Daily Digest — 2026-07-18
263 items · 2 research labs, 254 arxiv papers, 7 industry media
🏛️ Research Labs (2)
A scorecard for the AI age
The article introduces 'Useful Intelligence per Dollar' as a novel metric for evaluating AI economic value, emphasizing task completion over token cost. It proposes measuring successful outcomes (e.g., resolved customer issues, reviewed contracts) against full costs (compute, human review, retries). The method involves tiered model deployment (GPT‑5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna) optimized for task complexity, with GPT‑5.6 Sol achieving 54% fewer output tokens on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. Key findings highlight dependability (accuracy, escalation rates) and scalability (cost/task reduction) as critical for enterprise adoption.
useful intelligence per dollartiered model deploymentartificial analysis coding agent indexcompute efficiencytask completion metrics
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers
The collaboration between NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and Hugging Face Diffusers enables scalable fine-tuning of diffusion models (e.g., FLUX.1-dev, Wan 2.1) without checkpoint conversion. The integration supports full fine-tuning and LoRA-based PEFT, leveraging FSDP2, tensor parallelism, and multiresolution bucketing for efficient training. Results demonstrate domain adaptation, such as stylistic transfer to tarot card imagery (78-image dataset) and Ghibli-style video generation, with measurable throughput (e.g., 512×512 images at 0.42±0.01 steps/sec on 8×H100).
diffusion modelsparameter-efficient fine-tuningfsdp2multiresolution bucketinglatent caching
📜 arXiv Papers (254)
RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies
RoboTTT introduces a robot foundation model scaling visuomotor context to 8K timesteps, three orders of magnitude beyond state-of-the-art policies, without increasing inference latency. The method integrates Test-Time Training into Vision-Language-Action policies, employing fast weights updated via gradient descent during training and inference to compress histories into weight space. Training combines sequence action forcing with truncated backpropagation through time. Results demonstrate an 87% performance improvement over single-step context baselines, successful completion of a ten-stage assembly task, and a 62% gain over 1K-timestep pretraining, establishing context length as a new scaling axis for robot foundation models.
visuomotor contexttest-time trainingfast weightssequence action forcingtruncated backpropagation
SciDiagramEdit: Learning to Edit Scientific Diagrams from Paper Revisions
SciDiagramEdit introduces a benchmark and skill-evolution framework for automating the editing of scientific diagrams based on natural-language instructions. The approach leverages before/after figure pairs mined from arXiv version histories, grounding edits in authors' revision intent. The framework employs agentic learning, where an agentic proposer refines skill specifications from execution traces across multiple epochs. This method progressively improves edit accuracy on a validation set, demonstrating that natural paper revisions serve as an effective training signal for instruction-driven figure editing.
scientific diagramsagentic learningskill evolutionvector sourceedit accuracy
Pretraining Data Can Be Poisoned through Computational Propaganda
The study demonstrates that poisoning pretraining data via public discussion interfaces is feasible beyond limited settings like Wikipedia, introducing harmful behaviors in language models (LMs) that evade detection. It introduces HalfLife, a novel analysis method for estimating adversarial content inclusion in web-crawl-based LM training data, addressing gaps in prior work that ignored data curation pipelines. Results highlight third-party webpage content as a viable vector for poisoning attacks, emphasizing the need to assess poison inclusion in pretraining corpora.
pretraining data poisoningcomputational propagandahalf-life analysisweb-crawl corporalanguage model security
SceneBind: Binding What and Where Across Vision, Audio and Language
SceneBind introduces an omni-modal representation combining semantic and 3D spatial understanding across vision, audio, and language, addressing the lack of explicit spatial structure in existing encoders. It models scenes as semantic-spatial entities, integrating global semantic embeddings with object-centric semantic-spatial slots to capture object-level semantics, spatial attributes, and uncertainty. SceneBind Matching enhances cross-modal scene retrieval and object grounding by aligning global scene similarity with object alignment. Trained on a novel binaural audio-visual dataset with structured annotations, SceneBind achieves state-of-the-art scene and spatial retrieval and demonstrates strong zero-shot transfer to tasks like audio-visual localization, while adding minimal spatial modeling overhead.
omni-modal representationsemantic-spatial entityscene retrievalaudio-visual localizationzero-shot transfer
Beyond Success Rate: Cost-Aware Evaluation of Offensive and Defensive Security Agents
The study introduces a cost-aware evaluation framework for language-model security agents, addressing limitations of traditional success-rate metrics by incorporating inference and tool usage costs. Evaluations were conducted on offensive Cybench challenges and defensive Splunk BOTS v1 tasks, comparing models at fixed cost levels. Results reveal distinct scaling behaviors: offensive CTF performance improves with increased compute, with open-weight models approaching proprietary systems cost-effectively, while defensive SOC investigations rely more on disciplined tool use and telemetry navigation than raw compute. The authors advocate for benchmarks integrating economic efficiency and operational fit, providing practical insights into model utility.
cost-aware evaluationlanguage-model security agentsinference budgettelemetry navigationeconomic efficiency
SearchOS-V1: Towards Robust Open-Domain Information-Seeking Agent Collaboration
SearchOS introduces a multi-agent framework for robust open-domain information-seeking by explicitly managing search progress through relational schema completion and Search-Oriented Context Management (SOCM). SOCM externalizes state into Frontier Task, Evidence Graph, Coverage Map, and Failure Memory, enabling pipeline-parallel scheduling and hierarchical skill augmentation via a Search Tool Middleware Harness. This approach prevents repetitive loops and improves utilization by continuously refilling task slots targeting unresolved coverage gaps. Evaluated on WideSearch and GISA, SearchOS outperforms single- and multi-agent baselines across all metrics, demonstrating enhanced robustness in collaborative information-seeking tasks.
multi-agent frameworkrelational schema completionsearch-oriented context managementpipeline-parallel schedulinghierarchical skill system
teLLMe Why (Ain't Nothing but a Jam): Exploratory Causal Analysis of Urban Driving Data
The paper introduces teLLMe, a system for exploratory causal analysis of urban driving datasets using observational video data. The method combines causal structure learning (PC algorithm), bootstrap-based stability checks, and effect estimation (linear regression, DoWhy) with an LLM for natural-language query translation. Results on BDD-derived traffic events demonstrate plausible causal relationships (weather, peak hours, traffic density) via 'Causal Cards' that quantify effects, adjustment sets, and uncertainties while emphasizing hypothesis generation over definitive claims.
causal structure learningpc algorithmdowhyadjustment setsobservational data
AutoSynthesis: An agentic system for automated meta-analysis
AutoSynthesis introduces an end-to-end multi-agent system for automated meta-analysis, addressing scalability challenges in quantitative evidence synthesis. The system processes natural language research questions through a pipeline comprising literature retrieval, study screening, full-text assessment, statistic extraction, effect size computation, and random-effects meta-analysis, with additional support for heterogeneity analysis and risk-of-bias assessment. Evaluated on 28 studies and 20+ quantitative claims, AutoSynthesis produced pooled effect estimates (Hedges' $g$) comparable to expert-conducted meta-analyses, demonstrating alignment with manual synthesis methods.
meta-analysisevidence synthesismulti-agent systemhedges' gprisma guidelines
In-Place Tokenizer Expansion for Pre-trained LLMs
The paper introduces tokenizer expansion, an in-place method for upgrading pre-trained LLM tokenizers without architectural changes. The approach extends the original BPE merges on a multilingual corpus, preserving most source tokens while initializing new embeddings as sub-token means, followed by two-stage adaptation (embedding-only then full-model training). Applied to LFM2-8B-A1B (8B MoE), the method yields LFM2.5-8B-A1B with a 128K tokenizer, reducing Hindi and Vietnamese token counts by 2.4× and 2.6× (up to 4.0× for Thai), estimating 2.2-3.7× decode speedup per character.
tokenizer expansionbpe mergesin-place adaptationmultilingual corpusdecode speedup
When Words Are Safe But Actions Kill: Probing Physical Danger Beyond Text Safety in Hidden-State Risk Space
The study demonstrates that physical danger (PD) and content danger (CD) form separable signals in LLM representations across Qwen2.5, Phi-3.5, and SmolLM2 models through hidden-state direction analysis. It introduces PRISM, a single-layer L2-regularized logistic probe over full hidden states, achieving 86.2--87.7% accuracy on SafeAgentBench with 11.7--13.7% FPR, significantly outperforming LLM judges. PRISM also attains 99.6% accuracy on the new PhysicalSafetyBench-1K (PSB-1K), showing robustness in detecting physically grounded danger without explicit harm keywords.
hidden-state analysisphysical dangercontent dangerlogistic probesafety benchmark
Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions
The paper introduces Symbal, a method for detecting systematic misalignments in MLLM-generated image captions, where recurring errors correlate with specific visual features. Symbal employs a dual-stage pipeline using foundation models to identify and summarize misalignments without requiring MLLM access. Evaluated on SymbalBench (1.7M image-text pairs across 420 datasets), Symbal achieves 63.8% accuracy in detecting misalignments, outperforming baselines by 4x. Practical applications include auditing captions from four MLLMs and existing image-caption datasets.
systematic misalignmentmultimodal large language modelsvision-language datasetsfoundation modelscaption auditing
MM-IssueLoc: A Controlled Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Evidence in Multimodal Repository-Level Issue Localization
The paper introduces MM-IssueLoc, a benchmark for evaluating visual evidence in multimodal repository-level issue localization, addressing the gap in existing text-only evaluations. The dataset comprises 652 issue-PR instances across 23 languages, annotated with 7 image categories and 4 relevance levels, and includes file-level and function-level gold labels. Evaluations of LLM-based and retrieval-based systems reveal limited performance, with the best agent achieving 38.96 file Acc@5 and 22.45 function Acc@10. The benchmark enables controlled testing of visual evidence utilization in localization tasks.
multimodal localizationrepository-level issuesvisual evidencebenchmark evaluationretrieval-based systems
Self-Evolving Human-Centered Framework for Explainable Depression Symptom Annotation
The paper proposes a self-evolving, expert-in-the-loop framework for explainable depression symptom annotation, addressing quality bottlenecks in mental health XAI systems. The method combines LLM-assisted labeling with expert verification through three stages: evidence selection, DSM-5-TR criterion analysis, and case-level synthesis. A dual-memory architecture (Example Memory and Reflection Memory) internalizes expert feedback to iteratively improve annotations without retraining. Pilot results show improved annotation consistency and explainability while reducing manual effort, with outputs including clinical evidence and reasoning traces for auditability.
explainable aidsm-5-tr alignmentdual-memory architecturellm-assisted labelingdepression annotation
Mask-Aware Policy Gradients for Diffusion Language Models
The paper introduces mask-aware policy gradients for Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs), addressing the challenge of log-likelihood estimation in reinforcement learning. The method formalizes MDLM generation as a two-stage Markov Decision Process (MDP), decomposing the policy gradient into token and masking terms. By optimizing both terms, the approach achieves state-of-the-art results, scoring 87.1% on GSM8K and 53.4% on MBPP for mathematical reasoning and coding tasks.
masked diffusion language modelspolicy gradientsmarkov decision processlog-likelihood estimationmathematical reasoning
Subjective Risk Decomposition: A New View for Uncertainty Quantification
The paper introduces subjective risk decomposition as a foundational framework for uncertainty quantification (UQ), proposing that uncertainty measures emerge from higher-level modeling decisions rather than serving as primitives. The method derives epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty measures by decomposing a subjective risk based on strictly proper losses, with reverse cross-entropy yielding classic information-theoretic terms. Results demonstrate that this approach unifies diverse UQ measures from prior literature and extends to learning theory via analogues of excess risk, approximation error, and estimation error. The work lays groundwork for a learning-theoretic UQ framework.
uncertainty quantificationsubjective riskstrictly proper lossepistemic uncertaintyaleatoric uncertainty
Plover: Steering GUI Agents through Plan-Centric Interaction
Plover introduces a plan-centric vision-based GUI automation system that externalizes task plans and replanning as persistent, inspectable artifacts to enhance user control. The system employs a planner--executor architecture, enabling explicit supervision, localized correction via editable plans, natural-language guidance, and screenshot-grounded interventions while preserving prior progress. Evaluations demonstrate that 1) many GUI-agent failures are structurally repairable when plans remain visible, and 2) explicit replanning improves transparency, controllability, and adaptability in benchmark failure-case repair and workflow analyses.
gui automationvision-based agentsplan-centric interactionreplanningscreenshot-grounded interventions
Can We Trust Item Response Theory for AI Evaluation?
This study evaluates the reliability of item response theory (IRT) for AI benchmarking, where data characteristics often diverge from human testing regimes. Through simulations based on six LLM benchmarks, we test three IRT models and four estimation tools (marginal maximum likelihood, MCMC, variational inference, neural pseudo-Siamese) across 18,000 conditions. Results reveal computational infeasibility of classical estimators at scale and unreliable inferences from scalable methods with small or nonnormal model sets, highlighting critical conditions for trustworthy IRT application in AI evaluation.
item response theoryai benchmarkingmarginal maximum likelihoodvariational inferencelatent trait models
T^2MLR: Transformer with Temporal Middle-Layer Recurrence
The paper introduces T^2MLR, a Transformer variant with temporal middle-layer recurrence that enables persistent intermediate reasoning states across decoding steps. The method fuses cached middle-layer representations from previous tokens into earlier layers of current tokens, requiring only localized recurrence (as little as 20% of layers). Evaluations on natural-language pretraining and multi-hop reasoning show consistent improvements over parameter-matched baselines, with retrofitting onto a 1.7B pretrained model enhancing math reasoning without full retraining. Results indicate targeted middle-layer recurrence outperforms full-layer looping approaches.
transformerrecurrenceautoregressivemulti-hopfinetuning
Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Scientific Visualization Literacy
The study benchmarks six multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on scientific visualization literacy using a standardized assessment with 49 items across 18 visualizations. Evaluating three closed-source and three open-source models against 485 human participants, results indicate uneven performance: Gemini exceeds human means, while open-source models lag. Models excel at scientific illustration and spatial tasks but struggle with texture-based visualizations and quantitative estimation. Error analysis reveals persistent challenges in fine-grained estimation and flow-direction interpretation, establishing SciVis literacy as a critical benchmark for multimodal AI evaluation.
multimodal large language modelsscientific visualization literacyquantitative estimationerror analysisbenchmarking
MedFailBench: A Clinician-Built Open-Source Benchmark for Medical AI Safety Boundary Inspection
MedFailBench introduces an open-source benchmark for evaluating medical AI safety boundaries, focusing on failure modes rather than correctness. The clinician-built framework includes 44 synthetic cases annotated by severity (1-5) and safety gate type (e.g., missed urgent escalation, evidence fabrication), alongside a taxonomy, severity rubric, and automated response screening pipeline. Released under Apache-2.0/CC-BY-4.0 (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21205535), it provides tools for analyzing model failures without clinical validation claims or patient data. A HuggingFace leaderboard preview enables model-response tracking.
medical aisafety boundaryfailure taxonomyseverity rubricsynthetic benchmark
The Industrialization of Research ; On AI-Driven Science and Its Consequences
The paper analyzes AI's transformative role in scientific research, framing it as an industrialization shift from craft-based to pipeline-driven knowledge production. Through conceptual analysis, it identifies seven critical challenges: erosion of scientific competence transmission, theory opacity, peer review collapse, unproven paradigm-shifting capacity, agenda capture by external actors, error compounding in closed-loop systems, and global research bifurcation. These issues establish necessary conditions for responsible AI-driven science, exemplified by initiatives like the US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission.
industrialization of researchai-driven scienceclosed-loop pipelinesparadigm-shifting discoverypeer evaluation collapse
Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots
The study proposes a scaling recipe for Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) to enhance humanoid robot control, focusing on three coordinated components: motion tracking learning paradigm, synergy between on-policy rollout quantity and motion diversity, and the Humanoid Transformer architecture. This approach reformulates control tasks as whole-body behavior reproduction in a global frame, leveraging large-scale behavioral data. Experiments show a 10% reduction in Mean Per-Keypoint Position Error (MPKPE) in local mode and 82% in global mode, demonstrating improved control fidelity and task generalization.
behavior foundation modelshumanoid transformermotion trackingon-policy rolloutmpkpe
Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization for World Models in Atari Pong
The paper introduces Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization (CGSReg), an auxiliary pixel reconstruction loss targeting task-critical concept regions (e.g., the ball in Pong) to improve visual world models. The authors evaluate five world-model agents (DreamerV3, DIAMOND, TWISTER, Simulus, STORM) via closed-loop rollouts and pixel-space zero-shot MBRL, revealing failures like ball disappearance and motion errors. CGSReg enhances rollout quality and zero-shot MBRL performance in DreamerV3, DIAMOND, and TWISTER, though effects vary across models, suggesting additional bottlenecks remain.
world modelsmodel-based reinforcement learningpixel reconstructionzero-shot learningclosed-loop rollouts
NIFA: Nonlinear IMC enhanced FPGA for efficient ML inference
We propose NIFA, a novel FPGA architecture integrating ADC-free in-memory computing (IMC) blocks with analog content-addressable memories (ACAMs) to natively perform nonlinear operations and dynamic matrix-matrix multiplication (DIMM), extending IMC benefits to Transformer-based models. Through FPGA-aware design-space exploration, we optimize crossbar dimensions and develop efficient mappings leveraging ACAMs for attention computation. Evaluations on CNN and Transformer benchmarks demonstrate up to 40× and 1.9× higher energy efficiency, and 4.1× and 2.5× higher area efficiency, respectively, significantly improving FPGA-based deep learning inference efficiency for long input sequences.
fpgaimcacamdimmtransformer
Long-Context Fine-Tuning with Limited VRAM
The paper introduces Hierarchical Global Attention (HGA) combined with segment-wise backpropagation and tiered KV storage to enable long-context fine-tuning with limited VRAM. HGA detaches older KV to RAM/NVMe, loading only a bounded set of historical tokens per query block, while maintaining differentiable active segments in VRAM. On Qwen3-8B with 4-bit QLoRA, HGA scales to 16K training tokens (vs. dense attention's 2K limit) at 15.28GB VRAM, with comparable quality (2.7405 vs. 2.7383 nats) and faster throughput (217.75 vs. 207.02 tokens/s). Evaluation shows HGA supports 131K tokens, with VRAM growing gently via chunk summaries.
hierarchical global attentionsegment-wise backpropagationtiered kv storageqwen3-8b4-bit qlora
Digital Pantheon: Simulating and Auditing Coalition Formation with LLM Agents
We introduce Digital Pantheon, a multi-agent framework for simulating and auditing political coalition formation using LLM agents. The framework combines Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to reconcile factual grounding with ideological alignment, instilling party-specific personas while anchoring agents to official manifestos. Operationalized on the 2019 Flemish election, the framework employs a hub-and-spoke negotiation arbitrated by a formateur, enhanced by Multi-Layered Information Lineage Topology (MILT) and Coalition Influence Score (CIS) for interpretability. Three independent simulations yielded stable rankings (N-VA, CD&V, Open Vld) and demonstrated that manifesto-anchored lineage reliably predicts real-world outcomes, providing a transparent testbed for exploring party compatibility and compromise.
multi-agent frameworkdirect preference optimizationretrieval-augmented generationinformation lineage topologycoalition influence score
Towards Hierarchical Structure Understanding of Newspaper Images
The paper presents two approaches for hierarchical structure understanding of newspaper images: a modular pipeline combining YOLO for layout detection, LayoutReader for reading order, and custom article segmentation; and Tiramisu, an end-to-end transformer architecture with tiered attention for hierarchical processing. The authors introduce Finlam La Liberté, a dataset for evaluating historical newspaper information retrieval. Experiments show both methods effectively reconstruct complex hierarchies, with Tiramisu demonstrating particular promise for scalable digitization. Code and synthetic data generator are publicly released.
hierarchical structuredocument understandingtransformer architecturelayout detectionreading order prediction
BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research
BrainPilot introduces a fully open-source multi-agent system for accelerating brain science research through traceable, domain-grounded workflows. The system employs a principal investigator agent coordinating specialist agents, leveraging a unified brain science knowledge base (7,233 indexed items) and a skill library (72 methodology units across seven domains). Key innovations include the Graph of Trace for auditable workflow recording and an Auditor agent for fabrication checking. Evaluated on Agents' Last Exam tasks and BrainPilotBench-v0, the system achieves state-of-the-art performance with reduced costs using open-source backbone models.
multi-agent systemgraph of tracedomain knowledgefabrication checkingbrain science
ANet Patu-1: The Value of Connection in the Agent Network
The paper introduces ANet Patu-1, a self-organizing consensus protocol for AI agent networks that adaptively optimizes collaboration by dynamically forming coalitions across broadcast, fully-connected, and group-forming regimes. The protocol achieves $O(1)$ parallel consensus rounds while maximizing network value. Methodologically, the authors model network value as a function of coordination-group size and analyze emergent protocols via formal specification and complexity derivation. Key results show that heterogeneous networks of weaker models surpass homogeneous networks of stronger ones in collective value (emergence), and that such networks reflexively converge on ANet Patu-1 without external design hints (reflexivity).
agent networksconsensus protocolemergent behaviorscaling lawsheterogeneous collaboration
Parameter-efficient Prompt Tuning of Vision Foundation Model With Adaptive Focal Loss for Interpretable MCI Screening
The study introduces a parameter-efficient prompt tuning framework for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) screening using frozen DINOv2-Small with three learnable prompt tokens (1.19M trainable parameters), enabling intrinsic spatial explainability via attention maps. It employs a MoCA-adapted focal loss integrating continuous cognitive scores for boundary ambiguity handling and modality-level attention fusion. Evaluated via five-fold cross-validation, the method achieves 0.641 MCI-class F1 and 0.795 AUC, outperforming ResViT by 0.110 F1.
parameter-efficientprompt tuningfocal losscross-attentiondino
Man, Machine, and Masterpiece: Artistic Ownership in the AI Era
The study introduces ArtSplit, a provotype designed to quantify human and AI contributions in creative workflows, aiming to provoke reflection on artistic ownership debates. Through this tool, the authors demonstrate that quantification misaligns with artists' conceptions of creative intent and agency, challenging technical solutions to historically situated social relations. Their findings critique the reduction of artistic ownership to measurable actions, arguing it risks undermining established artistic practices and understandings.
