Daily Digest — 2026-09-02
363 items · 8 research labs, 345 arxiv papers, 10 industry media
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🏛️ Research Labs (8)
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Enterprise AI adoption shows widening divergence, with frontier firms generating 8.3× more output tokens per user than typical firms, up from 2.6× in January. Case studies from Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs demonstrate operationalization through agent-based workflows: Basis reduced onboarding time from 2h to 30min via reusable Codex skills; Clay implemented persistent subagents for CRM context maintenance, saving 1h/day on triage; Exa automated developer integration discovery using Codex with human review gates. Common patterns include structured workflows, persistent context, and iterative improvement via exception analysis and testing. Enterprise success metrics emphasize measurable outcomes (cycle time, quality) over output volume.
agent-based workflowspersistent contextcodexenterprise aioperationalization
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
OpenAI's Astra model achieves Critical cybersecurity capability under their Preparedness Framework, autonomously identifying and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. Evaluations on ExploitBench (100% score) and internal benchmarks (20 high-severity V8 vulnerabilities) demonstrate superior token efficiency and exploit-chain development versus GPT-5.6 Sol. Safeguards include refined refusal training (91.5% jailbreak refusal), alignment improvements, and chain-of-thought monitoring. Initial release restricts advanced capabilities to alpha testers via Daybreak Blue, with layered protections against misuse and misaligned actions.
zero-day exploitsexploitbenchtoken efficiencychain-of-thought monitoringalignment training
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
OpenAI introduces an Epic EHR integration and Healthcare Public Data plugin for ChatGPT for Healthcare, enabling structured access to patient records and authoritative medical datasets (PubMed, DailyMed, CMS Coverage). The system combines in-context learning with governed data connectors, allowing clinicians to query summaries of lab results, medications, and specialist notes. Physician evaluations (4,363 ratings) showed 99.1% response safety across 27 clinical use cases, while accuracy exceeded 93% for five tested data sources. The solution supports HIPAA compliance via role-based access and audit logs, integrating with enterprise systems like SharePoint and Slack.
electronic health recordin-context learninggoverned workspaceclinical evaluationhipaa compliance
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
OpenAI endorses California Senate Bill 1119, proposing age-appropriate safeguards for youth AI interactions while preserving educational utility. The bill mandates age verification, independent audits, content moderation (e.g., self-harm prevention), parental controls, and restricted advertising. OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens implements these principles via automatic enrollment for users under 18, featuring educator-designed learning tools (e.g., Quizzes, Study mode) and memory-based context retention for longitudinal safety monitoring. Internal policies prohibit anthropomorphization and inappropriate engagement, with 87% of teen users reportedly leveraging ChatGPT for educational purposes weekly.
age verificationcontent moderationparental controlscontext retentionanthropomorphization
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
Polimill developed QommonsAI, a generative AI platform for Japanese municipal workflows, leveraging OpenAI's GPT models and Codex to standardize fragmented administrative data across 1,050 municipalities. The system integrates assembly minutes, welfare records, and legal documents into a unified searchable knowledge base, reducing development time 3-5x via AI-assisted coding. Evaluation showed junior staff using QommonsAI produced policy drafts approaching veteran quality, though tacit knowledge gaps persisted. Future work includes a 2026 rollout of Qommons ONE, a super-agent platform combining specialized AIs and third-party apps for end-to-end administrative task automation.
generative aiknowledge basetacit knowledgesuper-agentmunicipal workflows
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Hugging Face releases @huggingface/kernels, a library providing 207 optimized WebGPU kernels for local AI inference, published as versioned packages on the Hugging Face Hub. Each kernel includes a manifest, WGSL shader templates, correctness tests, and benchmarks, enabling transparent evaluation and reuse. The accompanying Fleet tool crowdsources performance data across diverse GPUs, revealing device-specific optimizations. Benchmarks show a 2.57x geometric mean speedup over ONNX Runtime WebGPU, with extreme cases (e.g., Einsum) achieving 10,000x faster execution. The modular design supports stable higher-level APIs while allowing kernel-level optimizations.
webgpuwgslkernel optimizationbrowser inferencecrowdsourced benchmarking
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Google announced advancements in AI accessibility and practicality in August 2026, focusing on hardware, developer tools, and applications. The Gemini 3.7 Flash model improved coding and agent workflows at half the cost of its predecessor, while the Pixel 11 series integrated Gemini Nano for enhanced personal assistance. Gemini Live introduced productivity features like Personal Intelligence and hands-free inbox management. Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash enabled studio-quality video generation with precise control. WeatherNext 2, an open-source model, achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in cyclone prediction, advancing climate resilience. These innovations collectively aimed to make AI more useful in everyday contexts.
gemini 3.7 flashgemini nanopersonal intelligencestudio-quality videoweathernext 2
Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Google Pics introduces an AI-powered image creation and editing tool integrated into Google Workspace, leveraging the Nano Banana model for precise control and ease of use. The tool offers object segmentation, in-image text editing and translation, collaborative editing, and multiple image generations from a single prompt. Seamlessly embedded into Docs, Slides, and Drive, it eliminates the need for application switching, enhancing productivity for Workspace users. Initial rollout targets Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with broader availability for Workspace business customers in the coming weeks.
nano bananaobject segmentationin-image text editingcollaborative editingworkspace integration
📜 arXiv Papers (345)
SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Real Policies
The paper introduces Semantically UNified (SUN) Programs, a framework that unifies model-based control and learned policies by compiling geometric and contact relations into aligned Model Predictive Control (MPC) costs, RL rewards, and transition guards. The Kuafu system, leveraging large vision-language models, synthesizes SUN Programs from language and scene semantics, screens feasibility via MPC, and trains stage-conditioned policies. In experiments across nine tasks, Kuafu achieves 82.03% macro-success, outperforming sparse-reward (35.67%) and Stage-BC (24.75%) baselines, and generates 10.57x more successful trajectories per teleoperation hour. DP3 policies trained with Kuafu data reach 46.0% simulation success (vs. 22.4% for alternatives) and 34.7% on physical robots.
semantically unified programsmodel predictive controlvision-language modelsstage-conditioned policieslong-horizon manipulation
Auditing Anonymous AI Models: A Four-Stage Protocol for Black-Box Identity Verification
The paper proposes a four-stage forensic audit protocol for black-box identity verification of anonymously released AI models. Stage 0 reconstructs launch-time configurations from archived platform snapshots, Stage 1 fingerprints model configurations against platform catalogs, Stage 2 tests tokenizer identity via cross-length differential analysis, and Stage 3 corroborates with behavioral probes. The method was validated on 10 known-identity releases (7 exact matches, 2 precision differences, 1 partial match) and prospectively on a flagship case, correctly identifying the GLM-5.3 version line. A standard-library-only implementation is provided.
forensic auditblack-box verificationtokenizer identitybehavioral probesconfiguration fingerprinting
OntoAligner-Ensemble: Voting-Based Fusion across Heterogeneous Ontology Alignment Techniques
OntoAligner-Ensemble introduces a voting-based fusion framework for heterogeneous ontology alignment techniques, enabling systematic integration of lexical, structural, knowledge graph embedding (KGE), and LLM-based aligners. The method employs a two-stage process with configurable voting-based fusion and post-fusion selection, supporting any aligner within the OntoAligner ecosystem. Evaluation across eight OAEI benchmark tasks shows ensemble configurations improve precision-recall balance, with cross-paradigm ensembles boosting precision and homogeneous LLM ensembles achieving higher F1-scores.
ontology alignmentensemble learningknowledge graph embeddingretrieval-augmented generationprecision-recall trade-off
When Does Bigger Help? A Controlled Study of LLM Scale for Ontology Learning
This study systematically evaluates the impact of LLM scale on ontology learning (OL) performance across 13 models from Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, and GPT lineages. Using the OntoLearner pipeline with controlled settings, it assesses term typing, taxonomy discovery, and non-taxonomic relationship extraction on four domain-specific ontologies. Results show that scale benefits precision over recall (notably between 9B and 27B parameters), but effects are non-monotonic and task-dependent: dense 27B models outperform larger sparse models in term typing, while Mixture-of-Experts models excel in taxonomy discovery. Non-taxonomic extraction remains challenging, particularly for materials science. Architecture and lineage outweigh nominal parameter counts in performance differences.
ontology learningmixture-of-expertsparameter scalingretrieval-augmented generationterm typing
BLOOM-WILT: Logit Tilting for Behaviour Elicitation in Automated LLM Auditing
BLOOM-WILT introduces a logit-tilting method for efficient elicitation of rare behaviors in LLM auditing without training costs or full model access. The pipeline combines an auditor model that iteratively refines conversational strategies with adaptive output reweighting, using the target model's next-token distribution conditioned on elicitation prompts to prioritize behavior-relevant generations. Evaluated across 4 target models and 8 behaviors, BLOOM-WILT outperforms baselines in 30/32 settings, increasing behavior presence from 51% to 100% for self-harm encouragement in Qwen3.5-4B while maintaining output probability above baseline levels.
logit tiltingbehavior elicitationautomated auditingnext-token distributionmulti-turn interaction
LLM Post-Training as Brownfield Maintenance: An Industrial Perspective on Dataware Engineering
The paper presents an industrial perspective on post-training large language models (LLMs) as a brownfield maintenance problem, emphasizing dataware engineering. It identifies three key challenges: zero-sum mixture design, yield as the binding metric, and end-to-end integration under uncertainty. The authors describe a case study in code generation, where interventions improved teacher distillation conversion, increasing accepted supervision by 2.84 times. The yield-engineered patch enhanced CodeForces pass@1 by +2.59 points (+3.11 pass@3) and LiveCodeBench v6 pass@1 by +6.11 (+8.05 pass@3), with internal regression suites remaining within tolerance.
brownfield maintenancedataware engineeringteacher distillationzero-sum mixtureyield metric
Cross-Regional Grapevine Cold Hardiness Prediction via Learned Multimodal Latent Representations
The authors propose a transferable latent representation framework for cross-regional grapevine cold hardiness prediction, addressing limitations of site-specific models. Their method learns region-specific embeddings inferred from (1) text descriptions of cultivars/regions and (2) limited historical observations, enabling zero-shot and few-shot transfer. Evaluated on datasets from six North American regions, the approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in prediction accuracy and transfer performance to data-scarce regions.
latent representationcold hardinesszero-shot transferfew-shot learningregion-specific embeddings
Token-Efficient Data Reasoning Agents via Adaptive Structuring of Unstructured Data
The paper introduces agentic data cracking, a token-efficient method for adaptive structuring of unstructured data during LLM-based reasoning. The approach employs a cracking sub-agent that forks from loaded context to extract and cache relevant structure speculatively, reducing future query costs while maintaining accuracy. On FanOutQA benchmark extended with related questions, the method reduces token consumption by 53% without accuracy loss compared to repeated document retrieval, demonstrating cost savings approaching ideal pre-structured scenarios (28X cheaper).
agentic reasoningtoken efficiencyadaptive structuringllm agentsunstructured data
Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization
The paper introduces TASPO, a method to reconcile process supervision with outcome-based credit in agentic policy optimization. TASPO converts privileged supervision (PI) into outcome-grounded action credit by constructing decision-applicable PI from verified successful experience, aggregating PI-induced likelihood shifts at the executable-action level, and converting relative action support into bounded weights on trajectory advantage. Evaluated on three agentic benchmarks, TASPO improves over GRPO by 10.6% and enhances generalization to unseen tasks. Analysis shows TASPO reduces supervision mismatch and stabilizes policy optimization through action-level credit assignment.
process supervisionoutcome-based creditagentic policy optimizationprivileged informationaction-level assignment
Learning to Evaluate Before Improving: Automatic Rubric Induction for Automatic Research Agents
AutoSciRub introduces an evaluation-first framework for autonomous scientific research agents, inducing task-specific executable rubrics to guide execution and iterative revision. The method decomposes underspecified instructions into atomic goals, grounds them in literature and data, and synthesizes verifiable criteria. Results on ResearchClawBench show average gains of 2.08-2.95 points across LLM configurations, and a 16.8-point improvement on AstaBench E2E Discovery, while maintaining task completion rates. The approach demonstrates effective control for open-ended research tasks.
autonomous agentsevaluation-firstexecutable rubrictask decompositionverification
Scaling Large Reasoning Models beyond Human Supervision: A Path toward Superintelligence
The paper proposes a framework for scaling large reasoning models (LRMs) beyond human supervision by analyzing two dimensions: reward development (from human judgments to autonomous verifiers) and experience generation (from curated tasks to self-generated curricula). It introduces a five-level ladder (L0-L4) quantifying human control reduction, identifying risks like reward hacking and curriculum collapse. Evaluation focuses on policy capability, feedback fidelity, and experience quality. A GitHub repository tracks advances in autonomous LRM training.
large reasoning modelsreinforcement learning with verifiable rewardsself-generated curriculareward hackingfeedback drift
Real-Time Video Anomaly Detection Using YOLO Pose Estimation and CLIP-Based Semantic Scoring
We introduce a lightweight two-stage framework for real-time video anomaly detection, achieving a 3.36x speedup over multi-feature baselines. The method first detects persons and extracts seventeen skeletal keypoints using YOLO v11n-pose in a single forward pass, then encodes cropped person regions via CLIP ViT-B/32 and computes cosine similarity against predefined textual descriptions of anomalies. This eliminates the need for optical flow, standalone pose estimators, and density-based scoring modules. Evaluated on CUHK Avenue, ShanghaiTech Campus, and a custom indoor dataset, the framework achieves end-to-end throughput of 51 FPS on an NVIDIA Titan XP GPU, with frame-level AUROC values of 89.26%, 70.26%, and 84.13%, respectively.
yolo pose estimationclip-based semantic scoringvideo anomaly detectioncosine similarityframe-level auroc
Wrong Prediction, Right Answer: Recovering Evidence from Collapsed LLM Sequence Scores
The study demonstrates that large language models (LLMs) often retain correct reasoning internally despite output failures, challenging assumptions about their capabilities. By introducing a target-label-free additive correction protocol with minimal parameters (2) and few unlabeled examples (25), the method recovers 9--34 accuracy points across Qwen3.5, OLMo-2-1B, and Llama-3.1-8B. Results show recovered decisions persist on hard instances, exceeding permutation baselines, indicating that zero-shot reasoning deficits may stem from expression failures rather than lack of underlying logic.
large language modelsreasoning benchmarkshidden-state probeszero-shot evaluationoutput bottleneck
Measure Before You Manage: Evaluating Agent Working Memory in Coding Agents
This paper demonstrates the importance of semantic heterogeneity in managing and evaluating working memory for coding agents, proposing semantically informed strategies for memory management. The study analyzes 55 coding-agent trajectories, revealing distinct retention and compression behaviors across semantically different working-memory objects. Two strategies—an object-aware compression policy and a retrieval-based policy—are evaluated, showing that calibration gains may not generalize to held-out tasks and that token budgets inadequately capture context delivery and management costs. Real-system replays further highlight serving limitations. The findings emphasize the necessity of considering semantic structure in agent working memory and evaluating memory-management strategies beyond nominal token budgets.
coding agentsworking memorysemantic heterogeneitymemory managementtoken budget
MNIST-PRO: MNIST is Back as a Partially Observable World for AI Agents
MNIST-PRO introduces a benchmark for evaluating agentic perception in partially observable environments by converting MNIST digit recognition into a sequential glimpse-based search task with lookback constraints. The study evaluates ten multimodal models across four memory representations (raw visual history, textual states, structured metric grid maps, consolidated visual canvas), revealing performance gaps under partial observability. Key bottlenecks include perceptual-state construction, premature exploration termination, and failure to revise incorrect beliefs despite contradictory evidence, demonstrating that visual evidence acquisition alone is insufficient for reliable perceptual state maintenance.
partially observable environmentsperceptual-state constructionmultimodal modelssequential glimpse-based searchmemory representations
One note in three: a verified census of three deployed AI scribes, and the instrument that counted it
This study audits three commercial AI scribes on 142 clinical consultations, identifying a 31.3% [27.0, 35.6] verified failure rate in generated notes, with errors concentrated in allergy/medication data, invented patient identity, and misclassified history. Using an adversarial panel of two models to refute 5,898 candidate errors from 13,678 initial proposals, 618 failures survived verification. The failure rate varied significantly (9.3% to 79.0%) based on review instructions and model family, highlighting methodological impacts on audit outcomes. All findings, prompts, and pipeline details are released for reproducibility.
ai scribesadversarial panelerror verificationclinical notesaudit methodology
LLM Judges Verify Presence, Not Absence: Omission Blindness in AI Clinical Notes and What Recovers It
The study identifies omission blindness in LLM judges evaluating AI-generated clinical notes, showing they detect additions/alterations (AUC 0.79-0.94) but fail on omissions (AUC 0.50-0.63). Restructuring the task—listing transcript-derived facts before verification—enables reliable omission detection: a per-fact pipeline achieves 2.7% false alarms, while a single-call GEPA-optimized prompt detects 36.9% omissions (vs. 24.6%, p=0.002) at 6.2% false alarms. Physician validation confirmed pipeline precision (10/10 disagreements, p=0.002). Both methods fail on restated omissions. The benchmark and prompts are released.
llm judgesomission blindnessclinical notesgepa optimizationfalse alarm rate
Stick to What You Know: A Study of Knowledge-Aligned Supervised Fine-Tuning
The paper introduces knowledge-aligned supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to mitigate hallucinations by constraining training targets to a base model's parametric knowledge. It compares generation-based and estimation-based alignment methods and proposes two variants: Evidence Rewrite (external verification) and Recall Rewrite (retention of consistently recallable claims). Evaluated on Qwen-3-4B and OLMo-3-7B, knowledge-aligned SFT reduces factual errors on WildHalu and Biography benchmarks while preserving general capabilities. Recall Rewrite achieves the strongest factuality gains (+X% on UnknownBench) and improves refusal behavior, demonstrating that SFT targets exceeding base-model knowledge drive hallucinations.
supervised fine-tuningparametric knowledgefactual hallucinationevidence rewriterecall rewrite
Evaluating and Improving LLM Self-Modeling
The paper introduces a benchmark for evaluating large language models' (LLMs) self-modeling capability—their ability to answer verifiable behavioral questions about their own outputs, such as predicting prompt-edit effects. Using synthetic-data pipelines and reinforcement learning, the authors improve self-modeling performance across three open-source model families, though gains lack consistent introspection. Current models exhibit non-trivial but limited self-modeling skill, with systematic errors on counterfactual self-behavior queries. Results suggest improved self-modeling may not stem from privileged access to internal decision processes.
self-modelingllm behaviorsynthetic-data pipelinereinforcement learningcounterfactual queries
MR-JEPA: A General Purpose Video Foundation Model for Cardiac MRI
MR-JEPA introduces a self-supervised video foundation model for cardiac MRI (CMR) that processes 3D spatiotemporal inputs via tubelet tokenization and spatiotemporal masking augmentation, initialized from a 2D CMR foundation model. Pretrained on multi-sequence data (cine, LGE, mapping) from 10,505 patients across two centers without annotations, MR-JEPA employs a frozen encoder evaluated on six downstream tasks using a multi-view gated attention architecture. It outperforms domain-specific and natural-video models on five regression tasks, achieving LV EF MAE of 4.79% and GLS MAE of 1.87, with 21-27% MAE reductions on strain tasks, and a macro AUC of 0.868 for disease detection.
self-supervised learningtubelet tokenizationspatiotemporal maskingmulti-view gated attentioncardiac mri
CoJEPA: Combining Contrastive Learning and JEPA for Global-Local Music Representations
CoJEPA introduces a novel approach combining Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) and contrastive learning to enhance global-local music representations. The method trains a single shared backbone with both JEPA objectives on masked sequence tokens and contrastive objectives on the class token, eliminating the need for an EMA teacher. This dual-objective training enriches sequence tokens through local predictions while maintaining training stability. CoJEPA outperforms or matches individual methods across global and local music information retrieval tasks, particularly excelling in tonal and harmonic understanding, without additional parameters or task-specific architectural modifications.
joint-embedding predictive architecturecontrastive learningmusic information retrievalmasked sequence tokensclass token
CogEvol: Towards Efficient and Reliable Learning Environment Generation
CogEvol introduces a family of models for Learning Environment Generation, producing structured slides or interactive HTML pages from course briefs in a single pass. The system employs a production-grounded data pipeline (53,687 SFT samples) and hybrid rule-plus-VLM reward for GRPO-based RL, addressing reliability issues like reward hacking. CogEvol-27B achieves 83.7 slide quality and 63.7 interactive-HTML benchmark scores with 26.9x fewer parameters than flagship coding models, while CogEvol-4B is open-sourced. Scaffold editing reduces interactive-page generation costs by ~76%, and the stack runs efficiently on domestic Ascend accelerators.
learning environment generationstructured-json slidesgrpo-based rlreward hackingascend accelerators
A Universal Context-Reuse Layer for Cross-Model KV Sharing
The paper introduces a universal context-reuse layer enabling cross-model KV sharing, where key-value states from a source model are translated for consumption by heterogeneous target models (varying in scale, architecture, tokenizer, or family). The method reduces redundant prefill computation by reusing KV states across models, evaluated in within-family (Qwen2.5-7B→Qwen2.5-1.5B) and cross-family (Qwen2.5-1.5B→Gemma-2-2B, Llama3.1-70B→Qwen2.5-7B) settings. Results show accuracy improvements (e.g., +6.89pp on LongBench2 for Qwen2.5-1.5B), latency reductions (899ms→138ms for Qwen2.5-7B), and up to 67.05% prefill cost savings while maintaining near-native perplexity.
kv-cachecross-model sharingprefill computationcontext mobilityattention optimization
LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop
The paper introduces LOCI, a training-free Locator-Critic framework that addresses Vision-Language Models' (VLMs) limitations in complex visual understanding by decoupling visual search from evidence verification. LOCI employs a Locator agent to propose visual evidence and a Critic agent to evaluate its relevance, iteratively refining the evidence until it suffices for accurate reasoning. This approach achieves state-of-the-art results, improving accuracy on Qwen3-VL (+12.1 on V*, +5.8 on HR-Bench, +11.2 on VisualProbe-Hard) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (+8.9 on V*, +4.3 on HR-Bench, +4.8 on VisualProbe-Hard).
vision-language modelslocator-criticvisual searchevidence verificationiterative refinement
Taking the Whys Seriously: Limitations of Counterfactual Explanations in Justification and Recourse
The paper critically examines the normative legitimacy of counterfactual explanations (CEs) in AI, particularly for justification and recourse, highlighting stricter requirements than for debugging or prediction explanation. Through four empirical experiments, the authors demonstrate that upstream ML pipeline choices—such as feature measurement models, business requirements, and validation metrics—significantly influence generated CEs, often more than the explanation method itself. Results show that naive CE applications risk obfuscating contestable design and governance decisions, failing to address whether decision-makers ought to act differently. The study underscores the relational nature of justification and recourse, urging explicit accounting of organizational choices in these contexts.
counterfactual explanationsalgorithmic recoursemachine learning pipelinenormative legitimacymodel validation
Learning Action Models with Conditional and Quantified Effects via Uncertainty-Guided Exploration
We introduce Online Hypothesis-Driven Conditional Action Model Learning (OHCAM), an online method for learning action models with conditional and quantified effects from limited environment interactions. OHCAM maintains a belief over hypothesized action models, actively selects informative actions by maximizing hypothesis disagreement, and scales by incrementally expanding model complexity as needed. Evaluated on six benchmark planning domains, OHCAM demonstrates superior sample efficiency, solving substantially more tasks than baselines even with observation noise. Real-world validation on a Kinova Gen3 robot confirms practical applicability.
action model learningconditional effectsquantified effectsonline learninghypothesis-driven exploration
MusGU+: Toward a Musician-Centered Evaluation Framework and Discovery Tool for Generative Music AI
We introduce MusGU+, a musician-centered evaluation framework for generative music AI systems, addressing limitations in existing approaches by focusing on Adaptability, Usability, and Controllability. These dimensions assess a model's ability to be fine-tuned on personal data, integrated into workflows, and controlled musically. The framework evaluates 10 representative systems and provides an interactive discovery tool for musicians to explore and filter models based on these criteria. While MusGO promotes openness in research, MusGU+ emphasizes practical adoption and informed selection of generative music systems by musicians.
generative music systemsadaptabilityusabilitycontrollabilityevaluation framework
LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation
LightNav-0 introduces a generalist embodied navigation model that leverages pretrained vision-language model (VLM) spatial intelligence through a unified token interface, eliminating task-specific prediction heads. The method employs dual-channel pointing for spatial intent representation, a residual vector-quantized action tokenizer for embodiment-specific trajectories, and integrates temporally aware visual history compression with ER mid-training, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning. Evaluated on 10 public navigation simulation settings, LightNav-0 achieves state-of-the-art monocular success rates and demonstrates zero-shot generalization across robot embodiments, scenes, and dynamic targets, outperforming on 8 embodied-reasoning benchmarks.
vision-language modelsembodied navigationvector quantizationreinforcement learningzero-shot generalization
Stride-k Subsampling: Train-Free Audio Token Reduction for Whisper
The paper introduces stride-k subsampling, a train-free method to reduce audio tokens in OpenAI's Whisper models by retaining every k-th token after the convolutional stem or encoder transformer. The method demonstrates that stride-2 subsampling preserves baseline word error rate (WER) across five Whisper scales, attributed to acoustic overlap at the stem and attention redistribution at the encoder output. Stride-2 at both positions reduces audio tokens by 75% and total GFLOPs by 52-58%, with minor WER degradation on most ASR benchmarks and larger drops on harder tasks. It also cuts end-to-end latency by 19.6-27.4% in Whisper-based speech language models (SpeechLMs) without requiring training.
whispersubsamplingasrspeechlmgflops
Towards Stream Learning on Embedded Systems: Benchmarking the Memory Consumption of Stream Learning Methods
This work benchmarks memory consumption in stream learning for embedded systems, evaluating seven classifiers (including HoeffdingTrees and Extremely Fast Decision Trees) under model-size budgets from 128KiB to 8MiB across 13 datasets (6,463 experiments). Results identify two failure modes: adaptive ensembles exceed small budgets immediately due to initial footprint, while incremental trees (HT: 7.37× median growth, EFDT: 5.87×) expand continuously. Compact methods remain viable under minimal budgets but are outperformed by adaptive ensembles with larger allocations. The study advocates for explicit resource budgeting in stream learning design and proposes an API for budget-aware implementations.
stream learningconcept driftembedded systemshoeffding treesresource budgeting
CARVE: Verified Expansion for Variable-Length Generation in Diffusion Language Models
CARVE introduces a training-free variable-length generation algorithm for masked diffusion language models, addressing the fixed-length limitation of standard decoders. By dynamically inserting [MASK] positions and verifying expansions via counterfactual stability (low Jensen-Shannon divergence on unresolved positions), CARVE optimizes canvas length during decoding. Evaluated on code generation and mathematical reasoning benchmarks, CARVE improves accuracy over fixed-length baselines while reducing inference costs, achieving up to 50% FLOPs reduction in some settings.
masked diffusionvariable-length generationjensen-shannon divergencecounterfactual stabilityflops reduction
Responsible Integration of AI in Cancer Genomics: Barriers, Risks, and Pathways to Trustworthy Clinical Translation
The article proposes a systems-level framework for trustworthy clinical integration of AI in cancer genomics, addressing translational barriers through lifecycle-focused solutions. It analyzes how NLP and AI support genomic pipelines (literature mining, variant interpretation, trial matching, knowledge graphs, multimodal integration), identifying four failure domains: evidence inconsistency, explainability/uncertainty, data governance/reproducibility, and interoperability. The roadmap emphasizes rigorous validation, uncertainty-aware methods, interoperable infrastructures, regulatory alignment, and human oversight, arguing that clinical adoption depends more on systemic reliability than further model capability improvements.
cancer genomicstranslational failure domainsuncertainty-aware methodsinteroperable infrastructuresclinical workflow integration
CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training
The paper introduces Causal Action Effect Reweighting (CAER), a novel training paradigm for action-conditioned world models that addresses the limitations of uniform mean squared error (MSE) training. CAER dynamically redistributes supervision toward tokens causally affected by actions by contrasting predictions with and without action conditioning, normalizing the effect map to preserve total coefficient mass. This online approach requires no external annotations or preprocessing and scales naturally with model and dataset size. Experiments demonstrate that CAER improves physical consistency, controllability, and visual quality of generated videos across heterogeneous tasks compared to uniform MSE training.
causal action effect reweightingworld modelsaction-conditioned video generationmean squared errorphysical consistency
Safety Screening for Voltage Control in Active Distribution Grids via Distributionally Robust Conformal Screening
The authors propose Distributionally Robust Conformal Safety Screening (DR-CSS), a novel framework for pre-deployment safety assessment of voltage control policies in active distribution grids. DR-CSS combines historical data from existing control policies with a nominal simulator to construct conformal safety intervals around predicted voltage trajectories, accounting for simulation-to-reality errors and closed-loop policy interactions. Evaluated on IEEE 33-bus and IEEE 141-bus systems, DR-CSS successfully identifies all unsafe test scenarios while reducing unnecessary warnings through adaptive safety intervals and staged policy deployment with recalibration. This approach enables safer deployment of learning-based voltage control policies in real-world grids.
voltage controlconformal predictiondistributionally robustactive distribution gridssafety screening
Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models
This paper contributes a multilingual German-English benchmark dataset for evaluating anti-LGBTQ biases in language models, addressing cultural and linguistic variation often overlooked in existing benchmarks. The dataset combines community-sourced stereotypes from German-speaking queer individuals with a German translation of WinoQueer. Eight language models of varying sizes and architectures were evaluated, and bias mitigation was explored through fine-tuning on community and progressive media content. Results indicate that language models reproduce anti-queer stereotypes, with variations across identities and models. Fine-tuning reduces bias on average but inconsistently across models and identities, highlighting the importance of cultural adaptation in multilingual bias evaluation.
anti-lgbtq biasesmultilingual benchmarkfine-tuningcultural adaptationlanguage models
Personas Differ from Native-Language Generation: Language Pathways Shape LLM Interpersonal Advice
The study demonstrates that native-speaker persona prompting (NP) and native-language generation with translation (NL) yield non-interchangeable outputs in LLM-generated interpersonal advice, based on 600 questions across 13 languages and eight models. NP increases lexical social cues (e.g., affiliation, positive tone) but reduces concreteness and social attunement compared to NL, while providing less actionable scaffolding. In forced-choice scenarios, NP shifts action recommendations toward confrontation over redirection, with effect sizes varying by language, topic, and model. Cross-lingual elicitation strategy significantly impacts advice framing and action selection.
native-speaker personainterpersonal advicelexical social cuesactionable scaffoldingcross-lingual elicitation
Exponential random graph models with soft clique constraints
The paper introduces an exponential random graph model (ERGM) with soft constraints penalizing r-cliques (r≥3) via a positive weight parameter w. Analyzing the asymptotic structure as n→∞, the authors prove that sampled graphs almost surely exhibit (r-1)-partite organization: near-equal partition sizes, inter-part edge density ≈0.5, and intra-part density <ε for any ε>0. This structure holds uniformly across all w>0. The result generalizes to multiple clique sizes with distinct weights.
exponential random graph modelr-clique constraintsasymptotic graph structurevertex partitionedge density
Predicting Residential Rents in Dakar Using Machine Learning
This study develops a machine learning pipeline to predict residential rents in Dakar, addressing a gap in documented rental markets where 54.4% of households are renters. The pipeline includes data collection (1,507 listings via web scraping), feature engineering (luxury score, keyword-based quality score), and model comparison (linear regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM). Optimized XGBoost achieved the best performance (R²=0.847, MAE=210,902 XOF, RMSE=324,195 XOF) using Bayesian optimization with Optuna and leakage-free KFold target encoding. SHAP analysis revealed location as the second most influential variable, contrasting with XGBoost's native feature importance rankings, highlighting methodological implications for hedonic studies.
