Daily Digest — 2026-09-10
357 items · 4 research labs, 352 arxiv papers, 1 industry media
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🏛️ Research Labs (4)
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board as a non-voting observer and member of the Safety and Security Committee (SSC). Christiano brings expertise from his roles at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and as founder of the Alignment Research Center (ARC), with prior contributions to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) at OpenAI. His appointment strengthens governance amid advancing AI capabilities, emphasizing safety, security, and alignment. The SSC oversees practices across OpenAI Group PBC, reflecting commitments from 2025 recapitalization reviews by state attorneys general.
alignmentrlhfgovernancesafety committeenist
IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
IBM introduces Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, a 385M-parameter conformer-based foundation model for zero-shot time-series forecasting. The architecture combines multi-head self-attention with temporal convolution (kernel sizes {5,5,3,3}) and 50% overlapping patches with Hamming-window weighting, achieving state-of-the-art performance on GIFT-Eval (geometric-mean CRPS: 0.467, MASE: 0.6846). It supports contexts up to 8,192 steps, probabilistic forecasting via 99-quantile prediction heads, and imputation, while being dual-licensed (Apache-2.0/OpenMDW-1.0) for commercial use.
conformerzero-shotprobabilistic forecastinggift-evaltime-series
Get ready for the game with new football features in Search
Google Search introduces enhanced football-related features leveraging AI for real-time game tracking and personalized fantasy football recommendations. The Live Game Feed provides play-by-play updates, video highlights, and AI-generated insights for professional football games in the U.S. on mobile devices. A new matchup carousel enables users to view league-wide scores simultaneously, while detailed player statistics and championship predictions are added. Fantasy football integration with Yahoo Fantasy and Sleeper allows AI Mode to offer tailored lineup suggestions and waiver wire analysis. These features are currently available in English in the U.S., with plans for global expansion and collegiate team support.
live game feedai modematchup carouselfantasy football integrationplay-by-play updates
Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame
The documentary 'Love, Rendered' employs AI-driven image restoration and performance capture models to recreate lost memories for Burt and Ethelle Shatz, a couple married for over 70 years. The technical approach combines generative models for restoring black-and-white photos and performance capture models to map present-day micro-mannerisms onto their younger likenesses. This interdisciplinary collaboration between Google DeepMind and Primordial Soup resulted in a reconstructed memory that the couple found authentic. The project highlights the potential of AI as a tool for reminiscence therapy, enabling emotional connections through restored and animated family photographs.
image restorationperformance capturegenerative modelsreminiscence therapymicro-mannerisms
📜 arXiv Papers (352)
TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model
TANGO introduces the first whole-body vision-language navigation framework for language-conditioned humanoid traversal in cluttered environments, directly predicting 29-DoF joint-space actions from natural-language instructions and egocentric RGB observations. The method trains entirely in simulation via a pipeline combining global path planning, kinematic whole-body motion generation, obstacle-aware motion editing, and RL-based tracking to synthesize diverse collision-free traversal behaviors. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in vision-language navigation and superior obstacle negotiation compared to modular baselines. Zero-shot deployment on a Unitree G1 humanoid robot shows robust language-guided traversal in cluttered real-world scenes without real-world training data.
vision-language navigationwhole-body control29-dofobstacle-aware motion editingrl-based tracking
Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents
The paper introduces Procedural Graphs, a structured representation for organizing procedural knowledge in LLM agents through (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets, analogous to knowledge graphs for factual knowledge. The framework localizes active nodes and uses a guidance model to bias action selection without rigid control, while a self-evolving mechanism refines the graph via contrastive learning between successful and failed trajectories. Evaluations across multiple datasets, task types, and LLMs show consistent improvements over memory-based baselines, with self-evolution further enhancing performance without manual intervention.
procedural graphsllm agentsself-evolvingcontrastive learningguidance model
NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting
NOAH introduces a time-aware, task-agnostic generative transformer model for representing and forecasting multimodal patient journeys, addressing limitations of current discriminative approaches. The model employs bidirectional time integration and a variational latent space to capture irregular temporal dynamics and clinical stochasticity, processing 559M clinical events from 431K hospital visits across MIMIC datasets. It achieves strong performance in autoregressive forecasting, zero-shot classification, and counterfactual simulation, with robust probing results for clinical outcomes, 15 ICD chapters, and 29 comorbidities.