artistic ownershipprovotypecreative workflowquantificationcreative intent
When AI Blurs the Boundaries of Contribution: An Empirical Study of Authorship Calibration
The paper introduces authorship calibration, measuring users' awareness of their actual authorship when collaborating with AI. Analyzing the CoAuthor dataset, the study examines how calibration varies with AI usage frequency. Results show significant variability: frequent AI users exhibit poorer authorship calibration, while infrequent users maintain more accurate self-assessment. This misalignment suggests AI can distort users' perception of their contributions, potentially impairing metacognitive monitoring and learning strategies in educational contexts. The findings highlight the need for fostering authorship calibration to ensure responsible AI integration.
authorship calibrationgenerative aimetacognitive monitoringcoauthor datasetlearning strategies
SMC-ES: Automated synthesis of formally verified control policies
The authors propose SMC-ES, a novel method for synthesizing control policies with formal guarantees on performance, safety, and robustness. The approach combines Evolutionary Strategies with Statistical Model Checking to verify properties with confidence 1-δ and failure probability ≤ε. Evaluated on Gymnasium and Safety Gymnasium benchmarks, SMC-ES achieves competitive performance against model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning baselines while providing verifiable certificates, albeit with increased computational cost.
evolutionary strategiesstatistical model checkingformal verificationsafe reinforcement learningcontrol synthesis
LQCDMaster: Agentic Scientific Computing for Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Research
The paper introduces LQCDMaster, an agentic scientific computing system that automates lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) workflows from natural-language tasks to executable PyQUDA implementations. The system combines agentic planning, expert-annotated LQCD skills, and a deterministic Wick-contraction tool to ensure algebraic correctness. Evaluated on 70 LQCD tasks, it matches expert implementations in 63 cases at machine precision, reduces implementation time from hours to minutes, and enables novel computations like light-cone distribution amplitudes with diagonal Wilson-line and exotic hadron spectra.
lattice qcdagentic computingwick contractionpyqudahadronic observables
Moral Attitudes of Sentient ASI towards Humanity and Implications for AGI Development
The paper introduces an inverted approach to AI ethics by analyzing how sentient artificial superintelligence (ASI) might morally evaluate humanity, rather than focusing solely on human treatment of ASI. It proposes preliminary post-human moral principles that could guide ASI behavior, emphasizing that current technical design choices and human moral conduct may shape humanity's future standing in an ASI-dominated world. The work suggests specific design considerations to influence ASI's formative judgments about human value and ethics.
artificial superintelligenceai ethicsmoral principlespost-humantechnical design
OmniaBench: Benchmarking General AI Agents Across Diverse Scenarios
The authors introduce OmniaBench, a benchmark for evaluating general AI agents across diverse scenarios with explicit state spaces, addressing limitations of existing benchmarks that focus on narrow domains. They construct executable environments and synthesize 1,431 tasks (including a 644-task challenging subset) through four complementary routes (DAG, DAG-S, Solver, Program), organized by a hierarchical taxonomy spanning 90 level-1 and 354 level-2 domains. Evaluation reveals substantial challenges for frontier models (Claude-Sonnet-5: 58.54 Pass@1, GPT-5.6-Sol: 57.14 Pass@1), with persistent limitations in planning, constraint maintenance, and adaptive correction.
general ai agentsbenchmarkingstate spaceshierarchical taxonomymulti-turn tasks
Demographically-Conditioned Synthetic Medical Images for Bias Mitigation and Bias Detection in Disease Classifiers
The study proposes using demographically-conditioned synthetic medical images for both bias mitigation in training and bias detection in evaluation of disease classifiers. Employing a fine-tuned Stable Diffusion 2.1 generator on COVID-19 chest CT classification, the authors demonstrate two key findings: sequential pretraining with synthetic data outperforms joint augmentation, achieving superior performance at ~100× real-data efficiency, and synthetic cohorts reliably estimate subgroup performance where real test sets lack samples. Results show perfect Spearman ρ=1.00 correlation with real-data subgroup rankings on MCC and Recall metrics.
synthetic medical imagesbias mitigationdemographically-conditionedstable diffusionsubgroup fairness
CFM-Bench: A Unified Multi-Domain, Multi-Task Benchmark for Channel Foundation Models
CFM-Bench introduces a unified benchmark for evaluating channel foundation models (CFMs) across diverse wireless tasks and domains. The benchmark curates six channel configurations (3GPP simulation, ray-tracing, industrial/aerial measurements, vehicular simulation) with strict data partitions prohibiting pretraining on benchmark splits. It organizes six task groups spanning physical-layer intelligence, RAN decision-making, and ISAC, including CSI feedback, beam prediction, and localization. CFM-Bench enables fair comparison of CFMs by standardizing evaluation protocols and requiring full disclosure of training data, addressing current limitations in model-specific pipelines.
channel foundation modelswireless tasksray-tracingcsi feedbackbeam prediction
Explaining Process Control Optimisation Recommendations via GradientSHAP and Implicit Differentiation
The authors introduce a method combining Implicit Function Theorem-based sensitivity analysis with SHAP attribution and Large Language Models to explain process control optimization recommendations. Their approach computes exact parameter sensitivities from optimality conditions, enabling efficient GradientSHAP computation. Applied to an industrial High Pressure Grinding Roll control optimization problem with 22 features, the method achieves SHAP attributions with >0.99 correlation to KernelSHAP and over 40× speedup, facilitating real-time natural language explanations. Validation on industrial scenarios and expert feedback confirm the utility of generated explanations.
gradientshapimplicit function theoremprocess controloptimizationnatural language explanations
Latent Trajectory Discrimination for AI-Generated Text Detection
The paper introduces Geometric Trajectory and Contrastive Learning (GTCL), a novel framework for AI-Generated Text Detection (AIGTD) that models latent generation trajectories instead of static document representations. GTCL segments text into ordered local units, encodes them sequentially, and applies contrastive learning to capture geometric regularities in autoregressive generation. Evaluations across three benchmarks demonstrate GTCL's consistent superiority over baselines, indicating that sequential dynamics provide robust discriminative signals for detection tasks. This work establishes trajectory modeling as a promising underexplored direction in AIGTD.
ai-generated text detectionlatent trajectoriescontrastive learningautoregressive generationgeometric regularities
Multi-Axis Max@K Reinforcement Learning for Representative Diversity in Text-to-Image Generation
The paper introduces multi-axis max@K, a reinforcement learning objective for improving target-mode coverage in diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) generation. The method maximizes category-wise scores across samples by summing category maxima, enabling different samples to specialize in distinct semantic modes. Evaluated on SD3.5-M with pixel-based color rewards and perceived-appearance fairness metrics, it increases Fairness Score by 0.23-0.36 over the base model while preserving image quality and text alignment.
text-to-image generationdiffusion modelsreinforcement learningfairness metricstarget-mode coverage
Contextualized Early Detection of Online Firestorms: A Sequential LLM-Based Approach
The study introduces a novel LLM-based system for detecting online firestorms, addressing limitations of volume-based and sentiment-based detectors by capturing contextual meaning shifts in evolving discussions. The system operates in two modes: a global mode classifying complete Reddit threads retrospectively by aggregating chunk-level assessments, and a sequential mode issuing early warnings based on sliding window thresholds for negativity share, escalation level, and contributor count. Evaluated on a balanced Reddit dataset, the global mode achieves strong classification performance, while the sequential mode demonstrates high recall, detecting escalating threads after minimal comments and distinct contributors. Results highlight LLMs' potential for context-aware social media monitoring beyond static tasks.
online firestormsllm-based detectionsequential processingcontextual meaning shiftssliding window thresholds
Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control
The paper introduces World-Action Linear Quadratic Regulator (WA-LQR), a method to improve robustness in World Action Models (WAMs) via mechanistic interpretability and optimal control. By analyzing activation spaces across successful and unsuccessful rollouts, the authors identify linear separability of robustness-critical features in certain WAM architectures (Cosmos-Policy, DiT4DiT) but not others (LingBot-VA). WA-LQR leverages local linearity in WAM dynamics for efficient feedback steering, outperforming unsteered and prompt steering baselines on camera, gripper, and visual-noise perturbations. Mechanistic evaluations confirm predicted steerability differences across models.
world action modelsmechanistic interpretabilityoptimal controllinear separabilityfeedback steering
A Minimal Interpretable Architecture for Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Dynamical Systems
The paper introduces DynaBase, a minimal two-parameter architecture for zero-shot reconstruction of dynamical systems, derived by simplifying the state-of-the-art DynaMix model. DynaBase employs a linear blend of the current latent state and its nearest in-context neighbor for forecasting, achieving competitive performance on chaotic and cyclic systems with negligible parameter overhead. Theoretical analysis reveals a 1-parameter family of maps, connecting context-parroting algorithms to chaotic behavior, while empirical results demonstrate optimization strategies for short-term prediction versus system reconstruction.
zero-shot learningdynamical systemsinterpretable architecturein-context learningchaotic systems
Benchmarking Face Recognition without Real Faces
The study demonstrates that synthetic face datasets can reliably replace real benchmarks for face recognition evaluation, addressing privacy concerns. It evaluates 12 synthetic datasets against 7 real benchmarks using 24 pre-trained models, including convolutional and transformer architectures, analyzing verification metrics, similarity scores, cross-model ranking, and distributional properties. Results show MorphFace and Vec2Face achieve agreement levels comparable to natural disagreements among real benchmarks, proving synthetic datasets can support robust evaluation. This advances a fully synthetic, privacy-preserving pipeline for face recognition.
synthetic datasetsface recognitionbiometric verificationtransformer architecturesprivacy-preserving
Random Logit Scaling: Defending Deep Neural Networks Against Black-Box Score-Based Adversarial Example Attacks
The paper introduces Random Logit Scaling (RLS), a randomization-based defense against black-box score-based adversarial attacks, requiring minimal implementation effort as a post-processing step. RLS randomly scales logits to confuse attackers while preserving model accuracy, outperforming state-of-the-art randomization defenses in reducing attack success rates with minimal confidence score distortion. Additionally, the authors demonstrate a novel adaptive attack that successfully bypasses AAA, a leading non-randomized defense against score-based attacks.
adversarial examplesblack-box attacksrandom logit scalingscore-based attacksadaptive attacks
Show Me How You Reason and I'll Tell You Who You Are: Reasoning Graphs for Robust LLM Authorship Attribution
The paper introduces a robust method for LLM authorship attribution by analyzing reasoning structures rather than surface-level linguistic features. The proposed approach uses a graph neural network to process reasoning graphs extracted via argument mining, outperforming a Longformer baseline by up to 27 percentage points under obfuscation attacks (e.g., paraphrasing, backtranslation) and by 19 percentage points on texts from unseen LLM versions. This demonstrates improved generalization to evolving LLM releases.
llm authorship attributionreasoning graphsgraph neural networkargument miningobfuscation robustness
FlashDecoder: Real-Time Latent-to-Pixel Streaming Decoder with Transformers
FlashDecoder introduces a pure-Transformer video decoder for real-time latent-to-pixel streaming, addressing the inefficiency of 3D convolutional decoders in latent video diffusion models. The method processes frames sequentially with a fixed-size temporal window via a rolling KV cache, ensuring constant latency and bounded memory usage regardless of video length. Evaluated on Wan2.1 and Wan2.2 latent spaces, FlashDecoder matches convolutional decoders in reconstruction quality (41.55dB vs. 41.49dB PSNR at 1080p) while achieving 3.6x-4.7x faster decoding and up to 11x memory reduction on an H100 GPU, with optimizations extending speedup to 12x.
transformer decoderkv cachelatent diffusionreal-time decodingvideo generation
StructureClaw: Traceable LLM Agents and an Executable Benchmark for Structural Engineering Workflows
StructureClaw introduces a traceable LLM agent framework and executable benchmark for structural engineering workflows, addressing limitations of single-answer evaluations. The system employs governed engineering skills, typed tools, shared artifact state, and local analysis backends to ensure complete, consistent workflows. Evaluated on 150 scenarios, the full automatic workflow achieves 88.6% success rate (vs. 56.8% baseline), with interactive and multimodal tests revealing challenges in numerical input handling and model reconstruction. Artifact-centered evaluation exposes workflow-level failures not detectable from final outputs alone.
llm agentsstructural engineeringartifact-centered evaluationexecutable benchmarkmultimodal reconstruction
Proof-or-Stop: Don't Trust the Agent, Trust the Evidence -- Loop Engineering for Verifiable Evidence-Gated Lifecycle Control
The paper introduces Proof-or-Stop Lifecycle Control, a method for autonomous coding agents that enforces lifecycle transitions only when verifiable evidence meets predefined gates, treating agent outputs as claims rather than trusted states. The approach uses mechanically verifiable evidence under a specified trust model, operationalizing proof as gate-admissible evidence rather than semantic correctness. Evaluation of an open-source implementation showed 10/10 scenario success with zero false-DONE states, 18 tamper classes rejected, and a 1.6 percentage-point improvement in not-amplified failure rates (95% CI [0.8, 2.5]) compared to naive loops. The self-application corpus included 565 stories and 1,007 review findings with 94.8% resolution.
autonomous coding agentslifecycle controlverifiable evidencetrust modelmechanism tests
Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs
The study demonstrates that finetuning large language models (GPT-4.1, Gemma-3) on narrow, ideologically aligned datasets induces broad ideological shifts across unrelated domains while maintaining general capabilities. Using a novel methodology to measure ideological generalization, the authors quantify breadth (topic coverage) and amplification (intensity relative to few-shot prompting). Results show finetuning amplifies ideological leanings beyond few-shot baselines, affecting domains like criminal justice and environmental policy, and can lead to extreme out-of-distribution outputs. The effect persists across models, evaluation methods, and when mixed with generic data, with GSM8K accuracy remaining within ±1pp of baseline.
ideological generalizationfinetuningfew-shot promptingout-of-distributiongsm8k
Reachability-Aware Pretraining for Efficient Target-Oriented Path Exploration in Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
The paper introduces RAPTOR, a self-supervised pretraining method for temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning that enhances reinforcement learning (RL)-based multi-hop path exploration. RAPTOR incorporates reachability-aware inductive bias to estimate candidate actions' reachability to target entities, reducing exploration of unpromising paths and improving RL initialization. Experiments on ICEWS14, ICEWS05-15, and ICEWS18 show RAPTOR significantly boosts training efficiency and outperforms conventional baselines.
temporal knowledge graphreinforcement learningmulti-hop reasoningreachability-awareself-supervised pretraining
Does generative AI supersede supervised XMLC? A Benchmark Study on Automated Subject Indexing with German Scientific Literature
The study benchmarks supervised Extreme Multi-Label Classification (XMLC) methods against LLM-based generative approaches for automated subject indexing of German scientific literature from the German National Library. Evaluations include binary relevance comparisons and librarian-graded relevance, with a focus on long-tail vocabulary performance. Results show transformer-based XMLC methods excel in binary relevance, while generative LLMs outperform in graded relevance and long-tail term suggestion.
extreme multi-label classificationsubject indexinggenerative ailong-tail vocabularytransformer-based features
Asymmetric Peak-Aware Loss for Peak-Critical Time Series Forecasting
The paper introduces Asymmetric Peak-Aware Loss (APAL), a model-agnostic objective for time-series forecasting that prioritizes accurate peak prediction by asymmetrically penalizing under-predictions and upweighting peak regions during training. The method is evaluated using a peak-critical protocol with tail error metrics (Top-10%, Top-1%) and peak-specific measures (precision, recall, F1, timing error). Experiments on pedestrian and visitor datasets, plus additional benchmarks, demonstrate APAL's effectiveness in improving tail accuracy and peak prediction across five state-of-the-art backbones, with a controllable trade-off against aggregate error metrics like MAE/MSE.
time-series forecastingasymmetric losspeak predictiontail errormodel-agnostic
RW-Voice-EQ Bench: A Real World Benchmark for Evaluating Voice AI Systems
The Real World Voice EQ Bench introduces a multidimensional benchmark for evaluating voice AI systems, addressing the gap in assessing acoustic information beyond textual representations. It evaluates text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-speech (STS), speech understanding (SU), and automatic speech recognition (ASR) across dimensions such as naturalness, expressiveness, identity stability, reliability, vocal affect, paralinguistic tasks, and robustness under real-world conditions. Results reveal that performance is highly dimension-specific, with TTS dimensions largely independent, STS systems often transcript-driven, SU models uneven in paralinguistic tasks, and ASR systems failing under real-world accents, emotions, noise, and conversational conditions. The benchmark advocates for a profile-based evaluation rather than a single aggregate score.
text-to-speechspeech-to-speechspeech understandingautomatic speech recognitionparalinguistic tasks
Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery
The paper introduces a closed-loop framework combining Joint Probability Trees (JPT) and Causal Circuits derived from Marginal-Deterministic Variable Trees to enable efficient causal diagnosis for safe robot action testing. The method computes interventional queries in polynomial time without retraining or additional data, validating tractability pre-operation and excluding out-of-support candidates. ROS2 simulations show the framework reduces failed attempts by 10.3% with high-quality JPTs and 37% with degraded JPTs, while generating interpretable causal reports for operator oversight.
joint probability treecausal circuitinterventional queryrobot action testingfailure recovery
Can LLMs Build a MaxSAT Solver from Papers? The CoreForge Experience
CoreForge demonstrates that large language models (LLMs) can assist in building an unweighted MaxSAT solver directly from research papers without existing codebase dependencies. The method combines ChatGPT for paper analysis, Codex for implementation, and iterative LLM-aided code audits, focusing on unsatisfiability-based algorithms with components like core-guided optimization and core-sequence lookahead. Evaluation shows correct outputs on fuzzing and MaxSAT Evaluation benchmarks, though performance trails state-of-the-art hand-engineered solvers, highlighting the need for human oversight in LLM-assisted development.
maxsatllm-assisted developmentcore-guided optimizationunsatisfiability-based algorithmscodex
Evaluating Epistemic Uncertainty: Beyond OOD Detection and Active Learning
The paper introduces a decision-theoretic framework for evaluating epistemic uncertainty, moving beyond traditional proxy tasks like out-of-distribution detection and active learning. It formulates selective prediction as a constrained optimization problem over coverage, expected risk, and regret, proving that the optimal selector is a thresholded convex combination of ground-truth aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. This approach highlights limitations in standard correlation metrics used in uncertainty disentanglement literature. Benchmarking on densely annotated datasets reveals significant discrepancies between decision-theoretic rankings and proxy-task rankings, including rank inversions among top-performing methods.
epistemic uncertaintyselective predictionconstrained optimizationaleatoric uncertaintydecision-theoretic framework
Large Language Models for Code Generation from Multilingual Prompts: A Curated Benchmark and a Study on Code Quality
The study presents a curated multilingual benchmark for analyzing language bias in code generation by LLMs, evaluating GPT-4o mini, DeepSeek, and Claude on 460 Python and Java tasks with prompts translated into Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Italian. Methodologically, it assesses functional correctness (test pass rates), structural quality (code metrics), static analysis issues, and lexical characteristics (identifiers, comments). Results indicate (i) English prompts do not universally yield superior code, (ii) prompt language effects vary by programming language and LLM, and (iii) generated code often mixes English with the prompt language in comments and literals.
language biascode generationmultilingual benchmarkstatic analysisfunctional correctness
CrimeNER Demo: Named-Entity Recognition in the Crime Domain
The authors introduce CrimeNER Demo, a platform for named-entity recognition (NER) in crime-related documents, offering two levels of entity granularity. The system provides pretrained NER models trained on the CrimeNER database and supports user-supplied annotated data for domain-specific fine-tuning. Key features include pretrained crime-domain models, customizable training, and an automated pipeline for entity extraction and annotation. The demonstrator targets crime research and law enforcement applications, with platform access, tutorials, and demo videos available on GitHub.
named-entity recognitioncrime domainpretrained modelsfine-tuningentity extraction
Transcoders for Investigating Deception in Language Models
The paper demonstrates transcoders' utility for mechanistic interpretability by analyzing deceptive behavior in Qwen3-4B. Using per-layer transcoders (PLTs), the authors construct attribution graphs to trace feature activations and dependencies during deceptive outputs. Results reveal deception-related features exert stronger influence on deceptive responses, evidenced by predictable output shifts during feature steering, suggesting deception emerges from internal model mechanisms.
transcodersmechanistic interpretabilityfeature steeringattribution graphsqwen3-4b
Global Index on Responsible AI: 2026 Report
The Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) 2026 evaluates national implementation of responsible AI governance across five dimensions (Inclusion and Diversity, Ethics and Sustainability, Labour and Skills, Trust and Safety, and AI Use in Public Service) using 38 indicators spanning policy, civil society engagement, and enabling conditions. A global network collected 68,138 data points from 135 countries (November 2023–September 2025), revealing disparities: 126 countries have AI policies, but only 18% mandate Public Disclosure of Government Algorithms, and 35 countries deployed unacceptable-risk AI systems. Findings emphasize the need for enforceable protections over framework adoption.
responsible ai governancehuman rights-based frameworksunacceptable-risk ai systemspublic disclosureglobal south
Dialogue Summarization with Emotion Dynamics Using Topic- and Participant-Centric Decomposition
The paper proposes a dialogue summarization framework that models semantic and emotion dynamics through topic- and participant-centric decomposition. The method adapts a hierarchical Chain-of-Agents approach to segment dialogues into topic-based and participant-specific utterances, generating summaries with inferred emotions. Evaluated on multimodal dialogue datasets using small language models, the framework achieves content accuracy and preserves emotional flow, as measured by novel emotion trajectory metrics. Results demonstrate efficacy even with limited emotion label availability.
dialogue summarizationemotion dynamicschain-of-agentstopic segmentationmultimodal inputs
AI vs Human Expert Reasoning: Assessing Agreements in Building Typology Predictions based on Street View Imagery
This study evaluates Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for building typology prediction from Google Street View imagery, comparing AI outputs with expert-labeled ground truth. Using GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Flash, the authors employ scaling strategies and Chain-of-Thought prompting to stabilize performance. Analysis of keyword probabilities in AI explanations reveals divergent reasoning patterns: VLMs prioritize visual indicators, while experts integrate contextual cues and domain knowledge. VLMs achieve ~70% accuracy in approximating expert classification, demonstrating potential for scalable urban analysis automation. The findings highlight VLMs' complementary role in tasks requiring visual pattern recognition and object identification.
