a GPT-style autoregressive transformer as a fast surrogate model for the CLAS12 experiment's calorimeter, addressing computational bottlenecks in particle physics simulations. The model generates detector hits as sequences of strip, ADC, and TDC tokens conditioned on incident momentum, using next-token prediction across nine calorimeter layers. Results show faithful reproduction of hit multiplicity, spatial distributions, and energy-momentum response, achieving 700 events/second on a single GPU—a significant speedup over Geant4 while maintaining physics fidelity.
autoregressive transformerdetector simulationcalorimetergeant4energy-momentum response
Inference-Time Decision Calibration for Temporal Classification
The paper proposes a representation--calibration decomposition for temporal classification, separating inference-time interventions into a residual multi-scale branch for auxiliary logits and a branch-aware calibrator for evidence recombination. The method keeps the native classifier frozen, distinguishing missing temporal evidence from underused decision-level evidence without retraining. Evaluated on FI-2010, PTB-XL, UCI-HAR, MHEALTH, and HARTH, results show regime-dependent gains: residual branches aid in noisy/representation-limited settings (e.g., FI-2010), while calibration helps when native and auxiliary logits contain complementary evidence. Near-saturated settings show minimal improvement.
temporal classificationinference-time calibrationmulti-scale branchdecision-level evidencerepresentation--calibration decomposition
Machine learning enables roughness-driven inverse design of milling processes
The paper proposes a machine learning framework for inverse design of milling processes, targeting surface roughness optimization. The method combines forward-trained deep neural networks and random forests with Bayesian optimization, using synthetic data from computational simulations to address the many-to-one mapping challenge. The models achieve <5% average relative error in predicting optimal milling parameters (process and tool configurations), demonstrating robust performance across the solution space.
inverse designsurface roughnessbayesian optimizationdeep neural networkmilling process
The Information-Theoretic Benefit of Shared Representations under Orthogonality Constraints
The paper establishes a theoretical advantage of shared representations in compositional architectures under orthogonality constraints, proving joint approximation requires fewer bits than separate task-specific models when tasks share latent hard features. The method constructs orthogonal functions via Rademacher-Haar wavelet series (shared feature) and Sawtooth-Walsh readouts (task heads), analyzed through information-theoretic approximation rates. Results demonstrate a sharp separation in description-length efficiency, with neural network realization using Heaviside activations showing maintained expressivity under geometric constraints.
multitask learningorthogonality constraintsrademacher-haar waveletdescription-lengthcompositional architectures
IBAD: Interpretable Behavioral Anomaly Detection on Human Mobility Data
The paper introduces IBAD, an interpretable anomaly detection framework for human mobility that models daily behavior as mixtures of global behavioral templates. The method first extracts interpretable activity patterns (e.g., commuting, caregiving) via Latent Dirichlet Allocation, then learns individual behavioral norms through hierarchical self-supervised learning. Experiments on real and synthetic data demonstrate effective decomposition into 5-10 interpretable templates, cross-context transferability of archetypes, and robust anomaly detection performance (evaluated via a novel splicing benchmark).
behavioral anomaly detectionlatent dirichlet allocationhuman mobilityinterpretable templatesself-supervised learning
Scaling Human and G2P Supervision for Robust Phonetic Transcription
The study investigates the scaling effects of human and G2P supervision for phonetic transcription, focusing on English across native, non-native, and post-stroke speech. Using an 80-hour benchmark, it identifies a supervision quality threshold: G2P aids only below 20-30 hours of human annotation, beyond which it offers no significant benefit and may harm cross-dialect robustness. ASR pretraining proves more effective, achieving a 2.3x reduction in weighted phone feature error rate over prior systems, with notable improvements on non-native and aphasic speech. Results indicate diminishing returns from quantity-driven G2P scaling for robust generalization.
grapheme-to-phonemephonetic transcriptionasr pretrainingsupervision thresholdcross-dialect robustness
The limits of interpretability in multiple linear regression
The article demonstrates that multiple linear regression loses interpretability under multicollinearity due to amplified weight fluctuations and oscillatory patterns across correlated features. By analyzing eigenmodes of the feature correlation matrix, the authors show that small-eigenvalue modes drive these instabilities, obscuring meaningful physical interpretation. Numerical experiments on physics datasets confirm that Ridge regularization mitigates unstable modes, though weights remain context-dependent. Validation on diverse public datasets generalizes these findings beyond physics. The work clarifies why linear models, despite their apparent simplicity, can fail to provide reliable mechanistic insights when features are strongly correlated.