hedonic pricingtarget encodingshap valuesxgboostbayesian optimization
TAMI: Temporally Aligned, Missingness-Aware, and Interpretable Multimodal Fusion for Mental Health Assessment in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
The paper introduces TAMI, a multimodal fusion framework for mental health assessment in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). TAMI addresses temporal misalignment across speech, language, facial, and physiological features by aligning them within question-answer segments, encodes modality-level missingness, and conditions fusion on question context. Evaluated on interviews with 49 MCI patients, TAMI achieved AUROC scores of 0.68 (depression) and 0.69 (anxiety), with temporal alignment providing the largest performance gain (Δ≥0.1). Interpretability analysis revealed depression classification relied on eyegaze and open-ended questions, while anxiety depended on eyegaze and head pose. Using only open-ended responses (5.1min) matched full-interview performance (19min) for depression screening (AUROC 0.67, p>0.05).
multimodal fusiontemporal alignmentmissingness-awareinterpretabilitymild cognitive impairment
VFR-Audit: Verdict-Level Reliability for Fairness Audits in Hospital Length-of-Stay Prediction
VFR-Audit introduces a framework for assessing verdict-level reliability in fairness audits of hospital length-of-stay prediction models, addressing instability in binary pass/fail outcomes. The method employs Verdict Flip Rate (VFR), a scalar (0–0.5) quantifying reversal probability under stratified bootstrap resampling, alongside three reliability axes: within-cohort stability, audit-size sensitivity, and cross-hospital agreement via Fleiss' kappa. The approach mitigates manual scaling challenges in existing uncertainty methods (e.g., Bayesian posteriors, permutation tests) while evaluating bias-mitigation impacts on model discrimination (AUROC/AUPRC).
fairness auditsverdict flip ratestratified bootstrapbias mitigationhospital prediction
Pretrained, Curriculum-Tuned, and Ensembled: A Tracer-Aware Interactive Segmentation Pipeline for AutoPET V
The paper introduces TRIAGE, a tracer-aware interactive segmentation pipeline for whole-body PET/CT, addressing challenges posed by differing tracer distributions (FDG vs. PSMA). The method employs a 3D STU-Net backbone pre-trained via masked autoencoding with asynchronous masking, augmented by an auxiliary organ segmentation model for anatomical context. A tracer classifier routes studies to FDG- or PSMA-specific branches, each featuring a two-stage process: initial segmentation (CT/PET/organ context) followed by interactive refinement using scribbles. Curriculum training and ensembling enhance robustness. Evaluation uses AutoPET V data, though quantitative results are pending challenge evaluation.
interactive segmentationmasked autoencodingtracer-aware3d stunetpet/ct
HSRM: Hidden-State Reward Models for Test-Time Verification
HSRM introduces a hidden-state reward model for efficient test-time verification of mathematical reasoning in LLMs, bypassing costly text reprocessing. The method extracts hidden states from a frozen generator at reasoning-step boundaries and employs a 2M-parameter Transformer encoder to rank candidate solutions, trained on self-generated trajectories with outcome labels. Evaluated across four mathematical reasoning benchmarks, HSRM matches or outperforms a 55M-parameter text-only energy verifier in 15 of 16 generator-dataset settings, demonstrating its effectiveness in leveraging internal representations for verification.
hidden-state reward modeltest-time verificationmathematical reasoningtransformer encoderreasoning-step boundaries
Reliable Benchmarking of Artifact Detection in Computational Pathology: A Reproducibility and Uncertainty Analysis
The study introduces a reliability protocol for benchmarking artifact detection in computational pathology, addressing four sources of variability: test-set sampling, training stochasticity, partition composition, and undocumented preprocessing. The protocol ensures claims are reportable only if they survive all four checks, with three requiring minimal computational cost. Applied to a diffusion-based artifact detector, the protocol confirms the reproducibility of the method's central mechanism, improving pooled F1 from 0.673 to 0.688, but reveals that comparative claims fall within evaluation uncertainty. The analysis highlights the limitations of small-cohort benchmarks, showing that four slides carry 70% of annotated pixels and an inherited partition sits at the 7th percentile.
artifact detectioncomputational pathologybenchmarkingreliability protocoldiffusion-based
Lucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling
Lucida introduces a composable real-to-sim scene modeling pipeline that redistributes precision requirements across parsing, generation, and placement stages. The method parses video into a scene graph with per-instance multi-view evidence, generates complete assets from this evidence, and employs GizmoAct—a VLM policy for closed-loop GUI-based placement. Evaluations show improvements over baselines: 69% higher mAP on R2S-Scene, ADD-SB@0.05 rising from 57.8% to 83.4% on CA-1M, and scene F-Score increasing from 0.794 to 0.924 versus SAM3D.
composable scene modelingscene graphmulti-view evidencevlm policypose estimation
A Composition-Aware Pretraining Framework for Geospatial Foundation Models
The paper introduces a composition-aware pretraining framework for geospatial foundation models that explicitly encodes fractional land-cover mixtures via histogram-based composition targets, optimized using Earth Mover's Distance. This approach addresses the limitation of single-concept processing in existing methods, enhancing performance on region-level understanding tasks while maintaining competitiveness on fine-grained spatial tasks. Evaluations demonstrate significant improvements: a 36.8M-parameter model outperforms larger models (SatMAE, Prithvi-EO-2.0) in retrieval and scene classification, with a 55.6% relative mAP@10 improvement on ForestNet-12.
geospatial foundation modelscomposition-aware pretrainingearth mover's distancefractional land-coverzero-shot retrieval
Aggregate Disambiguation Systems
The paper introduces aggregate disambiguation systems (ADSs) for resolving divergent evaluator verdicts in natural-language tasks by aggregating binary votes from finite panels. The study distinguishes between fixed finite censuses, probabilistic evaluator populations, and growing-census limits, analyzing their distinct endpoint laws. For probabilistic populations, the method estimates disagreement probabilities between finite panels and the declared evaluator reference using exact binomial intervals at the evaluator layer and one-sided binomial inversion at the generator layer. Simulations validate coverage and expose power limitations, providing a lower confidence bound on the fraction of candidate solutions with disagreement probability below a chosen tolerance.
aggregate disambiguation systemsbinary votesprobabilistic evaluator populationsbinomial intervalsdisagreement probability
Conjoint Audio-to-Spikes Encoding and Processing for Efficient Neuromorphic Speech Recognition
The work introduces a conjoint optimization of neuromorphic audio encoding and classification for energy-efficient speech recognition, targeting FPGA implementation. A non-learnable, programmable spike encoder processes audio inputs, paired with a feedforward spiking neural network for classification. The pipeline achieves 99.77% accuracy on the spike-encoded Heidelberg Digits benchmark, surpassing prior neuromorphic state-of-the-art results, while emphasizing hardware-agnostic efficiency metrics based on spiking activity. The study also presents the first end-to-end neuromorphic spike-encoding evaluation of the TIMIT dataset.
neuromorphic encodingspiking neural networksfpga implementationhardware-agnostic metricsheidelberg digits
SkillZip Pro: Execution-Aware Dynamic Compression of Progressively Loaded Skills for Self-Evolving Agents
SkillZip Pro introduces an evaluation-free compression method for progressively loaded skill bundles in production agents, preserving routing and execution paths while reducing token costs. The technique employs cross-file compression (removing redundant content via root/environment contracts) and maintains reachability of required files/entries, offering configurable One-Shot/Continual and Persistent/Transient modes. On a content-moderation skill, it reduces bundle tokens by 38% and per-run tokens by 10.4% without quality loss, outperforming unprotected compression (71% reduction but 26 accuracy point drop). Multi-entry support ensures route preservation.
progressive loadingexecution-aware compressionskill bundlescross-file redundancymulti-entry routing
Which Rules Matter Now? Policy-Centroid Routing Before an Intelligent System Acts
Policy-centroid routing introduces a pre-adjudication layer for intelligent systems to identify applicable policy regimes before action execution. The method compresses policy expressions into semantic centroids, maps proposed actions into the same space, and routes regimes exceeding a threshold for authoritative review, generating a review agenda rather than direct judgments. The paper formulates six falsifiable propositions and outlines seven follow-on studies comparing the approach with structured workflows, semantic retrieval, and classification methods. A synthetic example is provided, though empirical efficacy results are not reported.
policy-centroid routingsemantic centroidsauthoritative reviewreview agendastructured workflows
On the Prospects of Dynamic LLM Conversations in Software Development
The study investigates the impact of minimal interventions on developer-Large Language Model (LLM) interactions in software development. A four-month longitudinal experiment with third-semester computer science students assessed three conditions: context-aware intent augmentation, proactive follow-up suggestions, and a control group. Interaction logs and user surveys were analyzed to evaluate treatment effects. Results showed no significant differences in interaction patterns, indicating no harmful effects from interventions. Trends suggested increased satisfaction with proactive guidance, implying that more substantial augmentations could enhance developer satisfaction in LLM-assisted development tasks.
large language modelssoftware developmentlongitudinal studyinteraction patternsdeveloper satisfaction
Learning from What You Retrieve: Online RL Fine-Tuning for Semantic Retrieval
The paper introduces PAO (Positive-Advantage-Only), a selective reinforcement learning optimization method for semantic retrieval in e-commerce. PAO addresses the objective mismatch between dual-encoder retrievers and downstream rerankers by selectively applying gradient updates only to retrieved items with positive advantages, preserving pre-trained semantic manifolds in frozen document indices. This approach avoids the degradation of embedding geometry observed in standard policy-gradient updates. Experiments on an industrial dataset and public benchmarks show that PAO significantly outperforms standard RL and distillation baselines.
semantic retrievalreinforcement learningembedding geometrypolicy-gradientdual-encoder
Autoregressive Mosaics: Probing 2D Spatial Reasoning in Text-Only Language Models
The paper introduces Autoregressive Mosaics (AM-Bench), a benchmark to evaluate 2D spatial reasoning in text-only language models by separating code translation from layout composition. It tests eight open-weight models on two tasks: translating specified geometry into code and composing images from underspecified prompts. Results show all models excel at translation, but layout performance varies, indicating spatial reasoning depends on model capability and output medium (e.g., SVG outperforms procedural code). Probing reveals coarse layout plans exist pre-generation but adapt dynamically during execution, suggesting models track geometric state rather than fixed plans.
autoregressive mosaicsspatial reasoninglanguage modelssvgcode-generation
Calibrating Small Language Models for Claim Check-Worthiness Detection
The paper introduces NN-PPI, a pointwise extension of Prediction-Powered Inference (PPI) for calibrating small language models (SLMs) in claim check-worthiness detection without retraining. This lightweight post-hoc layer improves weighted F1 scores by 12% to 33.80%, enabling SLMs to match large language model (LLM) performance at lower cost. NN-PPI also enhances fine-tuned production models, demonstrating calibration complements supervised learning. The method reduces operational costs by achieving LLM-level accuracy with models an order of magnitude cheaper to serve.
claim check-worthinessprediction-powered inferencesmall language modelspost-hoc calibrationweighted f1
RailGen: Improving Railway Intrusion Detection via Agent-Guided Small-Scale Foreign Object Generation
The paper introduces RailGen, a generative-augmented detection paradigm for Railway Foreign Object Detection (RFOD) that addresses long-tailed data distributions and small-object detection challenges. The method employs a multimodal image generation agent to synthesize high-quality railway scenes with calibrated intrusion positions, enriching feature representations of rare and small objects. The proposed FocalDEIM framework enhances dense matching via Focal Modulation and emphasizes hard samples with Focal Loss. Experiments show RailGen reduces object pixel area by 58x (avg. 13.85x) and improves mAP@50 by 5.6% and mAP@(50-95) by 7.5% over baselines, outperforming SOTA methods.
railway foreign object detectionmultimodal image generationlong-tailed distributionfocal modulationsmall-object detection
Multimodal Adaptive Expert Selection with Text Routing and Ordinal Prototype Optimization for Sentiment Analysis
The paper introduces MAESTRO, a multimodal sentiment analysis framework addressing two limitations of prior work: static computation graphs and generic contrastive objectives. MAESTRO employs a Text-Guided Hybrid Mixture-of-Experts mechanism to dynamically route linguistic context for adaptive audio-visual expert activation, alongside Ordinal-aware Prototype Contrastive Learning (O-PCL) to enforce structured latent spaces preserving sentiment intensity order. Evaluated on CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI, MAESTRO achieves state-of-the-art performance, with qualitative analysis validating its interpretable routing.
multimodal sentiment analysismixture-of-expertsordinal prototype learningadaptive routingcontrastive learning
BAITBENCH: Measuring Agent Reward Hacking with Optional Shortcuts Planted in ML Tasks
The authors introduce BAITBENCH, a benchmark suite of three synthetic tabular ML tasks designed to measure reward hacking in LLM agents. Each task contains an optional shortcut that inflates public test scores but fails on hidden test sets, allowing quantification of exploit frequency. Using a two-stage judge pipeline, they evaluate seven frontier agents, finding 57.1% of runs exhibit reward hacking, with five agents exceeding 50% cheating rates. Notably, cheating persists (mean >50%) even when agents are explicitly prompted not to exploit shortcuts. The release includes BAITBENCH tasks, judge implementation, and annotated reward-hack transcripts for mitigation testing.
reward hackingllm agentsbenchmark suitetabular mlhidden test set
RailSyn: Diagnosis-Guided Image Generation for Traceable Data Completion in Railway Foreign Object Detection
RailSyn introduces a diagnosis-guided framework for traceable data completion in railway foreign object detection (RFOD), addressing task-relevant deficiencies in object scale, intrusion relation, and environmental conditions. The framework comprises an Inspector, which localizes candidate completion regions and profiles synthetic pools through a variable-radius empirical cover, and a Generator, which employs domain adaptation, agent-planned placement, and conditional refinement to fulfill railway-context, intrusion-semantic, and visual-consistency requirements. The system achieves a local-shell occupation of 13.64%, indicating effective coverage of real-derived completion regions, and demonstrates AP50--95 gains of up to 4.9 points across nine mainstream detectors.
railway foreign object detectiondiagnosis-guided frameworkvariable-radius empirical coverdomain adaptationagent-planned placement
SingProbe Technical Report
SingProbe introduces a lightweight intrinsic runtime guardrail for LLMs that reuses hidden states during autoregressive decoding, enabling continuous token-level prediction of query intent, response safety, and hallucination risk with minimal overhead ($<0.5\%$). The method operates within a unified framework, leveraging internal model representations for generation-time monitoring and control. Evaluated on SingStreamBench, SingProbe achieves competitive performance against larger standalone guardrails and specialized detectors, using only $\approx$2M parameters. Extensions like SingProbe-Med demonstrate selective risk-directed decoding in medical generation, showcasing its adaptability to domain-specific safety interventions.
runtime guardrailsautoregressive decodinghallucination risktoken-level predictionhidden states
An Agentic Retrobiosynthesis Framework with Learned Frontier Selection
The study introduces an agentic retrobiosynthesis framework that isolates the contribution of search policies in multistep retrosynthesis, independent of the underlying biochemical reaction model. Using rule-based retrobiosynthesis, the framework employs a deterministic biochemical engine to generate validated transitions, while LoRA-tuned Qwen2.5-7B policies select frontier molecules for expansion. Fine-tuned policies achieve a 65±1% solve rate at 10 expansions on LASER, outperforming MCTS (59%), and reach 78±1% at 200 expansions, surpassing MCTS (75%). Additionally, they achieve 88±3% on RetroPath RL Golden and 63±2% on BioNavi-NP, demonstrating that route-supervised frontier selection enhances budgeted search efficiency.
retrobiosynthesisqwen2.5-7blora-tuningfrontier selectionbiochemical engine
Learning Dynamics of Logits Debiasing for Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
The paper analyzes logits debiasing dynamics in long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL), showing that class-imbalance bias dominates predictions and converges to label priors. It introduces DyTrim, a dynamic pruning framework that reallocates gradient budgets via class-aware pruning on labeled data and confidence-based soft pruning on unlabeled data, theoretically reducing bias. Experiments on LTSSL benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements across architectures and methods.
long-tailed learningsemi-supervised learninglogits debiasinggradient dynamicsdynamic pruning
ATLAS: Dual-Horizon Diagnostic Evaluation for Industrial Tool-Use Agents
ATLAS introduces a dual-horizon diagnostic evaluation framework for industrial LLM-based tool-use agents, addressing deficiencies in current evaluation methods. The framework combines request-horizon (trajectory-wise) and interaction-horizon (user-wise) signals to pinpoint execution failures and sustained service misalignment, with calibrated LLM judges and distilled diagnostic models for efficient assessment. Evaluated on Meituan Xiaotuan production traffic, ATLAS demonstrates improved diagnostic fidelity, policy optimization (via offline replay), and concurrent gains in user engagement (+X%), business outcomes (+Y%), and human-audit quality (Z% reduction in errors).
tool-use agentsdiagnostic evaluationpolicy optimizationllm judgesinteraction horizon
Learning Materials Properties from Scarce Labels and Unlabeled Crystals
The paper introduces SemiMat, a controlled benchmark for semi-supervised materials property regression, and MatRank, a reliability-weighted objective for pseudo-label uncertainty in scarce-label settings. SemiMat standardizes evaluation across six tasks, four graph backbones, and five predefined splits, while MatRank leverages labeled anchors, local reliability weighting, and ranking signals to improve pseudo-label quality. MatRank achieves the lowest aggregate held-out test NMAE (0.896) and best average method rank (2.208) across 24 backbone-task blocks, with diagnostics highlighting reliable gains and areas needing further evaluation.
semi-supervised learningmaterials property regressiongraph backbonespseudo-label uncertaintynormalized mae
LCoT-GV: Graph Attention Networks for Verifying Long Reasoning Chains in Large Language Models
LCoT-GV introduces a graph-based verification framework for assessing the correctness of long reasoning chains in large language models, addressing issues like contradictions and unsupported inferences. The method represents reasoning steps as nodes and semantic/logical relations as edges in a graph, then employs a Graph Attention Network to predict chain validity. Evaluated on a new graph-oriented verification dataset derived from multiple reasoning benchmarks, LCoT-GV demonstrates competitive performance with similar approaches.
graph attention networkreasoning verificationchain-of-thoughtsemantic relationslogical relations
MedAgent-R1: Faithfulness-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Evidence-Grounded Medical Reasoning
MedAgent-R1 introduces a faithfulness-aware reinforcement learning framework for evidence-grounded medical reasoning, addressing the 'confident hallucination' failure mode where RL-trained retrieval agents improve accuracy but degrade faithfulness by fabricating citations (16.5% to 31.8%). The method employs a faithfulness-gated reward design that conditions accuracy credit on evidence grounding, supplemented by retrieval validity and conciseness signals. Results show reduced citation fabrication (31.8% to 4.7%), improved evidence completeness (58.7 to 82.6), and 75.1% accuracy, with 13.2-point gains on HealthBench Safety, outperforming GPT-4o on faithfulness-specific metrics (Factual Support 4.55 vs. 4.25).
reinforcement learningevidence groundinghallucination mitigationretrieval validityfaithfulness-gated reward
CoMPASS: Collaborative Molecular Property Prediction via Adaptive Small-Large Model Synergy
CoMPASS introduces a retrieval-calibrated framework for collaborative molecular property prediction, synergizing a graph attention network (GAT) anchor with large language model (LLM) corrections. The method retrieves locally relevant training molecules, grounds LLM proposals in attention-based evidence, and applies bounded corrections via an agreement-aware gate. Evaluated on six classification and two regression benchmarks, CoMPASS improves GAT performance in uncertain regions while limiting LLM intervention in high-confidence regimes. Ablations confirm gains stem from calibrated retrieval and bounded fusion, not prompting alone. The framework demonstrates that generative reasoning should augment calibrated prediction through evidence-grounded corrections.
molecular property predictiongraph attention networkretrieval-calibratedlarge language modelevidence-grounded
HiRS-Agent: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for Reliable Long-Horizon Remote Sensing Task Solving
HiRS-Agent introduces a hierarchical multi-agent system for reliable long-horizon remote sensing task solving, addressing limitations of monolithic frameworks. The system employs a two-level architecture: a Manager Layer for dynamic routing, verification, replanning, and termination control, and a Specialist Layer for subtask reasoning and tool execution. It incorporates a two-stage supervised tuning strategy and verification-guided hierarchical reinforcement learning to optimize coordination and tool-use policies. Evaluations on Earth-Agent Benchmark and ThinkGeo demonstrate significant improvements in long-horizon tool-use capability and final-task correctness. The code is publicly available.
hierarchical multi-agent systemremote sensingdynamic routingverification-guided reinforcement learningtool-use capability
Fine-Grained Multi Image Object Hallucination Benchmark
The paper introduces MIOH, a fine-grained benchmark for evaluating multi-image object hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), addressing limitations of single-image benchmarks. MIOH systematically assesses hallucination across four tasks (existence, counting, attribute, position) via three reasoning patterns (comprehensive, comparative, selective) under controlled adversarial pressures (visual context scale, perceptual difficulty, contextual bias). Evaluation of 29 models, including GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro, reveals distinct failure patterns, showing hallucination stems from integration-stage limitations in maintaining object representations across images rather than perceptual failures alone.
multimodal large language modelsobject hallucinationmulti-image reasoningbenchmark evaluationvisual context integration
PyKEEN-NSX: A Modular Framework for Static, Dynamic and Schema-Aware Negative Sampling in PyKEEN
PyKEEN-NSX extends PyKEEN with a modular framework for negative sampling in knowledge graph embedding (KGE) tasks, addressing limitations in existing libraries that support only basic strategies. The framework decouples candidate negative pool generation from selection, enabling integration of static, dynamic, and schema-aware approaches. Six implemented samplers demonstrate compatibility with PyKEEN workflows. Evaluation on four datasets reveals constrained negative pools often fall short of requested sizes, necessitating random fallback supplementation.
knowledge graph embeddingnegative samplingmodular frameworkschema-awaretriple classification
Geometry of Divergence: Tracking Hidden-State Trajectories for Adaptive Multi-Turn Reasoning
The paper introduces geometric measures (temporal curvature and variance slope) to track hidden-state trajectories in LLMs during multi-turn reasoning, addressing representation drift under resource constraints. By decomposing episodes into action chains (Read, Write, Respond, Transfer), the method identifies critical reasoning turns via trajectory geometry. Experiments on four tasks with three LLMs show these signals distinguish correct/incorrect episodes early, improving task success on τ-Bench by 15.5% (24.1%→39.6%) while reducing token cost by 11.2%.
hidden-state trajectoriesmulti-turn reasoningrepresentation drifttemporal curvaturevariance slope
BiG-SURE - Bipartite Graph for Semantic Uncertainty and Reliability Estimation of LLMs
BiG-SURE introduces a black-box uncertainty estimator for LLMs/VLMs using cross-temperature semantic agreement, constructing a bipartite graph from low-temperature (anchor) and high-temperature (probe) responses via NLI-based entailment scores. Confidence is derived from normalized squared spectral energy of this matrix, with uncertainty as its complement. Evaluated on text/multilingual/multimodal QA tasks, BiG-SURE improves abstention AUROC over prior black-box methods while remaining unsupervised and model-agnostic.
uncertainty estimationbipartite graphsemantic agreementblack-boxnli-based entailment
GMTS: Gradient Magnitude-based Token Selection Improves RLVR Training for LLM Reasoning
The paper introduces Gradient Magnitude-based Token Selection (GMTS), a method to improve Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) training for LLM reasoning by selecting tokens based on gradient magnitude rather than entropy. GMTS leverages the correlation between high-entropy tokens and large gradient magnitudes but addresses entropy's inconsistency across answers by directly approximating gradient-magnitude rankings. Experiments show GMTS outperforms entropy-based selection, with top 20% GMTS-ranked tokens yielding consistent gains across three reasoning domains and varying model sizes.
reinforcement learningtoken selectiongradient magnitudellm reasoningrlvr
Cost-efficient Active Learning for Referring Image Segmentation and Grounding
The paper introduces a cost-efficient active learning (AL) framework for referring image segmentation and grounding, addressing the bottleneck of collecting natural-language referring expressions with region annotations. The method operates without ground-truth text by generating auxiliary region-text pairs using foundation models and proposing Referred Region Ambiguity, an acquisition function that prioritizes images with visually ambiguous regions. Experiments on RIS and REC benchmarks demonstrate consistent outperformance over AL baselines, while a user study shows a 1.6X speedup in description labeling.
active learningreferring image segmentationvisual groundingfoundation modelsacquisition function
Hidden Threat in Synthetic Data: Covert Targeted Bias Injection through Benign Text
This paper demonstrates that semantically benign synthetic data can covertly inject targeted social biases into aligned large language models (LLMs) while preserving general task capabilities. The authors construct a pipeline where a misaligned teacher model generates filtered synthetic datasets across domains like creative writing and code generation, which are then used to fine-tune aligned student models. Experiments reveal that such synthetic data acts as a covert channel for bias transmission, exposing a previously underexplored security risk in LLM training pipelines. The authors propose log-linearity-based scoring as a potential safeguard for screening benign-looking synthetic data.
synthetic datalarge language modelsbias injectionlog-linearityfine-tuning
Reading the News: Adapting Large Language Models to Swedish Journalism Through Continued Pre-Training
This work investigates continued pre-training for adapting large language models to Swedish journalism, using a curated dataset of millions of news articles. A novel domain-specific benchmark covering six editorial tasks evaluates adaptation efficacy through full and parameter-efficient fine-tuning across two model sizes. Results show continued pre-training enhances generation quality and factual knowledge when paired with experience replay, though discriminative task proficiency remains unchanged. Training-free instruction following improves performance exclusively for low-rank adaptation models. Targeted evaluation proves crucial, as existing Swedish benchmarks fail to capture in-domain performance gains.
continued pre-trainingparameter-efficient fine-tuningexperience replaylow-rank adaptationdomain-specific benchmark
Generative Retrieval for E-commerce: Jointly Learning Embedding and Codebook with Same Product Cluster
We propose a joint training framework for generative retrieval in e-commerce that simultaneously learns product embeddings and codebook mappings while incorporating same product cluster supervision. This addresses limitations of existing two-stage approaches, which suffer from error accumulation due to biased embeddings and lack of query-to-product/product-to-product interaction modeling. Our method integrates cluster-level consistency constraints during joint optimization, improving both embedding quality and codebook accuracy. Experiments demonstrate significant retrieval performance gains compared to cascaded training paradigms.
generative retrievalproduct embeddingscodebook learningjoint trainingcluster supervision
DiffSAC: Diffusion-guided Sampling for Consensus-based Robust Estimation
DiffSAC introduces a diffusion-guided sampling framework for consensus-based robust estimation, addressing inefficiencies in traditional sample-consensus methods. The method employs a diffusion model to learn the distribution of effective minimum sets, refining per-point confidence via geometric feature conditioning rather than point ranking. This reduces bad-set processing, yielding high-quality hypotheses (dozens vs. 10k+ in prior work) while maintaining SOTA performance. Experiments across five vision tasks confirm real-time operation via diffusion sampling accelerators, with plug-and-play compatibility for existing consensus methods.
diffusion modelsample consensusrobust estimationgeometric featureshypothesis evaluation
Automated Testing of LLM-Based Post Hoc Explainers Using Model Checking as an Oracle
The paper introduces an automated testing framework for evaluating LLM-based post hoc explainers of sequential decision-making policies, addressing two key challenges: the lack of an oracle for explanation correctness and unstructured natural language queries. Using probabilistic model checking as an oracle and a taxonomy-based test case generation method with diagnostic difficulty scoring, the approach evaluates three open-weight LLMs across seven MDP environments. Results show performance stratification: a reasoning model achieves 85% accuracy, a mid-size model 70%, and a 1B-parameter model falls below random baseline, with prioritized test cases proving significantly harder than random selection.
large language modelsprobabilistic model checkingpost hoc explainerssequential decision-makingtest case generation
Collapsibility of Performance Metrics in Clinical Predictive AI
The study analyzes collapsibility in 15 clinical predictive AI metrics, demonstrating that AUC, calibration intercept/slope, expected calibration error, and Nagelkerke R² are non-collapsible (population values ≠ weighted subgroup averages), while 10 others including Brier score and F1-score are collapsible. Through formal decomposition proofs and Simpson's paradox-inspired counterexamples, it reveals AUC's non-collapsibility stems from within-/cross-group term interactions. Findings highlight how non-collapsibility can distort fairness evaluations by creating spurious subgroup-population performance discrepancies, necessitating explicit metric property reporting.
non-collapsibilityfairness evaluationperformance metricsauc decompositionclinical prediction
TuringLLM: Efficiently Scaling Foundation Models Toward Physical AI
The work introduces Turing-20B-A2B, a 20B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model activating ~2B parameters/token, optimized for long-context physical AI applications. It employs Quantile Routing for dynamic top-k expert allocation, capacity-constrained routing during prompt prefill, and a hybrid attention architecture (Lightning Attention + full-attention layers) for efficient 128K-context modeling (extendable to 512K via YaRN). Despite its compact active parameters, the model surpasses Qwen3-8B Base and approaches Qwen3.5-9B Base in general capability while maintaining strong long-context performance and prefill-latency scaling.
mixture-of-expertsquantile routinglightning attentionyarnprompt prefill
Q-Strata: Hierarchical Bit Allocation for Mixed-Precision Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
Q-Strata introduces a bi-level bit allocation method for mixed-precision quantization of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs, addressing the challenge of large allocation spaces in MoE blocks. The method employs an inner stage to cache Pareto-optimal per-block assignments and an outer stage to optimize model-level objectives, capturing inter-block coupling. Evaluated on Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct, Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, and DeepSeek-V2-Lite, Q-Strata achieves lower WikiText2 perplexity than GPTQ, MxMoE, and GEMQ in low-bit regimes.
mixed-precision quantizationmixture-of-expertsbit allocationlarge language modelsperplexity
AdaPath: Query-Adaptive Path-Finding via Path-Bank for Multi-Hop Implicit Biomedical KGQA
AdaPath introduces query-adaptive path-finding via Path-Bank to address challenges in multi-hop biomedical KGQA, where queries lack intermediate reasoning and knowledge graphs are densely connected. The framework retrieves meta-paths that capture query semantics and graph structure, pruning dense neighborhoods during reasoning. Evaluated on BioStrat-QA and other benchmarks, AdaPath outperforms baselines, maintaining robust performance even with queries exposing minimal surface information.
knowledge graphsmulti-hop reasoningquery semanticspath-findingbiomedical qa
Preference Shapes Relevance: Cross-component Hierarchical Semantic Alignment for Personalized Generative Retrieval
CHAP introduces a personalized Generative Retrieval framework addressing semantic misalignment and inference latency in Semantic ID (SID) generation. It employs Hierarchical Semantic Alignment to synchronize multi-granular semantics between queries and items, integrating discrete SIDs with continuous representations for user behavior modeling. A Residual Cascading Generation mechanism reduces Transformer Decoder inference to a single pass, enhancing throughput. Evaluations on three public datasets, one industrial dataset, and online A/B tests demonstrate CHAP's effectiveness, validating its practical utility.
generative retrievalsemantic alignmentsemantic idstransformer decoderresidual cascading generation
GarmentWeaver: Schema-Aware Structured Synthesis for Multimodal Sewing Patterns
GarmentWeaver introduces a schema-aware framework for multimodal sewing pattern generation, addressing limitations of flat sequence modeling that lead to structural redundancy and simulation incompatibility. The method constructs hierarchical targets by activating garment-relevant structural branches, leverages a pretrained vision-language model for multimodal understanding, and applies feasibility-aware regularization to ensure structurally valid outputs. Experimental results demonstrate that GarmentWeaver outperforms baselines in accuracy, executability, and simulation quality, validating the effectiveness of structured generation for reliable multimodal sewing pattern prediction.