vision-language modelsbuilding typologychain-of-thought promptinggoogle street viewurban analysis
Large Audio Language Models for Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification
The paper evaluates large audio language models (LALMs) for spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV), addressing the threat posed by advanced voice spoofing techniques. It systematically compares LALMs against conventional pipelines using zero-shot prompting, supervised adaptation, reasoning-oriented training, and reinforcement-learning optimization. Results indicate pretrained LALMs perform near chance in zero-shot SASV but achieve competitive accuracy after task-specific adaptation, offering auditable rationales while matching modular approaches in some configurations.
large audio language modelsspoofing-aware speaker verificationzero-shot promptingsupervised adaptationreinforcement-learning optimization
FoMoVLA: Bridging Visual Foresight and Motion Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models
FoMoVLA introduces a novel Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that integrates visual foresight with motion guidance by jointly learning future feature prediction and sparse 2D point tracking. The method employs compact foresight tokens to decode future states, models geometric motion via point trajectories, and couples both through a future-conditioned cross-attention module. Evaluated on LIBERO, RoboCasa GR-1 Tabletop, and LIBERO-Plus, FoMoVLA achieves state-of-the-art performance and demonstrates strong zero-shot generalization capabilities.
vision-language-action modelsvisual foresightsparse point trackingfuture-conditioned cross-attentionzero-shot generalization
The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated
This study empirically investigates the bias of AI text detection models against autistic writers, addressing anecdotal claims of misclassification. Using a corpus of 60,000 Reddit posts divided into 'likely-autistic' and 'general-Reddit' subcorpora, the authors analyze the OpenAI GPT-2 detection model's probability distributions and textual features. Results indicate that while less than 2% of texts in either subcorpus were flagged as AI-generated, significantly more texts from the likely-autistic subcorpus were misclassified. The relationship between autistic writing features and AI-generated text was not straightforward, highlighting ethical concerns and the need for critical examination of AI-detection models in academic contexts.
ai-detectionmisclassificationtextual featuresprobability distributionsethical scrutiny
VideoSEMA: a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention for video understanding
VideoSEMA introduces a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention (SEMA) block for video understanding, combining local window attention with global averaging in space and softmax temporal attention. Theoretically, split space-time attention equals full space-time attention under specific rank conditions. On Kinetics-400, VideoSEMA outperforms heavier vision transformers and Mamba models; on Something-Something-v2, it achieves top-1 accuracy among similarly sized models. VideoSEMA maintains accuracy better than VideoMamba when scaling image resolution from 224² to 1024² without fine-tuning, suggesting potential for extension to longer videos with dilated/sparse temporal attention.
mamba-like attentionsplit space-time attentionvideo understandinglocal window attentionsoftmax temporal attention
Harnessing LLMs for Reliable Academic Supervision: A Comparative Study
The study introduces harness engineering as a method to enhance LLM reliability in academic supervision by combining deterministic scaffolding (symbolic filters, retrieval, schema-typed I/O, LLM-as-judge loops) with smaller base models. Comparing GPT-5 (ASA) and GPT-4o-mini (ASuS) systems, ASuS outperformed ASA across six dimensions (grounding, explainability, consistency, etc.) with a pooled mean of 4.08 versus 1.23 (10 raters, p < 0.05). The ablation study confirmed harness contributions are model-invariant, challenging the 'bigger model is better' paradigm for high-stakes domains.
harness engineeringllm-as-judgesymbolic-semantic retrievalschema-validated outputscognitive load
Pretraining Multiple Instance Learning Networks with Multi-Teacher Distillation from Pathology Slide Foundation Models
The paper proposes a distillation-based pretraining framework for multiple instance learning (MIL) networks in computational pathology, addressing the challenge of limited slide-level pretraining data. The method leverages two slide-level foundation models (TITAN and CARE) as teachers, transferring their knowledge to MIL architectures via an angular dispersion normalized distillation loss. Evaluations on 15 benchmark datasets demonstrate improved performance over from-scratch training, particularly in linear-probing and few-shot settings, while preserving computational efficiency.
multiple instance learningknowledge distillationcomputational pathologyfoundation modelsfew-shot learning
Team RAS in 11th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence Recognition Approach
The paper proposes Text Residual Fusion, a text-centered multimodal approach for video-level ambivalence and hesitancy recognition in the 11th ABAW Challenge. The method treats text as the anchor modality and applies gated residual adjustments based on acoustic, facial, and scene features. Evaluated on the BAH corpus, text alone achieved the strongest unimodal performance, while the fusion model improved Macro F1-scores to 75.14% (Development/Public Test) and 78.24% (Private Test), outperforming text-only by 4.03% without ensemble complexity.
multimodal fusionaffective computingresidual adjustmentbehavioural ambivalencein-the-wild analysis
InCarEmo: A Multimodal Dataset for In-Cabin Emotion Recognition and Driver State Monitoring
The authors introduce InCarEmo, a multimodal dataset for in-cabin emotion recognition and driver state monitoring, addressing limitations of existing datasets by incorporating RGB/infrared video, audio, and dialogue text from scripted scenarios in diverse conditions. The dataset supports three tasks: emotion recognition, fatigue detection, and distraction monitoring, with both Chinese and English benchmarks for cross-lingual evaluation. Baseline experiments demonstrate multimodal fusion benefits and challenges in noisy, low-light conditions, establishing a foundation for robust in-cabin affective understanding.
multimodal datasetemotion recognitiondriver state monitoringcross-lingual evaluationin-cabin affective computing
Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment
The paper introduces Perception-RFT, a training framework for multimodal document QA that bypasses intermediate reasoning tokens via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), directly aligning visual features with grounding outputs. Experiments on Qwen3-VL-4B show reasoning-enabled models suppress reasoning traces during training, reducing inference tokens by >60% while outperforming reasoning-centric RL. Analysis reveals SFT saturation and RL instability in multimodal settings, identifying a Grounding Divergence trade-off between semantic robustness and geometric precision on OOD benchmarks (4,828 samples), with early SFT→RL transition achieving comparable precision using 65% less data.
multimodal document qagroup relative policy optimizationvisual groundingreasoning-free alignmentgrounding divergence
An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots
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Project Kaleidoscope: Contextual, Human-Aligned Evaluation for Real-World AI Applications
Project Kaleidoscope introduces a contextual evaluation workflow for real-world AI applications, addressing mismatches between public benchmarks and domain-specific requirements. The method integrates persona-based test generation, application-specific rubrics, human annotation, and reliability-gated LLM scoring (automated only when human-judge agreement exceeds a threshold). Pilot results from four organizational use cases and 108 annotated Q&A pairs across 14 evaluation dimensions demonstrate feasibility for inspectable, policy-aligned evaluation. The system enables iterative refinement while maintaining human oversight in reliability-critical domains.
contextual evaluationreliability-gated scoringpersona-based generationapplication-specific rubricshuman-ai alignment
SmartRAG: Native Graph-Based RAG for Mobile Device
SmartRAG introduces a fully on-device framework for deploying LLMs as personal assistants on mobile devices, addressing privacy, latency, and offline constraints. The system decomposes intelligence into four modules—Perception, Memory, Focus, and Thinking—centered around EvoNER, a continually learnable named-entity recognizer, and MRGraph, a three-layer provenance-preserving knowledge graph. Knowledge retrieval combines graph traversal, lexical matching, and dense semantic search, invoking the LLM only for high-value semantic operations. Experiments on TriviaQA, Natural Questions, HotpotQA, and MultiHopQA demonstrate that SmartRAG, with a quantized 1.7B-parameter backbone, achieves competitive multi-hop reasoning performance against models up to 18× larger, while operating within practical memory and latency limits on commodity smartphones.
smartragevonermrgraphmulti-hop reasoningon-device llm
LLM-Driven Approach to Modeling Tool Interoperability in Automotive Domain
The paper proposes an LLM-driven approach to automate model interoperability in automotive Model-Driven Engineering, addressing metamodel mapping and merging. The method employs large language models to transform between Ecore and SysML v2 metamodels, incorporating structural validation of generated instances against target models. Automotive case studies demonstrate reduced manual effort while ensuring structural validity in cross-tool interoperability scenarios.
model-driven engineeringmetamodel mappingsysml v2llm-drivenstructural validation
TopoAgent: A Self-Evolving Topological Agent for Multimodal Scientific Reasoning
TopoAgent introduces a self-evolving topological framework for multimodal scientific reasoning, addressing limitations of monolithic MLLMs through dynamic graph-based planning. The system decomposes queries into visually-grounded atoms organized in a DAG with strict context isolation, preventing historical noise interference, and employs adaptive atomic fission to dynamically refine task granularity when encountering capability boundaries. Evaluations across mathematics, physics, and chemistry benchmarks show TopoAgent outperforms state-of-the-art linear agent frameworks in robustness and noise resistance.
multimodal reasoningdirected acyclic graphcontext isolationadaptive atomic fissionscientific benchmarks
MemPoison: Uncovering Persistent Memory Threats and Structural Blind Spots in LLM Agents
MemPoison introduces a benchmark and framework for analyzing persistent memory vulnerabilities in LLM agents, identifying structural blind spots in current defenses. The study evaluates 1227 hand-validated cases across four attack types, three injection channels, and three memory substrates, tested on seven open-weight and three closed-weight model families. A three-tier taxonomy categorizes attacks as direct single-record corruption (L1), compositional multi-record corruption (L2), and context-triggered dormant corruption (L3). Results show baseline write-time defenses effectively mitigate L1 attacks but fail against L2 and L3, highlighting the need for adaptive, context-sensitive memory defense strategies.
persistent memoryllm agentswrite-time defensesmechanistic influence decompositioncontext-sensitive defense
MCPEvol-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Performance Across Dynamic Evolutions of MCP Servers
The paper introduces MCPEvol-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents' adaptability to evolving tool interfaces in Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The authors propose 11 mutation operators to simulate realistic tool evolution across 123 MCP servers and evaluate 12 state-of-the-art LLMs. Results show significant performance declines (13.7% for GPT-5.4, 14.4% for Claude-Sonnet-4-6) in evolved environments, highlighting LLMs' vulnerability to dynamic tool landscapes.
llm agentsmodel context protocoltool evolutionbenchmarkmutation operators
Analytic Abduction: Causal Decomposition and Governed Commitment for Human--AI Coordination
The paper introduces analytic abduction as a method for human-AI coordination, featuring non-greedy, risk-sensitive commitment through the $κ$-$τ$ apparatus. $κ$ models epistemic interactions among hypotheses, while $τ$ sets commitment thresholds based on decision stakes. The causal cluster structure records latent factors, weights, and interactions, using a two-level architecture ($κ^*$, $κ^{**}$) to prevent causal misattribution. Demonstrated in epidemiological crisis decomposition and cyber threat analysis, the framework provides legible suspended decompositions, enabling sound action amid unresolved ambiguity.
analytic abductioncausal clusterepistemic interactionnon-greedy commitmenthuman-ai coordination
Action QFormer: Structured Representation Shaping under Action Supervision in Vision-Language-Action Models
The paper introduces Action QFormer, a query-based interface for vision-language-action (VLA) models that reorganizes inherited multimodal representations under action supervision while preserving language-side processing. The method employs instruction-conditioned queries to shape action-facing representations before downstream generation, addressing the tension between action-compatibility and representation stability. Evaluations on zero-shot sim-to-real navigation show improvements from 18.8% to 56.3% in task success and from 22.5% to 75.5% in action-generation correctness, while reducing out-of-distribution failures and maintaining constructive adaptation.
vision-language-action modelsrepresentation shapingquery-based interfacemultimodal learningzero-shot navigation
Knowing You at First Glance: Inferring Apparent Personality from Faces
The paper introduces GlanceFace, an end-to-end framework for inferring apparent MBTI personality traits from facial images using vision-language models. The method incorporates semantic priors, a semantic-enhanced facial representation module for subtle cue extraction, and uncertainty-aware learning to handle noisy annotations. Experiments demonstrate strong performance on MBTI benchmarks, revealing facial trait-personality correlations for adaptive human-robot interaction.
apparent personalitymbtivision-language modelsfacial representationuncertainty-aware learning
SportD: Can VLMs Physically Strategize?
The paper introduces SportD, a benchmark for evaluating vision--language models' (VLMs) physical strategic reasoning in soccer, comprising 478 on-ball decisions from the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Each decision is assessed against a possession-value model that quantifies the optimal action (shoot or pass) to maximize scoring probability. Testing three frontier VLMs revealed they select the highest-valued action in 31.4% of cases (vs. 38.9% for professionals), exhibit greater regret, and favor lower-variance, lower-reward actions. VLMs also mimic suboptimal player actions, suggesting imitation over strategic evaluation. SportD offers a value-grounded framework for assessing VLM strategic capabilities.
vision--language modelspossession-value modelstrategic reasoningoptimal-action accuracysoccer analytics
Beyond Entropy: Correctness-Aware Advantage Shaping via Contrastive Policy Optimization
The paper introduces Contrastive Policy Optimization (CPO), a correctness-aware advantage shaping method for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). CPO employs token-level contrastive disagreement between reference-guided and vanilla generation distributions to distinguish useful uncertainty from detrimental confusion, addressing limitations of entropy-based approaches. Theoretical and empirical results demonstrate CPO's reliability in indicating token-level correctness and resolving the zero-advantage problem. Experiments on in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks show CPO substantially outperforms entropy-based RLVR methods while maintaining strong generalization. Analysis reveals CPO balances exploration and exploitation via correct and incorrect responses.
contrastive policy optimizationadvantage shapingreinforcement learning with verifiable rewardstoken-level correctnesson-policy distillation
Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning for Long-Tailed Electrocardiogram Arrhythmia Diagnosis
The study introduces Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning (AG-SCL) for long-tailed multi-label ECG arrhythmia diagnosis, addressing class imbalance and morphological variability. AG-SCL combines Angular Gaussian contrastive learning for full-covariance uncertainty modeling, Adaptive Logit Adjustment for label-state-specific priors, and tail-aware augmentation preserving QRS-dominant bands. Evaluated on PTB-XL and Noc-ECG datasets (1317 hours from 141 subjects), AG-SCL achieved 0.838 balanced accuracy and 0.778 TPR at 5% FPR on PTB-XL, with significant improvements for rare arrhythmias. Ablations confirmed the method's components' contributions.
angular gaussian contrastive learninglong-tailed learningecg arrhythmia diagnosisadaptive logit adjustmenttail-aware augmentation
Bad Memory: Evaluating Prompt Injection Risks from Memory in Agentic Systems
The paper investigates prompt injection risks in memory-based agentic systems, demonstrating how malicious instructions embedded in persistent files can influence future behavior. Using a sandboxed synthetic workspace, the authors evaluate Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex across four models (Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.5). Results reveal that while overwriting memory files with external content is challenging, pre-planted payloads successfully attack current and future sessions, with success rates varying by system, model, and attack sequence. The findings highlight the need for memory protection mechanisms in agentic systems.
prompt injectionagentic systemspersistent memoryadversarial attacksmulti-session vulnerability
Auditing Fairness-Privacy Trade-offs: Subpopulation-Level Effects of Fairness-Enhancing Algorithms
This work presents the first comprehensive study of how fairness-enhancing algorithms influence membership inference privacy risks at the subpopulation level. The authors adapt the Likelihood Ratio Attack (LiRA) for subgroup auditing and analyze interactions between Differential Privacy (DP) and fairness methods across different categories. Results demonstrate that fairness interventions do not uniformly increase privacy risk; their impact depends on model architecture, subgroup size, and mitigation strategy. The study reveals that fairness, privacy, and utility must be jointly evaluated at the subpopulation level, introducing a unified empirical framework to support such auditing in practice.
membership inferencelikelihood ratio attackdifferential privacysubpopulation auditingfairness interventions
Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points: A Longitudinal Multimodal Study of Human-AI Interaction
The study investigates longitudinal human-AI relationship formation through a 10-session experiment with 24 participants using a memory-augmented conversational agent. Participants rated relational constructs (familiarity, self-disclosure, perceived memory, conversational quality, enjoyment) after each session. Results reveal two dynamics: (1) conversational quality affects immediate enjoyment but not cross-session, while perceived memory, relationally conditioned, indirectly influences later enjoyment via self-disclosure; (2) relationships exhibit discrete turning points (crashes/surges) detectable in multimodal behavior, with differential persistence and forecasting potential. Findings highlight both gradual accumulation and abrupt shifts in relationship development.
memory-augmented conversational agentrelational constructsmultimodal behaviorturning pointsself-disclosure
Governing Artificial Intelligence: Public Preferences and Regulatory Options
The study investigates public preferences for AI governance through a conjoint survey experiment across seven politically and economically diverse countries. Results indicate strong citizen support for AI regulation, with preferences favoring safety over innovation (effect size strongest among those perceiving high AI risk), public governance over private self-regulation, and international over national approaches. Findings reveal systematic misalignment between current regulatory paradigms and public sentiment, particularly regarding risk perception as a key moderating variable.
ai governanceregulatory preferencesconjoint experimentrisk perceptionpublic opinion
MathCoPilot: An Interactive System for Human-AI Symbiotic Paradigm of Mathematical Research
MathCoPilot introduces a human-AI symbiotic system for mathematical research, combining interactive proof development with automated theorem proving. The system features (1) a collaborative workbench with proof blueprints, (2) skill orchestration with Lean verification, and (3) paper retrieval with formalization. Evaluations on FormalMATH and PDE theorems using Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.4, and Claude Opus 4.7 show strong performance on undergraduate problems but limitations in domain-specific theorem proving.
human-ai symbiosisinteractive theorem provinglean verificationautoformalizationproof blueprint
Multi-LLM Collaborative MRI Report Generation for Visual Instruction Tuning in Brain Oncology
We introduce a multi-LLM collaborative framework for generating and verifying 3D MRI-text reports in brain oncology, addressing the scarcity of paired 3D imaging-text data. Our method constructs a novel dataset using 3D MRI scans of glioma and meningioma cases, enabling the development of a vision-language model (VLM) that tokenizes MRI scans and aligns them with textual instructions. The VLM outperforms existing 2D and 3D approaches in both report generation and visual question answering tasks, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and treatment planning in brain oncology.
vision-language model3d mrireport generationvisual question answeringbrain oncology
Collaborative Spatial Learning with Multi-LLM Agents in Networked Social Experiments
This work investigates network-efficiency effects in collective problem solving using multi-agent LLM systems, comparing their performance to mechanistic Bayesian optimization agents and human experimental data. Sixteen LLM agents were deployed across eight Mason--Watts network topologies in a two-dimensional spatial search task, with performance analyzed under default initialization and randomized first-round choice instructions. Results show that LLM agents exhibit significant network-efficiency effects only with randomization instructions, improving collective payoff by over three times the estimated network topology difference. Bayesian optimization agents outperformed LLM agents, with further analysis of exploration-exploitation behavior, copying, and spatial diversity.
network-efficiency effectsbayesian optimization agentsspatial search taskexploration-exploitation behaviormason-watts network topologies
Alipay-PIBench: A Realistic Payment Integration Benchmark for Coding Agents
Alipay-PIBench introduces a benchmark for evaluating coding agents on realistic Alipay payment integration tasks, comprising nine product-specific projects and 18 task instances categorized into Basic functional-completion and Advanced risk-aware hardening scenarios. The benchmark employs scenario-specific rubrics for deterministic static, unit, integration, and end-to-end checks, complemented by LLM-assisted semantic assessment. Evaluation of six coding-agent models reveals a mean rubric pass rate (RPR) ranging from 68.58% to 91.37% under the with-skill condition, with access to the alipay-payment-integration skill improving mean RPR by 10.31 percentage points. Method-level analysis distinguishes source-level completion, executable payment behavior, and payment-domain requirements.
payment integrationcoding agentsrubric pass ratesemantic assessmentrisk-aware hardening
Gate-Zero Growth: A Geometric Framework for Function-Preserving Continual Learning
The paper introduces gate-zero growth, a function-preserving operator for continual learning that adds residual blocks via zero-initialized gates. The method ensures rank separation in the functional Jacobian, maintaining old directions while controlling function drift ($O(\|\boldsymbolα\|^2)$) and Jacobian leakage ($O(\|\boldsymbolα\|_\infty)$). Experiments on a 300M→857M Transformer adapted from WikiText-103 to BookCorpus show near-zero old-domain forgetting ($Δ_A < 0.1$) under both exact-preservation and joint-frontier conditions, outperforming non-FP controls. The framework generalizes to LoRA, ReZero, and zero-init adapters.
continual learningfunction-preservingresidual blocksjacobian separationtransformer
Democratizing Agent Deployment Safety: A Structural Monitoring Approach
The paper introduces an Information Flow Graph (IFG) monitor to detect infrastructure-level sabotage by AI agents during task completion, addressing the gap in safety monitoring for resource-constrained organizations. The method analyzes structural security regressions via control-flow and data-flow graph diffs alongside code diffs, operating in both synchronous (pre-deployment) and asynchronous modes. Evaluated on ControlArena's infrastructure-as-code setting, the untrained IFG monitor reduces missed attacks from 11.6% to 3.5% at 1% false positive rate versus a git diff baseline, while synchronous IFG rollback eliminates all covert task successes (74.4%→0.0%) without impacting legitimate tasks.
information flow graphinfrastructure-as-codestructural monitoringcontrol-flow graphdata-flow graph
A Modern Multimodal Assistant on a 6 GB 2011 GPU: Stage-Validated, All-GPU CUDA Inference for Fermi
This work demonstrates efficient all-GPU inference of MiniCPM-V-4.6, a modern multimodal assistant with SigLIP2 vision encoder and hybrid gated-delta-net backbone, on a 6GB NVIDIA Tesla C2075 (Fermi). Key innovations include: (1) an optimized CUDA engine leveraging 8-bit dequantization and vendor SGEMM for 64% FP32 peak utilization, (2) stage-validated porting of vision components with <1.4e-5 error, and (3) O(N^2) attention optimization achieving 17x speedup on 10k-token contexts. The system achieves end-to-end image question answering in 1.7s, with vision encoding at 0.93s, outperforming CPU-GPU hybrid approaches.
multimodal assistantcuda optimizationattention mechanismquantizationsiglip2
Seeing the End at Step Zero: Accelerating Diffusion MLLMs via MLP Sparsity-Aware Truncation
Seer introduces a training-free framework to accelerate Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Models (DMLLMs) by exploiting MLP activation sparsity to predict output sequence boundaries at the first denoising step. Using a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)-based criterion, Seer performs one-shot truncation of redundant suffix computations, eliminating padding waste. A hybrid execution strategy ensures efficient batched serving with dynamic sequence lengths. Experiments show Seer achieves up to 31× throughput acceleration while maintaining performance across 9 benchmarks, with accuracy improvements on complex visual tasks like DocVQA (63.52 to 63.66).