multicollinearityinterpretabilitylinear regressionridge regularizationeigenmode analysis
Decomposing one-class support vector machine into an ensemble of one-data support vector machines
The paper proposes an accelerated decomposition strategy for one-class support vector machines (OCSVM) to address scalability issues with large datasets. The method decomposes the dataset into individual samples, trains separate OCSVM models per data point, and combines them via ensemble learning. A data-reduction technique further accelerates training by using sample averages. Experiments show comparable classification accuracy to traditional OCSVM while significantly improving training speed. The approach also enables one-to-one sample-model correspondence.
one-class classificationsupport vector machineensemble learningdata reductionscalability
GRACE-DS: a Guarded Reward-guided Agent Correction Environment in Data Science
The paper introduces GRACE-DS, a guarded evaluation environment for LLM-powered AutoML agents in data science workflows. It measures predictive performance, leakage avoidance, reproducibility, and protocol validity across 7,000+ episodes. The flexible iterative interaction regime outperforms single-shot generation and unstructured baselines in end-to-end test quality and protocol-valid completion. Results demonstrate GRACE-DS as a robust platform for assessing AutoML agents under production-like conditions.
automlllmevaluation metricstabular mlworkflow stages
Learning the generating functional for variance reduction in lattice QCD
The authors propose a machine learning approach for variance reduction in lattice QCD calculations by learning the generating functional through normalizing flows. Their method encodes representations of quantum field theory generating functionals to construct low-variance estimators for N-point correlation functions of bosonic operators. Applied to glueball correlation functions and Wilson loops in Quantum Chromodynamics and Yang-Mills theory, the technique achieves up to 1000× variance reduction while systematically approaching noiseless estimators.
normalizing flowslattice qcdgenerating functionalvariance reductioncorrelation functions
Learning ground state observables from quantum computing experiments
The study demonstrates machine learning models trained on quantum-generated data can predict ground-state properties of the two-dimensional Heisenberg XXZ model up to 115 qubits. Using experimental quantum data, researchers constructed a dataset including single-site expectation values, two-point correlations, and 12-body loop correlations across the antiferromagnetic phase. Neural networks trained on this data accurately predicted spatially resolved observables for both in-distribution and out-of-distribution Hamiltonian parameters, showcasing scalable learning from quantum data in interacting many-body systems.
quantum computingheisenberg xxz modelground-state propertiesneural networksmany-body systems
Scalar-Stepsize Nonuniform Monte Carlo Optimistic Policy Iteration: A Certified Counterexample
The paper provides a certified counterexample demonstrating divergence in nonuniform Monte Carlo optimistic policy iteration (MCPI) with scalar stepsizes. Analyzing a three-state, two-action discounted MDP, the authors show that fixed nonuniform state-selection probabilities induce a diagonally scaled greedy-policy mean field with attracting hybrid periodic orbits. Using bounded unbiased geometric-horizon estimators and Robbins-Monro stepsizes, the stochastic recursion exhibits non-convergence with positive probability. The key geometric obstruction is that nonuniform sampling anisotropically distorts residual dynamics, unlike uniform sampling's radial contraction property.
monte carlo optimistic policy iterationnonuniform samplingscalar stepsizeperiodic orbitresidual dynamics
PromptShift-CRC: Drift-Aware Conformal Risk Control for Foundation Models Under Prompt and Domain Shift
PromptShift-CRC introduces drift-aware conformal risk control for foundation models facing prompt and domain shifts. The method dynamically weights calibration examples based on prompt embeddings, measures distributional shifts, and adjusts risk levels online. It provides diagnostics for realized risk error, prompt drift, and effective calibration size. Theoretical analysis shows risk control under distribution mismatch and quantile uncertainty. Experiments on synthetic and benchmark tasks (QA, toxicity, summarization, hallucination) demonstrate superior coverage compared to static conformal methods after drift occurs.