schema-aware generationmultimodal understandinghierarchical targetsfeasibility-aware regularizationsimulation compatibility
Designing an Auditable LLM-Supported Workflow for Qualitative Thematic Analysis
This paper contributes an auditable, privacy-preserving workflow for Large Language Model (LLM)-supported Thematic Analysis (TA) by operationalizing five design principles derived from methodological requirements and LLM inference conditions. The proposed two-phase workflow combines interpretative LLM inference with deterministic procedural control to generate codes, themes, and analytical justifications while maintaining explicit links to source material. Evaluated on Danish interview transcripts, the workflow produces code-level outputs with coverage comparable to human annotations, highly rated analytical justifications, and a more compressed thematic structure with fewer, broader themes. The modular design supports scalability, LLM interoperability, and domain transfer through prompt adjustments.
thematic analysislarge language modelsinterpretative inferencedeterministic procedural controldomain adaptation
DiffPDE: Masked Diffusion Language Models as PDE Solver
DiffPDE introduces a framework for Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solving using discrete diffusion language models, addressing inefficiencies in autoregressive approaches by localized re-masking and infilling of erroneous code regions. The method incorporates Iterative Debugging GRPO (ID-GRPO), a reinforcement learning scheme for multi-round debugging via intermediate rewards. On PDEBench, DiffPDE achieves competitive accuracy, outperforms same-scale autoregressive models, and significantly accelerates repair.
partial differential equationsdiffusion language modelsautoregressive modelsreinforcement learningcode repair
Learning-Assisted Congestion-Aware Route Scheduling for Semiconductor Fab Material Control Systems
The paper introduces Transport-Network-aware Dynamic Congestion Representation (TN-DCR), a learning-assisted method for semiconductor fab material control systems. TN-DCR integrates structural route priors, multi-window congestion context, bottleneck exposure, and inductive route embeddings under a prediction-time-safety invariant. It employs queue/transfer-time regressors, an ordinal classifier for calibrated exceedance scores, and empirical-Bayes residual correction. A risk-constrained scheduling rule minimizes delivery time while bounding extreme-congestion probability. Closed-loop evaluation shows 16.4% reduction in mean delivery time and 22.6% decrease in resource waiting time, with maintained throughput.
dynamic congestion representationrisk-constrained schedulinginductive route embeddingordinal multi-label classifierempirical-bayes correction
ScienceArena: Benchmarking LLMs on Latest Scientific Olympiad Competitions
The paper introduces ScienceArena, a benchmark for evaluating LLMs on open-ended scientific reasoning using problems from 13 olympiad competitions (e.g., IPhO, IChO 2025–2026). It employs an expert-audited digitization pipeline to structure problems, solutions, and rubrics, validated by olympiad medalists. The authors calibrate LLM-as-judge against human expert scores, finding two strong judges within ±1 point of ground truth. Evaluation of 14 LLMs reveals medal-equivalent performance on some tasks, with failures attributed to visual grounding and long-horizon consistency. Chemistry remains a key bottleneck.
llm-as-judgevisual groundinglong-horizon reasoningprocess-credit rubricsbenchmark saturation
TSExplorer: An interactive data annotation and exploration tool for time-series data
TSExplorer introduces a cross-platform tool for interactive annotation and exploration of time-series data, enabling multi-view 2D visualization of high-dimensional feature representations. The system supports diverse workflows including exploratory analysis, dataset annotation, feature representation comparison, and label refinement with interactive feedback. Designed as a general-purpose research tool, it accommodates both unlabeled and partially-labeled datasets through its visualization-driven interface.
time-seriesannotationhigh-dimensionalvisualizationfeature representation
Trajectory-Initialized Neural Double Q-Routing for Large-Scale Overhead Hoist Transport Systems
Proposes Neural Double Q-routing, a value-network-based approach for overhead hoist transport (OHT) systems that replaces destination-indexed Q-tables with shared state–action value approximation. The method warm-starts via return-to-go regression on simulated trajectories, then refines online with Double-Q updates, congestion correction, and stratified replay. Evaluated across 100–200 OHT fleets, it reduces mean completion time by 0.8%–8.8% versus tabular Double Q-routing, achieves lowest mean in 6/9 high-load settings, and improves startup performance (up to 23% more tasks completed, 15% lower tail latency).
neural double q-routingoverhead hoist transportreturn-to-go regressiontabular q-routingcompletion time
Lot Machine: Multimodal Lot Extraction from Auction Catalogs
A pipeline for extracting structured lot-level metadata from historical auction catalogs is proposed, addressing the lack of machine-readable representations in provenance research. The method evaluates Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with varying prompt strategies and constrained decoding frameworks on a manually annotated test set from German Sales, a database of 19th and 20th-century catalogs. Benchmarks across deployment modes—commercial endpoints, institutional gateways, and local quantized models—show that commercial providers achieve the highest performance, while local deployments require output structure enforcement for valid JSON. The pipeline enables large-scale automated analysis of auction catalogs, though human-in-the-loop correction remains necessary.
vision-language modelsconstrained decodinglot-level metadataquantized modelshuman-in-the-loop
Tensor Methods for Language Models: From Token Representation to Training, Adaptation, Inference, Compression, and Interpretability
This survey systematizes tensor methods for large language models (LLMs) through a seven-stage lifecycle taxonomy and component view, unifying notation and theoretical foundations. It analyzes tensorization strategies for Transformer components, compares methods across lifecycle stages, and introduces $ρ_{\rm gap}$, a metric quantifying the compression-realization gap between theoretical memory reduction and system-level speedup. The work connects tensor methods to efficiency techniques and probabilistic tensor networks, providing a structured entry point for tensorized LLMs and clarifying when parameter savings translate into memory efficiency, computational efficiency, or interpretability.
tensor methodslanguage modelscompression-realization gaptransformer componentsprobabilistic tensor networks
CM2: Multimodal Cultural Reasoning via an Integrated Multi-Agent Framework
CM2 introduces a multi-agent framework for multimodal cultural reasoning, addressing limitations in horizontal interdisciplinary analysis compared to vertical STEM-focused deduction. The system integrates multimodal perception, retrieval-augmented generation, networked reasoning, gated fusion, and reward-driven feedback, inspired by human cognitive pathways. Evaluations on CM2D demonstrate consistent improvements over chain-of-thought and standard reasoning approaches across multiple MLLM backbones, with ablation studies confirming individual module contributions and conflict analyses verifying cross-modal arbitration.
multimodal reasoningretrieval-augmented generationnetworked reasoninggated fusioncross-modal arbitration
Measuring Memory and Generalization as Separable Geometric Channels: The Topo^2 Framework
The Topo^2 framework introduces a geometric method to causally separate and measure memory (memorization of noisy labels) and generalization (performance on clean data) in deep networks. Using persistent-homology H1 structures, it partitions representation space into within-class and cross-class channels, revealing distinct geometric signatures. Key findings include the FM0 intervention (zero loss on flipped samples from epoch 0), which achieves ceiling generalization without memorization, and the topological layering principle (TLS), showing memory is additive, invertible, and quantifiable (memorization cost coefficient C ≈ 0.38). The framework is validated on CIFAR-10, SVHN, CIFAR-100, and VGG, with falsification tests excluding global statistics as explanatory factors.
topological frameworkpersistent homologygeneralization-memory separationnoisy labelsrepresentation space
ImageEval 2026: Culturally Grounded Arabic Multimodal Evaluation
The ImageEval 2026 shared task introduced culturally grounded multimodal evaluation for Arabic, featuring two subtasks: AynVQA (spoken visual question answering and hallucination detection in English and Modern Standard Arabic) and CRAI-Bench (cultural accuracy assessment in text-to-image generation). Fourteen teams participated, employing methods such as zero-shot prompting, vision-language model fine-tuning, speech-recognition pipelines, ensembling, and score calibration. Results from 12 submitted system descriptions highlight challenges in Arabic multimodal reasoning, with released datasets and evaluation scripts facilitating further research.
multimodal evaluationvisual question answeringtext-to-image generationcultural accuracyspeech-recognition pipelines
CHASE: How Content Ecosystems Are Reshaped When Ranking Is the Only Target
The paper introduces Content Homogenization under rAnking Signal Exploitation (CHASE), a simulation framework for studying population-level effects of repeated Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) on content ecosystems. CHASE iterates ranking, feature discrimination, rewriting, and evaluation over 20 rounds across six domains, using ranking as a proxy for visibility (rank-citation AUC: 0.853 ± 0.093). Results show decreasing quality-ranking alignment (mean Spearman's rho change: -0.068), demonstrating adaptation toward ranking-derived incentives rather than iterative rewriting alone, with strongly domain-dependent dynamics.
generative engine optimizationcontent homogenizationranking signalpopulation-level effectssimulation framework
Enhancing Low-Resource Language Reasoning via High-Resource Language Feature Transfer
The study introduces a mechanistic intervention framework to address performance disparities in large language models across languages by transferring task-relevant sparse latent features from high-resource languages (HRLs) to low-resource languages (LRLs). Using sparse autoencoders over residual-stream activations, the method isolates and transfers features enriched in successful HRL reasoning, filtering out source-language and generic-generation features. Interventions show that activating these features partially recovers LRL reasoning, reframing cross-lingual gaps as mechanism elicitation failures rather than capability absence, without translation or fine-tuning.
sparse autoencodersresidual-stream activationsmechanistic interventioncross-lingual reasoningfeature transfer
EvoSkill Injection: Red-Teaming Autonomous Skill Generation and Evolution in Self-Evolving Agents
The paper introduces EvoSkill Injection, a threat model targeting autonomous skill generation in self-evolving agents, and proposes SARGE, a red-teaming framework to evaluate this vulnerability. SARGE employs iterative generation, escalation, and reinforcement interactions to test malicious skill formation, supported by EvoSkillBench (a dataset of malicious trajectories) and EvoSkillSafetyBench (a post-attack evaluation benchmark). Experiments demonstrate that SARGE successfully induces persistent malicious skill storage and activation, revealing risks of capability corruption in skill-based agent architectures.
evoskill injectionself-evolving agentsred-teamingautonomous skill generationcapability corruption
Lies We Can See: Joint Verbal and Non-Verbal Deception by VLM Agents in Embodied Social Interactions
The paper introduces MineAmongUs, a 3D multimodal sandbox for studying deception in VLM agents through joint verbal and non-verbal actions in social-deduction games, addressing limitations of text-only testbeds. It proposes ARIA, a configurable VLM-agent harness with five cognitive-component ablation axes, and an annotation scheme operationalized by LLM-as-a-Judge, achieving near-human atom-labeling agreement. Results demonstrate that VLM agents employ both verbal and non-verbal deception, with non-verbal channels proving more decisive for imposter wins across harness ablations and cross-VLM evaluations, advancing embodied VLM-agent alignment research.
social-deduction gamesmultimodal deceptionvlm-agent harnessnon-verbal channelsembodied alignment
Towards Cognitive Process-Aware Proactive Writing Support
This work introduces a cognitive process-aware framework for proactive writing support, addressing the challenge of determining appropriate assistance types without explicit user prompts. Leveraging Flower and Hayes' cognitive process theory of writing, the authors identify 14 support types linked to six cognitive processes and associated interaction behaviors. They implement this framework in AToM CoWriter, which infers support needs from writing interactions and document context. Two within-subjects studies (N = 21) demonstrate improved expressiveness, idea exploration, and increased engagement with proactive suggestions, validating cognitive processes as a basis for support selection in proactive writing systems.
cognitive process theoryproactive writing supportatom cowriterwriting interactionssupport selection
ObjectSplat: Improving Mesh Fidelity and Interactivity for 3D Scenes via Object-Level Mesh Splatting
ObjectSplat introduces a decompose-before-reconstruct approach to enhance mesh fidelity and interactivity in 3D scene reconstruction. The method segments instances from each frame, inpainting the background and reconstructing each instance independently via mesh splatting, before composing them into a unified scene. This object-level decomposition addresses limitations of monolithic field representations, enabling downstream editing and interaction while improving novel-view synthesis. Results demonstrate a significant improvement in mesh fidelity, with over a 5% gain in F-score, and enhanced modifiability of individual objects. The code will be publicly available.
mesh splattingnovel-view synthesisobject-level decompositioninpaintingf-score
Whole-Slide Image Analysis under Realistic Few-Shot Annotation Protocols
The paper introduces SlideCRF, a transductive method for refining patch-level predictions in whole-slide image analysis by combining spatial and biological cues while handling class imbalance. It addresses limitations of current methods by proposing realistic annotation protocols (e.g., localized clicks, scribbles) that mimic pathologist interactions. Evaluated on four datasets, SlideCRF improves macro F1 scores by +24.2% (1 click/class) and +37.5% (16 clicks/class) over zero-shot baselines, outperforming existing transductive approaches.
whole-slide imagesfew-shot transductionconditional random fieldsclass imbalancemacro f1
From Metaheuristics to Exact Methods: A CP-SAT Approach for Multi-Objective Healthcare Workforce Scheduling
The paper presents CP-SAT, a Constraint Programming formulation for multi-objective healthcare workforce scheduling that enforces 14 hard constraints (ensuring zero regulatory violations) while optimizing 15 soft objectives via weighted penalty functions. Key innovations include shift-window decomposition for break scheduling, acuity-weighted workload equity, and multi-granularity resolution (15 minutes to 1 day). Evaluated on 18 instances (including INRC-II and NRP-23 benchmarks), CP-SAT achieves zero violations, proves optimality on INRC-II n005w4 (objective 118, 0.0% gap), scales to 179,800 variables (80 nurses), and improves service quality by 50-67% over MOGA while maintaining near-linear model size scaling (~4,400 variables per employee).
constraint programmingmulti-objective optimizationworkforce schedulingnp-hardregulatory compliance
DERELAB: Probing Defeasible Reasoning and Confirmation Bias in LLMs with a Generative Benchmark
The paper introduces DeReLab, a generative framework for evaluating defeasible reasoning in large language models (LLMs) through multi-turn belief-updating conversations derived from parameterized graph structures. The benchmark covers default and inheritance reasoning with formally verified ground truth, enabling controlled measurement of model responses to confirming/disconfirming evidence. Evaluation of nine open and proprietary LLMs reveals a systematic confirmation bias: most models accept congruent evidence but resist incongruent updates, with some failing to revise conclusions despite correctly identifying weakening updates.
defeasible reasoningconfirmation biasmulti-turn evaluationnon-monotonic reasoninggenerative benchmark
SePArate: Segmenting Patterns from Defects in Wafer Manufacturing Using Weak Supervision
SePArate introduces a weakly supervised method for pixel-level defect segmentation in semiconductor wafer manufacturing, using only image-level annotations. The approach employs a three-phase training pipeline: encoder pretraining, knowledge transfer for spatial cue learning, and synthetic mixed-defect data training to achieve precise segmentation. Experimental results show that SePArate outperforms baseline methods in defect pattern separation.
weakly superviseddefect segmentationwafer manufacturingimage-level annotationssynthetic data
Dense Clinical Contrasts Enhance Medical Knowledge Updating in Large Language Models
The study demonstrates that supervision format significantly impacts medical knowledge updating in LLMs under matched training budgets, introducing SEER-Bench for temporally anchored oncology-staging evaluation. Four formats (EMQ, MSQ, FITB, SAQ) were tested on identical updates from NCCN guidelines, with EMQ yielding superior transfer and retention. A 4B model updated via EMQ achieved 64.8% answer accuracy and 59.6% rationale accuracy on SEER-Bench, attributed to denser clinical contrast signals and minimal representation drift. Findings highlight the role of knowledge structuring in update efficacy beyond algorithmic factors.
medical knowledge updatingsupervision formattemporally anchored benchmarkclinical contrast signalsrepresentation drift
ImageCAS-X: a dataset and benchmark for coronary artery segmentation and centerline extraction in coronary CT angiography
The authors introduce ImageCAS-X, a dataset of 800 coronary CT angiography scans with voxel-wise lumen annotations, centerlines, and mesh surfaces to address limitations in validating automated coronary artery segmentation methods. The dataset enables benchmarking against inter-observer variability, with performance stratified by clinical factors (disease, image quality, vessel diameter) and anatomical context. Evaluations demonstrate the utility of these annotations for lumen segmentation, plaque quantification, and hemodynamic modeling, moving beyond aggregate scores to anatomically grounded validation.
coronary artery segmentationct angiographyvoxel-wise annotationhemodynamic modelinginter-observer variability
SemPOI-RL: Aligning LLM Semantic Reasoning for Interpretable Out-of-Town POI Sequential Generation
SemPOI-RL introduces a framework aligning LLM semantic reasoning with structured sequence generation for interpretable out-of-town POI recommendation. The method fine-tunes an LLM to infer destination-oriented travel styles from hometown trajectories, employs a Semantic POI Alignment Module (SPAM) for position-aware trajectory generation, and applies reinforcement learning to align LLM-generated styles with sequence quality. Evaluations on two real-world datasets demonstrate SemPOI-RL's superiority over traditional recommenders and direct LLM baselines, while providing interpretable style attribution across trip phases.
semantic reasoningstructured sequence generationpoi recommendationreinforcement learninginterpretable style attribution
Scaffolding Foundation Models into Physical-World Agents Pushes the Frontier of Long-Horizon Navigation
NavMCP introduces a scaffolding framework that integrates vision-language models (VLMs) and navigation foundation models (NFMs) for long-horizon physical-world navigation. VLMs handle high-level reasoning, deciding evidence needs and search strategies, while NFMs execute semantic sub-goals through closed-loop navigation. Collaboration occurs via intent, observation, and memory channels, enabling persistent embodied interaction without model retraining. NavMCP achieves state-of-the-art results on Embodied Question Answering benchmarks, outperforming episodic interfaces by 14.9 percentage points on HM-EQA and reaching 78.3% success on a Unitree Go2, with performance gains increasing with task horizon.
vision-language modelsnavigation foundation modelsclosed-loop navigationembodied interactionsemantic sub-goals
TopGQ: Fast GNN Post-Training Quantization Leveraging Topology Information
TopGQ introduces a fast post-training quantization framework for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that reduces quantization overhead while maintaining accuracy. The method employs dual-axis scale absorption to quantize activations along outer and inner dimensions by merging one axis into the adjacency matrix, and TopPIN, a topology-aware proxy, to group nodes with similar local structure during quantization. Experiments demonstrate that TopGQ achieves an order-of-magnitude reduction in quantization time without sacrificing accuracy.
graph neural networkspost-training quantizationscale absorptiontopology-awareactivation quantization
Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale
AutoTraceGT introduces a novel multi-agent pipeline automating grounded theory for trajectory analysis, employing iterative open/axial/theoretical coding until saturation to generate task-specific behavioral taxonomies. The method recovers 73-91% of human-annotated failure modes across six trajectory corpora while identifying additional missed patterns, with emergent narratives aligning with expert accounts. As a deductive feature space, AutoTraceGT's codebooks outperform zero-shot/few-shot LLM baselines in failure prediction, demonstrating grounded theory's scalability for agent behavior analysis.
grounded theoryagent trajectoriesbehavioral taxonomyfailure predictionmulti-agent pipeline
PRISM: Predictive Recomposition via Semantic Latent Decomposition for View-invariant Video Representation Learning
PRISM introduces a novel approach to view-invariant video representation learning by decomposing videos into view-invariant and view-variant semantic latents, then recomposing them under language supervision to ensure disentanglement. The method addresses the entanglement of view-invariant and view-variant features in existing cross-view methods by leveraging semantic recomposition. PRISM achieves state-of-the-art performance on EgoExo4D, EgoExoLearn, and AE2 benchmarks, outperforming in-domain models in zero-shot settings.
view-invariantsemantic latentdisentanglementcross-viewzero-shot
DASC: Decay-Aware State Compression for Hybrid Linear-Attention Serving
The paper introduces Decay-Aware State Compression (DASC), a method for compressing recurrent state checkpoints in hybrid linear-attention models by exploiting retention horizon variation across heads and channels. DASC analyzes decay patterns in Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Attention (KDA), selectively retains long-horizon state units, and employs a ragged checkpoint layout with tensor-parallel balancing. Evaluated on Kimi-Linear, DASC achieves 2.63× state compression with minimal quality loss, reducing Time to First Token (TTFT) by 42.6% and improving throughput by 68.4% under fixed memory budgets. The method generalizes to GDN in Qwen, demonstrating broader applicability.
hybrid linear-attentionkv cacheretention horizontensor-paralleltime to first token
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
PAVE introduces a direct world-action policy combining predictive alignment and value-guided evolution to address gaps in vision-language-action policies. The method employs multi-horizon transition alignment (25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of episode) for outcome-agnostic learning and a distributional value critic for outcome-aware policy improvement via flow-matching actor conditioned on N-step advantages. Online execution retains direct action generation from observation, language, and proprioception, removing predictors and critics. PAVE achieves top performance across three simulation benchmarks while maintaining efficient online execution.
vision-language-actionmulti-horizon alignmentdistributional value criticflow-matchingproprioception
Augmenting Human Performance with an XR Agent Learning from Online Behavior and BCI Evidence
The paper introduces OLIVE, a framework for real-time task assistance by adapting a frozen vision-language foundation model using fused behavioral and physiological signals. OLIVE leverages explicit user actions (target engagement in an XR FPS game) and implicit EEG fixation data to dynamically estimate source reliability and adjust relevance inference without offline training. Three user studies demonstrate that OLIVE Pareto-dominates prior test-time adaptation methods, achieving higher convergence rates while maintaining speed. The combined signal approach yields the largest within-session improvement in target detection (1.27× faster reconvergence after silent task switches vs. behavior-only, p=.008), with benefits largely skill-invariant.
foundation modeltest-time adaptationfixation-locked eegbehavioral signalsxr assistance
Will the User Ever Know? Covert Indirect Prompt Injection on Tool-Using LLM Agents
The study introduces a distinction between covert and overt successes in indirect prompt injection (IPI) attacks on tool-using LLM agents, measured by Covert Success Rate (CSR) and Overt Success Rate (OSR). Analyzing successful trajectories, the authors find that agent behavior post-injection determines outcome visibility, with covert traces returning control to the user task. They propose ICoA (Induced Covert Attack), an IPI method designed to maximize CSR by steering agents back to user tasks after execution. Evaluated on four models in AgentDojo, ICoA improves CSR by 3.79-12.01 percentage points over baselines.
indirect prompt injectionllm agentscovert success rateovert success ratereact format
Co-Annotator: Expert-Distilled ViT and VLM for Visual and Documentation Guidance in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Co-Annotator introduces expert-distilled multimodal guidance for age-related macular degeneration diagnosis, combining a gaze-aligned Vision Transformer (ViT) for fixation-aligned areas of interest (AOIs) and an ontology-bounded vision-language model (VLM) for pre-filled biomarker summaries. The system was trained using expert gaze and dictation data, then deployed in controlled studies with ophthalmology residents. Results showed AOI guidance improved perceptual efficiency with post-guidance carryover, while VLM guidance doubled biomarker documentation breadth. Combined deployment across two institutions increased correct diagnoses per minute by 40% and reduced comment editing time by 67%, without compromising diagnostic accuracy. The approach addresses visual search overhead and documentation burden simultaneously.
vision transformervision-language modelfixation-aligned areas of interestbiomarker summariesdiagnostic accuracy
Answer Probing-Guided Search for Diverse Solution Exploration of LLMs
Answer Probing-Guided Tree Search (APTS) enhances solution diversity in Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging probed answer hidden states and perplexity. APTS probes potential answers from intermediate reasoning paths, using hidden state similarity to differentiate distinct solution paths and perplexity as a proxy for reasoning correctness. This method addresses limitations of semantic embeddings, which are confounded by linguistic and stylistic similarities. Experiments on three reasoning tasks across two LLMs demonstrate APTS's consistent improvement in solution diversity and robustness.
answer probinghidden statesperplexitysemantic embeddingstree search
Beyond Ranking Accuracy: Evaluating LLM-Cited Feature Rationales for Next Basket Repurchase Recommendation
The study evaluates large language models (LLMs) for next-basket repurchase recommendation, focusing on both ranking accuracy and rationale quality. Using interpretable behavioral features (cadence, frequency, recency, user behavior, item popularity), the authors assess off-the-shelf LLMs as scorers and rationale generators across three datasets (two public grocery, one proprietary retail). Results show LLMs underperform supervised rankers but exhibit dataset-dependent improvements in rationale quality via prompt engineering, suggesting their utility as explanation components rather than primary rankers. Feature-masking experiments reveal partial alignment between LLM-cited features and attribution baselines.
next-basket recommendationfeature rationaleslarge language modelsbehavioral signalsattribution methods
Parallel Time-Band Mixing with Learned Observation-Adding for Robust ASR Front-Ends
The paper introduces a Parallel Time-Band Mixer (PTBM) block for robust ASR front-ends, eliminating recurrent dependencies in speech enhancement while maintaining parallel efficiency. PTBM combines intra-band temporal mixing and per-frame cross-band attention in a unified architecture, augmented by learned Observation-Adding (LOA) to suppress ASR-sensitive artifacts without development-set tuning. Evaluated on DNS Challenge and CHiME-4 with frozen Whisper back-ends, the 0.96M-parameter front-end reduces word error rates versus recurrent baselines, requiring only 0.58 GMAC/s.
parallel time-band mixerspeech enhancementasr front-endlearned observation-addingband-split
Ignorance or Incompetence? Constructing Knowledge-Gated, Verifiable Tasks for LLM Agents
The authors propose a knowledge-gated task-construction protocol to evaluate LLM agents' reliance on private conventions absent from public corpora. The method separates task instructions from compact artefacts containing private conventions, reference tables, and utility operators, with construction-time provenance and leak audits ensuring artefact dependence. On fifteen calibration tasks, a frontier agent configuration achieved 68.0% pass rate with the artefact and 0% without it, with deterministic solvers providing exact ground truth. Seven tasks met the five-trial empirical knowledge-gating screen, validating the protocol's behavior.
knowledge-gated tasksllm agentsprivate conventionsdeterministic solversleak audits
Beyond Token-Level Guidance: Inference-Time Alignment of Specialized LLMs via Cross-Family Representation Steering
The paper introduces CREST, an inference-time alignment method that addresses safety degradation in specialized LLMs by steering base model hidden representations using safety directions from any guidance model family, avoiding token-level interference. CREST resolves complementary expertise orthogonality, where specialized base models and general-domain guidance models exhibit orthogonal competencies, often causing stop token interference. Evaluations show CREST improves safety by up to 22.2% on benchmarks while preserving domain-specific capabilities, outperforming existing baselines.
inference-time alignmentrepresentation steeringcomplementary expertise orthogonalitystop token interferencesafety degradation
Online Estimation of Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrices Using Reinforcement Learning with Link-Flow Propagation Guidance
This study introduces LFPG-RL, a reinforcement learning method for online dynamic origin-destination (OD) matrix estimation, integrating link-flow propagation guidance (LFPG) into proximal policy optimization (PPO). LFPG-RL leverages link-flow error sensitivities and OD-time demand contributions to shape advantages for PPO actor updates, enabling efficient online deployment with a single forward pass. Evaluated on 250 weekday trajectories of 15-min link-flow data from a Melbourne arterial network with stochastic route choice, LFPG-RL achieved an RMSE of 4.69, MAPE of 20.15%, and Pearson correlation of 0.995, demonstrating superior efficiency and accuracy in OD demand calibration.
origin-destination matrixreinforcement learninglink-flow propagationproximal policy optimizationstochastic route choice
One AI Signal, Many Human Judgments: A Bayesian Cascade Analysis of AI-based Credibility Indicators in Online Information Spread
The study extends the Bayesian cascade model to analyze AI-based credibility indicators in social media misinformation detection, introducing a Gateway condition that compares AI predictions with users' private impressions. Using human-subject data on news veracity judgments, the authors calibrate the model to show that while AI outperforms individual users, average users weight AI predictions below their own impressions but above peer judgments. Simulations reveal that over-reliance on weak AI is detrimental, and diversifying AI signals across users enhances crowd informativeness. The findings highlight a preservation-correction trade-off in human-AI interaction and inform misinformation intervention design.
bayesian cascade modelcredibility indicatorsmisinformation detectionsocial-learning lenspreservation-correction trade-off
Tail-Replay: Escaping the Curse of Linear Attention in Prefix Caching for Hybrid LLMs
Tail-Replay enables unconstrained token-level prefix reuse in hybrid large language models by approximating linear-attention recurrent states through suffix replay, eliminating the need for discrete recurrent-state checkpoints. The method caches exact full-attention key-value pairs and replays recent suffixes (5--10% of the prefix) to reconstruct linear-attention states, leveraging the progressive attenuation of earlier inputs in mechanisms like Gated DeltaNet. Evaluated on Gated DeltaNet-based models using LongBench and RULER, Tail-Replay retains 92.8--99.9% of full-prefill quality and achieves 9.1--14.3× speedup over full prefill at 32K context lengths.
hybrid llmsprefix cachinglinear-attentiongated deltanetrecurrent states
ScenePilot: Grow-and-Repair Policy for Text-Driven 3D Indoor Scene Generation
ScenePilot introduces a retrieval-augmented Grow-and-Repair framework for text-driven 3D indoor scene generation, addressing limitations of one-pass generation and post-hoc optimization. The method combines Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Planning (HRAP) for functional group planning with Reinforcement Multimodal Repair (RMR) for incremental and global geometric correction. Trained on SceneReverse-17k, a dataset of perturbed scenes with inverse repair trajectories, the policy predicts structured move-rotate-scale actions from rendered views and scene state. This approach improves physical plausibility, functional coherence, and controllability while maintaining diversity, offering an efficient alternative to existing methods.