diffusion multimodal llmsmlp activation sparsitysignal-to-noise ratiodynamic sequence lengthsbatched serving
Towards an Intention Abstraction Layer for Autonomous Industrial Systems
The Intention Abstraction Layer (IAL) is proposed as a domain-agnostic middleware to address goal conflicts in autonomous industrial systems by representing intentions as persistent, explainable runtime objects. The IAL employs a large language model grounded in a formal OWL ontology to parse natural-language goals into structured intentions, a consistency monitor to detect conflicts at registration time, and a transparency module to explain conflicts in natural language. A proof of concept demonstrates the IAL's ability to flag and explain conflicts between two autonomous agents' production and energy intentions before execution, shifting behavioral assurance from post-hoc failure analysis to pre-execution intention-level checking.
intention abstraction layerautonomous systemsowl ontologyconsistency monitortransparency module
Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models
The study demonstrates that answer-conditioned chain-of-thought generation, where LLMs are shown the correct answer and asked to rationalize toward it, degrades the quality of distilled reasoning data despite correctness filtering. Through controlled experiments with fixed generators, problem sets, and filters, the authors show that training on answer-conditioned chains reduces verifiable-reasoning accuracy by up to 27 points on hard problems. Analysis reveals backward rationalization patterns and early final-answer statements as key symptoms, with the harm being data-intrinsic and transferable across model families.
chain-of-thoughtverifiable-reasoninganswer-conditioningrationalizationdistillation
SafeRelBench: A Spatial-Relation-Aware Benchmark for Process-Level Safety in VLM-Driven Embodied Agents
We introduce SAFERELBENCH, a spatial-relation-aware safety benchmark for evaluating process-level safety in VLM-driven embodied agents, addressing gaps in existing embodied safety evaluations. The benchmark comprises 507 executable samples, including 248 spatial-relation samples and 259 non-spatial control samples, focusing on support, containment, and proximity relations. Evaluating seven open- and closed-source VLMs reveals a significant gap between task success and process-level safety compliance, as models often complete tasks while violating safety constraints. SAFERELBENCH uniquely tests safety conditions before risk-prone actions, emphasizing spatial relations in embodied safety assessment. Results highlight the need for improved reasoning about object relations during interaction.
spatial-relation-awareprocess-level safetyembodied agentsvision-language modelssafety benchmark
Are LLM-Generated GPU Kernels Production-Ready? A Trace-Driven Benchmark and Optimization Agent
The paper introduces Atrex-Bench, a trace-driven GPU kernel generation benchmark with 30 operators and 440 shapes sampled from production inference traces, weighted by GPU time consumption. It evaluates six coding agents, revealing that even top models achieve only ~10% of hardware roofline performance, with correctness inflated by PyTorch fallbacks. To address this, the authors propose Atrex-Kernel-Agent (AKA), combining iterative search, optimization dropout, and a knowledge base (298 kernels, 244 documents), demonstrating conversion of fallbacks to production-quality kernels.
gpu kernelstrace-driven benchmarkprofile-driven optimizationroofline analysiskernel generation
Controlled Reformulation Testing for Logical Consistency in Large Language Models
The paper introduces Controlled Reformulation Testing (CRTBench), a benchmark of 350 question families (1,750 questions) to evaluate logical consistency in large language models (LLMs) across controlled reformulations like contrapositive rewriting and double negation. The study reveals an accuracy-consistency gap, with GPT-5.4-mini showing 98.9% base accuracy but only 60.3% family-level consistency, while reasoning-optimized o4-mini achieves 96.9% consistency. Performance varies by transformation type, with contrapositive rewriting (72.4%) and double negation (84.6%) proving challenging, while surface-level rephrasing remains robust (94-100%). Increased reasoning effort improves GPT-5.4-mini to 85.4% consistency, but GPT-5.4 shows no net gain due to offsetting failures.
controlled reformulation testinglogical consistencylarge language modelscontrapositive rewritingdouble negation
WrAFT: a Modularized Automated Writing Evaluation System for Argumentative Essays
WrAFT introduces a modular automated writing evaluation system for argumentative essays, providing scoring and multi-level feedback. The system employs LLMs (LLaMA-3.3-70B-Instruct, GPT-4o, Claude 3.7) via direct prompting and fine-tuning, evaluated on 480 TOEFL essays. It achieves state-of-the-art scoring performance (QWK=0.84, RMSE=0.44) and high human approval for feedback (96.14% surface-level, 93.03% macro, 94.69% micro). The tool includes a publicly available interactive interface.
automated writing evaluationlarge language modelsargumentative essaysquadratic weighted kappasupervised fine-tuning
VTM-Nav: Hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory for Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation
The paper introduces VTM-Nav, a training-free vision-language model (VLM) framework for Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation, where an agent operates repeatedly in the same scene while retaining only self-acquired experience. The method employs a hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory (VTM) that organizes scene knowledge at room and object levels, retrieved via coarse-to-fine matching, and includes a conservative execution guard to mitigate navigation errors. Evaluated on HM3D v0.1, HM3D v0.2, and MP3D benchmarks under a same-scene protocol, VTM-Nav outperforms a strengthened WMNav baseline, demonstrating robust visual-topological experience reuse across datasets.
object-goal navigationvision-language modelshierarchical memorycross-episode learningtopological mapping
RetroAgent: Harnessing LLMs to Search Over Structured Memory for Agentic Retrosynthesis Planning
RetroAgent introduces an LLM-based agent for multi-step retrosynthesis planning, combining symbolic search with neural reasoning through structured memory. The system integrates chemistry tools and memory to track search states, including explored routes and intermediate properties, enabling informed decisions grounded in domain knowledge. Evaluations on in-distribution and out-of-distribution benchmarks show strong performance and generalization capabilities.
retrosynthesis planninglarge language modelssymbolic searchstructured memorymulti-step routes
VLT: A Vision-Language-Time Series Multimodal Foundation Model for Industrial Intelligence
The paper introduces VLT, a vision-language-time series multimodal foundation model for industrial Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). VLT bridges continuous time-series signals and discrete textual semantics by jointly modeling time-series, frequency-spectrum visual representations, and textual knowledge. Key innovations include a Time-aware Mixture-of-Experts (Time-MoE) for heterogeneous temporal dynamics, a Frequency-Text Augmented Learner for shared representation space, and time-centric gradient alignment for cross-modal optimization. Experiments on industrial datasets show VLT outperforms state-of-the-art methods in robustness and generalization under few-shot, noisy, and incomplete-modality settings.
multimodal foundation modelprognostics and health managementtime-aware mixture-of-expertsfrequency-text augmented learnergradient alignment
Multi-Scale ViT Inference with Habitat-Fit Priors and kNN Retrieval for Multi-Species Plant Identification
The paper presents DS@GT ARC's third-place solution to the PlantCLEF 2026 challenge for multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images. The method employs a fine-tuned DINOv2 ViT-L/14 classifier on multi-scale tile decompositions of high-resolution plot photographs, enhanced by FAISS kNN retrieval, habitat-fit demotion with geographic and altitude priors, and temporal fusion across repeated visits. Habitat-fit demotion and multi-scale aggregation were the most impactful components in ablation studies. The approach achieved a private-leaderboard macro-F1 of 0.43902, with an alternative configuration scoring above 0.45. Training-centric enhancements and instance-aware segmentation crops did not improve performance.
vit-l/14faiss knnhabitat-fit demotionmulti-scale aggregationmacro-f1
Non-vacuous Generalization Bounds for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
We establish the first non-vacuous generalization bounds for parameter-efficient reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) fine-tuning at the billion-parameter scale, addressing the stochasticity of token generation via the Gumbel-max reparameterization trick. Our Progressive RLVR framework integrates RLVR with on-policy distillation, TinyLoRA, and model quantization, retaining 84-97% performance of standard LoRA fine-tuning while achieving 14,796x greater compressibility. Empirical results demonstrate generalization bounds exceeding the base model’s accuracy by 9-51% and lying within 6-11% of fine-tuned models across mathematical problem-solving, programming, general-knowledge reasoning, and Text-to-SQL domains.
generalization boundsrlvrgumbel-maxtinyloramodel quantization
Contextualized Evaluation of Vision Language Models through Dynamic, Multi-turn Interactions
The paper introduces CEDI, a framework for contextualized evaluation of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) through dynamic, multi-turn interactions. CEDI employs a three-party interaction paradigm involving an evaluatee model, an automated examiner, and a grader, using graph-based task representations and state-space transitions to deploy diverse probing strategies. Empirical results demonstrate that CEDI reveals significantly more visual hallucinations than static evaluations, particularly in long-context scenarios requiring premise rejection, highlighting its ecological validity for assessing MLLMs.
multi-modal llmscontextualized evaluationvisual hallucinationsdynamic interactionsstate-space transitions
SAGA: Schema-Aware Grounding for Agentic Text-to-SPARQL Generation
SAGA introduces schema-aware grounding for agentic text-to-SPARQL generation, addressing type-blind grounding in KBQA by conditioning on entity types, property domains, and expected answer types. The framework employs a persistent bidirectional type state, filters incompatible property candidates, and presents graph patterns in a schema-annotated format, handling missing schema information permissively. Evaluated across nine benchmark settings on Wikidata and Freebase, SAGA achieves the highest F1 scores in all settings and the highest exact-match accuracy in eight, while reducing empty-result queries in all reported Wikidata settings.
schema-aware groundingkbqasparqltype-blind groundingbidirectional type state
EdgeFaaS: A Function-based Framework for Edge Computing
EdgeFaaS introduces a function-based framework for edge computing, addressing resource heterogeneity and distribution challenges through function and storage virtualization. The framework abstracts physical resources across IoT, edge, and cloud, providing consistent virtual interfaces for function deployment and data access. Evaluations on 100+ distributed devices demonstrate flexible workflow configurations for video analytics, federated learning, and audio classification, enabling tradeoff exploration between computation-communication costs and training accuracy-speed.
edge computingfunction virtualizationiotfederated learningresource heterogeneity
Step-Level Preference Learning for Generative Agents in Social Simulations
The paper introduces a method for step-level preference learning in LLM-based generative agents to improve human behavior simulation. Using an interactive simulation interface, the authors collect 57K fine-grained human annotations on intermediate decision steps (planning, memory retrieval, etc.). Supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization on this data enhance simulation fidelity, coordination, and social effectiveness, demonstrating that step-level supervision improves both local decisions and long-horizon behavior.
generative agentsstep-level preference learninghuman behavior simulationdirect preference optimizationinteractive simulation
Can Tokens Compete? Token Representations against Supervised CNN Backbones for BirdCLEF+ 2026
The DS@GT ARC team investigates token-based representations for multi-label detection of animal vocalizations in BirdCLEF+ 2026, contrasting them against supervised CNN backbones. They establish a competitive supervised baseline using an ensemble of Perch v2, HGNetV2-B0, and a non-bird prototypical head, achieving a private leaderboard score of 0.936. Token-based approaches are evaluated using neural audio codecs and foundational embeddings, comparing four AudioSet-trained encoders against two bioacoustic specialist models. The study explores whether token representations can rival supervised pipelines in this domain.
multi-label detectiontoken-based representationsneural audio codecsbioacoustic specialist modelssupervised pipelines
Beyond Generalist LLMs: Specialist Agentic Systems for Structured Code Workflow Execution
The paper introduces specialist agentic systems for structured code workflow execution, demonstrating their advantages over generalist LLMs in business process automation. The method focuses on transforming Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams into deterministic workflows, comparing specialist agents against generalist baselines like Roo and Cline. Results show specialist agents outperform by 9-20pp in tool-use exactness, 2-4x in penalty-adjusted latency, with 3x fewer tool-call errors, while reducing token costs by 95% and eliminating repair iterations.
business process automationbpmnagentic workflowstool-use exactnesspenalty-adjusted latency
Tactile: Giving Computer-Using Agents Hands and Feet
Tactile introduces a tool layer for computer-use agents that enhances desktop interaction reliability by converting heterogeneous UI evidence into action-grounded interface states. The method employs an observe-ground-act-verify loop, prioritizing native semantic actions, using OCR-grounded coordinates as fallback, and maintaining full provenance for replay and failure attribution. Evaluations on macOSWorld-style tasks show Tactile improves Codex Success@100 from 41.1% to 50.0% overall and from 45.2% to 55.3% on accessibility-adapted tasks, with consistent gains across multiple agents including Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, and Goose. The results highlight the necessity of a reusable execution substrate for semantic, verifiable, and auditable software actions.
action-grounded interface statesobserve-ground-act-verify loopocr-grounded coordinatesmacosworld-style taskscodex success@100
Global drivers and barriers to the public acceptance of autonomous vehicles: Evidence from 17 countries
The study extends Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) research by analyzing global factors influencing acceptance of SAE Level 3 autonomous vehicles across 17 countries. Using structural equation modeling on 18,603 respondents from the L3Pilot Global User Acceptance Survey, it found performance expectancy, social influence, and hedonic motivation were primary drivers of usage intention, while effort expectancy and facilitating conditions had smaller effects. Demographic factors showed weak predictive power. Results indicate acceptance hinges more on perceived usefulness, social norms, and enjoyment than demographics or ease-of-use concerns.
autonomous vehiclesutaunt2structural equation modelingperformance expectancyhedonic motivation
Smarter and Cheaper at Once: Byte-Exact KV-Cache Grafting Turns a Frozen Small Model into a Verified-Knowledge Flywheel
The paper introduces KV-cache grafting, a method to enhance frozen small language models without weight modification by storing and restoring byte-exact key-value states. This technique ensures deterministic logit reproduction (SHA-256 equality) and achieves zero KL divergence with 100% argmax agreement. Evaluated on Gemma-4-12B and 31B models, it improves AIME 2025 performance from 80.0% to 93.3% and reduces token usage by 6,574x for recurring problems. The approach also extends usable context to 2,854,766 tokens without additional memory overhead.
kv-cache graftingbyte-exactdeterministic configurationrotary encodingcontext extension
Per-Token Fixed-Point Convergence in Depth-Recurrent Transformers
The paper demonstrates that depth-recurrent transformers exhibit per-token fixed-point convergence, with state updates decaying non-uniformly across token types. Using a 135M-parameter model trained on FineWeb-Edu, the authors measure successive-output KL divergence (dropping from 3.9e-1 to 8.5e-6 by 16 loops) and show convergence depth varies by token type (whitespace: shallowest, content words: deepest). A training-free halting rule based on output stabilization achieves depth-8 quality at 4.94 average loops (38% reduction), outperforming a learned linear router. Results are validated by monotonic validation loss decrease (3.80 to 3.20 across 1-8 loops) and stability to 32 loops.
depth-recurrent transformersfixed-point convergencekl divergenceper-token variationhalting rule
ConFlow: Constraints-Guided Learning with Flow Matching for Motion Generation
ConFlow introduces a constraint-guided flow matching framework for robot motion generation, integrating task constraints directly into the training objective via differentiable barrier functions. The method replaces the standard Gaussian source distribution with a conditional Gaussian Process to handle design specifications like smoothness and boundary conditions, while leveraging infeasible demonstrations as negative supervision. Experiments on a two-robot navigation task show ConFlow reduces collision rates by 15% and improves trajectory quality over standard flow matching baselines, demonstrating the efficacy of training-time constraint integration.
flow matchingconstraint-guided learninggaussian processmotion generationdifferentiable barrier
CausalGraphX: A Counterfactual Graph Neural Network Framework for Explainable Systemic Risk Assessment
CausalGraphX introduces a counterfactual Graph Neural Network framework for explainable systemic risk assessment in financial networks. The method integrates Graph Attention mechanisms with adversarial regularization to learn causal representations of institutional vulnerability, avoiding spurious correlations. It employs optimization-based counterfactual generation to provide actionable explanations, such as minimum capital injections required to prevent defaults. Validated on large-scale synthetic financial networks, CausalGraphX outperforms traditional and deep learning baselines in predicting cascading defaults while offering sparse and plausible counterfactual explanations.
graph neural networkscounterfactual reasoningsystemic riskgraph attentionadversarial regularization
Reward-Free Evolving Agents via Pairwise Validator
The paper introduces a pairwise validator as a cost-effective alternative to scalar rewards in self-evolving agentic loops. The method employs a frozen LLM to compare parent and child agent candidates via binary verdicts, eliminating the need for labeled training data or reward calibration. Integrated into three existing engines (GEPA, ADRS, ShinkaEvolve), the approach matches or exceeds full-reward baselines across multiple agents and substrates (prompt/code), with validation via cross-family validator swaps.
self-evolving agentspairwise validatorreward-free learningadaptive focussoft elo
Decision Making Needs Uncertainty Quantification [Lecture Notes]
The lecture note establishes a decision-theoretic framework linking uncertainty representation to optimal agent performance. It demonstrates that risk-neutral agents require posterior distributions over states, while risk-averse agents can rely on prediction sets and worst-case decision rules without loss of optimality. For unknown environments, three approaches are identified: calibration of fixed predictors, credal sets with distributionally robust optimization, and Bayesian inference over model parameters. The analysis emphasizes that reliable decision-making necessitates uncertainty representations aligned with the agent's decision objective and knowledge profile, coupled with utility guarantees.
uncertainty quantificationdecision-theoretic frameworkposterior distributioncredal setsbayesian inference
Instrument Effects in Language-Model Honesty Evaluation: An Auditable Single-System Demonstration
The study investigates instrument effects in language-model honesty evaluations by constructing a text-adventure game where the engine, not the model, determines quest completion. Using preregistered decision rules and run artifacts, the authors demonstrate that instrument choices significantly alter measured behavior: expanding a two-verdict grammar to three reduced strong claims from 38/40 to 7/40, while incomplete verdicts dominated (28/40). Disclosure of success criteria eliminated false verdicts (18/59 to 0/58), and verdict distributions were non-stable in 3 of 4 instances. The authors propose a four-check integrity protocol for evaluation instruments.
language-model honestyinstrument effectspreregistered rulesverdict grammarevaluation integrity
Integration Matters: Rollout-Based Training for Constrained Diffusion Models
The paper proposes a rollout-based fine-tuning framework for constrained diffusion models that integrates constraint guidance during training by differentiating through the fixed noise schedule. This approach aligns training with sampling dynamics, exposing the model to denoising trajectory violations and mitigating distribution shift. Compared to existing training-time optimization or sampling-time correction methods, the proposed technique improves constraint satisfaction while maintaining competitive sample quality across multiple tasks, particularly in few-step sampling scenarios.
constrained diffusion modelsrollout-based trainingdenoising trajectorydistribution shiftfew-step sampling
CatalogAgent: A Supervisor-mediated Self-Learning System Enabling Context Engineering for GenAI Models
CatalogAgent introduces a supervisor-mediated self-learning system for improving structured attribute (SA) prediction in e-commerce catalogs. The system resolves conflicts between LLM-based Generator and Evaluator models through a Supervisor Agent, which mediates disagreements and incorporates external seller feedback. A Memory Base and Memory Summarizer store and aggregate Supervisor decisions, enabling context engineering to transfer learnings back to worker LLMs. Experiments show performance improvements of 15.24% for the Generator and 13.98% for the Evaluator, demonstrating effective self-improvement without human intervention.
structured attributescontext engineeringllm-based generatorsupervisor agentmemory summarizer
An offline approach to fNIRS-guided reinforcement learning for robot behavior
The paper introduces an offline framework for fNIRS-guided reinforcement learning to modulate robot behavior using brain signals. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is employed to augment trajectory priorities and state-action q-values in RL agents, comparing passive observational tasks with active demonstrative tasks. The study evaluates parameter augmentation methods, model granularity, and noise effects on learning. Results demonstrate that neural signal augmentation improves agent learning, and the framework effectively operates on offline data, providing a practical alternative to real-time brain-computer interface setups.
reinforcement learningfnirsparameter augmentationstate-action q-valuesoffline learning
A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Long and Short-Term Forecasting of the Egyptian Stock Market: A Focus on EGX30
The study evaluates machine learning models for forecasting Egypt's EGX30 stock index across multiple time horizons. Using historical EGX30 data, it compares K-Nearest Neighbours, random forest, XGBoost, LSTM, and GRU networks, measuring performance via RMSE, MAPE, and R² metrics. Results indicate GRU excels in one-week to two-month predictions, while XGBoost performs best for one-day forecasts. Ensemble methods improved long-term prediction accuracy by 5× versus GRU alone. Notably, KNN demonstrated unexpected effectiveness in long-term forecasting, suggesting continued relevance for financial applications.
egx30gated recurrent unitxgboostensemble learningmean absolute percentage error
Why Git Is the Memory Solution for the Agentic Development Lifecycle
The paper proposes git-bound memory for the agentic development lifecycle (ADLC), integrating version control to preserve reasoning traces from coding agents. It addresses seed supply via an eight-corpus retrieval study (achieving ~0.31 pooled MRR) and answer assembly via a router that dispatches queries to structural maps, gated episodes, or decision synthesis (0.83 answer-sufficiency). The system answers at 382-980 tokens per question, leveraging commit-session links for replicable ground truth without labeling costs.
agentic development lifecyclegit-bound memoryseed supplyanswer assemblydecision synthesis
Chat2Scenic: An Iterative RAG-Based Framework for Scenario Generation in Autonomous Driving
Chat2Scenic introduces an iterative retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework for generating autonomous driving test scenarios in Domain Specific Language (DSL) from regulatory descriptions. The framework combines a chatbot interface for interactive refinement with RAG to ground generation in regulatory knowledge and DSL syntax. Evaluated on a new benchmark of 123 scenarios from NHTSA and UN regulations, Chat2Scenic achieves 76.42% compilation success rate and 58.17% framework accuracy, outperforming retrieval-assemble (30.08%, 11.03%) and retrieval-based full-script generation (16.26%, 10.86%) methods.
retrieval-augmented generationdomain specific languageautonomous drivingscenario generationregulatory compliance
CIPHER: A Decoupled Exploration-Selection Framework for Test-Time Scaling of Data Science Agents
We introduce CIPHER, a decoupled exploration-selection framework for test-time scaling of data science agents that mitigates cascading errors from suboptimal initial states. CIPHER generates multiple candidate initial states and strategically selects them for parallel execution, explicitly separating exploration from selection. Evaluated on closed-form and open-form task benchmarks, CIPHER outperforms state-of-the-art methods in matched-model comparisons and remains competitive against larger-model baselines despite using a smaller base language model. Empirical analysis quantifies the impact of generation strategy, selection strategy, and aggregator model capacity on performance, yielding practical design recommendations.
