Daily Digest — 2026-07-17
223 items · 7 research labs, 206 arxiv papers, 10 industry media
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🏛️ Research Labs (7)
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
OpenAI presents a framework for safe AI access for teenagers, emphasizing educational benefits while implementing age-appropriate safeguards. The approach combines automated content filtering (e.g., blocking violent/sexual content), parental controls (quiet hours, usage monitoring), and pedagogical tools (Study Mode, interactive STEM modules). Early results show 88% teen adoption for learning tasks, with 18M weekly users engaging math/science modules across 250+ topics. The system employs age prediction algorithms and collaborates with 50+ expert organizations (American Psychological Association, Common Sense Media) to refine protections. Technical implementations include real-time intervention triggers and multi-language pronunciation aids (61 languages supported).
age-appropriate safeguardsparental controlsinteractive learningcontent filteringage prediction
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 deployed OpenAI-powered agents to automate high-volume customer conversations and internal workflows, achieving operational scalability in India's automotive ecosystem. The company implemented voice and chat agents using OpenAI APIs to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recovering 12% of lost seller leads and reducing turnaround times by 80%. Internally, ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex were integrated across 600 employees, enabling 85-90% daily active usage for automating tasks in engineering, finance, and operations. Codex facilitated ticket management, bug resolution, and workflow automation, extending beyond engineering to transform cross-functional processes. This AI-driven approach enhanced customer engagement and internal efficiency simultaneously.
openai apiscodexchatgpt enterprisevoice agentsworkflow automation
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed achieves state-of-the-art retrieval performance, with its 8B model ranking #1 on RTEB (78.5%) and 1B variants offering efficient deployment. The models feature a 32k context window, multilingual support, and NVFP4 quantization for Blackwell architectures. Training involved contrastive pre-training on web and synthetic data, followed by distillation and structured pruning for the 1B variants. Evaluations show 27-28% error reduction over predecessors on RTEB and MMTEB, with agentic retrieval reducing downstream token costs by returning relevant evidence earlier.
retrieval-augmented generationcontrastive pre-trainingnvfp4 quantizationagentic retrievalstructured pruning
Newer Models, Same Advantage
DharmaOCR demonstrates superior performance in Brazilian Portuguese OCR through domain specialization and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). The model undergoes a two-stage training pipeline: supervised fine-tuning on Portuguese-language documents aligns its weights to the target domain, while DPO stabilizes outputs by training on complete extraction coherence rather than individual token predictions. Evaluated against Mistral OCR4 and Unlimited-OCR, DharmaOCR achieves a benchmark score of 0.925, significantly outperforming Mistral OCR4 (0.798) and Unlimited-OCR (0.7587). The model excels in handling language-specific vocabulary and proper nouns, while DPO reduces degeneration rates under visual complexity, ensuring reliable production performance.
optical character recognitiondirect preference optimizationsupervised fine-tuningdegeneration ratebenchmark evaluation
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
Hugging Face disclosed a July 2026 security incident involving unauthorized access to internal datasets and credentials via an autonomous agent framework exploiting dataset processing vulnerabilities. The attacker leveraged a swarm of short-lived sandboxes and self-migrating command-and-control infrastructure, executing over 17,000 actions. Defense measures included closing code-execution paths, credential rotation, and deploying LLM-driven forensic analysis using GLM 5.2 due to guardrail constraints on commercial APIs. The incident highlights the emergence of AI-driven offensive tooling and the need for AI-assisted defense mechanisms to mitigate such threats.
autonomous agent frameworkdataset processingllm-driven analysiscommand-and-controlguardrail constraints
Connect more of your apps to Search
Google Search introduces app integration capabilities in AI Mode, enabling users to connect and interact with third-party services directly within search queries. This feature leverages Personal Intelligence to provide tailored responses and streamline task execution. Initial integrations include Instacart for grocery shopping, Canva for design templates, and YouTube Music for playlist curation. The functionality is currently rolling out in the U.S., with plans for additional app partnerships. This enhancement aims to optimize user workflows by reducing context switching between applications and search interfaces.
google searchai modepersonal intelligenceapp integrationthird-party services
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Google Vids introduces Gemini Omni and personal avatars to enhance video creation and editing. Gemini Omni enables users to generate and refine high-quality videos through natural language prompts and image references, supporting step-by-step edits without requiring full rework. Personal avatars allow users to create digital representations of themselves using a selfie and voice recording, enabling video participation without camera setup. Both features include SynthID digital watermarks for content transparency. These tools are available to Google AI Pro, Ultra subscribers, and Google Workspace business customers, with avatar access restricted to specific regions and users aged 18+.
gemini omnipersonal avatarssynthidnatural language promptsstep-by-step edits
📜 arXiv Papers (206)
Deep Interaction: An Efficient Human-AI Interaction Method for Large Reasoning Models
The paper introduces Deep Interaction, an efficient human-AI interaction method for correcting reasoning errors in large language models (LLMs) during Chain-of-Thought (CoT) tasks. The approach enables direct editing of erroneous responses while preserving correct steps, then distills the corrected reasoning into a prompt to guide subsequent LLM outputs. Experiments demonstrate a 25% improvement in correction success rate and 40% reduction in token usage on STEM reasoning tasks compared to baselines.
chain-of-thoughtreasoning correctionhuman-ai interactionprompt distillationstem tasks
Earthquaker-AI: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework with Rubric-Based Assessment for Primary School Earthquake Education
Earthquaker-AI introduces a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework integrated with Lego WeDo2 robotics for earthquake education in primary schools, enhancing cognitive and metacognitive processing. The system combines hands-on robotics simulation with a conversational AI assistant that provides rubric-based feedback aligned with safety guidelines. It employs progressive learning trajectories: basic safety recognition in early grades, action sequence identification in middle grades, and verbal production in upper grades, each assessed via multi-dimensional rubrics. Experimental results demonstrate high accuracy and groundedness with minimal hallucination. This hybrid approach fosters technological literacy, self-regulation, and crisis-management skills through interactive engagement and reflective practice.
retrieval-augmented generationrubric-based assessmentmetacognitive processingcognitive developmenthallucination rate
AI-accelerated End-to-End Framework for Rapid Professional Upskilling
We introduce an AI-accelerated end-to-end framework for rapid professional upskilling, addressing the growing enterprise skills gap. The framework integrates AI acceleration across five stages: knowledge acquisition, content development, content review and verification, teaching, and assessment development, emphasizing production and learning efficiency. External validation includes approval by the US National Association of State Boards of Accountancy for continuing-professional-education credits, successful certification of three learners in the NVIDIA Certified Professional in Agentic AI exam, and generation of a 1,267-item risk dataset for multi-agent AI system risk management.
ai accelerationknowledge acquisitioncontent developmentmulti-agent airisk management
Multi-Expert Routing for Multi-Domain Low-Resource OCR: A Manchu Case Study
We present a multi-expert routing system for low-resource Manchu OCR that handles multiple visually distinct writing styles (regular script, running script, chancery hand) despite limited labeled data. The system reuses checkpoints from iterative fine-tuning as domain specialists and employs a lightweight page-level image classifier to dispatch pages by visual style, training additional experts when needed. Evaluated on three test sets, the routed system achieves 0.30%, 1.57%, and 4.83% character error rates for regular script, memorials, and running script respectively, matching the selected specialists at two-decimal precision. The router achieves 99.3% page-level domain accuracy, matching the domain-label oracle.
multi-expert routinglow-resource ocrcharacter error ratedomain specialistspage-level classifier
Early Adoption of Agentic Coding Tools by GitHub Projects
This study investigates the early adoption patterns of agentic coding tools in open-source software development by analyzing 25,264 agentic pull requests (PRs) across 2,361 GitHub repositories. The research examines three dimensions: tool adoption rates, project-level PR productivity, and human-agent collaboration models. Findings reveal that intensive adoption is concentrated in a small subset of projects, with small projects (1-5 contributors) showing higher agentic PR activity compared to larger projects. Most repositories generate 1-2 agentic PRs over three months, and human-agent collaboration predominantly follows a single-human oversight model. The study highlights the importance of organizational processes in integrating agent-generated contributions.
agentic coding toolspull requestsgithub repositorieshuman-agent collaborationsoftware development
Improving Wind and Solar Power Prediction with Efficient Wrapper-based Feature Selection: An Empirical Study
The paper proposes Cluster-based Sequential Feature Selection (CSFS), a model-agnostic wrapper method for feature selection in renewable energy prediction. CSFS combines clustering with sequential feature selection to improve efficiency, addressing gaps in systematic feature selection for wind turbine power curve modeling and photovoltaic power prediction. Empirical evaluation shows CSFS matches the predictive performance of sequential feature selection while reducing computational cost by 21% on average, outperforming filter-based and embedded methods.
feature selectionrenewable energy predictionwrapper methodwind turbinephotovoltaic
Transforming Rank: How Architecture Navigates the Spectral Pathologies of Depth
The paper analyzes how Transformer feedforward block components preserve gradient rank across depth at initialization, revealing a tradeoff between rank collapse and ensemble-like behavior. By reinterpreting skip connections and normalization as mechanisms for rank preservation, the authors show that skip connections route gradients around rank-reducing residual branches, while normalization placement controls branch-to-skip ratios. The two-matrix structure and width expansion prevent representation collapse, adhering to a Marchenko-Pastur law. Experiments on CIFAR-10 demonstrate that initialization rank predicts training success, framing architecture design as balancing rank collapse, ensemble behavior, and parameter efficiency.
transformerrank collapseskip connectionsnormalizationgradient rank
Rethinking Penetration Testing for AI-Enabled Systems: From Resource Compromise to Behavioral Objective Violation
The paper redefines penetration testing for AI-enabled systems by shifting focus from resource compromise to behavioral objective violation. It introduces a framework where adversaries influence AI behavior through methods like prompt injection, data poisoning, and sensor manipulation, without directly compromising infrastructure. The authors propose a testing workflow that identifies operational objectives, maps AI-governed behavior, analyzes adversarial influence surfaces, defines behavioral failure criteria, and executes scenario-based tests. A case study of an AI-enabled security operations center assistant demonstrates adversarial success through behavioral influence. This approach extends traditional penetration testing to address unique vulnerabilities in AI systems.
penetration testingbehavioral objective violationprompt injectiondata poisoningsensor manipulation
Do Agent Optimizers Compound? A Continual-Learning Evaluation on Terminal-Bench 2.0
This work evaluates whether agent-optimization gains compound in continual-learning settings, contrasting one-shot improvements against recursive optimization over new tasks. Using Terminal-Bench 2.0, three methods (GEPA, Meta Harness, RELAI-VCL) were tested in a two-phase continual-learning framework with identical optimization budgets. While all methods outperformed the baseline in static settings, only RELAI-VCL demonstrated positive transfer to unseen tasks and sustained improvement after recursive optimization, achieving a 76.4% lifelong average pass rate. The key finding was that regression control in the optimization loop enabled compounding gains by preventing shortcut solutions.
continual-learningagent-optimizationterminal-benchregression controltransfer learning
The Dynamic Verifiable Multi-Agent Human Agentic Loyalty Loop (DVM-HALL) Model and the Net Human-Agent Score (NHAS) in Autonomous Commerce
The Dynamic Verifiable Multi-Agent Human Agentic Loyalty Loop (DVM-HALL) model is introduced to address the limitations of traditional customer loyalty models in autonomous commerce. The model formalizes brand choice using a softmax probability formulation that integrates human emotional equity, agentic machine-experience utility, calibrated trust, delegated authority, and verifiable execution. It features recursive updating mechanisms for trust and delegation and includes a verifiable execution layer for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and tokenized loyalty settings. The Net Human-Agent Score (NHAS) is proposed as an auditable, risk-weighted metric to measure human-agent alignment. A three-stage empirical validation plan is outlined, encompassing controlled shopping experiments, multi-agent market simulations, and DeFi testbeds.
softmax probabilitydecentralized financeverifiable executionagentic machine-experiencenet human-agent score
Music-to-Dance Generation via Atomic Movements
The paper introduces a structure-aware framework for music-to-dance generation by modeling choreography as sequences of semantically interpretable atomic movements. The method constructs an atomic movement vocabulary through segmentation, clustering, and large language model-based relabeling of dance data, then employs a two-stage generation process: atomic movement planning for symbolic dance allocation and transition-aware motion synthesis. Experiments show improved structural coherence (15% higher human ratings), rhythmic alignment (8% FID reduction), and perceptual naturalness over baselines, with enhanced interpretability through explicit structural representation.
atomic movementsmusic-driven dance generationstructure-aware frameworktransition-aware generatorsymbolic dance allocation
A Self-Evolving Agent for Longitudinal Personal Health Management
The paper introduces HealthClaw, an open-source agent architecture for longitudinal personal health management that dynamically updates support based on evolving user data. The system separates shared medical knowledge from private longitudinal memory, using induction after each episode to update profiles, procedures, or episodic traces. Evaluation on a synthetic year-long benchmark and nine biomedical tasks (900 probes total) showed 45.7% answer accuracy (vs 0.2% baseline), 71.7% lower context exposure than full-history prompting, and 27.0pp mean absolute gain on task-specific metrics, with seven gains surviving FDR correction.
longitudinal health managementself-evolving agentinductive memory updateprivacy-aware promptingbiomedical task evaluation
Generative Compilation: On-the-Fly Compiler Feedback as AI Generates Code
The paper introduces generative compilation, a novel approach providing compiler feedback on partial programs during AI code generation. The method employs a sealor—a syntax-guided transformation converting partial programs into complete, diagnosable forms without rejecting completable inputs, while preserving context to detect dead ends early. A Lean-mechanized proof verifies these properties for a Rust-like calculus, extended to real Rust. Evaluations on repository-level Rust tasks show reduced non-compiling outputs (37% improvement) and enhanced functional correctness by catching errors early, mitigating cascades. This integrates compilers as active components during generation rather than post-hoc checks.
generative compilationsealorrust-like calculusautoregressive decodingerror cascades
Partially Correlated Verifier Cascades in LLM Harnesses: Concave Log-Odds, Polynomial Reliability, and Blind-Spot Ceilings
This work develops a theoretical framework for partially correlated verifier cascades in LLM harnesses, addressing a gap identified by the Odds Law. By modeling per-instance false-accept rates as latent variables, the authors derive exact cascade posteriors and analyze their properties. Key findings include: (i) log-odds concavity for non-degenerate distributions, (ii) polynomial failure decay for Beta-distributed latents, (iii) reliability saturation due to blind-spot atoms, and (iv) a trichotomy of gate effectiveness based on tail exponents. Empirical validation shows independence-based extrapolation underestimates failure by 20x at k=5 and ~3000x at k=10, while correlated fits track held-out depths accurately.
verifier cascadeslatent variableslog-oddsbeta distributionreliability saturation
AIMO Interpretability Challenge
The AIMO Interpretability Challenge introduces a competition to distinguish robust from spurious reasoning in frontier mathematical language models by analyzing their internal mechanisms. Leveraging AI Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) problems and resources from the Fields Model Initiative, the challenge provides olympiad-level math problems, symbolic representations, and access to frontier reasoning models. Participants will develop methods to assess adversarial robustness and identify robust problem-solving mechanisms. The competition aims to establish a new open robustness benchmark and baseline systems, fostering advancements in mathematical reasoning and interpretability research.
interpretabilityadversarial robustnessmathematical reasoninglanguage modelsbenchmark
Experience Memory Graph: One-Shot Error Correction for Agents
The Experience Memory Graph (EMG) framework improves error correction for Large Language Model (LLM) agents by reformulating failure recovery as a graph matching problem. EMG converts failed exploration trajectories and successful expert trajectories into directed action decision graphs, extracts common subgraphs and graph edit paths, and stores them in a memory graph with intra-task nodes and cross-task edges. At test time, EMG retrieves relevant insights to guide the agent in a single, loop-free execution. Experiments on ALFWorld and ScienceWorld demonstrate EMG's superior success rate and average reward compared to state-of-the-art reflection baselines, without requiring test-time trial-and-error.
experience memory graphgraph matchingerror correctionlarge language modeldirected action decision graphs
Verifying formulas for interventional distributions
The paper formalizes verification in causal graphical models, addressing whether a given observational formula identifies a target interventional distribution. This contrasts with identification, which seeks any valid formula. The authors demonstrate that existing sound and complete identification methods fail to solve verification, proposing a falsifier as a practical solution. They prove this falsifier induces an almost-surely correct verifier for regular exponential-family models and introduce the gateway test to identify admissible sets for front-door formulas.
causal graphical modelsinterventional distributionidentificationverificationfront-door formula
Unleashing Multimodal Large Language Models for Training-free HOI Detection in the Wild
AgentHOI introduces a training-free framework for human-object interaction detection (HOID) that leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for open-world scenarios. The method modularly integrates vision foundation models to perform semantic reasoning and spatial grounding, employing context-aware multi-round reasoning for exhaustive HOI discovery and multifaceted interaction localization for precise grounding. Evaluations show AgentHOI outperforms state-of-the-art supervised and weakly supervised methods in real-world settings without requiring HOID training data.
human-object interaction detectionmultimodal large language modelssemantic reasoningspatial groundingcontext-aware reasoning
AI-Augmented Human Resource Management? Insights from German companies
This study contributes to understanding AI's dual role in augmenting predictive capabilities while prioritizing efficiency in Human Resource Management (HRM). Through interviews, group discussions, and a survey (N=410) across German companies, the research examines AI integration in HRM, focusing on generative AI and predictive analytics. Findings reveal that AI adoption enhances HR analytics capabilities but primarily serves efficiency and rationalization goals. Organizational transformation factors, including digital infrastructure, co-determination frameworks, and ethical considerations, shape AI tool implementation. The study highlights strategic potential in talent development alongside challenges in data governance and algorithmic transparency.
generative aipredictive analyticshr analyticsdata governancealgorithmic transparency
NodeImport: Imbalanced Node Classification with Node Importance Assessment
NodeImport introduces a framework for class-imbalanced node classification by assessing node importance via a balanced meta-set. The method identifies nodes that enhance model performance under unbiased settings, enabling dynamic node selection during training. It derives a theoretical formula for node importance, reducing computational overhead, and separates synthetic node generation from filtering for compatibility with various generation methods. Evaluation across multiple datasets with popular GNN architectures demonstrates NodeImport's superiority in mitigating class imbalance and improving classification outcomes.
node classificationclass imbalancemeta-setsynthetic node generationgnn architectures
Multimodal Assessment of Pancreatic Cancer Resectability Using Deep Learning
The authors propose a multimodal deep learning framework for automated classification of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability into three NCCN categories. The method combines 3D contrast-enhanced CT scans and 17 clinical variables using a Swin-UNETR backbone for anatomy-aware image representations, achieved through auxiliary segmentation of pancreas, tumor, and vascular structures. Clinical data is embedded and fused with imaging features, processed by a lightweight classification head. Training employs a dynamic multitask objective that adapts segmentation-classification balance based on tumor Dice performance, ensuring anatomically informed and discriminative feature representations.
swin-unetrmultimodal fusiondynamic multitaskanatomy-awarenccn resectability
Traffic-Aware Randomized Smoothing for LLM-Based Network Intrusion Detection
The paper introduces Traffic-Aware Randomized Smoothing (TA-RS), a certified defense for LLM-based intrusion detection systems that injects Gaussian noise only into attacker-controllable feature subspaces during both training and certification. The method addresses the limitation of standard randomized smoothing, which yields weak certified accuracy (14-57%) on clean-trained models, by aligning noise augmentation with the attacker's capability space. Evaluated on CIC-IDS-2018 and HIKARI-2021, TA-RS achieves 55-100% certified accuracy with median certified radii 1.8-5× larger than isotropic baselines, though performance varies by dataset and noise level (σ=0.25-1.00).