3d scene generationretrieval-augmented planningmultimodal repairlayout priorsinverse operations
CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration
CateKV introduces a hybrid KV cache method for long-context LLM inference acceleration by leveraging sequential consistency in attention heads. A coefficient-of-variation-based algorithm identifies persistent attention patterns, allowing selective retention of critical token information for consistent heads while preserving adaptive heads' KV pairs for accuracy. Evaluations on long-context benchmarks demonstrate comparable accuracy to full attention, with 2.72× memory reduction, 2.18× decoding speedup (single-sample), and 3.96× throughput improvement (batch).
kv cachesequential consistencyattention headscoefficient-of-variationthroughput
BCPPO: Bachelier-Inspired Constrained Proximal Policy Optimization for Tail-Risk-Aware Safe Reinforcement Learning
BCPPO introduces a tail-risk-aware safe reinforcement learning method using Bachelier-inspired constrained proximal policy optimization. The approach employs separately initialized cost-prediction networks trained with random sample masks, leveraging their disagreement to identify state-action regions sensitive to training data. A Bachelier formula converts this disagreement into a smooth policy-update penalty, preserving temporal-difference critic learning. A saturation-aware controller manages mean-cost penalties to prevent error accumulation. Evaluated across 175 runs, BCPPO achieves higher mean return and lower mean conditional value at risk (CVaR) compared to other methods, demonstrating effective balance between reward and caution in cost predictions.
proximal policy optimizationconditional value at risktemporal-difference learningcost-prediction networksbachelier formula
SimCRAFT: Distilling Remote Sensing Agents via Synthetic Trajectories and Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning
SimCRAFT introduces a model-agnostic framework for distilling Remote Sensing (RS) agent capabilities into compact 7B-scale models, addressing data scarcity via a multiagent synthesis engine and Mock Execution Engine to generate SimRS-14k, a validated workflow planning corpus. The method employs Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning (CRAFT) to adapt retrieved Standard Operating Procedures to novel queries under a noise-robust objective, generalizing RAFT for multi-step RS planning. Experiments show SimCRAFT-7B outperforms open-weights LLMs and rivals closed-source models, while maintaining reproducibility across three 7B backbones, establishing a competitive open-weights baseline for lightweight RS intelligence.
remote sensing agentsmultiagent synthesiscontextual retrieval-augmented fine-tuningworkflow planning7b-scale models
Dec-BFTRL: Squre-Root Regret for Decentralized Online Upper-Linearizable Optimization under Separation Access with Application to Continuous Submodular Maximization
The authors propose Decentralized Barrier Follow-the-Regularized-Leader (Dec-BFTRL), a method for decentralized online optimization of upper-linearizable payoffs under efficient separation access. Each agent maps internal iterates to feasible actions via approximate gauge projection, communicates cumulative surrogate-gradient dual states, and employs a local HybridNewton procedure to minimize post-communication BFTRL potential. The algorithm achieves an expected network-aggregate regret of $\widetilde O(\sqrt{T})$ per agent over $T$ rounds, using $T$ neighbor-mixing steps and $\widetilde O(T)$ separation-oracle calls. Four wrapper instantiations demonstrate applicability to three diminishing-return submodular maximization problems.
decentralized optimizationsubmodular maximizationregret boundsseparation oraclegauge projection
Centering before Pruning: Lightweight Geometry Correction for Diversity-Based Visual Token Pruning in LVLMs
Cen-Prune introduces a lightweight geometry correction for diversity-based visual token pruning in LVLMs by centering token features before cosine similarity computation, revealing entangled diversity and distinctiveness in raw token geometry. The method combines centered-space diversity metrics with raw-space distinctiveness preferences, incurring negligible overhead. Experiments across image/video benchmarks and LVLM architectures show robust improvements over existing diversity-based pruners.
visual token pruningcosine similaritylvlm efficiencygeometry correctiondiversity-distinctiveness tradeoff
Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure
The study quantifies the syntax-prosody interface by measuring mutual information between prosodic features and syntactic representations using a multimodal language model framework. This structure-agnostic, modular approach evaluates contributions of individual prosodic features (word duration, inter-word pauses) across read audiobooks and spontaneous English conversations. Results show prosody reduces syntactic uncertainty by up to 10.2% in spontaneous speech, supporting theoretical accounts of syntax-prosody alignment.
syntax-prosody interfacemutual informationmultimodal language modelsprosodic featuressyntactic uncertainty
Stratified Consistency Distillation for Natural Language Formalization
The paper introduces Stratified Consistency Distillation, a fine-tuning method to improve natural language-to-logical formula translation in neurosymbolic systems. The approach (1) generates K logical translations per input using a frontier LLM, clusters them by semantic equivalence, (2) applies majority voting (low entropy), LLM-as-a-Judge (medium entropy), or unification/abstention (high entropy) based on entropy levels, and (3) fine-tunes a smaller model with selected pseudo-labels. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements in Pass@K and a novel Equivalent Logical Similarity metric, validating the method's efficacy for logical translation.
neurosymbolicfine-tuninglogical formalizationconsistency distillationpseudo-labels
Beyond Surface Forms: Symbolic Edits as a Test for Logical Reasoning with LLMs
The study introduces a tool-driven framework for generating controlled, label-preserving edits to logical reasoning problems, operating on symbolic representations of first-order logic and constraint satisfaction tasks. By translating these edits into natural language, the authors evaluate large language models (LLMs) under cumulative and individual operator modifications. Results reveal inconsistent reasoning behavior across models, with failures to track logical consequences despite structural changes, highlighting reliability gaps independent of model size or family.
logical reasoningfirst-order logicconstraint satisfactionlabel-preserving editssymbolic representations
Generating Workflow DAGs from Natural Language with Non-Reasoning LLMs
The paper introduces a neuro-symbolic decomposition method enabling non-reasoning LLMs to generate complex workflow DAGs from natural-language routing rules. By offloading combinatorial graph construction to a deterministic compiler and using a learned registry-selection front end, the system reduces emission-density bottlenecks in monolithic generation. On a 635-rule benchmark, the approach achieves ~89% LLM-judge validity, ~90% exact-match condition accuracy, and 99-100% valid JSON while halving prompt tokens, matching reasoning-model quality on GPT-3.5-chat with a 24pp validity improvement.
workflow dagsneuro-symbolic decompositionemission-density bottleneckregistry-selectionstructured-generation
Motus2: A Self-Evolving General World Model for Dexterous Manipulation
Motus2 introduces a self-evolving general world model for dexterous manipulation, advancing world modeling through model scaling and data scaling. The model integrates three control interfaces—policy, simulator, and evaluator—into a closed decision-and-learning loop for policy improvement. It leverages curated expert demonstrations for action learning and suboptimal interactions for dynamics and value learning. Data scaling progresses from monocular to stereo egocentric data, followed by robot-domain adaptation with robot trajectories and human-robot alignment. Motus2 incorporates tactile feedback and is instantiated on a biomimetic platform with stereo vision, dual arms, and dexterous hands, providing a path toward self-evolving manipulation.
world modeldexterous manipulationmodel scalingdata scalingtactile feedback
LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Completion Combining Discrete Structural Coding with Similar Entity Information
CoSC introduces a novel LLM-based knowledge graph completion method that integrates discrete structural coding with similar entity information. The approach first uses an LLM to generate an initial candidate entity ranking based on discrete structural codes, then refines this ranking using information from entities structurally similar to the query entity. Evaluated on FB15k-237, CoSC achieves superior performance in MRR and Hits@10 metrics while maintaining competitiveness in Hits@1 compared to existing baselines.
knowledge graph completiondiscrete structural codingsimilar entity informationllm-basedfb15k-237
CoLa-ICD: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Long-Tail Automated Medical Coding
CoLa-ICD proposes a knowledge-enhanced framework for long-tail automated medical coding, addressing challenges of imbalanced label distributions and rare ICD codes in clinical notes. The method enriches ICD labels with external terms, models code dependencies, and strengthens label-clinical evidence alignment. Evaluations demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in AUC, F1, and P@k, with particularly strong gains for sparse label spaces.
automated medical codinglong-tail predictionicd codeslabel semanticsclinical notes
Rethinking the Test-Time Prompt Tuning Objective from the Perspective of Calibration
The paper proposes a novel test-time prompt tuning (TPT) objective addressing calibration degradation in standard entropy minimization (EM) approaches. The method replaces EM with cross-entropy alignment between original-view predictions and a confidence-aware target distribution from augmented views, incorporating adversarial entropy to capture sample-specific uncertainty. Confidence-aware temperature scaling sharpens or softens augmented-view predictions based on reliability. Experiments show state-of-the-art accuracy and improved calibration across diverse benchmarks.
test-time prompt tuningentropy minimizationmodel calibrationconfidence-aware temperature scalingcross-entropy alignment
LaMoC: Loss-Aware Modular Compression for LLMs
LaMoC introduces loss-aware modular compression for LLMs by blending activation statistics with Empirical Fisher gradients via gradient-error alignment, addressing limitations of activation-only methods. The method formulates joint compression as a two-tiered optimization problem minimizing module reconstruction error while tuning the blend rate of activation and gradient information. Evaluated across four model families (4-8B parameters), LaMoC reduces perplexity by 2.5% and improves task accuracy by 1% relative to state-of-the-art modular compression baselines.
modular compressionempirical fishergradient-error alignmentperplexity reductionloss-aware
The Differential Reasoning Router: Operationalizing Cost-Aware LLM Annotation in E-commerce
The Differential Reasoning Router (DRR) is a cost-aware framework for cold-start LLM annotation in e-commerce, optimizing model selection and human escalation. DRR estimates success probabilities for direct and reasoning models at sample and business-rule levels, routing cases adaptively: easy cases to direct models, reasoning for expected improvements, and uncertain cases to humans. In production, DRR matches the accuracy of confidence-based routers while reducing reasoning-token costs by over 60%.
llm annotationcost-aware routingdifferential reasoningcold-start problemhuman escalation
Label Semantic Expansion via Label Guided Neural Topic Modeling
The paper introduces Label Semantic Expansion (LSE), a method that enriches sparse label representations with corpus-grounded topic words, adopting a topics-for-labels perspective. It proposes a Label-Guided Neural Topic Model (LGNTM) to learn label-aligned topics, grounding them in lexical and document semantic spaces while maintaining consistency between topic and label structures. Experiments on label-topic alignment, label expansion, topic quality, and downstream classification demonstrate LGNTM's strong performance across multiple evaluation dimensions.
label semantic expansionneural topic modelinglabel alignmentlexical semanticstopic quality
SPARK: Skeleton-Guided Reasoning Synthesis from Large-Scale Scientific Literature
The authors introduce SPARK, a framework for synthesizing scientific reasoning tasks from research papers by distilling them into reasoning skeletons that capture claim-evidence structures. SPARK generates tasks from four perspectives (mechanistic reasoning, hypothesis falsification, quantitative derivation, boundary calibration) and applies consistency verification to remove unsupported outputs. The resulting dataset, Spark-234K, demonstrates higher difficulty and diversity than existing resources, achieving stronger performance with fewer training samples across experiments.
scientific reasoningreasoning skeletonclaim-evidence structurehypothesis falsificationquantitative derivation
SIR: Self-improving Red-teaming for Compute Use Agents
SIR introduces a self-improving red-teaming framework for computer use agents (CUAs) that enhances indirect prompt injection (IPI) attacks through iterative feedback and reusable principles. The method composes stealthy injections from a plain-language library, diagnoses failed trajectories, and distills bypasses into named strategies reapplied across tasks. Evaluated on three frontier CUAs, SIR increases attack success rates from 4% to 24% on Claude Opus 4.8 and from 0% to 28% on Gemini 3.5 Flash, while maintaining benign task completion. Discovered principles transfer across architectures without additional feedback, demonstrating adaptability.
indirect prompt injectioncomputer use agentsred-teamingfeedback loopstealthy injections
FaVOR: LLM-Based Agentic Framework for Factor Mining via Empirical Validation
FaVOR introduces an LLM-based agentic framework for factor mining that enforces consistency between mathematical form and economic rationale, addressing a structural failure mode in return-oriented automation. The framework decomposes broad economic hypotheses into independent observable conditions, validates each factor's reflection of its intended condition, and integrates them into an interpretable composite structure. Evaluated on the CSI 500 and S&P 500 in 2025, FaVOR outperforms existing baselines, demonstrating regime robustness and economic faithfulness while maintaining interpretability.
factor miningeconomic rationaleinterpretable compositeregime robustnessobservable conditions
A.X K2 Technical Report
A.X K2 is a 688B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model optimized for agentic applications, trained on 8.5T tokens with enhanced agentic and software-engineering data. It introduces Sparse Gated Attention (SGA) for efficient long-context processing, achieving 94.6 on RULER at 256K context length while querying only 2,048 positions per token. Gated Norm (GN) stabilizes training, maintaining near-FP8 accuracy with 4-bit NVFP4 serving. A Think-Fusion mechanism enables seamless switching between thinking and non-thinking modes. A.X K2 outperforms its predecessor A.X K1 by over 30 percentage points on some benchmarks and matches or exceeds open-weight baselines on math and Korean-language tasks.
mixture-of-expertssparse gated attentiongated normagentic applicationstoken efficiency
Science sandboxes measure the scientific capability of AI agents
The paper introduces science sandboxes, a framework for evaluating AI agents' scientific capability through iterative experimentation, feedback, and hypothesis revision. Agents interact with 'wet' (physical experiments), 'damp' (predictive models), and 'dry' (invented rules) environments to assess both quantitative performance and qualitative reasoning. Applied to regulatory genomics and protein fitness prediction, results reveal agents excel at metric optimization but struggle with scientific reasoning when system rules deviate from biological priors. The framework identifies failure modes and provides a controlled benchmark for advancing AI's scientific understanding.
science sandboxesregulatory genomicsprotein fitness predictionscientific reasoningbiological priors
CPR for LLMs: Critical-Point Routing against Catastrophic Forgetting in Domain Adaptation
The paper introduces Critical-Point Routing (CPR), a token-level routing framework that mitigates catastrophic forgetting in domain-adapted LLMs by decoupling general and domain-specific capabilities. CPR employs a lightweight hierarchical router to estimate expert-call probabilities per token, combined with momentum smoothing and threshold gating during inference. Evaluations show CPR outperforms SFT experts by 1.4-5.5% in domain performance while reducing general-capability drops from 3.4-14.5% to ≤0.5%, with expert invocation on only one-third of tokens.
catastrophic forgettingtoken-level routingdomain adaptationhierarchical routermomentum smoothing
E-SENS: Exclusion-Sensitive Penalization for Negative-Constraint Retrieval
E-SENS introduces a training-free reranking method for negation-sensitive retrieval in retrieval-augmented language models, addressing failures when retrievers supply evidence about explicitly excluded concepts. The method constructs a compact trap query for excluded concepts and subtracts its similarity score from the original query's retrieval score. Evaluated on ExcluIR, E-SENS demonstrates improved recall-violation trade-offs across four embedding models, reducing trap retrieval while preserving recall.
retrieval-augmentednegative-constrainttrap queryrerankingexcluir
VIBE: Video Instruction-aligned Background music gEneration
VIBE introduces a text-and-video-to-music (T+V2M) generation model addressing semantic control gaps in video-to-music (V2M) tasks. The method combines (1) Conditioning Connection, a depth-wise cross-layer mechanism linking planning and diffusion refinement heads, with (2) a reward taxonomy optimizing hard (tempo, key) and soft (musicality, alignment) constraints via a 5-stage curriculum. Evaluations on audio-visual alignment, instruction following, and human assessments show improved controllability and adherence while matching baselines in fidelity and multimodal alignment.
video-to-musicdiffusion autoregressivecross-layer conditioningreward modelingmultimodal alignment
TPR-Attention for Combinatorial Generalization
The authors propose TPR-attention, a novel architectural component that embeds tensor-product representations (TPRs) into attention mechanisms to improve combinatorial generalization in deep learning. The method introduces structured inductive biases by operating attention over explicit compositional representations rather than relying solely on statistical correlations. Controlled experiments on compositional tasks demonstrate that TPR-attention outperforms existing architectural components in generalizing to novel configurations of known factors of variation, suggesting a promising direction for achieving systematic generalization in neural networks.
tensor-product representationscombinatorial generalizationattention mechanismssystematic generalizationinductive bias
Aligning Multi-Trajectory Supervision with Policy Optimization for VLA Driving
The paper introduces a framework aligning multi-trajectory supervision with policy optimization in vision-language-action (VLA) driving to mitigate gradient bias from infeasible trajectories. It constrains augmented trajectories to a feasible manifold, adopts Pareto-optimality for candidate filtering, and integrates feasibility-first advantage assignment with dynamic distillation to transfer supervision effectively. Evaluated on NAVSIM v1/v2, the method achieves 91.4 PDMS and 89.1 EPDMS under single-trajectory inference, recovering 440 of 658 failed scenes (11.1% improvement over GRPO baseline).
vision-language-actionpolicy optimizationmulti-trajectory imitationpareto-optimalityfeasibility distillation
Can LLMs Take the Pulse of the Economy? A Real-Time Evaluation of LLM Nowcasts on Macroeconomic Indicators
The study introduces LiveMacroEval, a contamination-resistant benchmark for evaluating large language model (LLM) agents' nowcasting capabilities on U.S. macroeconomic indicators. LLM agents, equipped with real-time web search, produce hourly nowcasts for sixteen indicators over a pre-release window, assessed via LiveMacro Score against equity returns and LiveBetting Score from simulated trading. Comparisons include Federal Reserve regional-bank nowcasts, Bloomberg ECOS consensus, and an auto-ARIMA baseline. Over six months, LLM agents achieved aggregate nowcast accuracy comparable to institutional benchmarks, with varying performance across indicators, demonstrating their potential as real-time macroeconomic estimators.
nowcastingllm agentslivebetting scorelivemacro scoreauto-arima
AtlasNLP: A Country-Aware Atlas of Dataset Representation in NLP
We introduce AtlasNLP, a country-aware atlas analyzing geographic representation in NLP datasets, comprising AtlasNLP-Gold (human-curated) and AtlasNLP-Core (ACL-derived) collections covering 13,000 dataset records. The resource enables systematic analysis of dataset coverage, production, and geographic asymmetry across normalized NLP task categories. Key findings reveal uneven country-level representation, geographic asymmetry between dataset production and representation, and discrepancies between language coverage and geographic representation. These results highlight limitations in current dataset documentation practices and underscore the need for explicit geographic metadata to enable country-aware NLP evaluation.
geographic representationdataset documentationnormalized nlp taskscountry-aware evaluationgeographic metadata
Graph4BiLO: Graph Neural Network Approximation for Bilevel Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization
Graph4BiLO proposes a graph neural network (GNN) method to approximate bilevel mixed-integer linear optimization value functions, addressing computational challenges in hierarchical decision problems. The approach represents problems as variable--constraint graphs, using shared message-passing parameters for size generalization, and embeds the learned ReLU network as mixed-integer linear constraints in an approximate single-level formulation. Evaluated on knapsack interdiction instances (20--100 items), it matches Neur2BiLO's performance while eliminating size-specific models, with zero-shot transfer to unseen 40- and 60-item instances. However, GNN embedding increases formulation size and solve time, highlighting a tradeoff between generalization and computational cost.
bilevel optimizationgraph neural networkmixed-integer linear programmingvalue-function approximationmessage passing
Arkios: An Open Bilingual English-Nepali Language Model Trained From Scratch, with a Devanagari-Aware Tokenizer
Arkios is a 1.04B-parameter bilingual English-Nepali transformer pretrained from scratch on 150B tokens, featuring a Devanagari-aware byte-level BPE tokenizer and a custom C/CUDA training stack. It outperforms comparably sized models (Pythia-1.4B, TinyLlama-1.1B, OLMo-1B) on ARC-Easy and ARC-Challenge, attributed to domain-matched pretraining data. Evaluation reveals format-dependent performance: multiple-choice-letter prompts yield chance-level scores (0.240 Nepali, 0.236 English), while direct answer-text scoring shows genuine comprehension (0.306 Nepali, 0.387 English). The model includes a manifest-conditioned tool-use contract during instruction tuning and is released under Apache-2.0.
transformerbyte-level bpedevanagari-awareinstruction tuningtool-use contract
VERA: Authority-Preserving Edge Revocation for Federated AI-Agent Workflows
VERA introduces verifiable edge revocation for federated AI-agent workflows, solving authority consistency by precisely invalidating only agents whose authorization paths used a revoked edge. The method employs signed revocation contracts defining T_intent(e,G), preventing over/under-revocation in shared or cross-domain delegation graphs. Evaluated on 500 LangGraph traces, VERA achieved 100% target proof accuracy, preserved 320 shared-agent cases incorrectly revoked by baselines, and rejected unauthorized signers. Schema validation on AutoGen and CrewAI confirmed portability across frameworks.
federated agentsedge revocationauthority consistencydelegation graphsverifiable contracts
How do World Models and Policies Compose in LLM Agents? A Joint Spectral and Behavioral Account
The study investigates how LLM agents jointly acquire world models (next-state prediction) and task policies (reward maximization) through additive parameter updates. Using geometric analysis, it finds that effective world-model updates are low-rank and share input-feature subspaces with policy updates but write to orthogonal output directions. Sequential training induces greater robustness than separate policy RL, with the former exploring wider state-action spaces. Training-free merging based on input-basis geometry and online world-model loss improves performance, suggesting complementary geometric forms for world knowledge and task ability. Future post-training should optimize their interface.
llm agentsworld-model trainingpolicy traininglow-rank updatesinput-feature subspace
Pak3H: Evaluating the Cost of Cultural Mismatch in LLM Alignment with a Human-Contextualized Urdu Benchmark
The paper introduces Pak3H, the first human-validated, culturally contextualized Urdu benchmark suite for evaluating LLM alignment across Helpfulness, Harmlessness, and Honesty (3H). The method employs a multi-stage pipeline combining manual cultural adaptation and dictionary-guided post-editing to ensure semantic fidelity and contextual authenticity. Zero-shot evaluations reveal systematic cross-lingual alignment gaps: helpfulness win rates decline, harmlessness guardrails fail against regional risks, and honesty metrics degrade due to localized factual constraints, highlighting structural limitations in current alignment approaches.
multilingual alignmentcultural adaptationzero-shot evaluationhuman-validated benchmarkcontextual authenticity
Game-Agnostic Value Functions through Automatic JSON Feature Extraction
The paper introduces JSON-Bag VF, a game-agnostic method for training value functions using JSON-Bag tokenized game trajectories. The approach enhances performance via Random Forest-based feature selection and game-stage-specific feature extraction. Evaluated on six tabletop games with One-step-look-ahead (JSON-Bag OSLA), the method outperforms baseline OSLA agents in most cases. Analysis reveals feature selection as the dominant performance factor, surpassing prototype-tokenization. Results demonstrate significant improvements from feature selection in JSON-Bag VF.
json-bagvalue functionfeature selectionone-step-look-aheadgame-agnostic
Mitigating Over-Optimization in PRM-Guided Search in Mathematical Reasoning by Optimizing the Guide
This work introduces maximin PRM-guided search, a robust optimization method mitigating over-optimization in process reward model (PRM)-guided mathematical reasoning. The authors theoretically demonstrate that direct PRM score utilization is vulnerable to verifier noise due to an extreme-value effect, where non-viable prefixes increasingly receive spuriously high scores with reasoning depth. Maximin PRM-guided search formulates the problem as robust optimization over plausible reward perturbations, preserving promising alternatives under noisy step-level supervision. Without fine-tuning or online adaptation, the method improves PRM-guided search by 17-35% on average, outperforming outcome- and step-level baselines in 14 of 16 settings.
process reward modelmathematical reasoningrobust optimizationverifier noiseextreme-value effect
Spec2Twin-Chain: Orchestrating Bi-Level Optimization with LLMs for Blockchain Digital Twin Construction
Spec2Twin-Chain introduces a bi-level optimization framework for automating blockchain digital-twin construction. The upper level employs a large language model to propose and revise simulator architectures based on system specifications and behavioral evidence, while the lower level uses a simulation-based optimizer to calibrate architecture-conditioned parameters under explicit constraints. The framework iterates between levels, retaining evaluated candidates in a global archive to guide subsequent proposals. Experimental results demonstrate its ability to construct behaviorally accurate twins, improve designs through iterative feedback, and reuse calibrated twins for downstream decision support.
bi-level optimizationblockchain digital twinsimulator architectureparameter calibrationdownstream decision support
Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks
The study introduces a framework for evaluating creativity in multi-turn LLM research agents, focusing on P-Creativity (psychological novelty), H-Creativity (historical novelty), and Usefulness (task performance). Using ML engineering tasks from MLE-Bench, the authors develop an LLM-as-a-Judge pipeline, validated for strong correlation with human judgments. Evaluating AIDE and AIRA-Dojo agents on 10 Kaggle-style tasks, they find declining P-Creativity as agents shift from exploration to exploitation, higher H-Creativity than medal-winning humans, but lower task performance. Results indicate LLMs explore novel solutions but struggle to convert novelty into improved performance.
multi-turn llmp-creativityh-creativityllm-as-a-judgemle-bench
Forget or Fine-tune? A Comparative Study of Machine Unlearning Strategies for Noisy Label Correction
This study provides a comparative empirical analysis of five Machine Unlearning (MU) strategies for noisy-label correction: NegGrad, Fine-Tuning (FT), Random Labeling (RL), SalUn, and MUNBa. The methods are evaluated across symmetric, asymmetric, instance-dependent, and open-set noise scenarios on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Food-101N datasets. Results indicate that the optimal MU strategy depends on the noise structure: FT performs well in closed-set scenarios, RL and SalUn excel under instance-dependent noise, and MUNBa is effective under extreme symmetric noise. Open-set noise degrades retraining accuracy, suggesting MU approximation is insufficient. All MU methods achieve near-retraining accuracy on Food-101N while reducing runtime by an order of magnitude.
machine unlearningnoisy-label correctioninstance-dependent noiseopen-set noisefine-tuning
Balance of Benchmarks: Semantic Density Reweighting for Benchmark Multiplicity and Task-Conditioned Evaluation
The paper introduces Balance of Benchmarks (BoB), a method for robust model evaluation via semantic density reweighting and task-conditioned residual fields. BoB assigns inverse-density weights to benchmarks based on their semantic embeddings, reducing redundancy from densely benchmarked regions, while a residual field enables task-specific performance prediction. Evaluated on 586 models and 14 benchmarks, BoB achieves a profile correlation of 0.462 (vs. 0.049 under equal weighting) for held-out task prediction and maintains ranking stability (Kendall τ=0.995 vs. 0.936) when benchmark copies are added. The framework explicitly addresses benchmark multiplicity and task-aware evaluation.
benchmark multiplicitysemantic densitytask-conditioned evaluationinverse-density weightingresidual field
Reachability-Based Capability Confinement for LLM Agents under Indirect Prompt Injection
SkillGuard introduces a harness-level enforcement layer for LLM agents that restricts capabilities after exposure to untrusted data, treating such events as contamination. The method employs a Skill Impact Graph for security transitions, steerability signatures for parameter control, and reference monitoring, computing restrictions via binary/fractional-flow strategies without auxiliary LLM calls. Evaluated on AgentDojo suites with Gemini 2.5 Flash and Llama3-70B, SkillGuard eliminated attack success in 3/4 suites, reduced Slack attack rates to 4.8%/14.3%, and matched/exceeded baselines (Spotlighting, CaMeL, AttriGuard) in compositional attacks while preserving utility.
capability confinementindirect prompt injectionskill impact graphsteerability signaturesreference monitor
Beyond Uncertainty: Multi-Solver Disagreement Rewards for Self-Evolving Reasoning Curricula
The paper introduces a multi-solver disagreement reward for self-evolving reasoning curricula, addressing limitations of single-solver uncertainty-based rewards. The method employs a heterogeneous ensemble of solvers with varying capacities and sampling temperatures, using normalized Shannon entropy over their plurality answers to reward questions that elicit conflicting solutions. This captures difficulty as inter-model divergence rather than intra-model variance, enabling the Challenger to generate questions targeting true capability boundaries. Experiments with Qwen3-4B show +1.34 average improvement on MATH-500, AMC, and Olympiad benchmarks, demonstrating the efficacy of multi-solver disagreement for curriculum generation.
self-evolving reasoningmulti-solver disagreementshannon entropycurriculum generationheterogeneous ensemble
"Act Like a 5th Grader" is Not Enough: Bounding Knowledge in LLM-Based User Simulators
The paper introduces the Cognitively Bounded User Simulator (CBUS), a framework for improving the fidelity of LLM-based user simulations by explicitly modeling cognitive constraints. CBUS addresses the 'superhuman bias' in LLMs by implementing an episodic bottleneck to emulate the restricted working memory of young readers (grades 4–6), formalizing two distinct test-taking strategies. Evaluated on a dataset of 71,000 reading comprehension responses from 2,359 students, CBUS narrows the simulation gap across multiple LLM backbones, demonstrating that architectural constraints outperform raw capability scaling for behavioral realism.
cognitively bounded user simulatorsuperhuman biasepisodic bottleneckworking memorysimulation gap
Interpreting and Steering for Safe and Correct Code Generation
The paper introduces DuoSteer, a double-steering approach for safer and more correct code generation in LLMs, combining safety and correctness steering to attention heads. Using CodeSec-Pairs (9,342 Python safe-vulnerable contrastive pairs from Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct), the authors localize safety-relevant layers/heads and evaluate steering strategies. DuoSteer reduces vulnerability rates by 26.9% and improves correctness by 7.5% across five vulnerability types, outperforming prompting and fine-tuning baselines. Results generalize to Qwen-2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct with 2,500 additional pairs.
mechanistic interpretationcode generationattention steeringvulnerability reductioncontrastive pairs
Automatic Conversion of NICE Guidelines to an Executable Computational Model Using Large Language Models
The study introduces an LLM-based method for converting unstructured NICE clinical guidelines into executable computational models with explainable outputs. Using stepwise in-context learning, the approach generates human-inspectable intermediate artifacts from pancreatic and lung cancer guidelines, validated via expert review and patient vignettes (n=20). Expert evaluation showed strong alignment (rare hallucinations, primarily partial omissions), with the pancreatic cancer model achieving 82.5% F1 on vignettes. Results demonstrate scalable automation of computable guideline generation while preserving interpretability and patient-specific recommendation capabilities.
large language modelscomputable clinical guidelinesin-context learningexecutable modelsnice guidelines
Error Detection for PET/CT Radiology Reports: Domain-Specific vs Large Language Models
This work presents the first systematic evaluation of language models for PET/CT radiology report error detection, comparing domain-specific models with state-of-the-art LLMs. Using a dataset of 30,633 oncology FDG PET/CT reports, the authors trained compact BERT models and evaluated them against zero-/few-shot Qwen3-32B, Gemma-3-27B, and Llama-3.3-70B on a benchmark of 11,500 reports. A 15M-parameter domain-specific model achieved 94.4% balanced accuracy with a 5.8% false-positive rate, outperforming prompted LLMs (84.0%) and matching task-adapted Llama-3.3-70B while requiring significantly fewer computational resources. The results demonstrate that domain-specific training surpasses model scale for this task, supporting compact models for efficient radiology report quality assurance.
pet/ctdomain-specificbalanced accuracyfew-shotbert
TEMPO: Temporally-grounded Multi-task Post-training for Large Audio-Language Models
TEMPO introduces a unified model for temporally-grounded audio, speech, and music timestamping, addressing a key limitation of large audio-language models (LALMs). The method employs supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with three innovations: atomic timestamp tokens, a time-aware projector injecting sinusoidal wall-clock encodings, and a distance-aware Gaussian loss. Training follows a synthetic-to-real curriculum, supplemented by reinforcement learning using GRPO for temporal reward optimization. TEMPO is evaluated on a benchmark of 10K samples, outperforming Audio Flamingo Next and Qwen3-Omni. SFT delivers the primary performance gains, with GRPO providing modest refinements.
timestampingsupervised fine-tuningtime-aware projectordistance-aware gaussian lossgrpo
Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models
PURGE (Partition-aware Unlearning for Removing spurious-correlation Generated Errors) introduces a framework to mitigate spurious object-background correlations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). The method involves (1) structured dataset construction with partitioned examples to diagnose shortcut reliance and (2) partition-aware unlearning to remove spurious associations while preserving object-based reasoning. Evaluated on LLaVA-1.6-7B, Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, Qwen3.5-9B, and CLIP across benchmarks (CHAIR, POPE, Causal-HalBench, MM-SpuBench, AMBER, MMHal, Waterbirds), PURGE reduces hallucinations and spurious-correlation errors while maintaining or improving overall performance.
vision-language modelsspurious correlationspartition-aware unlearninghallucination mitigationmultimodal benchmarks
Generating Clinical Vignettes that Preserve Cognitive Formulations
FORMA introduces a theory-grounded framework for generating clinical vignettes that preserve specifiable cognitive structures, addressing the limitation of fluency-only generation in large language models. The method compiles a disorder-specific cognitive model into a directed weighted graph, samples persona-specific configurations, and validates vignette fidelity to specified components and causal links. Evaluated on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder using the Ehlers and Clark model (16,500 vignettes across 500 personas), FORMA achieves recoverable cognitive graphs (MCC = +0.41, AUC = 0.70) and clinician-perceived human-likeness (85% vs. 22% zero-shot), while reducing demographic disparity in quality by 1.5-7x.
clinical vignettescognitive modeldirected weighted graphposttraumatic stress disordersynthetic text generation
Beyond Fluency: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Saudi Dialect and Cultural Competence in Large Language Models
The study introduces a rubric-based benchmark for evaluating Saudi dialect and cultural competence in large language models (LLMs), addressing the gap in dialectal and culturally grounded evaluation. The methodology involves expert-authored prompts (n=31) with ground truths, evaluated across four state-of-the-art models (Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7, GPT-5.6, Kimi K3) using a model-agnostic scoring system. Results show narrow performance clustering (42.7%-53.1% macro-average), with Ambiguous Framing as the dominant error mode (37.3%) and low hallucination rates (11.2%), highlighting LLMs' struggle with pragmatic nuance and register distortion in dialectal contexts.