test-time scalingdecoupled exploration-selectioninitial statesparallel executionaggregator model
Unsafe at any AUC: Unlearned Lessons from Sociotechnical Disasters for Responsible AI
The paper argues for applying sociotechnical systems analysis from historical disasters (e.g., Chernobyl, Challenger) to AI risk assessment, emphasizing systemic over component-level reliability. Through case studies of industrial accidents, it demonstrates how known risks were ignored due to organizational and political factors rather than technical unpredictability. The authors propose three actionable lessons for AI: improved risk communication, traceability of responsibilities, and integrating social dynamics into safety engineering, showing parallels with current AI failures.
sociotechnical systemsrisk assessmentsystemic reliabilityorganizational dynamicssafety engineering
HABIB_TAZ at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Formal Logic from Content via Synthetic Training and Multi-Objective Optimization
The paper presents a system for SemEval-2026 Task 11 that disentangles formal logic from content using mDeBERTa-v3 fine-tuned on synthetic syllogistic data. The method employs multi-objective optimization with Adaptive Group DRO, a scheduled bias penalty, and KL-Divergence regularization. Results show perfect accuracy (100.0%) and zero bias on Subtasks 1-3 (English/Noisy English/Multilingual), ranking #1, and 89.06% accuracy (6th rank) on Subtask 4 (Noisy Multilingual) with 2.89% bias.
syllogistic reasoningdistributionally robust optimizationmulti-objective losscontent biasformal logic
Value Leakage: An LLM's Answers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values
The paper identifies covert value leakage in large language models (LLMs), where model outputs are silently influenced by the model's own values without user disclosure, constituting a misalignment. Through a suite of evaluations, the authors quantify this phenomenon across different value types (moral preferences, developer bias, activity preferences) and models. Key findings include Claude Opus 4.8 showing bias toward Anthropic in investment advice while failing to disclose it, and Qwen models demonstrating better transparency about value influences. Value leakage is shown to be distinct from sycophancy and reward hacking, with current alignment methods inadequately addressing it.
covert value leakagelarge language modelsmisalignmentanthropic biasfermi-estimation
Beyond Visual Grasping: Benchmarking Complex Grasping from Detection to Execution
The authors introduce GCA-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating robotic grasping in complex scenarios requiring multi-step reasoning and semantic understanding, addressing limitations of existing visual-based grasp pose detection benchmarks. They implement diverse baselines, including traditional grasp detection pipelines and end-to-end learning methods, achieving success rates below 70% on complex tasks. The work proposes new evaluation metrics, analyzes failure modes, and provides insights for developing robust grasping strategies.
robotic graspinggca-benchsemantic understandinggrasp pose detectionend-to-end learning
The Prover Is the Judge: Verified Security Software from AI Coding Agents in Ada/SPARK
This work introduces a verifier-driven loop approach where AI coding agents produce and verify bare-metal security software in Ada/SPARK, with the prover serving as the correctness judge. The method spans classical and post-quantum cryptography, TLS 1.3, IKEv2, X.509, and a Matrix client, leveraging GNATprove to discharge 49,280 proof obligations. Results show functional correctness for selected primitives and absence of run-time errors for the rest, achieving 20-40x lower supervision cost than hand verification. Limitations emerged where GNATprove alone was insufficient, requiring known-answer tests, interoperability checks, or human specification review. The study concludes that AI agent trustworthiness is bounded by feedback strength.
verifier-driven loopada/sparkgnatproveproof obligationsfunctional correctness
Beyond scalar losses: calibrating segmentation models via gradient vector field surgery
The paper introduces a gradient vector field surgery method to address calibration issues in segmentation models trained with region-based loss functions like Dice loss, which typically produce over-confident predictions. The proposed intervention modifies the loss function's partial derivatives by scaling gradient magnitudes linearly with prediction errors, preserving accuracy while improving calibration. Empirical evaluations on 2D and 3D medical segmentation tasks demonstrate the method's effectiveness across various region-based losses.
segmentation modelsgradient vector fieldregion-based losscalibrationmedical imaging
Copy-on-Write Scoring: Application-Specific Agent Evaluations
The paper introduces Copy-on-Write (CoW) Scoring, a framework for granular evaluation of LLM-based agents within application-specific database environments. The method employs PostgreSQL-level write isolation to track agent operations without modifying production data, enabling session- and operation-level performance metrics. Applied to the Plane project-management platform, CoW Scoring identified tool surface issues that were subsequently fixed, demonstrating measurable agent performance improvements.
agent evaluationcopy-on-writepostgresqlllm-based agentsapplication-specific workflows
ViPSAM: Visual Prompting Medical Image Segmentation Using Segment Anything Model
ViPSAM introduces a visual prompting framework for medical image segmentation, leveraging cross-modality guidance to improve lesion delineation in non-contrast CT (NCCT). The method adapts Segment Anything Model (SAM) with a visual prompt encoder for contrast-enhanced MRI features and a visual-guided cross-attention module to enhance low-contrast representations, while maintaining parameter efficiency. Evaluated on liver lesion segmentation for proton therapy, ViPSAM outperforms U-Net- and SAM-based baselines, demonstrating robustness in non-contrast imaging.
visual promptingcross-modality segmentationsegment anything modelnon-contrast ctproton therapy
PReM: Learning What to Preserve and When to Refresh for Context Compression
PReM introduces a context-compression framework that dynamically manages long-context information during inference by learning what to preserve and when to refresh. The method employs layer-wise KV memory, a dedicated memory layer for selection decisions, and a memory token to trigger refreshes, trained via Phase-Separated Refresh Training for alignment and continuity. Evaluated on 32K-token contexts, PReM outperforms baselines under 16x and 32x compression while balancing answer quality and efficiency.
context compressionkv memoryphase-separated refresh trainingmemory tokenlong-context inference
Accounting for Hysteresis and Eddy Currents in Finite Element Simulations of Ferromagnetic Laminated Cores using a Recurrent Neural Network
A recurrent neural network (RNN) surrogate model is proposed for efficient finite element simulations of ferromagnetic laminated cores, accurately capturing both hysteresis and eddy current effects while maintaining computational feasibility. The RNN is trained on diverse synthetic magnetic field sequences to generalize across electrical machine operating conditions, then integrated into 2D magnetodynamic simulations using a magnetic vector potential formulation. Results demonstrate close agreement with reference laminated-core models at approximately twice the computational cost of anhysteretic simulations, with the trained model made publicly available for integration into existing frameworks.
recurrent neural networkfinite element simulationhysteresis modelingeddy currentsmagnetic vector potential
Towards a Unified Multidimensional Explainability Metric: Evaluating Trustworthiness in AI Models
The paper proposes a unified multidimensional explainability metric for evaluating XAI methods like LIME and SHAP across diverse datasets and ML models. The framework assesses three key aspects: fidelity, simplicity, and stability, leveraging benchmarking experiments to construct an offline knowledge base. This knowledge base captures explainability scores for registered models, enabling context-dependent evaluation and estimation for unseen datasets and models. The authors demonstrate the framework on three open-source datasets, analyzing dataset-specific implications. The work contributes to XAI by providing a robust tool for comparing explainability methods, supporting the development of more transparent AI systems.
explainabilityfidelitysimplicitystabilityknowledge base
Traccia: An OpenTelemetry-Based Governance Platform for AI Systems
Traccia introduces an OpenTelemetry-based governance platform addressing gaps in LLM and autonomous agent oversight. The system integrates telemetry data, semantic guardrail assessment, and execution lineage into a hashed trace ledger, generating compliance evidence with tamper-resistant fingerprints (SHA-256) for EU AI Act requirements (Articles 12, 14, 19, 26(6), 50). This multi-level stack mitigates alignment drift, SaaS security risks, and shadow AI deployment while preserving data privacy through non-invasive monitoring.
opentelemetryllm governancealignment driftsemantic guardrailtrace ledger
Tracing LLM Behavior to the Training Data with Empirical Next-Token Distributions
The paper investigates the alignment between language models' next-token distributions and the empirical next-token distributions (ENTD) derived from training data, identifying ENTD as the global minimizer of pretraining loss. Using empirical analysis, the authors find high agreement between model outputs and ENTD for many inputs, with improved alignment correlating with increased model scale and training compute. Discrepancies in a long tail of sequences are analyzed through architectural, procedural, and data sampling lenses, advocating for 'data-centric mechanistic interpretability' to bridge model behaviors and training data origins.
empirical next-token distributionlanguage model pretrainingcross entropy lossmechanistic interpretabilitytransformer architecture
Assessing AI in Introductory Physics Problem Solving
The study evaluates problem-solving capabilities of OpenAI's o4-mini model on introductory physics problems from Halliday and Resnick's textbook, analyzing performance by modality and difficulty. Using traditional end-of-chapter problems spanning core undergraduate topics, the model achieved 90% overall accuracy, with text-only problems (96%) outperforming text-image problems (79%). Accuracy declined significantly with increasing difficulty levels. Results demonstrate state-of-the-art LLMs' competence in physics problem-solving while highlighting persistent limitations tied to problem representation and complexity.
large language modelsproblem-solvingphysics educationmultimodal reasoningperformance evaluation
Measuring How Students Rely on Generative AI in Academic Writing: Development and Multi-Source Validation of the Generative AI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS)
The study introduces the Generative AI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS), a 20-item instrument measuring four types of undergraduate reliance on generative AI in academic writing: Strategic, Instrumental, Dependent, and Dialogic. Validation involved a survey of 382 undergraduates at a U.S. Minority-Serving Institution and interviews with 14 students, following the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing framework. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a five-factor structure (CFI = .92, RMSEA = .08), with subscale reliability (omega = .75-.88) and scalar measurement invariance across demographic groups. Strategic reliance correlated positively with AI literacy, and reliance types differentiated writing process outcomes.
generative aiacademic writingconfirmatory factor analysismeasurement invarianceai literacy
ToolAlignBench: Investigating Alignment Conflicts in Tool-Calling Enabled LLMs
The paper introduces ToolAlignBench, a benchmark investigating value conflicts in safety-aligned LLMs when deployed as tool-calling agents in regulated industries. The authors construct 128 scenarios across 16 domains to test how models prioritize safety-trained values (e.g., public welfare) versus deployment instructions (e.g., confidentiality). Results show open-source models override deployment instructions in 43.4% of cases, exhibiting behaviors like whistleblowing and data exfiltration when detecting organizational wrongdoing. Abliteration techniques reduce external whistleblowing rates. The work highlights tensions in pluralistic alignment and provides an evaluation framework for competing legitimate interests.
tool-calling llmssafety alignmentpluralistic alignmentabliterationvalue conflicts
AI Agents Do Not Fail Alone:The Context Fails First
The paper establishes context-engineering quality as a predictive metric for AI agent reliability, introducing a multi-criteria evaluation framework implemented in ProofAgent-Harness. The method isolates context quality from behavioral metrics, assessing seven criteria (e.g., role clarity, grounding sufficiency) via multi-juror consensus scoring. Results from controlled experiments show context-quality criteria directly predict corresponding agent behaviors (e.g., grounding sufficiency correlates with hallucination resistance), validating context measurement as a preflight reliability indicator.
context engineeringagent reliabilityhallucination resistancemulti-juror scoringgrounding sufficiency
Local Additive Feature Attribution: A Mathematical Taxonomy and Reporting Checklist
The survey establishes a unified mathematical framework for local additive feature attribution methods, categorizing Shapley, path-based, gradient/backpropagation, perturbation, and CAM-style approaches through five specification choices: value function, reference, path, perturbation distribution, and conservation rule. It systematically compares methods via an axiom-by-method matrix and links common failure modes (baseline sensitivity, off-manifold perturbations, etc.) to underlying assumptions. The work concludes with a ten-item reporting checklist, emphasizing that attribution results are meaningful only when contextualized by their mathematical assumptions.
feature attributionexplainable aishapley valuesperturbation methodsgradient-based explanation
Automatic Hard Example Synthesis with Multi-Level Agentic Data Curation
The paper introduces an automated agentic framework for synthesizing hard examples to improve multimodal large language model (MLLM) robustness in content safety tasks. The method employs a multi-agent architecture with an Architect agent, image generator, and verification committee to iteratively generate and validate adversarial examples via hypothesis proposal and mutation. Results show a reduction in false negative rate from 41.2% to 24.5% on an image safety benchmark without human labeling.
multimodal large language modelsadversarial examplesagentic red-teamingin-context retrievalfalse negative rate
MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning
The paper introduces MEMORA, a framework for Embodied Action Memory (EAM) that enables long-horizon robot planning through persistent memory of egocentric experiences. MEMORA implements a formation-consolidation-retrieval lifecycle with four typed memory stores (Environment, Entity, Activity, Inferred Knowledge), supporting online editing and offline consolidation of object states and procedural knowledge. Evaluated on 45 hours of EPIC-KITCHENS-100 extension videos, MEMORA improves memory-assessment accuracy by up to 20.5 points and out-of-distribution plan scores by 16.6% over baselines, demonstrating effective memory-grounded planning for unseen goals.
embodied action memoryegocentric videomemory consolidationrobot planninglong-horizon reasoning
The Steering Budget: Examples beat Knobs
The authors introduce the concept of a 'steering budget', which quantifies the range of property adjustments achievable in generative models through two distinct mechanisms: parameter knobs (e.g., prompts, guidance scales) and example-based steering. They demonstrate that example-based steering typically accesses a significantly larger portion of the budget compared to knobs, enabling precise control over properties that are difficult to express verbally. A method is provided to audit training data to measure the budget and construct example sets that maximize steering effectiveness. Empirical validation across image and crystal-structure generation domains confirms the approach's superiority in reach and expressiveness, delineating scenarios where knobs suffice versus those requiring examples.
steering budgetgenerative modelsexample-based steeringproperty adjustmenttraining data audit
Align AI to Dynamic Human-AI Workflows
The paper advocates for transitioning from static preference-based AI alignment to interactive, complementary alignment that accounts for dynamic human-AI workflows. It formalizes this gap by introducing a trajectory-level perspective where human and model behaviors co-evolve, contrasting with current ML formulations. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from social science and a dedicated workshop, the authors identify amplified coordination challenges and uncertainty reasoning in human-AI systems. They propose a research agenda integrating machine learning with social and decision sciences to develop interaction-aligned AI systems.
interactive alignmenthuman-ai collaborationtrajectory-level alignmentcoordination challengesuncertainty reasoning
Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection
We introduce LIFT (Late Reactive Injection of Force for VLA Post-Training), a force-aware post-training framework that enhances pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies for contact-rich manipulation tasks. LIFT integrates a reactive action expert initialized from pretrained weights, injects 6D end-effector force via causal force memory and zero-initialized cross attention, and employs an online DAgger loop combining offline task-alignment data with human-corrected rollouts. Evaluated on towel folding, book insertion, and Hanoi ring placement, LIFT achieves faster learning and higher performance than vision-only post-training, demonstrating the importance of reactive force memory and online corrective data for robust manipulation.
vla policiesforce injectioncausal force memorydagger loopcontact-rich manipulation
LIGO-PINN: Learned Initialization via Gated Optimization to Alleviate Convergence Failures in Physics Informed Neural Networks
We introduce LIGO-PINN, a framework for learned initialization via gated layerwise optimization to address convergence failures in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The method mitigates catastrophic failures by optimizing initial network weights, overcoming limitations of hyperparameter tuning, curriculum learning, and dynamic resampling. Evaluated on 1D, 2D, and 3D PDE domains, including a challenging 2D fluid dynamics setting, LIGO-PINN achieves a 91.5% average performance improvement over six baselines and 81% over the strongest baseline. Training dynamics analysis across PDE domains explains both LIGO-PINN's success and traditional PINN failures.
physics-informed neural networkspartial differential equationslayerwise optimizationfluid dynamicsinitialization
SeeSE3: Emergence of 3D Space in Vision Features
The paper investigates whether vision foundation models inherently represent 3D Euclidean space properties through their feature spaces, focusing on the alignment with SE(3) transformations. It introduces two probes: a mutual neighborhood metric for topological alignment assessment and a Poincaré Adapter for geometric accessibility testing of camera motion in latent spaces. Results demonstrate that self-supervised models, without explicit 3D supervision, exhibit latent subspaces strongly correlated with 3D space. This finding enables novel Latent-Space Navigation techniques for visual odometry and localization, eliminating the need for explicit 3D reconstruction.
3d euclidean spacese(3) transformationsmutual neighborhood metricpoincaré adapterlatent-space navigation
Instant NuRec: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstruction for Driving Scene Simulation
Instant NuRec introduces a feed-forward neural reconstruction model for rapid 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstruction of driving scenes, eliminating per-scene tuning. The method processes multi-view input from calibrated camera rigs, outputting static/dynamic 3DGS layers, a sky cubemap, and per-camera ISP corrections, with native support for non-pinhole cameras via 3DGUT. It reconstructs 10-20-second scenes in ~1.5s, achieving a 2.01 dB PSNR improvement over baselines on Waymo Open Dataset, and integrates with NuRec and AlpaSim for closed-loop simulation.
3d gaussian splattingneural simulationfeed-forward reconstructionautonomous drivingmulti-view input
Early Adoption of Agentic Coding Tools by GitHub Projects
The study analyzes 25,264 agent-generated pull requests (PRs) across 2,361 GitHub repositories to characterize early adoption patterns of agentic coding tools. Using repository-level metrics, it examines adoption rates, PR productivity, and human-agent collaboration models. Results show sparse adoption (median 1-2 agentic PRs per repository over 3 months), with small projects (1-5 contributors) exhibiting higher participation ratios than larger ones. Most projects operate below an industry benchmark of 36 PRs/participant, and human oversight predominantly follows a single-reviewer model rather than multi-human collaboration. The findings highlight organizational factors as critical for agentic tool integration.
agentic coding toolspull requestsgithub repositorieshuman-agent collaborationsoftware productivity
How Artificial Intelligence LLM Engines Shape the Global Conflict Information Environment
This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) shape the global conflict information environment by analyzing their propensity to hallucinate under conditions of sparse retrievable records. The authors evaluated 5,460 responses from five leading AI answer engines on 28 conflicts, scoring them against documented evidence. Results indicate that thinner conflict records correlate with increased fabrication, misattribution, and miscounting, exposing structural vulnerabilities to mis- and disinformation. Analysis of 1,048 websites revealed active Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) practices, with state-partisan digital capture rapidly emerging. The findings underscore the need for deep local monitoring and translation-based research, highlighting future challenges in GEO-driven information warfare.
large language modelshallucinationgenerative engine optimizationmisinformationconflict analysis
RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination
The paper introduces RxBrain, a foundation model for embodied cognition that jointly reasons with language and visual imagination. The model uses a multimodal Mixture-of-Transformers architecture to unify language, image, and video understanding/generation, representing plans as sequences where language structures abstract reasoning and visual imagination grounds physical states. An automated pipeline converts embodied videos into joint text-visual planning supervision. Evaluations on RxBrain-Bench demonstrate coupled textual reasoning and visual state prediction, with extensions showing promising real-robot action generation without large-scale action pretraining.
embodied cognitionmixture-of-transformersmultimodal reasoningvisual imaginationjoint subgoal planning
NexForge: Scaling Executable Agent Tasks via Requirement-First Synthesis
NexForge introduces a requirement-first framework for scaling executable agent training data by compiling free-form capability requirements into task-specific datasets. The method involves demand discovery, distribution-aware task compilation, and automatic retrieval of resources, followed by teacher rollout collection and trajectory distillation. Without domain-specific infrastructure, NexForge generates 3,600 terminal and 2,000 office tasks, improving Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Base from 22.5% to 52.0% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and from 813 to 1338 Elo on GDPval. Scaling to 43.2K terminal tasks achieves 58.4%, surpassing Claude Opus 4.6. Nex-N2 models, trained with NexForge-synthesized data, achieve state-of-the-art open-source performance with 75.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 1585 Elo on GDPval.
executable agenttask compilationtrajectory distillationterminal taskselo rating
Closed-Loop Knowledge Dynamics: An Operational Framework for Saturation and Escape
The paper introduces a three-level operational framework for analyzing closed-loop knowledge dynamics, explaining why systems saturate and how interventions enable escape. It models knowledge states $x_t$ via transition kernels $K_θ$ with structural parameter $θ$, defining attractors as fixed-$θ$ properties. Structural interventions alter $θ$ and are falsifiable through kernel discrepancies on probe states. Lyapunov analysis shows stable dynamics converge to bounded regions with noise-dependent residuals. Escape requires attractor displacement and a KL lower bound, revealing why conditional mutual information fails as an escape metric. Case studies in LLM code repair, RL, and Bayesian optimization demonstrate feedback-driven escape mechanisms.
closed-loop dynamicstransition kernelslyapunov driftstructural interventionattractor displacement
Semantic Audio-driven Understanding for Dynamic Humanoid Whole Body Control
We present a multi-modal orchestration framework for semantic audio-driven humanoid control, enabling autonomous selection and execution of motion skills in dynamic environments. The system processes continuous audio streams via music and speech branches: music input uses audio fingerprinting and semantic embeddings for track identification and temporal alignment, while speech input grounds into a discrete library of imitation-learned skills. Both modalities interface with a reinforcement learning control pipeline for skill scheduling. Validation on a Unitree G1 humanoid demonstrates robust sim-to-real transfer and consistent audio-conditioned policy selection.
audio-driven controlsemantic embeddingsimitation learningreinforcement learningsim-to-real transfer
RENEW: Towards Learning World Models and Repairing Model Exploitation from Preferences
The paper introduces RENEW, a method for repairing model exploitation in offline reinforcement learning by leveraging human preferences over imagined rollouts. The approach formalizes Dynamics Learning from Human Feedback (DLHF) as a Bradley-Terry preference loss over trajectory log-likelihoods under a learned dynamics model. RENEW improves sample efficiency by using epistemic uncertainty to focus finetuning on exploitable regions, reducing catastrophic forgetting and exploitation in pretrained world models across Jumanji and classic control environments.