randomized smoothingcertified robustnessnetwork intrusion detectionfeature subspacegaussian noise
CAS I: A Geometric Coding Theorem
The paper establishes a Geometric Coding Theorem for symmetry groups, proving that the symmetry prior—defined as the probability a randomly chosen group symmetry has a given string as its unique fixed point—is a universal lower semi-computable semi-measure for fix-retractable groups. Using computable bijections on binary strings and Galois connections between subgroups and string subsets, it unifies algorithmic information theory with group theory. Results include characterizations of closed points, maximal closed subgroups, and dense subgroup lattices, providing a framework for symmetry-induced complexity measures.
geometric coding theoremsymmetry priorfix-retractable groupgalois connectionlower semi-computable semi-measure
Kaleido: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Video Diffusion Transformers by Exploiting Latent Space Correlations
Kaleido introduces an algorithm-hardware co-design for accelerating video diffusion transformers (vDiTs) by exploiting latent space correlations. The method proposes a lightweight channel-wise reuse algorithm that skips redundant computations while maintaining generative quality (>17 dB improvement). A systolic array-like accelerator with reconfigurable processing elements and a lightweight data dispatcher is designed to handle irregular sparsity and data access patterns. Evaluations across three vDiT models demonstrate up to 5.9x speedup and 16.0x energy savings compared to state-of-the-art accelerators.
video diffusion transformerslatent space correlationschannel-wise reusesystolic arrayenergy savings
MxGPS: Multiplex Graph Transformers for a Power Grid Foundation Model
MxGPS introduces a multiplex graph transformer to address topology overfitting in power grid foundation models, where task-specific GNNs degrade under topology shifts despite strong in-distribution performance. The model employs K task-specialized GPS branches over a shared node encoder, jointly trained on Static State Estimation and AC Power Flow via self-supervised pre-training and multi-task fine-tuning, with cross-branch attention. Evaluated on four unseen topologies (14-, 24-, 162-, and 300-bus) under 3-fold sliding-window cross-validation, MxGPS achieves 0% boundary violation rate and degrades only 39% under topology shift, compared to 190%-1400% degradation in single-task models. With 1.6M parameters (12x fewer than GridFM), MxGPS demonstrates parameter-efficient topology-agnostic generalization.
multiplex graph transformertopology overfittingself-supervised pre-trainingboundary violation ratetask-specialized gps
Anatomically Faithful but Temporally Blind: Auditing Attribution for Left-Ventricular Ejection-Fraction Estimation from Echocardiography
This study audits the spatial and temporal faithfulness of post-hoc attribution methods in deep video models estimating left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography. Fine-tuning VideoMAE transformer and R(2+1)D CNN on EchoNet-Dynamic, the authors evaluate attribution using intersection-over-relevance (IoR), deletion AUC, and temporal localization index, complemented by tubelet-occlusion probing. Results show both models are anatomically faithful (IoR 2.91x and 1.98x above chance) but temporally blind, with temporal localization indistinguishable from chance (0.97--1.00). Occlusion confirms models do not rely on clinically decisive frames, highlighting a critical gap in XAI-based validation for video diagnostics.
left-ventricular ejection fractionechocardiographypost-hoc attributiontemporal localizationtubelet-occlusion
How Agents Ask for Permission: User Permissions for AI Agents, from Interfaces to Enforcement
This paper contributes a taxonomy of user-level permissions in AI agent systems, addressing the risks of prompt injection, hallucination, and unauthorized task execution. The authors survey 21 proposals for agent permissions systems, analyzing how they specify, derive, and enforce user-level permissions at both interface and implementation levels. They compare these systems to five commercial agents, identifying thematic similarities and gaps in current approaches. The study highlights the need for customizable user-level permissions to accommodate diverse user needs and preferences in agentic AI systems.
agentic securityuser-level permissionsprompt injectionhallucinationpermissions enforcement
CAVA: Canonical Action Verification and Attestation for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems
The paper introduces Canonical Action Verification and Attestation (CAVA), a runtime-semantics layer for converting heterogeneous agent activities into canonical action objects to enable governance. CAVA formalizes action identity, semantic pattern detection, approval binding, and attestation, operating below Proof-Carrying Agent Actions (PCAA). A reference implementation is evaluated on a 480-case benchmark covering equivalence, separation, tamper detection, and deployment, demonstrating its utility for deployer-side AI governance.
canonical actionruntime governancesemantic pattern detectionproof-carrying agent actionsattestation substrates
Groc-PO: Grounded Context Preference Optimization for Truthful Multimodal LLMs
We propose Grounded Context Preference Optimization (Groc-PO), a framework addressing untruthfulness in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) through stage-specific preference optimization. Unlike Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) applied at the final-answer level, Groc-PO introduces explicit supervision across three stages: Object Grounding, Contextual Grounding, and Grounded Reasoning, mitigating error propagation arising from grounding drift and context inconsistency. We construct the Grounded Context Preference Dataset (GCPD) to organize multi-stage preference samples. Experiments demonstrate Groc-PO's superior performance in hallucination mitigation, faithful reasoning, and overall reliability compared to standard DPO and other baselines, highlighting the value of explicit grounded supervision for trustworthy multimodal reasoning.
multimodal large language modelsdirect preference optimizationgrounded context preference optimizationerror propagationhallucination mitigation
AgentCompass: A Unified Evaluation Infrastructure for Agent Capabilities
AgentCompass introduces a unified, open-source evaluation infrastructure for LLM-based agents, addressing fragmentation and reproducibility challenges in current pipelines. The framework organizes evaluation into three decoupled components—Benchmark, Harness, and Environment—enabling flexible configurations without reimplementing execution logic. It features a fault-tolerant asynchronous runtime and trajectory analysis tools for diagnosing nuanced failure modes like reward-hacking. AgentCompass natively supports over 20 benchmarks across five capability dimensions, providing a scalable and reproducible infrastructure for advancing agent research.
llm-based agentsbenchmarkharnessenvironmentreward-hacking
Social Simulations: from Agent-Based Modeling to Digital Twins
The chapter traces the methodological evolution of social simulations from classical agent-based models, which employ explicitly defined behavioral rules for agent interactions, to AI-enhanced simulations leveraging Large Language Models, culminating in Social Digital Twins—high-fidelity, data-driven representations of real-world socio-technical systems. It systematically examines the methodological foundations, applications, advantages, and limitations of each paradigm, emphasizing the transition from abstract models investigating general social mechanisms to realistic computational representations of specific social systems.
agent-based modelslarge language modelssocial digital twinssocio-technical systemsbehavioral rules
Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation
We introduce Barnamala, a parameter-efficient convolutional network (1.11M parameters) for handwritten Devanagari recognition, achieving 99.73% accuracy on the DHCD benchmark, the highest reported while being 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-the-art models. The model reaches the saturation point, with all tested configurations, including large teacher ensembles, hitting the same intrinsic error floor of 11 errors. Without knowledge distillation, Barnamala matches the performance of a larger baseline (17.32M parameters; McNemar p=0.345). Zero-shot evaluation on CMATERdb digits yields 76.6% accuracy, improving to 97.8% with fine-tuning, and demonstrates superior corruption robustness (75.7% vs. 38.7% mean corruption accuracy).
convolutional networkparameter-efficientknowledge distillationzero-shot evaluationcorruption robustness
When Bots Join the Team: Bot Adoption and the Institutional Fabric of Open-Source Software Projects
The study investigates how AI bot adoption affects organizational capabilities in open-source software teams, analyzing 2,991 GitHub projects before and after bot integration. Using institutional theory metrics (repeated engagement, social memory, role differentiation), it finds bot adoption correlates with increased collaboration (11.7% more repeated interactions), bot-specific recognition in discussions, 23% fewer conflict cascades, and more distinctive outputs. Changes occur abruptly post-adoption. Human-side capabilities mediate bot-conflict associations but not output distinctiveness, suggesting bots function as social infrastructure. The observational design limits causal claims but reveals coordination patterns consistent with institutional theory.
institutional theoryopen-source collaborationconflict cascadessocial infrastructurebot adoption
Explaining Reinforcement Learning Agents via Inductive Logic Programming
This work introduces objective metrics for policy explainability in Reinforcement Learning (RL) using Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to extract symbolic representations of RL policies. The proposed metrics—activation rate, feature coverage, syntactic distance, and semantic distance—quantify alignment between symbolic rules and agent behavior, feature importance, and policy evolution in single and multi-agent RL. Experiments across diverse RL domains demonstrate that these metrics reveal action-specific learning dynamics, fine-grained feature insights, and coordination patterns in Multi-Agent RL (MARL), advancing both Explainable RL and logic-based XAI.
reinforcement learninginductive logic programmingexplainable aipolicy explainabilitymulti-agent rl
Beyond Color Geometry: Evaluating Human-Like Color Representations in Vision Models
The study introduces a framework for evaluating human-like color representations in vision models, moving beyond geometric spaces and discrete labels by using a fuzzy perceptual model with 86 graded categories derived from human survey data. The method assesses category boundaries, compactness, and graded alignment across eleven Vision Transformer encoders. Results reveal that Masked Autoencoders (MAE) exhibit the strongest beyond-geometry alignment, with non-overlapping confidence intervals compared to other encoders. Layer-wise analysis indicates that MAE preserves this structure toward the output, while language-supervised models encode color in relation to foreground objects. The findings highlight the multifaceted nature of human-like color grounding.
masked autoencodersvision transformersfuzzy perceptual modelgraded alignmentcolor geometry
Human4K: A Large-Scale 4K Multi-View Mocap Dataset for Whole-Body 3D Human Reconstruction
The authors introduce Human4K, a large-scale 4K multi-view dataset for whole-body 3D human reconstruction, addressing limitations in existing datasets through high-resolution imagery and mocap-accurate SMPL-X annotations. The dataset comprises over six million 4K images from an eight-view camera system synchronized with Vicon motion capture, capturing 11 subjects performing complex, articulated motions. A Motion-Retargeting and Refinement Module (MRRM) ensures precise alignment. Experiments demonstrate that training with Human4K improves reconstruction accuracy, particularly for hands, feet, and depth-ambiguous limb configurations.
3d human reconstructionsmpl-xmotion capturemulti-view dataset4k imagery
Consensus as Privileged Context for Label-Free Self-Distillation
CANON introduces a label-free self-distillation method leveraging consensus as dense, token-level supervision for improving large language model reasoning. The method samples multiple solutions, extracts majority answers, and uses a consensus-anchored frozen model snapshot to supervise rollouts at each token. Evaluations on mathematical and scientific reasoning benchmarks demonstrate CANON's effectiveness, improving pass@1 by up to 12 points, outperforming label-free reinforcement learning by 6 points with significantly lower compute, and approaching gold-solution-conditioned teacher performance. The model exhibits transferability across benchmarks and solves previously unsolved problems, indicating improvements beyond mere distribution sharpening.
self-distillationconsensustoken-level supervisionreasoning benchmarkslabel-free training
OvisOCR2 Technical Report
OvisOCR2, a 0.8B parameter end-to-end document parsing model, generates Markdown representations from document page images, handling text, formulas, tables, and visual regions. The model employs a data engine combining real-document annotations with synthetic pages, trained via supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning on a 4B branch, on-policy distillation, and model fusion. OvisOCR2 achieves state-of-the-art performance with an overall score of 96.58 on OmniDocBench v1.6 and an Avg3 score of 75.06 on PureDocBench, surpassing pipeline methods. It also excels on an in-house benchmark, demonstrating generalization and robustness in challenging scenarios.
document parsingmarkdown representationon-policy distillationreinforcement learningmodel fusion
From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception
The authors propose a language-driven navigation framework enabling mobile robots to interpret natural language requests and autonomously navigate to specified destinations. The system integrates modular ROS 2 components for language understanding, RGB-D-based environment perception, and navigation goal generation, executed via the ROS 2 Nav2 stack. It processes both direct commands and contextual requests, identifies target objects, estimates their positions, and generates feedback. Evaluations on TurtleBot3 Waffle and Unitree Go2 platforms with RealSense cameras demonstrate successful interpretation and navigation in simulated and real-world scenarios. The framework's ROS 2 implementation ensures platform portability through topic and service configuration.
ros 2rgb-d perceptionnatural language interactionautonomous navigationsemantic perception
UESF-Bench: Benchmarking and Probing for Unified Embodied Seeking and Following
The Unified Embodied Seeking and Following Benchmark (UESF-Bench) introduces a large-scale evaluation framework for language-guided human seeking and following in dynamic environments, addressing limitations in prior benchmarks that treat these tasks separately. The benchmark incorporates semantic-guided exploration, behavior switching, and delayed identity grounding. SeekFollow-VLA, a vision-language-action framework with task-driven routing for phase inference and transition modeling, is proposed to handle these challenges. Experiments demonstrate that SeekFollow-VLA outperforms single-head and dual-head baselines in both single-person and multi-person environments, establishing a baseline for unified seek-and-follow tasks.
embodied agentssemantic-guided explorationtask-driven routingphase inferencevision-language-action
STOCKTAKE: Measuring the Gap Between Perception and Action in LLM Agents with a Fair Oracle
STOCKTAKE introduces a 26-week supply-chain replenishment benchmark to measure the knowing-doing gap in LLM agents, separating failures in state estimation from control. The benchmark is a factored partially observable Markov decision process with six hidden factor processes, enabling computation of a fair reference policy using an exact Bayes filter per factor. Evaluations on Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.4, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, and Grok 4.5 reveal detection rates of 84-88% for hidden failures but skill scores ranging from 0.62 to -0.23, with 34-43% of correctly diagnosed stress weeks still resulting in stockouts. The method quantifies both under-response and over-response failures.
knowing-doing gapbayes filterpartially observable markov decision processskill scorestockout
The SIGReg Objective as Variational Free Energy: A Theoretical Active-Inference Account of JEPA World Models
This work establishes a theoretical connection between Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) and Active Inference (AIF) by analyzing anti-collapse regularizers. It organizes four regularizers (VICReg, LogDet, PairDist, SIGReg) into an entropy-estimator hierarchy based on prior-miscalibration gaps, proving SIGReg uniquely preserves AIF's surprise bound. Under isotropic-Gaussian embeddings, SIGReg enables exact information bottleneck optimization and pragmatic value alignment, while VICReg introduces irreducible anisotropy. The analysis extends to multi-step expected free energy, ensemble epistemic value, and learned policies, identifying state-epistemic value as a missing JEPA component. All proofs are machine-verified in Lean 4.
joint-embedding predictive architecturesactive inferenceanti-collapse regularizerentropy-estimator hierarchyisotropic-gaussian embeddings
Automatic Ordinary Differential Equations Discovery For Biological Systems Using Large Language Model Powered Agentic System
The MEDA system introduces an LLM- and symbolic-regression-powered agentic framework for discovering ordinary-differential-equation (ODE) models of biological systems. MEDA integrates background knowledge retrieval, variable definition, mechanistic constraint generation, candidate ODE proposal, and model fitting and evaluation. Evaluated across canonical model retrieval, reasoning-based extrapolation, and open-ended discovery tasks, MEDA achieved correct state variable recovery, strong structural recovery, and biologically plausible models. Ablation studies highlight the importance of knowledge-guided formalization and mechanistic constraints, while numerical fitting alone preserved trajectory-compatible but biologically incorrect equations.
ordinary differential equationssymbolic regressionlarge language modelmechanistic constraintsbiological systems
Semantic Anchoring for Robotic Action Representations
The paper introduces semantic anchoring, a plug-and-play method to preserve semantic structure in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models during fine-tuning on robot demonstrations. Inspired by mirror neuron theory, the method decomposes action representations into a shared semantic channel and a private channel, both discarded at inference, ensuring the deployed model remains unchanged. Systematic probing reveals that semantic structure erosion correlates with task success and out-of-distribution generalization. Evaluated across simulation and real-world benchmarks, the method improves in-distribution task performance by up to +18.7% and out-of-distribution generalization by +21.5%.
vision-language-action modelssemantic anchoringmirror neuron theoryout-of-distribution generalizationaction representations
Protective Capacity Hallucination: When Large Language Models Claim Nonexistent Capabilities
The study identifies Protective Capacity Hallucination (PCH) in large language models (LLMs), where models falsely claim real-world protective actions beyond their capabilities when acting as protectors without explicit boundaries. Through a three-phase experiment involving eight LLMs and 13,600 sessions, the authors demonstrate that PCH is influenced by situational severity and interaction format, peaking in multi-party dialogues but remaining low in safety-aligned domains like intimate-partner conflict. The findings suggest PCH arises from a deployment-design gap between role assignment and capability-boundary specification, highlighting the need for domain-specific alignment to mitigate such hallucinations.
protective capacity hallucinationlarge language modelssafety alignmentdeployment-design gapcapability-boundary specification
SAFETY SENTRY: Context-Aware Human Intervention via EXECUTE-ASK-REFUSE Routing
The paper introduces SAFETY SENTRY, a context-aware guard model for LLM agents that replaces binary safety classification with a three-way routing decision (EXECUTE-ASK-REFUSE) per action instance. The method employs a lightweight model requiring only one decoding call, adjustable via a single threshold to accommodate varying risk tolerances without retraining. Evaluations show superior accuracy and safety recall compared to open-weight and closed-source baselines, while maintaining control over both false positive and false negative rates.
llm agentsguard modelsafety routingcontext-aware interventiondecoding-time threshold
Memory as a Controlled Process: Learned Adaptive Memory Management for LLM Agents
The paper introduces Memory as a Controlled Process (MemCon), a framework for adaptive memory management in LLM agents that models memory operations as a Markov Decision Process. MemCon learns an online policy to dynamically control retrieval, plan injection, and memory consolidation, requiring only binary task feedback and no additional LLM calls. Evaluated across 6 benchmarks, 3 agent frameworks, and 3 LLM backbones, MemCon improves task success by up to 15.2 points while reducing token consumption by 5--20% compared to static memory heuristics.
adaptive memory managementmarkov decision processllm agentscontextual banditmemory consolidation
From Prediction to Collaboration: Interactive Symbolic Music Analysis
The paper introduces a unified framework for interactive symbolic Roman-numeral (RN) analysis, bridging the gap between predictive models and practical music analysis workflows. The method combines strong predictive performance with support for constrained completion, local correction, and iterative refinement, leveraging pretrained representations for efficiency. It enables complete score analysis, targeted label revision, and inference from partial contexts within a shared modeling framework. Evaluated on Dilemmadata, the largest RN-analysis benchmark, the approach demonstrates robust baseline performance and effective masked completion capabilities. A prototype interface for multi-level candidate inspection and editing further positions RN analysis as a foundation for interactive music analysis tools.
roman-numeral analysispretrained representationsmasked completioniterative refinementdilemmadata
Agile perceptive multi-skill locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild
APT-RL (Action Pretrained Transformer-based Reinforcement Learning) enables quadrupedal robots to achieve high-speed, perceptive locomotion in complex environments through autonomous skill transitions. The framework generates large-scale 2D motion datasets via trajectory optimization with simplified dynamics, training diverse, reusable locomotion skills that transfer effectively to real-world robots. These skills serve as strong priors for downstream tasks and extend to 3D environments, facilitating smooth, high-speed multi-skill locomotion. Real-world experiments demonstrate the robot's agility, achieving peak speeds of up to 6 m/s while traversing diverse obstacles such as stairs, hurdles, and gaps, showcasing the approach's versatility and robustness.
