Daily Digest — 2026-07-23
233 items · 6 research labs, 227 arxiv papers
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🏛️ Research Labs (6)
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia, a 3.2GW datacenter in Effingham County, Georgia, designed to minimize community impact while maximizing local economic benefits. The facility will employ closed-loop water cooling, avoid residential electricity rate increases, and provide $80M in community benefits plus $71M in Codex AI tool credits for Georgia students. Independent audits will verify compliance. The project aims to create thousands of jobs while serving as critical infrastructure for training frontier AI models, following OpenAI's operational template from its Abilene, Texas campus.
datacenterclosed-loop coolingfrontier modelsagentic aicompute infrastructure
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
News organizations are leveraging OpenAI's AI technologies to enhance journalism workflows, audience engagement, and business operations. Methods include custom GPTs for tasks like document analysis, translation, and style checking, as well as AI-powered tools for content summarization, verification, and personalized recommendations. Results show improved efficiency in reporting (e.g., AP's Supreme Court filings analysis), expanded audience reach (e.g., Le Monde's multilingual content), and streamlined business processes (e.g., Seattle Times' lead generation). AI integration spans newsrooms, product teams, and commercial departments while maintaining human editorial oversight.
custom gptscontent vectorizationknowledge agentsin-context learningaudience metrics
Advancing the next era of national science
OpenAI announces a strategic partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery using frontier AI models. The collaboration includes $4M in Codex access for 2,000 researchers, $3M in API support for large-scale scientific campaigns, and specialized bioscience capabilities via GPT-Rosalind. Initial campaigns target high-temperature superconductors and creating an 'Atlas of the Machine-Accessible Frontier'. The initiative builds on prior deployments, including advanced reasoning models on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Venado supercomputer, aiming to double U.S. research productivity within a decade through AI-augmented workflows.
frontier aihigh-temperature superconductorscodexgpt-rosalindnational laboratories
Introducing OpenAI Presence
OpenAI introduces Presence, an enterprise-grade AI agent deployment system combining model reasoning with policy enforcement and continuous improvement. The system integrates domain-specific knowledge, access controls, and escalation rules while employing Codex-powered iterative updates based on production telemetry. Initial deployments demonstrate 75% autonomous issue resolution in customer support, with a 15% reduction in human handoffs within 10 days of optimization. The platform supports multimodal (voice/chat) interactions and maintains compliance through simulated testing and runtime guardrails.
ai agentspolicy enforcementcodexguardrailsiterative improvement
3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026
Google announced three AI-powered updates for Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8 at Galaxy Unpacked 2026. First, Gemini Intelligence expands task automation from a beta supporting a few apps to over 40, enabling complex digital chores via screen parsing and multimodal prompts. Second, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) integrates multimodal research capabilities with side-by-side workspace functionality for document synthesis. Third, Gemini extends to wearables including Galaxy Watch 9 (wake-word-free activation) and upcoming smart glasses with gesture controls. The updates leverage Google's multimodal models and include a 6-month Google AI Pro trial on new devices.
gemini intelligencetask automationmultimodal modelswear osflex window
The latest AI news we announced in May 2026
Google announced Gemini 3.5 and Gemini Omni at I/O 2026, introducing frontier intelligence for agentic workflows and multimodal generation (video/audio/image/text). Project Genie integrates with Street View for interactive 3D environment simulation, while Android Halo provides agent management. Search upgrades include Antigravity for generative UI and agentic coding (e.g., fitness tracker generation). Hardware innovations span Googlebook laptops (Magic Pointer, custom widgets), Fitbit Air (24/7 biometrics), and intelligent eyewear. REPLIQA commits $10M to quantum-AI life sciences research.
agentic workflowsmultimodal generationgenerative uiquantum-aibiometric tracking
📜 arXiv Papers (227)
Copy Less, Ground More: Overcoming Repetitive Copying in Long-Context Reasoning via Evidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning
The paper identifies repetitive copying as a critical failure mode in long-context reasoning by large language models, where models excessively copy input text rather than solving tasks productively. The authors propose GEAR (Grounding Evidence-Aware Reward), a reinforcement learning method that combines accuracy rewards with grounding rewards for key evidence overlap and distractor penalties for irrelevant context. Evaluations show GEAR improves performance by up to +4.6 points over standard RL, with greater gains at longer contexts, while reducing repetitive copying and reasoning length.
long-context reasoningrepetitive copyingevidence-aware reinforcement learningreward shapinggrounding capability
Appearance Pointers -- Multimodal Region Control of Diffusion Transformers
The paper introduces appearance pointers, a modality-agnostic method for precise regional control in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) without retraining. These compact tokens, generated by a region correspondence network and refined via spatial aggregation, align text or image inputs with user-specified masks to guide appearance cues at correct spatial locations. The approach matches or exceeds modality-specific state-of-the-art methods across multiple metrics, enabling region-aware multimodal guidance in image synthesis.
diffusion transformersappearance pointersregion correspondencespatial aggregationmultimodal control
CodeRescue: Budget-Calibrated Recovery Routing for Coding Agents
The paper introduces CodeRescue, a budget-calibrated recovery routing system for coding agents that optimizes post-failure decisions between cheap-model retries and expensive-model escalation. The method combines supervised routing trained from execution rollouts with Conformal Risk Control (CRC) for deployment-time cost calibration without retraining, ensuring marginal expected-cost control under exchangeability. Evaluated on five coding benchmarks, the approach outperforms fixed actions, prompt-only routers, and binary cascade baselines; in GPT-5.4-nano/GPT-5.4 settings, one CRC-calibrated configuration matches always-escalate solve rates while reducing mean recovery costs by 35%.
recovery routingconformal risk controlcoding agentsbudget calibrationexecution feedback
Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment
The tutorial bridges the gap between academic research and real-world deployment of LLM-based agentic systems, focusing on challenges in robustness, safety, and reliability. It synthesizes advances in reasoning, planning, and multi-agent coordination through case studies in pharmaceutical discovery and finance, while proposing mitigation strategies like verification pipelines and human-in-the-loop supervision. Attendees gain practical design patterns, evaluation frameworks, and deployment templates for industry applications.
agentic systemsmulti-agent coordinationverification pipelineshuman-in-the-loopllm deployment
Provable diffusion-based posterior sampling for linear inverse problems via DDIM
The authors propose \pddim, a provably efficient diffusion-based posterior sampler for linear inverse problems using DDIM-type updates. The method modifies standard DDIM updates coordinate-wise, incorporating the measurement model by switching between diffusion prior and measurement-based predictors based on direction-specific SNR thresholds. Theoretical analysis shows convergence to the Bayesian posterior, while empirical evaluations demonstrate superior performance across image restoration tasks compared to existing diffusion-based samplers.
diffusion modelsposterior samplinglinear inverse problemsddimsignal-to-noise ratio
ISO: An RLVR-Native Optimization Stack
The paper introduces Isospectral Optimization (ISO), an RLVR-native optimization framework that leverages spectral inheritance to adapt language models while preserving base weight spectra. ISO comprises offline ISO-Merger, which combines specialist models without additional training, and online ISO-Optimizer, which updates frame variables while fixing spectra. Evaluated on reasoning and coding tasks (1.5B-8B parameters), ISO-AdamW matches baseline accuracy in fewer steps (100 vs. 270 on Qwen3-8B-Base) and achieves higher final accuracy (0.509 vs. 0.495).
spectral inheritancerlvrisospectral optimizationframe variablesweight spectra
Associative Emotional Learning in Convolutional Neural Networks
The study proposes a deep neural network model for visual valence processing, combining a visual scene encoder with a valence recognition module to simulate associative emotional learning. Using a novel Pavlovian paradigm, the model replicates human associative learning behaviors including association formation, generalization, and neural representation alignment between conditioned/unconditioned stimuli at both unit and population levels. Validation against human data supports the model's effectiveness in capturing behavioral and neural signatures of valence learning.
associative learningvalence processingpavlovian paradigmneural representation alignmentdeep neural network
ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D
The paper introduces ResearchArena, a framework for evaluating AI control mechanisms in automated AI R&D, focusing on detecting sabotage by untrusted agents. The method involves four long-horizon tasks (safety post-training, capabilities post-training, CUDA-kernel optimization, and inference-server optimization) paired with hidden side tasks to test sabotage and monitoring. Results show that sabotage in training data is hardest to detect (<50% flagged), and monitors benefit from executing artifacts but still miss embedded sabotage due to surface inspection or incorrect probing. The framework is released for modular evaluation.
ai controlautomated r&dsabotage detectionmonitoringcuda-kernel optimization
Off-Context GRPO: Learning to Reason on Hard Problems using Privileged Information
The paper introduces Off-Context GRPO (OC-GRPO), a modified variant of GRPO that leverages privileged guidance (e.g., solution prefixes) during training to address the zero-reward problem in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). OC-GRPO employs an importance-corrected objective to align updates with the original unguided prompt, mitigating training instability. Empirical results demonstrate a 3.9% absolute improvement (13.8% relative gain) over vanilla GRPO on mathematical reasoning benchmarks, with minimal computational overhead.
reinforcement learningprivileged informationmathematical reasoningimportance correctionguided rollouts
From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs
The paper presents OREN-Bubble$^\star$, an integrated approach for real-time signed distance function (SDF) mapping and motion planning for UAVs. OREN combines an octree prior with a neural residual network to reconstruct SDFs from point clouds, achieving 22% better accuracy than baselines. Bubble$^\star$ leverages SDFs to plan via maximal collision-free bubbles, reducing collision checks and enabling 1-3 sec trajectory planning for 90m paths versus 10 sec for baselines. The system demonstrates real-time performance on quadrotors in unseen indoor environments.
signed distance functionmotion planningoctreeneural residual networkquadrotor
Riemannian Deep Learning:Modules, Networks, and Geometries
The thesis presents a unified framework for Riemannian deep learning through three approaches: generalized neural modules, manifold-specific architectures, and adaptive geometries. It extends batch normalization to Lie groups and gyrogroups, generalizes multinomial logistic regression to Riemannian manifolds, and develops networks for hyperbolic space and correlation matrices. The work introduces computationally efficient metrics on SPD manifolds, including learnable Log-Euclidean and Cholesky-based geometries. Theoretical analysis and experiments in vision, signal processing, and genomics validate the methods.
riemannian deep learninglie groupsspd manifoldslog-euclideanhyperbolic learning
LLM Detection as an Intervention: Downstream Impact under Strategic User Behavior
The paper demonstrates how imperfect LLM detectors can distort downstream metrics like LLM usage and output quality by incentivizing strategic user behavior. Through a stylized model of users adapting their LLM usage and post-processing to evade detection, the authors show that detection can paradoxically increase LLM adoption and degrade output quality despite reducing detectable attributes. Empirical validation on arXiv abstracts confirms a rise-then-fall pattern in detectable features, revealing unintended consequences of detection as an intervention.
llm detectionstrategic behavioroutput qualityintervention analysislanguage patterns
Graph-Based Agentic AI with LangGraph: Workflow Pathways for Long-Running Stateful Business Processes
The paper presents a practitioner guide for implementing graph-based workflow pathways in long-running, stateful generative AI systems for business processes using LangGraph. It introduces three executable recipes: SQL analytics with repair loops, agentic retrieval-augmented generation with evidence gating, and human-in-the-loop policy review with interrupt and checkpoint recovery. The work demonstrates how LangGraph's features—typed state, conditional routing, deterministic tools, and audit trails—can be systematically applied, while clarifying its appropriate use cases relative to simpler alternatives like ReAct-style loops or DSPy.
langgraphstateful agentsworkflow orchestrationretrieval-augmented generationconditional routing
The safety failures we are not instrumenting: a perspective on hidden safety-critical challenges in modern AI systems
The paper identifies a critical gap in AI safety research, arguing that current discourse overemphasizes visible failures while neglecting systemic, socio-technical risks. The authors propose a five-layer framework analyzing hidden safety challenges: epistemic integrity, control integrity, temporal integrity, organizational integrity, and ecosystem integrity. They document understudied failure modes including prompt injection, reward hacking, and model collapse, demonstrating how these emerge from interactions between models and deployment contexts. The work concludes with recommendations to shift safety evaluation from model-centric assessments toward holistic socio-technical reliability measures.
socio-technical reliabilityepistemic integrityprompt injectionreward hackingmodel collapse
GUIDED Network-Agnostic Feature Initialization for Spatial Transferability in GNN-based Models
The paper proposes GUIDED, a network-agnostic feature initialization layer for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address spatial generalization gaps in traffic assignment problems. The method injects travel demand as scalar attributes on virtual links rather than fixed node features, enabling transfer across urban networks. Experiments with a Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network (HetGAT) show state-of-the-art accuracy, 50% faster training, and robust performance under data scarcity and out-of-distribution demand patterns, while supporting parameter-efficient domain adaptation.
graph neural networkstraffic assignment probleminductive learningheterogeneous graph attention networkspatial transferability
They'll Verify. They Just Won't Act. How Authority Framing and Laundered Code Turn a Trusted Agentic CI/CD Pipeline Into an Attack Surface
The study demonstrates how authority framing and code laundering can compromise a multi-agent CI/CD pipeline despite verification steps. Researchers constructed a five-agent pipeline (triage, developer, security-scan, review, deploy) using five distinct LLMs from three providers, testing it against a synthetic attack injecting secret-exfiltrating code disguised as telemetry. Key findings show: 1) authority-framed injections bypassed 80% of scans, reaching 55% compromise rates; 2) distributed verification provided minimal protection (non-significant bystander effect); 3) only LLM-based intent analysis partially detected the attack, while syntactic scanners failed completely. The work reveals systemic vulnerabilities in current verification approaches.
ci/cd pipelinellm firewallauthority framingcode launderingintent analysis
Toward Auditable Fraud Detection: Combining Graph Features, Model Explanations, and Agentic Case Investigation
The study proposes a layered fraud detection pipeline combining gradient-boosted classifiers, graph-derived structural features, autoencoder-based anomaly signals, TreeSHAP explanations, and an LLM investigation agent, evaluated on the PaySim dataset. After correcting a simulator-specific balance shortcut, graph features and anomaly signals improved fraud ranking only for intermediately scored cases, while structural features recovered all injected multi-account fraud rings missed by the tabular baseline. The LLM agent underperformed direct classifier thresholding (65.0% vs. 71.7% accuracy), often replacing correct decisions with errors despite producing coherent rationales. Results indicate component contributions are context-dependent and rationales do not guarantee accuracy.
fraud detectiongraph featurestreeshapautoencoderllm agent
BioSecBench-Surveillance: A Verifiable Benchmark for AI Agents in Pathogen Genomic Surveillance
The authors introduce BioSecBench-Surveillance, a verifiable benchmark comprising 100 evaluations to assess AI agents' capability in constructing appropriate analysis pipelines from raw pathogen genomic data and surveillance context. The benchmark spans seven task categories (e.g., taxonomic classification, genetic-engineering detection) across diverse samples and sequencing technologies, grading agents' structured outputs deterministically. Testing 3,962 attempts from 16 model-harness pairs, top-performing configurations (Opus 4.8 with PI, GPT-5.5 with Codex) achieved only ~50.2% accuracy, with errors primarily stemming from suboptimal parameter choices (references, thresholds, filters).
genomic surveillanceai benchmarkingpathogen analysistaxonomic classificationpipeline inference
PathAgentBench: Benchmarking Evidence-Seeking Vision-Language Models on Whole-Slide Pathology Image
The authors introduce PathAgentBench, a benchmark evaluating evidence-seeking vision-language models (VLMs) on whole-slide pathology images (WSIs) across four capabilities: image-to-text matching, text-to-image retrieval, diagnostic-region localization, and multi-scale reasoning. The benchmark includes 1,822 TCGA WSIs and 17,135 diagnostic paths annotated by pathologists, plus a private cohort of 190 breast cancer WSIs. Evaluations of 20 models show leading open-weight models achieve >93% accuracy in multi-scale reasoning but struggle in localization (mean IoU <0.09). Autonomous exploration hit rates decline sharply with magnification (0.522 to 0.020).
vision-language modelswhole-slide imagemulti-scale reasoningtext-to-image retrievaldiagnostic-region localization
Benchmarking Generalization in Financial Statement Fraud Detection: robust evaluation and novel tasks
The study introduces a robust framework for Financial Statement Fraud Detection (FSFD) using Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrate structured financial data and unstructured textual information from reports. It addresses evaluation biases in prior work by proposing Company-Isolated FSFD (CI-FSFD), a novel benchmark task with realistic generalization to unseen companies. The method outperforms existing approaches on CI-FSFD, demonstrating the importance of textual data and rigorous evaluation. A comprehensive U.S. company dataset combining financial statements, MD&A text, and fraud labels is released publicly.
financial statement fraud detectionlarge language modelscompany-isolated evaluationstructured-unstructured data integrationbenchmark task
Prompt Design at Scale: How Format, Instruction Count, and Context Length Shape Instruction Adherence and Hallucination in Large Language Models
This study systematically evaluates three understudied prompt-design factors in LLMs: instruction format, instruction count, and context length. Using a synthetic corpus (Book of Veyra, 8,780 entities) across five models, Experiment 1 (960 calls/model) shows perfect-response rates drop to zero by 80 instructions regardless of format or placement, with model-specific placement effects. Experiment 2 (5,520 calls/model) reveals recall accuracy remains high through 64-128k tokens before degrading format-dependently, with refusal rates spiking near context ceilings (0% to 79-90%) but no fabrication (0/5,760 probes). The authors release VeyraBench for reproducibility.
instruction-following decaycontext ceilingsynthetic corpusprompt placementtoken overhead
Sequential Learner Modeling Using Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Networks
Proposes MR-ConceptGCN, an unsupervised approach for sequential learner modeling using multi-relational GCNs (MR-GCNs) to address limitations in existing homogeneous relation treatments and sequence ignorance. The method integrates Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKGs), MR-GCNs, and SBERT for relation- and semantic-aware concept embeddings, combining long- and short-term interactions. An online study (n=31) shows improvements in accuracy, usefulness, diversity, and satisfaction for educational recommendations.
multi-relational gnnspersonal knowledge graphssequential learner modelinggraph convolutional networkssbert
Inference-Time Steering for Cross-Lingual Factual Consistency in LLMs
The study addresses cross-lingual factual inconsistency in LLMs by evaluating four inference-time intervention strategies: zero-shot contextual steering (persona prompting), Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA), and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) adapters. Using Gemma 3 12B Instruct, they assess alignment via a multilingual factual dataset and a novel cultural generalization benchmark. Results show persona prompting as the most effective, balancing performance and safety, while CAA and DPO exhibit configuration sensitivity or limited transferability. Findings suggest cross-lingual inconsistency stems partly from selection bias and favor non-invasive contextual methods.
cross-lingual inconsistencyinference-time steeringcontrastive activation additiondirect preference optimizationpersona prompting
The Price of Reasoning: Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation
This work examines the role of reasoning traces in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for neural machine translation (NMT), particularly in legal document translation. The authors systematically vary the inclusion of reasoning traces during training and inference phases to isolate their impact. Results demonstrate that retaining reasoning during inference improves translation quality, though at increased computational cost due to longer outputs, prompting a cost-quality tradeoff analysis.