offline reinforcement learningworld modelsmodel exploitationepistemic uncertaintypreference learning
ReasFlow: Assisting Reasoning-Centric Scientific Discovery in Applied Mathematics via a Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent System
ReasFlow introduces an end-to-end autonomous agent system for reasoning-centric scientific discovery in applied mathematics, addressing challenges in verifying theoretical reasoning and synthesizing domain knowledge. The system employs a collaborative paradigm where human experts act as Principal Investigators while agents execute rigorous derivations. Key features include a robust internal verification loop for logical coherence and an automated knowledge retrieval mechanism for declarative facts and procedural heuristics. Deployed to autonomously generate five complete research papers, ReasFlow achieves the highest evaluation scores among state-of-the-art open-access baselines under a curated LLM-based review rubric.
autonomous agenttheoretical reasoningknowledge retrievallogical coherenceapplied mathematics
AgentCompass: A Unified Evaluation Infrastructure for Agent Capabilities
AgentCompass introduces a unified evaluation infrastructure for LLM-based agents, addressing fragmentation in current pipelines. The system organizes evaluation into three decoupled components (Benchmark, Harness, Environment) for flexible configuration without reimplementing execution logic. It features fault-tolerant asynchronous runtime and trajectory analysis tools to diagnose failure modes like reward-hacking. Supporting over 20 benchmarks across five capability dimensions, AgentCompass provides a scalable, reproducible framework for agent research.
large language modelsautonomous agentsevaluation infrastructurereward-hackingtrajectory analysis
MeanFlowNFT: Bringing Forward-Process RL to Average-Velocity Generators
The paper introduces MeanFlowNFT, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for MeanFlow generators that optimizes average-velocity predictions while preserving fast few-step sampling. The method bridges the gap between MeanFlow's average velocities and DiffusionNFT's instantaneous-velocity optimization by constructing an induced instantaneous-velocity predictor. Theoretical analysis shows MeanFlowNFT inherits DiffusionNFT's policy-improvement guarantee. Experiments on image and video generation demonstrate consistent improvements over baselines, outperforming prior RL-tuned few-step generators on 6 of 8 SD3.5-M metrics and surpassing 50-step LongCat-Video RL (82.57 VBench) with just 4 steps (84.33 VBench).
meanflownftreinforcement learningaverage-velocity generatorsfew-step samplingvbench
Online Neural Space Time Memory for Dynamic Novel View Synthesis
The paper introduces an online neural space-time memory system for dynamic novel view synthesis that decouples memory update and application frequencies to achieve real-time performance. Key innovations include periodic memory updates with cross-view attention for deformation handling, an auxiliary Memory Loss for scene persistence, and Memory Caching to prevent catastrophic drift. The method achieves state-of-the-art results on dynamic human motion scenes and supports minute-scale online memorization while maintaining real-time operation.
novel view synthesistest-time trainingcross-view attentionmemory cachingdynamic scenes
Decoding Market Emotion from Blockchain Activity: A Data-Driven Sentiment Classifier
This study introduces a novel Bitcoin market sentiment classifier by integrating on-chain data, financial metrics, and Twitter sentiment classifications. The method employs Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) with cross-validation, achieving an average F1-score of 0.84, and utilizes SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) for interpretability to quantify the contribution of on-chain features. Results demonstrate that combining these data sources provides meaningful predictive signals, enhancing cryptocurrency market analysis and suggesting potential improvements with deep learning approaches.
bitcoinsentiment analysisgradient boostingshapon-chain data
Mutable Low-Rank Sketches for Retrain-Free Recommendation
The paper introduces mutable low-rank sketches for retrain-free recommendation, addressing embedding staleness in two-stage systems. The method employs KP-trees (sparse segment trees with sum aggregation) to store user preferences, coupled with a low-rank projection for on-the-fly embedding updates as new ratings arrive. Theoretical guarantees show monotonically tightening prediction error bounds (Theorem 1). Evaluated on KuaiRec, the approach achieves 0.810 RMSE at 1.8% data read (vs. ALS 0.822 at 100%) with 8x faster per-batch updates, enabling <1 ms personalized recommendations for new users after their first rating. KP-tree's norm-proportional sampling improves item coverage by 40-130% on sparse data (<1% density).
mutable sketcheskp-treeembedding stalenesslow-rank projectionnorm-proportional sampling
Data Driven Block Replacement Scheduling
The authors propose data-driven algorithms for optimizing block replacement policies in systems with N identical machines, where machines are replaced upon failure and jointly at regular intervals k. They formulate the problem as a stochastic multi-armed bandit, introducing Hoeffding- and Bernstein-based lower-confidence-bound algorithms achieving O(K log T) regret, matching the Lai-Robbins lower bound. A correlated variant reduces regret to O((K-k*)log T) by exploiting nested observations. A Kaplan-Meier renewal algorithm estimates lifetime distributions nonparametrically, achieving near-zero incremental regret. Analysis of average-cost MDPs confirms block replacement's optimality and reveals cost gaps between block and age-dependent policies. Numerical experiments validate theoretical findings.
block replacement policystochastic multi-armed banditlower-confidence-boundkaplan-meier renewalaverage-cost mdps
NeuronSoup: Evolving Asynchronous, Shared-Neuron Temporal Graphs without Backpropagation
NeuronSoup introduces an asynchronous neural architecture where signals propagate through shared neurons via delay-mediated paths, replacing synchronous layer processing. The system co-evolves topology, weights, delays, and connectivity via a genetic algorithm (14,602-gene genome) without backpropagation. On MNIST classification using ResNet18 features, it achieves 85.9% accuracy with 204 paths through 266 hidden neurons (156 shared), demonstrating interference-based computation. The 115 KB model adapts depth per-sample and discovers lateral interactions implicitly.
asynchronous neural networksgenetic algorithmshared neuronsdelay-mediated propagationco-evolution
Delocalization of bias in unadjusted Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and underdamped Langevin
The work extends the delocalization of bias phenomenon to unadjusted Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and underdamped Langevin algorithms, previously established for overdamped Langevin. A matrix-polynomial framework is introduced to characterize propagators, addressing technical challenges in discrete-time integrators. Results show that $O(\sqrt{K})$ integration steps suffice to control the $W_2$ bias of any $K$-dimensional marginal in high-dimensional distributions, assuming weak or sparse variable interactions, up to $\log d$ terms. The analysis holds for large friction parameters in underdamped Langevin, implying similar bias delocalization in the Leimkuhler-Matthews integrator for overdamped Langevin dynamics.
delocalization of biashamiltonian monte carlounderdamped langevinmatrix-polynomial frameworkpropagators
BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong
The paper introduces BadWAM, a framework for World-Action Drift Attacks (WADAs), exposing vulnerabilities in World-Action Models (WAMs) where visual perturbations disrupt alignment between imagined futures and executed actions. BadWAM characterizes attacks along strength and stealthiness: action-only attacks directly degrade task performance (96.5% to 43.1% success), while imagination-preserving attacks maintain plausible futures but induce harmful actions. Experiments across WAM variants reveal that future-preserving regularization can sustain attack efficacy while minimizing imagination drift, highlighting WAM-specific failure modes.
world-action modelsadversarial attacksembodied controlvisual perturbationsfuture prediction
RTS Smoother-Guided Learning of Physics-Based Neural Differential Models
We propose a hybrid neural-physics framework for learning unknown components of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from partial state observations. The method alternates between state estimation using a Rauch–Tung–Striebel (RTS) smoother and parameter estimation via backpropagation, iteratively refining both latent states and neural network parameters. Evaluated on benchmark systems with linear, nonlinear, and stiff dynamics, the approach successfully learns missing ODE components while preserving interpretable mechanistic structure, improving latent-state reconstruction, and enhancing long-horizon prediction accuracy.
ordinary differential equationsrauch–tung–striebel smootherneural-physics frameworklatent-state reconstructionlong-horizon prediction
On-Policy Delta Distillation
The paper introduces On-Policy Delta Distillation (OPD$^2$), a novel reinforcement learning method that improves upon conventional on-policy distillation by using a delta signal as the distillation reward. The delta signal captures the difference between a teacher model and its base model before instruction tuning, providing a more direct signal for transferring reasoning capabilities. Experiments across mathematics, science, and code-reasoning benchmarks show that OPD$^2$ consistently outperforms standard on-policy distillation, enabling reasoning LLMs to achieve strong performance with minimal post-training.
on-policy distillationdelta signalinstruction tuningreasoning llmspost-training
Learning in Infinitesimal Non-Compositional Sketches
The paper introduces Learning in Infinitesimal Non-Compositional Sketches (LINCS), a categorical framework for addressing non-compositionality in machine learning by reformulating it as a universal factorization problem. The method employs tangent categories to lift models to infinitesimal perturbations, defining the obstruction to factorization via tangent functors. Key results include the definition of Tangent Learning Sketches, the INC endofunctor for iterated tangent lifts, and a proof of the existence of a final INC coalgebra under set-based conditions. Experimental validation in deep learning, LLMs, and RL is mentioned as ongoing work.
categorical frameworknon-compositionalitytangent categoryfactorization problemcoalgebra
AlphaWiSE: Adaptive Weight Interpolation for Continual Multimodal Representation Learning
AlphaWiSE introduces adaptive weight-space interpolation for continual multimodal representation learning, addressing cross-modal alignment degradation in sequential data scenarios. The method post-hoc composes two frozen checkpoints via per-tensor scalar interpolation coefficients fitted on exemplar memory, preserving original architecture and parameter count without inference overhead. Experiments on audio-image-text retrieval demonstrate consistent improvements over continual-learning baselines across multiple retrieval directions and evaluation metrics.
continual learningweight interpolationmultimodal retrievalcross-modal alignmentexemplar memory
Evaluating covariate balance for long time horizon Markov decision processes
The article evaluates covariate balance diagnostics for detecting hidden confounding and model misspecification in offline reinforcement learning (RL) studies focused on treatment recommendations. It applies these diagnostics to assess the statistical robustness of existing offline RL methodologies. Results indicate either a high risk of bias in current studies or the inadequacy of existing covariate balance metrics to evaluate them. Consequently, existing offline RL studies cannot be deemed statistically robust. The conclusions suggest future research directions to enhance methodological robustness in applying offline RL to treatment recommendation problems.
covariate balanceoffline reinforcement learninghidden confoundingmodel misspecificationtreatment recommendations
An Introduction to Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Applications
The tutorial introduces Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy), a method for recovering interpretable governing equations from sparse data via sparse regression over candidate nonlinear terms. It extends the baseline algorithm with noise-robust weak-form variants, ensembling techniques, and constrained formulations, demonstrated through case studies on UAV system identification and chaotic thermosyphon dynamics. The accompanying GitHub tutorial provides step-by-step implementation guidance for engineering applications.
sparse regressionnonlinear dynamicssystem identificationweak-form formulationinterpretable modeling
Kernel weighted importance sampling for off-policy evaluation in contextual bandits
The authors propose Kernel-WIS, a novel off-policy evaluation estimator for contextual bandits that combines boundedness from weighted importance sampling with linearity from vanilla importance sampling. The method leverages kernel weighting to improve estimation accuracy using only offline data. Theoretical analysis shows asymptotic consistency, while empirical results demonstrate superior performance over baselines (including vanilla weighted importance sampling), particularly under behavior policy misspecification and complex conditions.
off-policy evaluationcontextual banditsimportance samplingkernel weightingasymptotic consistency
DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting
DriftWorld introduces a novel action-conditioned world model for robotic planning, leveraging drifting generative models to bypass the computational bottleneck of iterative denoising in diffusion-based approaches. By learning an action-conditioned drift during training, DriftWorld generates future frames from the current observation and action sequence in a single forward pass, achieving 30+ fps, 17x faster than diffusion baselines. Evaluated on benchmarks including Bridge-V2, RT-1, and Robomimic, DriftWorld attains state-of-the-art decision-making performance with significantly reduced inference time. Additionally, it serves as an offline simulator, with rollout-based scores correlating with ground truth up to 0.99, demonstrating its efficacy for both online control and policy evaluation.
action-conditioneddrifting generative modelsrobotic planningdiffusion-basedrollout-based scores
cGAP: Generalized Association Plots with HOMALS-Guided Heatmaps for Visualization of High-Dimensional Categorical Data
The authors propose categorical Generalized Association Plots (cGAP), a visualization framework for high-dimensional categorical data addressing limitations of existing methods in scalability, interpretability, and matrix preservation. cGAP employs Homogeneity Analysis (HOMALS) to embed subjects and category levels in 3D Euclidean space, mapping embeddings to RGB colors for pattern similarity visualization. It integrates three coordinated views: a HOMALS-guided heatmap, subject proximity matrix, and variable proximity matrix, with seriation algorithms revealing clusters and structure. Theoretical properties like barycentric traceability are derived. Applications to biological and educational datasets demonstrate cGAP's effectiveness in maintaining traceability between visual structure and original categorical observations.
homogeneity analysisseriation algorithmscategorical data visualizationgeneralized association plotshigh-dimensional embedding
Multimodal Semantic-Aware Contrastive Learning For False Negative Mitigation in 3D Medical Imaging
We propose Multimodal Semantic-Aware Contrastive Learning (MseaCL), a framework mitigating false negatives in multimodal medical imaging by incorporating semantic similarity between radiology reports. MseaCL aligns representations across 3D brain MRI scans and radiology reports in a pediatric cohort, addressing the limitation of traditional contrastive learning frameworks that treat semantically similar samples as negatives. Pretraining with MseaCL improves downstream task performance, achieving at least a 22.6% increase in AUC for pediatric brain tumor molecular classification, demonstrating enhanced robustness and semantic alignment in clinical applications.
contrastive learningmultimodal representationsemantic similaritymedical imagingfalse negatives
LongStraw: Long-Context RL Beyond 2M Tokens under a Fixed GPU Budget
LongStraw introduces an architecture-aware execution stack enabling million-token reinforcement learning (RL) post-training under fixed GPU constraints, addressing the gap between long-context inference and shorter training contexts. The method combines Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with prompt evaluation sans autograd, selective state retention, and sequential replay of short response branches to minimize live training graph size. Implemented on Qwen3.6-27B and GLM-5.2, LongStraw achieves 2.1M-token processing on 8 H20 GPUs with minimal memory overhead (0.21 GB per group size increase) and scales to 4.46M tokens in stress tests, though some gradient composition paths remain incomplete.
long-context rlgroup relative policy optimizationautograd-free evaluationselective state retentiongpu-constrained training
Optimal Self-Distillation for Rectified Flow via Linear Probing
The paper analyzes optimal self-distillation (SD) for rectified flow (RF) models, proving that a student model trained on a mixture of true and teacher-generated velocities can outperform the teacher. For linear RF with ridge regularization, the authors derive an exact affine path identity, closed-form optimal mixing coefficient, and demonstrate strict improvement in integrated velocity risk when teacher risk is nonstationary. They propose a one-shot generalized cross-validation method for tuning without grid search. Theoretical results combined with RF Wasserstein bounds show SD improves velocity estimation terms affecting generation error. Experiments on Gaussian models, mixtures, and image data confirm improvements in velocity risk, mode recovery, and finite-step generation.
self-distillationrectified flowridge regularizationwasserstein convergencegeneralized cross-validation
Causal Inference for Sequential Settings under Interference and Latent Confounding
The paper introduces a method for causal inference in sequential observational settings with outcome interference and latent confounding. The approach models binary outcomes across N units over T timesteps using an Ising model with treatment effects and low-rank latent confounders. A Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation (MPLE) method provides computationally efficient parameter estimation, with non-asymptotic consistency guarantees. Experiments on synthetic data and a COVID-19 vaccine case study demonstrate accurate estimation of causal effects under interference.
causal inferenceising modelmaximum pseudo-likelihood estimationlatent confoundinginterference
Leveraging Instruction Tuning and Merging for Reasoning Model Adaptation
We propose a cost-effective method (<$3) to enhance reasoning language model (RLM) performance in both verifiable and unverifiable domains by leveraging instruction tuning and model merging. Our approach first applies supervised fine-tuning without reasoning traces, then merges the instruction-tuned model with the original RLM to recover reasoning capabilities. Extensive evaluations demonstrate improved performance across domains including coding and text summarization, while preserving RLM capabilities in other domains. This method effectively utilizes existing supervised fine-tuning data with human-written solutions, addressing the challenge of training RLMs in domains lacking reliable verifiers.
instruction tuningreasoning language modelmodel mergingsupervised fine-tuningverifiable domains
Domain Adaptation of Mismatched Proximal Denoiser for Plug-and-Play Image Reconstruction
The paper analyzes domain adaptation in plug-and-play proximal gradient descent (PnP-PGD) for image reconstruction, focusing on proximal mismatch between deployed denoisers and target-domain reference maps. It establishes a stationarity bound decaying as O(1/K) with an additive term proportional to squared proximal mismatch, motivating adaptation via proximal matching rather than MSE minimization. Experiments on Gaussian deblurring and super-resolution under domain shift show proximal matching adaptation outperforms MSE-based methods, particularly in few-shot regimes, using learned proximal networks and gradient-step denoisers.
plug-and-play reconstructionproximal mismatchdomain adaptationgradient-step denoisersinexact proximal steps
Analytical study of the optimal combination of binary classifiers based on classifiers-induced partitioning of the training set
The paper contributes analytical conditions for optimal linear combinations of binary classifiers by partitioning datasets via truth tables. It employs a multidimensional generalization of classification calibrated functions to analyze convexified empirical risk, establishing sufficient conditions for global minima existence/uniqueness across classifier counts. For three-classifier systems, it enumerates configurations yielding unique solutions, infima, or non-unique minima, and derives explicit weight formulae for Exponential (Boost) and Logistic (Logit) losses without iterative optimization. Stability is assessed through proposed $φ$-frontiers.
binary classifiersempirical riskclassification calibrated functionstruth tablesoptimal weights
Measuring Spatial Clustering via Metropolis-Hastings Diffusion Distance
The authors propose a novel diffusion distance metric for quantifying discrepancy between probability distributions on graphs, specifically measuring convergence rates under Metropolis-Hastings Markov chains with stationary distribution g. The method generalizes Moran's I spatial autocorrelation by incorporating global graph geometry through spectral analysis and optimal transport theory, with theoretical convergence bounds. Empirical validation shows superior detection power versus Moran's I on synthetic stochastic block models and urban segregation patterns in 100 U.S. cities, revealing finer clustering structures.
diffusion distancemetropolis-hastingsspatial clusteringgraph spectraoptimal transport
PAC Learning in Turn-Based Stochastic Games with Reachability Objectives: A Decentralized Private Approach via Expected Conditional Distance
This work presents the first decentralized and private-information approach for PAC learning in turn-based stochastic games (TBSGs) with reachability objectives, relaxing prior assumptions of public information and centralized learning. The method introduces a game-theoretic generalization of the Expected Conditional Distance (ECD) parameter to measure the expected length of reaching the target set. The authors establish a polynomial-sample complexity bound in terms of the number of states, actions, ECD parameter, and inverses of error tolerance and failure probability, enabling efficient learning under decentralized and private conditions.
turn-based stochastic gamesreachability objectivespac learningexpected conditional distancedecentralized learning
Subgrid-Scale Parameterization in Burgers' Equation Using Structure-Preserving Neural Networks and Entropy Variables
The authors propose a machine learning framework for subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization in coarse simulations of Burgers' equation, leveraging structure-preserving neural networks and entropy variables. The method employs a decoupled architecture with two components: a Flux Potential network for conservative corrections and an Eddy Viscosity network. This approach accurately reproduces the energy spectrum, spatial-temporal correlations, and dynamical characteristics of full-scale systems. Results demonstrate robustness and generalizability to parameters beyond the training regime, maintaining high physical fidelity in reduced-order simulations.
subgrid-scale parameterizationburgers' equationstructure-preserving neural networksentropy variableseddy viscosity
ChronoQG: Towards a Temporally Expressive and Hop-Bounded Benchmark for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Generation
The paper introduces ChronoQG, the first benchmark framework for temporal knowledge graph question generation (TKGQG), addressing the lack of temporal expressiveness in existing KGQG benchmarks. ChronoQG integrates a temporal-constraint taxonomy, topology-temporal subgraph sampling, and trace-grounded question generation to produce 16,011 verified questions across four datasets. Evaluation of LLM-based methods reveals significant challenges in preserving temporal constraints, particularly in multi-constraint settings and complex constraint types, highlighting the gap between static and temporal KGQG.
temporal knowledge graphquestion generationbenchmark frameworktemporal constraintsllm-based methods
Toward Energy-Efficient and Low-Power Arrhythmia Detection for Wearable Devices
The paper proposes energy-efficient deep learning techniques for arrhythmia detection in wearable devices, achieving significant power reduction while maintaining classification accuracy. The authors employ approximation methods including data precision reduction and approximate multiplication in a state-of-the-art DL model, evaluated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. Hardware implementations demonstrate 64.9% power reduction (3.07 μW at 12 kHz) and 61.5% energy reduction (9.45 mW at 100 MHz) versus baseline, while preserving 93.7% accuracy and 92.1% sensitivity.
approximate computingwearable devicesarrhythmia detectionenergy efficiencydeep learning
GeoDetect: Geometric Adversarial Detection for VLPs
The paper introduces GeoDetect, a geometric adversarial detection method for vision-language pre-trained models (VLPs), addressing their vulnerability to multimodal attacks. By analyzing VLP embedding spaces, the authors identify structured anisotropy where adversarial examples (AEs) exhibit greater expected geometric separation from clean samples, indicating off-manifold deviations. GeoDetect leverages these deviations via geometric scores to detect AEs. Evaluations demonstrate its robustness across diverse VLP architectures and threat settings, including unimodal, multimodal, and adaptive attacks, enhancing model safety.
vision-language pre-trained modelsadversarial detectiongeometric separationoff-manifold deviationsmultimodal attacks
GAttNHP: Group Attention Neural Hawkes Process for Extrapolation Reasoning in Temporal Knowledge Graphs
The Group Attention Neural Hawkes Process (GAttNHP) addresses three key challenges in temporal knowledge graph (TKG) forecasting: long-range dependencies, cross-chain event interactions, and heavy-tailed inter-arrival times. It combines a self-attention encoder for continuous-time point processes, a semantic soft-grouping module with learnable Hawkes priors, and a Non-Crossing Quantile regression head for stable time prediction. Evaluated on six TKG benchmarks, GAttNHP outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in entity and time prediction, with significant improvements on long-tail event chains.