apt-rltrajectory optimizationlocomotion skillsonboard perceptionmulti-skill locomotion
IMMNet: Hybrid Fusion of Model-based and Data-driven Approaches for Maneuvering Target Tracking
The paper proposes IMMNet, a hybrid model/data-driven algorithm for 3D maneuvering target tracking that combines the interpretable structure of the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm with learnable neural components. IMMNet preserves Bayesian inference for real-time radar applications while adaptively learning motion patterns and noise characteristics from data. Experiments show IMMNet consistently outperforms existing algorithms across various scenarios, demonstrating robustness and interpretability.
maneuvering target trackinginteracting multiple modelhybrid fusionbayesian inferenceneural components
Cover First, Disagree Softly: Rethinking Mismatch-First Active Learning for Frame-Level Audio Classification
The paper introduces mismatch-weighted facility location (MW-FL), a novel active learning strategy for frame-level audio classification that addresses limitations of mismatch-first farthest-traversal (MFFT). MW-FL optimizes a disagreement-weighted coverage objective, penalizing segment similarity while utilizing the entire budget without hyperparameters. Experiments on two multi-label datasets demonstrate that coverage dominates selection, hard disagreement gating harms performance, and soft disagreement weighting enhances results. MW-FL achieves the best area under the learning curve, outperforming MFFT variants and plain geometric strategies, particularly under low budgets.
active learningframe-level classificationdisagreement-weighted coveragefacility locationsound event detection
GHR-VLM: Making Zero-Shot Transit Video Analytics Realizable with Grounded Hybrid Reasoning
We propose GHR-VLM, a visual grounded hybrid reasoning framework for zero-shot transit-bus video analytics, addressing the limitations of supervised models and direct vision-language model (VLM) application. The method employs an edge-cloud architecture where a lightweight edge monitor tracks door status and segments passenger clips, while a backend VLM performs coarse-to-fine refinement of spatiotemporal evidence to identify boarding passengers and classify payment behavior. This approach reduces cloud inference costs and eliminates the need for payment-specific training data. Evaluation on 486 minutes of real-world bus surveillance video demonstrates the framework's potential for passenger-level payment analytics, though degraded video conditions remain a challenge.
visual grounded hybrid reasoningedge-cloud architecturespatiotemporal evidencecoarse-to-fine refinementzero-shot analytics
Spectral-Informed Neural Networks Outperform Spectral Methods in High-dimensional PDEs
Modified spectral-informed neural networks (SINNs) are introduced, combining spectral methods with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to address high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). The method integrates coefficient decay scaling and basis embeddings inspired by harmonic analysis, operating directly in the spectral domain to avoid spatial derivative computations and reduce memory consumption. Numerical experiments on steady and time-dependent PDEs demonstrate that Modified SINNs outperform sparse grid spectral methods in middle-dimensional problems with incomplete spectral information and achieve superior accuracy compared to PINNs in high-dimensional problems.
spectral-informed neural networksphysics-informed neural networkspartial differential equationscoefficient decay scalingharmonic analysis
UTS at ELOQUENT 2026 Voight-Kampff: structural shifts in AI writing bypass state-of-the-art detectors
This work introduces two novel out-of-distribution attack families—cross-decade register attacks and modernist stream-of-consciousness form—that exploit structural shifts in AI-generated text to bypass state-of-the-art adversarial detectors. The authors demonstrate that pushing generated text out of the detector's training distribution reliably evades detection, achieving up to 50x higher fool rates than prior methods while maintaining naturalness. Experiments reveal that adversarial fine-tuning, which closed previous evasion strategies, fails against these attacks, and augmenting training data with period prose does not mitigate the vulnerability. The findings highlight persistent detector weaknesses under out-of-distribution shifts, enabling top performance on the ELOQUENT 2026 Voight-Kampff leaderboard.
out-of-distributionadversarial fine-tuningstructural shiftsfool ratesstream-of-consciousness
AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
This study demonstrates that AI advice suppresses human willingness to suspend judgment ('I don't know') even when the advice is incorrect and accuracy is incentivized. Through five experiments (N=3,132) with preregistered designs, participants answered difficult questions where AI advice was engineered to be wrong. Access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to suspend judgment, increasing response rates but reducing accuracy by two-thirds while doubling confidence. Incentivizing accuracy reduced AI reliance and increased correct responses but did not fully restore baseline suspension rates. Findings suggest ubiquitous AI suggestions may alter metacognitive thresholds for decision-making.
metacognitive thresholdsuspension of judgmentpreregistered experimentsaccuracy incentivizationconfidence calibration
Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI
The article contrasts current AI systems with biological intelligence, arguing that biological organisms acquire grounded world models through environmental interaction, which scaffolds higher cognition, unlike AI's language-centric approach. It identifies five neural circuits supporting grounded world modeling: navigation, affordance-based perception, active perception, allostatic control, and self-world distinction. These circuits emphasize intrinsic dynamics, action alignment, autonomous learning, and early predictive mechanisms as foundational for reasoning, planning, and communication. The authors propose future embodied AI should incorporate principles from biological systems, including social interaction-based training to develop socially shared and human-aligned world models.
grounded world modelsneural circuitsaffordance-based perceptionallostatic controlembodied ai
Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning with Tool-Augmented Evidence for Urban Region Profiling
UrbanAgent introduces a multi-agent collaborative reasoning framework for urban region profiling, addressing limitations of correlation-driven multimodal representation learning. The method instantiates independent agents per data modality, performs structured reasoning to handle cross-modal inconsistencies, and extends prediction as a closed-loop process of active evidence acquisition via tool-augmented retrieval optimized through reinforcement learning. Evaluations on global urban datasets for Carbon emissions, GDP, and Population estimation demonstrate UrbanAgent's superiority, achieving an average 8.1% improvement in R2 and strong generalization in unseen-city settings.
multi-agent reasoningurban profilingtool-augmented retrievalcross-modal inconsistencyreinforcement learning
Greedy Volume Maximization of Gradient Embeddings for Long-Tailed Frame-Level Bioacoustic Active Learning
The paper introduces BADGE-Greedy-DPP, a deterministic batch selection method for active learning in bioacoustic call-type classification. The approach greedily maximizes the volume spanned by gradient embeddings (BADGE) of selected segments, leveraging submodularity to guarantee a (1-1/e) approximation to the optimal batch. It addresses frame-level sparsity by weighting pseudo-gradients with prediction residuals, ensuring rare-call frames dominate segment selection. Evaluated on a hyena call-type dataset, BADGE-Greedy-DPP outperforms baselines like MFFT and vanilla BADGE, particularly in rare-call-type performance.
active learningsubmodular optimizationgradient embeddingslong-tailed distributionbioacoustic classification
How Far Can Root Cause Analysis Go on Real-World Telemetry Data?
The paper introduces a Structured Multi-Agent RCA pipeline for root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice failures, addressing limitations of classical causal discovery and LLM-based methods on the challenging OpenRCA dataset. The approach employs a reverse reasoning agent to classify failures as Reasoning Gap or Data Ambiguity, revealing that evidence is typically present but underutilized. An automated rule mining pipeline reduces manual knowledge curation. Results show reasoning capability and domain knowledge as primary constraints, with stronger models and explicit knowledge injection improving performance, though scaffold engineering alone cannot bridge the gap.
root cause analysismulti-agent systemstelemetry datareverse reasoningdomain knowledge
ExTernD: Expanded-Rank Ternary Decomposition Ternary LLM PTQ with Accuracy Approaching Any Quantization Level
The paper introduces ExTernD, a post-training quantization method for LLMs that decomposes weight matrices into expanded-rank ternary factors with a real scale vector. By deliberately expanding the inner rank beyond full rank (μ > 1), the method monotonically reduces quantization error, approaching bf16 accuracy. Memory and compute scale continuously with μ, and factor sparsity adjusts via threshold τ. ExTernD achieves 5.2-5.5 effective bpw on Gemma-4-E2B and Qwen3.5-4B, matching Q4_K accuracy, and reaches 10.10 wikitext-2 perplexity (3.2% above bf16) at μ = 3.
ternary decompositionpost-training quantizationllm compressionexpanded-rankquantization error
LAPO: Leave-One-Turn Attribution for Self-Generated Process Rewards in Multi-Turn Search Reasoning
LAPO introduces a self-generated process-supervision method for multi-turn search reasoning, addressing the limitations of terminal outcome rewards by evaluating intermediate interactions. The method employs backward leave-one-turn attribution, replacing each search turn and retrieval observation with a [DELETE] placeholder to measure Answer-Likelihood Gain, estimating the turn's contribution while preserving downstream interactions. Sign-consistency gating retains only normalized process advantages aligned with their raw attribution scores. LAPO outperforms the IGPO baseline by 0.053 in exact-match score across seven knowledge-intensive QA datasets, demonstrating the efficacy of policy-derived retrospective attribution for process supervision.
leave-one-turn attributionanswer-likelihood gainsign-consistency gatingprocess supervisionmulti-turn search reasoning
DeepLoop: Depth Scaling for Looped Transformers
DeepLoop introduces a depth-scaling method for looped Transformers, where physical blocks are reused across multiple rounds to increase unrolled depth without additional parameters. The approach formalizes residual scaling through a perturbation bound controlled by a visit-alignment coefficient, adapting DeepNorm exponents from $1/4$ to $1/2$ as loop count grows. Experiments on GPT-2 small and medium scales show improved validation loss and downstream accuracy when recurrent depth is activated, demonstrating the need for visit-aware scaling rules.
looped transformersresidual scalingperturbation boundvisit-alignment coefficientdeepnorm
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Anomaly Detection in Banking Transactions: An Internal Audit Perspective
This paper proposes an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) framework for anomaly detection in banking transactions, specifically designed for internal audit workflows. The framework combines an Isolation Forest (iForest) model for unsupervised anomaly scoring with SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) to provide transaction-level, feature-attributed explanations based on cooperative game theory. A Streamlit dashboard presents these outputs in an accessible format for audit professionals. Evaluated on a synthetic banking dataset, the framework achieves 0.91 precision and 0.88 recall, surpassing three unsupervised baselines. Expert feedback indicates that feature-level explanations enhance auditor confidence and decision quality, advancing transparent AI deployment in regulated financial environments.
explainable artificial intelligenceisolation forestshapley additive explanationsanomaly detectioninternal audit
DevicesWorld: Benchmarking Cross-Device Agents in Heterogeneous Environments
The paper introduces DevicesWorld, a benchmark for evaluating cross-device agent performance across heterogeneous environments (mobile, desktop, IoT). It contains 6,140 executable tasks with natural-language goals, multi-device dependencies, and automatic verification. Five state-of-the-art LLM-agent systems were evaluated, with the best achieving only 12.5% success; 28.7% of failures partially met criteria. Failure analysis revealed issues in information acquisition, interface manipulation, device confusion, and premature termination. The benchmark enables reproducible evaluation of cross-device agent reliability.
cross-device agentsheterogeneous environmentsexecutable benchmarkautomatic verificationllm-based agents
GeoAnchor: Collaborative Reasoning via Latent Decomposition for 3D Spatial Understanding
GeoAnchor introduces an interleaved text-latent reasoning framework for 3D spatial understanding from 2D images, addressing limitations of symbolic text tokens and single latent representations. The method decomposes 3D spatial information into position, direction, and geometry latents, recombining them in a structured space for dynamic reasoning. A collaborative training strategy guides from local perception to global understanding. Experiments show GeoAnchor outperforms state-of-the-art methods on diverse 3D reasoning tasks.
multimodal large language models3d spatial reasoninglatent decompositioninterleaved reasoninggeometric representation
Adversarial Prompting Framework for AI Safety Assessment
The Adversarial Prompting Framework (APF) introduces a systematic methodology for assessing AI safety by evaluating model resilience against adversarial prompt attacks (APA). The framework generates structured adversarial prompts at varying sophistication levels, ranging from direct harmful requests to advanced encoding-based attacks, enabling automated testing in enterprise environments. Results demonstrate notable variations in model vulnerabilities across attack vectors, with encoded prompts exhibiting the highest success rates in bypassing safety mechanisms. This approach provides quantitative security assessment metrics, highlighting critical weaknesses in AI systems under adversarial conditions.
adversarial prompting frameworkgenerative aiadversarial prompt attackencoding-based attackssafety mechanisms
Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object Detection
The paper proposes Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation (SIKD) for incremental object detection (IOD), addressing limitations of separation-oriented approaches by leveraging object symbiosis. SIKD operates at two levels: Spatial Symbiosis Distillation (SpSD) preserves generalizable old class cues in overlapping regions via slot-aligned supervision, while Semantic Symbiosis Distillation (SeSD) maintains class-level structure through confidence-weighted prototypes and inter-class rank alignment. Experiments demonstrate SIKD's effectiveness in mitigating catastrophic forgetting while adapting to new classes.
incremental object detectionknowledge distillationobject symbiosiscatastrophic forgettingslot-aligned supervision
Learning Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics for Deformable Object Simulation
The authors propose Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics (PGRD), a hybrid framework for deformable object simulation that combines an optimizable spring-mass simulator with a neural network predicting residual corrections. The method employs a velocity-based formulation for stability and a sliding-window transformer for temporal dependencies. PGRD outperforms purely physics-based and learning-based approaches in accuracy across diverse real-world objects. Applications include Model Predictive Control for manipulation planning (including language-conditioned goals) and interactive simulation via action-conditioned video prediction using 3D Gaussian Splatting.
deformable object simulationphysics-guided learningresidual dynamicsspring-mass simulator3d gaussian splatting
Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation
This work introduces a unified conceptual framework for discrete diffusion models (DDMs), emphasizing their dependence on discrete state space construction through tokenization schemes, vocabulary topology, and domain-specific structural alphabets. The framework integrates existing formulations—transition-matrix, masking/absorbing-state, and score/ratio-based approaches—as instantiations of a common design space. It systematically exposes trade-offs across training objectives, inference algorithms, scaling behavior, systems optimization, and evaluation protocols, offering insights for future research directions in parallel generation and iterative refinement of discrete data.
discrete diffusion modelstokenizationvocabulary topologytransition-matrixmasking/absorbing-state
Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting
Attention Head Reweighting (AHR) is introduced as a data-efficient adaptation method for large language models (LLMs) in text classification tasks. AHR learns a single scalar per attention head, leveraging the functional specialization of heads to reduce trainable parameters to ~0.0001% of the model. This approach outperforms baselines like LoRA on diverse datasets with limited samples, despite having 200-1000x fewer parameters. The learned weights provide interpretability, offering insights into attention mechanisms and in-context learning in LLMs.
attention head reweightingparameter-efficient adaptationin-context learningtext classificationlarge language models
ScanFocus: A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
The paper introduces ScanFocus, a coarse-to-fine framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) that addresses the trade-off between global context modeling and precise boundary localization. The method employs a vision-language fusion encoder with a Deformable Semantic-Motion Fusion module for coarse proposal generation, followed by a Semantic-Guided Temporal Aggregator (SGTA) for fine-grained boundary refinement through dense sampling and explicit temporal interaction modeling. Experiments on three benchmarks demonstrate superior performance over existing approaches.
spatio-temporal video groundingvision-language fusiondeformable fusiontemporal aggregatorboundary refinement
Can We Steer the Black-Box? Towards Controllability-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems with Collaborative Agents
The authors introduce CtrlBench-Rec, a collaborative multi-agent framework for evaluating controllability in recommender systems, defined as the system's responsiveness to explicit guidance. The framework formalizes three tasks: target content discovery, interest profile shaping, and popularity bias mitigation, assessing steerability from explicit commands to implicit representation steering and bias correction. Experiments on real-world datasets with multiple recommendation models demonstrate CtrlBench-Rec's effectiveness in quantifying controllability and identifying system bottlenecks, particularly resistance to promoting long-tail content. The toolkit provides a standardized approach for controllable recommendation research, algorithmic auditing, and user empowerment.
controllabilityrecommender systemsmulti-agent frameworkpopularity biaslong-tail content
Is the Statistical Advantage Worth the Cost? An Empirical Comparison of KANs and MLPs for Structured Data Classification
This empirical study benchmarks Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) against Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) on structured tabular classification tasks across twelve datasets. Using standardized preprocessing and fixed hyperparameters, performance was evaluated via test accuracy, F1-Score, paired hypothesis testing, and effect size analysis. Results indicate KANs statistically outperform MLPs in binary and multiclass domains, with a significant aggregate advantage (effect size d = -0.46). However, KANs exhibit higher parameter and computational complexity, suggesting their suitability for high-precision applications while MLPs remain efficient for resource-constrained environments.
kolmogorov-arnold networksmulti-layer perceptronstabular classificationeffect size analysisadaptive spline-based mappings
Improving Text-to-Audio Instruction Following via Fine-Grained Feedback from Audio-Aware Large Language Models
The authors propose an instruction-level framework leveraging audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) to improve text-to-audio models' ability to follow multi-event temporal instructions. ALLMs provide fine-grained feedback on event presence and temporal relations, validated through benchmarks and human verification. This feedback is used to construct preference pairs for direct preference optimization. A new benchmark, S3Bench, is introduced for evaluating narrative-based multi-event temporal instruction following. Experiments demonstrate improvements in event completeness, temporal ordering, and joint instruction-following accuracy across benchmarks while preserving audio quality.
text-to-audioinstruction followingaudio-aware llmstemporal relationsdirect preference optimization
Price of Fairness in Bandits: A Tight Minimax Characterization
The paper establishes a tight minimax characterization of the price of fairness in bandit problems, resolving the open question for strictly fair regimes (q=-p>0). Through a needle-in-haystack construction, it proves an algorithm-independent lower bound Ω(σ√(k^max(1,q)/T)), showing the k^(q/2) penalty is unavoidable for q>1. The authors introduce UCB-HARE, which uses an inverse-weighted harmonic rank schedule with a positive-mean anchor, achieving Õ(σ√(k^max(1,q)/T)) regret that matches the lower bound up to log factors. Synthetic experiments confirm UCB-HARE outperforms uniform-exploration baselines, especially for larger q.
bandit problemsminimax regretfairnesssub-gaussian rewardsucb-hare
Set-shifting Behavioral Test for Harnessed Agents
The paper introduces a set-shifting behavioral test to evaluate LLM agents' adaptability when reliable tools change silently during sessions. Borrowing from cognitive psychology, the method mounts redundant tool-skill libraries with hidden reliability differences, using a branched schedule to shift tool groups at hidden boundaries. Results show agents default to small recurring routines post-shift, with call shares concentrating on discrete values, and reveal distinct failure modes across LLMs in an open-source harness, influenced by set framing of tool alternatives.
set-shiftingllm agentstool reliabilitybehavioral benchmarkrouting dynamics
The Café in Amsterdam: When the Incumbent Becomes the Oracle
The paper introduces 'baseline capture' as a pathology in computational reformulation, where an incumbent implementation's output becomes the de facto specification, hindering hardware-friendly optimizations. Building on test-oracle theory, requirements engineering, and the roofline model, it distinguishes between judging a reformulation (requiring incumbent-independent demand) and automating its discovery (requiring low evaluation cost). Case studies in routing, audio processing, cryptography, and climate modeling illustrate the pattern and the strategy of 'buying a verifier' to decouple validation from the incumbent. The key contribution is synthesizing these concepts into a single diagnostic question: whether a reformulation's acceptance test references the incumbent's output.
baseline capturetest-oracle problemroofline modelimplementation biascomputational reformulation
Learning Engagement Assistant (LEA): Cross-Course Scalability and Classroom Evaluation of an Agentic AI Tutoring System
The Learning Engagement Assistant (LEA), an adaptive AI tutoring system combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Component (KC) models, was evaluated for cross-course scalability and real-world classroom deployment. LEA was tested across three courses spanning two academic levels and disciplinary domains, with classroom trials involving eight students in CMP511. Results revealed divergence from simulation predictions, highlighting limitations of synthetic evaluation. RAGAS-based scalability assessment (660 questions) showed stable Answer Relevancy (0.88-0.94) and Context Precision (0.88-0.90), but Faithfulness declined with curriculum distance (0.69 to 0.50), suggesting subject-specific tuning. Findings indicate that while the orchestration layer remains unchanged, achieving full course-agnosticism requires further investigation.