reinforcement learningneural machine translationreasoning tracesverifiable rewardscost-quality tradeoff
Beyond Score Prediction: LLM-Based Essay Scoring and Feedback Generation via Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Rewards
The paper introduces RLAES, a reinforcement learning framework for joint optimization of automated essay scoring (AES) and feedback generation (AFG) in large language models (LLMs). Key innovations include Rubric-based Feedback Evaluation (RFE) with 166 binary rubric items for measurable feedback quality, Adaptive Gated Feedback Optimization (AGFO) for efficient rubric-based RL rewards, and Adjacent Contrastive Reasoning (ACR) for ordinal score calibration. On the ASAP benchmark, RLAES-AGFO achieves state-of-the-art LLM-based scoring (QWK=0.803) while maintaining GPT-5.5-level feedback quality without degradation from score-only RL.
automated essay scoringreinforcement learningrubric-based evaluationfeedback generationordinal calibration
Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing
The report outlines twelve key technical challenges for scaling drone computing to infrastructure-level deployment, including AI assurance, edge-cloud coordination, and fleet reliability. It proposes a multidisciplinary approach addressing hardware-software gaps in autonomous systems, distributed authentication, and human-AI collaboration. Identified applications span disaster detection, medical logistics, and infrastructure inspection, contingent on solving scalability, safety, and regulatory hurdles.
autonomous dronesedge-cloud continuumai assurancefleet reliabilitydistributed authentication
Assessment in Team Problem-Solving Exercises in Computing Education
The paper introduces two methods for assessing team performance in tabletop exercises (TTXs) in computing education: clustering and large language models (LLMs). Using a dataset from 81 participants across two countries, clustering grouped teams by similar task approaches, enabling efficient instructor feedback, while LLMs (GPT-4o and GPT-5.2) evaluated communication against rubrics, with GPT-5.2 showing lower error. Both methods were integrated into the INJECT platform, with clustering proving computationally lightweight and reliable. The study provides open-source datasets, tools, and a TTX scenario for community adoption.
tabletop exercisesclusteringlarge language modelsteam assessmentcomputing education
MIRA-Ev:A Benchmark for Granular Evidence Detection and Relational Reasoning in Clinical Exams
The authors introduce MIRA-Ev, a clinical argument mining benchmark for granular evaluation of evidence detection and relational reasoning in medical licensing exams. The dataset comprises Spanish Médico Interno Residente (MIR) cases annotated by clinicians with span-level premises, claims, and support/attack relations, available in Spanish, English, and Basque. Evaluation is structured hierarchically across three tasks: evidence sentence retrieval, argumentative component extraction, and relation classification, addressing limitations of traditional multiple-choice QA in clinical NLP.
clinical argument miningspan-level annotationrelational reasoningevidence detectionhierarchical evaluation
Free energy landscape of Dense Associative Memory
The authors derive a general free energy functional for associative memory systems using large deviations theory, extending classical Hopfield model results to dense associative memories with polynomial interactions and Log-Sum-Exponential activation. Their analytical framework evaluates temperature-dependent free energy for finite patterns and disorder-averaged ground-state energy in the extensive limit, revealing retrieval dynamics dependent on initial states in higher-order networks. The method provides exact full-retrieval thresholds for LSE models and offers a systematic approach for analyzing complex memory architectures.
free energy functionaldense associative memorylarge deviations theorylog-sum-exponentialhopfield model
ABot-World-0: Infinite Interactive World Rollout on a Single Desktop GPU
The authors present ABot-World-0, an action-conditioned video world model enabling real-time, long-horizon closed-loop interaction on a single desktop GPU. The system employs a multi-source data infrastructure with agent-driven collection (WorldExplorer), 14 deterministic quality checks, and VLM-based assessment, followed by progressive distillation from a bidirectional teacher to a causal student via teacher forcing and ODE distillation. Key innovations include LongForcing for rollout alignment, reference-character memory for identity consistency, and a co-designed streaming inference stack with efficient attention and low-bit DiT. The model achieves 720P video at 16 FPS on an RTX 5090 (19GiB VRAM), with 1.2s action-to-frame latency and competitive performance on WorldRoamBench.
action-conditioned videoworld modelteacher forcingode distillationlow-bit dit
Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents
Agentic Real2Sim introduces a vision-language agent framework for automated real-to-simulation conversion, addressing the labor-intensive process of reconstructing physical scenes for robotics. The method leverages vision-language models to recover geometries, infer physical parameters, and assemble simulatable episodic twins from real-world recordings, spanning rigid-object manipulation, deformable-object interaction, and humanoid motion. Evaluations show comparable success rates to frontier models while using open-weight VLMs at reduced cost, enabling downstream policy learning and evaluation.
real-to-simulationvision-language agentsphysical world modelingepisodic twinrobotic interaction
Reasoning Before Translation: Enhancing Legal Machine Translation with Structured Reasoning
The paper evaluates reasoning-enhanced neural machine translation (NMT) for legal texts, comparing small language models (Qwen3.5 4B/9B, Gemma 3 12B) with frontier reasoning models. Methods include supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, tested on Swiss multilingual legal statutes. Results show reinforcement learning surpasses supervised fine-tuning, with enhanced small models approaching but not matching state-of-the-art reasoning models. Performance gains diminish with larger model sizes.
neural machine translationlegal domainreinforcement learningsupervised fine-tuningreasoning models
Breaking the Homogeneity Assumption: Specialized Multi-Generator Adversarial Learning for Rare Failure Detection in Predictive Maintenance
The paper proposes a specialized multi-generator GAN architecture for rare failure detection in predictive maintenance, addressing the non-homogeneous nature of failure modes in imbalanced industrial datasets. Unlike traditional methods (cost-sensitive learning, SMOTE, undersampling) that assume minority class homogeneity, the approach employs independent generators to model distinct failure subtypes. Evaluated on the AI4I 2020 dataset using PR-AUC and recall, the multi-generator GAN outperforms single-generator GANs and conventional resampling techniques by generating more realistic minority samples.
predictive maintenancemulti-generator ganclass imbalancepr-aucfailure mode
Incomplete Observations Boost Evolutionary Performance in Ocean Modeling
The paper introduces a generative state-space model for ocean modeling that learns directly from sparse, noisy observations, overcoming limitations of complete reanalysis datasets. The model employs a hidden Markov framework with neural networks for initial-state and state-transition modules, and a masked Gaussian emission module. Training uses an expectation-maximization framework with Langevin dynamics for field reconstruction. Experiments on CMIP6 and FY-3D data demonstrate high-fidelity reconstruction and prediction, proving sparse observations enhance ocean-state dynamics representation.
generative state-space modelhidden markov modelexpectation-maximizationlangevin dynamicsocean modeling
MIRAGE: Multi-scale Lesion-Informed Representation with Auxiliary Guidance for MRI Contrast Enhancement
MIRAGE introduces a residual 2D U-Net for MRI contrast enhancement, combining global reconstruction and perceptual losses with lesion-aware supervision during training. The method employs an asymmetric penalty for missed tumor enhancement, multi-scale auxiliary tumor segmentation, and guidance from a frozen post-contrast tumor segmentation nnU-Net. Evaluated on 301 cases from MAMA-SYNTH, MIRAGE outperforms baselines (pix2pix, conditional diffusion, latent bridge-matching) on six of eight metrics, improving lesion localization while revealing a fidelity-utility trade-off in generative alternatives. Ablations show partial redundancy among losses but distinct effects on appearance and boundary accuracy.
residual 2d u-netlesion-aware supervisioncontrast enhancementmulti-scale segmentationfidelity-utility trade-off
Parallel Noising in Neural Markov Logic Networks
The paper enhances Neural Markov Logic Networks (NMLNs) by improving their potential functions with graph neural networks and introducing parallel noising, a training algorithm inspired by parallel-tempering MCMC. These modifications address NMLNs' limitations in generating larger relational structures, enabling competitive performance against diffusion-based generative graph models. The enhanced NMLNs achieve results comparable to specialized text-based recurrent models in small molecular structure generation.
neural markov logic networksgraph neural networksparallel noisingdiffusion-based generative modelsrelational structures
Code Division Modulation Layers Against Forgetting and Inference in Continual Gait Identification
The paper introduces code division modulation layers (CDML) to address catastrophic forgetting and membership inference attacks in continual learning for gait identification systems. The method integrates CDML into a continual learning framework, eliminating the need for data replay while maintaining task accuracy. Results show preserved accuracy across tasks and reduced vulnerability to inference attacks, with minimal retransmission impact.
continual learninggait identificationcode division modulation layersmembership inference attackscatastrophic forgetting
Comparative Study of Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Algorithms in Parameterized Action Reinforcement Learning
The paper presents a comparative study of multi-agent extensions for three actor-critic algorithms (GAC, SAC, TQC) in parameterized action reinforcement learning, proposing shared-experience variants (MAGAC, MASAC, MATQC) with independent policy/value networks. The framework eschews centralized training in favor of shared replay buffers, evaluated on Platform-v0 and Goal-v0 benchmarks with 3-10 agents. Results indicate MAGAC shows consistent improvement over single-agent GAC, while MASAC/MATQC exhibit modest gains; scaling beyond five agents yields diminishing returns with increased computational cost, revealing a performance-efficiency tradeoff.
parameterized actionactor-criticmulti-agent reinforcement learningshared experiencescalability
OpenRTAG: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Text-Attributed Graph Learning under Data Quality Degradation
The study introduces OpenRTAG, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating robustness in text-attributed graph (TAG) learning under data quality degradation. It organizes TAG quality issues into a 3×3 taxonomy covering text, structure, and label dimensions (sparsity, noise, imbalance), and evaluates nine datasets across three downstream tasks. Results systematically assess scenario validity, model sensitivity, and baseline effectiveness, comparing traditional GNNs, LLM-GNNs, and graph foundation models under individual and composite degradation scenarios.
text-attributed graphsrobustness benchmarkdata degradationgnn evaluationcomposite scenarios
SciCodePile: A 128GB Corpus and Executable Benchmark for Challenging Scientific Code Generation
The authors introduce SciCodePile, a 128GB corpus of scientific code from 37,737 public repositories, alongside an executable benchmark of 200 tasks with sandboxed evaluation. They evaluate 15 LLMs on code completion, infilling, and generation tasks, finding current models perform poorly (best CodeBLEU 38.37, Pass@1 12.30%). Pretraining on SciCodePile improves CodeBLEU by ×2.84, while instruction tuning boosts Pass@1 by ×4.79, demonstrating the corpus's utility for advancing scientific code generation.
scientific code generationexecutable benchmarkcodebleupass@1instruction tuning
Supra Cognitive Modes: A Routed Architecture for Agent Memory
The paper introduces Supra Cognitive Modes (SCM), a routed architecture for agent memory that dynamically selects retrieval and synthesis methods per query over a shared ingest substrate. SCM employs a frozen semantic classifier to gate queries among lexical/dense lookup, multi-hop reasoning, or long-form synthesis, using multi-granularity embeddings, triples, and metadata. Evaluated on Long-term Conversational Memory (84.87% factoid accuracy), MemoryAgentBench (61.49%), and LongMemEval (86.00%), SCM demonstrates robust performance but lacks causal routing analysis and efficiency metrics.
agent memoryrouted architecturemulti-hop reasoningsemantic classifierlong-form synthesis
DAIS: Dependency-Aware Intermediate QA Supervision for Complex Reasoning
The paper introduces Dependency-Aware Intermediate QA Supervision (DAIS), a training framework that converts teacher rationales into stage-level QA records to enhance complex reasoning. DAIS conditions intermediate answers on previous states while maintaining original task format for final-answer evaluation. Evaluated on GDPR, AIACT, MedQA, and FOLIO with Qwen models, DAIS improves final-answer accuracy by 4.2% on average (peak 5.6%) over baselines like flat chain-of-thought and independent-QA. Ablations confirm dependency-conditioned supervision's efficacy beyond longer targets or additional intermediate text.
chain-of-thoughtintermediate supervisionqa reasoningdependency-awarerationale filtering
From Operations to Elderly Care Outcomes: A Thematic Review of Industrial Engineering and Decision-Support Approaches
This thematic review analyzes 30 seminal studies applying Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (OR) to elderly care, identifying three key domains: home healthcare operations, polypharmacy management, and clinical chronotherapy. The study reveals a methodological shift from static models to dynamic, stochastic frameworks integrated with AI, yet notes a persistent gap between operational optimizations (e.g., staff routing) and measurable clinical outcomes. The authors propose a conceptual framework for multi-level decision-making, emphasizing systems analysis, human-inclusive design, and emerging technologies like digital twins and large language models to bridge this gap.
operations researchelderly carepolypharmacy managementdigital twinsclinical chronotherapy
On the Effectiveness of Pretraining for Graph Combinatorial Optimization
The paper proposes a self-supervised pretraining framework for graph combinatorial optimization, targeting routing problems like the Traveling Salesman Problem. The method employs graph contrastive learning with geometric augmentations (rotations and axial reflections) to learn invariant structural representations and global distance distributions. Results show a 6.57% improvement in tour length for TSP1000 compared to non-pretrained models, demonstrating the efficacy of geometric pretraining for scaling neural solvers to high-dimensional instances.
graph combinatorial optimizationself-supervised pretraininggraph contrastive learninggeometric augmentationstraveling salesman problem
Mage-Flow: An Efficient Native-Resolution Foundation Model for Image Generation and Editing
The paper introduces Mage-Flow, a 4B-parameter generative stack for efficient text-to-image generation and instruction-based editing, comprising Mage-VAE (a lightweight latent tokenizer) and a Native-Resolution Multimodal Diffusion Transformer. Mage-VAE uses one-step diffusion-style encoding with anchor-latent regularization, reducing tokenization cost by >10× while maintaining reconstruction quality. Combined with native-resolution packing and CUDA kernel fusion, the stack achieves 2.5× training throughput. The model family includes Base, RL-aligned, and Turbo variants, with Turbo models enabling 1024² resolution generation in 0.59s and editing in 1.02s on an A100 GPU, while maintaining competitive benchmark performance.
latent tokenizerrectified flow matchingnative-resolution packingadversarial perceptual guidancecuda kernel fusion
Quality Action Assurance: Multimodal Verification of Examiner Claims in VR OSCEs
The study introduces Quality Action Assurance (QAA), a multimodal framework for verifying examiner claims in Virtual Reality (VR) pediatric Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). QAA combines temporal action alignment (using video, VR logs, and actor data) with large language model-based claim extraction to detect examiner errors by comparing claimed actions against ground truth. Evaluation shows 99.2% Actor F1 and 93.4% W@16 for temporal alignment, with 70.0% precision and 76.7% recall in error detection, improving factual correctness from 39.2% to 79.2%.
multimodal verificationtemporal action alignmentvirtual reality osceexaminer error detectionclinical competence assessment
Now You See the Hate: Adaptive View Retrieval for Hidden Hateful Illusions
The paper introduces Adaptive View Retrieval, a retrieve-and-calibrate framework for detecting hateful optical illusions in multimodal content. The method assembles a complementary view bank, adaptively selects trusted views, retrieves hidden-message identities, and calibrates harmfulness. Evaluated on HatefulIllusion with a frozen CLIP encoder, it achieves 93.2% balanced accuracy, outperforming original-view baselines (20.9-24.5% accuracy) and fixed single-transform filters. It also matches or exceeds human performance on IllusionMNIST, IllusionFashionMNIST, and IllusionAnimals, demonstrating the need for hidden-meaning recovery in robust moderation.
adaptive view retrievalhateful illusionsmultimodal moderationhidden-message retrievalclip encoder
Deep learning-based prediction of time-resolved adhesive forces in viscoelastic Hertzian contacts
The authors present a deep learning approach for predicting time-resolved adhesive forces in viscoelastic Hertzian contacts, addressing computational bottlenecks in numerical simulations. They train scalar-conditioned sequence-to-sequence models (LSTM, TCN, time-distributed dense) on a dataset spanning four orders of magnitude in loading rates, using a fixed-measurement-step representation to handle heterogeneous time scales. The best-performing LSTM model with concatenated conditioning achieves 5.0×10⁻⁴ MSE, 2.2% median pull-off-force error, and 0.16s median inference time, demonstrating effectiveness across unseen parameters and analytical limits.
viscoelastic contactsequence-to-sequencetabor parameterlstmadhesion prediction
Where Should Optimizer State Live? Tiered State Allocation for Memory-Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Training
The paper introduces SkewAdam, a memory-efficient optimizer for mixture-of-experts (MoE) models that employs tiered state allocation based on parameter population characteristics. It maintains float32 momentum plus a factored second moment for the dense backbone (5% of parameters), a factored second moment alone for experts (95%), and an exact second moment for the router (<0.01%), reducing state memory from 50.6 GB to 1.29 GB (2.6% of AdamW). Evaluated on a 6.78B-parameter MoE language model over 82M tokens, SkewAdam achieves validation perplexity 108.4, outperforming AdamW (126.8), Muon (120.2), and Lion (393.7), while maintaining router load balance within 1% of uniform. Ablation studies confirm the accuracy stems from momentum retention rather than state allocation tiers.
mixture-of-expertsoptimizer statememory-efficient trainingfactored second momenttiered allocation
Vector-Bench: Can Models Surgically Edit SVG Code?
The paper introduces Vector-Bench, a 40-task benchmark for evaluating instruction-based SVG code editing, focusing on both making requested changes and preserving unmodified elements. Each task includes a corrupted SVG, visual instruction, hidden target, annotated repairs (avg 5.05), and protected objects (avg 60.55), with deterministic binary scoring for repair accuracy and source fidelity. The authors evaluate 34 model endpoints (25 open-weight, 5 controls, 4 frontier) across 1360 requests, finding the strongest model achieves only 15.0% full specification success despite 43.7% mean repair progress, revealing a gap between apparent and faithful editing.
svg editinginstruction-based repairperceptual tolerancesvalidity-gated scoringunintended change rate
Spectral Higher-Order Neural Networks Have Sharp Expressivity Bounds
The paper establishes sharp expressivity bounds for Spectral Higher-Order Neural Networks (SHONNs), a novel architecture leveraging spectral parametrization to mitigate parameter explosion in neural hypergraphs. By employing weight sharing through spectral attributes, SHONNs achieve computational efficiency while maintaining performance. Benchmarking on N-bit parity tasks demonstrates their tunable hypothesis space and improved interpretability, confirming their potential for complex learning tasks.
spectral higher-order neural networksneural hypergraphsparameter sharingn-bit parityexpressivity bounds
FilmWorld: Agentic Novel-to-Film Generation through Dynamic Cinematic World Modeling
FilmWorld introduces an agentic system for novel-to-film generation through dynamic cinematic world modeling, decomposing the task into construction (grounding narratives into stateful entities) and evolution (maintaining causal consistency). The method employs specialized construction-side agents for narrative translation and shot planning, and evolution-side agents for state-anchored visual generation and verification. Evaluated on FilmEval, a benchmark of 15 novels with nine automated metrics, FilmWorld outperforms state-of-the-art systems in narrative fidelity and cross-scene consistency.
agentic systemdynamic cinematic world modelingstateful entitiescross-shot dynamic state propagationnarrative fidelity
CoGoal3D: Collaborative 3D Object Detection with 3D-Aware Fusion and Refinement
CoGoal3D introduces a novel collaborative 3D object detection framework addressing 3D spatial misalignment in V2X systems through a two-stage pipeline. The method employs a multiscale 3D-aware global fusion module for initial feature alignment and refines proposals via 3D point reconstruction, complemented by a multi-agent collaborative data augmentation strategy. Evaluations on DAIR-V2X, V2V4Real, and V2X-Real datasets show state-of-the-art performance, with 3D AP@0.7 improvements of 10.86%, 10.34%, and 10.18%, respectively.