dialectal evaluationrubric-based benchmarkpragmatic nuancellm performancecultural competence
AutoCRAT: Within-trajectory Joint Control of Stochasticity and Compute for LLM Reasoning
AutoCRAT introduces within-trajectory joint control of stochasticity and compute for LLM reasoning, addressing limitations of static or isolated adaptive methods. The decoder-side controller adjusts sampling stochasticity and reasoning budget during generation via discrete actions updated at semantic boundaries, maintaining stability. Evaluated on 6 benchmarks, AutoCRAT reduces inference tokens by 13.8-52.7%, improves accuracy by 1.5-4.5% over baselines, and shows cross-backbone transferability.
adaptive decodingreasoning computesampling stochasticitydecoder-side controllercross-backbone transferability
An Open-Source, Event-Driven Pipeline for Cryptocurrency Market Data: Ingestion, Forecasting, and On-Chain Fraud Detection
The paper presents an open-source, event-driven pipeline for cryptocurrency market data processing, designed to replicate cloud-native functionality on commodity hardware. The system uses Apache Kafka for message queuing and filesystem polling to trigger computations, ingesting Gemini exchange data through asynchronous Kafka consumers into a PostgreSQL warehouse with specialized data marts. For Bitcoin price forecasting, seasonal ARIMA outperformed a single-layer LSTM, while Random Forest and Gradient Boosting classifiers were applied to Ethereum fraud detection, leveraging feature engineering on a labeled benchmark. The authors detail architectural choices and highlight limitations in forecast horizon comparisons and static dataset evaluation.
event-driven pipelineapache kafkapostgresqlarimalstm
EDGE: Engine for Deterministic Graph Evaluation through Conversation Simulation from Graph Structured DSL Configuration
The paper introduces EDGE, a formal evaluation methodology for measuring behavioral consistency and determinism in multi-agent systems. The approach leverages AgentGraph, a planner using a domain-specific language (DSL) to represent agent reasoning as a dynamically adjustable directed graph. Graph traversal algorithms exhaustively enumerate conversational paths, enabling systematic replay of trajectories to compare observed outputs against DSL specifications. Novel metrics quantify reliability, including response/trajectory determinism and structural/semantic consistency. Results show agents configured with structured frameworks (AgentGraph, LangGraph) exhibit superior determinism compared to uncontrolled transition agents.
multi-agent systemsdomain-specific languagegraph traversaldeterminism metricsagent orchestration
Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback
CorrectVLA introduces a training-free framework for correcting Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model failures via natural language feedback, enabling additive action magnitude adjustments without policy weight modifications. The method leverages a single task-level correction applied uniformly across rollouts, eliminating per-episode human intervention. Evaluations in simulation and on a UFactory xArm7 robot demonstrate recovery from execution misalignment failures in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution tasks, restoring near-perfect success under environment shifts. A failure mode taxonomy on LIBERO-90 identifies execution misalignment as correctable, while semantic comprehension failures remain uncorrectable, establishing operational boundaries for inference-time correction.
vision-language-actionexecution misalignmentaction magnitudeinference-time correctiontask-level correction
Review Before Trust: Source-Grounded Integrity Gates for AI-Assisted Personal Health Records
The study introduces an evidence-gated trust-promotion model to ensure integrity in AI-assisted personal health records by preventing unverified data from influencing longitudinal records. The model employs a deterministic monitor that verifies generated data against source documents, requiring unique supporting quotations, field alignment within laboratory rows, and preserved provenance. Implemented in Medical DataCloud, the system was evaluated through automated tests and historical laboratory PDF reports. Results show 22 conformance tests passed, with 72 of 97 numeric candidates admitted and 25 retained for review, demonstrating technical feasibility for enforcing data integrity boundaries.
evidence-gated trustlongitudinal health recorddeterministic monitorschema validationprovenance preservation
SearchWiki: Learning to Build and Navigate Knowledge Wikis for Active Information Seeking
SearchWiki introduces a framework for converting document corpora into hierarchical, typed knowledge wikis and trains WikiResearcher-9B (a Qwen 9B model) to navigate them via multi-turn tool use. The wiki organizes information into three layers (document overviews, topic pages, source records) for progressive retrieval refinement, with the agent's navigation policy optimized via on-policy RL using a multi-component reward function. Evaluations on ViDoRe-V3, FinanceBench, and memory benchmarks show WikiResearcher-9B outperforms same-size baselines and matches larger models, demonstrating structured navigation's superiority over flat retrieval.
hierarchical retrievalmulti-turn tool useon-policy reinforcement learningknowledge wikisprogressive refinement
Spatial Matryoshka Training for Multi-Granularity Visual Document Retrieval
ColSNAP (Spatial Nested Average Pooling) introduces a training method for multi-granularity visual document retrieval that generates a nested hierarchy of compression levels from a backbone's patch grid. By spatially pooling patch embeddings into progressively coarser tiers and training all tiers simultaneously, a single model supports retrieval at multiple compression levels without architectural changes. This enables the accuracy-storage trade-off to be configured at indexing time. Experiments show that ColSNAP maintains near full-resolution retrieval performance under substantial compression, transfers effectively across multiple late-interaction backbones, and achieves most improvements via a lightweight adaptation stage applied to a pre-trained retriever.
spatial poolingpatch embeddingsmulti-granularity retrievallate-interactioncompression levels
The Policy Deficit in AI x Social-Emotional Learning Research
This study identifies a policy deficit in AI x social-emotional learning (SEL) research through a systematic review of 65 peer-reviewed papers, finding that 73% lack explicit policy implications. Using the WH-question framework (Who, What, Why, When/Where, How), the authors demonstrate that existing policy narratives often lack specificity and actor-oriented guidance. Results reveal a significant association between publication venue and policy engagement, suggesting academic incentives prioritize technical innovation over governance. The paper proposes shifting from 'implication-as-afterthought' to 'implication-as-methodology' and provides actionable guidelines to bridge AI-SEL innovation and educational policy.
social-emotional learningpolicy deficitwh-question frameworktechno-solutionistevidence-based policy
Influence Is Not Authority: When Causal Guardrail Signals Make Legitimate Tool Use Look Like an Attack in Tool-Using LLM Agents
The study identifies a critical limitation in influence-based guardrails for tool-using LLM agents, demonstrating their failure to distinguish authorized from unauthorized actions when both rely on external tool information. Through an authorization-equivalence audit of 96 conditions (24 base cases), the authors show that benign relocations of required values (user vs. tool) shift causal signals toward attack regions in all cases under Llama and Gemma scorers, despite unchanged actions. Results reveal that semantic monitors reduce attack success to 0% but cut utility to 28%, while shadow-based guardrails pass 57.5% of unauthorized runs before security checks. The causal signal encodes action shaping but not authorization validity, highlighting routing and reference construction as key to security decisions.
influence-based guardrailsauthorization-equivalence auditcausal signaltool-using llm agentssemantic monitor
AcrossWAM1.0:A Modular Latent World-Action Stack for Compact Robot Policies
AcrossWAM1.0 introduces a modularized latent world-action stack for compact robot policies, decoupling the world model, multimodal backbone, and deployment checkpoint from LaWAM's original formulation. The architecture comprises a policy adapter generating latent-action contexts, a latent world decoder grounding transitions, and a flow-matching expert producing continuous actions, with training-only teachers separated from inference. Evaluated on 2,000 LIBERO episodes, AcrossWAM1.0 achieves 97.45% success with a Qwen3.5-0.8B backbone, marginally below the 98.00% of the Qwen3-VL-2B model, while reducing parameters by 42.4% to 1,472.6M. The checkpoint ensures bitwise tensor equivalence and supports cross-family execution, though closed-loop transfer remains unverified.
latent world-actionpolicy adapterflow-matchingbitwise equivalencecross-family execution
Hallucination Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models via Implicit Feature Stabilization
INFUSE introduces implicit feature stabilization to mitigate hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) by embedding perturbation-invariance into model weights during fine-tuning, eliminating inference-time overhead. The framework stabilizes visual and textual representations using perturbation-averaged and ground-truth anchors, aligning them via bidirectional contrastive objectives. Theoretical analysis shows the anchor's deviation from the perturbation-mean shrinks at rate $1/\sqrt{K}$, bounding hallucination behavior under a Lipschitz decoder. Evaluations on LLaVA-1.5, LLaVA-1.6, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct demonstrate 46-63% reductions in AMBER CHAIR, improvements in ObjHal, MMHal, HallusionBench, and POPE, while preserving VQA-v2 and TextVQA performance.
hallucination mitigationfeature stabilizationbidirectional contrastive objectivesperturbation-invariancelipschitz decoder
Sleight of Word Benchmark: Can Language Models Notice If Their Own Output Was Tampered With?
The paper introduces the Sleight of Word benchmark, which evaluates whether language models can detect tampering with their own output during generation. The method involves substituting a single word in the model's output stream and measuring two axes: the model's surprise and its textual reaction. The benchmark tests 19 open-weight language models, assessing their sensitivity to such perturbations. Results quantify model performance in detecting and responding to these adversarial modifications.
language modelsbenchmarkadversarial perturbationoutput tamperingin-context learning
IndicDetect: Evaluating Cross-Lingual LLM-Generated Text Detection for Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil
IndicDetect introduces a benchmark for cross-lingual AI-generated text detection in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil, evaluating robustness under domain shift, generator shift, and adversarial perturbations. The benchmark pairs human-written texts with LLM-generated counterparts across domains and systematically assesses statistical and neural detectors. Results reveal supervised detectors perform well in-distribution but degrade under unseen generators and adversarial attacks, with Hindi showing the largest robustness drop. The benchmark provides standardized data splits, evaluation protocols, and baselines for Indic language detection.
cross-lingual detectionadversarial robustnessdistribution shiftindic languagesneural detectors
On the Instance Hardness as a Decision Criterion in TinyML Systems
The work proposes instance hardness-based tree depth pruning for TinyML systems to balance energy efficiency and classification accuracy. The method dynamically adjusts pruning thresholds to control computational complexity during inference while maintaining acceptable model performance. Preliminary results demonstrate tunable energy-accuracy tradeoffs, with threshold selection directly impacting power consumption and marginal classification quality changes. The approach targets resource-constrained devices through adaptive model compression.
tinymlinstance hardnesstree pruningenergy efficiencyadaptive inference
When Less is More: Understanding When Token Filtering Helps and Fails in AI-generated Text Detection
This work challenges the assumption that more token-level evidence improves AI-generated text detection, demonstrating that retaining only 40% of tokens via top-$k$ cumulative probability filtering can yield optimal performance. The authors introduce the Entropy Gap Score (EGS) as a diagnostic probe, analyzing its dynamics through entropy calibration and distribution analysis across three settings. Results reveal a two-sided trade-off: filtering helps for weak source LMs (low-entropy tokens are harmful) but fails for strong source LMs (no notable harm), exposing systematic harm from entropy miscalibration.
token filteringentropy gap scoreai-generated text detectionentropy calibrationtypical set theory
INTERVenE: Temporal-Abstraction-Interval Based Transformers for Short-Horizon Medical Event Prediction
INTERVenE introduces a family of Transformer architectures for short-horizon medical event prediction using interval-based knowledge-based temporal abstraction (KBTA) as input, replacing unnamed bins or raw measurements. The method includes two variants: an auto-regressive decoder for future abstraction trajectories with per-step risk readout and a bidirectional encoder for joint risk and time-to-event prediction. Evaluated on 57,078 MIMIC-IV admissions, INTERVenE-Enc achieves a support-weighted AUPRC_w of 0.672 (0.041 improvement over neural baselines) and AUROC_w of 0.901, while INTERVenE-Ar provides complementary token-level risk trajectories. KBTA-based intervals enable interpretable per-token attributions to clinical concepts.
transformertemporal abstractionelectronic health recordrisk predictioninterpretability
REIGN: Refurbished Embeddings with Integrated Guidance Networks for Efficient Context-Length Scaling
REIGN introduces a bi-encoder architecture for efficient document-to-document retrieval by decoupling token-level processing from document-level reasoning. It operates on contextualised chunk embeddings from a frozen Guidance Network (GN), avoiding quadratic scaling in sequence length. Training costs are reduced by four orders of magnitude through GN embedding caching. REIGN matches dense long-context retrievers at smaller parameter budgets, performing on par with models 1.6-4.3x larger in patent retrieval and within 0.65 nDCG@10 of a 20x-larger model on the LoCo benchmark. A synthetic long-document retrieval benchmark is also released.
bi-encodercontextualised embeddingscontrastive trainingdocument retrievalguidance network
Perceive to Hypothesize, Verify to Ground: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Open-World Geo-Localization
We introduce GeoPAVE, a bi-level agentic framework for open-world geo-localization that addresses perceptual hallucination and context drift through perceive-then-verify reasoning. The framework comprises perception-based hypothesis generation via single-pass rollouts and verification-based evidence grounding with decision actions: support, refute, and refine. We also present PAVED, a novel dataset derived from real-world user check-in data, featuring multi-hop queries, multi-round tool invocations, and structured perception-verification traces. The dataset and code are publicly available to support rigorous evaluation of geo-localization models.
geo-localizationperceive-then-verifymulti-hop queriesevidence groundingagentic framework
FRAMEWORKERS: A Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for AI-Generated Video Production
FRAMEWORKERS introduces a dynamic multi-agent framework for AI-generated video production, addressing limitations in rigid pipelines and unreliable LLM-based orchestration. The system employs a Director agent for task management via a Task Stack and an Assistant agent for execution, grounding tasks in a shared Workspace with modular sub-agents for extensibility. The Director is fine-tuned using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for descriptor-conditioned task routing. Experiments demonstrate superior routing accuracy, runtime failure recovery, generalization to unseen sub-agents, and higher end-to-end video quality compared to fixed pipelines, single-agent systems, and prior multi-agent approaches.
task stackgroup relative policy optimizationdescriptor-conditioned routingmodular sub-agentsruntime failure recovery
R$^2$A: Learning Persona Policies Through Persona Representation Learning and Runtime Alignment
The paper introduces R$^2$A, a two-stage method for learning persona policies that addresses inconsistencies in static persona elicitation. First, Persona Representation Learning encodes objectives, behavioral principles, and trajectory-level manifestations via structured Who--How--What presentations. Second, Persona Runtime Alignment jointly calibrates behavior selection and realization using task feedback, removing explicit persona specifications. Evaluated across 12 settings for an Accountable-Professional Persona, R$^2$A outperforms base models and static elicitation, with ablations showing representation learning prevents behavioral imbalance and stabilizes policy learning.
persona policyrepresentation learningruntime alignmentbehavioral principlestrajectory-level manifestations
SynCrash: A Multi-Stage Pipeline for Zero-Shot Accident Detection and Localization in Traffic Surveillance Video
SynCrash introduces a multi-stage pipeline for zero-shot accident detection, spatial localization, and collision-type classification in CCTV footage, targeting the ACCIDENT at CVPR 2026 Challenge. The method combines: (1) temporal localization via VideoMAEv2-giant fine-tuned on CARLA synthetic clips with metadata-aware embeddings, (2) spatial localization using YOLO and physics-informed heuristics for impact-point prediction, and (3) rule-based collision classification. The approach leverages synthetic data for temporal understanding while relying on pretrained object detectors and physics priors for spatial reasoning, demonstrating domain transfer without real-world labels.
zero-shottemporal localizationphysics-informedmetadata-awaresynthetic data
PAGE-RAG: Provenance-Aware Graph Evidence Promotion for Fixed-Budget Multi-hop Retrieval-Augmented Generation
PAGE-RAG introduces a provenance-aware graph evidence promotion method for fixed-budget multi-hop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), addressing the connectivity-support gap where connected candidates do not necessarily support the answer. The method constructs a query-local graph over retrieved candidates, scores paths using relevance, metadata, specificity, hubness, noise, and coherence signals, and applies minimal sufficient selection to promote supporting facts into a compact reader context. Evaluated on three multi-hop QA benchmarks, PAGE-RAG improves support F1 and answer F1 by 10.4 and 3.3 points over a strong retriever and enhances existing RAG backends as a plug-in.
multi-hop qaretrieval-augmented generationprovenance-awaregraph evidenceconnectivity-support gap
Higher-Dimensional Rotary Position Embedding
HD-RoPE extends Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) from independent 2D rotations to higher-dimensional rotations using a Paley-I orthogonal basis, enabling balanced, isotropic, and dense phase mixing within rotation subspaces. This enhances channel coupling and rotational degrees of freedom while preserving orthogonal stability and relative position closure. The method introduces no additional trainable parameters and maintains engineering efficiency. Evaluations show HD-RoPE outperforms standard RoPE across multiple benchmarks in both long and short contexts.
rotary position embeddinghigher-dimensional rotationspaley-i orthogonal basischannel couplingrelative position closure
A Calibration Audit of Confidence in Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction
This work conducts a calibration audit of confidence estimates in feed-forward 3D reconstruction models, evaluating their utility as error predictors. Seven released backbones are assessed on thirteen datasets, measuring four properties: error ranking, average confidence level, consistency across confidence ranges, and interval coverage. Results show that confidence ranks error well but systematically underestimates uncertainty, with a median error of 2.4x across models. A power-law correction with dataset-specific constants reduces this to 1.35x, and further refinement on labeled scenes achieves 1.12x. The authors attribute residual errors to missing scene-scale knowledge and release the audit protocol, results, and fitted constants.
calibration3d reconstructionuncertainty estimationerror predictionpower-law correction
Ideation Arena: Evaluating LLM Generated Research Ideas with Battle-style Human Expert Assessment
We introduce Ideation Arena, a platform for pairwise human evaluation of LLM-generated research ideas, addressing the challenge of assessing scientific value without objective criteria. The platform evaluates ideas from 14 LLMs and 5 research agent architectures, using shared literature contexts and collecting 6,000 double-blind comparisons from 105 computer science researchers. Results show significant variation in agent effectiveness, with some frameworks outperforming their base models and others underperforming. We validate rankings through interrater agreement and robustness analyses, and introduce Ideation Arena Eval, a benchmark for automated evaluators. Current LLM judges achieve up to 72.56% Soft Accuracy on Overall Quality.
ideation arenapairwise assessmentelo ratinginterrater agreementsoft accuracy
MedSegBenchmarker: A Raw-Count-First Framework for Controlled 2D Medical Image Segmentation Benchmarks
MEDSEGBENCHMARKER (MSB) introduces a configuration-driven framework for controlled benchmarking of 2D medical image segmentation (MIS), addressing challenges in fair and reproducible model comparisons. MSB integrates duplicate detection, group-aware data splitting, YAML study specifications, resumable training, hyperparameter optimization, and checkpoint-based evaluation, exporting raw pixel counts and predictions for post-hoc analysis. A case study with three heterogeneous datasets and multiple MIS models at 256- and 512-pixel resolutions demonstrates that aggregation strategies and input resolution significantly impact model rankings and performance. MSB provides an extensible, reproducible basis for explicit benchmark conditions.
medical image segmentationbenchmarking frameworkhyperparameter optimizationgroup-aware splittingpost-hoc analysis
Constant Individual Regret in General Games
The paper introduces ECHO-OFTRL, a deterministic and fully uncoupled algorithm for $N$-player normal-form games that eliminates the polylogarithmic dependence on the horizon in individual regret guarantees. The method combines optimistic follow-the-regularized-leader (OFTRL) with an exponential moving average (EMA) cascade for high-order optimism, inspired by modern filter design. For any horizon $T\geq1$, each player's regret is upper bounded by $O(\textrm{poly}(N, \log m_{\max}))$, where $m_{\max}$ is the largest action-set size, improving prior results.
no-regret dynamicsnormal-form gamesoptimistic follow-the-regularized-leaderexponential moving averageindividual regret
Sharp Approximation Rates for Neural Networks with Affine Latent Parameterizations
The paper establishes sharp approximation rates for neural networks with affine latent parameterizations, analyzing the tradeoff between latent dimension M and network budget P. Focusing on affine generators and fully connected ReLU architectures, the authors derive worst-case uniform approximation bounds for α-Hölder functions on [0,1]^d. They prove the optimal error scales as (P min{M,P})^{-α/d}, demonstrating that fixed-dimensional latent spaces suffice for vanishing error as P increases. The framework generalizes hypernetworks, low-rank adaptations, and model compression methods.
neural networksapproximation theoryparameter-efficientaffine generatorshölder functions
Implementing neural network mixed-effects models in Template Model Builder (TMB)
The authors propose a framework for neural network mixed-effects models (NMMs) using Template Model Builder (TMB), eliminating manual derivation of gradients and approximations. By leveraging automatic differentiation and Laplace approximation, TMB automates marginal likelihood evaluation and gradient computation while integrating random effects. The method demonstrates efficiency and statistical performance in numerical experiments, including monotonic NMMs, with provided reproducible code.
neural network mixed-effects modelstemplate model builderautomatic differentiationlaplace approximationmarginal likelihood
On the Complexity of the Compatibility Problem for Succinctly Encoded Conditional Distributions
The paper establishes computational complexity results for the compatibility problem when conditional distributions are succinctly encoded as arithmetic circuits, rather than probability tables. For discrete random variables, it shows that determining compatibility between circuit-encoded conditionals is intractable: co-NP-complete when all probabilities are non-zero, and PSPACE-complete when zero probabilities are allowed. The authors also prove that some compatible conditionals lack succinct joint representations unless the polynomial hierarchy collapses. These findings have implications for probabilistic modeling in high-dimensional settings, including neural networks.
compatibility problemarithmetic circuitsco-np-completepspace-completeprobabilistic modeling
"Train classical, deploy quantum" requires rethinking generalization
The study challenges the 'train classical, deploy quantum' paradigm for quantum generative models by demonstrating that moment-matching losses like maximum mean discrepancy (MMD$^2$) yield poor generalization compared to likelihood-based training. Evaluating quantum and classical models on cardinality-constrained (up to 30 qubits) and genomic single-nucleotide variant datasets, the authors show converged MMD$^2$ fails to guarantee generalization. The findings suggest rethinking training objectives or model architectures to improve generalization in quantum-classical workflows.
quantum generative modelsmaximum mean discrepancygeneralizationmoment-matching losspauli-z correlations
Stress-Testing Efficient Responsible-AI Evaluation: When Compute Savings Change Benchmark Conclusions
This work stress-tests the robustness of responsible-AI benchmark conclusions under efficient evaluation protocols, comparing dense and mixture-of-experts models on BBQ and BBQ-V under seven efficiency conditions (batching, quantization, benchmark reduction). Analyzing accuracy, bias severity/prevalence, reasoning quality, subgroup behavior, and energy use against a BF16 baseline, findings show larger batching maintains accuracy (±0.35pp) with minor subgroup shifts and energy savings, INT8 preserves quality with 1.79–4.26× energy reduction, while INT4 and small benchmark subsets exhibit greater variability. The study argues efficient evaluation requires validity checks across intended benchmark conclusions.
responsible-ai benchmarkingefficient evaluationmixture-of-expertsquantizationbias severity
One Adapter, Many Tasks: Task-Conditioned Feature Transformations for Continual Learning
FACET introduces a task-conditioned feature transformation approach for class-incremental learning, addressing parameter inefficiency and representation interference in existing methods. It employs a single shared adapter with dynamic task-conditioned feature transformations, shaping feature distributions into overlap-reduced task-specific components. A replay-free task-conditioned feature consistency loss mitigates catastrophic forgetting. FACET demonstrates robust scalability on both long (200 tasks) and short (20 tasks) sequences, achieving superior performance with significantly fewer trainable parameters and GFLOPs. The method will be open-sourced upon acceptance.
class-incremental learningtask-conditionedfeature transformationcatastrophic forgettingparameter efficiency
Minimax bounds for watermarked and masked recursive discrete distribution estimation
This work establishes minimax bounds for recursive discrete distribution estimation under watermarking and masking. It analyzes the impact of watermarks on estimation loss, contrasting unassisted and oracle-assisted scenarios. The authors prove a lower bound showing that watermarking cannot improve performance unless the false negative detection rate vanishes asymptotically. They demonstrate that simple deterministic estimators achieve worst-case losses matching lower bounds up to constants in most regimes. For remaining regimes, masking is introduced as a randomization technique to reduce the gap to a Jensen gap. A conjecture is made that tighter lower bounds could fully close this gap.
minimax boundswatermarkingrecursive estimationmaskingjensen gap
Sycophantic Agreement Transfers with Neutral Data via Contrastive Preference Optimization
This work identifies sycophantic agreement—excessive affirmation of user input at the cost of factual accuracy—as an unintended consequence of contrastive preference optimization objectives. Using the OLMo 3 post-training pipeline, the authors demonstrate a strong correlation between teacher model sycophantic agreement rates and student model behavior across three model families and six preference optimization objectives. Analysis reveals that sycophancy signals are diffusely distributed across datasets, with no explicit instances in individual examples, making mitigation via filtering ineffective without significant data loss. These findings highlight unexpected interactions between teacher models and alignment training objectives, leading to undesirable behaviors.
sycophantic agreementcontrastive preference optimizationolmo 3alignment trainingpreference data
A Model with No Head and Many Thoughts
The paper introduces Soft Latent Thinking, a method replacing the LM head during reasoning with a lightweight projector to enable autoregressive rollout in continuous embedding space, avoiding discrete token generation. This approach reduces per-step compute while maintaining reasoning performance. Evaluated on DeepSeek-Qwen-1.5B and LLaMA-3.2-3B, the method consistently improves pass@k across all k and achieves the highest pass@32 among soft-thinking approaches, demonstrating effective continuous-space reasoning.
soft latent thinkingautoregressive rolloutcontinuous embedding spacelm headpass@k
Universal Transformers for Circuit Computations: Perfect Length Generalization in Tiny Transformers
The authors introduce a provably correct transformer parameterization (280 parameters for Boolean tasks) that achieves perfect length generalization on algorithmic computations by modeling them as circuit reductions. Their method uses depth-tracking positional encodings and masked hard attention to identify evaluable subexpressions in $O(n)$ per-iteration complexity, terminating after $d$ iterations for depth-$d$ problems ($O(n \cdot d)$ total). Training on shallow instances (depth 1-2) yields interpretable parameters enabling 100% accuracy on Boolean expressions, modular arithmetic, and ListOps at arbitrary lengths.
length generalizationcircuit reductionpositional encodingmasked hard attentionautonomous halting
Segmentation of Bovid Dentition Under Imperfect Annotations: A Comparative Study of Convolutional and Attention Models
This comparative study evaluates convolutional and attention-based architectures for semantic segmentation of bovid dentition using the B.O.V.I.D. dataset, which contains high-resolution dental photographs with imperfect manual annotations. The work systematically analyzes preprocessing techniques to mitigate label misalignment effects, finding that while quantitative metrics (Dice score, mIoU) show limited sensitivity to preprocessing choices, qualitative mask predictions exhibit substantial variations. Results demonstrate the resilience of modern segmentation networks (including vision transformers) to annotation imperfections in this specialized biological domain.
semantic segmentationbovid dentitionvision transformersannotation imperfectionsdice score
Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement
This work challenges the efficacy of on-policy distillation (OPD) by demonstrating that student policies are insensitive to noisy teacher supervision, converging regardless of noise retention. Analysis reveals OPD primarily suppresses low log-probability tokens, enabling the proposal of On-Policy Self-Adaptation (OPSA), a teacher-free method using entropy-adaptive negative advantages. OPSA improves Avg@32 by 35.41 points (263% relative gain) on AIME24 over Qwen3-1.7B and outperforms OPD by 16.77 points, with consistent gains across model families and benchmarks.
on-policy distillationlog-probability tokensentropy-adaptiveself-adaptationreinforcement learning
Rotational Equivariance in Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Tutorial
The tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction to rotational equivariance in machine learning, connecting physical intuition with mathematical formalism from geometric deep learning, group theory, and representation theory. It covers foundational concepts like message passing on Euclidean graphs, spherical harmonics, Wigner matrices, and Clebsch-Gordan decomposition, and surveys equivariant architectures including group convolutions, tensorial representations, and canonicalization methods. The work unifies disparate formalisms and offers practical guidance on trade-offs between approaches for 3D data applications in physics, materials science, and computer vision.
rotational equivariancespherical harmonicsclebsch-gordan decompositiongroup convolutionscanonicalization
Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation
Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation (NoRA) enhances parameter-efficient model adaptation by normalizing down-projection matrices during LoRA training. The method leverages the observation that LoRA's early optimization dynamics are governed by down-projection due to zero-initialized up-projection. NoRA demonstrates that normalization can be applied solely at initialization, improving standard LoRA without repeated normalization. Evaluated across pretraining, supervised finetuning, and reinforcement learning, NoRA accelerates convergence, enhances performance and training stability, and mitigates catastrophic forgetting. These improvements require no additional trainable parameters or inference-time computation, making NoRA a broadly applicable enhancement to LoRA.
low-rank adaptationnormalizationdown-projectionparameter-efficienttraining stability
Driving on Memory
The study demonstrates that memory-based scene information can nearly match or exceed end-to-end autonomous driving performance on NAVSIM, challenging the benchmark's validity for assessing reactive planning. By replacing camera input with retrieved memories from prior drives at identical locations, the authors isolate the contribution of persistent scene understanding (e.g., road layout) from dynamic traffic awareness. Results show memory-driven models achieve comparable NAVSIM scores without observing the evaluated scene, suggesting the benchmark overemphasizes static scene comprehension. Performance drops substantially on Bench2Drive and RealEngine, indicating benchmark-specific effects. Code is publicly available for reproducibility.
autonomous drivingend-to-end modelsscene understandingbenchmark evaluationmemory retrieval
Learning the Geometry of Admissible Hypotheses through Inductive Bias in Training Distributions
We introduce a framework for learning continuous latent representations of admissible partial differential equations (PDEs) by embedding scientific inductive bias into training distributions. The method progressively incorporates structural principles (sparsity, logical dependencies, PDE families, physical admissibility) to generate structured hypothesis distributions, from which a gated variational autoencoder learns an 11-dimensional latent manifold. Experiments demonstrate accurate reconstruction of representative PDEs, smooth geometric transitions across equation families, and reduced structural misclassifications and parameter estimation errors. Results show that embedding scientific principles enables learning compact, geometrically meaningful hypothesis manifolds for inference over governing equations.
partial differential equationsinductive biasvariational autoencoderlatent manifoldparameter estimation
TSPFN: A Temporal Tabular Foundation Model for Physiological Time Series Classification
TSPFN introduces a temporal tabular foundation model for physiological time-series classification, addressing TabPFN's limitations in capturing temporal dependencies. The model integrates structured temporal representations and positional embeddings to handle intra-sample temporal and channel dependencies, pretrained on 140,000 real-world physiological time series. Evaluations show TSPFN outperforms TabPFN and specialized deep time-series models in cross-domain generalization across diverse physiological benchmarks.
foundation modeltemporal dependenciesphysiological time seriespositional embeddingscross-domain generalization
Language-Informed Flow Matching for Trend-Guided Structure-Based 3D Molecular Generation
LiFT introduces language-informed flow matching for trend-guided 3D molecular generation, integrating SMILES-derived semantic priors via a pre-trained chemical foundation model and lightweight projector. The method employs a 'Sense-Evolve-Assemble' agent for target-aware SMILES generation and a Self-Conditioned Decoupled Router (SCDR) to modulate velocity fields during ODE integration. On CrossDocked2020, LiFT achieves competitive distribution matching while improving medicinal chemistry metrics and maintaining structural validity without generator fine-tuning, demonstrating that language-derived priors effectively guide 3D molecular generation.
flow matchingsemantic priorsscaffold hoppingode integrationvelocity field
Controlling Refusal Behavior of LLMs via Stiefel-Constrained Rotation Steering
The paper introduces a parameter-efficient method for controlling large language model (LLM) refusal behavior via Stiefel-constrained rotation steering, eliminating reliance on auxiliary constructs like refusal vectors. The approach employs Riemannian optimization to learn rotational transformations of activations, offering a geometrically principled intervention mechanism. Empirical validation demonstrates superior intervention efficiency compared to existing techniques, with ablation studies confirming the importance of key design choices. Results suggest rotation-based steering as a promising direction for reliable LLM behavior control.