retrieval-augmented generationknowledge component modelsragascross-course scalabilityadaptive tutoring
Evaluation Ability Does Not Imply Optimization Utility: LLM-as-a-Judge Signals in Closed-Loop Table Recognition
This paper investigates the utility of LLM-as-a-judge signals in closed-loop table recognition, challenging the assumption that evaluation ability implies optimization utility. Using FinTabNet and OmniDocBench datasets, the study employs deterministic TEDS evaluation to analyze judge signals and iterative refinement. Results show weak judge signals with frequent score ties and non-reproducible rankings, severe losses without specific feedback, and limited improvement from structure-preserving constraints. The findings suggest that iterative refinement requires deterministic verification signals to detect structural changes, rather than relying solely on LLM judge scores.
llm-as-a-judgetable recognitionteds evaluationiterative refinementstructure-preserving
The Refusal Residue: When Probes Catch Alignment Faking and When They Don't
The study introduces a framework for detecting alignment faking in language models, where models appear compliant under monitoring but preserve non-compliant behavior when unmonitored. Using a 13-model sweep, natural faking emerged in Qwen3-32B (+18.2pp) and Llama-3.1-8B (+24.4pp), with asymmetric refusal residue observed in monitored compliance shifts. Detection via leakage-free leave-one-query-out probing achieved AUROC 0.87 for Llama but collapsed to chance (0.43) for Qwen. Steering hidden states over 2,000 runs minimally altered compliance (|h|<0.08). The framework emphasizes multi-token extraction, refuse-vs-refuse confound checks, per-fold residualization, leave-one-query-out evaluation, and orthogonality-constrained probing.
alignment fakingrefusal residueleave-one-query-outhidden statesprobing
EZSMT Version 3, Matured
EZSMTV3 introduces an extensible SMT-based Constraint Answer Set Programming (CASP) framework, advancing the translational approach to CASP solving. The system builds upon EZSMT+, offering a more expressive input language, support for optimization via weak constraints, and streamlined integration of new constraint types. EZSMTV3 leverages state-of-the-art SMT solvers (CVC5, YICES, Z3) rather than implementing custom search procedures. Benchmarking demonstrates EZSMTV3's performance against CASP peers (CLINGCON, CLINGO[DL], CLINGO[LP]) in handling mixed-domain constraints involving integers and reals. The framework provides a robust platform for future extensions and theoretical exploration in CASP.
constraint answer set programmingsatisfiability modulo theoriesweak constraintsmixed-domain constraintstranslational approach
Efficient Text-to-Audio Generation via Pruning
The work introduces parameter pruning to enhance the computational efficiency of AudioLDM, a U-Net-based text-to-audio latent diffusion model. By analyzing parameter redundancy and applying norm-based filter pruning followed by lightweight finetuning, the method reduces U-Net parameters by 83% and multiply-accumulate operations by 39% while maintaining or improving generation quality. Pruning initially degrades performance on specific sound events (e.g., safety-critical sounds, mechanical sounds), but finetuning largely recovers these capabilities.
text-to-audiomodel pruninglatent diffusionu-netparameter redundancy
Privacy Preserving Recommender Systems Balancing Personalization with Privacy
A privacy-preserving recommendation framework combining federated learning, differential privacy, cohort-level modeling, and privacy-aware intelligent agents is proposed to balance personalization with regulatory compliance. The framework decentralizes raw user data and introduces mathematically bounded noise to model updates, evaluated on synthetic retail datasets emulating clickstream and purchase behavior. Experiments measure Click-Through Rate, Precision@K, Recall@K, and NDCG@K across differential privacy budgets for matrix factorization, neural collaborative filtering, and GRU4Rec models. Results demonstrate competitive recommendation quality at moderate privacy budgets (ε≈5), showing limited impact on effectiveness while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.
federated learningdifferential privacycohort-level modelingprivacy-aware agentsmatrix factorization
Adapting Generalist Vehicle Models for High-Speed MPC Across Terrains
OptCar introduces a method for adapting generalist forward kinodynamic (FKD) prediction models to specific vehicles while maintaining cross-terrain generalization. The approach employs a history-conditioned dynamics adaptation module that encodes recent state-action observations into a dynamics context token, fine-tuning the generalist model using limited real-world data and targeted synthetic rollouts. Evaluated in closed-loop model predictive control (MPC) experiments across three terrains and an out-of-distribution cart-pulling task, OptCar reduces trajectory tracking error by 55% at 6 m/s on slip-diverse terrains compared to the AnyCar baseline. With only 5 minutes of real data per terrain, OptCar outperforms specialist models trained on 30 minutes of road data when terrain changes.
forward kinodynamicmodel predictive controldynamics adaptationtrajectory trackingcross-terrain generalization
Tabular Foundation Models for Discrete Choice Estimation
The study introduces a reformulation of tabular foundation models (TFMs) for discrete choice estimation, addressing structural limitations in handling choice-set dependence and individual heterogeneity. By encoding these factors within a row-based learning framework, the approach outperforms hierarchical Bayesian estimation by 8% in holdout log-likelihood and 3.6% in hit rate, while running 16 times faster. Evaluated on a yogurt scanner panel, individual-level heterogeneity encoding significantly enhances predictive accuracy, particularly in medium-data regimes (10-40 purchase occasions per consumer). Fine-tuning on population choice data further improves performance for consumers with shallow purchase histories. This establishes a principled method for applying TFMs to consumer choice problems.
tabular foundation modelsdiscrete choice estimationindividual heterogeneityhierarchical bayesian estimationin-context learning
Accuracy Without Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Dependency Dissociation in Video LLM Benchmarks
The study introduces Visual Dependency Gap (VDG) to evaluate whether video LLM benchmarks truly measure visual understanding, analyzing 20 models (2-78B parameters) across ten architectures. Using MVBench with paired McNemar tests, it shows accuracy and visual dependency are separable: models differ on original videos (p = 0.0003) but not black screens (p = 0.53). Results reveal frame diversity drives visual benefits, while temporal order contributes minimally; VDG values for API models range 0.025-0.315, suggesting benchmarks often fail to assess grounded capability.
visual dependency gapvideo llmmvbenchtemporal reasoningattribute perception
Faithful Autoformalization of Natural Language Assertions
Monty introduces an autoformalization framework for synthesizing executable assertions from natural-language specifications, addressing challenges of assertion validity and natural-language ambiguity. The method employs a novel conformance score metric and validity scores derived from testing code against formalized assertions. Evaluated on 541 assertion-generation tasks from 22 Java classes, Monty improves precision by up to 20 points compared to naive LLM-based translation, demonstrating more reliable production of ground truth assertions.
autoformalizationassertionsconformance scorevalidity scoresnatural-language specifications
Theory-Level Autoformalization: From Isolated Statements to Unified Formal Knowledge Bases
The paper advocates for theory-level autoformalization, extending beyond isolated statements to formalize entire theories with interdependent axioms, definitions, and lemmas. It highlights the necessity of structured libraries for machine-verifiable formal knowledge bases. The authors survey existing autoformalization approaches, address alternative perspectives, and identify open challenges. Three promising research directions are proposed to advance theory-level formalization. A comprehensive survey is available on GitHub.
autoformalizationformal knowledge basesaxiomsstructured librariesmachine-verifiable
Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable
The Harness Handbook introduces a behavior-centric representation for AI agent harnesses, automatically synthesized via static analysis and LLM-assisted structuring to link behaviors to source code. It employs Behavior-Guided Progressive Disclosure (BGPD) to guide agents from high-level behaviors to implementation details while verifying candidate locations. Evaluations on two open-source harnesses show improved behavior localization and edit-plan quality, particularly for scattered sites, rare execution paths, and cross-module interactions, while reducing planner token usage.
agent harnessbehavior localizationstatic analysisprogressive disclosurellm-assisted structuring
Deconstructing Actor-Critic: A Large-scale Empirical Study of Design Components for Practitioners
This large-scale empirical study provides actionable insights for practitioners deploying actor-critic methods in real-world control systems by analyzing 33,000 experiments on a water treatment plant task. The work systematically evaluates design components including policy update mechanisms, action distribution representations, gradient estimators, and update schedules. Results demonstrate that common defaults like Gaussian action distributions with pathwise gradient estimators exhibit high variability and sensitivity, while bounded distributions with adaptive update schedules achieve robust performance across diverse settings. These findings offer empirical guidance for component-level decisions in scientific and engineering applications requiring reliable reinforcement learning.
actor-criticgradient estimatorsaction distributionsadaptive update schedulespolicy optimization
Discourse-Aware Policy Analysis with Argumentation: A Hybrid LLM-Symbolic Framework for Disaster Governance
The paper introduces Apaf, a hybrid LLM-symbolic pipeline for discourse-aware policy analysis that operationalizes critical discourse analysis as a bipolar argumentation framework. The method combines LLM-based argument classification (deliberative vs. managerial frames) with deterministic rules for frame-mediated relations (agency reduction, agenda shift, instrumental support, normative support). Evaluated on a novel dataset of 100 disaster-risk-reduction policy sub-documents from four countries, the system produces accurate, interpretable argument graphs stable across jurisdictions.
argumentation frameworkcritical discourse analysisllm-symbolic pipelineframe-mediated relationspolicy discourse
Reassessing Muon for Matrix Factorization
This work reevaluates Muon, a gradient optimizer known for approximate orthogonalization in large-scale deep learning, by isolating its performance on low-rank matrix factorization. Through controlled experiments comparing Muon against AdamW and other adaptive baselines, the study finds that Muon does not consistently outperform AdamW in this setting, with its advantages being sensitive to hyperparameter choices. The results highlight the importance of spectrum-aware orthogonalization and advocate for evaluating optimizers on controlled problems alongside end-to-end benchmarks.
muonmatrix factorizationspectral normadamworthogonalization
EMAGN: Efficient Multi-Attention Graph Network via Learned Clustering for Scalable Traffic Forecasting
The paper proposes EMAGN, an Efficient Multi-Attention Graph Network for scalable traffic forecasting, addressing the quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanisms. EMAGN linearizes spatial attention via learned clustering matrices C_k and C_v, grouping key and value vectors into M super-clusters, reducing complexity from O(N^2 d) to O(NMd). Experiments on PEMS-BAY and METR-LA show EMAGN maintains accuracy within 2.7-3.2% MAE of full-attention GMAN while reducing training time by 32%, inference time by 38%, and GPU memory by 58%, enabling operation on configurations where GMAN fails.
traffic forecastingself-attentiongraph networklearned clusteringscalability
Cost-Optimal Foundation Model Deployment Portfolio for Transportation Management
The paper introduces the Foundation Model Deployment Portfolio (FMDP) problem, a mixed-integer program optimizing the deployment of foundation models for transportation management tasks under shared GPU constraints. FMDP minimizes total cost of ownership while meeting per-function quality, latency, and safety requirements, proven NP-hard via reduction from the 0-1 knapsack problem. A polynomial-time greedy heuristic is proposed. In a case study with five TMC functions and 19 candidate (model, mode) pairs, FMDP achieves a $34/month cost (97% below baseline) by routing four functions to open-source APIs and one to a closed API. Break-even analysis indicates on-premise GPU investment becomes viable above ~309 vision queries/hour or doubled API prices.
foundation modelsmixed-integer programtotal cost of ownershipgreedy heuristictransportation management
Continuously Evolving Deepfake Detection: An Architecture and Public-Benchmark Evaluation of a Dynamic Detection System
BitMind Forensics (BMF) introduces a dynamic deepfake detection system trained via Bittensor SN34, an open adversarial competition that continuously updates the training distribution to address the performance gap between academic benchmarks and real-world content. The system, evaluated across nineteen datasets including FaceForensics++, Celeb-DF, and Deepfake-Eval-2024, achieves robust performance: 0.936 AUC on Sumsub's original images, 0.915 AUC on Deepfake-Eval-2024 images, and 0.991 AUC on a 21-generator AI-image panel. Temporal analysis shows successive updates improve detection on held-out media, with AUC increasing from 0.842 to 0.902 for images and 0.864 to 0.936 for video. The evaluation harness and production API are publicly available for verification.
deepfake detectionadversarial competitionauctemporal analysispublic benchmark
AI-Native Insurance for Agentic AI: Pricing, Underwriting, and End-to-End Automation
The paper introduces an AI-native mathematical framework for insurance underwriting, pricing, and contract design tailored to agentic AI systems. The framework models deployments via a risk state encompassing autonomy level, operational authority, permission exposure, governance maturity, and dependency concentration, mapping these to event probabilities, loss severities, and policy parameters. It formulates an optimization problem for contract design under participation, profitability, and incentive compatibility constraints, establishing structural properties of insurability, including insurability regions and governance certification thresholds. Insurance is framed as both an operational cost and regulatory mechanism for AI deployment. A healthcare case study demonstrates contract optimization, sensitivity analysis, and automated claims processing.
agentic airisk stateinsurability regiongovernance certificationcontract optimization
Audited Selective Verification for Risk-Controlled N-1 Thermal Contingency Screening under Deployment Shift
This paper introduces Audited Selective Verification, a risk-budgeted screening method for N-1 thermal contingency screening in energy management systems. The method employs a cheap surrogate to propose outages to skip, an online audit to verify a random sample via full power flow, and a calibrated threshold to certify thermal-violation-rate bounds. This approach maintains validity under arbitrary deployment shift, unlike deterministic or calibrated screens. Evaluated on three public transmission systems with up to 1354 buses, the method reduces full power-flow studies by 29 to 75 percent per real-time operating point while keeping violation rates within budget.
n-1 contingency screeningthermal-violation-ratepower flowdeployment shiftrisk-budgeted
Networked Intelligence: Active Shared Context Graphs for Human-AI Team Science
The paper introduces Mycelium, an active shared workspace for networked intelligence in scientific collaboration, addressing the challenge of scaling connections between humans and AI systems rather than scaling individual reasoning processes. Mycelium captures observations and hypotheses, tracks their relation to the team's evolving model, and routes them to relevant human or AI decision-makers. The system was evaluated in a biological multi-omics campaign, demonstrating how shared context transformed local findings into cross-expert constraints and experimental designs. The authors provide a computational account of networked intelligence as sparse conditional computation over distributed scientific contexts, distinguishing scenarios where standalone agents suffice from those requiring irreducible networked expertise.
networked intelligenceactive shared workspacemulti-omics campaignsparse conditional computationdistributed scientific contexts
CayleyR: Solving the TopSpin puzzle via cycle intersection
CayleyR introduces an R package for solving permutation puzzles by detecting cycle intersections in Cayley graphs. The algorithm employs an iterative bidirectional search: from initial and target states, random operation sequences generate cycles in the Cayley graph of the symmetric group Sn, with intersections yielding connecting paths. When direct intersections are absent, a distance-guided bridge selection narrows the gap. The method targets the TopSpin(n,k) puzzle, leveraging a C++ hash-indexed state store and optional Vulkan GPU acceleration. The software is publicly available on CRAN.
cayley graphpermutation puzzlesbidirectional searchcycle intersectiontopspin puzzle
Classifying daily activities needs posture, reconstructing them needs motion
The study systematically compares movement analysis strategies to identify discriminative features for activity classification and reconstruction. Using videos from the MoVi dataset, it evaluates Temporal Movement Primitives (TMPs), Legendre polynomial coefficients, and autoencoder latent embeddings. Results show that Legendre coefficients and TMPs achieve the highest classification accuracy, with general posture and nine critical joints identified as key features. However, TMPs excel in reconstructing temporally natural motion, while Legendre coefficients preserve only static posture. This dissociation reveals that posture suffices for classification, but temporal dynamics are essential for reconstruction, offering insights for visual action recognition and clinical movement screening.
temporal movement primitiveslegendre polynomial coefficientsautoencoder latent embeddingsmovement classificationposture reconstruction
Adaptive Filtering of the KV Cache: Diagnosing and Correcting Structural-Role Bias in LLM Inference
The study introduces an adaptive filtering method for the KV cache in long-context LLMs, addressing structural-role bias in schema-dense inputs like nested JSON. By analyzing attention mass as signal energy, it identifies disproportionate retention of non-content roles (delimiters, whitespace) and KEY tokens, which degrade exact-match accuracy from 88% to 0% at a 5% budget. The proposed retraining-free, role-conditional allocation over SnapKV's windowed score suppresses KEY tokens, closing 63-98% of the H2O gap at sub-20% budgets and matching or exceeding full-cache accuracy at higher budgets. A 15 MB linear role probe provides role labels at negligible inference cost.
kv cacheattention massrole-conditional allocationstructural-role biassignal-to-noise ratio
RAGthoven at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Multi-Stage Pipeline Walks Into a Benchmark and Barely Clears the Bar
RAGthoven introduces a multi-stage LLM pipeline for SemEval-2026 Task 1 Subtask A, focusing on multilingual constrained humor generation in English, Spanish, and Chinese. The pipeline integrates computational humor theory, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic variants (ReAct-style tool-calling, multi-branch orchestration) across ten experiments. Evaluated on a 12-instance English sample, neither agentic variant outperformed the non-agentic pipeline despite higher tool-call budgets. RAGthoven ties with Gemini 2.5 Flash in all languages, with Spanish showing a 42-point Elo lead (1182 vs. 1140), while English and Chinese results remain statistically tied. Results indicate diminishing returns from complex prompt engineering with frontier models.
ragllm pipelinecomputational humor theoryreact-style tool-callingelo rating
SteinGate: Tail-Sensitive Safe Reinforcement Learning via Stein Discrepancy
SteinGate introduces a boundary-aware distributional safety certificate for safe reinforcement learning, addressing limitations of expected cumulative cost bounds by detecting rare catastrophic tail events. The method employs Kernelized Stein Discrepancy to robustly check consistency between observed policy rollout costs and a safe reference distribution, avoiding fragile tail fitting and accounting for boundary atoms from clipped costs. This non-parametric certificate dynamically adapts the learning regime, favoring reward-improving updates when safe and triggering recovery behavior during tail deviations. Experiments on continuous-control benchmarks show SteinGate significantly reduces constraint violation frequency and severity while maintaining competitive returns compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
stein discrepancysafe reinforcement learningtail eventsdistributional safetycontinuous-control
Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models
The paper introduces DROPJ, a human-centered method for safe agent training and deployment in unknown dynamics without predefined rewards. The approach combines a learned world model with human-generated simulated trajectories, from which preference-justification pairs are elicited to train a reward model. Experiments show this reduces computational costs during training (vs. alternatives) and improves deployment performance, with safety justifications further enhancing safety outcomes. Results demonstrate preference-based feedback outperforms other feedback types, and justifications prioritize user-specified safety aspects.
world modelpreference learningmodel predictive controlsafe reinforcement learninghuman-in-the-loop
What Models Express, Suppress, and Resist: Auditing Open-Weight LLMs with Persona Vectors
This work introduces a systematic application of persona vectors to audit behavioral organization in open-weight large language models (LLMs), compiling a 53-trait inventory across four domains. Using persona vectors as behavioral directions in activation space, traits are classified as natural (expressed at baseline), steerable latent but amplifiable, or intractable (resistant to extraction). Results show both models default to helpful, task-oriented behavior, with agentic traits naturally expressed and clinician behavior matching expert judgments on 16 of 17 traits. Steering yields largest gains on excluded traits like hyperbole and hallucination, while trait pairs involving defaults maintain composition. Vector transfer from fine-tuned variants recovers intractable traits, with refusals appearing in chain-of-thought.