conformal risk controlprompt shiftdomain shiftfoundation modelsquantile uncertainty
p-PSO: A Penalized Particle Swarm Optimization Technique for Finding D-Optimal Designs with Mixed Factors in Generalized Linear Models
The paper proposes p-PSO, a penalized Particle Swarm Optimization technique for finding D-optimal designs in generalized linear models with mixed discrete-continuous factors. The key contribution is a novel penalty formulation for constrained optimization that is algorithm-agnostic and compatible with black-box methods. By enabling direct use of off-the-shelf PSO, the approach demonstrates high computational efficiency while handling the parameter-dependent Fisher information matrix and lack of closed-form solutions in GLMs.
d-optimal designgeneralized linear modelsparticle swarm optimizationconstrained optimizationfisher information matrix
Spectral Adaptive Conformal Prediction for Structured Non-Exchangeable Data
Spectral adaptive conformal prediction (SACP) introduces a method for generating prediction intervals in non-exchangeable time-series data by combining spectral weighting with online miscoverage adjustment. The approach weights calibration residuals based on local spectral similarity to the test point and dynamically updates target coverage levels to handle temporal uncertainty shifts. Theoretical analysis provides approximate coverage guarantees for fixed spectral weights and deterministic long-run calibration for adaptive updates. Empirical evaluation on synthetic data with recurring regimes and three U.S. datasets demonstrates improved performance over static spectral weighting, contingent on effective sample size monitoring.
conformal predictionspectral weightingnon-exchangeable dataonline calibrationcoverage guarantees
Causal-Privacy Audit Workflow for Synthetic and Distilled Data in Dropout Support
The study introduces CaP-Eval, a causal-privacy audit workflow for evaluating synthetic and distilled student data in dropout support contexts. The method assesses predictive utility, treatment-effect fidelity, robustness to estimators, and local training-record proximity across five data types (original, distilled, adversarial synthetic, statistical synthetic, DPGNet). Results show DPGNet and distilled data best preserve financial-status treatment-effect structures, with DPGNet maintaining full direction/rank agreement across privacy levels (ε=10 optimal), while distilled data retains strong local proximity signals. TabularGNet shows moderate attenuation, and Gaussian Copula compresses effects, revealing divergence between privacy and causal fidelity.
causal-privacy audittreatment-effect fidelitysynthetic datadropout supportempirical disclosure
An Exploratory Study of Blood Glucose Estimation from Photoplethysmography Signals using Machine Learning
This study explores non-invasive blood glucose estimation using photoplethysmography (PPG) signals from smartwatches paired with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. The authors present a novel dataset combining PPG and CGM measurements, enabling machine learning models to predict glucose levels. Preliminary experiments indicate potential predictive signals in PPG data, though further validation with larger cohorts is required. The dataset is publicly available at Zenodo for reproducibility and future research.
photoplethysmographycontinuous glucose monitoringnon-invasivemachine learningwearables
Reinforcement Learning for LLM-based Event Forecasting
The study demonstrates improved event forecasting in LLMs (1.5B-14B parameters) via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a sample-efficient RL method. Models augmented with real-time Wikipedia revisions/news summaries outperform knowledge cutoff limits, with a 1.5B Qwen 2.5 model surpassing Claude Sonnet 3.5 in cross-entropy against market-agreed probabilities. The work analyzes scaling properties and classifies forecasting within verifiable/unverifiable domains, addressing aleatoric uncertainty. Dead ends in the methodology are documented.
group relative policy optimizationknowledge cutoffaleatoric uncertaintycross entropyjudgmental forecasting
LoComposition: Terrain-Adaptive Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion without Gait Priors
The paper introduces LoComposition, a learning-based framework for terrain-adaptive quadruped locomotion that decouples task specification, operational limits, gait preference, and terrain adaptation into distinct mechanisms. The method replaces complex reward formulations with separate components: task rewards, operational constraints, energy minimization for gait efficiency, and exteroceptive perception for terrain adaptation. Results show 56% reduction in cost of transport and 96% fewer operational-limit violations compared to conventional approaches, with successful zero-shot transfer to a physical Unitree Go2 using LiDAR elevation mapping.