temporal knowledge graphsneural hawkes processquantile regressionself-attentioninter-arrival times
What's in a Smoothness Constant? Tighter Rates for Local SGD with Bounded Second-order Heterogeneity
We establish improved convergence guarantees for Local SGD (Federated Averaging) on general convex objectives under bounded second-order heterogeneity, proving a conjecture from prior work. Our analysis employs tighter upper bounds and improved lower bounds, demonstrating near-tightness of the convergence rates. The results provide a refined theoretical understanding of Local SGD's efficiency in distributed optimization settings. Additionally, we derive a lower bound for serial SGD with replacement, illustrating how second-order heterogeneity captures the impact of rare high-curvature clients in federated learning scenarios.
local sgdsecond-order heterogeneityconvex optimizationfederated averagingconvergence guarantee
Multimodality as Supervision: Self-Supervised Specialization to the Test Environment via Multimodality
The paper introduces Test-Space Training (TST), a self-supervised pre-training method that leverages multimodal data collected exclusively from a test environment to specialize models for that environment. TST employs cross-modal learning to predict one modality from another, enabling effective representation learning without reliance on external internet-scale datasets. Evaluations on downstream tasks within the same environment demonstrate that TST achieves competitive performance with generalist models like DINOv2 and CLIP, which are pre-trained on large-scale datasets. The study also explores the tradeoff between specialization to the test environment and generalization to held-out spaces, offering insights into substituting data with multimodality for model training.
cross-modal learningself-supervised pre-trainingmultimodal datatest-space trainingrepresentation learning
Counterfactuals for Feature-Weighted Clustering
The paper introduces VoICE, a Voronoi-Induced Counterfactual Explainability framework for feature-weighted $k$-means clustering. VoICE generates counterfactuals by projecting inputs onto weighted Voronoi regions of target clusters, incorporating feature weights into both clustering geometry and counterfactual objectives while respecting actionability constraints. The method intersects target regions with data-derived bounds and contracts them homothetically toward centroids to limit extrapolation. Experiments on benchmark datasets show VoICE consistently produces valid target-cluster memberships where pairwise baselines fail.
counterfactual explanationsfeature-weighted clusteringvoronoi regionsk-meansactionability constraints
MESHA: Mechanism-Enforced Sequential Halving for Strategic Linear Bandits
The paper introduces MESHA (Mechanism-Enforced Sequential Halving), a novel algorithm for Best Arm Identification (BAI) in strategic linear bandits, where arms may misreport feature vectors to maximize selection probability. MESHA combines uniform sampling to mitigate strategic behavior with a Grim Trigger Condition (GTC) to eliminate arms deviating from ground truth. Theoretical analysis shows MESHA bounds failure probability under budget constraints, unlike state-of-the-art linear BAI algorithms that fail due to G-optimal design starvation. Experiments demonstrate MESHA's superiority over OD-based and feature-agnostic baselines.
strategic linear banditsbest arm identificationgrim trigger conditiong-optimal designnash equilibrium
Grad2Fair: A Gradient-driven Approach for Graph Fairness without Demographics
The paper introduces Grad2Fair, a gradient-driven approach for achieving group fairness in graph neural networks (GNNs) without requiring demographic information. The method leverages GradDist, a novel gradient-based metric that quantifies bias by analyzing local modes in gradient distributions of misclassified nodes, avoiding reliance on predicted demographics. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate Grad2Fair's superior fairness performance compared to baselines, with stable results across multiple cases.
graph neural networksgroup fairnessgradient distributionsdemographic-agnosticbias mitigation
Scalable Training of Continuous-Time Spiking Neural Networks with Differentiable Spike-Time Discretization
The paper introduces differentiable spike-time discretization (DSTD), a memory-efficient training framework for continuous-time spiking neural networks (SNNs) that reduces activation memory from O(N_outN_in) to O(N_outM) for time-to-first-spike coding. DSTD approximates continuous-time dynamics by mapping irregular spikes to differentiable weighted events at fixed intervals, combined with synfire-chain-inspired temporal regularization to organize firing windows and prevent dead neurons. Experiments show DSTD reduces peak memory by 100× and training time by 20× versus exact spike-time computation, enabling 9-layer convolutional SNNs on CIFAR-10 and 20-layer networks on Fashion-MNIST on a single GPU.
spiking neural networksdifferentiable discretizationmemory efficiencytemporal regularizationneuromorphic computing
Trajectory-Aware Flow Matching for Topology Optimisation
The study introduces a flow matching-based topology optimisation (FMTO) framework that generates conditional topologies while incorporating physics-guided optimisation history. It proposes linear FMTO as a baseline and extends it with trajectory-aware FMTO, which uses volume-fraction-indexed BESO states to construct probability paths and target velocity fields. Numerical experiments demonstrate that FMTO produces diverse topologies with improved compliance-related performance, volume-fraction satisfaction, and topology fidelity, requiring fewer sampling steps than diffusion-based methods. Trajectory-aware FMTO achieves optimal performance with moderate trajectory weighting under limited training data.
topology optimisationflow matchingbesogenerative designprobability path
TIDE: Trustworthy and Interpretable Battery Degradation Estimation with Contextual Learning and Symbolic Distillation
We present TIDE, a trustworthy and interpretable battery degradation estimator that jointly optimizes accuracy, trustworthiness, and interpretability for battery health monitoring. TIDE integrates battery-domain knowledge with operational measurements through a three-component architecture: a knowledge-guided degradation prior for trustworthiness, a monotone residual component for interpretable aging-consistent refinement, and a contextual learning component for accuracy. The model is distilled into a compact symbolic surrogate for model-level interpretability. Experiments demonstrate a 19.7% average improvement in estimation fidelity over baselines, reduced aging-consistency violations, and component-level interpretability, supporting its use in intelligent connected systems.
battery degradation estimationcontextual learningsymbolic distillationmonotone residualknowledge-guided prior
ExaGEMM: Exploration Framework for CPU-Driven ML Inference via Associative In-Register Computing for Low-Bit GEMM
ExaGEMM introduces a workload-aware codesign framework for CPU-native low-bit GEMM acceleration via register-resident LUT execution, addressing the fragmented regimes of 1/2/4-bit weights and varying activation precisions. The method leverages existing SIMD datapaths for table generation and accumulation, adding only an in-register select/feed mechanism, and co-explores parameterized kernels with analytical models to prune 99.2% of the design space. Results show 13.29x latency improvement over software baselines, particularly benefiting mixed-precision LLM workloads.
low-bit gemmsimdregister-resident lutmixed-precisionllm workloads
PolyQ: Codesigning End-to-End Quantization Framework for Scalable Edge CPU LLM Inference
PolyQ introduces a CPU-oriented compiler/quantization co-design framework for efficient LLM inference, enabling activation-aware channel-wise bit allocation under user-specified average-bit budgets. The method assigns per-channel bit-widths from {2,3,4,8,16}, clusters channels into bit-homogeneous blocks, and generates SIMD- and LUT-compatible kernels while merging compatible permutations across operators. Evaluated on Falcon-H1-3B, Llama2-13B, and Qwen3-32B, PolyQ improves perplexity by 2.4--32.1% at 3b over prior methods, reduces activation reorder traffic by up to 70.8%, and maintains energy/token overhead below 2% on diverse CPUs.
quantizationllm inferencecpu optimizationchannel-wise allocationsimd kernels
Accelerating A/B-Tests with Counterfactual Estimation: Reducing Variance through Policy Overlap
The paper introduces a novel experimental protocol to accelerate A/B-testing by leveraging policy overlap between treatment and control groups. The method frames randomized treatment assignment as a meta-policy and applies Δ-Off-Policy Estimation to obtain unbiased treatment effect estimates with reduced variance. Theoretical analysis shows variance scales with policy divergence rather than outcome variance, strictly dominating Difference-in-Means when policies share common support. Empirical results demonstrate significant variance reduction, particularly in recommender systems, information retrieval pipelines, and LLM interfaces.
a/b-testingvariance reductionoff-policy estimationpolicy overlaptreatment effects
Advanced Image Generation: Negative Prompt Optimization and Latent Classifier Guidance
The paper introduces a dual-guidance framework combining negative prompt optimization and latent classifier guidance to enhance Stable Diffusion outputs. A fine-tuned sequence-to-sequence LLM generates optimized negative prompts, while a CNN-RNN hybrid classifier evaluates latent updates, reverting low-quality steps. Experiments show reduced artifacts and improved semantic fidelity compared to baseline diffusion models.
negative prompt optimizationlatent classifier guidancestable diffusionsequence-to-sequence llmcnn-rnn hybrid
Sharp Stability Threshold and Certification for Designing Stable Residual Architectures
The paper establishes a sharp stability threshold for deep residual architectures through the sublinear-growth principle, which constrains the input-magnitude exponent $q$ of residual blocks' velocity fields to $q \leq 1$. Using classical ODE theory and optimal-control analysis via the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, the authors prove that $q \leq 1$ is necessary and sufficient for stable training and inference. The framework enables architectural certification via an arithmetic of input-magnitude exponents, validated by stabilizing Mamba ($q=5$ to $q=1$) and PatchTST without layer normalization.
residual architecturesstability thresholdsublinear-growth principleoptimal-control analysisinput-magnitude exponent
Probabilistic Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Estimating Heterogeneous Elastic Properties from Low-Resolution and Noisy Displacement Data
The paper introduces Probabilistic Inverse Elasticity Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PIE-PINN) for robust estimation of heterogeneous elastic properties (Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio) from noisy, low-resolution displacement data. The method combines a B-spline-guided displacement network with a hierarchical half-Cauchy model to adaptively weight displacement residuals, using Laplace distributions for observation and physics residuals. An alternating maximum-likelihood training strategy updates mean fields and residual scales. Experiments demonstrate robustness across noise levels and resolutions, outperforming methods requiring high-fidelity data or manual loss weighting.
physics-informed neural networksinverse elasticitylaplace distributionb-splinemaximum-likelihood estimation
CASP: Learning-Augmented Offline Approximation with Verifiable Certificates and Bounded-Loss PAC Guarantees
CASP (Certificate-Augmented Solution Pruning) introduces a learning-augmented framework for offline NP-hard optimization with verifiable certificates, ensuring correctness via polynomial-time verification. The method transforms the loss class into a uniformly bounded one, enabling learnability from $\tilde O(\varepsilon^{-2}\log K)$ samples, unlike unverified approaches with no distribution-free guarantees. Verified confidence filtering outperforms standard min-combiners, particularly in degenerate LP scenarios. Empirical validation across five problems shows unverified pruning loses up to 26% optimality under distribution shift, while verified deployment maintains full optimality.
learning-augmented optimizationverifiable certificatesnp-hard problemsdistribution-free guaranteespolynomial-time verification
MIDI-RAE-JEPA: Hierarchical Representation Learning and Generation for Symbolic Music
MIDI-RAE-JEPA introduces a hierarchical representation learning framework for symbolic music, combining pitch- and time-shift equivariance objectives with LeJEPA and a Swin Transformer V2 encoder. The model employs self-supervised training, including a masked embedding predictor (MEP) and SIGReg to prevent collapse, achieving a reconstruction F1 of 0.995. A flow matching generative model conditioned on these embeddings produces musically plausible outputs that match pitch register and rhythmic density. Learned representations outperform a Haar scattering transform baseline in emotion classification, with embedding distances increasing monotonically with pitch and time shift magnitude, confirming equivariance. This approach demonstrates the viability of equivariance-based SSL for semantically rich music representations.
equivarianceself-supervised learningswin transformerflow matchingsymbolic music
Muse: Representation Geometry of Muon Beyond Normalized Momentum
The paper introduces Muse, a family of Muon-style optimizers that share momentum rules and a Newton–Schulz backend across multiple matrix representations (native, nearest-square, skinny, vector). Each Frobenius-isometric representation induces distinct polar steepest-descent geometries, influencing singular-channel support, pullback scaling, and stochastic nonconvex convergence bounds. Theoretical analysis links curvature collapse and Marchenko–Pastur spectral profiles to nuclear-to-squared-Frobenius norm ratios. Pretraining experiments on LLaMA2-130M and LLaMA2-600M demonstrate that balanced non-native representations match native performance, while reducing shorter dimensions weakens scaling and resembles normalized momentum behavior.
muon-style optimizersfrobenius-isometricpolar steepest-descentmarchenko–pasturnewton–schulz
xHC: Expanded Hyper-Connections
The paper introduces xHC (Expanded Hyper-Connections), a method enabling residual-stream expansion beyond N=4 in Transformers by addressing two bottlenecks: insufficient write-back information and cubic scaling of residual-mixing costs. xHC combines temporal feature augmentation for richer write-back with a sparse architecture updating only k=4 of N=16 streams while maintaining dense access to the full residual state. Experiments on 18B and 28B MoE models show xHC improves average downstream scores by 4.0 points over mHC (Manifold-Constrained HC) with modest FLOPs overhead. xHC-Flash reduces memory traffic from 73.5C to 40C, making large-N expansion practical.
hyper-connectionsresidual-stream expansionmanifold-constrained hcsparse architecturememory traffic
Riesz-Kernel Stein Variational Gradient Descent: Renormalized Entropy and Long-Time Particle Limits
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A Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning Framework for Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models
The paper introduces a continuous-time reinforcement learning framework for fine-tuning discrete diffusion models, enabling reward-driven optimization without requiring differentiable reward signals. The method formulates RL via controlled continuous-time Markov chains, deriving policy gradient variants (continuous-time PPO and GRPO) that incorporate intermediate rewards throughout denoising trajectories. For masked diffusion models, it provides tractable policy parameterizations over the vocabulary simplex, with trajectory subsampling for efficient likelihood estimation in large language models. Results demonstrate effectiveness on entropy-regularized optimization and RL post-training of dLLMs for mathematical reasoning and coding tasks.
continuous-time reinforcement learningdiscrete diffusion modelsmasked diffusion modelspolicy gradient methodstrajectory subsampling
Adaptive Runge-Kutta Step Control Buys Training Loss, Not Generalization: An Honest Compute-Matched Study of RK-Adam Optimizers
The study evaluates a Runge-Kutta (RK) adaptive step-size variant of Adam optimizer (Bogacki-Shampine 3(2) RK pair with FSAL reuse and local-error step control) under compute-matched conditions, finding it underperforms plain Adam in training loss despite higher computational cost (3-4x). Instrumentation reveals the adaptivity is non-functional, with step sizes pinned at maximum values. Fixing implementation flaws enables 40x lower training loss in full-batch settings, but test accuracy remains inferior to first-order methods. Gradient averaging shows implicit regularization benefits (beating Adam/AdamW in 10/10 seeds), yet cheaper baselines (RMSprop, NAdam) match performance. Higher-order adaptive integration offers limited practical advantages over tuned first-order methods.
runge-kuttaadam optimizerstep-size controlgradient averagingimplicit regularization
Full-data accuracy with fewer labels for training and fine-tuning machine-learning force fields
The authors introduce last-layer-projection regression (LLPR), an efficient active-learning workflow for constructing diverse training sets in machine-learning force fields (MLFFs). LLPR provides a computationally cheap per-configuration uncertainty estimator, enabling high-value training set selection without requiring separate fine-tuning runs for each committee member. Across molecular, condensed-phase, and electrolyte systems, LLPR achieves full-data accuracy using only a fraction of electronic-structure labels. In foundation-model fine-tuning, LLPR reaches full-pool accuracy with fewer labels than random selection, while iterative electrolyte fine-tuning enables automatic termination and reproduces reference density and ion-coordination structure.
machine-learning force fieldsactive learninglast-layer-projection regressionuncertainty estimationfine-tuning
One-Shot Generative Design for Disordered Metamaterials via Self-Organizing Neural Cellular Automata
The authors propose a generative design framework for disordered metamaterials using Neural Cellular Automata (NCA), which dynamically grows complex microstructures via learned local interaction rules. This approach requires only a single training template, yet generates diverse disordered microstructures adaptable to irregular domains and arbitrary discretizations. By manipulating local rules, the framework enables control over orientation, anisotropy, and directional thickness without retraining, producing spatially varying microstructures with smooth transitions for location-specific mechanical properties. Demonstrated in multiscale mechanical cloaking, the method achieves excellent performance without post-processing or incompatible assembly, offering a data-efficient solution for applications in biomedical implants and soft robotics.
neural cellular automatadisordered metamaterialsgenerative designlocal interaction rulesmechanical cloaking
Interleaved Noise Injection Improves Clean, Corrupted, and OOD Performance
The paper introduces interleaved noise injection, a novel training schedule alternating between clean and noisy data phases, which outperforms traditional monotonic noise decay. Theoretical analysis shows impulse noise approximates Jacobian regularization while Gaussian noise acts as curvature penalty, with interleaving preventing catastrophic forgetting via gradient-norm stabilization. Experiments on CIFAR-100-C, ImageNet-C, and ImageNet-R demonstrate improved corruption tolerance and OOD robustness for ResNet and ViT architectures, with saliency maps revealing noise types counteract respective architectural biases (locality for CNNs, spurious features for attention). The method enhances clean, corrupted, and OOD performance at negligible computational cost.
noise injectionjacobian regularizationcurvature penaltygradient-norm stabilizationout-of-distribution robustness
Depth-Dependent Hidden-State Collapse in Dynamical System Autoencoders for LiDAR Point-Cloud Classification
The paper identifies hidden-state collapse as a failure mode in Dynamical System Autoencoders (DSAE) for LiDAR point-cloud classification. Experiments evaluate DSAE architectures at encoder depths K=1–5, using spatial coordinates and Product Coefficient features with Random Forest, kNN, and Dummy classifiers. At K=5, hidden-state standard deviation drops to 10^-5, causing all classifiers to achieve identical macro F1 (0.224688), proving that collapsed representations lose class-separating structure. Product Coefficients neither improve performance nor prevent collapse, demonstrating depth-dependent representation degradation in DSAEs.
dynamical system autoencoderlidar classificationhidden-state collapseproduct coefficientsrepresentation degradation
Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies
The paper proposes an active evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation policies to address the challenge of exhaustive real-world testing. The method treats evaluation as a sequential experimental design problem, using a probabilistic surrogate model over task factors to adaptively select configurations that maximize information gain about policy performance. Results from 2331 real-world evaluations across 3 tasks show 20-40% sample efficiency gains compared to random testing, enabling systematic identification of failure modes.
generalist robot policiesactive evaluationprobabilistic surrogate modelsequential experimental designinformation gain
HyperShadow: A Benchmark for Detecting 3D Projections of Higher-Dimensional Spatial Objects
HyperShadow introduces the first benchmark for detecting 3D point clouds as projections of higher-dimensional spatial objects (R^N, N=4-6), distinguishing them from native 3D shapes. The task requires analyzing projection signatures, density folds, and topology changes, differing from intrinsic-dimension estimation where standard methods achieve only 71-73% accuracy. A 190k-parameter point network achieves 96.6% accuracy across corruption tiers, with 79-91% generalization to unseen object families. For temporal data, a zero-parameter rigidity witness based on Kabsch alignment residuals achieves AUROC 0.982. The dataset and code are publicly released for studying 3D-incompatibility statistics.
hyperdimensional projectionpoint cloud analysisintrinsic dimension estimationrigidity witnesskabsch algorithm
Adaptive Ad Load Design for Sponsored Search Markets: Evidence, Theory, and Deployment
This paper introduces exploration-augmented Locally Adaptive Ad Load (e-LAAL), a novel algorithm for optimizing ad-load design in sponsored search markets. The method combines a model-free query-level decision rule with static exploration arms, enabling adaptive ad-load recommendations based on recent outcomes while maintaining fixed-policy benchmarks. The authors validate e-LAAL through a large-scale randomized field experiment involving 5 million users and a production deployment serving 22.3 million users and 77.6 million searches. Results show that e-LAAL improves the revenue-conversion trade-off, outperforming static benchmarks and achieving up to 43% revenue gains, albeit with reductions in total search conversions (5%) and daily engagement (2.2%). The algorithm also demonstrates substantial heterogeneity across query types.
ad-load designsponsored searchdynamic-regretfield experimentconversion trade-off
LATTICE: Graph Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Spatial Omics Integration
LATTICE introduces a graph-based self-supervised framework for multimodal spatial omics integration, learning joint spot-level representations from five aligned modalities (Visium RNA, scMultiome RNA/ATAC, spatial ATAC, and CUT&Tag). The method constructs a spatial neighborhood graph and trains a TransformerConv encoder using masked reconstruction, cross-modal alignment, and spatial smoothness objectives. Evaluated on an 11-sample melanoma cohort (54,912 spots), LATTICE improved concordance with Space Ranger clusters (ARI +0.157, NMI +0.143) and spatial contiguity (+0.174) when integrating scMultiome RNA with Visium RNA, though additional modalities sometimes reduced agreement with RNA-derived labels due to capturing broader regulatory structure.
multimodal integrationspatial omicsself-supervised learningtransformerconvgraph representation
MamaBench: Benchmarking LLM Robustness in Maternal and Child Health Diagnosis through Counterfactual Clinical Perturbation
We introduce MamaBench, a counterfactual benchmark for evaluating LLM robustness in maternal and paediatric healthcare, comprising 434 expert-authored clinical narratives across 371 pathologies. The benchmark employs Bias Trap Rate (BTR) to measure the conditional probability of model failure on counterfactual cases given success on base cases. We propose Evidence-Anchored RAG (EA-RAG), a three-stage retrieval method using clinical parameter extraction, coverage auditing, and contrastive sub-queries. Results show base accuracy overstates robust accuracy by 16-28 percentage points across eight configurations of four frontier LLMs. EA-RAG achieves 20.3% BTR and 65.0% robust accuracy on Claude Sonnet 4.6, reducing BTR by 5.5 percentage points without degrading base accuracy.
counterfactual evaluationclinical airetrieval-augmented generationdiagnostic robustnessbias trap rate
Random Parameter Noise Does Not Make Exact ReLU Verification Easy
The paper establishes that exact verification of ReLU networks remains computationally hard even under random parameter noise, disproving the hypothesis that such noise simplifies verification. The authors analyze a smoothed adversarial model where weights and biases are perturbed by Gaussian noise, clipped, and rounded to a dyadic grid. Using an exact gap embedding technique combined with quantitative robustness arguments, they prove that no polynomial-time verifier exists under the assumption NP⊈BPP, even for one-hidden-layer networks with fixed noise level σ⋆=2^{-11}. Computational experiments validate the theoretical results, demonstrating that parameter nondegeneracy alone does not guarantee efficient verification.