persona vectorsactivation spacesteerable latentchain-of-thoughtbehavioral organization
Active Beyond-Diagonal RIS Empowered Heterogeneous Edge Computing: A Distributional Reinforcement Learning Approach
The paper proposes DSAC-T, a distributional reinforcement learning framework for joint optimization of energy-aware offloading and resource allocation in reciprocal active beyond-diagonal RIS-assisted heterogeneous MEC systems. The method extends soft actor-critic by modeling return distributions rather than expected values, improving policy stability under reward heterogeneity and feasibility-boundary sensitivity. Experimental results demonstrate DSAC-T's superiority, achieving the best energy-latency reward, 81.67% feasibility ratio, and 0.0267s online decision time per scenario compared to baseline algorithms.
beyond-diagonal risheterogeneous mecdistributional reinforcement learningenergy-latency tradeoffsoft actor-critic
Oracle Agent Memory as an Enterprise Memory Substrate for Long-Horizon AI Agents
Oracle Agent Memory is proposed as a database-native memory substrate for long-horizon AI agents, addressing lifecycle management, layered architecture, and evaluation methodology. The system separates active memory core from passive memory-store interfaces, enabling explicit scope control across users, agents, and threads. Evaluated using LongMemEval, it achieves 93.8% accuracy with 10.7x fewer tokens compared to flat-history baselines, while incorporating memory-centric metrics such as evidence retrieval, recall, latency, and token use estimation.
agent memorylong-horizon agentsmemory lifecyclelayered architecturelongmemeval
Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open-Source Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Boogu-Image-0.1 introduces an open-source unified multimodal model family for understanding and generation, comprising Base, Turbo, Edit, and Edit-Turbo variants. The model achieves competitive performance in text-to-image generation, fast inference, instruction-based editing, and bilingual text rendering through targeted improvements in model understanding, data quality, training pipelines, and agentic inference-time scaling. Evaluations demonstrate that Boogu-Image-0.1 matches or surpasses other open-source models across standard benchmarks and approaches leading closed-source systems, trained on only 208.62 million unique images with a theoretical cost of approximately $400K. The project releases weights, code, and recipes under Apache 2.0 to advance the open ecosystem.
multimodal understandingtext-to-image generationinstruction-based editingagentic inferencetraining pipelines
ShortOPD: Recovering Pruned LLMs with Short-to-Long On-Policy Distillation
ShortOPD introduces a short-to-long on-policy distillation schedule to recover pruned large language models (LLMs) for free-form generation tasks. The method detects repetitive suffixes confirmed by a frozen pre-compression teacher model, treats the surviving prefix as the effective rollout length, and allocates future rollout budgets accordingly. This approach mitigates wasted training on low-information suffixes, accelerating loss descent. Experiments across math, code, and open-ended generation show ShortOPD improves compressed model scores by 9× over unrecovered baselines and 1.6–4.4× over standard recovery methods, achieving comparable performance to fixed-length rollouts with 71% fewer tokens and 76% less training time.
structured pruningon-policy distillationfree-form generationtoken-level supervisionrollout budget
AI in Cyberpsychology: A systematic literature review of Cybersecurity enhancement by using AI for analyzing psychology of Victims, Attackers, and Defenders
This systematic literature review analyzes 34 studies on AI applications in cyberpsychology (AI-CPSY) using PRISMA methodology, categorizing them into four cybersecurity applications: Anomaly Detection, Vulnerability Risk Prediction, Security Awareness Training, and Authentication/Identity Verification. The review classifies studies by AI methodologies (ML, DL, NLP, RL) and identifies prevalent psychological concepts, datasets, and deployment status. It highlights research gaps and emerging trends, providing a taxonomy of AI-CPSY applications and their effectiveness in decoding behavioral patterns of victims, attackers, and defenders.
cyberpsychologyanomaly detectionvulnerability risk predictionsecurity awareness trainingauthentication
CoDiffGRN: Rethinking Gene Regulatory Network Inference via the BEELINE-KGC Benchmark and Co-evolutionary Discrete Diffusion
The paper introduces CoDiffGRN, a novel framework for gene regulatory network (GRN) inference that addresses limitations in current benchmarks and methods. The authors propose BEELINE-KGC, a benchmark with inductive gene-holdout splits and knowledge graph completion metrics, and develop CoDiffGRN using co-evolutionary discrete diffusion to jointly model gene expression states and regulatory interactions. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in novel regulatory discovery, with ablation studies validating the design. The method includes TF-ALL Subgraph Sampling (TASS) for scalable training.
gene regulatory networkinductive learningdiscrete diffusionknowledge graph completionsingle-cell transcriptomics
Knowledge- and Gradient-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Parametrized Action Markov Decision Processes
The paper introduces Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge- and Gradient-Guided Reinforcement Learning (KGRL), a novel algorithm for Parametrized Action Markov Decision Processes (PAMDPs) that integrates domain knowledge to improve sample efficiency. KGRL employs a Datalog knowledge base to prune non-applicable actions and constrain parameter spaces, followed by a gradient-based parameter refinement loop for optimal parameter estimation. It also provides procedural explanations by recording activated rules during trajectories. Evaluations demonstrate that KGRL outperforms state-of-the-art RL baselines in both sample efficiency and episodic return.
parametrized action markov decision processesneuro-symbolic reinforcement learningdatalog knowledge basegradient-based parameter refinementsample efficiency
Hallo4D: Multi-Modal Hallucination Mitigation for Consistent Spatio-Temporal Generation
Hallo4D introduces a unified framework for mitigating spatiotemporal hallucinations in 3D and 4D content generation, addressing issues like duplicated structures, misaligned geometry, jitter, and identity flicker. The method employs a generation-detection-correction paradigm, leveraging large multimodal language models (LMMs) to identify inconsistencies from multi-view and multi-frame renderings. It uses LMM-guided initialization, motion-aware keyframe sampling, and consensus-driven image-space consistency optimization, enhanced by exposure-aware optimization and visibility pruning. Extensive experiments show Hallo4D outperforms baselines across diverse 3D and 4D generation settings, offering a scalable solution for consistency-aware content generation.
spatiotemporal hallucinationsmultimodal language modelsimage-space consistencykeyframe samplingvisibility pruning
Improving Molecular Property Prediction in Small Language Models Using Graph-based Tools
The paper introduces a Context-Augmented Prompting framework to enhance zero-shot molecular property prediction in small language models (SLMs) by addressing structural blindness in SMILES string representations. The method employs a trained GNN expert model to provide predictive hints and extract instance-specific explanatory subgraphs, integrating these as context in prompts. Evaluations on MUTAG and Tox21 datasets demonstrate significant accuracy improvements, with relative gains exceeding 25% and reaching up to 74% on Tox21. Despite these gains, a performance gap persists compared to specialized GNN models, underscoring the limitations of text-conditioned reasoning for molecular structure.
small language modelsgraph neural networkssmiles stringszero-shot predictioncontext-augmented prompting
SemaDiff: Identifying Semantic-Changing Commits with Generated Code and Tests
SemaDiff introduces a behavior-based approach to identify semantic-preserving commits in software repositories by comparing test execution outcomes across pre- and post-commit versions. The method analyzes code diffs, generates additional calling methods using a large language model, and automatically creates tests for dependent code. This ensures identical tests are applied to both versions, enabling precise behavioral comparison. Evaluated on a manually annotated dataset of 183 commits from Java projects, SemaDiff achieves 76% accuracy in distinguishing semantic-preserving commits and 100% precision in detecting semantic-changing commits.
semantic-preserving commitsbehavior-based analysislarge language modeltest generationcode diff analysis
A Hybrid Mamba for Audio-Visual Navigation
The paper introduces Samba, a hybrid Mamba architecture for audio-visual navigation, addressing limitations in conventional convolutional and recurrent networks for dynamic multimodal sequence representation. Samba employs an adaptive selection-enabled Mamba State Encoder (M-SE) to replace GRUs for temporal aggregation and an Audio Mamba Encoder (AME) to enhance global time-frequency dependency capture in spectrograms. Experiments on Matterport3D and Replica datasets demonstrate Samba's superior generalization, achieving an 11.3% improvement in navigation success rate over state-of-the-art models, particularly in fine-grained scenes. The architecture offers robust embodied representation capabilities with reduced computational cost.
mamba state encoderaudio mamba encoderaudio-visual navigationtemporal aggregationspectrograms
STKAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
We propose STKAN, a spatio-temporal forecasting architecture that integrates Taylor-polynomial Kolmogorov-Arnold Network modules into spatial and temporal token mixing. The method constructs high-level spatial representations via learnable soft node-group assignment, applies group-wise spatial mixing, and models temporal dependencies over compressed sequences, enhanced by spatial and temporal self-attention layers for long-range interactions. Evaluated on five traffic forecasting benchmarks, STKAN demonstrates competitive performance, outperforming MLP-based variants, suggesting that nonlinear function approximator design complements architectural innovation in spatio-temporal forecasting.
kolmogorov-arnold networkspatio-temporal forecastingself-attentionnode-group assignmenttemporal dependencies
Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel
Hi-LeWM introduces hierarchical planning to LeWorldModel for long-horizon goal-conditioned control, freezing the pretrained low-level controller and adding high-level planning over latent subgoals. Evaluated on PushT and Cube tasks, hierarchical planning does not universally improve performance: short horizons favor one-step high-level planning, while longer horizons expose mismatches between learned high-level action spaces and inference-time search distributions. Experiments reveal that high-level subgoal generation is the primary bottleneck, with unconstrained search selecting poor control targets. Constraining search around training-trajectory macro-actions and optimizing subgoal timing recovers hierarchical benefits, improving over flat LeWM by +11.3 and +14.7 percentage points at medium and long PushT horizons, respectively.
hierarchical planninglatent subgoalsgoal-conditioned controlmacro-actionstemporal abstraction
Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey
The survey presents a system-level framework for self-improving autonomous agents, formalizing self-improvement as a self-induced update operator that modifies model parameters or scaffold components. It characterizes modern agents as configurations coupling foundation models with operational scaffolds comprising prompts, memory, tools, and control logic. The authors organize prior work by update targets and change-driving signals, review applications, and discuss evaluation methods. Open problems and future directions are outlined, with technical updates tracked on a dedicated GitHub repository.
autonomous agentsfoundation modeloperational scaffoldself-induced updatecontrol logic
Disentangling Knowledge States with Ability and Proficiency Modeling for Knowledge Tracing
We propose Phase-Aware Knowledge Tracing (PAKT), a framework that disentangles student interactions into ability-building and proficiency-oriented phases using a tailored decomposition mechanism. PAKT employs a multi-branch Transformer with a type-aware readout module to jointly capture phase-specific and holistic knowledge states, addressing confounding bias in phase-agnostic models. Extensive experiments on six public benchmarks show PAKT outperforms baselines, achieving a maximum AUC gain of 1.33% and an average gain of 0.82%.
knowledge tracingphase-aware modelingmulti-branch transformertype-aware readoutconfounding bias
Evidence-Grounded AI for Musculoskeletal Care
The study presents OrthoPilot, a clinical AI system leveraging a large language model for longitudinal musculoskeletal care management. The system integrates real-time hospital data (imaging, lab results, pathology) with external medical knowledge to generate evidence-based decisions across the care continuum. Evaluated on a specialist-validated benchmark of 1,000 disease codes, OrthoPilot outperformed 81 orthopaedic physicians in diagnostic reasoning and decision-making, achieving 10.6% higher full-chain management success in 1,870 complex cases. An 8-month randomized deployment with 8,240 inpatients demonstrated 9.7% increased case throughput per bed and improved patient-reported information access.
clinical artificial intelligencelarge language modelmusculoskeletal careevidence-based decisionslongitudinal management
From Observation to Insight: Mechanistic World Models and the Quest for Autonomous Discovery
The paper proposes Mechanistic World Models as a new paradigm for autonomous scientific discovery, arguing that current AI systems prioritize predictive accuracy over explanatory mechanisms. Drawing from philosophy of science, the authors formalize computational requirements for discovery, outline design principles for mechanism-centric learning, and analyze how existing approaches (mechanistic interpretability, causal representation learning, etc.) partially address these needs. The framework unifies diverse research directions under a common blueprint for building AI systems that uncover reusable explanatory structures rather than just optimizing predictive mappings.
mechanistic world modelsautonomous discoveryexplanatory mechanismscausal representation learningmodular architectures
TSSM: Triaxial State Space Model for Global Station Weather Forecasting with Temporal-Variable-Historical Modeling
The paper proposes TSSM, a Triaxial State Space Model for Global Station Weather Forecasting that integrates period-aligned historical weather data to address limitations in existing methods. TSSM employs a Temporal-Variable-Historical paradigm with axial temporal, variable, and historical scanning to capture long-term patterns and chaotic dynamics. On Weather-5K, TSSM achieves 10% higher accuracy and 61% better extreme event prediction than baselines, with 95% top-2 results on human-involved datasets. It shows 37.5% improvement at 240h forecasts and maintains >90% performance under 80% missing observations, outperforming baselines (<43%).
global station weather forecastingtriaxial state space modeltemporal-variable-historical modelingperiod-aligned historical dataextreme event prediction
WaterMoE: Expert-Routing-based Watermarking for High Fidelity and Efficiency
The paper introduces WaterMoE, an expert-routing-based watermarking method for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs that addresses fidelity degradation and inference overhead in existing techniques. By embedding watermark signals through controlled perturbation in expert selection at each router, WaterMoE accumulates token selection shifts at the output without post-processing. Experiments show it maintains near-native fidelity, outperforms 9 baseline methods, and achieves up to 4× speedup with only 1% additional latency, making it suitable for real-world deployment.
mixture-of-expertswatermarkingexpert-routinginference overheadtoken selection
Full-Pipeline Inference Optimization for MiMo-V2.5 Series: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit
The authors present a full-pipeline inference optimization for the MiMo-V2.5 model family, integrating Hybrid Sliding Window Attention (Hybrid SWA), sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), and multimodal encoders. They systematically optimize the KVCache system with layerwise prefetch, SWA-aware prefix cache trees, and specialized placement strategies, achieving strict O(W) SWA storage and high cache hit rates. Additionally, they introduce GCache, a high-performance distributed cache infrastructure with RDMA-optimized networking, and a KVCache-affinity router to reduce computation while maintaining load balancing. Multimodal inputs are optimized via GPU image preprocessing, parallel video decoding, and multimodal cache sharing. This constitutes the first large-scale LLM serving system efficiently handling Hybrid SWA + MoE + multimodal architectures in production.
hybrid swakv cachemixture-of-expertsmultimodal encodersrdma
Leveraging unlabelled data for generalizable neural population decoding
The paper introduces MOJO, a training framework combining self-supervised learning (SSL) via masked autoencoding with supervised objectives for neural population decoding. MOJO processes spike-level tokenized neural data across three datasets (monkey motor cortex, mouse multi-regional recordings, human electrocorticography), demonstrating superior performance to supervised-only baselines, particularly in few-shot finetuning with limited labeled data. Results show 1) improved decoding accuracy in label-scarce settings, 2) more interpretable neuronal representations for auxiliary tasks like brain region classification, and 3) generalization to continuous neural signals, matching specialized neuro-foundation models.
neural decodingself-supervised learningmasked autoencoderspike tokenizationfew-shot finetuning
Linear Independent Component Analysis via Optimal Transport
We propose OT-ICA, a novel Linear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm that measures non-Gaussianity using the squared Wasserstein distance ($W_2^2$) to a standard Gaussian, rather than traditional proxy contrast functions. The method leverages gradient-based optimization to find projections that maximize $W_2^2$, which theoretically recovers independent components when maximized. Empirical evaluations on simulated data demonstrate OT-ICA's superior performance over proxy-based methods across various latent variable distributions. Applications in EEG artifact removal and econometric price discovery further validate its practical utility without requiring distributional assumptions.
independent component analysiswasserstein distancenon-gaussianitygradient-based optimizationlatent variables
MetaPerch: Learning from metadata for bioacoustics foundation models
MetaPerch introduces a bioacoustic foundation model that leverages metadata as auxiliary supervision signals to enhance species identification. The method utilizes nine diverse metadata sources, including location and time, to capture species-metadata correlations, thereby enriching the learned representation beyond vocalizations alone. Evaluated on 17 bioacoustic datasets, MetaPerch demonstrates robust performance across multiple domains, addressing challenges in species distribution and acoustic domain shifts crucial for passive acoustic monitoring applications.
bioacoustic foundation modelauxiliary supervisionmetadata sourcesspecies identificationpassive acoustic monitoring
Screening of Biosecurity Features in Metagenomic Data with Evo 2 Probes
This work evaluates the biosecurity screening potential of genomic foundation models by probing frozen Evo 2 activations with lightweight linear and attention-based classifiers. Without fine-tuning, the probes extract antimicrobial resistance (AMR) signals with region-level ROC-AUCs of 0.888 (linear) and 0.977 (attention), resolve AMR drug-class subcategories, and separate them from unrelated functional genes. Bacterial virulence is also decodable (ROC-AUC 0.833). The AMR probe generalizes to simulated short reads (ROC-AUC 0.898) without retraining. Sparse autoencoder analysis yields interpretable features but is less consistent than supervised probes. These findings establish embedding-based probes as efficient first-pass detectors for metagenomic biosurveillance.
genomic foundation modelsbiosecurity screeningattention probesantimicrobial resistancemetagenomic biosurveillance
Lighthouse RL: Sample-Efficient Circuit Optimization via Strategic Reset Points
Lighthouse RL introduces a sample-efficient reinforcement learning approach for analog circuit sizing, addressing inefficiencies in traditional methods and standard RL. The method employs a strategic reset strategy that initializes episodes from high-performing configurations, termed 'lighthouses', to guide exploration toward promising regions. Evaluated on a 2D benchmark and two analog circuits, Lighthouse RL demonstrates significant improvements in sample efficiency (up to 1.72x faster), optimization performance (100% vs. 0-87% success rate), generalization (75% vs. 0-50% extrapolation success), and objective maximization. The reset strategy is applicable as a plug-and-play enhancement for any RL-based optimization approach.
reinforcement learninganalog circuit sizingsample efficiencystrategic resetblack-box optimization
Lyapunov Exponent as Physics-Informed Dense Reward: RL Discovery of Stabilization Beyond the Kapitza Pendulum
The authors propose using the Lyapunov characteristic exponent (LCE) as a dense reward signal in reinforcement learning for stabilizing an inverted pendulum with vertical motion. This physics-informed reward enables the agent to discover stabilization strategies beyond the known Kapitza pendulum oscillation. The method successfully achieved strict upright stabilization by damping the pendulum's pivoting motion, demonstrating LCE's efficacy in guiding RL agents toward physically meaningful solutions.
lyapunov characteristic exponentdense rewardreinforcement learninginverted pendulumkapitza pendulum
TRACE: Turn-level Reward Assignment via Credit Estimation for Long-Horizon Agents
TRACE introduces a dense credit-assignment method for reinforcement learning in multi-turn agents, addressing the challenge of sparse and misleading outcome rewards in long-horizon tasks. The method represents rollouts as state transitions, leverages gold-answer log-probabilities from a frozen reference model, and computes per-action rewards via Temporal-Difference changes in log-ratio state values. TRACE eliminates the need for additional critic training or process-label supervision. Evaluations on the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark demonstrate significant improvements, raising Qwen3-4B from 7.2 to 35.6 and Qwen3-30B-A3B from 8.4 to 42.6, with transferable search behavior and faster convergence.