quadruped locomotionenergy efficiencyterrain adaptationlearning-based controlexteroceptive perception
Scalar-pathway fidelity improves physical accuracy in short-range equivariant interatomic potentials
The study demonstrates that improving scalar-pathway fidelity enhances physical accuracy in short-range equivariant interatomic potentials. The authors introduce Physics-Aware Neighborhood (PAN) pooling and Physics-Guided Spectral (PGS) mixers, which modify only the invariant scalar channels while preserving the equivariant tensor backbone. Evaluated on MACE, Allegro, and NequIP architectures, these lightweight corrections reduce force errors by 22-27%, energy errors by 19-22%, and stress errors by 27-28% across metallic, covalent, and ionic systems, with a 5% inference-FLOPs overhead. The results highlight scalar-pathway fidelity as a critical design dimension for interatomic potentials.
equivariant neural networksinteratomic potentialsscalar-pathway fidelityphysics-aware poolingspectral mixers
Biarchetype analysis for univariate functional data. An application to macroeconomic financial time series
The paper introduces biarchetype analysis for univariate functional data, extending archetype analysis to simultaneously identify extreme patterns across both cases (countries) and temporal dimensions. This unsupervised method represents cases and time points as mixtures of biarchetypes, offering interpretable representations without clustering. Applied to 10-year government bond yields (2001-2025) across European countries, it identifies three temporal regimes (pre-crisis, sovereign debt crisis, post-crisis) and country archetypes (Germany, Greece, Hungary).
biarchetype analysisunivariate functional dataunsupervised learningtemporal regimesgovernment bond yields
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Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
Emerald AI's Conductor software enables data centers to dynamically adjust power consumption during grid stress, demonstrating a 500-megawatt facility could operate 3-5 years faster with <1% annual flexibility. The system uses AI-driven load balancing to prioritize critical compute tasks while reducing draw during peak demand, validated via UK grid simulation during a 2020 Euro match scenario. Studies indicate US grids could unlock 76GW (5% capacity) for flexible data centers requiring only 22 annual hours of reduced usage, potentially lowering electricity rates by 0.5-2.8% through better utilization of existing infrastructure.
power-flexible ai factoriesdemand responsevirtual power plantsgrid interconnectiondigital twin
Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation
The Qwen team introduces Qwen-RobotSuite, a suite of three embodied AI models addressing robotic manipulation, video world modeling, and navigation. Qwen-RobotManip (4B params) employs a unified alignment framework for cross-embodiment manipulation, achieving 3.2× better OOD transfer than prior SOTA. Qwen-RobotWorld (20B params) uses a double-stream MMDiT architecture for language-conditioned video prediction, ranking 1st on EWMBench with 33% motion fidelity gain. Qwen-RobotNav (2B-8B params) reframes navigation as controllable observation modeling, achieving 76.5% success on VLN-CE RxR. All models leverage Qwen-VL backbones and standardized interfaces to address fragmented robotics data.
embodied aivision-language-actionmmditcross-embodimentparameterized interface
Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat
Nous Research's Hermes Agent now supports asynchronous subagent delegation through the async_delegation toolset (GitHub issue #5586), enabling non-blocking parent chat interactions. The update implements in-process background threads for subagent execution while maintaining strict isolation - each subagent operates with fresh context, returning only final summaries to preserve parent context window size. Key features include task spawning (delegate_task_async), status checks (check_task), runtime steering (steer_task), and result collection (collect_task), with default concurrency capped at 3 subagents via delegation.max_concurrent_children.
asynchronous subagentscontext isolationin-process threadsnon-blocking delegationtask steering
Meet Atoms: A Vibe Coding Tool That Uses AI Agents to Build, Deploy, and Market Your App (No Code)
Atoms introduces a multi-agent AI system for end-to-end application development without coding, addressing the product lifecycle gap in existing AI app builders. The platform employs specialized agents (e.g., Iris for market research, Alex for engineering) to handle research, development, deployment, and marketing. Key features include Atoms Cloud for production-ready backends, Race Mode for multi-model inference (claiming 3× accuracy improvements), and built-in SEO/ads automation. Benchmarked against Lovable and Base44, Atoms uniquely integrates market validation and customer acquisition. The system achieves full app generation in ~10 minutes per prompt, with pricing from $0 (15 credits/day) to $100/month (500 credits).