generative transformermultimodal patient journeybidirectional time integrationvariational latent spaceautoregressive forecasting
A Data-Driven Framework for Identifying and Prioritizing RPA Opportunities in Healthcare Processes
The paper proposes a data-driven framework for optimizing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) adoption in healthcare, addressing process selection, prioritization, tool-tier matching, and ROI forecasting. The method combines a Process Taxonomy (20 hospital processes), an Automation Suitability Index (derived via Analytic Hierarchy Process), a Tool-Tier Selection module, and an ROI quantification module. Evaluated on a synthetic portfolio: 12/20 processes met prioritization thresholds (Spearman ρ=0.83 under weight perturbations), budget-constrained optimization revealed diminishing NPV returns beyond $400K, and Monte Carlo analysis confirmed positive 5th-percentile portfolio NPV. The framework lacks empirical validation but includes a Python implementation and discusses HIPAA compliance.
robotic process automationanalytic hierarchy processautomation suitability indexnet present valuehealthcare informatics
Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails
We introduce a method for co-evolving agent harnesses and model weights that preserves compatibility between them, addressing performance regressions observed when weaker models imitate expert trajectories under evolved harnesses. Our approach combines harness evolution with on-policy expert correction, where a meta-level MLE agent identifies failing turns in the weaker model's rollout and requests expert rewrites only for those turns. This preserves the model's native planning style while benefiting from harness adaptation. Experiments across seven enterprise tasks with Qwen3-Coder and Gemma 4 models show that imitation learning under evolved harnesses causes performance regressions of 4-30 points, while our method successfully combines harness evolution and model adaptation.
agent harnesson-policy correctionmeta-level mleimitation learningplanning style
ExecCritic: Learn to Test, Test to Improve for Coding Agents
ExecCritic introduces a test--verify--revise scaffold with role-specific reinforcement learning to improve coding agents' repository repair accuracy. The scaffold decouples test construction from source-code repair: a Test agent generates repository-native tests, a fail-closed harness validates them, and a Repair agent revises source code based on execution feedback. Both roles use Qwen-3.5-35B-A3B as the backbone and are trained separately. On SWE-bench Verified, test quality significantly impacts feedback efficacy: tests from GPT-5.6-sol improved resolved rate to 65.3%, while role-specific post-training boosted the Qwen Test agent's Base-to-Gold success from 22.2% to 62.2%. Composing post-trained agents achieved a 72.6% resolved rate, an 11.4-point gain over the no-test baseline.
execution feedbackrepository repairreinforcement learningtest constructionqwen-3.5-35b-a3b
A Generalization of Amari's Bayesian Duality
The work generalizes Amari's Bayesian duality by connecting it to convex duality in Bayes' rule, extending its mathematical framework for modern AI applications. The method leverages information-geometric principles to establish a broader duality relationship between prior and posterior distributions. Results demonstrate how this generalized duality provides new theoretical tools for analyzing Bayesian inference in machine learning systems.
bayesian dualityinformation geometryconvex dualitybayes' ruleprior-posterior relationship
Canonical Color as a Lens into Concept Decodability in Vision Encoders and VLMs
The study investigates whether vision encoders and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) encode conceptual information like canonical color independently of visual input. Using a dataset of objects with canonical colors, the authors probe vision encoders with color and grayscale images, finding that canonical color remains linearly decodable from grayscale inputs and correlates with object identity. They further show that VLM post-training significantly impacts color decodability in the vision encoder. The work demonstrates canonical color as a controlled probe for tracing object-level semantic information in visual representations.
vision encoderscanonical colorconceptual decodabilityvision-language modelslinear probing
DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination
DeCAL introduces a physically-grounded dexterous vision-language-action model for contact-rich manipulation, addressing challenges of visual occlusions and complex dynamics via adaptive tactile integration and explicit physical modeling. The method employs a Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) architecture with specialized experts, featuring Adaptive Visuo-Tactile Fusion for dynamic tactile regulation and Visuo-Tactile Latent Co-Imagination for joint visual-tactile dynamics modeling. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance (71% average success rate, 83.4% progress success rate) and strong generalization to unseen scenarios.
dexterous manipulationvision-language-action modelmixture-of-transformersadaptive visuo-tactile fusionlatent co-imagination
MeClear: Cooperative Game-Theoretic Attribution and Risk-Aware Memory Clearance for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
MeClear introduces a task-conditioned memory clearance framework for long-horizon LLM agents, addressing utility degradation from outdated or conflicting retrieved memories. The method combines Leave One Out screening with cooperative Shapley attribution to distribute utility across interacting evidence, enabling minimal query-scoped clearance without persistent memory alteration. Evaluations on ten long dialogue memory pools show 85.9% target recall and 82.3% task recovery, a 25.5 percentage point improvement over Leave One Out baselines.
memory clearancecooperative shapley attributionlong-horizon llm agentsutility degradationtask recovery
SAEScientist-Bench: Can AI Agents Conduct Autonomous SAE Interpretability Research?