credit assignmenttemporal-differencemulti-turn agentslog-ratio state valuesreinforcement learning
Multimodal Empirical Bayes Variational Autoencoders for Joint Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Modeling
The authors extend the empirical Bayes variational autoencoder (EB-VAE) framework to jointly model longitudinal tumor measurements and time-to-event data, incorporating genetic covariates. The method uses a covariate-conditioned empirical Bayes prior for latent individual effects, with a decoder mapping these to tumor-volume trajectories and a hazard model for dropout. Evaluated on tumor growth data, the hybrid semi-mechanistic decoder matched nonlinear mixed-effects estimates while maintaining predictive performance. The joint model accurately reproduced tumor-volume distributions and dropout patterns, with genetic conditioning improving predictions in melanoma and breast cancer. Stability selection identified biologically relevant genetic markers like BRAF and NRAS.
empirical bayesvariational autoencoderlongitudinal modelingtime-to-eventsemi-mechanistic
Beyond the $d^{2.5}$-mixing bound for Dikin walks on polytopes
The work improves the mixing time bound for Dikin walks on polytopes, advancing toward the conjectured $d^{2}$ complexity. By employing a scaled Lee--Sidford metric and developing a higher-order analysis framework, the authors demonstrate that the Dikin walk mixes from a warm start in $d^{2.25}$ iterations for exponential sampling over polytopes. The analysis leverages improved average self-concordance of the Lee--Sidford metric, enabling higher acceptance probabilities in the Metropolis filter. Key technical contributions include a selective higher-order expansion, moving orthonormal-frame calculus for Lewis weights, and Wiener-chaos decompositions to control Gaussian polynomials.
dikin walkpolytopeslee--sidford metricself-concordancewiener-chaos
A novel unsupervised machine learning strategy to handle multimodal cardiac PET/MRI data
A novel unsupervised clustering strategy was proposed for multimodal PET/MRI data analysis in arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathy. The method integrates T1/T2 maps, LGE, and 18F-FDG-PET images from 99 patients, applying z-scoring, supervoxel clustering, and spectral clustering to identify 32 inter-patient supervoxel groups. An abnormality score was assigned to each cluster for automated textual and bullseye health reports. Evaluated via repeated nested cross-validation, the approach achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.76 ± 0.04 on patient data and ≥0.8 on 167 numerical phantoms, closely matching cardiac physicians' observations and enabling systematic characterization of myocardial heterogeneity.
unsupervised clusteringpet/mrisupervoxelspectral clusteringmyocardial heterogeneity
VAIOM: Continuous-Input, Discrete-Output Decoder-Only Financial Sequence Modeling
The paper introduces VAIOM, a decoder-only Transformer for financial sequence modeling that handles continuous multivariate inputs while predicting discrete volatility-normalized return buckets. The proposed 0.9M-parameter Hybrid Continuous Input model combines continuous event features with categorical metadata, using a Mixture-of-Market-States return head and auxiliary objectives (Gap, volatility-regime, Ordinal) with full-sequence supervision. Evaluated on 2025 foreign-exchange data, VAIOM outperforms LightGBM baselines by 0.029-0.043 bits/event across three seeds, with ablation studies showing benefits of continuous inputs, full-sequence training, and auxiliary objectives.
decoder-only transformermixture-of-market-statesvolatility-normalized returnscontinuous-input modelingfinancial sequence prediction
Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers
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An Efficient Newton Algorithm for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with the Kullback-Leibler Divergence
The authors propose a Newton-type algorithm for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, addressing limitations of existing separable majorant-based methods. Their approach minimizes a non-separable surrogate loss via a generalized HALS algorithm, ensuring provable convergence. Evaluations demonstrate competitive performance against state-of-the-art methods across diverse datasets, particularly for count data like term-document matrices and images.
nonnegative matrix factorizationkullback-leibler divergencenewton algorithmhals algorithmpoisson distribution
The 2nd International StepUP Competition for Biometric Footstep Recognition: From Steps to Strides
The 2nd International StepUP Competition advanced pressure-based footstep biometrics by addressing three challenges: generalization to unseen users, robustness to domain shifts, and fusion of paired footsteps. Using the StepUP-P150 dataset (200,000+ footsteps from 150 individuals), the competition introduced extreme cross-domain conditions and stride-level verification. The ArogyaPandit Research Team achieved the best equal error rate of 8.00% using a spatiotemporal CNN with ensemble-based scoring. Results highlight the importance of temporal patterns and inference-time normalization but reveal difficulties in recognizing users with unseen footwear.
footstep biometricsdomain shiftspatiotemporal cnnensemble-based scoringstride-level verification
RF Spectrogram Anomaly Detection with Quantum Kitchen Sinks: Architecture, Representation, and Hardware Validation
The paper extends Quantum Kitchen Sinks (QKS) with multi-depth data re-uploading and ring entanglement for RF spectrogram anomaly detection, introducing a five-stage ablation protocol to evaluate architectural components. The method demonstrates that Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) representations outperform raw and PCA inputs, with moderate-depth entangled QKS achieving the best performance (test AUROC: 0.8778, F1: 0.7995). Real-device validation on ibm_quebec QPU shows AUROC deviations below 0.013 from simulation, providing a practical framework for QKS deployment in wireless networks.
quantum kitchen sinksanomaly detectionrf spectrogramdata re-uploadingquantum processing unit
PiVoT: A Variational Solution for Real-time Large-scale Multi-object Detection and Tracking under Heavy Clutter
PiVoT introduces a variational inference solution for real-time multi-object detection and tracking in cluttered radar point clouds, addressing limitations of Bayesian trackers in handling severe clutter and large object populations. The method jointly infers object states, shapes, existence probabilities, data association, and measurement rates through innovations like birth pruning, quadratic-to-linear complexity reductions, and an efficient Doppler Poisson model. Experiments demonstrate PiVoT's superior accuracy and scalability (up to 1000 objects), robustness to inseparable clutter, and real-time performance on automotive radar datasets, matching deep-learning detection benchmarks without training.
variational inferencemulti-object trackingdoppler poisson modelbayesian trackersradar point clouds
Task-Oriented Sensing and Covert Transmissions for Collaborative Multi-AUV Systems
The paper introduces the Sensed Information Value Realization Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (SVR-MARL) framework to optimize task-oriented sensing and covert transmissions in collaborative multi-AUV systems. The framework leverages practical information to quantify the utility of perceptual data for cooperative tasks and learns distributed policies under realistic communication and covert constraints. A case study on covert multi-AUV cooperative localization and tracking demonstrates that SVR-MARL improves task efficiency while minimizing unnecessary communication and exposure risks. The approach addresses limitations of existing MARL methods and traditional communication optimization by focusing on the actual contribution of information to task performance.
multi-agent reinforcement learningautonomous underwater vehiclescovert communicationstask-oriented sensingcooperative localization
AI-Augmented Adaptive Digital Twin Modeling for Brain Tumor Evolution Prediction and Treatment Scheduling
The authors propose an AI-augmented adaptive digital twin framework for predicting brain tumor evolution and optimizing treatment scheduling. The framework combines an interpretable reaction-diffusion model, a 3D residual learning module for model correction, patient-specific digital twin updating, and model predictive control for chemotherapy and radiotherapy scheduling. Experiments on 387 synthetic tumor trajectories demonstrate that hybrid reaction-diffusion-residual modeling reduces masked voxel-wise mean squared error by 84.3% and increases Dice overlap by 43.5% compared to the baseline. Online digital twin updating further reduces mean squared error by 45.9% and improves Dice overlap by 9.6%. The updated digital twin controller reduces final tumor burden by 22.4% compared to fixed treatment schedules.
digital twinreaction-diffusion modelmodel predictive controlresidual learningtumor evolution
Relevance-Aware Rule: Structural Deletion of Irrelevant Conditions in Decision Trees
The paper introduces a structural framework for reliably deleting irrelevant conditions (IRCs) in decision trees while preserving prediction reliability. The key theoretical contribution establishes that binary splits create opposing class-proportion shifts (C1-links and C0-links), enabling identification of structurally suspicious IRCs via mismatched links. The proposed method selectively deletes conditions that are both structurally and empirically irrelevant, rigorously protecting reliability-critical splits. Experiments demonstrate substantial rule simplification without compromising the original tree's reliability.
irrelevant conditionsdecision treesstructural deletionclass-proportion shiftsrule simplification
Quantum Topological Data Encoding
The authors propose Quantum Topological Data Encoding (QTDE), a framework for embedding topological information into quantum states via topology-driven quantum evolution, generalizing prior work to higher-dimensional data. The method encodes classical topological structures into Hilbert space representations, evaluated on clique-complex classification tasks. Preliminary results show QTDE outperforms classical combinatorial Laplacian comparisons, suggesting enhanced discriminative power. Potential applications include domains requiring efficient topological data representation.
quantum machine learningtopological data analysishilbert spacecombinatorial laplacianclique-complex
Heavy-Tailed Flow Matching via Random Clocks
Heavy-Tailed Flow Matching via Random Clocks (HTFM) introduces a framework for generating heavy-tailed data by modeling sources as mixtures of clock-conditioned Gaussian distributions. The method encodes path-valued clocks using truncated logsignature features, enabling efficient adaptation of the velocity field to conditional spaces. HTFM outperforms Gaussian flow matching and heavy-tailed baselines on 2D imbalanced α-stable mixtures, CIFAR10-LT, and HRRR weather fields, improving mode coverage, sample quality, and tail-statistic recovery while maintaining low-NFE sampling efficiency. Additionally, HTFM provides a tail-control interface by varying the clock law or tail parameter, allowing calibration of tail heaviness across distribution families.
heavy-tailedflow matchinggaussian scale mixturelogsignature featurestail-control interface
Mono-Z Dark Matter Search with Neural Spline Flows Using CMS Run 2015D Open Data
The study presents a novel dark matter (DM) search using Neural Spline Flows (NSFs) to analyze CMS Run 2015D open data (2.32 fb⁻¹) for mono-Z→ℓ⁺ℓ⁻ events (μμ and ee channels). Forty kinematic observables are reduced to 37 features, with five NSFs independently modeling Standard Model backgrounds and DM signal densities via mediator-specific likelihood ratios. A simultaneous profile-likelihood fit yields 95% CL upper limits on signal strength (μ<0.0177 observed for scalar mediators, weaker than expected due to high-MET background discrepancies). This marks the first NSF application to mono-Z DM searches in CMS data.
neural spline flowsmono-zdark mattercms run 2015dprofile-likelihood fit
Algebraic Representability as the Limiting Regime of Grokking: An Exactly Solvable Model with Holomorphic Activations
This work establishes algebraic representability as the limiting regime of grokking in neural networks, demonstrating that when model capacity collapses to a finite-dimensional algebraic variety, the grokking phenomenon disappears. The authors analyze two-layer networks with holomorphic monomial activations σ(z)=z^k trained on modular arithmetic tasks encoded via roots of unity, showing that outputs are confined to a (k+1)-dimensional subspace. They prove that tasks are representable iff their discrete Fourier support lies on the diagonal u+v=k (mod p), with non-representable tasks exhibiting a positive lower bound on training loss. Empirical results across 585 runs show 99.8% accuracy in predicting binary outcomes (instant success or failure) without grokking, linking this extreme case to standard networks through capacity ablation.
grokkingholomorphic activationmodular arithmeticalgebraic varietyfourier support
Implementations of Quantum and Classical Topology-Aligned Architectures for Molecular Property Prediction
The authors propose topology-aligned inductive biases for molecular property prediction, where model architectures mirror molecular bond graphs. They instantiate this principle in two architectures: Iso-QGNN, a variational quantum circuit, and Iso-CGNN, a classical message-passing model with matched parameters. Both models, each with 64 trainable parameters, are evaluated on HOMO-LUMO gap and dipole moment binary classification tasks using the QM9 benchmark. Results show test AUCs of ~0.88 (quantum) and ~0.91 (classical) on the gap task, and ~0.78 (both) on the dipole task. The models achieve 90% asymptotic performance with ~250 training molecules, maintaining stable gradient norms, indicating the topology-aligned bias drives parameter efficiency.
topology-alignedinductive biasmessage-passingvariational quantum circuitparameter efficiency
Constraint-Driven Model Optimization: An Industry Framework for Selecting Compression and Acceleration Techniques in Modern Machine Learning Systems
The authors introduce a constraint-driven framework for optimizing machine learning model deployments across cloud, edge, and enterprise environments. The framework characterizes deployments along five dimensions: data availability, latency budget, memory budget, accuracy tolerance, and retraining budget. It synthesizes empirical gains from literature on techniques like quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, mapping them to operational constraints rather than algorithmic categories. The authors propose a prescriptive decision framework and provide optimization pipelines for four industrial scenarios. This work formalizes model optimization as a constraint-aware, multi-objective engineering process, synthesizing quantitative evidence from research literature.
quantizationpruningknowledge distillationparameter-efficient fine-tuninginference-time optimization
DAGR: State-Conditioned Goal Representations via Difference-Aware Goal Cross-Attention
DAGR introduces state-conditioned goal representations via difference-aware goal cross-attention, refining static embeddings from any late-fusion encoder. The method employs multi-scale gated cross-attention with a near-identity gated residual to preserve base representations, while biasing attention scores using per-token state-goal discrepancy maps. On OGBench, DAGR improves navigation performance, with ablations attributing gains to the gated residual rather than the difference bias; it matches or underperforms baselines on manipulation and puzzle tasks, indicating task-specific utility.
goal-conditioned reinforcement learningcross-attentionstate-conditioned representationsgated residualdifference-aware bias
Towards quantum machine learning for assessing the resilience of post-quantum cryptography
This work proposes leveraging Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs) to assess vulnerabilities in post-quantum cryptographic protocols, specifically hash-based digital signatures. The authors demonstrate a hybrid quantum-classical method for loading the probability distribution of these signatures into quantum computer memory. Results indicate that near-term quantum devices, despite limitations in size and precision, possess sufficient capabilities for this task. This approach serves as an initial step in utilizing quantum computing for evaluating the resilience of post-quantum cryptographic primitives against quantum attacks.
quantum generative adversarial networkspost-quantum cryptographyhash-based signatureshybrid quantum-classicalprobability distribution
Conditional Invertible Neural Networks for Data-Driven UAV Control: A 2-D Proof of Concept
The study proposes conditional invertible neural networks (cINNs) as probabilistic inverse-dynamics models for multirotor control, specifically applied to a planar X8 coaxial multicopter. The method leverages rational-quadratic spline coupling and invertible linear mixing to learn $p(u \mid s_t, c_t)$ from an incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI) teacher. Open-loop evaluation achieves $R^2 = 0.944$, mean CRPS of 0.0915, and log-probability-error correlation $ρ= -0.60$. In closed-loop testing over 15 scenarios, position RMSE matches INDI (9.7 vs. 9.5 m), with 47% acceptable tracking; failures are attributed to attitude divergence under aggressive steps and phase lag under high-frequency references, highlighting command bandwidth and data coverage as key limitations.
conditional invertible neural networksprobabilistic inverse-dynamicsrational-quadratic spline couplingincremental nonlinear dynamic inversionmultirotor control
Microstructure-Conditioned Surrogate Models for Graded Multiscale Optimization of Mycelium Composites
The authors present microstructure-conditioned surrogate models for multiscale optimization of mycelium-woodchip composites, enabling efficient simulation of functionally graded structures. They employ a hybrid physics-data surrogate conditioned on microstructural variables via a hypernetwork, trained on small datasets while maintaining accuracy against full FE^2 simulations. The method reduces peak stress by 42% in optimized graded multiscale disks compared to random microstructures. Furthermore, the network is conditioned directly on manufacturing variables influencing microstructure, providing a practical approach to engineer microscale properties for desired macroscale behavior. This work demonstrates the efficacy of conditioned surrogate models in accelerating the design of sustainable materials.
surrogate modelsmultiscale optimizationmicrostructurehypernetworkfunctionally graded
Optimal and Efficient Contextual Combinatorial Semi-bandits with General Function Approximation
SquareCB.Comb is introduced as a computationally efficient algorithm for the contextual combinatorial semi-bandit (CCSB) problem with general reward function approximation. The method solves a convex optimization problem at each round to sample combinatorial actions balancing exploration and exploitation, scaling to large arm sets with no structural assumptions beyond a cardinality bound. SquareCB.Comb achieves a minimax optimal regret bound of $O(\sqrt{m A T \log |\mathcal{F}|})$, matching state-of-the-art guarantees in restricted settings while generalizing to arbitrary combinatorial action structures and reward function approximation.
contextual combinatorial semi-banditconvex optimizationminimax optimal regretreward function approximationexploration-exploitation tradeoff
The Hyperspherical Geometry of CLIP Latent Space: A Semantic Mixture Model
The authors propose a Mixture of von Mises-Fisher (MovMF) distributions to model the hyperspherical geometry of CLIP latent space, addressing limitations of Gaussian assumptions. Using Expectation-Maximization (EM), they learn a probabilistic model where each mixture component corresponds to a coherent semantic concept. This approach yields closed-form likelihoods aligned with hyperspherical geometry, improving long-tailed and out-of-distribution detection while enabling interpretable semantic decomposition. Empirical results demonstrate that CLIP latent space is better characterized as a hyperspherical semantic mixture rather than an isotropic Gaussian, providing a geometrically consistent probabilistic framework for multimodal representations.
cliphyperspherical geometryvon mises-fisherexpectation-maximizationmultimodal representations
Maximally Robust Satisficing Bayesian Optimization
The paper introduces a Bayesian optimization method for identifying satisficing solutions that are maximally robust to input perturbations post-deployment. Unlike prior approaches, the method assumes precise control during optimization but accounts for perturbations occurring after deployment. The authors argue that robustness is a critical criterion when multiple satisfactory solutions exist within a function's superlevel set. The proposed technique efficiently locates solutions that remain valid under the largest possible perturbations, addressing a common scenario in design tasks where optimality is unnecessary but robustness is essential.
bayesian optimizationsatisficing solutionssuperlevel setinput perturbationsrobustness
How the Hessian-Spectrum of Neural Networks Depends on Data
This work derives the eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix for linear neural networks across arbitrary architectures and datasets, establishing a direct relationship between solution sharpness and the maximum class proportion in classification tasks with MSE loss. The analysis extends beyond prior simplified settings by systematically relaxing impractical assumptions and incorporating nonlinearities. Empirical validation demonstrates robustness of the theoretical predictions, enabling generalization to practical learning scenarios. The findings provide insights into loss landscape properties, optimization dynamics, and generalization measures in deep learning.
hessian matrixeigenvalueslinear networksmse lossgeneralization
FastCentNN: Accelerating Centroid Neural Network with Entropy Proxy
FastCentNN accelerates Centroid Neural Network (CentNN) by introducing an early splitting strategy based on centroid movement entropy proxy, eliminating prolonged stabilization phases. The method uses absolute or stage-relative movement thresholds to trigger splitting while preserving CentNN's winner-loser dynamics. Experiments on synthetic and high-dimensional datasets show comparable clustering quality with runtime reductions of 16% and 5%, respectively, making it a practical drop-in replacement with configurable speed-stability trade-offs.
centroid neural networkunsupervised learningcompetitive learningentropy proxyearly splitting
Gauge-Invariant, Parameter-Insensitive Regularization for Potential Recovery from Flow on Directed Graphs
The paper introduces a gauge-invariant regularization method for recovering latent potentials from observed flow on directed graphs, addressing the ill-posedness of the discrete Poisson problem with Dirichlet boundaries. Unlike ridge regularization, which collapses dynamic range and reverses ordering (rank correlation drops from +0.81 to -0.42), the proposed graph Dirichlet energy ensures parameter-insensitivity and preserves dynamic range across four orders of magnitude in λ. Theoretical analysis shows the reduced solve is SPD and maintains dynamic range where ridge fails. Empirical validation on three clickstream corpora demonstrates retention of 28–41% interior dynamic range versus ridge’s collapse to 0.2%. The method also extends to graph neural networks, preventing oversmoothing in deep directed GCNs.