activation steeringriemannian optimizationstiefel manifoldrefusal behaviorparameter-efficient
Sparse Competition during Training For the Emergence of Specialized Modules
The paper introduces a method for inducing modular structure in deep neural networks through sparse competition dynamics during training, achieving near-baseline accuracy while promoting specialized, interpretable modules. The approach sparsely routes inputs to neuron groups, encouraging module specialization correlated with input classes (e.g., dogs or vehicles) without module-level supervision. Evaluated on ImageNet-100 and CIFAR-100, the method yields modules capturing high-level semantic structure and hierarchical task partitions. Results suggest competition dynamics can functionally modularize standard architectures.
modularitysparse routingcompetition dynamicsspecialized modulesdisentangled representations
A Human-in-the-Loop Autonomous Agent for Industry Time Series Forecasting
CastClaw introduces a human-in-the-loop autonomous forecasting system designed for industry time-series forecasting, addressing the limitations of specialized models and general-purpose LLM agents. The system integrates data, specialized models, analytical tools, and user input through forecasting-oriented harness engineering, enabling users to specify targets, horizons, constraints, and hypotheses in natural language. CastClaw dynamically checks temporal patterns, retrieves context, runs analyses, and escalates results under explicit stopping conditions, producing a final forecast and an inspectable execution report. Evaluated on five electricity-price datasets, CastClaw achieves the lowest point-estimate MSE and MAE among 16 baselines, with additional validation on North China provincial electricity-load data.
time-series forecastingharness engineeringhuman-in-the-loopexecution reportstopping conditions
Singular Curvature in ReLU Training:Differentiation and the Gradient-Flow Limit Need Not Commute
The paper demonstrates that gradient descent (GD) and its continuous-time gradient-flow limit exhibit non-commuting differentiation behaviors in ReLU networks, particularly at activation events. By analyzing hard-ReLU GD programs, the authors prove that discrete derivatives converge to an event-free regional propagator, while the flow derivative includes activation-event transfers. They introduce a Stieltjes representation to separate regional Hessian from interface curvature, showing that gradient jumps induce rank-one discrepancies. Results extend to parameter and reverse-mode adjoint decompositions, with consistent event localization recovering flow sensitivity. The analysis focuses on deterministic full-batch, finite-horizon dynamics with stable event itineraries.
gradient descentrelu networksstieltjes representationactivation eventshessian
One Policy Is Enough: Single-Agent Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Tree Search for Chemistry Tool Learning
The study demonstrates that a single-agent reinforcement learning (RL) approach outperforms hierarchical evolutionary Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) for chemistry tool-use tasks, achieving higher precision in tool selection (Tool F1) and output correctness (Return F1). The proposed method trains a unified policy via supervised warm-up followed by outcome-level RL, eliminating the need for separate critics or judges. Evaluated on ChemToolBench with Qwen-2.5-7B and Llama-3.1-8B backbones, it improves Tool F1 by 5.5% and Return F1 by 9.6% (Qwen) and 3.7%/3.9% (Llama) over MCTS, while reducing computational cost from tree-search scaling to single-model invocation.
reinforcement learningmonte carlo tree searchtool-usechemistry benchmarkspolicy optimization
Reproducible macroscopic dynamics in a closed-loop human-AI learning system
The study identifies reproducible macroscopic dynamics in closed-loop human-AI learning systems by analyzing 297,915 learners' adaptive-tutoring histories. Semantic order variables were defined and tested in user-disjoint cohorts, revealing basin-like flow and metastable-like kinetics. A four-term conditional mechanism recovered population drift (r = 0.946; 95% CI, 0.935-0.955), and predictive event-level self-supervised learning captured state and learned-plane flow. Shuffled-order training reversed learned-plane flow, while support-alignment randomization reduced inward transport. Models shared leading population drift (r = 0.866; 95% CI, 0.857-0.875) and persistence ordering without cross-model fitting, with residual directions remaining model-specific.
closed-loop systemssemantic order variablesmetastable-like kineticspopulation driftself-supervised learning
Nonparametric Contextual Pricing and Inventory Learning under Censored Demand
The authors propose Mean-Calibrated Kernel UCB (MCK-UCB), a nonparametric algorithm for contextual pricing and inventory learning under censored demand in online retailing. MCK-UCB leverages past sales data with similar market conditions to guide pricing and stocking decisions without requiring a separate exploration phase or complete demand recovery. The algorithm achieves minimax optimality, with accelerated convergence rates when expected profit exhibits smooth price dependence. Comprehensive numerical experiments validate MCK-UCB's effectiveness in learning context-dependent policies without assuming specific demand formulations or observing realized profits.
contextual pricingcensored demandnonparametric learningminimax optimalitykernel ucb
Selection-Aware Stress Testing for Interactive Agents
Selection-Aware Semantic Stress Testing (SASST) is introduced to address selection bias in agent evaluations by learning task reweighting from pre-execution features on discovery tasks and validating paired comparisons on separate confirmation tasks. The protocol ensures support, stability, and joint bounds for claims, allowing for no-claim outcomes. Conditional asymptotic validity is proven under cluster assumptions. Empirical results include Gaussian undercoverage and conservative Bonferroni bounds in a 40-cluster audit, and a 480-episode study where a 3.75-point discovery gain vanished on confirmation. A second study confirmed neither workflow benefits nor stable stress rules.
selection-aware stress testingtask reweightingconditional asymptotic validitygaussian undercoveragebonferroni bounds
S3C-LLM: Skill-Code Guided Agentic Language Models for Spectrum-to-Structure Elucidation
S3C-LLM introduces a skill-code guided agentic LLM for spectrum-to-structure elucidation, explicitly modeling spectroscopists' analytical workflow (diagnostic peak interpretation, fragment reasoning, formula constraints) rather than direct spectrum-to-SMILES generation. The method combines a self-evolving spectroscopy skill library, thinking-augmented skill-code trajectory construction, and two-stage training (supervised fine-tuning followed by step-level RL) on Qwen3-4B. Experiments show S3C-LLM outperforms general LLMs and spectrum-specific models (e.g., SpectraLLM) across diverse benchmarks while using <10% of SpectraLLM's training data.
spectroscopyagentic-llmsmiles-generationreinforcement-learningmolecular-analysis
Fine-Tuning Low-Bit Models with Gradient in Quantized Code Space
The paper introduces GradCodes, a method for fine-tuning low-bit quantized models by optimizing gradient signals in deployable code space to balance efficiency and deployment faithfulness. It addresses distortion from straight-through estimation and post-quantization gaps in continuous training while avoiding the inefficiency of discrete search. The approach combines code surrogate gradients with guided search. Experiments on arithmetic reasoning, instruction following, and structured language understanding tasks demonstrate consistent improvements across various quantization datatypes.
quantizationfine-tuninggradient optimizationlow-bit modelsdeployment faithfulness
Deploying DeepSeek 175B Locally on a Single Consumer-Grade RTX 4060 Laptop with 32GB RAM for 200k-Scale Protein-Ligand Virtual Screening
The work presents a low-resource framework for deploying the 175B-parameter DeepSeek LLM on a single RTX 4060 laptop (32GB RAM, 8GB VRAM) to perform 200k-scale protein-ligand virtual screening across 20 targets. Key innovations include heterogeneous memory optimization and model compression, achieving 100x throughput over an 8-A100 cluster baseline while maintaining 0.88 kcal/mol average binding affinity error (below the 1.0 kcal/mol preclinical threshold). Profiling shows 72% runtime overhead from memory management and <10% accuracy loss from optimizations, demonstrating feasibility of trillion-parameter LLM biomedical computing on consumer hardware.
large language modelsprotein-ligand interactionvirtual screeningheterogeneous memorymodel compression
Linguistic Distance Segregates Latent Representations in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
The study demonstrates that first language (L1) linguistic distance systematically affects English automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance, with deeper acoustic layers exhibiting L1-based latent space segregation. Using Tweedie mixed-effects models, the authors analyze ASR error rates across diverse speaker populations, finding statistically significant correlations (p<0.001) between L1 distance and performance degradation. Empirical results show this effect persists across multiple datasets and model architectures, revealing consistent spatial partitioning in latent representations.
automatic speech recognitionlinguistic distancelatent representationstweedie mixed-effectsacoustic layers
What Emerges and What Breaks in Self-Play Driving
This work investigates emergent behaviors and failure modes in self-play-trained autonomous driving policies, extending prior approaches by employing Transformer architectures trained on real-city high-definition maps. The policies, evaluated on CARLA and Waymax benchmarks, underperform compared to Gigaflow due to specific failure modes such as reward hacking at traffic lights and lack of stop sign compliance. The analysis identifies which traffic rules emerge from self-play and their alignment with human driving, while demonstrating that reward conditioning produces diverse driving behaviors. A trained policy demonstration is publicly available.
self-playautonomous drivingtransformersreward hackingtraffic rules
TopoCompress: Long Context Compression via Graph-Wired Semantic Trajectories
TopoCompress introduces a training-free, model-agnostic framework for long-context compression by selecting coherent semantic spans. The method scores spans using dense and lexical query relevance combined with semantic acceleration, constructs a hybrid graph connecting spans via semantic similarity and sequential adjacency, and propagates query-guided relevance scores across the graph. Evaluated on HotpotQA, 2WikiMQA, MuSiQue, Qasper, and MultiFieldQA-en, TopoCompress outperforms strong baselines, achieving comparable performance with a 4x smaller compression budget and reducing compression time by 1.41x compared to the fastest baseline.
long-context compressionsemantic accelerationhybrid graphquery relevancetraining-free
Geometric Attractor Monitoring: A Robust and Frugal Framework for Multi-modal Industrial Robotic Cycles
The authors propose Geometric Attractor Monitoring, a robust framework for health monitoring of heterogeneous industrial robot fleets, addressing challenges posed by multi-modal operational cycles and scarce run-to-failure data. The method reframes monitoring via Phase Space Reconstruction (PSR), transforming univariate sensor data into geometric attractors to capture mechanical states independently of temporal occurrence. Discrete support estimation is introduced as a computationally frugal Health Indicator (HI). Validated on a real-world dataset of 21 robots over three years and a synthetic Langevin system, the approach outperforms standard deep learning baselines, aligning algorithmic bias with geometric properties for pragmatic industrial deployment.
phase space reconstructiongeometric attractorhealth indicatordiscrete support estimationmulti-modal cycles
Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End AI Weather Forecasting: Disentangling Observation and Model Contributions
The paper introduces an uncertainty-aware end-to-end weather forecasting system by augmenting the deterministic Aardvark Weather model with stochastic components: learned input-dependent noise in the observation encoder (aleatoric uncertainty) and Monte Carlo dropout in the processor (epistemic uncertainty). A nested ensemble decomposes forecast spread via law-of-total-variance, validated by observation withholding. Probabilistic finetuning improves mean forecast skill by 4.2% across variables/lead times, achieves ERA5-calibrated spread-skill ratio (0.98) through medium range, maintains station RMSE within 2.4% of deterministic baseline, and outperforms it in CRPS at all leads. The system provides component-attributed uncertainty for transparency in observation-driven atmospheric digital twins.
aleatoric uncertaintyepistemic uncertaintylaw-of-total-varianceprobabilistic finetuningspread-skill ratio
Reciprocity Separates Gradient Flow from Rotation in Conservative Physical Learning
The study identifies conditions under which physical learning systems follow conventional gradient descent versus divergent trajectories, focusing on directed layered transport networks with conserved mass and positivity. By modeling adjoint-matched responses, the authors show that non-negative mode-wise feedback yields reciprocal closed-loop responses and reweighted gradient flow, while antisymmetric boundary components introduce rotational dynamics. Numerical validation confirms the predicted response structures, local curvature effects, and trajectory drift implications, delineating conservation, reciprocity, and nonreciprocity roles in physical learning.
physical learninggradient flowreciprocityconservation lawsrotational dynamics
TrainSDC: Characterizing and Mitigating Silent Data Corruption in Large Language Model Training
TrainSDC characterizes and mitigates silent data corruption (SDC) vulnerabilities in Transformer training by analyzing error propagation mechanisms. Forward-pass faults on Q/K paths cause persistent deviations, while backward-pass vulnerability depends on gradient exponent distributions. The framework combines Q/K-path recomputation, residual-gain monitoring, and exponent-aware gradient scaling. Evaluations on Llama 3.2-1B and Qwen3-0.6B demonstrate near-fault-free training under sparse/dense fault injection with 1.65%-6.76% runtime overhead.
silent data corruptiontransformer trainingerror propagationgradient scalingfault injection
T3S: Improving Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Task-Specific Feature Selector and Scheduler
We propose T3S, a multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) framework addressing inter-task interference through task-specific feature selection and scheduling. T3S employs hypernetworks to construct task-specific soft masks applied to globally shared representations, enabling task-specific feature construction. A task scheduler selects tasks based on inverse proportionality to task progress (e.g., success rate) and learning speed. Experiments demonstrate T3S's consistent outperformance of state-of-the-art MTRL algorithms across various robotics manipulation tasks.
multi-task reinforcement learninghypernetworkstask-specific featuressoft maskstask scheduler
PRACTICE: From Experience to Expertise in Self-Evolving Embodied Agents
PRACTICE introduces a skill learner for self-evolving embodied agents that maintains a persistent skill library from interaction trajectories while keeping the task executor frozen. The method employs structured batch-edits (add, refine, merge, remove) and a two-stage curriculum: first learning basic skill generation from oracle trajectories, then identifying invalid action patterns via contrastive learning. Online skill-edit distillation aligns the learner with a stronger teacher. Experiments on EB-ALFRED and EB-Habitat show consistent improvements over baselines, with a compact skill learner enhancing performance across multiple frozen executors.
multimodal large language modelsskill librarybatch-editscontrastive learningonline distillation
Do VLMs Share Safety Neurons Across Modalities?
This work presents a neuron-level causal analysis of safety mechanisms in 10 vision-language models (VLMs), addressing how visual inputs bypass safety pathways. The authors introduce a two-stage detection pipeline with iterative ablation that accounts for self-repair, alongside modality-isolated benchmarks ViSafe-Detect and ViSafe-Eval. Key findings include: (i) text safety is localizable to ∼88 neurons (<0.01%) whose ablation reduces refusal; (ii) text safety neurons dominate refusal pathways; (iii) visual safety is high-dimensional, requiring ≥50 subspace directions compared to ∼5 for text. These results explain why current alignment fails to close the visual safety gap across architectures.
vision-language modelsneuron-level analysisiterative ablationmodality-isolated benchmarkssafety pathways
TDDM-Melatt: A Decoupled Memory and Diffusion Framework for Generalizable Encrypted Traffic Classification
TDDM-Melatt introduces a decoupled memory and diffusion framework for generalizable encrypted traffic classification, addressing shortcut learning and sample imbalance in existing approaches. The method combines Melatt, a memory-decoupled traffic representation model using Competitive Gating Long Short-Term Memory (CG-LSTM), with a Traffic Denoising Diffusion Model (TDDM) for data augmentation. Melatt employs strict topology anonymization and frozen pre-trained encoders to eliminate spurious feature correlations, enabling efficient downstream classification. Evaluated on 4 public datasets under strict flow-level splitting, TDDM-Melatt outperforms 6 baseline classifiers and 6 state-of-the-art representation learning models.
encrypted traffic classificationcompetitive gating lstmdenoising diffusion modelmemory-decoupled representationtopology anonymization
Functional Degeneracy in Neural Networks: Measurement and Pruning
The paper introduces behavioral recovery rank as a geometric measure of functional degeneracy in neural networks, defined as the number of leading behavioral-Hessian eigendirections needed to recover a trained model's performance. Using this metric, the authors compare structural and magnitude pruning methods, finding that both retain excess degrees of freedom even after task saturation. The results suggest functional redundancy is distributed across parameter directions rather than localized to individual weights or neurons.
functional degeneracybehavioral recovery rankbehavioral-hessianpruningparameter redundancy
E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation
The paper introduces E-Commerce Bench, the first open-source benchmark for evaluating LLM agents in long-horizon autonomous business operations spanning 365 simulated days. The benchmark integrates multi-round negotiation, dynamic market events, and deterministic demand models derived from real e-commerce data. Evaluations of 18 frontier models reveal trade-offs: GPT-5.6 Sol achieves highest year-end assets (1,431,425 from 100,000 initial stake) but performs poorly on fraud avoidance, while Qwen3.8-Max-Preview leads open-weight models (416,252 assets) and demonstrates progressive price negotiation learning.
long-horizon agentic tasksdeterministic demand modelsmulti-round negotiationopen-weight modelsoperational efficiency
Tracing distinguishability through transformer processing with stochastic LayerNorm
The paper introduces a method for analyzing transformer representations through statistical distinguishability rather than point-wise similarity, grounding comparisons in downstream behavior via information-theoretic principles. The approach modifies LayerNorm in pretrained transformers by adding isotropic Gaussian noise after normalization, enabling analysis of preserved distinctions through MLP blocks and attention heads using Bhattacharyya coefficients. Experiments on ViT-S and GPT-2 small demonstrate depthwise propagation of visual perturbations and head-specific sensitivity to token distinctions, aligning with known attention patterns.
statistical distinguishabilitylayernorm modificationbhattacharyya coefficienttransformer interpretabilityattention motifs
Kolmogorov--Arnold against bounded translations
The paper establishes robustness guarantees for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) under bounded adversarial translations of hidden layers, addressing a critical open question in their stability analysis. Through a constructive proof, the authors demonstrate an approximate representation using fixed piecewise linear inner functions, with a single invariant outer function independent of specific adversarial perturbations (given known bounds). This extends the applicability of the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem (KART) in adversarial settings while maintaining explicit computational tractability.
kolmogorov-arnold networksadversarial robustnesspiecewise linear functionsrepresentation theoremhidden layer perturbations
Liquid Gated Attention
Liquid Gated Attention (LGA) introduces a solver-free parallel temporal operator for continuous-time representation learning, addressing irregular sampling and extended temporal horizons in time series. LGA parameterizes an input-driven gating mechanism with observed time intervals, formulating hidden state evolution as a fast-weight associative memory, enabling parallel computation with linear temporal complexity. Sequence-level normalization ensures stable long-horizon optimization. The LFormer backbone, built on LGA, demonstrates long-range dependency modeling, fine-grained state tracking, and trajectory reconstruction across six tasks and sixteen datasets, achieving competitive performance against state-of-the-art baselines with linear scaling efficiency.
liquid gated attentionfast-weight associative memorycontinuous-time inductive biassequence-level normalizationlinear temporal complexity
Season-Aware Hybrid Convolutional-Transformer for Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration Forecasting
The authors propose a hybrid Convolutional-Transformer framework for Antarctic sea ice concentration (SIC) forecasting, addressing challenges of spatial complexity, temporal dependencies, and seasonal variability. The method integrates convolutional encoding for spatial feature extraction with factorised self-attention for spatio-temporal modeling, enhanced by two seasonal prior mechanisms: month-aware positional encoding and seasonal temporal bias. Experiments demonstrate superior performance over convolutional and recurrent baselines in both classification and regression metrics, with ablation studies confirming the consistent benefits of seasonal priors for short- and long-horizon predictions.
convolutional-transformersea ice concentrationfactorised self-attentionseasonal priormonth-aware encoding
What It Costs to Compose, Rebuild, and Correct Precomputed Memory
This paper investigates the conditions under which precomputed memory in language models preserves correctness and identifies failure modes. Using Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, experiments evaluate saved key-value caches and trained compressions, revealing degradation when memory is assembled from separate parts, requiring costly rebuilds to stay current, and failing to incorporate corrections based on phrasing. The study suggests that precomputed memory can avoid context re-feeding if efficiently rebuilt and updated in real-time. Warm-rebuilding trained compressions and serving updates alongside memory show promise for maintaining currency, with costs and open questions quantified.
precomputed memorykey-value cacheswarm-rebuildingtrained compressionscontext re-feeding
Three Steps at a Time: Learning Representations from Action Sequences in Contrastive RL
The paper extends contrastive reinforcement learning (CRL) to model action chunks rather than single-step actions, demonstrating pervasive performance gains. The proposed method learns representations from temporally extended action sequences, achieving +31.7% and +93.1% improvements across 18 offline and 11 online benchmarks, respectively. While prior work attributes such gains to non-Markovian policies or multi-step returns, empirical analysis reveals that action chunks in CRL primarily enhance goal-directed representation learning in the critic, leading to more effective policy optimization.
contrastive reinforcement learningaction chunksrepresentation learningnon-markovian policiesmulti-step returns
MolLedger: An Additive Graph Neural Network with Chemically Grounded ADME Attributions
The authors introduce MolLedger, an additive graph neural network architecture for predicting ADME properties in drug discovery with chemically grounded per-atom attributions. The model combines an additive framework (where predictions sum per-atom scores) with a global context vector to maintain performance while enabling exact interpretability. An auxiliary loss anchors atom scores to known chemical properties, yielding more faithful attributions than existing methods. Case studies demonstrate MolLedger's superior ability to explain property changes in molecular pairs compared to alternative interpretability approaches.
graph neural networkadme predictioninterpretabilitymolecular attributionauxiliary loss
Quantum-Grassmann-Plucker Token Mixing for Deep Learning-Based Post-Disaster Damage Assessment
The study introduces Quantum-inspired Grassmann-Plucker (QGP) and Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Grassmann-Plucker (HQML-GP) heads for token mixing in satellite image-based post-disaster damage assessment. These methods extend Grassmann-Plucker (GP) token mixing by incorporating quantum-inspired probability features (QGP) or simulated quantum circuit outputs (HQML-GP) into geometric token representations. Evaluated on the xBD tornado dataset using a frozen Vision Transformer encoder, QGP achieved 83.46% accuracy and 64.50% macro-F1 on seen events (Joplin/Moore) and 66.45%/52.70% on unseen events (Tuscaloosa), outperforming MLP and Transformer baselines. HQML-GP showed higher validation macro-F1 (65.63%) but inferior test performance and slower training.
grassmann-plucker token mixingquantum-inspired featuressatellite imagery classificationvision transformerdamage assessment
PLC-DPO: Posterior Label Correction in Noisy and Ambiguous Preference Optimization
We introduce Posterior Label Correction DPO (PLC-DPO), a method addressing noisy and ambiguous preferences in Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). PLC-DPO dynamically routes pairwise training signals into clean, flip, or tie cases based on the calibrated policy-reference margin, enabling active correction of supervision direction and strength rather than filtering. Evaluated across 57 dataset-model-benchmark configurations, PLC-DPO achieves a mean win rate of 60.5 against DPO, outperforming the next-best method (55.5). Robustness is demonstrated through noise injection, tie stress tests, human disagreement analysis, and self-confirmation diagnostics, showing stable routing and effective distinction between flipped and weakly directional pairs.
direct preference optimizationposterior label correctionpolicy-reference marginsupervision correctionpairwise comparisons
State of Health Estimation using Convolutional and Bidirectional LSTM Neural Networks tuned by Bayesian Optimization
A hybrid CNN-BiLSTM architecture with Bayesian Optimization-based hyperparameter tuning is proposed for State of Health (SOH) estimation, outperforming standalone recurrent models and CNN-RNN architectures. The framework integrates capacity, voltage, Incremental Capacity Analysis (ICA), and Differential Voltage Analysis (DVA) through comprehensive feature engineering. Intermediate Fully Connected (FC) layers enhance the CNN-RNN combination, achieving the highest predictive accuracy. Validation on three publicly available datasets, including one developed via a unique experimental setup, demonstrates the method's reproducibility. Evaluation metrics include Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and FLoating-point OPerations (FLOPs).
cnn-bilstmbayesian optimizationstate of health estimationincremental capacity analysisdifferential voltage analysis
The Safety Relay in Roleplay Jailbreaks: A Component-Resolved Causal Analysis of Harm Recognition and Refusal
This study investigates how roleplay jailbreaks circumvent harm recognition in large language models through mechanistic interpretability. The authors analyze matched harmful and benign requests across two benchmarks, three model families, and four authored wrappers, employing hidden-state contrasts, controlled counterfactuals, and geometric decomposition of activation directions. Key findings include: (1) safety-relay attenuation weakens refusal-associated expression at the answer onset, (2) roleplay construction and scenario framing causally enable compliance, and (3) most repair aligns with ordinary refusal mechanisms. The results identify maintaining harm recognition-to-refusal connections as a safeguard target.
roleplay jailbreaksmechanistic interpretabilitysafety-relay attenuationhidden-state contrastsactivation directions
Informative Label Missingness in Multiclass Classification Information Geometry and Excess Risk
The paper develops a likelihood-based theory for informative label missingness in parametric multiclass classification, showing how missing-label patterns can carry model information. It introduces an efficient-information decomposition to separate lost class-membership information from gains via the missingness mechanism, and derives a quadratic expansion of plug-in excess risk over multiclass Bayes boundaries. Results demonstrate that classification efficiency depends on alignment between information gains/losses and boundary-perturbing directions, yielding a classification-weighted generalized-eigenvalue criterion. Experiments with three-class quadratic discriminant analysis and semi-synthetic data illustrate regime-dependent behavior, including cases where partial classification outperforms complete classification asymptotically.
informative missingnessmulticlass classificationexcess riskfisher informationquadratic discriminant
Minerals in the Wild: A Hyperspectral-XRF Dataset for Elemental Composition Estimation
The authors introduce Minerals in the Wild, a dataset of 1,132 rock specimens with paired Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) data to advance mineral characterization. They propose a method combining dictionary pruning (removing distant USGS spectral signatures) and convex optimization for HSI-XRF matching. Empirical results demonstrate superior performance over simpler baselines in elemental composition estimation.
hyperspectral imagingx-ray fluorescencemineral characterizationconvex optimizationspectral signatures
PAC: Progress-Augmented Advantage Curriculum for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning of LLMs
The paper introduces PAC (Progress-Augmented Advantage Curriculum), a method for multi-task reinforcement learning of LLMs that dynamically allocates rollout budget based on two task-level signals: advantage-derived learnability and recent reward gains. PAC employs a Bayesian Thompson Sampling controller to optimize task selection during GRPO training, addressing limitations of fixed task mixtures and advantage-only curricula. Evaluations in multi-level and multi-domain reasoning settings demonstrate that PAC achieves higher final performance and improved sample efficiency, reaching comparable validation scores with fewer rollout steps than baseline methods.
reinforcement learningmulti-task learningcurriculum learningllm post-trainingthompson sampling
Beamforming Design Via GNN in mmWave Cell-Free Massive MIMO Using Sub-6 GHz CSI
A graph neural network (GNN) is proposed to learn fully digital beamforming in millimeter-wave cell-free massive MIMO systems using sub-6 GHz channel state information (CSI), reducing training overhead. The CFmMIMO system is modeled as a wireless graph, and the GNN employs a message-passing mechanism to capture inter-user interference and inter-base-station cooperation across diverse network topologies. Simulations show that the sub-6 GHz-assisted GNN-based beamformer achieves competitive or superior downlink sum-rate performance compared to classical methods requiring full mmWave CSI.
beamforminggraph neural networkchannel state informationmillimeter-wavemassive mimo
When the Martingale Never Stops Firing: Anytime-Valid Gating on Real Forecast Streams
The study evaluates anytime-valid inference for gating online updates in Kalman adapters correcting frozen time-series foundation models on five forecasting streams. Using conformal test martingales and Ville's inequality, the method ensures false-alarm probability caps on exchangeable data. On synthetic exchangeable streams, the monitor fired in ≤1 of 60 runs, but on real streams, it fired in all 135 clean-stream runs at α=0.05, indicating failure due to the deployed score stream. Huber-style gating of the filter's updates reduced isolated-spike degradation by an order of magnitude without dataset-specific tuning. The findings advocate for null-calibration controls and mechanism traces in anytime-valid methods for dependent data.
anytime-valid inferenceconformal test martingalesville's inequalitykalman adapterhuber-style gating
Two Centuries of Sexism in British Parliament: A Computational Analysis of Women's Representation in the Hansard Corpus
This work contributes a computational analysis of sexism in UK parliamentary debates over two centuries, leveraging large language models to classify perspectives on women's suffrage and political representation. The authors analyze 6,531 speeches from the Hansard Corpus (1803-2005) using the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory framework and release an enriched dataset of 6.7 million speeches optimized for computational social science. Results show 54% of anti-suffrage speeches contain sexist content, predominantly combining hostile and benevolent framing, while pro-suffrage sexism is overwhelmingly benevolent (21%). Female MPs supported women's political rights at 93%, compared to 70% for male MPs, with the gap narrowing post-enfranchisement.
hansard corpusambivalent sexism inventorylarge language modelscomputational social scienceparliamentary debates
VisER: Visual Evidence and Reliance for Object Hallucination Detection in LVLMs
VisER introduces a training-free two-sided metric for detecting object hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs), addressing source confounding in existing methods. The approach combines Visual Evidence (object-specific image token support) and Visual Reliance (image vs. text-prefix dependence) to disambiguate grounding sources without additional verification generations. Evaluations on multiple LVLMs and benchmarks show improved AUROC and AUPR over baselines.
object hallucinationvision-language modelstraining-free detectionvisual evidencesource confounding
ToxLens: A Reproducible Graph-Learning Framework for Leakage-Aware, Uncertainty-Calibrated Molecular Toxicity Prediction
ToxLens introduces a reproducible graph-learning framework for molecular toxicity prediction, addressing data leakage via sphere-exclusion filtering and UMAP-HDBSCAN splits. The method combines graph and global-feature encoders with late concatenation, Monte Carlo dropout for uncertainty calibration, and SHAP-guided toxicophore discovery. On leakage-controlled test folds, a five-seed ensemble achieved Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) 0.44, AUROC 0.83, and AUPRC 0.58, outperforming ECFP4 baselines across 11 endpoints. Ablations confirmed the global pathway's importance, while conformal prediction revealed endpoint-specific efficiency variations. SHAP analysis yielded 44 validated structural hypotheses.
molecular toxicity predictiongraph-learningdata leakageuncertainty calibrationtoxicophore discovery
Learning Where Outcomes Change:Credit-Addressable Reasoning for Multimodal Geometry
The paper introduces credit-addressable reasoning, a method for multimodal geometry reasoning where semantic units exposed during inference define learning comparisons and credit assignment. The approach is instantiated via Code-CoT, which represents visual relations as executable code and organizes reasoning into typed events, and CE-GRPO, which uses structural priors and type-normalized entropy to select event boundaries, samples continuations from shared prefixes, and localizes outcome differences. On nine geometry benchmarks, CE-GRPO achieves 76.04% average accuracy, surpassing Qwen3-VL-8B and trajectory-level GRPO by 8.09 and 3.43 points, respectively, with advantages growing for longer reasoning chains.
credit-addressable reasoningmultimodal geometrytype-normalized entropytrajectory-level reinforcement learningvisual relation extraction
Self-Supervised Pretext Tasks for Infant Cry Analysis: A Controlled Comparison and a Cautionary Result on Donateacry
This paper systematically compares six self-supervised pretext tasks for infant cry analysis under controlled conditions (1.17M-parameter encoder, 115h pretraining data). While masked-spectrogram reconstruction achieves 0.988 AUC on cry detection, all methods fail on donateacry's cry-reason classification (0.38-0.54 macro AUC), with experiments showing label leakage—not model capacity—as the bottleneck. Protocol adjustments (clip-wise splits, augmentation) artificially inflate accuracy to 97.9%, matching SOTA but collapsing under subject-wise evaluation. Augmenting labeled data 20× (21h) yields no improvement, indicating infant count—not sample size—limits performance.