multi-agent systemvibe codingrace modeno-code developmentai app builder
Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context
Google Cloud introduced Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.1, a vendor-neutral specification for structuring AI agent context as portable markdown files with YAML frontmatter. The format standardizes knowledge representation (tables, metrics, runbooks) through minimal conventions: each concept requires only a 'type' field, while cross-linked markdown files form an interoperable knowledge graph. OKF enables direct agent consumption without translation, contrasting with RAG's chunk-based retrieval, and ships with reference tools including a BigQuery enrichment agent. The design emphasizes producer/consumer independence, filesystem compatibility, and avoidance of proprietary dependencies.
open knowledge formatyaml frontmatterknowledge graphmetadata-as-codeagent interoperability
How to Build a Parsing Pipeline with Docling Parse for Layout-Aware Document Intelligence
The tutorial demonstrates a parsing pipeline using Docling Parse for layout-aware document intelligence, enabling detailed structural analysis of PDFs. Method involves environment setup in Colab, generation of multi-element test PDFs with text, tables, and embedded images, followed by coordinate-aware extraction of words, characters, and lines via Docling Parse. Results include structured JSON/CSV outputs with spatial metadata, visual overlays for validation, and resource summaries showing successful extraction of 20+ words per page with preserved layout features.
docling parselayout analysiscoordinate-aware extractionpdf parsingdocument intelligence
Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides
Sakana AI commercialized AB-MCTS (Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search) in Sakana Marlin, an enterprise research agent generating 60–100-page reports with slide decks. The system autonomously conducts multi-hour research sessions, issuing thousands of LLM queries via a tree-search algorithm that dynamically chooses between widening (generating new candidates) or deepening (refining existing answers). In ARC-AGI-2 benchmarks, a multi-LLM variant combining o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek-R1 achieved 27.5% task-solving accuracy versus 23% for o4-mini alone. The closed beta involved 300 professionals testing applications in strategy formulation and market analysis.
adaptive branching monte carlo tree searchmulti-llm routingenterprise research agentlong-horizon reasoningautonomous workflow automation
Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting
The insurance industry is shifting AI investments from efficiency gains to core underwriting workflows, as evidenced by the 2026 Evident AI Index. Leading insurers like Zurich and Allianz deploy modular generative AI platforms (e.g., ZurichIQ) and agentic orchestration systems, with 25% of new use cases now exhibiting agentic capabilities. Results show a 32% increase in AI specialists amid 2.2% overall workforce contraction, with Manulife, Generali, and Intact Financial projecting $1B+ AI-driven value. Governance structures now include dedicated AI committees in 40% of indexed firms.
agentic aigenerative ai platformunderwriting disciplinemodel risk managementevident ai index
EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline
The European Union released a voluntary Code of Practice for AI content labeling, providing technical guidance to comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act before its August 2026 enforcement. The framework mandates machine-readable metadata for model outputs and visible labeling for deepfakes, AI-generated public-interest text, and interactive AI systems. Developed through stakeholder consultation, it establishes standardized detection methods and a common EU icon, though implementation details remain pending further Commission guidelines.
ai actcontent labelingmachine-readable metadatadeepfake detectionpublic-interest text
AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It
AI red teaming systematically tests AI systems under adversarial conditions to expose security and safety vulnerabilities before deployment. The method involves simulating real-world attack techniques like prompt injection, data poisoning, and jailbreak attempts across models, agents, and APIs. Results demonstrate improved model security, regulatory alignment (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act), and system resilience, with reported AI incidents rising from 233 in 2024 to 362 in 2026. Leading consulting services (CBIZ Pivot Point Security, Reply, Mindgard) offer specialized testing and governance integration.
adversarial testingprompt injectiondata poisoningregulatory alignmentagentic workflows
How AI-Powered CMS Platforms Are Transforming Enterprise Content Operations
AI-powered content management systems (CMS) are transitioning from passive repositories to active orchestration platforms, integrating workflow automation, real-time analytics, and content personalization. The method involves embedding AI capabilities directly into content creation and governance workflows, enabling dynamic asset mapping, automated compliance checks, and data-informed editorial decisions. Enterprise deployments show 74% ROI within one year, particularly in content personalization and customer service, while hybrid headless architectures bridge the gap between editorial usability and technical scalability.
ai-powered cmsworkflow automationhybrid headless architecturecontent personalizationreal-time analytics
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