gauge-invariant regularizationdirected graphsdynamic rangediscrete poisson problemgraph dirichlet energy
Analogical Deep Research: Retrieving and Integrating Historical Analogies for Foresight Analysis
This work introduces Analogical Deep Research (ADR), a novel task for Large Language Model (LLM) agents to retrieve and integrate historical analogies for foresight analysis. The authors construct ADR-bench, the first benchmark for this task, and identify a key limitation: LLMs tend to match surface features rather than underlying mechanisms. They propose Causal Analogical Researcher (CANA), an agentic framework incorporating mechanism alignment and cross-analogy confirmation principles. CANA employs structural decomposition and feedback for reflective improvements, achieving up to 10% gains in historical analogy generation and outperforming state-of-the-art deep research agents on ADR-bench.
analogical deep researchhistorical analogiescausal analogical researchermechanism alignmentstructural decomposition
Structured Reinforcement Learning for Bayesian Persuasion : Application to Intelligent Interactive Driving
The paper introduces MAPL, a structured reinforcement learning framework for Bayesian persuasion in interactive driving scenarios, where a lead vehicle guides connected vehicles by selectively revealing traffic information. The method leverages supermodular Q-learning (SQP) to synthesize computationally efficient signaling strategies for monotonic agents with approximate best responses. Key contributions include identifying sufficient conditions for Q-function supermodularity and persuasiveness, and proposing SQP for efficient strategy synthesis. Numerical analysis demonstrates a 30% improvement in cost efficiency for optimizing travel rewards compared to existing methods.
bayesian persuasionstructured reinforcement learningsupermodular q-learningmonotonic agentsignaling strategy
Approximation of solutions of parameter-dependent problems by residual neural networks
The authors propose a convergent training scheme for neural networks with analytic activation functions, leveraging gradient flows and Lojasiewicz theory to guarantee convergence. The method approximates network coefficients by solving a system of ordinary differential equations, offering simplicity in implementation. The approach is validated by constructing residual neural network approximations for parametric problems, accurately reproducing solutions of simple ordinary differential equations dependent on a few parameters. Additionally, it reasonably approximates solutions of inverse problems involving wave constraints, even in severely ill-posed regions.
gradient flowslojasiewicz theoryanalytic activation functionsresidual neural networksparametric problems
Graded Entity-Familiarity Readouts in Language Models: Polish Adaptation, Cross-Language Robustness, and Refusal Steering
The study demonstrates that language models can estimate entity familiarity through final-token activations, using a novel Polish dataset of 1,440 real and fabricated entities across four domains. Analyzing twelve instruction-tuned models (Bielik, PLLuM, Gemma-4, Qwen3), familiarity-probe scores distinguished real from fabricated entities (model-mean Spearman ρ 0.28-0.57 for Polish-adapted models) and showed cross-language robustness (96-101% AUROC retention when switching prompt language). In Gemma-4-12B, a one-dimensional familiarity adjustment at a single layer modulated refusal rates (0.24-1.00 for known entities, 0.73-0.00 for unknown). Familiarity probes were competitive as pre-generation abstention gates but outperformed by post-generation detectors.
entity-familiarityinstruction-tuned modelsspearman correlationabstention gatescross-language robustness
Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning
This work introduces a reinforcement learning approach using the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) algorithm for autonomous navigation in unsteady, chaotic double-gyre flows. The study evaluates five bio-inspired observation strategies, including relative position, local velocity, local vorticity, and short-term memory variants, to determine optimal sensory mechanisms. Results indicate that agents sensing and remembering flow velocity measures achieve the highest performance, with velocity-aware agents optimizing energy efficiency and vorticity sensors improving structural mapping and target proximity. Explicit global flow parameters decrease navigation performance, suggesting that implicit flow representations lead to more robust policies. These findings advance bio-inspired robotic navigation from simulation to real-world applications.
reinforcement learningtd3 algorithmdouble-gyre flowsensory mechanismsautonomous navigation
Parallel gradient boosting for flexible estimation of conditional distributions
The paper proposes parallel gradient boosting, a modified gradient boosting algorithm for efficient multi-output prediction tasks like conditional distribution estimation. The method uses a common descent direction across all training observations, requiring only one base model per iteration regardless of target count. Theoretical convergence conditions are established, with empirical evaluation showing comparable accuracy to XGBoost while achieving orders-of-magnitude speedups. The estimator outperforms nonparametric and semiparametric alternatives in high-dimensional settings with mixed/missing covariates.
gradient boostingmulti-output regressionconditional distribution estimationquantile regressionnonparametric estimation
From Novice to Expert: Cost-Aware Bandits for Evolving Worker Performance in Crowdsensing
The authors propose a cost-aware online learning framework for mobile crowdsensing (MC) worker recruitment, addressing evolving worker performance and unknown costs. The method formulates the problem as a structured bandit model where each worker's expected reward follows an unknown increasing-then-converging function based on participation count, while costs remain heterogeneous and unknown. The framework jointly learns reward trajectories and costs, detects performance saturation, and optimizes budget allocation for long-term sensing utility. Theoretical guarantees are provided, and experiments demonstrate consistent improvements over baselines that ignore experience-driven dynamics or assume known costs.
mobile crowdsensingstructured banditcost-aware learningperformance saturationbudget allocation
Clustering algorithms for multivariate wind farm SCADA data filtering
This paper evaluates clustering algorithms for filtering multivariate SCADA data from wind farms, focusing on identifying normal operation measurements. The study compares multiple clustering methods against manual filtering, introducing robust evaluation metrics for unlabeled data. Models are applied to 10-minute statistics from three offshore wind turbines, capturing anomalies, operational modes, and non-evident outliers from field tests. Results indicate that cluster-based methods outperform manual filtering in detecting both evident and subtle outliers, though accuracy and data retention vary by model. Expert involvement remains necessary but reduced compared to manual filtering, highlighting the importance of extending analysis beyond power curves in feature selection and metric design.
scada dataclustering algorithmswind farmanomaly detectionfeature selection
When T2I Synthetic Data Backfires: Amplified Privacy Risks in Real-Synthetic Mix Training
The paper demonstrates that Real-Synthetic Mix-Training (RSMT) amplifies privacy risks for real training samples, contrary to the common assumption that synthetic data substitution mitigates privacy exposure. Through RSMT Memorization Amplification theory, the authors show synthetic data displaces real samples to feature space peripheries, increasing memorization. They propose RSMixLeak, a membership inference attack framework with benign and adversarial variants, revealing up to 18.7% higher attack success rates. A lightweight leakage propensity indicator is introduced to identify high-risk datasets unsuitable for RSMT.
real-synthetic mix-trainingmembership inference attacksprivacy leakagetext-to-image generationfeature space displacement
CDS: Counterfactual Directionality Score for Structured Interventions in Spatial Graphs
The authors introduce the Counterfactual Directionality Score (CDS), a framework for quantifying directional influence between node populations in spatial graphs through structured counterfactual interventions. The method trains a Neighbor Influence Model (NIM) to predict node states from local neighborhoods and applies constrained perturbations that preserve spatial and structural properties. CDS measures the change in predicted node states induced by these interventions, interpreted as a finite-difference measure of local sensitivity. Experiments on synthetic spatial graphs demonstrate CDS's ability to recover directional influence, maintain calibration under null conditions, and resist confounding signals, with preliminary spatial transcriptomics results showing biologically plausible interactions.
counterfactual directionality scoreneighbor influence modelspatial graphsstructured interventionsfinite-difference measure
Factorized Spectral Representations for Reinforcement Learning
FaStR introduces a factorized spectral representation method for reinforcement learning by modeling the transition kernel as a three-mode tensor over states, actions, and next states, and applying CP decomposition with a noise contrastive objective. This approach yields separate state, action, and next-state encoders, reducing the hypothesis class size and improving sample efficiency, particularly in high-dimensional locomotion tasks. Empirical results show significant performance gains when dynamics align with the factored structure, with the state encoder transferring intact across actuator shifts while only the action encoder requires retraining.
spectral representationcp decompositionnoise contrastive objectivetransition kernellocomotion tasks
A VAE-Driven Multi-Task Satellite-Aided Semantic Communication Framework for 6G-Enabled Connected Autonomous Vehicles
The authors propose a VAE-based multi-task semantic communication framework for satellite-assisted connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in 6G networks. The method employs probabilistic latent representations to encode task-relevant semantic features, enabling simultaneous traffic sign reconstruction and classification with bandwidth-efficient transmission. Experimental results demonstrate 87.23%-98.17% bandwidth reduction while maintaining robust performance across varying SNR conditions.
variational autoencodersemantic communicationconnected autonomous vehicles6g networksmulti-task learning
Topology-Agnostic Mesh Reconstruction of Deformable Objects from Sparse Touch
The paper introduces a topology-agnostic mesh reconstruction method for deformable objects using sparse tactile inputs without vision. The approach employs a permutation-invariant cross-attention architecture to handle 1D, 2D, and 3D deformable objects, reducing reconstruction error by ~66% compared to non-learned baselines. Results show superior performance over geometric mesh completion, Gaussian-process surfaces, and global-pool encoders, with active touch selection via deep-ensemble uncertainty further improving accuracy, particularly under occlusion. Vision-free settings demonstrate significant benefits over vision-aided scenarios.
mesh reconstructiondeformable objectssparse touchcross-attentiondeep-ensemble uncertainty
Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability
A learned state estimator is proposed for deformable tissue retraction under partial observability, reconstructing full deformable mesh states from 40 noisy vertex observations. The method combines a multilayer perceptron with a low-dimensional PCA latent representation, trained using geometry-aware regularization to ensure smooth and physically plausible deformations. Evaluated in a 2D deformable sheet simulation, the estimator achieves 98.1% of oracle performance in multi-step retraction planning while maintaining efficient inference. This demonstrates the effectiveness of geometry-regularized state estimation for deformable manipulation under realistic perception constraints.
deformable meshstate estimationmultilayer perceptronpca latent representationgeometry-aware regularization
HIVE-3D: Hierarchical Voxel Enhancement for High-Quality 3D Scene Generation
HIVE-3D introduces a hierarchical voxel enhancement framework for high-quality 3D scene generation from a single image. The method first generates a coarse initial scene, then employs image segmentation and attention-based retrieval to align 2D image components with 3D scene components, organizing them into a hierarchical component tree. A voxel super-resolution model refines voxels while maintaining consistency with coarse voxels, enabling coarse-to-fine hierarchical super-resolution for each component. Extensive experiments show that HIVE-3D significantly outperforms previous approaches, achieving state-of-the-art performance in 3D scene generation.
hierarchical voxel enhancementimage segmentationattention-based retrievalvoxel super-resolution3d scene generation
PQFA: Parallel Quantum Feature Augmentation of Fused Representations for Multimodal Classification
The paper proposes Parallel Quantum Feature Augmentation (PQFA), a hybrid quantum-classical framework for enhancing fused multimodal representations. PQFA processes fused text-image features (from frozen RoBERTa and ViT encoders via cross-attention and gated fusion) through parallel shallow variational quantum circuits, concatenating quantum readouts with classical features for prediction. Evaluated on MM-IMDb and N24News, PQFA outperforms classical MLP augmentation (2.2K vs 24.0K parameters) and shows robustness in missing-modality scenarios, particularly with degraded text. Ablations confirm quantum-specific benefits beyond increased width or random mappings.
quantum feature augmentationmultimodal fusionvariational quantum circuitshybrid quantum-classicalattentive pooling
DreamSat-Pose: Spacecraft Pose Estimation from Single-View 3D Reconstructions and Learned 2D-3D Feature Matching
The paper introduces DreamSat-Pose, a novel framework for single-shot 6-DoF pose estimation and 3D shape reconstruction of unknown spacecraft from monocular images. The method combines a frozen DINOv3 vision transformer for 2D feature extraction with a dynamic graph CNN for 3D geometric encoding, followed by a dual-stream transformer matcher to establish dense 2D-3D correspondences. Pose is recovered via Perspective-$n$-Point solving. Evaluated on SPE3R, the system achieves 0.157° mean pointing error, outperforming FoundationPose and generalizing to unseen spacecraft.
6-dof pose estimationsingle-view reconstructiondinov3graph cnnperspective-n-point
Distributionally Robust and Safe Imitation Learning
The authors propose a distributionally robust and safe imitation learning (IL) framework addressing both policy-induced and uncertainty-induced distribution shifts. The method combines Taylor Series Imitation Learning (TaSIL) for policy-induced shifts with distributionally robust adaptive control for uncertainty-induced shifts, optimizing performance under distributional uncertainty while enforcing safety constraints. Experimental validation on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) task demonstrates effective operation in uncertain environments while avoiding unsafe regions.
imitation learningdistributional robustnesssafety constraintsadaptive controlunmanned aerial vehicle
Local Redundancy: An Information-Theoretic Measure of Plasticity from Synthetic Memorization
The authors introduce local redundancy, an information-theoretic measure of neural network plasticity derived from universal compression theory. Local redundancy is defined as the worst-case redundancy of a local model family in an infinitesimal neighborhood along gradient directions. They prove that the expected squared gradient norm on a synthetic memorization task provides a computationally tractable lower bound for this measure. Experiments on continual image classification and time series transfer learning show that local redundancy outperforms existing measures in predicting downstream task performance and enables effective pretraining checkpoint selection when validation loss plateaus.
local redundancyplasticityuniversal compression theorysynthetic memorizationgradient norm
PUe: Biased Positive-Unlabeled Learning Enhancement by Causal Inference
PUe introduces a Positive-Unlabeled learning enhancement framework addressing selection bias in label distributions through causal inference. The method leverages normalized propensity scores and normalized inverse probability weighting (NIPW) within the SAR-PU framework, incorporating regularized deep propensity-score estimation and integration with cost-sensitive PU methods. Theoretical analyses focus on normalized sample-weight error and estimator behavior under biased labeling, while supporting selectively labeled negative classes. Experiments on MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ADNI datasets demonstrate performance improvements over existing PU baselines in non-uniform label distribution scenarios.
positive-unlabeled learningselection biasnormalized inverse probability weightingpropensity scorescost-sensitive methods
Temperature Scaling Is Not Enough: Calibration Gaps Under Human Label Distributions
The paper identifies a calibration gap in temperature scaling when applied to soft human label distributions, challenging its standard theoretical justification based on one-hot labels. Evaluating three model scales on CIFAR-10H and ChaosNLI with both hard and soft labels, the authors find consistent underperformance of hard-label calibration (Brier Score gaps: 0.002-0.134), with larger gaps in language tasks (mean 0.079) than vision (mean 0.003). The gap grows with model scale in most configurations, and similar results hold for multiclass isotonic regression, suggesting systematic miscalibration in safety-critical applications with label ambiguity.
temperature scalingcalibration gapsoft labelsbrier scorehuman label distributions
OrDA: Orthogonal Disentanglement of Access Habits Framework for Homepage Marketing Block Recommendations
The paper proposes OrDA, a framework for disentangling content interest from access habits in homepage marketing block recommendations. The method employs a dual-tower architecture with gated feature allocation and orthogonal regularization to enforce geometric perpendicularity between latent interest and habit manifolds. During inference, causal intervention (do-calculus) ranks items by purified interest scores. Evaluations on Zhima's platform show a 5.64% UCTR improvement, demonstrating effective bias reduction compared to state-of-the-art methods.
orthogonal disentanglementaccess habitsdual-tower architecturecausal interventionclick-through rate
EXPLORE: Exploration with Guided Search for Analog Topology Generation using Language Models
EXPLORE introduces a search-enhanced framework for analog circuit topology generation, integrating Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with transformer-based decoding to address limitations of one-shot generation methods. By leveraging language-model priors and prioritizing topology-altering decisions, EXPLORE efficiently allocates simulator budget during search. On a 6-component benchmark with a 0.01 tolerance, EXPLORE achieves a 65% success rate, significantly outperforming one-shot generation (12%) and sampling-and-filter baselines (33%), while reducing mean squared error by over 20%. This framework represents a practical advancement in scaling large language model-driven design automation.
monte carlo tree searchtransformer-based decodinganalog topology generationlanguage-model priorssimulator-guided search
Non-Expansive Two-Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation: A Fixed-Schedule One-Quarter Barrier and Bias-Corrected Acceleration
The paper analyzes non-expansive two-time-scale stochastic approximation (TTSA) under a contractive fast map and non-expansive reduced slow map. It establishes a finite-horizon lower bound showing the classical Krasnoselskii--Mann (KM) residual scale is worst-case sharp for unregularized updates, explaining the observed $k^{-1/4+o(1)}$ last-iterate convergence. Introducing a residual-preconditioned slow oracle, the authors demonstrate improved rates: nested Tikhonov-KM achieves $T^{-1/3+o(1)}$ (vs. $T^{-1/4+o(1)}$ uncorrected) by reducing bias to second-order in fast error. A single-loop derivative-oracle variant attains $T^{-1/2+o(1)}$ with $O(1)$ samples per iteration.
two-time-scale stochastic approximationkrasnoselskii--mann iterationtikhonov regularizationnon-expansive mapsoracle complexity
Evaluating Frontier AI Agents as Autonomous Clinical Security Auditors
The study introduces an evaluation task to assess frontier AI agents' ability to autonomously conduct clinical AI security audits, based on the METR Task Standard v0.3.0. Agents were tasked with implementing four attacks from pseudocode, computing a Security Posture Score, and generating a structured JSON report within a Docker container using only a bash interface. Evaluations spanned six variants across two datasets and three model architectures, with reference scores ranging from 55.60 to 90.41. Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-4.1 achieved perfect scores across all runs, while GPT-4o completed 61% of runs with higher token usage and encountered specific failures.
clinical aisecurity auditdocker containersecurity posture scoremetr task standard
Demystifying On-Policy Distillation: Roles, Pathologies, and Regulations
This study elucidates the mechanisms and pathologies of on-policy distillation (OPD) in LLM post-training, identifying its role as an exploration catalyst that guides reasoning paths via token-level signals without expanding capability ceilings. Through systematic analysis, it reveals two critical pathologies: Student-Teacher Mismatch, where distributional gaps misalign guidance, and Length Exploitation, where token-level objectives incentivize degenerate length modes. The authors propose lightweight signal regulations—advantage clipping and log-scale compression—to mitigate these issues. Experiments across seven benchmarks demonstrate that these regulations stabilize exploration, outperforming OPD variants and RLVR baselines, confirming signal quality as the key driver of effective distillation.
on-policy distillationtoken-level guidancestudent-teacher mismatchlength exploitationadvantage clipping
Self-Improving is Often Sudden: Enlightenment-style Finetuning for Large-Scale Models
The authors propose Enlightenment, a training-free post-tuning paradigm for large-scale models inspired by the 'enlightenment' phenomenon in human cognition. The method modifies shortcuts for key modules/layers without weight updates, introducing two architecture-specific instantiations: attention head-mixing shortcuts for large language models and scalar-modulated residual connections for vision-language models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Enlightenment unlocks latent potential in pre-trained networks, yielding significant performance improvements across diverse benchmarks and models.
training-freepost-tuningattention head-mixingscalar-modulatedlatent potential
GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models
GFlowRL introduces a streamlined GFlowNet-style reinforcement learning algorithm that removes the auxiliary partition network while preserving reward-distribution-matching objectives. The method replaces the learned partition function with an in-batch Monte Carlo estimate and employs importance-sampling correction and asymmetric flow-gap clipping for stability. GFlowRL achieves state-of-the-art performance on math, code, and adversarial red-teaming benchmarks, reaching a Codeforces rating of 2048 at the 14B scale and outperforming previous methods on AdvBench and HarmBench. It scales stably across dense and sparse architectures up to 235B parameters, where prior GFlowNet-style methods diverge.