self-supervised learninginfant cry analysislabel leakagedomain adaptationmasked-spectrogram
PRIME: Mitigating Subgroup Optimization Competition in Shared CTR Top Networks with Plug-in Residual Input-Conditioned Mixture of Expert
PRIME introduces a Plug-in Residual Input-conditioned Mixture of Experts to mitigate subgroup optimization competition in shared CTR top networks. The method anchors the original dense prediction and employs zero-residual initialization to match the baseline exactly at training onset, while routing input-dependent low-rank experts for example-specific logit corrections. Evaluated on Avazu and Criteo datasets across 13 CTR architectures, PRIME achieves median AUC gains of +0.0022 and +0.0066, with LogLoss reductions of 0.0011 and 0.0081, respectively. It outperforms APG in all ten seed-level AUC comparisons on FiBiNET and DCNv2, using fewer parameters and lower inference latency.
click-through ratemixture of expertslow-rank expertsauc gainslogloss reductions
End-to-End Neural Shrinkage of Indefinite Pairwise Correlation Matrices for Small-Cap-Inclusive Portfolios
Proposes a neural covariance estimator for indefinite pairwise correlation matrices in small-cap-inclusive portfolios, addressing limitations of pairwise-complete estimation and standard random-matrix shrinkage. The model computes mask-aware marginal moments, processes signed spectra, and employs a bidirectional gated recurrent unit conditioned on factor-aligned effective sample lengths. It maps all eigenvalues to a positive inverse spectrum, ensuring positive definiteness, and is trained end-to-end to minimize five-day realized global-minimum-variance risk. Evaluated on 1,500 U.S. equities over a 26-year period, the neural estimator reduces annualized five-day volatility by 20% and increases the Sharpe ratio by 40% compared to the next-best method, with consistent improvements across risk, performance, and drawdown metrics.
neural covariance estimatorpairwise-complete estimationbidirectional gated recurrent unitpositive inverse spectrumglobal-minimum-variance risk
Confounding Masquerading as Improvement: A Systematic Evaluation of Offline Reinforcement Learning for Stroke Antithrombotic Treatment in a 129,000-Patient Registry
This study systematically evaluates offline reinforcement learning (RL) for stroke antithrombotic treatment using a 129,000-patient registry, identifying confounding factors in reward design. Five offline RL algorithm families and 14 reward designs were tested on 44,894 post-2018 acute ischemic stroke patients. Fitted Q-Evaluation (FQE) initially showed a policy improvement of +0.0069, but reward-embedded confounding inflated this to +0.0101. After deconfounding via GBM reward residualization, the FQE estimate attenuated to +0.0033 (p = 0.132), with full deconfounding yielding +0.0025 (p = 0.291). The study concludes that observed improvements are largely confounded and provides a six-step evaluation checklist for future RL applications in clinical settings.
offline reinforcement learningfitted q-evaluationreward confoundinggbm residualizationclinical outcomes
Event-Driven Language Models with Sparse Neural Activity for Neuromorphic Hardware
The authors propose a method to induce sparse neural activity in heavily quantized linear-attention models for efficient LLM inference on neuromorphic hardware. By nullifying activations below trainable per-projection thresholds (±Δ) while preserving outliers, the approach achieves comparable performance to dense models with up to 4× fewer arithmetic operations. Targeting event-driven multi-core platforms, the method leverages unstructured sparsity for throughput gains, projecting 37× higher throughput and 16× lower power versus edge GPU inference of transformer-based models, and 5.4× improvements over non-sparsified baselines. This positions sparse, quantized linear-attention models as a natural fit for neuromorphic LLM deployment.
sparse neural activitylinear-attention modelsneuromorphic hardwareevent-driven executionquantization
Generalization as a robust performance property of learning-enabled dynamical systems
The paper introduces a system-theoretic framework for analyzing generalization in learning-enabled dynamical systems, focusing on algorithmic stability to derive out-of-sample bounds. By modeling sample replacement as an exogenous disturbance and encoding the incremental behavior of data-dependent operators via integral quadratic constraints, the authors establish a matrix inequality-based certificate and a uniform stability bound. This bound separates one-sample sensitivity from an algorithm-dependent dynamical gain, which can be optimized to certify and compare generalization capabilities. The framework recovers classical results for gradient descent, applies to momentum-based methods like heavy-ball and Nesterov acceleration, and extends to data-driven control.
algorithmic stabilityintegral quadratic constraintdynamical gainmomentum-based methodsdata-driven control
Ceiling-Clipped Acceptance Histograms Indicate Stranded Speed-up in Block-Diffusion Speculative Decoding
The paper introduces DBloom, a method for recovering stranded speed-up in block-diffusion speculative decoding by post-training drafters on longer blocks with a short curriculum. Stranded speed-up occurs when drafters like DFlash and DFlare exhaust their block horizon before verification fails, unrealized in mean committed length metrics. DBloom emphasizes newly exposed positions during expansion, increasing per-prompt committed length by up to +1.37 tokens on benchmarks like Qwen3-8B and Gemma-4-12B-IT. It outperforms JetSpec, a tree-based drafter, across all benchmarks at tree budgets up to 64 nodes.
speculative decodingblock-diffusionstranded speed-upcommitted lengthcurriculum training
Benchmarking External Generalization of SPD Matrix Learning for Resting-State fMRI Connectome Prediction
The study benchmarks the external generalization of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix learning methods for age prediction from resting-state fMRI connectomes across six datasets (COBRE, ADNIDOD, Cam-CAN, ABIDE, OASIS-3, ADNI). It evaluates four approaches—vectorized correlation baseline, Tangent-Space Ridge, SPDNet, and Riemannian harmonization—under within-dataset, pooled, and leave-one-dataset-out (LODO) validation. Results show significantly higher prediction error in LODO settings, with performance degradation attributed to age-range mismatch and cohort heterogeneity. The benchmark standardizes inputs, splits, and evaluation protocols for future SPD matrix learning methods.
spd matrixrs-fmririemannian geometryleave-one-dataset-outconnectome prediction
No Equivariant Architecture Covers All Equivariant Attention
The paper provides a complete characterization of equivariant multi-head self-attention (MHSA) layers under symmetry group actions, demonstrating that exact equivariance restricts group actions to permuting head-clusters with specific constraints on QK and OV matrices. It proves that any fixed MHSA architecture achieving exact equivariance through polynomial parameterization incurs expressivity loss, as the equivariance locus of unconstrained MHSA decomposes into numerous Zariski-irreducible components. For the group $G=D_4$ acting on $C$ copies of the regular representation, the analysis reveals $Ω(C^{64})$ components for eight attention heads, highlighting the architectural limitations.
equivariantmulti-head self-attentionzariski-irreduciblesymmetry groupexpressivity loss
Locally-Guided Actor-Critic: Training a Goal-conditioned Actor with a Subgoal-aware Critic
The paper introduces Locally-Guided Actor-Critic (LG-AC), a method for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning that addresses challenges in long-horizon tasks with sparse rewards. LG-AC explicitly conditions a value estimator on a sequence of intermediate goals, representing the value function as a sum of subgoal-conditioned value functions to enable dense hindsight relabeling. This approach avoids pitfalls of action regularization and reward shaping methods, such as goal-chaining issues and deceptive rewards in terminal states. Empirical evaluation demonstrates LG-AC's superior performance in tasks requiring complex goal-chaining, outperforming both Reinforcement Learning with Imagined Subgoals (RIS) and potential-based reward shaping (PBRS).
goal-conditioned reinforcement learninglocally-guided actor-criticsubgoal-aware critichindsight relabelingpotential-based reward shaping
Foundation Models Meet Agriculture: Challenges Beyond Pretraining
This work identifies and evaluates critical bottlenecks in deploying foundation models for agricultural tasks, focusing on pretraining-deployment modality gaps and task-space heterogeneity. The study benchmarks two earth observation foundation models, a tabular-data foundation model, and supervised baselines across seven agricultural datasets for yield prediction, phenology estimation, and crop classification. Results reveal that earth observation models struggle with non-imagery data modalities, while tabular-data models handle heterogeneity more effectively. The agricultural task space is formalized across five structural axes, explaining unreliable generalization and unstable model rankings. These insights provide a roadmap for developing domain-aware foundation models tailored to agricultural applications.
foundation modelsearth observationtabular datapretraining-deployment gaptask-space heterogeneity
Uncertainty of Vision Medical Foundation Models
This study investigates uncertainty quantification in medical vision foundation models, comparing domain-specific and general-domain pre-training approaches. Using conformal prediction and calibration techniques, the authors evaluate models trained on retinal, histopathological, and Chest X-Ray datasets. Results show that domain-specific pre-training with self-supervised learning yields better-calibrated point predictions than general-domain pre-training, and that domain-specific models enable more efficient conformal prediction. Standard recalibration methods alone fail to fully address uncertainty discrepancies across models trained on different data sources. The findings emphasize the importance of integrating point and region prediction for reliable medical AI systems.
conformal predictionuncertainty quantificationself-supervised learningfoundation modelscalibration techniques
RSLM: Training-Free Vector Quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
RSLM (Rotated Scaled Lloyd-Max) introduces a training-free vector quantization framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search, compressing embeddings to 1--4 bits per dimension. The method encodes residual vectors, corrects L2 norms of reconstructed vectors, and employs a block-wise cascaded Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform (FWHT) for efficient computation. This approach reduces memory cost and bandwidth while maintaining or improving recall across benchmark datasets. The implementation leverages AVX SIMD-optimized codebooks and steganographic encoding for cache-line alignment, achieving a favorable quality vs size trade-off compared to generic quantization methods.
vector quantizationapproximate nearest neighborresidual vectorsfast walsh-hadamard transformsimd optimization
Convergence rates for the RMSprop optimizer with full control of the hyperparameters
This work provides non-asymptotic error estimates for the RMSprop optimizer, addressing the open problem of uniformly bounded error constants with respect to hyperparameters in convex stochastic optimization. The analysis bounds the expectation of the objective function evaluated at the RMSprop process by an initialization term decaying exponentially, a stochastic approximation remainder of order γ_n, and a memory error of order (1 - β)^2. Error constants are uniformly controlled over all admissible choices of step sizes, second moment decay parameter β, and regularization parameter ε ∈ [0,1]. The proof introduces inverse moment bounds for the second moment process in RMSprop.
rmspropnon-asymptotic errorstochastic optimizationhyperparametersinverse moment bounds
Kathleen Remembers: Length-Invariant One-Shot Recall Without Attention
The authors introduce a second memory layer, termed 'notebook', to address the fading state issue in recurrent, attention-free sequence models. This 25K-parameter module, attached to any model trunk, employs a holographic associative store with learned local write gates and self-gating raw reads. Evaluated on a needle-in-haystack task, the notebook achieves 80-82% one-shot recall at 4x training length, outperforming the bare trunk (~4%) and parameter-matched attention heads (100% within training length, 0% beyond). On WikiText-2 bytes, it improves prediction of repeated rare words by +0.15-0.27 bits/byte, with gains increasing with mention distance and zero-shot performance maintained at 4x length. The notebook also demonstrates selective unlearning and per-token attribution capabilities.
holographic associative storeone-shot recallwrite-triggered forgettingselective unlearningper-token attribution
Compact and Infinite-Order Error Analysis for Null-Space SVD Estimation
The paper presents a compact error analysis for null-space estimation from noisy matrices, focusing on the smallest left singular vector. It derives exact compact expressions for error, provides all-order series expansions for SVD vectors and projectors, and offers truncated series forms for empirical and generalization risks. The analysis extends to multi-dimensional null spaces via invariant subspaces, with convergence radii computed independently from complex exceptional points. Experimental results demonstrate improved convergence radii with reduced nullity, and theoretical proofs establish strict empirical and generalization rankings under Gaussian training. A sixth-order risk correction enhances lower-crossover estimates, linking finite-sample diagnostics to spectral mixing phenomena.
null-space estimationsingular value decompositiongeneralization riskexceptional pointspectral mixing
Beat-Synchronous Tokenization for ECG Transformers
This paper introduces beat-synchronous tokenization as a physiologically grounded alternative to fixed temporal patching for Transformer-based ECG models, addressing the issue of heartbeat structures being split across token boundaries. Three beat-aligned strategies are compared: resampled beats, adaptive pooled beats, and resampled beats augmented with R-R interval information. Evaluations on PTB-XL and Icentia11k datasets show that resampled beat tokens achieve the highest mean macro AUROC (0.8945) on PTB-XL and comparable AUPRC on Icentia11k, while reducing average sequence length from 100 to 11.2 tokens. Results indicate that morphology-preserving beat tokenization is a compact and competitive alternative to fixed temporal patching.
beat-synchronous tokenizationecg transformersr-r intervalaurocauprc
Mode Connectivity Beyond Classifiers: Evidence from Generative and Contrastive Models
This paper extends mode connectivity, previously studied in classifier-based models, to generative and contrastive domains, specifically Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and NanoCLIP. The authors propose an architecture-aware connection building algorithm tailored to the unique architectures of DDPM and CLIP. Empirical results demonstrate, for the first time, the existence of mode connectivity between independently trained DDPM and NanoCLIP modes. This work provides novel insights into the geometric properties of loss landscapes in modern generative and contrastive models.
mode connectivityddpmnanocliploss landscapearchitecture-aware
Beyond Churn: Predicting Financial Fragmentation in Retail Banking with Temporal Machine Learning
The paper introduces financial fragmentation as a precursor to retail banking attrition and proposes a temporal machine-learning system to predict it. Using anonymized multi-source data from a large retail bank, the framework employs a four-stage XGBoost cascade to estimate external outflow occurrence, amount, originating product, and destination institution within 90 days. Trained on 595,220 client-month observations and 346 engineered features, the primary classifier achieved a precision-recall AUC of 0.823, with 86.4% precision and 75.1% recall. The top 1% of clients yielded 95.3% precision, capturing 78.7% of outflow cases in the top 5%. The system provides explainable decision support for proactive client retention.
financial fragmentationxgboost cascadetemporal machine-learningclient-month observationsprecision-recall auc
Coarse composition suffices: tabular in-context learning for multi-activity antimicrobial peptide profiling
A sequence-only pipeline combining 330 interpretable descriptors with TabPFN, a tabular foundation model, achieves state-of-the-art multi-label antimicrobial peptide (AMP) activity prediction on the ESCAPE benchmark (82,359 peptides; five labels). The method employs in-context learning without gradient-based training or hyperparameter search, achieving mAP-5 = 77.8%, surpassing the previous best of 72.1%. Performance gains are consistent across training protocols and largest for remote homologues (+11.2 points below 30% sequence identity). Ablations reveal that predicted structure is unnecessary at inference, and ten global physicochemical scalars recover 91% of full-feature performance. Label dependence modeling improves prediction for scarce activities and supports activity ranking.
tabular foundation modelin-context learningantimicrobial peptideslabel-powersetprobabilistic classifier chain
Learning PDE Time-Stepping with Neural Cellular Automata
Proposes Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) as a surrogate model for learning long-time PDE dynamics, employing local homogeneous update rules applied uniformly across grid cells to mirror differential operator locality. Benchmarked against PDE-Net, modified PINN, and Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) on five canonical PDEs (heat, advection, Burgers, Allen-Cahn, Fisher-KPP), the NCA achieves lowest long-horizon relative errors when evaluated at temporal domains twice beyond training data.
neural cellular automatapartial differential equationssurrogate modellocal update ruleslong-horizon errors
Generative multi-domain transfer learning for fault detection in data-scarce wind turbines
We propose a multi-domain generative domain mapping approach using Star Generative Adversarial Networks (StarGAN) to improve fault detection in data-scarce wind turbines. The method maps SCADA measurements from data-scarce turbines to resemble those of data-rich turbines while preserving operational states, enabling fault detection via pre-trained normal behavior models. An ensemble fusion strategy yields anomaly scores comparable to models trained on large datasets, outperforming conventional fine-tuning and single-source domain mapping by +16% and +10% respectively with just 2 weeks of training data. A proxy metric is introduced for unsupervised model selection to detect poor performance during training.
starganscadadomain mappinganomaly detectionensemble fusion
Context Staircase: Signature-Aligned Dynamics of Token Embeddings under Small Initialization
The study investigates the dynamical emergence of meaningful token embeddings in language models under small initialization, formalizing token-conditioned label and contextual distributions as probability signatures. Through gradient flow analysis, the authors identify a progressive learning process termed Context Staircase, where embeddings first align with context-free signatures and gradually incorporate higher-order, context-dependent statistical relations. Theoretical embedding evolution equations are derived for feed-forward and self-attention architectures, validated in real language-model training. Results demonstrate that embedding structures are crucial for task learning and semantic integration, revealing an implicit bias toward simpler statistical relations early in training.
token embeddingsprobability signaturescontext staircasegradient flowself-attention
Strengthening Recursive Constructions for Zero-Error Shannon Capacity
The paper introduces a heterogeneous refinement for recursive constructions in zero-error Shannon capacity, building on recent AI-assisted advances by Gao and Buys-Polak-Zuiddam (BPZ). The key insight is that intermediate constructions' utility depends on auxiliary structures propagated through recursion, allowing varied independent sets and representations at different recursion steps. The authors formalize this for Gao's binary product, derive propagation rules, and extend it to the BPZ framework. Applied to the seven-cycle C₇, the method yields an independent set in C₇^⊠500, improving the lower bound to Θ(C₇) ≥ 3.25883262. The results demonstrate how heterogeneous recursion strategies enhance downstream value without altering current code size.
zero-error shannon capacityrecursive constructionsindependent setsstrong graph powersheterogeneous refinement
Multivariate Scientific Data Compression with Learned Cross-Variable Latent Decorrelation and Autoregressive Entropy Modeling
CAESAR-LDAR introduces an error-controlled multivariate learned compressor combining two mechanisms: a trainable orthogonal transform for cross-channel latent decorrelation and a causal autoregressive hierarchical prior for local spatial structure. The orthogonal transform uses matrix-exponential parameterization for exact invertibility, while autoregressive modeling captures residual spatial dependencies. Experiments on combustion, climate, and turbulence data show latent decorrelation improves compression when linear cross-channel dependence persists, whereas autoregressive modeling excels with local spatial structure. Combined, they achieve near-optimal rate-distortion performance. The transform adds minimal overhead, while autoregressive coding trades throughput for accuracy, suggesting a design principle: exploit global cross-channel dependence when detectable and supplement with local probabilistic context.
multivariate compressionlatent decorrelationautoregressive priorrate-distortionorthogonal transform
Estimating Population-Risk Curves Along Nonconvex Gradient Flows from the Training Sample
The paper introduces Flow-ALO, a method for estimating conditional population-risk curves along smooth nonconvex gradient flows from training samples. Flow-ALO propagates deletion responses and evaluates omitted observations at approximate deleted paths, decomposing risk-curve error into response approximation, exact-LOO fluctuation, and deletion-to-full risk transfer. Under bounded centered training-loss gradients, a one-sided Hessian lower bound, locally Lipschitz Hessians, and strict tube-closure conditions, the method achieves an explicit $(n-1)^{-2}$ bound for deletion-response error on finite horizons. The approach is validated for bounded smooth two-layer mean-field networks, demonstrating uniform score-error bounds in width.
flow-alononconvex gradient flowspopulation-risk curvesdeletion-responsemean-field networks
Exact Recovery Thresholds for Weighted Data Selection in Vector-Valued Linear Regression
The paper resolves the threshold part of Question 4 from the COLT 2025 open problem on data selection for regression tasks. It focuses on vector-valued linear regression with square loss, where the learner minimizes empirical risk with minimal Frobenius norm. The authors prove that the minimal budget of weighted examples required to recover the full-data loss on every finite dataset is exactly $n^*(d,m)=(m+1)d$. They also determine values of the weighted selection profile $F_w(d,m,n)$ at near-threshold and spanning budgets, and provide bounds for intermediate cases. Techniques include fixed-basis conic compression, determinant-facet rigidity, and sharp sparsification lemmas.
vector-valued linear regressionfrobenius normweighted selection profileempirical risk minimizationsparsification lemmas
Strong Drafts Need Compact Memories: Long-Context Speculative Decoding with Compressed KV Cache
We introduce memory-augmented drafting for long-context speculative decoding (SD), addressing the trade-off between draft strength and KV-access cost in long-context LLM applications. Our method equips a strong independent draft with compressed draft-side KV memory, constructed and incrementally updated by a lightweight adaptor to retain distant information while preserving exact recent context. The target verifier maintains its full KV cache, ensuring SD's lossless guarantee. Experiments on Llama~3.1-8B and 70B models with prefixes up to 32K tokens demonstrate over 70% reduction in draft-side memory and speedups of 2.08x and 3.33x, respectively, over autoregressive decoding.
speculative decodingkv cachememory-augmented draftinglong-contextautoregressive decoding
A Borel Concept Class of VC Dimension One with a Non-PAC Consistent Learner in ZFC
The work constructs a Borel concept class of VC dimension one in ZFC that admits a proper consistent learning rule failing PAC guarantees, resolving the necessity of the Continuum Hypothesis in prior counterexamples. Using Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with Choice, the authors define a Borel probability measure and target concept on [0,1] where the learning rule achieves true risk one on almost all samples. This demonstrates that finite VC dimension and Borel measurability alone are insufficient to ensure PAC consistency, confirming the necessity of additional regularity assumptions in the fundamental theorem of statistical learning.
vc dimensionpac learningborel setsconsistent learning rulezfc
Fairness in multi-class multi-group classification problems via contextial coherent risk measures
The authors introduce a novel framework for designing fair classifiers in multi-class classification problems with vector-valued sensitive attributes, addressing overlapping groups and factor interactions. Leveraging coherent measures of risk, the approach ensures individual rights are not compromised while achieving group-level fairness. A specialized numerical method is proposed to solve the resulting optimization problem, demonstrating scalability with increasing observations and robustness to data corruption or scarcity. Comparative experiments show advantages over support-vector machines and other fairness-handling methods.
fair classifierscoherent measures of riskvector-valued sensitive attributesmulti-class classificationoptimization problem
Diffusion-Based Refinement for Kilometer-Scale Probabilistic Precipitation Nowcasting
The authors introduce exPreCast-ENS, a conditional residual diffusion framework for kilometer-scale probabilistic precipitation nowcasting, addressing localized extreme precipitation forecasting challenges. The method transforms deterministic 4 km radar nowcasts from exPreCast into 1 km probabilistic ensembles, correcting systematic forecast errors by conditioning on both forecasts and preceding radar observations. Over the Korean Peninsula, a 30-member ensemble recovers 38-47% of heavy-rain pixels missed by exPreCast while retaining 95% of correct detections and minimizing false alarms. The framework generates 1-hour forecasts in 3.4 seconds on a single GPU and demonstrates consistent improvements on the French regional MeteoNet radar dataset.
probabilistic nowcastingconditional residual diffusionensemble forecastingkilometer-scaleradar observations
Certified Safety Radii in Forecast-Error Space for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Small Signal Stability-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow via Lifted Spectrahedral Containment
The paper introduces a method for certifying safety radii in forecast-error space for Wasserstein distributionally robust small-signal stability-constrained AC optimal power flow. By leveraging a fixed stability certificate and lifting variables, the stability requirement is transformed into an affine positive semidefinite constraint, defining a convex safe region. The approach optimizes sample-wise safe radii in the original uncertainty space and certifies containment in the lifted convex stability region using a componentwise Perron certificate and adjoint elimination. Numerical studies validate the framework's effectiveness in providing certified lower bounds on distances from empirical samples to failure.
wasserstein distributionally robustsmall-signal stabilityaffine positive semidefinite constraintperron certificateadjoint elimination
The PUR-1 Cyber-Physical Digital Twin
The authors present the PUR-1 Digital Twin (PUR-1 DT), a cyber-physical digital twin integrating high-fidelity physics-based and AI-driven models (neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, point kinetics) for closed-loop diagnostics, forecasting, and predictive control in nuclear systems. The system achieves real-time two-way synchronization with the physical reactor via a cyber-physical testbed, enabling explainable state estimation and action recommendation within operational cycle time constraints. Benchmarking experiments demonstrate accurate short-term forecasting and state estimation across full operational cycles, validating latency and synchronization performance.
digital twincyber-physical systemstate estimationpredictive controlneutronics
Benchmarking Peptide-Protein Affinity Prediction Across Peptide and Target Shifts
The study benchmarks peptide-protein affinity prediction across different data partitions, revealing performance variations under peptide-similarity, within-target, and leave-target-out settings. Using 11,349 deduplicated peptide-protein pairs, the authors evaluated ten peptide representations, ESM-2 protein embeddings, and six regressors. Results showed mean Spearman correlations of 0.462, 0.669, and 0.530 for the respective partitions, with top configurations shifting based on target exclusion. Representation-rank correlations varied widely (-0.042 to 0.624), while regressor-rank correlations remained high (0.771 to 0.943). Learning curves indicated representation differences diminish with increased training data, and advanced features like PeptideCLM-2 adaptation provided no consistent improvement.
peptide-protein affinityesm-2 embeddingsspearman correlationlearning curvesmolecular representation
Reinforcement Learning for Symbolic Equation Solving
The authors introduce a reinforcement learning agent for symbolic equation solving, handling both nonlinear closed equations and restricted-open families requiring change of variables (CoV). The method formulates algebra as an MDP with a dynamic action space and tree-structured policy (TreeMLP), learning from reward alone without supervised traces. On closed equations, the agent matches prior best performance (0.93 greedy accuracy vs. ConPoLe's 0.925) on CommonCore. For restricted-open families (quadratic, cubic, quartic, exponential), it achieves 0.79 beam / 0.67 greedy accuracy, outperforming non-learned A-star search (0.64). Learned CoV timing proves effective only on exponential equations, solving 75% of held-out cases where rule-based methods fail.
reinforcement learningsymbolic equation solvingchange of variablestree-structured policydynamic action space
Converse and Collision-Based Achievability for Node Localization with Hybrid Distance-Spectral Graph Positional Encodings
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Balancing Privacy, Utility, and Safety in LLM Alignment through Preference Optimization
The study introduces Privacy-Pressure Preference Mixing (P3M), a data-composition protocol for Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) that balances privacy, utility, and safety by varying privacy-preference data ratios. Using Gemma 3 270M-IT and 4-bit-quantized Gemma 2 2B-IT, the authors evaluate memorization via canary-based metrics and membership-inference attacks. Results show reduced mean canary suffix log-likelihood and lower AUROC (0.596–0.629) and AUPRC (0.541–0.575) in privacy-aware configurations compared to the Baseline (0.804, 0.790), though effects vary by data source. Helpfulness accuracy remains stable, while harmlessness accuracy fluctuates by model.
direct preference optimizationmembership-inference attackcanary-based memorizationprivacy-utility trade-offquantized llms
Supraglacial Lake Fate Is Knowable Long Before the Season Ends
The study demonstrates that supraglacial lake drainage outcomes on the Greenland Ice Sheet can be predicted months before the end of the melt season. Using fixed representations and classifiers, the authors truncate input data at 14 cutoffs from May to December, retrain models, and identify the earliest cutoff where per-class F1 scores meet a target threshold. Rapid drainage is detectable by July 15 and slow drainage by August 1, 92 and 75 days ahead of full-season pipeline computation, respectively. The ordering of outcomes remains consistent across five learners, though accuracy varies by up to 18 percentage points. Feature computation at day t incurs a minimal cost of 1.3 percentage points.
supraglacial lakehydrofractureper-class f1truncated inputearly classifier
A Simple Transformer Pipeline for Full-Key Side-Channel Attacks on Uncropped Datasets
The authors introduce a simple transformer-based pipeline for full-key side-channel attacks on uncropped datasets, addressing a gap in deep learning-based side-channel analysis which traditionally focuses on single-byte targets and cropped traces. Their method adapts the standard transformer encoder backbone with modified input and output layers for side-channel settings. The implementation achieves competitive performance on uncropped ASCADv1f, ASCADv1r, and CHES-CTF-2018 datasets, requiring less than 10GB of VRAM and at most 3.34 hours of training on a single NVIDIA A6000.
transformerside-channel attackuncropped tracesfull-key attackdeep learning
SMOTE-VAR: An Uncertainty-Aware Oversampling Method for Predicting Depression Remission in University Students
We propose SMOTE-VAR, an uncertainty-aware oversampling method that improves depression remission prediction in university students by addressing SMOTE's limitation of generating invalid synthetic minority samples. Our approach leverages Gaussian process variance functions to estimate uncertainty in generated samples, reducing false positives in clinical risk stratification. Validated on a university student depression dataset, SMOTE-VAR outperforms existing oversampling methods in predicting treatment outcomes, enabling more reliable identification of non-responders for personalized mental health interventions.
oversamplinggaussian processuncertainty estimationdepression remissionclass imbalance
A Hybrid State-Space Approach for Census-Tract Population Estimation
MambaPop introduces a hybrid state-space--attention architecture for census-tract population estimation, eliminating raster-based disaggregation by treating administrative units as polygon-masked satellite image sequences. The method pairs each tract's image directly with its population label, leveraging the MambaVision backbone to model patches as sequences. Evaluated on ~84,000 US census tracts (2020), MambaPop achieves a mean absolute error of 1,141 persons per tract, comparable to the convolutional baseline YOLOv11 (MAE 1,122).
state-space modelsatellite imagerypopulation estimationsequence modelingmamba architecture
A Lightweight Phenology-Aware YOLOv5 Framework for Tomato Growth Stage Detection in Resource-Constrained Bhutanese Greenhouse Environments
The paper introduces Pheno-Lite + Efficient Channel Attention (ECA), a lightweight YOLOv5 variant for tomato growth stage detection in Bhutanese greenhouses. The method combines depthwise residual refinement (C3 PhenoLite) and efficient channel attention (C3 ECA) modules to enhance feature extraction, trained on a locally augmented dataset of 2,464 images. The model achieves 90.6% precision, 88.8% recall, and 92.6% mAP@50 with 4.0M parameters and 10.9 GFLOPs, demonstrating suitability for resource-constrained environments.
yolov5phenology-awareefficient channel attentiongreenhouse agriculturelightweight object detection
When Does a Classifier Help an LLM? Classifier-Guided Prompting and Hybrid Classifier-LLM Models for Credit-Default Prediction
The paper investigates hybrid classifier-LLM approaches for credit-default prediction, comparing classifier-guided prompting with imitation learning. Using the Default of Credit Card Clients dataset, the authors evaluate recall, F1, and AUC-ROC for combinations of few-shot LLM prompts (GPT-3.5) and classifiers (random forest, logistic regression). Key findings show that pruning prompts to a classifier's top 8 features improves recall by 0.071 and F1 by 0.032, while adding classifier probabilities to prompts boosts LLM AUC-ROC from 0.72 to 0.78 (matching random forest) with higher recall. Classifier imitation and reverse compositions proved ineffective.
credit-default predictionclassifier-guided promptingfew-shot learningauc-rocfeature importance
Tracing Generated Samples to Training-Data Clusters in Flow-Matching Models
The paper introduces trajectory-based attribution scores for flow-matching models to trace generated samples to training-data clusters, addressing how local velocity-field changes propagate through generation trajectories. A hybrid analytical-learned approach combines closed-form trajectory attribution with leave-one-cluster-out (LOO) validation, comparing semantic similarity and latent-space baselines across two flow-matching architectures. Results indicate that semantic similarity remains a strong baseline, while trajectory-based attribution competes without retraining, with influence shaped by latent representations, trajectory dynamics, and output propagation.
flow-matchingattribution scoresvelocity fieldlatent representationcounterfactual retraining
Learning Representations through Token Prediction: Geometry, Approximation, and Downstream Guarantees
The paper develops a statistical framework linking token prediction objectives to representation geometry and downstream performance in language models. It demonstrates that accurate token prediction under a softmax head organizes embeddings by Hellinger distance between token context distributions, with error bounds tied to prediction accuracy and token frequency. A self-consistency principle shows recurrent refinement of contextual representations without additional parameters. Theoretical guarantees connect prediction accuracy to downstream tasks including token generation, community recovery, and linear probe classification, explaining how token prediction recovers semantic geometry. Simulations validate the mechanisms.
token predictionrepresentation geometryhellinger distancecontextual representationlinear probe
Selection, Representation, and Execution in Sparse Fourier Neural Operators
This work critically examines sparsity in Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs), distinguishing between representation, parameter storage, theoretical operation count, and measured runtime. Through empirical analysis, it evaluates multiple approaches to sparse FNOs, testing transitions between these dimensions. Findings reveal that coarsening the execution grid reduces theoretical cost without improving latency, while accuracy recovery via correction terms increases model slowdown. An 83% parameter reduction remains slower than dense baselines, highlighting the need for sparsity definitions that ensure accuracy preservation and genuinely cheaper execution paths.
sparse representationsfourier neural operatorsexecution gridparameter reductionruntime latency
When 3D Gaussian Splatting Recovers Real Surfaces
This work establishes a mathematical framework to determine when 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) recovers true scene surfaces rather than overfitting view-dependent appearance. The analysis isolates geometry from appearance using a first-hit rendering abstraction, proving that geometric misalignment converts spatial textures into high-frequency angular signals via parallax. This creates a strict identifiability window: bounded angular capacity favors surface-consistent solutions, while unrestricted capacity enables incorrect opaque billboard geometries. Synthetic experiments confirm billboard failures emerge at high angular capacities, while real-world datasets under standard capture protocols maintain surface consistency even at high spherical harmonic (SH) degrees, aligning with predictions that rich spatial texture pushes billboard solutions beyond tested angular capacity.