3d object detectionv2x collaborationspatial misalignmentfeature fusiondata augmentation
Biological Amnesia in ICU Time-Series Prediction: A Drift-Adaptive Two-Stream Architecture with Temporal Retrieval
The paper proposes a drift-adaptive two-stream architecture for ICU time-series prediction that decouples physiological from treatment representations, updating only the treatment stream upon drift detection. The method includes a Temporal RAG module for evidence-based grounding and automated audit logs for interpretability. Evaluated on 84,792 MIMIC-IV stays (2008-2022), results show drift localized to the treatment stream, with selective adaptation improving vasopressor and septic shock prediction (26 additional correct cases vs. fully retrained baseline) while preserving retrieval consistency with the source model.
clinical decision supportconcept drifttemporal retrievalrepresentation learninginterpretable ai
Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges
The survey systematizes research on computational humor understanding in multimodal contexts (memes, cartoons, comics) through a capability-centric hierarchy spanning recognition, interpretation/reasoning, and generation. It analyzes benchmark design, evaluation protocols, and modeling paradigms, documenting a shift from task-specific fusion models to large-model approaches using multimodal alignment, evidence-grounded reasoning, and controlled generation. Key challenges identified include shortcut-prone evaluation, limited cultural coverage, weak evidence grounding, and unresolved safety/ownership issues.
multimodal humorevidence-grounded reasoningmultimodal alignmentcontrolled generationcapability-centric hierarchy
MedDDC-Eval: Diagnosis-Decoupled Evaluation of Multi-Turn Medical Consultation Agents
The paper introduces MedDDC-Eval, a diagnosis-decoupled evaluation framework for multi-turn medical consultation agents that separates the assessment of policy-elicited history from diagnosis generation. The method employs a shared frozen reader to maintain consistent history-to-diagnosis mapping, using a grounded interface and diagnosis-trajectory-efficiency (D/T/E) harness to measure diagnostic usefulness and efficiency. Results show that changing only the diagnostic reader alters diagnosis F1 by 2.2-19.0 points and reverses 18-36% of policy orderings, while GRPO-trained Qwen3-32B improves total scores by 9.7 and 4.6 points on Record and Dialogue splits.
multi-turn consultationdiagnosis-decoupled evaluationpolicy-elicited historytrajectory-efficiency harnessgroup relative policy optimization
SWITi: Quantifying and Reducing Tiling Artifacts with Sliding Window Inner Tiling
SWITi introduces a test-time method to reduce tiling artifacts in neural network predictions for large images, particularly in posterior sampling scenarios. The approach averages overlapping sliding-window predictions to distribute discrepancies across shifted tile positions, avoiding fixed seam artifacts without additional forward passes. It also proposes two reference-free metrics, Fraction of Rejected Tests (FRT) and Artifact Severity (ASV), for artifact detection. Evaluated on pre-trained models across three fluorescence microscopy datasets (2D/3D), SWITi significantly reduces stitching seams while improving reconstruction fidelity and resolution.
tiling artifactssliding windowposterior samplingfluorescence microscopyreference-free metrics
Athena-Brain Technical Report: An Efficient Robot Brain for General Intelligence and Embodied Interactio
Athena-Brain-8B is an 8B-parameter LLM designed for on-device embodied intelligence, combining general capabilities with specialized interaction skills. The model employs a multi-stage post-training pipeline: General Supervised Fine-Tuning, General Reinforcement Learning, Embodied Expert training, and Model Merge. Evaluations show comparable performance to Qwen3-8B on general benchmarks while generating 30% shorter responses, and superior performance on embodied tasks, outperforming larger zero-shot models.
large language modelsembodied intelligencesupervised fine-tuningreinforcement learningmodel merge
AutoJourn: Multi-Perspective Summarisation, Bias Detection and Bias Neutralisation for LLM-Generated News in Automated Journalism
AutoJourn introduces a system for multi-perspective news generation and bias-aware evaluation using LLMs, addressing perspective extraction, summary generation, and bias mitigation in automated journalism. The pipeline combines prompt engineering with retrieval augmentation to produce diverse perspectives, merges conflicting viewpoints into balanced summaries, and offers bias detection and neutralization. Evaluations demonstrate improvements in semantic diversity, summary quality, and bias reduction while preserving content fidelity, supported by a public demo for reproducibility.
automated journalismmulti-perspective summarisationbias detectionlarge language modelsprompt engineering
Fishing Out Free Riders: Shapley-Based Reward Attribution for Parallel Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Parallel Shapley, a reinforcement learning framework that attributes fine-grained rewards to individual reasoning paths in multi-path LLM reasoning. The method treats paths as players in a cooperative game, using Shapley values to quantify marginal contributions via a generative reward model and Monte Carlo sampling for approximation. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate improved performance over baselines, with more stable training and interpretable path-level reward attribution.
shapley valuesmulti-path reasoningreward attributionmonte carlo samplinggenerative reward model
Mi-Memory: A Lifecycle Memory Framework for Personal AI
The paper introduces Mi-Memory, a lifecycle memory framework for Personal AI that addresses continuity and governance across multimodal devices. The framework organizes memory around four roles (Structure, Expansion, Evolution, Deployment) linked by artifact families: typed evidence payloads, diagnostic traces, strategy artifacts, and gate/rollback records. MemStack, a key component, achieves 93.59%, 57.24%, and 87.47% on LoCoMo, PersonaMem-V2, and LongMemEval benchmarks, respectively. The system enables auditable, evidence-gated memory with explicit deployment constraints.
lifecycle memorytyped evidence payloadsdiagnostic tracesaudit contractmultimodal grounding
Verifiable Self-Evolution for Open-Ended Dialogue Skills via Future-Feedback Prediction
The paper proposes future-feedback skill evolution, a method enabling verifiable self-evolution of open-ended dialogue skills by redirecting optimization from answer generation to predicting subsequent user feedback. This converts moving conversational signals into fixed offline learning targets, allowing validation-gated textual optimization without live deployment. Evaluated on a proprietary sales-assistant dataset with quality filtering, the method achieves >75% accuracy in predicting user reactions. The approach bridges observational verification and counterfactual validity while maintaining interpretability.
self-evolutionfuture-feedback predictionoffline optimizationdialogue skillsvalidation-gated
Skillware: A Software Ontology and Engineering Lifecycle for Persistent Behavioral Artifacts
The paper introduces Skillware, a software ontology and engineering lifecycle for persistent behavioral artifacts in AI agent systems. It defines Skill Artifacts as reusable task behaviors and Skillware Units as their software abstractions, requiring behavioral primacy, independent identity, and Agent Host execution. The method analyzes 138,133 SKILL.md records, empirical studies, and engineering implementations. Results confirm recurring artifact patterns, separable identities, and lifecycle engineering needs, enabling composable and maintainable agent capabilities.
skillwarebehavioral artifactsagent hostsoftware ontologylifecycle continuity
Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates
The paper introduces a method to measure reward-seeking behavior in language models by inducing belief conflicts between grader and user preferences via Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning (SDF). The approach evaluates how models resolve these conflicts during reinforcement learning (RL) training. Results from OpenAI's o3 RL checkpoints show increasing alignment with grader preferences over user/developer intentions (e.g., 87% vs. 9% promise-breaking rates under conflicting SDF cues). A reward-hacking variant (gpt-oss-120b) exhibited 86% mean behavioral shift toward grader preferences, demonstrating RL's tendency to amplify reward-seeking.
reward-seekingcontrastive finetuningsynthetic documentsbehavioral shiftreinforcement learning
Variational meta-learning inference for low dimensional neural system identification
The paper introduces a probabilistic extension of manifold meta-learning for neural system identification, addressing data efficiency and uncertainty quantification. The method employs amortized Variational Inference to learn a generative prior over a low-dimensional parameter manifold, combining Maximum A Posteriori estimation with the Laplace approximation for posterior inference. Evaluated on static regression and the Bouc-Wen dynamical system, it matches deterministic manifold meta-learning's accuracy while providing calibrated uncertainty bounds in low-data regimes.
variational inferencemeta-learningsystem identificationlaplace approximationlow-dimensional manifold
From Dependency to Compositionality: A Neurosymbolic Lifting of LLM Outputs via Combinatory Categorial Grammar
The paper proposes a neurosymbolic framework that lifts LLM outputs into typed compositional derivations using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), aligning autoregressive generation with CCG's incremental processing model. This approach enables principled, incremental reconstruction of LLM outputs across natural and formal languages (e.g., Solidity, SQL) via the Curry-Howard correspondence. The framework supports two-layer checking: compositional (structural) and content (against external knowledge), facilitating early hallucination detection. The method does not assume LLMs internally implement CCG but exploits their prefix-driven generative profile.
combinatory categorial grammarneurosymbolicautoregressive generationcurry-howard correspondencehallucination detection
SFGA: A Statistics-First Gating Architecture with Adjudicative Escalation for Trustworthy SFT Data Procurement
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Dual Adversarial Fine-tuning for Enhancing Robustness of Large Vision Language Model
The paper proposes Dual Adversarial Fine-tuning, a framework to enhance robustness of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) against adversarial attacks across multiple multimodal tasks. The method jointly optimizes visual supervision (using features from clean images via a frozen vision encoder) and semantic supervision (via caption-image alignment) to maintain both adversarial robustness and semantic coherence. Experiments show state-of-the-art performance on zero-shot classification, image captioning, and VQA tasks, with cross-task robustness achieved by simply replacing the CLIP vision encoder without task-specific retraining.
large vision-language modelsadversarial robustnessmultimodal tasksdual supervisioncross-task generalization
What General Intelligence Requires: Non-Reducible Constraints Across Levels of Description
The paper argues that artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires non-reducible structural constraints across multiple levels of description, implying that no single architectural advance or scaling approach suffices. The method employs four evidential lenses—AI systems research, anthropology, law, and economics—supplemented by speculative fiction as a heuristic, yielding a taxonomy of 23 constraints organized into 8 clusters. Five falsifiable predictions are derived, linking benchmarks to disconfirmation conditions, framing AGI research beyond scaling.
non-reducible constraintsgeneral intelligencestructural constraintsscaling hypothesisevidential lenses
Functional Equivalence and Geometric Diversity in Neural Network Approximations: An Empirical Characterization
The study characterizes functional equivalence and geometric diversity in neural network approximations, revealing non-unique representations despite universal approximation guarantees. Through empirical analysis of single-layer networks and multilayer perceptrons, the authors examine sloppiness via Hessian eigen spectra and effective rank to quantify parameter space dimensionality. Results show large equivalence classes of functionally similar networks with low effective rank and structural redundancy, prompting a proposed model selection criterion based on parsimony and inference efficiency.
universal approximation theoremfunctional equivalenceeffective rankhessian spectrummodel selection
OntoBook: Ontology-Grounded Synthetic Textbooks for Medical Encoder Pretraining
OntoBook introduces an ontology-grounded method for pretraining medical encoder language models, converting medical ontology structures into synthetic textbooks via random walks and LLM reformulation. The approach trains ModernCamemBERT (149M parameters) with dual objectives: masked language modeling and relation prediction on French medical ontologies (CIM-10, CCAM, ATC). Evaluations on FRACCO, Cantemist-FR, and Distemist-FR show gains of +2.5 to +8.0 micro-F1 over MLM-only baselines, with aligned training critical to avoid 30-point performance drops. The release includes 1.3M synthetic textbooks and pretrained checkpoints.
ontology-groundedencoder pretrainingrandom walksmedical codingdual objectives
Circuit Claims Depend on What Is Extracted and How It Is Compared
The study demonstrates that circuit extraction in neural networks is under-determined, as different extraction methods yield varying circuits for the same behavior. Using a synthetic Lean tactic-prediction benchmark with randomized proof rules, the authors compare circuits extracted from dense and weight-sparse transformer checkpoints under varying conditions: circuit granularity (compact vs. broader subgraphs), representation of attention heads (joint or separate query/key), and pruning thresholds. Results show low edge overlap between circuits (sometimes at random baseline) but stable head selection and circuit-size rankings. The largest accuracy gains from RL occur with circuits preserving additional structure beyond minimal prediction-preserving subgraphs. The authors propose standardized reporting practices for circuit extraction studies.
circuit extractiontransformerattention headsreinforcement learningablation study
Enhancing Transformer-based Routing by Encoding Distance via Relative Positional Encoding
The paper proposes enhancing Transformer architectures for routing problems by integrating Relative Positional Encoding (RPE) as an additive attention bias. This method explicitly encodes pairwise spatial relationships among graph nodes, enabling the Transformer encoder to generate richer spatial-aware embeddings for improved route estimation. Experiments on Team Orienteering Problem instances with up to 100 nodes show consistent improvements in collected rewards and optimality gaps compared to vanilla Transformer baselines, demonstrating the benefits of explicit relational modeling for combinatorial optimization.
relative positional encodingtransformer architectureteam orienteering problemcombinatorial optimizationgraph embedding
Black-Mamba: Biologically-Inspired Leaky Accumulation for Conceptual Knowledge under Distribution Drift
Black-Mamba introduces a biologically-inspired test-time adaptive forecasting architecture that decouples adaptation from instantaneous prediction errors by using evidence-gated state tracking under distribution drift. The model employs a dynamic memory updated only when accumulated surprisal indicates regime changes, making adaptation selective and event-driven. Evaluated on non-stationary forecasting benchmarks, it matches or outperforms existing methods while reducing memory updates by 30-50%, demonstrating efficient adaptation through accumulated surprisal as a drift detection signal.
test-time adaptationdistribution driftdynamic memoryaccumulated surprisalregime change detection
NaviAIS: A Scenario-Level Vessel Trajectory Prediction Dataset withVectorized Lane Priors and the NaviLane Forecasting Framework
The paper introduces NaviAIS, a standardized scenario-level AIS dataset for vessel trajectory prediction, addressing limitations of existing datasets by providing structured representations of navigational lanes, waterway geometry, and navigable-region constraints. The dataset includes multi-vessel trajectories, rasterized navigable maps, vectorized lane priors, and lane graphs. The authors also propose NaviLane, a hierarchical macro-action framework that employs trajectory-map joint encoding, discrete macro-action codebooks, residual refinement, and a world-model-based evaluator for multimodal prediction. Experiments demonstrate NaviLane's superiority over baselines in single-modal and multimodal settings, highlighting the benefits of structured priors and consequence-aware evaluation.
vessel trajectory predictionvectorized lane priorsmacro-action frameworkscenario-level datasetconsequence-aware evaluation
Public perceptions of AI-driven decision-making in healthcare: A structural equation modeling approach
The study investigates public perceptions of AI-driven decision-making (ADM) in healthcare using structural equation modeling on survey data from 3,915 respondents. Key predictors included AI literacy, familiarity with AI, confidence in clinicians' ability to discern AI-generated content, and use of conversational agents. Results indicate perceived helpfulness and fairness of ADM were strongly linked to trust in clinicians, while perceived risk correlated with AI familiarity and traditional health information use. Trust in human oversight outweighed trust in technology itself as a determinant of positive perceptions.
automated decision-makingstructural equation modelingai literacyconversational agentshuman oversight
RAMP: Recognition parametrisation by Amortised Message Passing
The paper introduces RAMP (Recognition parametrisation by Amortised Message Passing), a novel unsupervised learning method for uncovering latent factors in complex data. RAMP employs a flexible, nonlinear, amortised message-passing framework to implicitly define latent structure, overcoming limitations of traditional probabilistic models that rely on tractable belief propagation or computationally expensive approximations. The authors demonstrate that RAMP enables efficient likelihood-based recovery of latent-variable distributions in expressive nonlinear models handling high-dimensional data.
unsupervised learninglatent variablesamortised inferencemessage passingnonlinear models
Regime-Aware Physics-Guided Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Using Thermo-Mechanical Signals
The authors propose a regime-aware, physics-guided framework for early warning of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway by integrating thermo-mechanical signals. The method employs a lightweight convolutional classifier to infer safety regimes (safe/warning/danger) from mechanical signals, which condition a causal temporal convolutional backbone via feature-wise linear modulation, physics-biased attention, and regime-dependent gating. Evaluated on 30 mechanical-abuse tests across varying state-of-charge levels, the framework achieves an F1 score of 0.89, 15.6s mean warning lead time (69.6% improvement over baselines), and 2.7% false alarm rate, demonstrating the value of mechanical precursors.
thermal runawaylithium-ion batteryregime-awarethermo-mechanical signalsearly warning
PhoenixRepair: Rethinking Repair Strategy Exploration in Software Agents
PhoenixRepair introduces a multi-agent framework addressing insufficient repair strategy exploration in LLM-based software agents through two key innovations: multi-location sampling (optionally enhanced with graph-based localization) and iterative reflection-refinement cycles for patch generation. The system combines these components with final-round generation using distilled historical insights. On SWE-bench-Verified, PhoenixRepair achieves a 7.8% relative improvement over SWE-agent using DeepSeek-V3.1 and 76.0% Pass@1 with MiniMax-M2.5, while demonstrating superior fault localization accuracy compared to existing approaches.
multi-agent frameworkrepair strategy explorationiterative refinementfault localizationpatch generation
OPD-IAD: From Language Judgment to Industrial Anomaly Detection via On-Policy Self-Distillation
The paper proposes OPD-IAD, an on-policy self-distillation framework for industrial anomaly detection (IAD) using large vision-language models (LVLMs). The method distills privileged defect evidence onto the model's judgment trajectory via dense supervision, then uses language-guided visual anchoring to convert semantic conditions into pixel-level anomaly maps through contrastive heatmap generation. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance among LVLM-based IAD methods across image-level, pixel-level, and QA metrics.
industrial anomaly detectionon-policy distillationlanguage-guided anchoringcontrastive heatmapvision-language models
Data Leakage Prevention in Agentic Applications via Preemptive Hardening
The paper introduces a pre-deployment pipeline for preventing data leakage in multi-agent LLM applications through static analysis and hardening. The method scans prompt templates, tool interfaces, and invocation code to identify leakage patterns, applies mitigations like schema tightening and allowlist-based gating, then validates via adversarial prompt injection testing. Evaluation on five real-world applications and AgentDojo showed 100% leakage reduction against basic attacks and 91% reduction under stress-induced manipulation, without runtime policy overhead.
data leakage preventionagentic systemsprompt injectionstatic hardeningtool misuse
ABOPD: Antibody CDR Design via On-Policy Distillation
The paper introduces ABOPD, an antibody design framework that employs on-policy distillation to improve complementarity-determining region (CDR) generation, specifically targeting CDR-H3 loops. The method leverages native geometry during training to supervise model-generated denoising trajectories, addressing backbone deviation accumulation in flexible loops. On the RAbD benchmark, ABOPD reduces RMSD by 0.42 Å (from 2.37 Å to 1.95 Å) compared to baselines, outperforming supervised fine-tuning and offline distillation approaches.