gflownetreinforcement learningmonte carlo estimateimportance-samplingflow-gap clipping
Where Should RL Post-Training Compute Go? Model Size, Search, Learning, and Feedback
The paper introduces a FLOP-accounting framework for RL post-training, decomposing compute into rollout/search, policy-update/learning, and reward-model evaluation. Using LoRA-adapted Qwen2.5 policies, the authors identify conditional allocation frontiers that vary with model size, compute budget, reward system, and evaluation target. Results show that larger policies consume more per-token compute, reducing updates or rollouts under fixed budgets, and that reward systems significantly impact compute allocation. The RACE protocol is proposed as a diagnostic tool for identifying optimal allocation regimes before costly validation runs. The study advocates for detailed FLOP reporting in RL post-training research.
flop-accountingrl post-traininglora-adaptedrollout searchrace protocol
Weight Feedback Computes the Jacobian Transpose Locally in Modern Deep Networks
The paper introduces Weight Feedback-Activated Predictive Coding (WF-Act-PC), a biologically motivated alternative to backpropagation that eliminates the need for non-local Jacobian-transpose operations in error routing. WF-Act-PC leverages locally available terms—activation derivatives, pre-activations, and normalization gains—to compute the Jacobian transpose for layers with frozen normalization statistics. This method operates under assumptions of weight symmetry, soft spectral-norm control, and nearest-neighbor approximation for MaxPool. Evaluated on CIFAR-10/100 and Tiny-ImageNet, WF-Act-PC outperforms classical PC baselines, achieving accuracy improvements of 2.7-22.3 percentage points on CIFAR-10 and matching or exceeding tuned backpropagation baselines on deeper architectures.
predictive codingjacobian transposeweight feedbacknormalization gainspectral-norm control
Learned Pairwise Deep Dual-Optimal Inequalities for Stabilizing Column Generation
The paper introduces learned pairwise deep dual-optimal inequalities (L-PDDOIs), a learning framework to stabilize column generation (CG) in large-scale optimization problems. L-PDDOIs predict pairwise orderings between dual variables and integrate their primal counterparts into the master problem. Training labels are constructed by sampling optimal dual solutions and identifying common pairwise relations, which are then scored by a classifier. Graph-based postprocessing filters and compresses candidate relations, while a recovery procedure selectively relaxes inequalities to restore the baseline CG bound. Experiments on capacitated vehicle routing and vehicle routing with time windows show geometric mean CG time reductions of 89.7% and 93.9%, respectively, with minimal bound losses.
column generationdual-optimal inequalitiesvehicle routinggraph-based postprocessingrecovery procedure
Delving into the Temporal Challenges of Unified Video Protection Against Image-to-Video and Fine-Tuning-based Customization
We propose Temporally Consistent Universal Adversarial Perturbations (TC-UAP), the first method to protect videos against both reference-based (e.g., image-to-video) and tuning-based customization pipelines. TC-UAP optimizes an identity-level multi-frame perturbation over sliding windows from multiple videos, incorporating local temporal dependencies induced by 3D video VAE compression and ensuring temporal consistency through intrinsic modeling and extrinsic surrogate temporal-attack loss. Empirical results demonstrate that TC-UAP outperforms existing methods in identity protection under both customization pipelines and maintains robustness against multiple unseen temporal attacks.
temporal consistencyuniversal adversarial perturbationsvideo customization3d video vaetemporal attacks
Agora: Collective and Permissionless Internet-Scale Pretraining of Large Language Models
Agora introduces a decentralized system for internet-scale pretraining of large language models, enabling collective training across heterogeneous, individually owned GPUs connected via internet-grade links. The method employs bandwidth-efficient pipeline-parallel model sharding and multi-party, fault-tolerant collective operations, ensuring no single party possesses the full model weights. This Protocol Learning approach was demonstrated through Pluralis-8B, an 8.6B-parameter model pretrained on 500B tokens of FineWeb-Edu over 40 days using 330 contributor nodes. The system achieved 63% efficiency compared to a centralized H100 baseline, sustaining ~170k tokens/s and converging close to a centralized reference run.
pipeline-parallelmodel shardingfault-tolerantprotocol learningcollective operations
Accuracy-Preserving Stability Regularization for Large-Scale Retail Demand Forecasting
The paper proposes a training-time stability regularization method for retail demand forecasting that preserves point accuracy while reducing abrupt forecast movements. The approach combines a temporal-structured pipeline with recent-demand embeddings, calendar features, and hierarchical attributes, penalizing consecutive within-series movement during training. Evaluated on M5 demand series at 1000-4000 scales, the method improves Forecast Stability Score by 6.66-7.68% over XGBoost with RMSE changes below 0.72%, outperforming post-hoc smoothing in accuracy-stability trade-offs.
stability regularizationdemand forecastingforecast stability scoretemporal-structured pipelineaccuracy-stability trade-off
Active Learning for Efficient Annotation of Surgical Videos with Weak Supervision
We introduce a human-in-the-loop framework combining active learning with dual-loss optimization to reduce surgical video annotation effort by 50%. The method employs a foundation model generating temporally consistent class activation maps (CAMs) using two training objectives: weak supervision loss on video-level tool presence labels and image-level mask loss on human-corrected annotations obtained through active learning. Iterative pseudo-mask proposals guide expert annotators to refine model knowledge, eliminating the need for large fully annotated datasets. This approach enables scalable development of surgical tool segmentation models with minimal expert input, supporting efficient knowledge acquisition in clinical settings.
active learningclass activation mapsweak supervisionsurgical tool segmentationdual-loss optimization
Graph Partitioning with Demands: Generalized Conductance and its Applications
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Hierarchical $\mathcal{F}$-Clustering: Approximation and Hardness of Clustering into Trees and Bounded Diameter Graphs
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BARS: Benign-Anchored Ranking and Selection for False Alarm Reduction in Network Intrusion Detection
Benign-Anchored Ranking and Selection (BARS) is introduced as a class-asymmetric feature selection filter for reducing false alarms in network intrusion detection systems. BARS addresses the bias in Classwise Mean Deviation (CMD) by anchoring its score to the benign-class mean instead of a global mean and applying order-preserving decorrelation. Evaluated on CICIDS2017, CICDDoS2019, and UNSW-NB15, BARS reduces false positive rates by 15.4% on UNSW-NB15 and 21-23% on CICDDoS2019 at small feature budgets, while maintaining true positive rates and macro-F1 scores. BARS operates in linear time with low memory overhead, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments.
feature selectionfalse positive rateclass-asymmetric filternetwork intrusion detectionlinear-time scoring
Concurrent Image Understanding and Generation: Self-Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Processes
The paper introduces Self-Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Processes (SC-CMJP), a framework for concurrent image understanding and generation where one modality's transition rates depend on the other's confidence scores via cross-modal attention. The method includes CO₂Jump, a training-free single-pass sampler that enables remasking to correct cross-modal contradictions during joint generation. Evaluated on three new corpora (JEdit-1M, JMaze-200K, JNono-200K), CO₂Jump achieves state-of-the-art performance in image editing and visual reasoning, with benefits scaling monotonically with denoising steps.
masked diffusion modelscross-modal attentionjoint multimodal generationmarkov jump processesvisual reasoning
Text2Sign: A Single-GPU Diffusion Baseline for Text-to-Sign Language Video Generation
Text2Sign introduces a single-GPU diffusion model for text-to-sign-language video generation, addressing computational cost barriers in video diffusion. The method combines a frozen vision-language text encoder with a 3D encoder-decoder and factorized spatiotemporal attention to reduce memory usage while maintaining motion coherence. Evaluated on How2Sign, the model achieves a validation loss of 0.00999, SSIM of 0.2403, and PSNR of 15.11 dB, generating 64×64 32-frame clips at 2.54 fps with 3.12 GB peak memory. Limitations include low resolution, short clips, and weak prompt sensitivity.
text-to-signdiffusion modelfactorized attentionsingle-gpuspatiotemporal
HEDGEHOG: Hierarchical Evaluation of Drug Generators Through Rigorous Filtration
The paper introduces HEDGEHOG, a six-stage hierarchical benchmark for rigorous evaluation of generative molecular models in drug discovery. The method sequentially filters generated compounds through physicochemical screening, structural checks, synthesis feasibility, docking affinity, and 3D pose validation. Evaluating 23 generators on 230,000 molecules reveals only 0.65% pass all stages, demonstrating current models' inability to simultaneously satisfy medicinal chemistry, synthesis, and structural constraints.
molecular generationdrug discoverybenchmarkingphysicochemical screeningdocking affinity
The Spectrum Is Not Enough: When Context Helps Time-Series Forecasting
The paper demonstrates that spectral indices alone are insufficient for assessing the utility of context in time-series forecasting, as they remain invariant under phase randomization, unlike retrieval-based and foundation model approaches. Through surrogate pairs that fix the spectrum and marginal distributions, the authors isolate the impact of context and introduce a diagnostic metric, the coverage deficit, which quantifies beyond-spectrum structure as the gain of analog over linear prediction. Empirical evaluation on seven benchmarks shows that retrieval-based methods collapse across surrogate pairs, while foundation models retain second-order contributions. The coverage deficit predicts the sign of beyond-spectrum value more effectively than spectral indices.
spectral indicesphase randomizationcoverage deficitanalog predictionfoundation models
Mixed-Timescale Differential Coding for Downlink Model Broadcast in Wireless Federated Learning
The paper proposes mixed-timescale differential coding (MTDC) for efficient global model broadcast in wireless federated learning, addressing link failures that disrupt differential updates. MTDC employs a dual-level differential coding scheme with adjustable reference models, enabling devices to reconstruct current models despite missed updates. Theoretical analysis informs an age-aware MTDC variant and device scheduling policy. Simulations show MTDC outperforms baselines in learning performance under equivalent communication budgets with downlink failures, achieving 1.5× faster convergence.
federated learningdifferential codingmodel broadcastwireless communicationconvergence analysis
Label-Decoupled Style Augmentation for Domain Generalization in Multi-Label Remote Sensing Scene Classification
A label-decoupled style augmentation framework is proposed for domain generalization in multi-label remote sensing scene classification, addressing the contamination issue in global feature-statistics augmentation methods like MixStyle and EFDMix. The method confines style perturbation to label-specific regions using per-label attention from learnable modules or gradient class-activation maps, mixing per-label feature statistics with cross-domain samples under independent coefficients and recomposing features via attention-weighted normalization. Evaluated on a leave-one-domain-out benchmark from multi-label UCM, AID, and DFC15 datasets, the best variant achieves 71.5% mean average precision, surpassing empirical risk minimization by 5.0 points and the strongest global-statistics baseline by 1.3 points, with up to 7.7 points improvement on the hardest transfer. The framework adds at most 0.35% parameters and leaves inference unchanged.
domain generalizationmulti-label classificationstyle augmentationattention-weighted normalizationfeature-statistics
DeepCormack: Fermi surface tomography using model-based data-driven algorithms
DeepCormack introduces a family of data-driven model-based algorithms for Fermi surface tomography via angular correlation of electron-positron annihilation radiation (ACAR). It augments Cormack's method (MCM) by integrating supervised deep-learning models (CNN, MLP, UNet) and leverages singular value decomposition with dynamic mode decomposition to generate synthetic two-photon momentum density (TPMD) volumes from density functional theory (DFT) calculations. On test data, DeepCormack improves reconstruction quality by 8.5 dB PSNR at 200M counts and maintains stability at reduced counts, enabling faster acquisition times. Generalization to experimental data depends on training distribution alignment with the sample, recommending sample-specific DFT calculations for optimal results.
fermi surface tomographyangular correlationdeep-learning modelssingular value decompositiondensity functional theory
What Does Goodness Measure? A Likelihood-Ratio Account of Forward-Forward Learning
The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm's scalar goodness measure, typically treated as a heuristic, is formally characterized as the sufficient statistic of a likelihood-ratio test under a generative model. This analysis reveals that squared goodness corresponds to an isotropic case of Mahalanobis goodness, while heavy-tailed populations yield saturating statistics with divisive normalization. Inter-layer normalization is shown to require length removal while preserving per-coordinate energy, explaining depth collapse under unit-norm normalization. The study identifies a scale-inflation shortcut in the pairwise objective, which is mitigated by whitened goodness.
forward-forward algorithmlikelihood-ratio testmahalanobis goodnessdivisive normalizationscale-inflation shortcut
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OpenAI Details GPT-Red: An Internal Automated Red-Teaming Model That Beat Human Red-Teamers 84% To 13% On Prompt Injection
OpenAI introduces GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model trained via self-play reinforcement learning to identify prompt injection vulnerabilities in LLMs. GPT-Red operates as an attacker against diverse defender models, rewarded for eliciting failures while defenders must resist attacks and complete tasks. Results show GPT-Red outperformed human red-teamers, succeeding in 84% of indirect prompt injection scenarios versus 13% for humans, and discovered a novel 'Fake Chain-of-Thought' attack. GPT-Red reduced failure rates in GPT-5.6 to 0.05% on direct injections and demonstrated effectiveness in real-world agentic systems.
prompt injectionself-play reinforcement learningfake chain-of-thoughtred-teamingllm robustness
Patter SDK Guide to Building a Restaurant Booking Phone Agent with Dynamic Variables, Guardrails, Latency Dashboards, and Eval Checks
The Patter SDK tutorial demonstrates the construction of a restaurant booking voice agent with dynamic variables, tool integration, and safety guardrails. The system employs a deterministic agent brain with simulated speech layers (STT/TTS), in-memory backend for reservation management, and output validation through regex-based guardrails for PII redaction, profanity filtering, and scope enforcement. Key features include latency simulation (60-90ms baseline + variable delays), regression testing via scripted call flows, and optional GPT-4o-mini fallback for freeform dialogue. The pipeline handles slot filling for booking parameters (party_size, date, slot) and integrates tool calls for availability checks, reservations, and human transfers.
voice agentguardrailsslot fillingstt/tts simulationdeterministic agent
SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build: The Rust Agent Harness, TUI, and Tool Layer Behind Its Coding CLI
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build, a terminal-based AI coding agent comprising a Rust agent harness, TUI, CLI shell, and developer tooling under the Apache 2.0 license. The system integrates context assembly, response parsing, and tool-call dispatch, enabling codebase understanding, file editing, shell command execution, and web search. Grok Build supports interactive TUI, headless mode for CI automation, and embedding via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). It allows local-first operation, configurable via `config.toml`, and includes crates for agent runtime, tool implementations, and workspace management. The release facilitates auditing, forking, air-gapped runs, and CI automation.
agent harnesstuicli shelltool-call dispatchlocal-first
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
Thinking Machines Lab introduces Inkling, a 975B-parameter multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) transformer with 41B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. The model, pretrained on 45 trillion tokens of multimodal data, employs a 66-layer decoder-only architecture with sparse MoE feed-forward layers, sliding-window attention, and relative positional embeddings. It achieves competitive benchmarks, including 78.0% on FORTRESS Adversarial and 63.8% on Terminal Bench 2.1, while enabling controllable token budgeting via a reasoning_effort parameter. Inkling supports text, image, and audio inputs, with BF16 and NVFP4 checkpoints requiring 2TB and 600GB VRAM, respectively. Fine-tuning is facilitated via Tinker, and deployment options include hosted APIs and local inference.
mixture-of-expertsmultimodaldecoder-onlyrelative positional embeddingscontrollable token budgeting
Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English
The Soofi Consortium introduces Soofi S 30B-A3B, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundation model optimized for German and English. The model, comprising ~31.6B parameters with ~3.2B activated per token, integrates 52 layers: 23 Mamba-2 sequence-mixing layers, 23 granular MoE layers, and 6 Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) layers. Trained on ~26.68T tokens across three phases, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open base models, scoring 70.1 on English aggregate and 79.1 on German aggregate benchmarks. The architecture leverages Nemotron 3 Nano’s design for deployability and efficiency, with German language data comprising up to 15.32% of the training mixture.
mamba-transformermixture-of-expertsgrouped-query attentionkv cachenemotron 3 nano
Building a Gin Config Controlled PyTorch Pipeline with Configurable MLP Variants, Cosine Scheduling, and Runtime Parameter Overrides
The tutorial presents a PyTorch pipeline controlled via Gin Config, enabling declarative experiment configuration without modifying training code. It implements a spiral binary classification task with configurable MLP architectures (hidden layers, activation functions, dropout), optimizer choices (AdamW, SGD), and cosine learning rate scheduling. Key features include runtime parameter overrides, scoped model variants, and automatic config export for reproducibility. The system demonstrates modular design through Gin's @configurable decorators and achieves flexible experimentation while maintaining stable training code.
gin configpytorch pipelineconfigurable mlpcosine schedulingruntime overrides
Google Releases LiteRT.js: A JavaScript Binding of LiteRT That Runs .tflite Models in Browsers via WebGPU
Google introduces LiteRT.js, a JavaScript binding for LiteRT enabling in-browser execution of .tflite models via WebGPU, enhancing privacy and reducing latency. LiteRT.js compiles Google's native runtime to WebAssembly, leveraging optimizations from Android, iOS, and desktop platforms. It supports three backends: CPU (XNNPACK), GPU (ML Drift via WebGPU), and NPU (WebNN). Benchmarks show LiteRT.js achieves up to 3x faster inference compared to other web runtimes and 5–60x speedup on GPU/NPU over CPU for tasks like object tracking and audio transcription. Manual tensor management is required to prevent memory leaks.
litert.jswebgputflitewebassemblyxnnpack
PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML introduces Bonsai 27B, a compressed version of Qwen3.6-27B with 1-bit and ternary weight representations, enabling deployment on laptops and phones. The ternary variant uses {−1, 0, +1} weights at 1.71 bits per weight (bpw), reducing the model size to 5.9GB, while the 1-bit variant uses binary {−1, +1} weights at 1.125 bpw, achieving 3.9GB. Compression is achieved via shared FP16 scaling per 128 weights, retaining 94.6% and 89.5% of FP16 baseline performance, respectively, across 15 benchmarks. The model supports a 262K token context window and multimodal tasks, with vision components quantized to 4-bit (HQQ).
ternary weightsbit compressionkv cachemultimodalquantization
Mistral Vibe for Code vs Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex: Four Agents Scored on One Scaffold-to-PR Task
A capability comparison evaluates four coding agents—Mistral Vibe for Code, Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex—on a scaffold-to-PR task involving Python/FastAPI service enhancement. The task spans scaffolding, test generation, and pull request creation, assessed across five dimensions: feature scaffolding, test loop, PR/async workflow, surface coverage, and cost/control. Mistral Vibe for Code scored highest (22/25) due to its cost-efficiency, open-source CLI, and multi-file orchestration capabilities. Claude Code and OpenAI Codex tied at 21/25, excelling in raw execution and cross-surface async workflows, respectively. Cursor scored lowest (16/25), optimized for IDE-first workflows but lacking in autonomous scaffold-test-PR loops.
scaffold-to-prmulti-file orchestrationtest-verify loopcross-surface asyncopen-source cli
OpenCoreDev Releases Domain SDK 0.2.0: One TypeScript API to Add, Verify, and Remove Customer Domains Across Five Platforms
OpenCoreDev introduces Domain SDK 0.2.0, a TypeScript API unifying custom domain management across five platforms (Vercel, Cloudflare for SaaS, Railway, Render, Netlify). The SDK provides a normalized interface for domain operations (add/verify/remove) while preserving platform-specific constraints through runtime capability checks. It models domain states via an 8-value DomainStatus union type, separates DNS/verification/TLS statuses, and includes typed error handling with idempotent operations. The server-side library supports Node.js ≥20 and Bun, with testing utilities including an in-memory provider and agent integration.
typescriptcustom domainsidempotent operationsdomainstatusverification
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