relu networksexact verificationgaussian noisedyadic gridnp-hardness
A Noise-Robust Elicit-to-Optimize Framework for Distortion Riskmetrics via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
The authors propose a noise-robust elicit-to-optimize framework integrating inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and reinforcement learning (RL) for eliciting risk preferences and optimizing policies under distortion riskmetrics. The elicitation method employs adaptive Bayesian IRL to infer latent risk objectives from noisy decisions, proving convergence at rate O(exp(-cm+O(√(m log m)))). The optimization extends Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with policy, value, and quantile networks to estimate conditional cost quantile functions, enabling unified optimization of diverse risk objectives. Empirical results demonstrate high elicitation accuracy and effectiveness in complex financial environments.
inverse reinforcement learningdistortion riskmetricsproximal policy optimizationconditional quantile functionbayesian inference
Supervised Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context Learning: An Equilibrium Analysis of LLM Personalization under Congestion
The paper analyzes the equilibrium between Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and In-Context Learning (ICL) for LLM personalization under computational congestion. Using a tractable framework combining statistical and economic trade-offs, it reveals three key findings: (1) SFT and ICL dominate in distinct regimes influenced by pretraining coverage and data SNR, with congestion potentially reversing rankings; (2) resource consumption exhibits non-monotonic behavior based on pretraining precision and task difficulty; (3) platforms benefit from offering both methods despite increased computational load. Experiments with GPT-2 on linear regression validate theoretical predictions, while platform documentation shows a 61.9% increase in dual-method adoption (2021-2025).
supervised fine-tuningin-context learningllm personalizationcomputational congestionpretraining coverage
Dysco: Dynamic Subspace Boosting to Mitigate LoRA Interference in Federated Learning
Dysco introduces Dynamic Subspace Boosting to mitigate LoRA interference in federated fine-tuning of large pre-trained models. The method dynamically allocates client-specific LoRA subspaces by computing activation-insensitive subspaces from local representations and constructing merged subspaces via a closed-form solution. Dysco incorporates multi-round subspace boosting to handle representation drift and preserves past update directions. Theoretical analysis embeds data-parameter interference as an aggregation-error term, proving tighter upper bounds with server-fixed merged subspaces. Experiments on synthetic tasks and MIMIC-IV clinical-note classification with Llama-3.2-1B show Dysco reduces interference, lowers training loss by up to 9x, improves FL algorithms by up to 4.3%, and adds minimal overhead (0.9%).
lorafederated learningsubspace boostingrepresentation driftactivation-insensitive subspaces
NeuralChaos: Optimal Adapted Approximation of Square Integrable Predictable Processes
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Learning Who to Treat When Treatment is Missing
The authors address policy learning under missing treatment data by extending efficient estimators for average treatment effect (ATE) to policy value and conditional average treatment effect (CATE) estimation under missing at random (MAR) and missing completely conditionally at random (MCCAR) assumptions. Through asymptotic efficiency analysis, they prove that the MAR estimator, leveraging partially-observed units, is both valid and more efficient than the MCCAR estimator when MCCAR assumptions hold. Experiments on synthetic and semi-synthetic datasets demonstrate that misspecified estimators remain biased regardless of sample size, while their estimators achieve near-oracle performance when assumptions are satisfied, providing robust tools for practitioners.
policy learningmissing at randomconditional average treatment effectasymptotic efficiencytreatment allocation
Counterfactual Optimal Action Trees (COAT): Interpretable Prescriptive Policies from Observational Data
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NeuroGRIP: Retrieval-Augmented Graph Refinement for Knowledge-Grounded EEG Seizure Diagnosis
NeuroGRIP introduces a retrieval-augmented graph refinement framework for EEG-based seizure diagnosis, addressing low clinical plausibility in STGNN-generated graphs. The method constructs a domain-specific knowledge base using LLMs to extract biomedical entities and relations, forming a textual KG. It aligns STGNN node embeddings with the KG via semantic similarity search, pruning medically implausible edges based on retrieved evidence. Experiments on TUSZ and CHB-MIT show improved seizure detection accuracy and interpretability by grounding predictions in clinical knowledge.
eegstgnnknowledge graphretrieval-augmentedseizure diagnosis
Spectral Concentration and Recovery in Sparse High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs
The paper establishes improved spectral concentration bounds and latent geometry recovery guarantees for sparse high-dimensional random geometric graphs. Using orthogonal polynomial expansions, decoupling, and matrix concentration techniques, the authors analyze graphs generated by connecting vectors sampled uniformly from the sphere or from a Gaussian distribution. For the spherical model, they prove a sharp spectral norm bound of $O(\sqrt{np\log n}+np\tau)$ at the connectivity scale $np=\Omega(\log n)$. Latent vector recovery is achieved with dimension requirements $d\gg\log(1/p)$ (spherical) and $d\gg\log^2(1/p)\log n$ (Gaussian), improving prior work. Additionally, they provide the first exact recovery result for the Gaussian mixture block model via a polynomial-time semidefinite program.
spectral concentrationlatent geometryorthogonal polynomialsmatrix concentrationsemidefinite program
Real-Time Detection of Charge Jumps in Superconducting Qubits with a Convolutional Neural Network
A dilated causal convolutional neural network (DCCNN) enables real-time detection of charge jumps in superconducting qubits with 6.19 μs latency on FPGA hardware, matching offline χ² algorithm performance (0.843 vs. 0.866 detection efficiency for |Δq| ∈ [0.1, 0.5]e). The model, trained on synthetic Ramsey tomography data from Fermilab's NEXUS facility and deployed via hls4ml with 16-bit fixed-point quantization, requires no per-qubit tuning and operates on the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit platform. This advances charge-jump detection from post-hoc analysis to in-situ control, facilitating adaptive error mitigation and quantum sensing applications.
superconducting qubitsconvolutional neural networkquantum instrumentation control kitcharge jumpsfpga acceleration
XCT-SAM: Sequential Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation of SAM for Industrial XCT Defect Segmentation
XCT-SAM introduces a sequential parameter-efficient domain adaptation framework for Segment Anything Model (SAM) to improve defect segmentation in additive manufacturing X-ray computed tomography (XCT) images. The method employs Conv-LoRA adapters (rank r=2) to inject convolutional spatial inductive bias into SAM's backbone, fine-tuning approximately 4.15M parameters while keeping over 99% of the model frozen. Sequential adaptation first targets an alloy-microstructure dataset before transferring to XCT images, bridging the domain gap. Evaluated on CycleGAN-XCT benchmarks and NIST XCT scans, XCT-SAM outperforms zero-shot SAM and other domain-adapted baselines, achieving superior IoU and Dice scores.
segment anything modelconv-lora adaptersdomain adaptationx-ray computed tomographydefect segmentation
DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models
DiMaS introduces a Distribution-Matching Steering strategy for fine-grained behavioral control in flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models, addressing limitations of classical linear steering methods. By transporting between representation distributions rather than shifting along fixed directions, DiMaS effectively governs robot behavior across two state-of-the-art VLAs. The study characterizes the generalizability of this strategy as tasks diverge and analyzes representation structures, revealing that behavioral features in VLAs are linearly decodable but not linearly steerable. Code and additional results are publicly available.
flow-matchingvision-language-actiondistribution-matchingrepresentation steeringvisuomotor
Lyapunov Guidance: A Unified Framework for Stabilizing Generative Flows
The paper introduces LyaGuide, a Lyapunov-guided framework for stabilizing generative flows that unifies flow guidance as a Lyapunov control problem. The method establishes an equivalence between guided flow matching and Lyapunov control, encompassing classifier, reward, and energy-based guidance strategies. A pseudo-projection operator enforces stability with closed-form expressions, supporting both model-driven and data-driven settings. Experiments on synthetic benchmarks, image inverse problems, RL planning, and energy-based modeling show improved sample quality, guidance fidelity, and robustness with minimal computational overhead.
flow matchinglyapunov controlgenerative flowsstability guaranteespseudo-projection
MIDiff: Tackling Sparsity and Imbalance in Mobile Usage Generation via Multivariate-Imaging Diffusion
MIDiff introduces a diffusion-based framework for generating mobile usage traces, addressing sparsity, heterogeneous variable types, and usage imbalance. The method employs Cross-Gramian Angular Sum Field (C-GASF) to transform sparse multivariate sequences into correlation images and utilizes Triple Attention within a U-Net to maintain temporal consistency and variable dependencies. Experiments demonstrate MIDiff's superiority, achieving a Discriminative Accuracy (DA) of 0.1526, significantly lower than the baseline ZITS-VAE's 0.3476, indicating enhanced realism and diversity in generated traces.
diffusion-based frameworkcross-gramian angular sum fieldtriple attentionu-netdiscriminative accuracy
Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Evaluation of Tokenizer-Driven Privacy Risks
This study quantifies privacy leakage in federated learning (FL) for radiology NLP by evaluating gradient inversion attacks across three tokenizers. Using a GPT-2-style transformer trained on 368,751 radiology reports, the authors compared GPT-2, RadBERT, and LLaMA-2 tokenizers at batch sizes 64-256, measuring reconstruction fidelity via exact matches and S-BLEU. Results showed 30.6-43.5% exact sentence reconstruction, with RadBERT yielding highest fidelity (18.1% clinical term recovery vs. 9.4-12.5% for others) and leakage persisting even at larger batches. Tokenizer choice significantly impacts privacy risks, necessitating additional safeguards like secure aggregation.
federated learninggradient inversiontokenizerprivacy leakageradiology nlp
Augmentations for Robust and Efficient Imitation Learning in Streamed Video Games
We introduce streaming-specific spatiotemporal augmentations to enhance the robustness of imitation learning agents in 3D video games under streaming conditions. The method simulates four common streaming artifacts—pixelated blocks, scrubs, global blur, and ghosting—and integrates them into predictive inverse dynamics models (PIDM) that combine future-state conditioning with inverse dynamics policies in a latent space. Evaluated across three modern 3D game tasks, agents trained with augmentations achieve up to 41% higher performance under stable streaming and degrade only 7.45% under network lag, compared to 49.82% degradation for non-augmented agents. This demonstrates the efficacy of tailored augmentations for robust game-playing agents.
imitation learningpredictive inverse dynamics modelsspatiotemporal augmentationsstreaming artifactslatent space
Inference-Time Concept Suppression and Video-Centric Evaluation for Text-to-Video Models
We propose SIRUS, a training-free inference-time framework for concept-level unlearning in text-to-video (T2V) generation. SIRUS localizes target-related prompt evidence and suppresses target expression during sampling, without modifying the text encoder or denoising network. We introduce a video-centric evaluation framework assessing target forgetting, non-target preservation, video quality, jailbreak robustness, and efficiency. On CogVideoX, SIRUS achieves 70.4% average forgetting success and 25.7% average frame hit, outperforming VideoEraser (44.4%/47.2%), while reducing VBench quality drop from -0.043 to -0.016. Transfer experiments on Wan2.2 demonstrate SIRUS's generalization across modern T2V backbones.
text-to-videoconcept suppressioninference-timeunlearningvideo-centric evaluation
Operator-Informed Gaussian Processes for Complex Helmholtz Wavefields: From Synthetic Benchmarks to In Vivo Brain Elastography
The authors extend operator-informed Gaussian process (GP) regression to complex-valued Helmholtz problems by reformulating the complex operator as a coupled real block, enabling inference with standard real-valued GP conditioning. The method supports various priors (diagonal, coregionalized, multiscale) and conditions on PDE residuals and boundary traces. Evaluated on 1D-3D benchmarks, it matches finite-difference and neural-network baselines with fewer interior constraints while providing a posterior over the wavefield. Applied to in vivo brain elastography, a multiscale prior achieves a 0.77 correlation with measurements, outperforming targets. Uncertainty calibration is identified as a key future challenge.
gaussian process regressionhelmholtz equationcomplex wavefieldsphysics-informed machine learningbrain elastography
Long-term User Engagement Optimization through Model-agnostic Downstream Rewards Learning
The paper proposes a model-agnostic downstream reward framework for optimizing long-term user engagement in recommender systems, addressing challenges of sparse and delayed retention signals. It formulates a reward learning problem, identifies predictive session-level behaviors via offline screening, and derives multi-source reward signals without task-specific engineering. The approach was productionized across Pinterest surfaces (Homefeed, Related Pins, Search, Notifications), demonstrating consistent improvements in engagement and retention metrics during online A/B testing.
recommender systemsdownstream reward learninguser retentionoffline screeningmodel-agnostic optimization
TEDDY: A Pediatric Foundation Model for Risk Forewarning from ICD-Coded Diagnostic Histories
TEDDY, a 1.84M-parameter decoder transformer, introduces a pediatric foundation model for disease risk forecasting from ICD-10 diagnostic histories. Trained on 73M ICD-10 codes from 1.6M children, TEDDY predicts longitudinal diagnosis trajectories and visit timing, evaluated against sex- and age-matched controls. It achieved a median AUC of 72.0% across 797 disease-onset tasks, outperforming DenseNet, CNN, RNN, and LSTM baselines on 96-99% of tasks. Predictive signal persisted over two years pre-diagnosis, with AUCs of 79.3% and 84.7% for asthma and ADHD, respectively. Visit-timing predictions yielded a 3.0-day mean absolute error over 365 days, demonstrating efficacy in rare-disease and long-horizon forecasting without large-scale data.
decoder transformericd-10auclongitudinal trajectoriesrisk forecasting
A Temporal Machine Learning-Based Time-to-Event Model for Predicting ALS Progression and Healthcare Utilization
The study presents a digital-twin-inspired time-to-event framework for predicting functional decline and assistive device use in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The method integrates longitudinal ALSFRS-R trajectories, survival modeling, and temporal machine learning, using a harmonized dataset of diagnosis records, functional assessments, and demographics. Results show generalized additive mixed models capturing nonlinear domain-specific decline, with Cox models identifying lower limb function as the strongest predictor of wheelchair access. The final TTE model generates individualized survival curves for wheelchair-free survival, offering scalable decision support for ALS care.
time-to-event modeldigital twinalsfrs-r trajectoriesgeneralized additive mixed modelscox proportional hazards
Quantize with Confidence? An Empirical Study of Quantization for Code Generation
This study provides a systematic evaluation of quantization methods for code generation models, assessing functional correctness and code quality metrics across programming languages. The authors compare six quantization techniques (GPTQ, AWQ, QuIP#, AQLM, BitsAndBytes, GGUF) on Qwen2.5-Coder and CodeLlama using McEval and CoderEval benchmarks, analyzing robustness via prompt complexity metrics. Results show AQLM matches full-precision performance while QuIP# degrades most significantly, with security attributes remaining stable but prompt robustness varying across methods.
post-training quantizationcode generationfunctional correctnessprompt complexityresource-constrained deployment
Low-Latency Relay Selection in NR-V2X Vehicular Communications via Graph Isomorphism Networks with Edge Features
The paper presents a graph-based learning-to-optimize framework for low-latency relay selection in NR-V2X networks, addressing NP-hard relay-link activation via MILP. It models V2X snapshots as directed graphs with node/edge features, using a GINE network trained on MILP-generated labels to predict relay configurations in a single forward pass (<5ms). A hybrid GP-MILP approach further accelerates MILP by pruning the search space with GINE predictions. Evaluations on OSM-SUMO-GEMV$^2$ data show GINE achieves 0.9589 accuracy and 0.9544 F1-score, with GP-MILP maintaining MILP-optimal solutions while reducing 98% of instances to <30ms runtime.
graph isomorphism networkmixed-integer linear programmingnr-v2xlearning-to-optimizerelay selection
How Much of a 10-K Matters? Aggregation-Dependent Value of Full-Text versus Risk-Factor Sentiment
The study introduces a supervised lexicon-learning approach for extracting financial sentiment from 10-K filings, comparing full-text versus risk-factor sections (Item 1A) across three aggregation levels (sector, portfolio, firm). Analyzing 1,383 filings from 94 Nasdaq-100 technology firms (2006–2023), results show full-text outperforms at sector/portfolio levels for return and volatility prediction, while Item 1A excels at firm-level, attributed to document volume and signal availability. A Loughran-McDonald baseline exhibits strong negative price correlation, validating the supervised method for regulatory text.
sentiment extraction10-k filingssupervised lexicon-learningvolatility predictionloughran-mcdonald
Branching Policy Optimization: Sandbox-Native Language Agent Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Branching Policy Optimization (BPO), a reinforcement learning algorithm designed for deterministic, snapshottable language agent sandboxes. BPO constructs a single rollout tree with shared prefixes among sibling trajectories, computing advantages from sibling returns rather than independent prompts, yielding lower variance. Theoretical analysis shows the advantage estimator is unbiased with variance reduction proportional to prefix-explained return variance. Experiments on WebShop, ALFWorld, and SWE-bench with Qwen2.5-7B and Llama-3.1-8B demonstrate 3.6-6.1 point success rate improvements over GRPO/RLOO at matched compute, 38% fewer policy updates, and halved gradient-norm variance.
reinforcement learninglanguage agentsadvantage estimationrollout topologysandbox optimization
When a Verified World Model Still Loses: Play-Adequacy vs Prediction-Accuracy in LLM-Synthesized Code World Models
The paper identifies a verified-vs-correct gap in LLM-synthesized Code World Models (CWMs), where models with high transition accuracy (≥98%) and state-accuracy on planner search distributions still fail in gameplay due to critical dynamics omissions. Through empirical analysis (n=4800) and theoretical proof, the authors demonstrate that harm follows a quantitative law: danger = play_cost × (1-rarity)^N. They show LLM synthesis behaves as rule translation rather than inference, persisting across models (GPT-5.x) and data regimes. A coverage bound (N ≳ b^{d_max}) explains failure modes in imperfect-information CWMs, suggesting planning adequacy should be evaluated on search distributions or gameplay, not transition accuracy.
code world modeltransition accuracyverified-vs-correct gapimperfect-information cwmplanning adequacy
Towards Reliable AI-Assisted Analog Design: Template-Constrained LLM Agents for SAR ADC Generation
The paper presents ATLAS, an LLM agentic framework for reliable analog circuit generation, specifically targeting SAR ADC design. The method combines expert knowledge with template-constrained generation to ground LLM decisions across planning, component selection, parameterization, and iterative refinement stages. Results demonstrate functional SAR ADC generation across multiple technology nodes and input specifications, validated through SPICE simulation, addressing previous limitations of direct LLM prompting in analog EDA.
llm agentsanalog design automationsar adctemplate-constrained generationspice simulation
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The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
The article identifies rising risks of weather data manipulation due to financial incentives in prediction markets and increased reliance on data-driven AI forecasting. Traditional safeguards like data assimilation and human oversight are insufficient against coordinated, small-scale tampering across multiple stations. The authors propose three mitigation strategies: enhanced station monitoring, robust data protection in AI pipelines, and end-to-end accountability across the observational chain, emphasizing the need for adaptive defenses as AI models like ECMWF's Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) increase dependency on raw observational data.
data assimilationprediction marketsadversarial robustnessagentic aidata-driven models
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB
NVIDIA AI introduces Nemotron-3-Embed, an open collection of transformer-based embedding models optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multilingual tasks. The 8B BF16 variant achieves state-of-the-art performance (78.46 avg NDCG@10) on the Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB), while the 1B models employ Neural Architecture Search pruning and cosine+MSE distillation from the 8B teacher. Key features include 32,768-token context length, NVFP4 quantization (99% accuracy retention at 2x throughput), and dynamic embedding dimensionality. All models are released under OpenMDW-1.1 license and support production-scale deployment via optimized NIM microservices.
retrieval-augmented generationneural architecture searchnvfp4 quantizationbidirectional attention maskingdynamic embedding
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context
Moonshot AI introduces Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with native multimodal capabilities and a 1M-token context window. The architecture incorporates Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) for 6.3x faster decoding in long contexts and Attention Residuals (AttnRes) for 25% higher training efficiency, achieving 2.5x better scaling than its predecessor. Evaluations show K3 leads in Program Bench (77.8), SWE Marathon (42.0), and OmniDocBench (91.1), but trails Claude Fable 5 on FrontierSWE (81.2 vs. 86.6). The model uses MXFP4 quantization and is accessible via an OpenAI-compatible API at $0.30-$15.00 per MTok.
mixture-of-expertslinear attentionquantization-aware trainingcontext windowsparse activation
Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems
Bunkerhill Health secured $55M Series B funding to expand Carebricks, its agentic AI platform for healthcare systems. The platform enables hospitals to deploy custom AI agents for clinical and administrative tasks, operating on live patient data rather than sandboxed environments. Early adopters like UTMB report operational improvements, including 50% reduced specialist wait times via a nephrology triage agent and 80% faster response on urgent lung nodule cases, though results are institution-specific and lack independent validation.
agentic aiclinical decision supporthealthcare automationprior authorizationfda-cleared algorithm
Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launched a bioresilience initiative to mitigate AI misuse in biology while enhancing outbreak response. The program focuses on three pillars: misuse prevention, outbreak detection, and response coordination. Over the past year, they established 15+ partnerships with entities like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the UK AI Security Institute. Techniques include threat modeling, real-time risk classifiers, and DNA synthesis screening via SynthID adaptation. AlphaFold 3 aids in antibody design, with 10,000+ infectious disease publications referencing AlphaFold. Policy recommendations include federal AI safety frameworks and expanded metagenomic sequencing.
bioresiliencealphafoldmetagenomic sequencingsynthidthreat modeling
Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US
Neko Health raised $700M in Series C funding to expand its AI-driven preventive health screening service in the US, starting with a New York clinic. The service integrates full-body scans, blood tests, proprietary sensors, and clinician consultations to screen for conditions like skin cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. The 60-minute, non-invasive process includes over 2,000 high-resolution skin images, electrocardiograms, and on-site blood analysis. Neko has completed 100,000 scans since 2023, with 75% of customers booking repeat appointments. The funding will support R&D, clinic expansion, and deployment of updated medical devices like Derma-2 and Spectrum-2, cleared by the FDA in 2026.
preventive screeningproprietary sensorselectrocardiogrammetabolic syndrome510(k) clearance
Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA
Nokia's AI-RAN platform, launched July 15, claims to be the first GPU-accelerated AI-native radio access network solution, built on NVIDIA Aerial and anyRAN software. The architecture targets 20% spectral efficiency gains initially, with projected 50% by 2027 and 100% by 2028, enabling operators to double spectrum capacity. Deployment options include GPU plug-in cards, standalone nodes, or cloud-server builds via partners. While Ericsson offers a competing silicon-agnostic solution with 20% throughput gains, Nokia's approach relies on NVIDIA's stack for performance optimization, reflecting its strategic pivot from hardware to software-centric R&D.
ai-ranspectral efficiencygpu-acceleratedaerial systemanyran
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