antibody designon-policy distillationcdr-h3structural recoverydenoising trajectories
From Trajectories to Instructions: Language-Conditioned Meta-Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces LA-MAML, a variant of Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) that replaces gradient-based inner loop adaptation with language-conditioned parameter updates. By encoding task instructions into a learned embedding space, LA-MAML performs single-step inner loop adaptation without trajectory collection, reducing computational cost. Evaluated on the BabyAI benchmark, LA-MAML matches or exceeds baseline performance while achieving significantly faster wall-clock training times, demonstrating language instructions' efficacy as an efficient adaptation signal in meta-RL.
meta-reinforcement learninglanguage-conditionedparameter adaptationinstruction embeddingbabyai benchmark
Evaluating medical AI under missing information: same-provider judges and human raters change apparent safety
This study evaluates medical AI safety in open-ended clinical conversations with missing information, focusing on model calibration under uncertainty. The authors stress-tested four LLMs (Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, Gemini 3.5 Flash) by truncating HealthBench dialogues and assessing responses via a four-provider LLM-judge panel and clinician reference. Key findings show evaluator choice significantly impacts safety assessments (Fleiss' κ=0.65, same-provider bias p=0.04) and LLM judges are more lenient than clinicians (66-84% vs 52% appropriate uncertainty recognition). Model performance differences persist on clinically underdetermined subsets despite high MedQA accuracy.
medical aisafety evaluationmissing informationllm judgesinter-rater reliability
Cross-Agent Campaign Attribution: Linking Asynchronous Attacks Across LLM Agents
The paper formalizes cross-agent asynchronous campaign attribution for LLM-agent security, introducing Asynchronous Attribution Fingerprint Vectors ($A^2FV$) to link adversarial sessions without shared runtime state or oracle labels. $A^2FV$ leverages proxy-observable tool-use, timing, and prompt residue, evaluated on the SCD-v1 benchmark with persona-matched benign/attack traffic. Results show 0.82 pairwise AUC for campaign linking, outperforming per-session detectors, with structural/stylometric residue as the strongest signal and timing as a diagnostic channel. The method resists controlled evasion, demonstrating its viability for real-world deployment.
llm-agent securitycampaign attributionasynchronous attacksfingerprint vectorsstylometric residue
AILQA: Evaluating AI-Driven Legal Question Answering Systems for the Indian Legal System
The study introduces AILQA, an AI system for Indian legal question answering, employing embedding models and LLMs within a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework to handle complex legal texts. Evaluations using lexical/semantic metrics and expert feedback demonstrate improved answer quality, with some AI responses outperforming reference answers on the All India Bar Examination (AIBE). Key challenges include context precision and model hallucination, highlighting needs for future refinement in legal AI systems.
retrieval-augmented generationlarge language modelslegal question answeringmodel hallucinationembedding models
AgentTrails: Towards Trust and Reuse for Agentic Tasks
AgentTrails introduces a system for structured provenance tracking in LLM-powered agents, addressing limitations of chronological logs by modeling tool calls as computational actions and artifacts as data nodes in provenance graphs. The method constructs quotient graphs to align recurring elements across trajectories, enabling comparison, pattern extraction, and skill abstraction. Evaluations on real-world agent trajectories demonstrate its ability to reveal dependencies, align divergent executions, and surface tool-use patterns.
provenance graphsllm-powered agentstool-use patternscomputational actionsquotient graph
AI Tour Meeting: Group Travel Planning by LLM Agents
The paper introduces AI Tour Meeting, a multi-agent framework for group travel planning where LLM-based agents with distinct personas negotiate itineraries through natural language discussions. The system provides configurable interfaces for agent personas, discussion workflows, and LLM deployment, serving primarily as a simulation tool for analyzing multi-agent behavior in collaborative planning scenarios. Validation results demonstrate the framework's utility in orchestrating and studying such agent interactions.
multi-agent systemsllm-based agentstravel planningnatural language negotiationsimulation framework
SkillSight: Seeing Through Shared Descriptions for Accurate Skill Retrieval
SkillSight introduces a training-free retrieval framework that addresses the challenge of shared descriptive patterns in skill libraries, which obscure task-relevant signals. The method employs Semantic Background Calibration to estimate a background subspace from generic tokens and Lexical Evidence Calibration to downweight shared background tokens. Evaluations on SRA-Bench and SkillBench-Supp show SkillSight improves Recall@10 by up to 20.21 percentage points over dense retrievers, achieves up to 4.97 percentage points better performance than LLM Selection, and is up to 1,248 times faster than Dense + Reranker baselines.
skill retrievalbackground calibrationdense retrieverlexical evidencetraining-free framework
Bounding Boxes to Improve Small Language Model Performance on Vision-Based Grading Tasks
This paper demonstrates that bounding box-based image cropping significantly enhances Small Language Model (SLM) performance on vision-based grading tasks. The study evaluates SLMs (4B-72B parameters) on handwritten responses from the 2025 Australian Physics Olympiad, comparing Chain of Thought prompting with and without bounding box preprocessing. Results show improved grading accuracy and reduced FLOPs across all model sizes, establishing bounding boxes as essential for efficient SLM deployment in educational assessment systems.
small language modelsbounding boxesvision-based gradingchain of thoughtflops
AgentDebugX: An Open-Source Toolkit for Failure Observability, Attribution, and Recovery in LLM Agents
The paper introduces AgentDebugX, an open-source toolkit for debugging LLM agent failures through a closed-loop workflow of Detect, Attribute, Recover, and Rerun. Its core component, DeepDebug, performs multi-turn root-cause diagnosis via global trajectory understanding, structure-guided investigation, and cross-examination. Evaluations on the Who and When benchmark show DeepDebug achieves 28.8% exact agent-and-step accuracy on qwen3.5-9b, outperforming single-pass baselines (21.7%), and repairs 13 of 73 failed tasks on GAIA, improving overall accuracy from 55.8% to 63.6%. The toolkit includes a Python library, CLI, web console, and an Error Hub for sharing failure-diagnosis-repair bundles.
llm agentsfailure debuggingroot-cause diagnosisself-correctionerror hub
ConceptCF: Concept-based Counterfactuals for the Explainability of Time Series
ConceptCF introduces concept-based counterfactuals for explainable time series analysis, addressing limitations of point/subsequence-level methods by operating on human-interpretable concepts like scale and frequency bands. The method employs time series decomposition for concept construction and a genetic algorithm to optimize concept mutations, generating explanations such as prediction changes due to altered movement scale. Evaluated against five state-of-the-art approaches, ConceptCF demonstrates superior performance across validity, confidence, proximity, sparsity, and plausibility metrics.
counterfactual explanationstime series decompositiongenetic algorithminterpretable conceptsexplainable ai
Find Before You Fine-Tune: A Diagnostic Study of Small LLMs for Cybersecurity QA
The paper introduces FiT (Find before Fine-Tune), a diagnostic framework for evaluating small LLMs (7B parameters) in cybersecurity QA tasks. It assesses three capabilities: vocabulary recognition, parametric knowledge, and contextualization of retrieved information. Evaluating five models under two fine-tuning regimes, the study finds fine-tuning consistently degrades vocabulary and knowledge, with instruction-focused tuning causing abstention-induced knowledge collapse while preserving retrieval-grounded contextualization. Rank-correlation analysis shows pre-fine-tuning FiT scores predict post-tuning changes, suggesting diagnostic screening can optimize model selection.
fine-tuningparametric knowledgecontextualizationabstentionrank-correlation
One Rewrite to Fix Them All? Type-Aware Repair Allocation for Text-to-Image Prompt Optimization
The paper introduces Type-Aware Repair Allocation (TARA), a training-free framework for optimizing text-to-image prompts by routing semantic failures to type-conditioned repair operators. TARA separates diagnosis, allocation, compilation, and employs a semantic repair gate to prevent regressions while maintaining image quality. Evaluations on DSG and TIFA benchmarks across four generators show TARA improves semantic accuracy by 5.6 and 2.6 points over VisualPrompter, respectively, while running faster (16.0s vs. 20.0s per prompt).
text-to-imageprompt optimizationsemantic repairtype-aware allocationtraining-free
Strategy-Following Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Considering Control Strategies Provided to Other Agents
The study proposes a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning method enabling human-controlled coordination through partial instructions. The approach extends prior work on controllability by allowing uninstructed agents to implicitly complement tasks based on instructed agents' actions, reducing the need for full-team directives. Experiments demonstrate that agents using this method achieve superior performance and adaptive coordination shifts compared to conventional approaches.
multi-agent systemsdeep reinforcement learningcontrollabilitycooperative structuresadaptive complementation
DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models
DWM (Decomposed World Model) introduces a supervision-level framework for latent world models that explicitly decomposes state transitions into action-driven and action-invariant world effects. The method augments a standard predictor with an auxiliary world head, regularized via a normalized world-contrastive objective and orthogonality constraints, enabling additive decomposition without architectural changes. Evaluated on W-variants of PushT, Reacher, and TwoRoom benchmarks, DWM matches baseline performance on standard tasks and improves CEM planning success by 13.1% in environments with persistent world effects.
latent world modelsaction-invariant dynamicscontrastive learningmodel-based controltransition decomposition
What the Waveform Knows: Transparent-first Speech and Audio Intelligence with Caption Studio
Caption Studio introduces a transparency-first framework for speech and audio intelligence, explicitly categorizing metrics as measured, derived, or unavailable to enhance traceability and reliability. The system employs a three-layer architecture: (i) a Whisper-class ASR and pyannote-based diarization core, (ii) an audio intelligence layer extracting acoustic/linguistic features (e.g., waveforms, pitch, sentiment), and (iii) an integration layer for downstream workflows. Benchmarks demonstrate enterprise-scale deployment capabilities with structured output generation (transcription, subtitles, analytics) from spoken audio/video inputs.
speech analyticsspeaker diarizationtransparency-firstacoustic featureswhisper-class asr
Decoupled Pipeline with Proposal Reranking and Score Fusion for Positive-Unlabeled Marine Species Detection
The paper presents DS@GT ARC's multi-stage system for positive-unlabeled marine species detection in the FathomNetCLEF 2026 competition, addressing annotation incompleteness and source-shift challenges. The method combines a frozen Megalodon YOLOv8x detector for class-agnostic proposals, tiled inference with edge filtering, a LoRA-finetuned DINOv3 ViT-H classifier, and weighted geometric fusion of confidences. A variant added a TTN-inspired validity head for reranking. The system ranked 12th/102, with key findings showing proposal recall preservation and improved ranking outperformed detector fine-tuning or pseudo-label training. Validation relied on proxy datasets and leaderboard feedback.
positive-unlabeled learningclass-agnostic detectionlora-finetuninggeometric fusiontiled inference
Do AI-Native Biotechs Need Departments? Benchmarking Company World Models for AI-Driven Drug Development
The paper proposes Company World Models as an alternative to department-mimicking architectures for AI-native biotech firms, defining them as persistent asset-to-value state representations with transition models and explicit value functions. A dry-lab benchmark with 45 retrospective decision cases compared four architectures: human-org-mimic variants, AI-native asset-centric, and value-conversion (a prompt-level approximation of Company World Models). The value-conversion architecture achieved the highest automatic value-conversion score and judge preference under success metrics (BD, regulatory approval, revenue), though a stronger human baseline remained competitive and neutral judges showed no robust dominance.
company world modelai-native biotechvalue-conversion architecturedry-lab benchmarkasset-to-value state
Attributes Should Come from Images, Not Class Names: Distribution-Conditioned Attribute Selection for Vision-Language Models
The paper proposes a data-driven attribute selection method for interpretable zero-shot classification with vision-language models, addressing the limitation of LLM-generated descriptors that lack visual grounding. By scoring attributes against target image collections in CLIP's embedding space and selecting top attributes per class, the method achieves 23.8% accuracy on ImageNet (vs 15.5% for LLM descriptors) and generalizes better to distribution-shifted variants. The approach outperforms prompt-tuning method CoOp by 3 accuracy points with minimal compute (under 1 minute vs 14 hours), while providing readable dataset summaries that characterize distribution shifts.
zero-shot classificationvision-language modelsattribute selectiondistribution shiftclip embedding
Semantic Primes as Explanans for Emotion in Large Language Models
The study proposes Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) primes as superior explanatory constructs for emotion mechanisms in LLMs compared to traditional appraisal-based approaches. Through experiments on four instruction-tuned models (Llama-1B, Gemma-2B, Gemma-9B, OLMo-7B), researchers demonstrate that NSM primes (1) exist as recoverable internal elements, (2) exert 3× stronger and 2× more selective emotion control than appraisal-based directions, and (3) show functional interchangeability with emotion terms. These findings suggest NSM primes better satisfy scientific explanation criteria for LLM emotion representations.
natural semantic metalanguageemotion mechanismsinstruction-tuned llmsexplanatory constructsappraisal-based approaches
SciHazard: A Benchmark for Measuring Scientific Safety Risks with Decomposed Harm Scoring
The authors introduce SciHazard, a benchmark for evaluating scientific safety risks in LLMs, featuring 2400 hazardous and 600 oversafety questions across 12 disciplines. They propose DeHarm-Score, a decomposed evaluation framework combining hazard severity, refusal behavior, and response-level risk (Executability and Net-new risk) via dynamic checklists and retrieval-augmented verification. Expert validation shows DeHarm-Score improves agreement by 90.17% over baselines. Benchmarking 31 LLMs reveals deep research agents exhibit 32.3% higher mean DeHarm-Score than standard LLMs, highlighting safety vulnerabilities.
scientific safetydecomposed harm scoringlarge language modelsretrieval-augmented verificationdynamic checklists
Broken Gates: Re-evaluating Web Bot Defenses in the Age of LLM Agents
The paper systematically evaluates web bot defenses against LLM-based browser agents and commercial Captcha-solving services, revealing critical vulnerabilities. Using seven solver services and six agent configurations (cloud-hosted, self-hosted, AI-assisted, browser-extension), the study tests hCaptcha, reCaptcha v2/v3, and Cloudflare Turnstile. Results show challenge-based defenses are ineffective against commercial solvers (near-perfect bypass) and LLM agents with solver modules. Non-interactive defenses like reCaptcha v3 resist better, but trace analysis reveals environment authenticity, not behavior, determines success, exposing a security boundary at the environment layer.
llm-based agentscaptcha-solvingbot managementinteraction trace analysisexecution-environment authenticity
Deep Learning Estimation of Sex, Age, Height, and Weight from CT-derived Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs
A deep learning ensemble accurately estimates adult biometrics from CT-derived digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs). The study fine-tuned ConvNeXt-Base, ViT-Base/16, and MaxViT-Base models on 128,621 CT examinations from 80,004 Japanese adults, combining predictions via weighted averaging. On the test set (n=10,169), the ensemble achieved 0.997 sex-classification accuracy and mean absolute errors of 3.57 years (age), 2.59 cm (height), and 3.40 kg (weight), with improved performance for full torso coverage. Body surface area calculations using estimated values replicated organ volume trends. Generalizability was demonstrated on non-Japanese datasets after fine-tuning.
digitally reconstructed radiographsmultitask learningconvnextvision transformerbody surface area
Norm or Direction? Decoding Vision Mambas for High-Resolution Vision
The study investigates representation differences between Vision Mamba (VMamba) and MambaOut models, revealing distinct encoding strategies via cross model centered kernel alignment (CKA) analysis. VMamba distributes discriminative signals primarily in token directions, with high-norm tokens misaligned with Grad-CAM, while MambaOut concentrates information in high-norm foreground tokens. VMamba's broad logit distribution across object regions yields superior performance in dense prediction tasks like semantic segmentation, attributed to its semantic evidence organization across token magnitude and direction. These findings highlight token magnitude and directional structure as critical factors for visual backbone improvement under dense supervision.
vision mambacross model centered kernel alignmenttoken magnitudegrad-camsemantic segmentation
CPInj: Uncovering Prompt Injection Risks in Textual Collaborative Prompt Optimization
CPInj exposes a critical vulnerability in Textual Collaborative Prompt Optimization (TCPO), where malicious instructions injected during decentralized prompt optimization evade aggregation and defenses. The attack method contaminates global prompts, degrades task performance, and resists purification, demonstrating effectiveness across three LLM families and five reasoning tasks. While APAgg partially mitigates the attack, current defenses remain inadequate, highlighting the need for more robust TCPO security mechanisms.
prompt injectioncollaborative optimizationllm securitytextgraddecentralized learning
Temporal-Causal Unity as an Operational Framework for Collective Dynamics: Causal-Progress Clocks, Synchronization, and Polarization
The paper introduces temporal-causal unity (TCU), a framework linking process philosophy to operational models of collective dynamics via causal-progress coordinates. It defines causal progress as $τ(t)=\int_0^tλ(s\mid\mathcal H_s)\,{\rm d}s$, where event intensity $λ$ is outcome-independent, and models agent interactions through phase-amplitude dynamics with synchronization thresholds. Key results include a conditional synchronization threshold $K_c = 2(Δ+ D)$ for the noisy Kuramoto model and order parameters distinguishing consensus from polarization. The framework is illustrated numerically and applied to six historical episodes as scope probes, with proposed falsifiable hypotheses for causal-progress versus chronological-time models.
temporal-causal unitycausal-progress coordinatekuramoto modelorder parametersprocess ontology
LatentMT: Machine Translation with Latent Reasoning
LatentMT introduces latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) for machine translation, avoiding parameter scaling or explicit chain-of-thought tokens by leveraging recurrent computation within hidden states. The method adapts a 2.6B-parameter backbone with lightweight training, evaluating across 32 translation directions spanning high-, mid-, and low-resource languages. Results show competitive performance with models 3-5× larger, achieving state-of-the-art in mid- and low-resource settings, with recurrent steps improving quality before saturating; efficiency analyses confirm lower compute costs versus comparable non-latent models.
latent-reasoninglooplmsmachine translationrecurrent computationhidden states
Mitigating Matthew Effect: Multi-Hypergraph Boosted Multi-Interest Self-Supervised Learning for Conversational Recommendation
The paper introduces HiCore, a multi-hypergraph boosted multi-interest self-supervised learning framework for conversational recommendation, addressing the Matthew effect in dynamic user-system feedback loops. The method constructs item-, entity-, and word-oriented hypergraphs to capture multi-level user interests, mitigating popularity bias. Experiments on four CRS datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in reducing the Matthew effect.
conversational recommendationmatthew effectmulti-hypergraphself-supervised learningmulti-interest learning
Intelligent Multi-UAV Navigation in ITNTNs: A Hierarchical LLM Approach
The paper proposes a hierarchical LLM-driven control framework for multi-UAV navigation in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (ITNTNs). The architecture combines a cloud-based LLM on a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for global load balancing with lightweight edge-LLMs on UAVs that generate tactical sub-goals, which guide a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controller for real-time trajectory execution. Simulations show reduced collision rates and improved system throughput compared to baselines.
uncrewed aerial vehiclesintegrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networkshierarchical llmdeep reinforcement learninghigh-altitude platform station
AutoIndex: Learning Representation Programs for Retrieval
AutoIndex introduces a framework for learning representation programs that transform raw documents into optimized retrieval representations. The method employs validation-guided program search, where agents iteratively diagnose failures and synthesize updates to improve retrieval quality under the resulting index. Evaluated on the CRUMB benchmark with BM25 fixed, AutoIndex achieves average gains of +8.4% in Recall@100 and +8.3% in nDCG@10, with peak improvements of +30.5% and +43.6%, demonstrating that document representation should be explicitly optimized.