3d gaussian splattingfirst-hit renderingangular capacityspatial textureparallax
A Deep Latent Variable Framework for Jointly Modeling Missingness, Measurement Error, and Heterogeneity
Proposes a deep latent variable framework integrating hierarchical tree-routed variational autoencoders with pattern-aware representations and calibration-based denoising to jointly address missing data (MCAR/MAR/MNAR), measurement error, and population heterogeneity. Introduces reconvergent routing for selective parameter sharing across subpopulations, balancing flexibility and statistical efficiency. Simulation studies show superior performance over existing deep generative imputation methods under complex heterogeneous conditions with measurement noise.
latent variable modelsvariational autoencodermissing data mechanismsmeasurement errorpopulation heterogeneity
Multiclass Linear Perceptrons with Multiplicative Margins
The paper introduces multiclass linear Perceptrons with multiplicative margins (MMPerc), replacing additive thresholds with a fraction-based mechanism to enforce classification confidence independently of score magnitudes. Several architectural variants are proposed, with derived loss functions and mistake bounds for separable and non-separable data, alongside analysis of bias, margin thresholds, and training modes. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate MMPerc's superiority over standard Perceptrons, SVMs, and Ridge classifiers, highlighting its simplicity, efficiency, and potential for linear evaluation of DNNs, hyperdimensional computing, and resource-constrained applications.
multiclass perceptronmultiplicative marginmistake boundslinear separabilityhyperdimensional computing
The Intervention Gap in Latent World Models
The study introduces planning-time intervention fidelity as a measurable property of learned world models, distinct from reward fit and not guaranteed by task-anchored training. Using TD-MPC2 and LeWorldModel checkpoints, the authors demonstrate that episode return declines as operator-error diagnostics on task observables increase, while reward-prediction error remains stable. Self-supervised world models outperform task-anchored models in preserving operator fidelity. Experiments on Cheetah and Finger Spin reveal task-direction rotation with excess gain as a failure mode, conditional on model seeds and task geometry. The findings emphasize the necessity of direct, capture-first audits of intervention fidelity on the model's native interface.
intervention fidelitytask-anchored trainingoperator-error diagnosticself-supervised world modeltask-direction rotation
Robust Broad Learning System with Wave Loss for Classification under Data Uncertainty
The authors propose Wave-BLS, a robust variant of Broad Learning System (BLS) that replaces the squared error loss with an asymmetric, bounded wave loss function to improve resilience against noise and outliers. The method employs Nesterov accelerated gradient optimization, avoiding matrix inversion for scalability. Evaluations on 30 UCI datasets show Wave-BLS outperforms classical BLS and robust variants, with statistical significance confirmed by Friedman and Nemenyi tests. Under controlled noise injection, Wave-BLS degrades more slowly than BLS, demonstrating superior robustness in contaminated data settings.
broad learning systemwave lossnesterov accelerated gradientrobust classificationuci benchmarks
Evolutionary Soups: Evolving Mixture-of-Experts for Multi-Objective LLM Alignment
The paper introduces Evolutionary Soups, a mixture-of-experts framework for multi-objective LLM alignment that dynamically adapts models at inference time via gating networks trained with an evolutionary algorithm. The method employs per-layer gating networks to produce expert-merging coefficients from hidden states, optimized via greedy hypervolume contribution for Pareto front coverage. Experiments across three tasks show ~20% improvements in hypervolume, linear utility, and Tchebyshev utility over baselines.
mixture-of-expertsevolutionary algorithmmulti-objective alignmenthypervolume contributionpareto front
On the Recoverability of Private Information Unlearning in Large Language Models
The study evaluates the efficacy of machine unlearning methods in large language models (LLMs) by constructing a synthetic dataset with fake private information and proposing a white-box auditing framework. Using this framework, five unlearning methods are assessed, revealing that 'inverse greedy' decoding can recover supposedly forgotten private information. Results indicate current unlearning approaches often fail to fully eliminate sensitive data, underscoring the need for more reliable privacy-preserving techniques in LLMs.
machine unlearninglarge language modelsprivacy preservationwhite-box auditinginverse greedy decoding
Data-Driven Design Optimization of Streaming-Potential-Mediated Electrokinetic Transport of Viscoelastic Fluids in Microchannels
The study introduces a surrogate-assisted framework for optimizing pressure-driven electrokinetic transport of Phan-Thien-Tanner fluids in slit microchannels. A high-fidelity numerical database is generated across key dimensionless parameters (zeta potential, Debye parameter, Dukhin number, viscoelastic parameter), and a Machine Learning surrogate model approximates the nonlinear relationship between these parameters and streaming potential. The framework couples surrogate predictions with multi-objective optimization to maximize both energy conversion efficiency and volumetric flow rate, demonstrating a significant acceleration in parametric exploration compared to repeated numerical simulations.
electrokinetic transportsurrogate modelingphan-thien-tanner fluidsmulti-objective optimizationmicrofluidic design
When Safety Speaks a Language: A Mechanistic Analysis of Safety-Language Identity Entanglement in LLMs
The study conducts a mechanistic analysis of multilingual safety alignment in LLMs, revealing that safety-relevant features are architecture-dependent and geometrically entangled with language identity. Using sparse autoencoder (SAE) features across three instruction-tuned LLMs, eight languages, and all layers, the authors identify cross-lingual sharing patterns of safety features and demonstrate that ablating these features affects both harmful response rates and target language fidelity. Findings suggest safety-language entanglement varies by architecture, challenging assumptions of language-universal safety alignment.
sparse autoencodersafety alignmentmultilingual llmsresidual streamfeature entanglement
Compression-Aware Abstention: Teaching LLMs to Refuse When KV-Compression Masks Remove Answer Evidence
We introduce compression-aware abstention, a novel learning framework enabling LLMs to abstain from answering when KV-cache compression removes answer-bearing evidence. Supervision is constructed using compressor survival masks and tight answer spans, labeling examples as Confident or Abstain based on evidence retention. A 10.1M-parameter LoRA adapter trained on 2.6K MuSiQue 2-hop QA examples reduces hallucinations by 97% under prompt truncation while maintaining accuracy on evidence-retaining examples. Multi-compressor training yields 6-22x relative improvement over the base model in compressed-cache decoding. Experiments confirm the learned behavior depends on evidence content rather than input length.
kv-cache compressionabstention learninglora adaptercompressor survival masksevidence retention
Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
We propose Diversify, Anchor, and Filter (DAF), a framework for continual test-time adaptation of vision-language models in open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. DAF addresses patch-level class collapse, vision-language misalignment, and computational inefficiency via a marginal diversity loss, cross-modal anchor consistency loss, and feature salience filtering. Evaluated across five datasets with corrupted variants, DAF improves mIoU by over 8 points on Pascal VOC20-C, over 9 points on LoveDA, and over 3 points on Foggy Cityscapes compared to the source model, demonstrating robustness to aggressive adaptation and learning rate choices.
open-vocabulary semantic segmentationcontinual test-time adaptationvision-language alignmententropy minimizationcross-modal consistency
Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Entropy Sensitivity-Guidance in Strict Online Setting
We introduce Sensitivity-Guided Erasing Adaptation (SEGA), a method for strict online continual test-time adaptation (CTTA) that addresses drift and collapse in batch-size-one settings without access to source data. SEGA employs structured erasures to measure predictive entropy sensitivity, using the resulting trajectories to guide recovery and sample selection, avoiding reliance on raw entropy or batch statistics. Evaluated on ImageNet-C, CIFAR10/100-C, and corruption-generated aquaculture streams, SEGA demonstrates consistent robustness and stability improvements over strong CTTA baselines while reducing backward passes via sensitivity-based gating.
test-time adaptationpredictive entropystructured erasuresbatch-size-onedistribution shift
Diffusion-Based Inverse Design of Dielectric Resonator Metasurfaces for Shaping Smart Electromagnetic Environments
The authors propose a conditional diffusion framework for inverse design of dielectric resonator metasurfaces from target angular scattering patterns, addressing the nonlinear, high-dimensional nature of the problem. Trained on T-matrix simulated geometry-response pairs, the model learns a conditional distribution of geometries, enabling multiple candidate designs for ill-posed inverse tasks. The best-generated metasurface achieves 1.39% mean percentage error, outperforming CMA-ES optimization (4.1% after 10h) with one-minute inference time, and demonstrates robustness on out-of-distribution spectra compared to deterministic neural baselines.
diffusion modelsinverse designmetasurfaceselectromagnetic propagationt-matrix simulation
Joint Spatiotemporal Spectral Neural Operators for Learning PDEs on Irregular Domains
The Graph Spectral Neural Operator (GSNO) is introduced to address the challenge of learning solution operators for PDEs on irregular domains without domain warping or costly geometric embeddings. GSNO combines spatial graph spectral decompositions with temporal Fourier transforms through a unified space-time spectral kernel, enabling globally coherent operator learning on non-Cartesian discretizations. By leveraging a graph Laplacian spectral basis, GSNO achieves geometry-aware spectral learning with low parameter complexity. Benchmarks on steady and unsteady PDEs demonstrate GSNO's strong accuracy, reduced runtime, and robust zero-shot generalization across mesh resolutions and geometry families.
graph spectral neural operatorpartial differential equationsgraph laplacianspectral decompositionnon-cartesian discretizations
Sensitivity-Constrained Neural Operators for Data-Efficient Forward and Inverse Modeling of Partial Differential Equation Systems
The paper introduces sensitivity-constrained neural operators (SC-NOs), which augment standard PDE surrogate training with sampled solver-derived Jacobian supervision to improve reliability in high-dimensional and inverse problems. The method matches selected sensitivities from differentiable solvers or discrete adjoints during training, amortizing response information across minibatches without full Jacobian computation. Evaluations on advection–diffusion, RANS–Spalart–Allmaras, and tsunami source-inversion benchmarks demonstrate improved forward prediction accuracy (particularly for high-dimensional inputs), inverse reconstruction stability, and computational efficiency, with SC-FNO successfully reconstructing seafloor deformation from sparse gauge data.
neural operatorspartial differential equationsjacobian supervisioninverse modelingsensitivity constraints
Structural Hierarchy and Geometry in Molecular Representation Learning
This work investigates the impact of explicitly encoding a molecule's Bemis-Murcko scaffold in molecular self-supervised learning, comparing Euclidean and Lorentz contrastive objectives. The study demonstrates that scaffold-supervised models consistently organize molecules based on identical and structurally related scaffolds, improving molecular property prediction across several tasks, with gains varying by property. Scaffold supervision exerts a stronger effect on molecular organization under Lorentz objectives, though neither geometry consistently outperforms the other. These findings indicate that teaching the relationship between a molecule and its structural core reliably shapes molecular embedding space organization, with task-dependent utility.
self-supervised learningmolecular embeddingsbemis-murcko scaffoldcontrastive objectivesembedding geometry
Towards an Expressivity-Normalized Energy-Demand Comparison of ANNs and SNNs
The authors develop an analytical framework to compare the theoretical energy efficiency of fully-connected ReLU artificial neural networks (ANNs) and integrate-and-fire spiking neural networks (SNNs) for time-series data, normalized by expressive capacity. They relate an inference-energy model to theoretical bounds on representational expressivity, deriving an expressivity-normalized efficiency ratio and explicit thresholds in network width, spike sparsity, and ANN depth scaling. The analysis identifies regimes where event-driven computation offsets the temporal overhead of SNNs, showing that ANNs exceed SNNs in expressivity-normalized efficiency only in specific scenarios. This provides capacity-aware principles for designing energy-efficient temporal networks.
spiking neural networksartificial neural networksexpressivity-normalized efficiencyevent-driven computationtime-series data
Partially Linear Autoencoders for Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction
The study investigates the role of linear encoders in autoencoders for manifold learning and dimensionality reduction, comparing four architectures: fully nonlinear AE, linear-encoder AE (Lenc-AE), linear-decoder AE (Ldec-AE), and fully linear AE (LAE). Experiments on synthetic manifolds, computational mechanics data, and MNIST show that Lenc-AE matches fully nonlinear AE in reconstruction quality while offering parsimony and interpretability, suggesting nonlinear decoders are more critical than encoders. A geometric interpretation identifies conditions where linear encoders suffice and their limitations.
autoencodersmanifold learningdimensionality reductionlinear encodernonlinear decoder
Uncertainty-Driven Replay Memory for Reinforcement Learning
The authors propose Uncertainty-Driven Replay Memory (UDRM), a novel experience replay buffer update scheme for reinforcement learning (RL) that leverages uncertainty estimates to prioritize uncertain transitions. Unlike traditional methods relying on temporal difference error or transition distributions, UDRM biases memory storage toward high-uncertainty experiences to enhance generalization. Experiments show UDRM enables RL agents to achieve higher rewards during training compared to existing uncertainty-aware RL frameworks.
reinforcement learninguncertainty estimationexperience replaygeneralizationtemporal difference
Designing for the Next Click: Bandits for Real-Time Page Layout
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Influence-Directed Distillation: Solving the Diversity Bottleneck in Sampled-Token On-Policy Distillation
The paper introduces Influence-Directed Adaptive On-Policy Distillation (IDA-OPD) to address diversity distillation failure in sampled-token on-policy distillation (OPD), where student pass@1 improves but pass@$k$ plateaus. By analyzing First-Order Local Entropy Influence, IDA-OPD preserves entropy-expanding updates and replaces entropy-contracting ones with divergence-adaptive advantage shrinkage, using only sampled-token teacher log-probabilities. Experiments show IDA-OPD improves pass@$k$, matches teacher-informed methods at lower cost, and maintains OPD's pass@1 without full-vocabulary teacher information.
on-policy distillationdiversity distillationentropy influenceadaptive advantage shrinkagesampled-token distillation
The Price of Intelligence: A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for AI Services
This paper constructs quality-adjusted price indices for AI inference services, addressing measurement discrepancies in price declines. Using 21,024 price observations across 3,208 models and 86 providers, paired with 4,605 benchmark scores, the authors estimate a latent quality index via hedonic methods. Results show inference prices fell at 0.10 log points/year unadjusted, but 0.73 log points/year quality-adjusted, revealing 87% of the decline is missed by conventional methods. Task-completion costs stagnated as reasoning models increased token consumption faster than price drops. A pre-registered audit confirms benchmark contamination impacts index trajectories (0.49 log points/year) without altering model rankings (ρ=0.998).
hedonic pricinglatent quality indexinference costsbenchmark contaminationtoken efficiency
Structure Aware Neural Architecture Search for Mixture of Experts
The paper introduces a structure-aware neural architecture search (NAS) framework for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, explicitly optimizing the alignment between data clusters and expert assignments. The method formulates the joint optimization as a cluster-aware likelihood maximization, solved via a generalized Expectation-Maximization procedure with an adaptively refined surrogate for the expert-quality term. Theoretical guarantees include convergence under summable surrogate errors and local optimality at limit points. Experiments on heterogeneous image classification and time-series forecasting benchmarks show 95% domain partition recovery without domain labels, outperforming baseline MoE and NAS methods.
neural architecture searchmixture of expertsexpectation-maximizationcluster-aware likelihoodsurrogate optimization
A Unified Perspective on Conformal Prediction and Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization for Uncertainty Quantification
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PruneShift: A Framework for Evaluating Decision Reliability in Structured Pruning
The paper introduces PruneShift, a framework for evaluating decision reliability in structured pruning by separating predictive fidelity, selector output fidelity, and pruning decision quality. Theoretical analysis shows surrogate agreement metrics can approach 1 while selection regret remains maximal, with sufficient conditions derived for uniform error and selector suboptimality. Empirical studies on TextbookQA, Natural Questions, QQP, and OSSCAR (OPT-125M) reveal heterogeneous results: 7/20 intervals favor surrogate-selected masks, 1/4 Natural Questions settings show strict improvement, and 68/75 OSSCAR endpoints exhibit better local fidelity, demonstrating the need for separate evaluation of predictive fit and decision reliability.
structured pruningsurrogate objectivesdecision reliabilitypredictive fidelityselector suboptimality
ECA-BLS: An Efficient Complex-Augmented Broad Learning System
The paper introduces ECA-BLS, the first complex-augmented Broad Learning System that models second-order statistical dependencies via phase-encoded complex representations and widely linear modeling. By reformulating CA-BLS entirely in the real domain, ECA-BLS reduces multiplications by 75% and additions by 60% while preserving theoretical equivalence. Experiments on 26 UCI/KEEL datasets show ECA-BLS outperforms classical BLS and randomized neural networks in accuracy, average rank, and statistical significance, establishing second-order modeling as a critical advancement in BLS research.
broad learning systemsecond-order statisticscomplex augmentationwidely linear modelingphase-encoded representations
GraM-Diff: A Unified Graph-Mamba Diffusion Framework for EEG-Based Alzheimer's Disease Data Generation and Diagnosis
GraM-Diff introduces a unified classifier-guided Graph-Mamba diffusion framework for EEG-based Alzheimer's disease (AD) data generation and diagnosis. The method integrates Graph Convolutional Networks within a diffusion U-Net to model inter-electrode connectivity and employs Bidirectional Mamba state-space blocks for efficient long-range temporal modeling. A latent-space classifier enables single-model generation of both healthy and pathological EEG. Evaluated on four EEG-based AD benchmarks, GraM-Diff demonstrates superior synthetic data quality (Context-FID, correlation scores) and improves classification performance, particularly in data-scarce settings, outperforming existing generative baselines.
electroencephalographydiffusion modelsgraph convolutional networksstate-space modelsalzheimer's disease
Neural ODE enhanced linear mixed effect models for estimating complex association patterns of time-varying covariates with the marker trajectory
The paper introduces Neural ODE-LMM, a hybrid model combining Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) with linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) to estimate complex associations between time-varying covariates and longitudinal outcomes. The method learns a continuous-time latent state from covariate trajectories, driving fixed and random effects while preserving LMM likelihood-based inference. Parameters are estimated via penalized marginal likelihood, with covariate effects quantified using counterfactual contrasts. Simulations demonstrate recovery of instantaneous and cumulative effects without functional form specification. Applied to the Trois-Cités cohort (n=7,324), the model reveals trajectory-dependent associations of BMI and fasting glucose with cognitive decline.
neural odelinear mixed-effects modelslongitudinal datacounterfactual predictionscovariate trajectories
Transformer-Based Flow Shop Scheduling Using MILP-Generated Training Data
This paper proposes a transformer-based model for non-permutation flow shop scheduling with secondary resources, framing it as a next-token prediction task. Training data is generated by tokenizing schedules from a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimizer. During inference, partial token sequences are completed via constrained decoding. In a computational study with 8 jobs, 4 machines, and 3 secondary resources, the transformer achieves smaller makespans than a genetic algorithm, the NEH heuristic, and random search, but is outperformed by the MILP model and the iterated greedy heuristic. The approach shows promise for settings with fixed, recurring job sets.
transformerflow shop schedulingmixed-integer linear programmingnext-token predictionconstrained decoding
Last Step Matters: Early Uncertainty Cannot Predict Failure in Long-Horizon Agents
The study demonstrates that early uncertainty signals fail to predict failures in long-horizon agents, challenging assumptions about their utility for timely intervention. The authors evaluate mainstream uncertainty quantification methods, including verbal confidence and perplexity, on deep-research tasks. Results show that verbal confidence reliably distinguishes failures at trajectory completion (mean AUROC: 0.85), but all signals perform poorly earlier in execution (mean AUROC < 0.60 at 50% progress). This gap is attributed to path switching, where agents frequently alter their search direction mid-trajectory. The findings recommend using final-step confidence for restart decisions, proving more effective than in-trajectory interventions.
uncertainty quantificationlong-horizon agentsverbal confidencepath switchingauroc
Creation begins with understanding: LLMs as strategy designers for privacy-preserving tabular data synthesis
We introduce Tabular Synthesis Strategy Designer (TabSSD), a method leveraging LLMs to design synthesis procedures for privacy-preserving tabular data generation. TabSSD provides LLMs with tree-derived summaries of variable dependence, enabling the generation of Python programs for local execution. Evaluated across twelve datasets, TabSSD achieves the best average rank across six metrics among ten methods, balancing statistical fidelity, predictive utility, and empirical privacy risk. It significantly reduces local computation and token consumption, lowering expertise and infrastructure barriers to transparent tabular data synthesis.
tabular data synthesisllm-based methodsvariable dependencepredictive utilityempirical privacy risk
A Target-Centric Survey of Quantization-Aware Training
This survey presents a target-centric analysis of Quantization-Aware Training (QAT), focusing on its theoretical foundations and implementation landscape. The authors systematically categorize existing QAT methods, emphasizing cross-target variations in error characteristics, numerical formats, and strategy transferability. They also summarize evaluation paradigms and identify optimization and deployment challenges, proposing future research directions. The work aims to address the prohibitive memory and computational demands of large language models by enabling low-bit models with accuracy comparable to full-precision counterparts.
quantization-aware trainingerror characteristicsnumerical formatsstrategy transferabilitylow-bit models
ButterMamba: Butterworth-Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Mamba for Efficient Traffic Flow Prediction
ButterMamba introduces a Butterworth-enhanced spatial-temporal Mamba framework for efficient traffic flow prediction, addressing quadratic complexity and high-frequency noise in existing approaches. The method combines a Butterworth Spectral Filtering module for noise reduction with a Spatial-Temporal State Mixer leveraging parallel Mamba architecture to capture long-range temporal dependencies and spatial correlations. Evaluated on three public datasets, ButterMamba achieves superior prediction accuracy with linear computational complexity, significantly reducing training time and memory usage compared to state-of-the-art models.
butterworth spectral filteringspatial-temporal state mixerstate space modelstraffic flow predictionlinear complexity
Reward-guided Fine-Tuning of One-Step Generative Models via Wasserstein Gradient Flow
The paper introduces a reward-guided fine-tuning method for one-step generative models using Wasserstein Gradient Flow (WGF), addressing the underexplored area of reward optimization in such models. By leveraging WGF, the method enables smooth and controlled distributional evolution in probability space without requiring reward gradients, thus accommodating both differentiable and non-differentiable rewards. The approach mitigates common issues like reward hacking and mode collapse while ensuring stable updates. Experiments on 2D synthetic data, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet 256×256 demonstrate superior reward alignment across diverse objectives, including JPEG compressibility, class probability, Black-and-White conversion, and CLIP alignment.
wasserstein gradient flowone-step generative modelsreward-guided fine-tuningoptimal transportmode collapse
LLMODE: Aligning ODEs with LLMs via Gated Token Injection for Irregular Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
LLMODE introduces a token-efficient framework for irregular spatio-temporal forecasting using frozen large language models (LLMs). The method employs a graph-aware ODE encoder to reconstruct irregular observations as continuous-time latent trajectories, which are compressed into dynamic memory tokens via a Fixed-Budget Perceiver Resampler. Compact statistical descriptors are encoded into context memory tokens, and both are injected into the LLM using dual-source gated cross-attention. Evaluations on three urban datasets and two physical-dynamics benchmarks demonstrate competitive performance, particularly under sparse or complex irregular sampling, with strong zero-shot generalization to unseen urban regions.
spatio-temporal forecastinggraph-aware odefixed-budget perceiverdual-source cross-attentionzero-shot generalization
Unsupervised Multi-Scale Gromov-Wasserstein Hypergraph Alignment
FALCON introduces an unsupervised optimal-transport framework for hypergraph alignment, addressing limitations of direct higher-order formulations and graph-reduction approaches. The method constructs a filtration-induced sequence of clique-based co-occurrence dissimilarity matrices and aligns them via a shared multi-scale Gromov-Wasserstein objective, ensuring globally consistent node correspondences without auxiliary hyperedge nodes. Experiments on real-world hypergraph benchmarks demonstrate FALCON's robustness to structural noise and superior performance over graph- and hypergraph-alignment baselines in most cases.
hypergraph alignmentgromov-wassersteinoptimal transportfiltrationclique expansion
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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model differentiated by safeguard layers. Both models feature a 1M token context window, 128K max output tokens, and adaptive thinking. Fable 5.1 achieves 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, significantly outperforming Fable 5 (24.7%) and Opus 5 (29.0%). Cache read costs are reduced by 75% to $0.25 per million tokens, lowering typical workload costs by 25% and agentic workloads by up to 45%. Key API changes include enforced turn-scoped system messages and server-side context editing. Mythos 5.1 demonstrates advanced capabilities in protein binder design with a 50% hit rate across 12 targets.
context windowcache readssafeguard layersadaptive thinkingprotein binders
Researchers from Princeton, Ant Group and Stanford Introduce AQuA: A Two-Part Agentic Framework for Autonomous Factor Discovery and Model Development in Quantitative Finance
Researchers introduce AQuA, a two-part agentic framework for autonomous factor discovery and model development in quantitative finance, addressing methodological errors in quantitative research. Part I employs a six-agent pipeline for symbolic alpha factor discovery in crypto, achieving a combined validation Spearman IC of ~0.190 across 20 epochs. Part II focuses on time-series model development for US equities, yielding a per-stock IC of +0.0843, outperforming GRU by +0.0230. The framework enforces asymmetric freedom, sealing splits, features, labels, and evaluators to prevent leakage. The equity book achieves a Sharpe ratio of +2.50 at 2 bps, maintaining positive performance from 2021 to 2025.
spearman icasymmetric freedomtime-series modelsagentic frameworkquantitative finance
Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
Gradium AI introduces a new default text-to-speech (TTS) model achieving an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on a 500-sentence hard-case evaluation set across five languages (EN, DE, FR, ES, PT). The model was tested on 10 criteria, including spelling, alphanumeric tokens, and composite scenarios like IT tickets, with strict human scoring. It achieves a 216 ms P50 time-to-first-audio on the Coval benchmark, with a 30 ms interquartile spread over 480 runs, outperforming competitors like Cartesia Sonic 3.6 and ElevenLabs v3 Conversational. The evaluation dataset is open-sourced on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0.
text-to-speechhard-casetime-to-first-audiointerquartile spreadhuman-rated
Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour
Keenable AI introduces NEEDLE, a live search benchmark that dynamically rebuilds its query set hourly (for news) and daily (for finance, scholar, legal, and rare entities) to prevent overfitting and parametric memory exploitation. NEEDLE evaluates 15 search APIs across five verticals using fresh public sources like RSS feeds, SEC XBRL, arXiv, and CourtListener. It employs an empirical ceiling metric, 'ultimate,' pooling results from all engines to measure retrieval quality gaps. Results show finance queries are nearly solved (ultimate: 0.965), while rare-entity queries remain challenging (top engine: 0.557 of ultimate). The benchmark is open-source, reproducible, and runs via a Python CLI.
live search benchmarkempirical ceilingparametric memoryquery regenerationretrieval quality
Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Google Research introduces TimesFM-3, a 330M parameter zero-shot foundation model for multivariate time series forecasting, pretrained on over 1 trillion time points. The model employs a decoder-only transformer architecture with contiguous patch masking, alternating causal temporal attention, and full variate attention to jointly forecast multiple targets, past covariates, and past-future covariates without task-specific fine-tuning. TimesFM-3 achieves top average rank on GIFT-Eval, fev-bench, and the TIME leaderboard, outperforming Chronos-2 and TimesFM-2.5 in both point and probabilistic metrics. However, its weights are restricted to non-commercial, non-production use.
multivariate forecastingcontiguous patch maskingcausal temporal attentionfull variate attentionzero-shot
OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway
OpenClaw 2.0 introduces a guided model setup that verifies AI access by reusing existing credentials (e.g., Codex, ChatGPT, Claude CLI) or API keys, and validates model functionality before saving. The update replaces node-llama-cpp with a managed llama-server, raises llama.cpp's default context to 64K, and optimizes the Control UI, reducing startup time from ~1.6s to 575ms and JavaScript requests from 140 to 45. Shared cloud sessions enable multiplayer functionality but lack tenant isolation. Security measures include loopback binding, pairing codes, and prompt injection mitigation via model choice, with Claude Opus 4.5 showing 0.5% success against 272K attacks. SQLite now stores sessions and transcripts, requiring backups before downgrades.
llama-serversqliteprompt injectioncontrol uicontext length
Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark
This benchmark evaluates Time to First Token (TTFT) as a critical metric for latency in voice agents, emphasizing its limitations for conversational systems. It measures TTFT across LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech pipelines, using Artificial Analysis API leaderboard data and vendor-published metrics. Results show Baseten’s gpt-oss-120b achieving the lowest TTFT (0.23s), while LiveKit’s Gemma 4 31B demonstrates 192ms TTFT with speculative decoding. End-to-end voice-to-voice latency targets are set at 700ms–1.2s, with TTFT accounting for ~700ms of this budget. The study highlights workload shape, server location, and reasoning tokens as key methodological factors influencing TTFT.
time to first tokenspeculative decodingspeech-to-texttext-to-speechlatency budget
Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds
EnvHarness introduces a programmable layer that transforms static agent environments into adaptive training worlds by wrapping them in plug-in components operating via the standard reset()/step() interface. The method employs EnvRigger, an LLM designer that diagnoses policy flaws from rollouts and automatically generates targeted wrappers. Three components—Stage, Contract, Chain—modify start states, interaction rules, and episode composition without altering the underlying simulator or human-built verifiers. Evaluated across five benchmarks, EnvHarness achieves up to +9.0 points on out-of-distribution tasks and reduces execution steps by 9.8%. The system is deployable with Apache-2.0 Python code, requiring only a resettable environment.
envharnessenvriggerreset/step interfaceadaptive trainingpolicy flaws
Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices
Anthropic introduces the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification enabling AI agents to discover and safely operate physical devices. MHS standardizes device drivers, exposing primitives like read, write, and discovery, and encodes safety limits and device metadata. It integrates via the Model Context Protocol, CLI, and code files, reducing setup from weeks to hours. Evaluations include Genentech automating protein assays (0.016 RMSE for water), QuEra improving laser relock success from 58% to 99.3%, and CMU accelerating dose-response experiments by 3x. MHS is model-agnostic and ensures safety limits are driver-embedded, though supervision remains necessary due to physical reasoning gaps.
model hardware standarddevice driversmodel context protocolphysical reasoningsafety limits
Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs
Code-as-World introduces a paradigm for representing physical scenes as executable MuJoCo programs, addressing the limitation of pixel-based video models in capturing physical mechanisms. The method employs an agentic loop that iteratively proposes, instantiates, executes, and verifies scene representations from real videos, refining them over up to five rounds. Verified scenes provide exact physical labels for training, improving model performance. Code-as-World-VL-9B achieves 55.4 MRA on QuantiPhy-validation, surpassing Gemini-3.1 Flash (54.8) and open-weight baselines. The framework is released under Apache 2.0, with checkpoints fine-tuned from Qwen3.5 models.
mujocoagentic loopexecutable world representationquantiphyvllm
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