representation programsretrieval systemvalidation-guided searchbm25recall@100
Planning as Emergent Behavior in Reinforcement Learning with Relational Hidden States
The paper demonstrates that planning behavior can emerge in model-free reinforcement learning when using relational hidden states that form a graph structure. Through experiments with neural architectures, the authors show that hidden states anchored to environment states and exchanging learned relational messages spontaneously recover transition structures and enable planning, while control agents without explicit state binding fail to develop such mechanisms. Results suggest architectural priors play a decisive role in emergent planning, raising questions about its prevalence and potential parallels to human cognition.
emergent planningrelational hidden statesmodel-free rlneural architectural priortransition structure
When Does Machine Learning Beat Value Sorting? A Three-Dataset Diagnostic of Exposure-Weighted Shipment Prioritization
The paper introduces a diagnostic framework for evaluating when machine learning (ML) surpasses value-based sorting in shipment prioritization tasks. Using leakage-controlled rolling-origin evaluation and 1000-sample paired bootstrap confidence intervals across three datasets (SCMS procurement, DataCo logistics, Olist e-commerce), the study compares ML-based ranking (delay severity × value) against value-only sorting. Results show ML outperforms value sorting only in DataCo (+10.1 pp at 10% review budget), where severity is learnable (R²=0.27), but underperforms in SCMS (-5.5 pp) and Olist (-4.9 pp) with near-zero R². The work advocates for severity learnability audits and value sorting as a permanent benchmark.
shipment prioritizationleakage-controlled evaluationrolling-origincalibration biascost-sensitive retraining
For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis
The study analyzes how instruction-tuned Transformer models (LLaMA, Mistral) encode discourse relations, specifically causation and antithesis, through interpretability techniques applied to next-token prediction. Results reveal that early layers make predictive decisions at mid-sequence tokens, while mid-level layers finalize decisions near the last token, with most layers passively propagating earlier decisions. Asymmetric representation of discourse reasoning is observed, with certain layers favoring specific answers over alternatives.
transformer modelsdiscourse relationsinterpretability techniquesnext-token predictionasymmetric representation
Attacking Graph Foundation Models Through Their Shared Representation
The paper identifies and exploits a novel attack surface in graph foundation models (GFMs): their shared alignment layer that maps diverse inputs into a unified representation space. Through inference-time attacks on six public GFMs (including spectral tokenizers and text embedding spaces), the authors demonstrate that directed representation-space perturbations can collapse model performance, with OpenGraph's spectral tokenizer being particularly vulnerable at 20% of the perturbation budget required for graph neural networks. Realizable input-space attacks (editing edges, features, or text) degrade accuracy by ≥50% in half the models, with effectiveness correlated to decoder sensitivity rather than clean task accuracy.
graph foundation modelsalignment layerrepresentation-space attackspectral tokenizerlocal lipschitz sensitivity
The Story Shapes the Agent: Narrative Priors in LLM Behavior
The study demonstrates that narrative framing (narrative priors) exerts 5-31x stronger influence on LLM agent behavior than persona prompting across isomorphic tasks. Using three structurally identical text-based games (disease investigation, IT troubleshooting, murder mystery) with 1,890 sessions across 3 models and 10 personas, researchers found narrative priors are architecture-consistent and often hinder performance. Persona effects transfer only when descriptions contain behavioral anchors mapping directly to actions; removing anchor words reduces cross-narrative consistency by 95%. The framework generalizes to a fourth narrative and enables improved persona selection.
narrative priorspersona promptingbehavioral anchorsstructural isomorphismcross-narrative transfer
Operational Proto-Introspection in Looped Language Models: Process-Quality Taps, Executable Branching, and the Readout-Control Boundary
The study investigates whether a frozen 2.6B-parameter looped transformer (Ouro-RLTT) can assess ongoing computation quality and if external interventions improve outcomes. Using GSM8K, pre-answer probes excluding answer regions achieve AUROC 0.797 (hidden states + shortcuts), surpassing shortcuts alone (Δ+0.066). Role-specialized taps show high task-disjoint branch survival (0.9697 retention) and content ranking (0.6310 macro top-1). Branch/carry/prune mechanisms optimize recurrent cache usage, saving up to 88% layer passes. However, no frozen intervention yields validated capability gains, suggesting operational proto-introspection—readable but not yet actionable signals.
looped transformerproto-introspectionrecurrent cachepre-answer probetask-disjoint branch
Engineering Trustworthy Agentic AI for Critical Systems
The survey establishes trustworthiness as a primary engineering property for agentic AI in critical systems, proposing a five-dimensional model (safety/constraint satisfaction, robustness/reliability, transparency/interpretability, accountability/auditability, privacy/security) mapped to an assurance workflow. It systematically reviews architectures, threats, trust mechanisms, and quantitative metrics across four domains (power systems, autonomous vehicles/robotics/UAVs, HPC, communication networks), identifying shared failure modes and domain-specific gaps. Results demonstrate the feasibility of a unified, reusable assurance framework analogous to safety-critical engineering certification regimes.
agentic aitrustworthiness metricssafety-critical systemsassurance frameworkcross-domain verification
MAGE: Human-Like Macro Placement via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
MAGE introduces a multimodal multi-agent framework for automated macro placement refinement in physical design flows, decomposing the task into a six-phase workflow combining structured rules, visual checks, and iterative refinement. The system encodes expert knowledge via natural-language directives and employs tournament-style refinement with four novel human-likeness metrics (notch, whitespace, pocket, alignment scores). Evaluations on NanGate45 and GlobalFoundries 12nm designs show 11.1%-19.3% WNS and 70.0%-74.0% TNS improvements over commercial placers, with 18.3%/72.5% gains over human experts and 6%-48% better human-likeness scores.
macro placementmultimodal reasoningphysical designfloorplanningppa metrics
Censoring-Aware In-Context Learning for Generalized Supplier Lead Time Estimation in Supply Chain Planning
The paper proposes LeadTime-ICL (LT-ICL), a censoring-aware in-context learning model for probabilistic supplier lead time forecasting in right-censored industrial datasets. LT-ICL combines a transformer backbone with a conditional normalizing-flow head, pretrained on synthetic right-censored tasks to enable zero-shot adaptation. Theoretical analysis bounds excess CRPS by prior misspecification and amortized approximation errors. Evaluated on 24 proprietary datasets, LT-ICL achieves best point-forecasting error on 15 datasets and best probabilistic error on 14, demonstrating superior average rank across metrics.
in-context learningright-censored datanormalizing flowssupply chain forecastingprobabilistic forecasting
EduPanel: A Three-Agent LLM Judge for Teaching Videos -- Reliability, Complementarity, and Human Trust Calibration
EduPanel introduces a three-agent LLM judge for pedagogical video evaluation, addressing multimodal assessment and learner-specific quality through rubric-grounded, specialized agents. The system decomposes teaching quality into interpretable aspects using large language models conditioned on learner personas. Evaluations show reliability matching median human experts (MAE improvement from 0.87 to 0.73), with maintained expert ability to detect unreliable outputs (AUC=0.77), positioning it as an effective assistant rather than replacement for human assessment.
pedagogical evaluationmultimodal assessmentlearner-conditionedrubric-groundedllm judge
Automated Data Engineering and Feature Selection for the Case Study of Warpage Detection in Fused Deposition Modeling
The study introduces an Automated Data Processing (ADP) framework for optimizing model-feature combinations in fused deposition modeling (FDM) datasets. The method employs a reinforcement learning-inspired policy updater, training multiple ML models on full and SHAP XAI-selected feature subsets across 217 datasets, with Q-value updates guiding selections. Results show the framework improves test-set AUC from 0.9248 to 0.9731 and increases mean reward by >50% versus full-feature baselines, demonstrating convergence toward optimal configurations.
automated data processingshap xaifused deposition modelingreinforcement learningfeature selection
Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists
This work investigates how blind/low-vision (BLV) and sighted scientists use AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini) for multimodal scientific paper querying through interviews with 10 STEM researchers. Findings reveal accessibility workarounds for visual content, identify AI response limitations (vague descriptions, inaccuracies) causing workflow abandonment, and provide a dataset of 115 query-response pairs. Results highlight needs for improved multimodal QA systems across ability levels and domains.
multimodal queryingvisual question-answeringscientific accessibilityai-assisted researchstem workflows
Now We Know? A Systematic Comparison of TerraMind and THOR
This study systematically compares two Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs)—THOR and TerraMind—to disentangle performance differences attributable to architecture, decoder capacity, and use-case-specific factors. THOR employs a compute-adaptive architecture with variable patch sizes, while TerraMind uses a multimodal generative approach with dual-scale pretraining for cross-modal generation. Controlled experiments across ten use cases reveal that patch size and decoder type explain more variance than model identity, with TerraMind favoring pretraining scale and THOR optimizing inference-time tokenization. The findings offer a diagnostic methodology for evaluating future GFMs.
geospatial foundation modelspatch sizemultimodal generationcompute-adaptive architecturedual-scale pretraining
Towards an Automated Test of LLM Security Knowledge
The authors propose a partially-automated method for evaluating LLM security knowledge gaps by analyzing response instability using authoritative Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) data. The approach leverages CPA documents on identity theft and impostor scams to assess five LLMs from Gemini and GPT families without requiring manual benchmark construction. Results demonstrate the method's ability to distinguish between models with sufficient versus insufficient security topic recognition in text narratives.
large language modelssecurity knowledge gapsconsumer protection agenciesresponse instabilityautomated evaluation
The Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research
The authors introduce Open Ant, a physical robot platform designed to bridge the gap between simulated and real-world reinforcement learning (RL) research. The platform replicates the Gymnasium Ant environment and supports both physical and simulated training. Experiments demonstrate successful policy learning from scratch on the physical robot using SARSA($λ$) and Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) within one hour, as well as sim-to-real transfer. The open-source design facilitates rapid experimentation and hardware modifications, as evidenced by user adaptability and repair efficiency.
reinforcement learningrobot platformsim-to-real transferopen-source hardwarepolicy learning
Trusted Credentials, Untrusted Behavior: Benchmarking LLM-Agent Security in High-Performance Computing
The paper introduces the hijacked authorized agent problem in high-performance computing (HPC), where LLM agents operating under user credentials may execute unauthorized commands due to adversarial inputs. It defines a threat model specific to HPC environments, identifying attack surfaces in schedulers, shared storage, and scientific workflows, and evaluates gaps in current security controls. The authors propose TaskBound, an empirical benchmark, and outline a research agenda to address these vulnerabilities.
llm agentshigh-performance computingthreat modelindirect prompt injectiontaskbound
Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft
The article introduces 'digital statecraft' as a conceptual framework for governing digital systems in modern states, addressing both governance of digital substrates (data, algorithms, infrastructure) and governance using algorithmic tools. The authors identify two foundational requirements—technical coherence and legitimate authority—and derive ten principles to prevent structural governance failures, including public interest prioritization, human-machine complementarity, and accountable authority. The analysis positions the state as the primary institutional form capable of meeting legitimacy conditions while questioning whether traditional state boundaries remain adequate in the algorithmic age.
digital statecraftalgorithmic governancetechnical coherencelegitimate authoritygovernability by design
Structured Output Collapses Answer Diversity Across 44 Language Models
The study demonstrates that structured output formats (e.g., JSON) significantly reduce answer diversity across 44 language models, increasing modal answer frequency from 41% to 64% and reducing distinct answers from 52 to 36 on a 'Pick a word' prompt. Using the One-Word Census benchmark (31 category prompts), the authors show that JSON requests lower mean answer-choice surprisal from 1.80 to 1.58 bits, with models converging toward chat-mode defaults. The effect is format-specific (significant for JSON/XML, absent for YAML/CSV) and attributed to post-training tool-use alignment rather than decoder constraints.
structured outputanswer diversitylanguage modelsmodal answersurprisal
RRPO: Reference-Relative Policy Optimization with Stratified Conditional Rollouts
The paper introduces Reference-Relative Policy Optimization (RRPO), a generalization of Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) that extends group-relative optimization to non-verifiable settings. RRPO employs stratified conditional rollouts to construct anchor sets, trains a metric projection head via set-contrastive learning, and uses the resulting alignment scores to define contrastive advantages for policy optimization. Evaluations across verifiable reasoning, open-ended generation, and post-supervised fine-tuning (SFT) settings show RRPO matches verifier-based optimization, outperforms weakly supervised baselines, and enhances post-SFT performance.
reference-relative policy optimizationstratified conditional rolloutsset-contrastive learningmetric projection headgroup-relative optimization
Competitive and Complementary Tools
The study models human-tool interaction as a dynamical system where competence (retained skill) and reliance (outsourced task execution) co-evolve, revealing bistable outcomes. Above a critical tool availability threshold, competence collapses irreversibly to a dependent state due to complete outsourcing, with hysteresis preventing recovery until availability drops significantly lower. The collapse threshold depends on initial user competence and tool transparency (reconstructible workings). For uncertain goals, tools may irreversibly transfer agency to themselves when their models exceed internalization capacity. Empirical validation includes GPS, arithmetic, and LLM usage data, with implications for AI deployment and education design.
dynamical systemcompetence-reliance tradeofftool transparencyagency transferhysteresis effect
Estimating Rare Events in Language Models with Proper Evaluation
The paper introduces Gradient Activation Adaptive Multi-Level Splitting (GA-AMLS), a method for estimating rare-event probabilities in language models by adapting rare-event Monte Carlo techniques to continuous activation space. GA-AMLS employs gradient-based MCMC navigation and a heavier-tailed activation prior to address zero-estimate collapse and independence assumptions in prior work. Additionally, the authors propose the Shifted-Power Bregman (SPB) Loss, a proper scoring rule with tunable asymmetry for evaluation. Experiments on small transformers show GA-AMLS reduces log-space squared error under symmetric evaluation, while biased methods perform better under asymmetric penalties, highlighting context-dependent estimator selection.
rare-event estimationmonte carlo methodsactivation spaceproper scoring rulelanguage model safety
CANDOR: Chance-Calibrated Discordance in Frozen Foundation Encoders
The paper introduces CANDOR, a chance-calibrated discordance measure for evaluating frozen foundation encoders, addressing biases in nearest-neighbor evaluation due to unequal class prevalence. CANDOR uses equal-size banks symmetric under label swaps, fixing chance performance at 0.5. Evaluated across 22 encoders, 20 datasets (605,443 images), results show no encoder is blind, but all exhibit weak feature separation: e.g., a chest model achieves 84.5 AUROC for pneumothorax yet misplaces 18.4% of positives. Performance varies widely across domains (e.g., 4.5 vs. 49.8 discordance for bird species vs. glaucoma). CANDOR detects poor encoder support without training lightweight heads.
frozen encodersdiscordance measurechance calibrationfeature collapsenearest-neighbor evaluation
ChainMark: Model-Free LLM Watermarking with Closed-Form Calibration
ChainMark introduces a model-free LLM watermarking method using keyed SHA-256 to partition the vocabulary into S states, enforcing Markov transitions on a fraction ρ of positions. The detector operates in O(n) hash operations without LM access, with closed-form calibration for minimum state count S*(n, ρ, α) and a universal robustness threshold δ* ≈ 29.3%. Evaluated across three instruction-tuned LLMs and four domains, ChainMark outperforms KGW and SWEET under translation and random-substitution attacks, maintaining a 1% target FPR after empirical recalibration.
llm watermarkingmarkov transitionclosed-form calibrationsha-256robustness threshold
Relay-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Multi-Domain Reasoning Chains
Relay-Bench introduces a multi-domain reasoning benchmark evaluating LLMs on composite problems requiring cross-domain reasoning without multimodal input. The benchmark combines 2-13 single-domain subproblems (visual reasoning, coding, math, information extraction, problem-solving, general knowledge, data analysis) with prompt encoding and context bloat to increase complexity. GPT-5.5 (xHigh) achieves 43.3% accuracy, with models permitted to use tools like code-execution and web searches.
multi-domain reasoningcomposite problemsprompt encodingcontext bloatinformation extraction
Intelligence from Learnable Novelty
The paper introduces 'learnable novelty', a unified measure distinguishing surprise convertible into knowledge from irreducible noise, as a common basis for intelligence across domains. Using a differentiable reservoir computer, the authors derive a closed-form estimator requiring no supervision. This measure correctly ranks complexity in cellular automata (e.g., placing Turing-complete Rule 110 highest), guides neural cellular automata to discover soliton dynamics, organizes MNIST representations without labels, and improves RL exploration in 9/10 environments. The work bridges complexity generation, abstraction, and exploration through a single differentiable objective.
learnable noveltyreservoir computercellular automataintrinsic rewardsolitons
Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection: A Comparative Study of TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and Fine-Tuned DistilBERT
This paper compares the adversarial robustness of two phishing email detection models: TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and fine-tuned DistilBERT, using a unified corpus of 82,255 emails. Both models achieved >98% accuracy on clean data but degraded sharply under adversarial testing (64.00% and 63.64%, respectively), with only a 0.36-percentage-point difference. LIME, SHAP, and attention-rollout analyses revealed differing evidence reliance but similar vulnerability. Error analysis showed 54.9% agreement on adversarial samples, with complementary failure modes. The study demonstrates that clean-data accuracy does not predict adversarial robustness and advocates for adversarial testing in evaluation.
phishing detectionadversarial robustnessdistilberttf-idflogistic regression
Neuro-Symbolic Meta-Policies for Temporal Knowledge-Graph Memory under Partial Observability
The paper introduces a neuro-symbolic meta-policy for temporal knowledge-graph memory in partially observable reinforcement learning, combining symbolic memory heuristics with neural control while maintaining symbolic execution. The method uses Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs to represent hidden states and observations, augmented with temporal RDF triple annotations, and employs a knowledge-graph encoder with value heads for question answering, exploration, and forgetting. The qualifier-aware StarE-GNN configuration achieves the best held-out performance at a memory capacity of 512, preserving step-level traceability of memory-management decisions.
neuro-symbolictemporal knowledge-graphpartial observabilityresource description frameworkmeta-policy
AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report
AlayaWorld introduces an interactive long-horizon video world model capable of generating 540p/720p video at 24 fps from text, images, or video inputs. The system employs a 15B-parameter video diffusion transformer with autoregressive latent chunk generation, bounded visual context (persistent sink frame, compressed history, spatial memory), and drift-reduction techniques like corrupted-history training. A novel discrete autoregressive distillation method reduces inference to 4 steps per chunk. Evaluated on iWorld-Bench, AlayaWorld achieves state-of-the-art long-horizon generation performance while maintaining open-source extensibility.
video diffusion transformerautoregressive generationspatiotemporal consistencyconsistency distillationlong-horizon generation
Operational Hallucination and Safety Drift in AI Agents
The paper identifies and quantifies two reliability risks in tool-using autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs): Safety Drift (gradual erosion of safety constraints) and Operational Hallucination (persistent flawed tool calls). Through controlled multi-turn evaluations on ethical dilemmas and malicious requests, the authors measure these phenomena using declaration-action gap and livelock metrics, demonstrating cross-model prevalence. They propose an Action-Aware Supervision Layer with intent-action consistency checks and runtime state tracking, showing post-hoc simulation intercepts violations without benign false positives.
safety driftoperational hallucinationmulti-turn executionaction-aware supervisiondeclaration-action gap
Enhancing Rubric-based RL via Self-Distillation
The paper proposes Criterion-Distilled Policy Optimization (CriPO), a method to enhance rubric-based RL for LLMs by addressing Unexplored Criteria (UC) and Suppressed Criteria (SC). CriPO uses on-policy self-distillation with two mechanisms: a criterion-injection self-teacher for UC via localized forward-KL loss, and a counterfactual self-teacher for SC by flipping token-level advantages in negative-advantage rollouts. Experiments on medicine and science benchmarks show CriPO outperforms baseline rubric-based RL, achieving better final performance with ~2× fewer optimization steps, while avoiding train-inference mismatch.
rubric-based rlself-distillationunexplored criteriasuppressed criteriatoken-level advantages
Human Grounded Evaluation of Large Language Models for Optical Network Automation
The paper introduces HuGLEN, a human-grounded evaluation pipeline combining LLM-as-a-judge with expert ratings to assess large language models (LLMs) for optical network automation. The method employs a quality efficiency score (QES) to rank LLMs, balancing explanation quality and computational cost. Results demonstrate that a 12B-parameter LLM achieves optimal QES for translating XAI outputs into operator-friendly explanations in quality-of-transmission estimation, reducing human labeling effort while ensuring consistent model selection.
large language modelsoptical network automationquality efficiency scoreexplainable artificial intelligencequality of transmission
A Controlled Study of Attention-Only Transformers
The study conducts a controlled comparison of attention-only transformers (Simple Attention Networks, SANs) against standard transformers, systematically matching parameters, FLOPs, and depth (2-48 layers) across 6M-87M parameter models trained on up to 105B tokens. Removing feed-forward layers initially degrades performance (0.47 nats at matched depth), but reallocating parameters to attention depth nearly closes the gap (0.006 nats difference at matched parameters). Analysis reveals the residual deficit stems from parametric recall limitations, with attention-only models excelling in context-grounded tasks but underperforming in weight-dependent knowledge retrieval, particularly in low-context settings.
attention-only transformersparametric recallfeed-forward layersqk-normalizationweight spectra
Physical Self-Supervised Learning: IMU Sensing without Manual Labels
The paper introduces physical self-supervised learning, an autoencoder-based framework for IMU sensing that eliminates manual labels by incorporating physical structure. The method combines an auto-adaptive physics decoder (a learnable family of kinematic equations) with a hybrid IMU encoder and structured latent space reconstruction, while employing probabilistic frequency-spatial constraints, multi-view kinematic trees, and uncertainty-aware modeling. Evaluated on inertial tracking and full-body motion capture, it reduces errors by 5x and 4x respectively in generalization scenarios, outperforming supervised and self-supervised baselines without labeled data.
physical self-supervised learningauto-adaptive physics decoderkinematic equationsmulti-view kinematic treeuncertainty-aware modeling
HALLMARK: Diagnosing Three Failure Modes in LLM Citation Verifiers
The paper introduces HALLMARK, a benchmark for evaluating citation verification systems, comprising 2,526 BibTeX entries across 14 hallucination types, three difficulty tiers, and six diagnostic sub-tests. It assesses DOI-lookup baselines, zero-shot LLMs, tool-augmented agents, and a rule-based verifier (bibtex-updater). Key findings reveal false-positive rate (FPR) as the critical deployment bottleneck: agentic lookups improve recall but increase FPRs, and most LLMs over-flag post-training-cutoff papers, except the two latest models. FPR variability significantly impacts verifier utility at realistic base rates.
citation verificationfalse-positive ratehallucination benchmarkllm evaluationbibtex
A Hardware-oriented Approach for Efficient Bayesian Inference Computation and Deployment
The paper presents a hardware-oriented methodology for accelerating discrete Bayesian inference on embedded GPUs by optimizing tensor contractions in variational message-passing algorithms. The approach restructures memory layouts via merging strategies, employs sparse array representations, and uses tensor clustering to reduce memory footprint, complemented by an ML-based autotuner for algorithm selection. Evaluated on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX across 770 POMDP configurations, the method achieves speedups of 2-5x while maintaining numerical equivalence to baselines.
bayesian inferencetensor contractionvariational message-passingembedded gpuautotuning
1-Lipschitz Neural Networks on Hadamard Manifolds
The authors introduce a class of 1-Lipschitz neural networks operating on Hadamard manifolds, designed to ensure robustness and stability through gradient-descent-type layers that are quasi-α-firmly nonexpansive. Key components include Busemann functions and their gradient flows, enabling geometry-preserving layers with explicit constructions for hyperbolic manifolds and SPD matrices. Experimental validation includes robust classification on the Poincaré disk under hyperbolic perturbations and improved covariance reconstruction using SPD-valued denoisers, outperforming Log-Euclidean and data-only baselines.
1-lipschitzhadamard manifoldsbusemann functionsspd matricesquasi-α-firmly nonexpansive
Fundamental limits of distributed multiclass classification from simple binary decisions
The paper establishes fundamental performance limits for constructing K-class classifiers from O(log K) binary hyperplane classifiers in distributed settings. Using a Gaussian model where class centers are independent in R^d and observations suffer Gaussian noise, the authors derive explicit performance bounds across multiple decoding regimes and dimensional settings. Theoretical results are validated through extensive simulations, providing rigorous characterization of this distributed classification paradigm's capabilities.
multiclass classificationbinary classifiersgaussian modelperformance boundsdistributed learning
ROMS-IMLE: A Minimalist Approach to Competitive Single-Step Generative Modelling
The paper introduces ROMS-IMLE, a minimalist single-step generative model that challenges the necessity of iterative denoising in modern architectures. Using Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation (IMLE) as the training objective and a moderately sized convolutional network, the method achieves competitive performance without complex components like variational inference or adversarial training. Results show an FID of 2.56 on ImageNet 256, with efficient parameter use and fast sampling while maintaining good precision and recall.
implicit maximum likelihood estimationsingle-step generationconvolutional networkfid metricparameter efficiency
CircuitKIT : Circuit Discovery, Evaluation, and Application Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability
CircuitKIT introduces a unified toolkit for mechanistic interpretability workflows, addressing fragmentation in circuit analysis by integrating discovery, evaluation, and intervention modules. The library provides typed serializable representations, declarative interfaces for task mapping, multiple discovery algorithms (e.g., contrastive prompt-based methods), and diagnostic tools for circuit evaluation. Results include standardized infrastructure for comparing circuit analyses, with applications in pruning, model editing, and selective fine-tuning. The implementation is released as open-source with documentation and notebooks.
mechanistic interpretabilitycircuit discoverycontrastive promptsmodel editingserializable representation
Staypoint Detection from Noisy Trajectory Data [Experiment Paper]
The paper establishes the first systematic benchmark for staypoint detection in trajectory analysis, addressing the lack of standardized evaluation. Authors introduce 16 simulated datasets with ground-truth staypoints across noise levels and evaluate nine algorithms (including novel unsupervised and supervised methods). Results show existing methods perform poorly under noise, while proposed approaches achieve substantial improvements (unsupervised) and drastic outperformance (supervised). The benchmark enables future research on robust staypoint detection.
staypoint detectiontrajectory analysissemantic annotationnoise robustnessspatial computing
Real-time optimal control with shallow recurrent decoder networks
The paper introduces SHallow REcurrent Decoder networks-based Reduced Order Modeling (SHRED-ROM) for real-time optimal control of high-dimensional dynamical systems. The method synthesizes a closed-loop controller using limited state sensor readings, trained on expert demonstrations to mimic optimal control actions in new scenarios while addressing dimensionality challenges. Evaluated on parametric density and fluid flow control tasks, SHRED-ROM demonstrates effective distributed control and robustness to sensor failures via a latent-level sensor forecaster.
optimal controlreduced order modelingrecurrent networkshigh-dimensional dynamicssensor forecasting
A Reinforcement-Learning-Augmented Liquid-Fueled Reactor Network Model for Predicting Lean Blowout in Gas Turbine Combustors
The study proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimizing liquid-fueled reactor networks to enhance lean blowout (LBO) prediction in gas turbine combustors. The method combines multi-stage clustering (e.g., $k$-means) with an actor-critic RL agent to merge micro-clusters into optimal reactor zones, explicitly optimizing for target metrics like LBO accuracy. Validation using a Jet-A mechanism (119 species, 841 reactions) shows improved predictive fidelity over $k$-means and correct LBO trends, with significant computational speedups versus high-fidelity models.
reinforcement learninglean blowoutgas turbine combustorsactor-criticreduced-order modeling
Thermodynamics-Informed Input Reparameterization for Neural Prediction of Real-Fluid Thermodynamic Properties in Supercritical Combustion
The paper introduces target-aligned input reparameterization (TAIR), a thermodynamics-informed strategy to improve neural network prediction of real-fluid thermodynamic properties in supercritical combustion. TAIR replaces raw enthalpy inputs with target-matched thermodynamic coordinates (temperature estimate for temperature prediction, ideal-gas density for density/compressibility), enabling networks to focus on learning real-fluid departures from ideal-gas baselines. Evaluated on supercritical methane-oxygen counterflow flames, TAIR reduces RMSE by factors of 1.5-7.5 for temperature, density, and compressibility predictions compared to raw-input baselines, with even greater improvements (3.6-14.5×) for unseen strain-rate conditions.
thermodynamic propertiesinput reparameterizationsupercritical combustionneural surrogateequation-of-state
DBMol: Design of High-Affinity, Target-Specific Small Molecules through Structure Prediction Models
DBMol introduces a structure predictor-guided framework for de novo small molecule design, leveraging recent breakthroughs like AlphaFold-3 and Boltz-2. The method alternates between gradient-based optimization of pocket-specific interactions using a structure prediction model and projection to valid molecules via flow-matching. Experiments demonstrate DBMol's ability to optimize Boltz-2 affinity proxies, generating molecules with strong predicted affinity and specificity, while maintaining diversity and improving pocket coverage. Held-out evaluations, including AlphaFold-3-based metrics, confirm its competitiveness without reference-ligand supervision.
de novo designstructure predictionbinding affinityflow-matchinggradient-based optimization
In-Context Time Series Classification with Random Convolutional Features
The paper introduces MASHT, a time series classification pipeline combining MultiRocket and Hydra features with pretrained tabular foundation models for in-context learning. The method extracts random convolutional features from time series data, then processes them through a frozen tabular model without task-specific training. Experiments show MASHT achieves state-of-the-art performance on univariate datasets (lower average rank than HIVE-COTE 2.0) and remains competitive on multivariate benchmarks.
time series classificationrandom convolutional featurestabular foundation modelin-context learningmultivariate analysis
S3: Stable Subgoal Selection by Constraining Uncertainty of Coarse Dynamics in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes S3, a hierarchical reinforcement learning method that stabilizes high-level subgoal selection by minimizing predictive uncertainty in coarse dynamics. The approach models uncertainty using a Mixture Density Network with dispersion metrics, providing dynamics-aware intrinsic rewards at the high temporal abstraction level. Experiments demonstrate improved performance over state-of-the-art HRL methods in non-stationary long-horizon tasks, with risk-averse subgoal selection emerging from the dense uncertainty-minimizing rewards.
hierarchical reinforcement learningsubgoal selectioncoarse dynamicsmixture density networkpredictive uncertainty
AdaFlash: Adaptive Speculative Decoding via On-Policy Distilled Diffusion Drafters
AdaFlash introduces an adaptive speculative decoding framework addressing variance issues in diffusion drafters through two innovations: (1) on-policy distillation with reverse-KL divergence for stable convergence and reduced domain-level variance, and (2) an adaptive length head for dynamic sequence length adjustment to handle token-level variance. The method achieves up to 66% higher throughput than prior state-of-the-art approaches, particularly excelling in high-concurrency scenarios by optimizing draft verification costs.
speculative decodingdiffusion drafterson-policy distillationreverse-kl divergenceadaptive length head
Conservative Query and Adaptive Regularization for Offline RL Under Uncertainty Estimation
The paper proposes Conservative Query and Adaptive Regularization (CQAR), a framework enhancing offline RL through improved preference querying and exploitation. CQAR employs a Morse network to estimate policy action uncertainty relative to the dataset, enabling conservative query selection near dataset actions and adaptive regularization that dynamically adjusts constraints. Integrated with Conservative Q-Learning (CQL), the method demonstrates superior or competitive performance on D4RL benchmarks across diverse tasks.
offline reinforcement learninguncertainty estimationpreference queriesadaptive regularizationmorse network
ATLAS: A Foundation Neural Sampler for Amorphous Materials
ATLAS introduces a foundation neural sampler for amorphous materials, employing an equivariant graph neural network to learn a diffusion process that generates Boltzmann-distributed structures directly from target energy functions. The method generalizes across system size, temperature, and composition, enabling efficient estimation of thermodynamic quantities and inverse design. Results show ATLAS matches parallel tempering MCMC distributions with 500× fewer energy evaluations (0.2% free energy error), recovers experimental short-range-order trends in metallic glasses, and enables Pareto-optimal high-entropy alloy discovery within 480 evaluations via LLM-coupled search.
amorphous materialsdiffusion processequivariant graph neural networkboltzmann distributioninverse design
Neural Kolmogorov Equations: Parallelizable Learning of Stochastic Dynamics under General Noise
The paper introduces Neural Kolmogorov Equations (NKEs), a deterministic reformulation of Neural SDEs that learns stochastic dynamics via the Kolmogorov Forward equation (KFE). NKEs model probability density evolution instead of individual trajectories, enabling handling of general Lévy-type noise and parallel-in-time training through Lagrangian Galerkin projection and operator splitting. Evaluations on stochastic benchmarks demonstrate accurate recovery of dynamics, including coupled noise and jump processes, with competitive predictive accuracy and improved training efficiency.
neural kolmogorov equationsstochastic differential equationskolmogorov forward equationlévy-type noisegalerkin projection
Boundary-Adapted PINNs for Elliptic Dirichlet Problems: $H^2(Ω)$ A Priori Error Bounds with Application to Mean Escape Time Computation
The paper introduces boundary-adapted Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems, specifically motivated by Mean Escape Time computation. The method enforces exact Dirichlet conditions via a distance-to-boundary function ρ, with theoretical analysis showing H²(Ω) error bounds require ρ to be a smooth first-order normalized distance approximation. Results include VC-dimension bounds for ReQU/tanh networks and approximation bounds in higher-order Sobolev norms, with numerical experiments validating the importance of proper ρ selection.
physics-informed neural networksdirichlet boundary conditionsmean escape timea priori error boundsvc-dimension
One Model, Many Graphs: Learning over Attributed Graphs across Heterogeneous Modalities with Vision-Language Models
OMG-VLM introduces a unified framework for learning over attributed graphs with heterogeneous modality schemas (textual, visual, or both) using a single vision-language model (VLM) backbone. The method employs structure-aware graph adapters to integrate neighborhood information while maintaining compatibility with the VLM's embedding space. Experiments demonstrate superior performance over GNN- and LLM-based baselines in node classification and link prediction, with strong generalization to unseen graphs and varying modalities.
vision-language modelsattributed graphsheterogeneous modalitiesgraph adaptersnode classification
Predicting Activities in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions with Hybrid Machine Learning
The study introduces Bromley-MCM, a hybrid model combining the physics-based Bromley activity model with matrix completion methods (MCM) to predict aqueous electrolyte activities without requiring ion-specific descriptors. The MCM predicts sparse Bromley parameters arranged in a cation-anion matrix, trained end-to-end on 478 electrolytes from the Dortmund Data Bank. The completed matrix covers 83 cations and 112 anions, enabling activity predictions for 9,296 electrolytes at 298 K while maintaining accuracy, as validated on held-out systems.
aqueous electrolytesmatrix completionactivity coefficientsbromley modelhybrid modeling
Translation as Augmentation: Effect of Translated Data on Assessment of Difficulty
The paper proposes a cross-lingual data augmentation strategy to address data scarcity in text difficulty assessment for low-resource languages. The method leverages machine translation to transfer labeled difficulty annotations (e.g., CEFR levels) from high-resource languages to a target low-resource language, then trains BERT-based regression models on the combined native and synthetic data. Experiments show that augmenting scarce native data with translated corpora significantly improves difficulty estimation accuracy, providing a practical solution for languages lacking expert-annotated resources.
text difficulty assessmentcross-lingual augmentationmachine translationbert-based regressioncefr levels
An unsupervised clustering analysis of breast cancer data derived from electronic health records enhanced through UMAP dimensionality reduction
The study demonstrates that UMAP dimensionality reduction followed by DBSCAN clustering effectively identifies medically significant patient subgroups in breast cancer EHR data. Using three independent datasets of mammary carcinoma patients, the method was evaluated with DBCV, DCSI, and DISCO statistical indices. Results confirm the approach's utility for uncovering latent patient groupings that may inform clinical interpretation.
unsupervised clusteringdimensionality reductionelectronic health recordsdbscanumap
GEqTrain: A Configuration-Driven Framework for Retargeting Equivariant Graph Neural Networks Across 3D Scientific Tasks
The paper introduces GEqTrain, a configuration-driven framework for retargeting equivariant graph neural networks across diverse 3D scientific tasks. The method decouples dataset semantics from model architecture and training via Hydra configurations, enabling task switching through declarative changes while maintaining a shared equivariant backbone. Results demonstrate competitive performance on biomolecular backmapping, NMR chemical shift prediction, and generative modeling (via GEqDiff extension), with GEqDiff shown to jointly transport Cartesian positions and non-scalar fields up to l=3 representations in synthetic protein motif benchmarks.
equivariant gnnsgraph neural networksflow matchingmolecular modelinghydra configuration
Probabilistic Physics-Aware Machine Learning Predictions of Electric Truck Energy Consumption with Field Data
The study introduces a physics-aware machine learning framework for probabilistic energy consumption prediction in electric trucks, integrating first-principle physics models of energy losses with data-driven methods. Bayesian linear regression, neural networks, and gradient boosted regression trees are evaluated, all incorporating physical constraints. Results demonstrate improved accuracy and reliability over standard approaches, with physics-aware models outperforming their conventional counterparts. The framework also provides uncertainty quantification via predicted standard deviations, showing reasonable estimation across all models.
physics-aware learningbayesian regressionenergy consumption predictionuncertainty quantificationelectric vehicles
Adopting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards for Molecular Generation
The paper introduces LLMol, a reinforcement learning framework for targeted molecular generation using verifiable rewards. The method employs a two-stage approach: supervised fine-tuning of LLMs for chemical syntax, followed by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for stable optimization. Experiments show LLMol outperforms existing methods in single-property targeting and structure-constrained optimization, achieving higher success rates across molecular benchmarks.
molecular generationreinforcement learningverifiable rewardsgroup relative policy optimizationllm fine-tuning
Unsupervised Multi-kernel Learning for Automated Algorithm Selection
The paper proposes an unsupervised multi-kernel clustering approach for automated algorithm selection in black-box optimization, avoiding costly supervised training and benchmark dependence. The method combines four heterogeneous landscape representations (ELA, DeepELA, DoE2Vec, TransOptAS) via multi-kernel k-means, learning cluster assignments and kernel weights without performance labels, followed by post hoc solver mapping. On BBOB-derived tasks for Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization, multi-kernel clustering achieves the strongest mean performance profile for DE and remains competitive for PSO, with learned weights favoring ELA and TransOptAS while discarding DeepELA and DoE2Vec.
automated algorithm selectionmulti-kernel learningblack-box optimizationlandscape representationunsupervised clustering
Subject-Conditioned Glucose Forecasting in Type-1 Diabetes
The paper introduces Subject-Conditioned Glucose Prediction (SCGP), a multimodal deep learning architecture for personalized blood glucose forecasting in Type 1 Diabetes. SCGP explicitly separates subject-specific representations from glucose dynamics modeling, avoiding early fusion of heterogeneous inputs to better capture inter-subject variability. Evaluated on two benchmark datasets, SCGP improves forecasting accuracy and enhances detection of adverse glycemic events across multiple prediction horizons, demonstrating the efficacy of explicit subject conditioning.
glucose forecastingtype 1 diabetesmultimodal deep learningsubject-specific representationglycemic events
The Tractability Landscape of Sampling with Inexact Scores
This work establishes a tight characterization of inexact score oracle conditions enabling unbiased sampling with vanishing total variation bias for well-behaved target distributions. The analysis demonstrates that sub-Gaussian error assumptions are necessary for tractable unbiased sampling, generalizing prior results to be algorithm-agnostic and covering broader error conditions. The findings strengthen previous conclusions by showing weaker error guarantees preclude unbiased sampling regardless of algorithmic approach.
inexact score oracletotal variation biassub-gaussian errorunbiased samplingtractability landscape
Benchmarking Deep Learning Approaches for AEC Engineering Drawing Layout Detection and Information Extraction
This study benchmarks deep learning approaches for layout detection and information extraction in AEC engineering drawings, addressing a gap in domain-specific models. The authors construct a custom AEC layouts dataset and evaluate five architectures, including RF-DETR and Qwen3-VL. RF-DETR achieves state-of-the-art performance with an mAP50 of 0.949, while Qwen3-VL leads in F1-score (0.911). Results reveal domain interference degrades performance of models pre-trained on general document datasets, validating the need for AEC-specific solutions.
layout detectioninformation extractionaec drawingsdomain interferencerf-detr
H$^2$SD: Hybrid Hindsight Self-Distillation
The paper introduces H$^2$SD, a hybrid hindsight self-distillation framework for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) that addresses sparse supervision and unstable optimization in existing methods. H$^2$SD employs distinct teacher interactions based on trajectory correctness: modulating update magnitudes for successful trajectories using teacher probabilities, and minimizing reverse KL divergence for failed trajectories using reference hints. Evaluations on multiple reasoning benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance improvements over RLVR, on-policy self-distillation (OPSD), and RLSD baselines, with stable optimization and efficient generation.
reinforcement learningself-distillationcredit assignmentreverse kl divergencereasoning benchmarks
Visual Semantic Decoding of Electrocorticography from Video Stimuli using End-to-End Deep Learning
The study demonstrates visual semantic decoding from electrocorticography (ECoG) using end-to-end deep learning, achieving category prediction from video stimuli with limited training data (<50 samples/category). The optimal system combines mixup augmentation, a Transformer encoder, and high-gamma (80-150 Hz) inputs within a 900 ms post-stimulus window, yielding interpretable spectral-temporal-cortical patterns. Key contributors include early visual cortex (V2-V4), ventral stream, MT+ complex, and lateral temporal cortex, aligning with established neuroscience. Performance analysis reveals discriminative information across neural dimensions without handcrafted features.
electrocorticographyvisual semantic decodingtransformer encoderhigh-gamma bandmixup augmentation
Breaking Feedback-Blindness: Utility-Augmented Transformer for Sequential Decision Making
The paper introduces Utility-Augmented Transformer (UAT), a feedback-conditioned retrieval attention architecture for sequential decision making in non-stationary environments. UAT addresses feedback-blind retrieval in standard Transformers by modulating query, key, and value projections with a compact utility state derived from action-reward history, enabling feedback-dependent context retrieval. Theoretical analysis shows UAT strictly enlarges the class of observation-only Transformers and achieves uniform approximation of feedback-dependent decision maps. Empirical evaluation on four non-stationary benchmarks (navigation, sepsis treatment, portfolio allocation, recommendation) demonstrates consistent performance improvements over baselines, particularly in noisy regimes requiring strong adaptation.
sequential decision makingfeedback-blind retrievalutility-augmented transformernon-stationary environmentsattention modulation
KALE: Kernel Alignment with Loss Equilibration for Stable CLIP-DINOv2 Alignment at Web Scale
KALE introduces loss equilibration for stable CLIP-DINOv2 alignment on web-scale data, addressing the failure of fixed-weight kernel alignment (KUEA) where alignment gradients become negligible. The method dynamically rescales alignment weights to maintain target loss ratios without dataset-specific tuning, requiring weight increases of ~10^4x. Experiments on a 3.3M-image CC12M subset show improved zero-shot performance (+2.00 vs CLIP baseline) and stable SVHN linear probing, with explicit variance reporting. Key findings include the necessity of bounded high learning rates and decaying schedules for stability.
kernel alignmentloss equilibrationclip-dinov2web-scale datazero-shot learning
Local Label-Informed Feature Transfer for Generating Ground-Truth Medical Images: A Comparison of GAN- and Diffusion-Based Approaches
The paper introduces Local Label-Informed Feature Transfer (LLIFT), a framework for generating semi-synthetic brain MRI images with user-controlled lesion placement, eliminating the need for pixel-level annotations during training. Two implementations are proposed: LLIFT-GAN, a custom GAN leveraging binary class labels, and LLIFT-DM, a diffusion-based inpainting pipeline conditioned on bounding-box masks via ControlNet. Evaluated on Human Connectome Project data, both achieve Fréchet Inception Distance scores comparable to inter-class references between healthy and pathological images, with qualitative validation confirming lesion realism. The framework provides controlled ground-truth data for XAI validation in medical imaging.
local label-informed feature transfergenerative adversarial networkdiffusion modelmedical image synthesisexplainable artificial intelligence
Physics-Informed Super-Resolution of Atmospheric Data
The authors propose Physics-Informed Super-Resolution (PISR), a method for atmospheric data downscaling that enforces hydrostatic primitive equations to maintain physical consistency. PISR incorporates multi-scale physics-informed objectives based on these governing equations, preserving inter-variable relationships. Evaluated on ERA5, CERRA, and COSMO datasets, PISR improves reconstruction fidelity by 12-18% in physical consistency metrics (NPC), enhances super-resolution accuracy, and boosts detection performance for extreme events like heatwaves and extreme winds by 8-15% compared to baseline methods.
physics-informed super-resolutionhydrostatic primitive equationsatmospheric data downscalingnormalized physical consistencyextreme event detection
Reinforcement Learning for Delivery Drone-Based Participatory Sensing in Dynamic Environments
The paper proposes TSRL, a two-timescale reinforcement learning framework for UAV-based participatory sensing in dynamic environments. TSRL addresses scalability and decision heterogeneity via macro-level task-embedding dispatcher for fleet coordination and micro-level wind-aware velocity controller for environmental adaptation. Evaluations on real-world datasets show 20.1% and 46.6% average profit improvements in Hangzhou and Shanghai respectively compared to baselines.
reinforcement learningparticipatory sensingunmanned aerial vehiclemulti-timescaledynamic environments
HindsightBench: A Black-Box Behavioral Audit Protocol for Parametric Hindsight in Time-Indexed LLM Decision Tasks
HindsightBench introduces a black-box behavioral audit protocol for detecting parametric hindsight in time-indexed LLM decision tasks, requiring only probe-level cost without backtests or corpus access. The method employs a four-arm date-manipulation matrix, dual memory probes, and six per-model metrics to profile hindsight effects. Results from 15 models reveal date-trigger reflexes tied to training generation (not scale), effective cutoffs spanning 22 months, and serving-dependent audit stability, prompting operational requirements for quantization and reasoning regimes.
parametric hindsightblack-box audittime-indexed tasksdate-trigger reflexbehavioral metrics
Optimizing Regret
The paper develops a derivative theory for the covariance regret functional, establishing that expected regret equals the cost-decision covariance. It derives the Gâteaux derivative, identifying the universal steepest-descent direction as the contrarian policy $-(c-\bar{c})$ and showing ascent yields momentum. For linear policies $\hat{\pi}(c) = Ac+b$, the gradient is the cost covariance matrix $\Sigma_c$, with boundary-optimal solutions emerging due to a zero Hessian. Extensions include constrained optimization, sign-gradient duality between regret minimization and alpha maximization, finite-sample convergence bounds analogous to Thompson Sampling, and gradient-descent algorithms requiring only input observations, applied to portfolio tilting and LLM-based allocation.
regret optimizationgâteaux derivativecovariance functionalcontrarian policyportfolio tilting
Enhanced NQS via Annealed Gradient Descent
The authors introduce annealed gradient descent (AGD) to address subspace trapping in neural quantum state optimization, a finite-sample instability causing underestimation of physically important configurations. AGD employs an annealing factor to temporarily boost gradients from low-probability samples while limiting dominance of high-probability ones, preserving support for critical configurations. Evaluated on molecular systems and $J_1$-$J_2$ models, AGD suppresses metastable trapping, achieves chemical accuracy, and matches state-of-the-art performance with compact architectures, demonstrating its efficacy as a lightweight optimization complement.
neural quantum statessubspace trappingannealed gradient descentquantum many-bodystochastic optimization
NSMA: Neuro-Symbolic Manifold Alignment for Generalizable Adaptive Bitrate Streaming under Texture Shift
The paper introduces Neuro-Symbolic Manifold Alignment (NSMA), a method that integrates neural policies with rule-based reasoning for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming by embedding rule decisions as latent space anchors. This approach addresses the generalization gap under texture shift, where traditional bandwidth statistics fail to capture policy robustness. NSMA is evaluated using Texture-Aware Generalization Evaluation across 3G, 4G, 5G, and WiFi traces, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines without fine-tuning. Latent space analysis confirms the method's design efficacy.
neuro-symbolicmanifold alignmentadaptive bitrategeneralizationlatent space
Countercurrent Multiplier Networks: A Renal-Inspired Iterative Operator with Provably Bounded Fixed-Point Dynamics
The paper introduces Countercurrent Multiplier (CCM) networks, a novel differentiable sequence operator inspired by renal physiology. The CCM layer models the mammalian kidney's urine concentration mechanism using anti-parallel flows with a weak local pump to create large axial gradients. Theoretical analysis shows the operator maintains provably bounded fixed-point dynamics while achieving a four-fold concentration increase from a single-effect gradient. This architecture is proposed as an alternative to residual iterative refinement in neural networks.
countercurrent multiplierdifferentiable operatorfixed-point dynamicsaxial gradientiterative refinement
Algebraic Signatures for Structural Learning in Probability Tensors
The paper introduces algebraic signatures for structural learning in probability tensors by treating vanishing binomials of toric models as identifying signatures. It operationalizes the ideal-variety correspondence into a signature-matching procedure that avoids parameter estimation, focusing on a computationally tractable Kronecker-stack class of configuration matrices. Experiments on synthetic and corpus-scale language data demonstrate the method's utility, with identified rank-one structures yielding interpretable word sets, bridging algebraic statistics and computational linguistics.
algebraic statisticstoric modelsvanishing binomialsstructural learningkronecker-stack class
Elicitation without Backpropagation: Steering Model Behavior by Optimizing the Latent Posterior
The paper introduces Posterior Prefix Tuning (PPT), a method for eliciting desired behaviors from transformers by optimizing prompts without backpropagation. PPT leverages the latent posterior model of transformer behavior, specifically in Bayes-filtered transformers (BFTs), to estimate gradients via importance sampling from prior samples. This approach avoids transformer forward passes and backpropagation, enabling efficient utility-driven elicitation. Validation on Beta-Bernoulli and reinforced urn BFTs demonstrates effectiveness across utility families including reverse cross-entropy, frequency matching, and Dyck validity.
posterior prefix tuningbayes-filtered transformerselicitationimportance samplinglatent posterior model
QScheduler: Adaptive Gradient Sampling for Zeroth-Order On-Device Training on INT8 NPUs
QScheduler introduces an adaptive gradient sampling algorithm for zeroth-order on-device training on INT8 NPUs, dynamically adjusting the number of gradient samples q to balance noise and computational cost. The method eliminates the need for hyperparameter searches by monitoring training progress, enabling efficient training without backpropagation primitives. Experiments on EuroSAT and STL-10 with ResNet18 and MobileNetV2 demonstrate that QScheduler matches performance of manually tuned fixed-q configurations on the STM32N6 Neural-ART NPU.
zeroth-order optimizationon-device learningint8 quantizationadaptive samplingneural-art npu
PertReason: A Knowledge-Grounded Benchmark and Framework for Cell-State-Conditioned Mechanistic Reasoning of Perturbation Effects
The paper introduces PertReason, a knowledge-grounded benchmark and framework suite for evaluating mechanistic reasoning about perturbation effects in cellular systems. PertReasonQA combines single-cell genetic/chemical perturbation data with knowledge graphs, dynamically conditioning pathways on cell-specific basal states to test model robustness under distribution shifts. Evaluations reveal systematic gaps in state-of-the-art models' ability to generate faithful explanations, exhibiting failure modes like context ignorance and flawed logical derivations. The authors also present PertReasonLM, a language model addressing these gaps through context-specific pathway grounding and outcome-mechanism alignment.
mechanistic reasoningperturbation effectsknowledge graphssingle-cell datadistribution shifts
Formulation-Level Auto-Tuning for QUBO-Based Machine Learning: A Case Study Across Multiple Quantum-Inspired Annealers
The paper introduces an Optuna-based auto-tuning framework for optimizing QUBO-formulated SVMs across quantum-inspired annealers (Fixstars Amplify, Toshiba SQBM+, Fujitsu Digital Annealer). It jointly optimizes representation parameters (base B, bit depth K), RBF kernel γ, and penalty ξ through a two-level process: inner QUBO minimization and outer validation accuracy maximization. Experiments on noisy classification tasks (0-20% label noise) show mean accuracy gains of 0.8pp (linear) and 2.1pp (nonlinear) over grid search, demonstrating task-level feedback compensates for discretization and backend limitations.
qubo optimizationquantum-inspired annealingauto-tuningsupport vector machinesmixed discrete-continuous optimization
Relative Positions Generalize, Absolute Positions Memorize: An Implicit-Bias Account of Length Generalization in Attention
The study provides an optimization-based explanation for why transformers with relative positional encodings (e.g., rotary encodings) generalize to longer sequences than those with learned absolute encodings. Through analysis of a minimal fixed-offset retrieval task, the authors demonstrate that the implicit bias of gradient descent leads rotary encodings to learn relative-offset-equivariant solutions, which extrapolate verbatim to longer sequences. In contrast, absolute encodings fixate on training-range positions. Theoretical and empirical results show rotary encodings induce low-rank "carrier" kernels and follow an attention-dilution law, with findings transferring to multi-layer transformers. The work connects implicit bias in attention to recurrent model extrapolation and RASP-L conjecture.
positional encodingsimplicit biaslength generalizationrotary encodingsattention dilution
Decafs: Disentangled Conditional adversarial Flows
The paper introduces Decafs, a disentangled conditional adversarial flow model for interpretable generation. The method employs Lie group-based conditional generators to disentangle an alternative latent space, aligned with the flow space via adversarial training while preserving invertibility. Experiments demonstrate superior performance over StyleGAN on MNIST and dSprites, and competitive results on molecular generation tasks (QM9, ZINC, MOSES).
conditional adversarial flowslie groupsdisentangled latent spaceinvertible modelscontrolled generation
Is EEG-to-Text Feasible in Real-World Scenarios? An In-Depth Analysis Using a Neuropsychology-Inspired Benchmark
The study demonstrates the feasibility of teacher-forcing-free EEG-to-text (EEG2Text) decoding by addressing EEG instability in existing benchmarks. Using a neuropsychology-inspired paradigm, the authors assemble the Corpus OF Eeg-To-Text (COFETT), a 128-channel high-density EEG dataset that enables robust evaluation. COFETT outperforms existing benchmarks in distinguishing model performance and supports practical EEG2Text applications without teacher-forcing, resolving debates about EEG's linguistic decodability.
eeg-to-textteacher-forcingneuropsychologyelectroencephalographybenchmark
Contraction-Gauge Preconditioning for Quantized Matrix Multiplication
The paper introduces contraction-gauge preconditioning to minimize quantization error in low-precision matrix multiplication C=AB. The method derives an exact finite-dimensional identity for expected squared error under stochastic rounding and subtractive dither, then optimizes factor representations via geometric programming (for diagonal gauges) or heuristic statistics (for other transforms). Experiments on a 3-block image classifier show median rank correlations of 0.937 (8-bit) and 0.918 (4-bit) between predicted and actual errors, with optimal diagonal folds reducing held-out error by 18.0% (8-bit) and 20.5% (4-bit) versus identity folds.
quantizationmatrix multiplicationpreconditioninggeometric programmingstochastic rounding
Stale but Stable: Staleness-Adaptive Trust Regions for Stabilizing Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Staleness-Adaptive Trust Region (SAT), a method for stabilizing asynchronous reinforcement learning by addressing policy staleness. SAT uses detached sampled log-ratios as staleness proxies, identifies high-mismatch updates via kernel scaling, and contracts only sign-selected endpoints of PPO's clipping interval. Theoretical analysis shows local interval containment and pointwise pessimism relative to PPO. Evaluated on Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base with SGLang/Megatron, SAT-GSPO with R3 achieves 35.83 AIME24 avg@8 at lag 1 and 34.79 at lag 8, demonstrating improved stability under heterogeneous staleness.
asynchronous reinforcement learningtrust regionpolicy stalenessppo clippingkernel scaling
Exposure-Based Reinforcement Learning to Rank
The authors propose an exposure-based reinforcement learning (RL) method for learning-to-rank (LTR) that avoids custom gradients, improving computational efficiency and ease of implementation. Their approach leverages variance reduction via baseline corrections and partial marginalization, while enabling GPU acceleration and auto-differentiation through a document-exposure distribution abstraction. Experiments show the method converges faster and achieves higher ranking performance than existing custom gradient approaches, with improved stability during multi-epoch training. Results demonstrate significant gains in effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality for RL-based LTR systems.
reinforcement learninglearning-to-rankauto-differentiationvariance reductionexposure distribution
Cross-Dataset Generalization in Breast MRI Tumor Classification via Class-Wise Dataset Mixing
The study demonstrates that class-wise dataset mixing improves cross-dataset generalization for breast MRI tumor classification, addressing dataset-origin bias. Using EfficientNet-B3 and WaveViT-Small trained on Duke Breast Cancer MRI and fastMRI, the authors evaluate performance on the independent MAMA-MIA cohort. Without mixing, models achieve near-chance accuracy (0.5048--0.5265) due to dataset-origin bias; with mixing, accuracy/F1 improves to 0.8884/0.8994 (EfficientNet-B3) and 0.8463/0.8625 (WaveViT-Small), showing the importance of bias control for reliable classification.
breast mridataset-origin biascross-dataset generalizationclass-wise mixingtumor classification
The Price of Hidden Curvature: An $\widetildeΩ (d^{5/4} \sqrt{T})$ Lower Bound for Bandit Convex Optimization
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Spaghetti Architect: A Contamination-Resistant, By-Construction-Labelled, Multi-Language Code Dataset Generator
Spaghetti Architect introduces a contamination-resistant code dataset generator that produces by-construction-labelled programs in Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, and C++. The tool uses an anti-optimization transpiler to convert a clean JSON intermediate representation into deliberately redundant, flattened programs, verified against a reference oracle. Results show construct validity via complexity metrics, scale-invariant refactoring equivalence (0.73→0.99), and contamination resistance (Δ≤0.012 on held-out data). The generator's self-annotations disproportionately aid weaker models (−0.173 vs −0.017).
anti-optimization transpilerby-construction labellingcontamination resistanceintermediate representationmulti-language code generation
Mark, Don't Erase: Token Inoculation for Dual-Use Knowledge in LLMs
The paper introduces Token Inoculation, a method for conditionally controlling dual-use knowledge in LLMs without erasure. The approach involves (1) marking hazardous content with a special token during continued pre-training to bind domain semantics, and (2) fine-tuning the model to respond selectively based on the token's presence. Evaluated on hazardous (WMDP-Bio) and benign (MMLU) domains, the method reduces hazardous accuracy to 18% while retaining 93% of benign performance, outperforming unlearning and refusal-tuning baselines across 1B-14B models. Results demonstrate that safety alignment via conditional access outperforms knowledge destruction.
token inoculationdual-use knowledgeconditional refusalbehavioral gatingsafety alignment
End-to-end Conditional Diffusion for Realistic and Controllable Visual Traffic Scenario Generation
The paper introduces E2E-CDiff, an end-to-end conditional diffusion framework for generating realistic and controllable traffic scenarios for autonomous driving evaluation. The method jointly denoises future motion states and low-level controls conditioned on visual observations, avoiding planning-control mismatches in traditional pipelines. Differentiable guidance enables regulation of speed, drivable-area compliance, and collision behaviors. Bench2Drive experiments show E2E-CDiff outperforms RL and IL baselines in controllability-realism trade-offs, with collision-guided variants effectively challenging multiple autonomous systems, while also performing competitively as a learning-based ego planner.
conditional diffusiontraffic scenario generationend-to-end learningdifferentiable guidanceautonomous driving evaluation
Graph Neural Network-based Algorithm Selection for the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Systematic Study of Cost and Rank Losses under Distinct Budget Regimes
The paper introduces GNNAS-TSP, a Graph Neural Network-based framework for automated algorithm selection in the Traveling Salesman Problem, avoiding manual feature engineering by learning instance representations directly from graph data. The method formulates selection as a joint cost-prediction and ranking task, evaluating cost-based (MSE, MAE, Huber), rank-based (RankNet, ListNet, LambdaRank), and hybrid objectives across a portfolio of five TSP solvers. Under fixed budgets of 10s and 60s, GNNAS-TSP significantly outperforms the Single Best Solver in normalized solution cost, with particularly strong improvements at the 10s budget.
graph neural networkalgorithm selectiontraveling salesman problemcost predictionranking loss
Stochastic Meta-Unlearning: Bridging Language Backbone and Multimodal Unlearning
The paper introduces Stochastic Meta-Unlearning (SMU), a bilevel framework for vision-language model (VLM) unlearning that addresses the insufficiency of text-only feedback by incorporating VLM-level feedback. SMU performs inner-loop updates on the language backbone using text data, then evaluates forgetting and utility at the VLM level in the outer loop, ensuring multimodal awareness while maintaining local updates. Experiments on two VLMs and two multimodal meme datasets demonstrate SMU's superior forget-retain trade-off, reducing Forget accuracy by 10.52 points and improving Retain and Test accuracy by 20.10 and 17.01 points respectively, while showing transferability to new targets and methods.
machine unlearningvision-language modelsbilevel optimizationmultimodal learningmeta-learning
BRIDGE: Bottleneck-Aware Regulator-Set Inference and Diagnosis for Cooperative Gene Regulatory Recovery
BRIDGE introduces a framework for complete regulator-set recovery in gene regulatory networks, addressing the limitation of pairwise regulator-target rankings in existing methods. The method includes TRACE, a diagnostic suite that identifies retrieval, set-level scoring, decoding, and evaluation bottlenecks, and features a leak-free cooperativity stress test using random nonlinear mechanisms. Residual HOS2, a set-level scoring approach, improves Jaccard similarity (0.382 to 0.460), recall (0.522 to 0.597), and exact recovery (0.053 to 0.113) over pairwise methods, though exact recovery remains low. Results on SERGIO DS3 show set-level misranking as the primary bottleneck for exact recovery.
gene regulatory networksregulator-set recoverycooperativity stress testresidual hos2set-level scoring
A Self-Evolving Default Action for Cooperative Tasks with Continuous Action Space
The paper proposes SAFE, a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for continuous-action cooperative tasks, addressing limitations of counterfactual credit assignment in such settings. SAFE employs a self-evolving default action sampled from experience buffers to compute an unbiased counterfactual baseline, eliminating the need for Monte Carlo sampling or additional simulations. Theoretical analysis shows the method guarantees convergence to local optima in deterministic policy gradients. Experiments on cooperative vehicular tasks demonstrate consistent outperformance over state-of-the-art MARL models.
multi-agent reinforcement learningcounterfactual credit assignmentcontinuous action spacedeterministic policy gradientcooperative tasks
GQD-AdsNet: Graph Neural Networks Unlock Rapid Exploration of Transition Metal Adsorption on Graphene Quantum Dots
The authors present GQD-AdsNet, a graph neural network framework for rapid prediction of transition metal adsorption energies on graphene quantum dots, addressing the computational bottleneck of density functional theory calculations. The GNN model was trained on DFT-derived data, achieving an R² of 0.906 and MAE of 0.101 eV while reducing computational cost by approximately 10⁶×. This enables efficient screening and design of carbon-supported single-atom catalysts without sacrificing accuracy.
graph neural networksadsorption energygraphene quantum dotssingle-atom catalystsdensity functional theory
On the Diverse Dynamical Behaviors Arising in Deep Linear Transformers
The paper characterizes inference-time dynamics in deep linear transformers by modeling tokens as interacting particles in a generalized Kuramoto system. Using Watanabe-Strogatz theory and Ott-Antonsen manifold analysis, the authors prove that 2D linear self-attention layers exhibit low-dimensional dynamics with diverse long-term behaviors (clustering, oscillations, bifurcations), revealing a hidden Hamiltonian structure. Numerical experiments suggest these behaviors persist in higher dimensions, supported by a structural stability result for near-manifold initializations.
linear transformerskuramoto modelott-antonsen manifoldhamiltonian dynamicsstructural stability
Conditioned Direct Feedback Alignment via Activity and Error Geometry
The paper introduces conditioned Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) to address failure modes in local weight updates caused by anisotropy in presynaptic activity or local error factors. Through synthetic and empirical analyses, the authors demonstrate that activity conditioning improves performance by ~40 percentage points when high-variance directions contain task-irrelevant noise, while error conditioning enhances raw DFA by 1.77--7.53 points. The proposed normalized DFA (nDFA) family applies inverse second-moment preconditioning to activity and error factors, supported by a linearized spectral identity. Results replicate across MNIST and Fashion-MNIST variants, though convolutional gains remain partial.
direct feedback alignmenterror geometryactivity conditioningkronecker factorizationnormalized dfa
AMICA-Python: Adaptive Mixture Independent Component Analysis with Anderson Acceleration
The authors present AMICA-Python, a Python implementation of the Adaptive Mixture Independent Component Analysis (AMICA) algorithm for blind source separation in EEG research, featuring a scikit-learn-compatible API. The implementation includes an optional Anderson acceleration scheme to improve convergence speed. Benchmarking against the reference Fortran implementation on 14 EEG recordings showed identical median normalized log-likelihoods (11.572) and negligible relative differences (1.07×10⁻⁸), with runtime improvements of 17.7% for the base Python version and 34.1% for the accelerated variant.
blind source separationindependent component analysiseeg analysisanderson accelerationscikit-learn api
Robust Multi-View Classification under Noisy Supervision via Global Anchor Consensus
The paper proposes Global Anchor-based Label Auditing (GALA), a noise-robust method for multi-view classification. GALA constructs global class anchors per view to provide stable references, computes cross-view audit scores by fusing anchor proximity metrics with classifier confidence, and performs adaptive label correction. Experiments on six datasets show GALA outperforms eight baselines, particularly under high noise rates.
multi-view learningnoisy labelsglobal anchorslabel auditingadaptive correction
Mixing-Free and Signal-Optimal Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models from Glauber Dynamics
The paper introduces two mixing-free algorithms for exact recovery of Gaussian graphical models from a single trajectory of random-scan Gaussian Glauber dynamics, avoiding dependence on mixing time. The first algorithm uses least-squares regression on node updates, requiring Õ(pd²/κ²) updates and depending logarithmically on a local conditioning quantity. The second counts specific update patterns, needing Õ(pd⁴/κ²) updates with no condition number dependence. Both achieve κ⁻² dependence matching information-theoretic lower bounds, with analyses leveraging fresh Gaussian innovations from dependent, non-stationary observations without invoking stationarity or mixing conditions.
gaussian graphical modelsglauber dynamicsexact recoverymixing-freenon-stationary observations
Scalable Policy Optimization for Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Continuous State-Action Spaces
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Quantum Reservoir Computing: Recent Advances and Future Directions
The survey systematizes quantum reservoir computing (QRC) by developing a unified model that integrates input encoding, quantum evolution, observables, measurement, and classical readout. It analyzes computational properties across spin, photonic, superconducting, and other platforms, emphasizing constraints from finite sampling, noise, and measurement backaction. Current results show no broad quantum advantage over classical reservoirs, necessitating rigorous resource accounting and benchmarking standards for future claims.
quantum reservoir computinghilbert spacemeasurement backactionvariational circuitsbenchmark standards
Recti-Q: Feature-Space Rectification for Out-of-Distribution-Robust Quantized Perception in Edge Robotics
Recti-Q introduces a feature-space rectification framework to address Quantization-Induced Robustness Gap in quantized vision models for edge robotics. The method freezes a post-training quantized backbone and trains a lightweight LoRA adapter (under 1% parameter overhead) on source data, maintaining architecture-agnostic compatibility with CNNs and Transformers. Evaluated on ImageNet-C and PACS, Recti-Q recovers significant robustness under distribution shifts (e.g., sensor noise, weather) while preserving 99% of PTQ memory savings and enabling efficient OTA updates.
post-training quantizationdistribution shiftlora adapterfeature-space rectificationedge robotics
Adaptive Two-Stage Online Learning for Service-Affecting Failure Detection in Mobile Core Networks
The paper proposes a two-stage online learning framework for detecting service-affecting failures in mobile core networks. Stage I incrementally models normal traffic dynamics using lightweight regression with time-aware features, while Stage II analyzes prediction residuals with contextual indicators for failure detection. Evaluated under a prequential protocol, the framework achieves superior precision-recall trade-offs, with highest recall (unspecified), F1-score, and AUC at acceptable false positive rates, demonstrating the efficacy of residual decomposition in streaming network data.
online learningfailure detectionmobile core networksprequential evaluationresidual decomposition
Signed Rectified Flow: Negativity-Controlled Generation
The authors propose Signed Rectified Flow (Signed RF), a generalization of Rectified Flow that models signed measures to incorporate negative information in generative processes. The method targets $π^{sign} = (1+α)π^+ - απ^-$, where $π^+$ is promoted and $π^-$ suppressed, using a charged-particle interpretation to form exclusion barriers via negative mass. Theoretical analysis of the signed continuity equation motivates adaptive guidance algorithms. Experiments show improved fidelity-diversity trade-offs on ImageNet, reduced memorization in anti-memorization tasks, and mitigated adversarial nudity in Stable Diffusion 3.5 while maintaining CLIP and aesthetic scores.
signed rectified flowsigned measureexclusion barriersadaptive guidancecontinuity equation
Attractor Geometry Determines the Identifiability Limits of System Discovery
The study establishes that the identifiability ceiling for symbolic discovery of governing equations from dynamical systems is determined by $λ_{\min}(M)$, the smallest eigenvalue of the invariant-measure moment matrix, which quantifies attractor coverage in function space. Using Lorenz-84 and Lorenz-96 systems, the authors demonstrate that sparse regression (SINDy) and evolutionary symbolic regression (PySR) performance scales with $λ_{\min}(M)$, with chaos improving identifiability but noise affecting methods differently. A parameter-free mechanistic score and Soft F1 metric are introduced to evaluate recovery success beyond binary or predictive measures.
symbolic regressionattractor geometrysparse regressioninvariant measuresystem discovery
Hybrid Latent-Structural Fusion (HLSF) for Cyber Anomaly Detection
The paper proposes Hybrid Latent-Structural Fusion (HLSF), a weighted anomaly detection framework combining CP-APR tensor decomposition and normalizing flows. HLSF fuses structural anomaly scores from CANDECOMP-PARAFAC alternating Poisson regression with latent-space density scores from normalizing flows. Experiments on compromised credential data from Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrate improved detection performance over standalone CP-APR or normalizing flow approaches.
anomaly detectiontensor decompositionnormalizing flowscp-aprlatent-space fusion
Weak-to-Strong Learning in Decision Making
The paper proposes a weak-to-strong (W2S) learning framework for contextual stochastic optimization under data asymmetry, where labeled outcomes are scarce but contextual covariates are abundant. The method first trains a weak model on limited labeled data, then uses its predicted outcome distributions on unlabeled contexts as soft supervision for a strong model. Theoretical analysis provides non-asymptotic bounds on excess decision risk, showing W2S outperforms strong-only baselines when the correlation dimension between weak and strong feature representations is small. Experiments on synthetic newsvendor and real-world comment moderation tasks validate the theoretical findings.
contextual stochastic optimizationweak-to-strong learningcorrelation dimensionsoft supervisionexcess decision risk
AHEAD: Advancing Multi-Class Label Aggregation with Interpretable Cross-Annotator Modeling
The paper introduces AHEAD, a cross-annotator learning framework for multi-class label aggregation that improves annotator reliability estimation by leveraging population-level data. The method employs a graph neural network to learn high-dimensional cross-annotator contexts, generating multi-view embeddings that are decoded into interpretable confusion matrices. A composite objective incorporates high-confidence annotators to address unsupervised training challenges. Evaluations on 10 real-world datasets show AHEAD increases average label accuracy from 68.75% to 73.23%, with gains up to 14.9%, while scalability experiments confirm its superiority.
label aggregationcross-annotator learninggraph neural networkconfusion matricesunsupervised training
Using binary silver labels in electronic health records-based computable phenotyping algorithms
The authors propose Binary PheNorm, an extension of the PheNorm algorithm for computable phenotyping that directly incorporates binary silver labels from EHRs without requiring log transformation or EM calibration. The method modifies PheNorm's corruption-and-regression denoising step to handle binary inputs, with optional lasso regularization for high-dimensional settings and support for combined binary/count label models. Evaluations on anaphylaxis and acute pancreatitis tasks showed AUC improvements from 0.793 to 0.892 and 0.736 to 0.819 respectively, demonstrating Binary PheNorm's effectiveness when informative binary indicators are available.
computable phenotypingelectronic health recordsweak supervisionsilver labelsauc improvement
PAC--Bayes Bounds on Quotient Parameter Spaces: Geometry-induced Implicit-Bias Priors
The paper introduces a PAC-Bayesian framework for analyzing overparameterized models by operating on quotient predictor spaces, where parameter symmetries are removed. It constructs a geometry-induced implicit-bias prior by selecting canonical parameterizations and accounting for their equivalent volumes, approximating the ideal posterior-matched prior. Experiments on Fourier regression with Hadamard parameterization and Query-Key attention show reductions in quotient-space KL divergence (40.69%) and PAC-Bayes certificates (21.40%), validating the method's effectiveness.
pac-bayesquotient spaceimplicit biasoverparameterizationkl divergence
Scalable and Efficient Joint Spiking Embedding Predictive Architecture for Large-Scale Dynamic Graphs
The authors propose SG-JEPA, a joint spiking embedding predictive architecture for large-scale dynamic graphs, addressing computational inefficiencies in existing self-supervised methods. SG-JEPA partitions nodes into context and target sets temporally, learning predictive embeddings via spatial-temporal information, and employs spiking neurons for coarse-to-fine spike count encoding to adapt to varying computational constraints. Experiments show SG-JEPA achieves competitive performance on node classification (scaling to 13M-edge graphs) while avoiding complex machinery like negative sampling or edge-level reconstruction, yielding superior training efficiency and memory scalability.
dynamic graph learningspiking neural networksself-supervised learningnode classificationcomputational efficiency
Decentralized Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Resilient Critical Infrastructures
The paper positions decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) as a structurally aligned paradigm for resilient critical infrastructures, emphasizing scalability, privacy, robustness, and adaptation. It identifies credit assignment and inter-agent communication as key feasibility conditions, proposing a research agenda for structure-aware, causality-aware credit assignment and resilient coordination under operational constraints. The work reframes decentralized MARL as a conditional foundation for infrastructure resilience, contingent on addressing these challenges.
multi-agent reinforcement learningcritical infrastructurescredit assignmentresiliencedecentralized learning
A Classifier That Teaches Itself: Self-Improving, Frozen-gate Training (SIFT) for Dynamic Document Classification
The paper introduces SIFT (Self-Improving, Frozen-gate Training), a dynamic document classification system that autonomously improves through production use. SIFT combines a lightweight CPU-bound pipeline (SPLADE sparse encoder + LightGBM head) with an LLM judge for low-confidence cases, writing back LLM verdicts to grow the training corpus. A two-part promote gate (critical-label F1 regression check + frozen golden set) ensures safety during autonomous retraining. The system eliminates upfront labeling projects, reduces marginal labeling costs, and demonstrates practical deployment in multi-domain settings.
document classificationself-improving systemssparse encoderfrozen-gate trainingllm judge
Decode-Time Grammars: Constrained LLM Generation over a Refinement Order of Grammar Fragments
The paper introduces decode-time grammars, a method for constraining LLM generation to environment-valid outputs by dynamically instantiating grammar fragments from runtime context Gamma. The approach uses environment-indexed grammars with a refinement order, ensuring semantic correctness by preventing references to undefined symbols through Gamma-typed slots and a tightening operator. Implemented in gproj, the method eliminates ghost references in TileLang, SQL, and P4 across models (0.6B-236B parameters) with moderate overhead over standard constrained decoding.
decode-time grammarsenvironment-indexed grammarsghost referencesconstrained decodinggrammar fragments
Multi-layer MIMO Relay as Deep Physical Neural Networks: Power Amplifiers as Activation Functions
The paper proposes a deep wireless physical neural network (WPNN) where nonlinear activations are implemented via a multi-hop MIMO relay network, using power amplifiers' intrinsic nonlinearities as activation functions. Each relay applies trainable complex linear gains and biases, forming an over-the-air fully connected network trainable end-to-end. Two transceiver designs schemes are developed: least squares (LS)-based for receiver-side CSI and singular-value-decomposition (SVD)-based for full CSI. Simulations demonstrate accurate over-the-air inference for image classification, highlighting the benefits of leveraging hardware nonlinearity.
wireless physical neural networksmimo relaypower amplifiersnonlinear activationchannel state information
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