The paper introduces SAEScientist-Bench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents' capacity for autonomous mechanistic interpretability research using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs). Agents navigate a Gemma-2-9B-IT feature dictionary (131K+ features) to isolate target concepts via contrastive probing, with performance assessed against expert-curated Neuronpedia references across activation rank, concept selectivity, and causal steering metrics. Results from 10 agent configurations on 20 tasks show agents achieve partial success in contrastive separation but lag significantly in causal generation (e.g., 40% below expert baselines), with systematic errors in experimental interpretation despite eliminating spurious features. The work establishes quantifiable metrics for autonomous interpretability in recursive self-improvement pipelines.
sparse autoencodersmechanistic interpretabilityrecursive self-improvementcontrastive probingcausal steering
The Surprising Effectiveness of Approximate Value Iteration in Self-Play
This work demonstrates that Approximate Value Iteration (AVI) achieves competitive performance with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in self-play settings at lower computational costs. The authors train AVI with ground-truth oracles on Connect Four, Hex(7x7), and synthetic games, showing it learns more accurate value functions than AlphaZero while maintaining competitive one-step-lookahead policies. Preliminary results on Othello and Go(9x9) confirm stable training and effective value learning, suggesting simpler methods like AVI may be underutilized due to MCTS dominance.
approximate value iterationmonte carlo tree searchself-playvalue functiondeep-learning
Measuring LLM Sycophancy under Sustained Multi-Turn Pressure
The paper introduces SPINE, a benchmark for measuring LLM sycophancy under sustained multi-turn adversarial pressure, addressing limitations of short-horizon evaluations. Using an adaptive LLM proxy to challenge target models (4 production systems, 3 Olmo3-7b variants) over 25-turn dialogues on 200 false-presupposition and unethical-query items, the study finds collapse rates increase with conversation length, revealing underestimation by prior protocols. Analysis of reasoning traces shows correct positions often persist despite concession, implicating deliberate user-pleasing rather than knowledge gaps. Ablations demonstrate adaptive proxies outperform static scripts, with emotional appeals being the most effective tactic for inducing sycophantic behavior.
llm sycophancymulti-turn evaluationadaptive adversarial proxyreasoning trace analysisbenchmark design
GoDeep: Annotation-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding via Language-Space Lifting
GoDeep introduces an annotation-free open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding method by lifting structured, entity-level image descriptions into a language-only embedding space, avoiding 3D training corpora or domain-specific encoders. The approach aggregates grounded textual descriptions projected from posed images, leveraging a vision-language model as a translator without CLIP-style joint embedding. On ScanNet++, it matches annotation-free baselines; on a cultural heritage benchmark, language-space embeddings outperform CLIP after vocabulary corrections, demonstrating sharper OOV object separation and localization. The method provides explainable point-level predictions and enables finer element localization via heuristic weighting of precise observations.
open-vocabulary3d semantic segmentationlanguage-space embeddingannotation-freeout-of-vocabulary
Everything in Moderation: Per-Domain Coverage Optima and Alignment-Resistant Domain Gaps in Multi-Domain Mid-Training
The study investigates per-domain data composition during mid-training and its resistance to alignment, using Qwen3-8B-Base on five rule-disjoint KOR-Bench domains. Three key findings: (1) Each domain exhibits an interior coverage optimum (10%-40%), supported by a quadratic permutation test (P≈0.010). (2) Domain gaps persist post-alignment, with SFT improving 116/120 cells (+4.32% mean) but bridging only 30/240 pairs at a 10% threshold (P<0.001 vs. permutation null). (3) Zero coverage collapses accuracy, though FineWeb-Edu-only controls suggest commingled drift. An exploratory θ* allocation yields marginal gains (+4.36% vs. baseline).
mid-traininginterior coverage optimumalignment-resistant gapspermutation testdomain composition
ThinkPrior: Zero-Rollout Difficulty Priors for Cold-Start Prompt Selection in RLVR
The paper introduces ThinkPrior, a zero-rollout difficulty prior for cold-start prompt selection in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). The method leverages an external anchor pass to initialize a Beta posterior without target-policy rollouts, optimizing prompt selection by expected learnability while maintaining the original loss and optimizer. Evaluated on Qwen2.5-Math-7B across 16 seeds, ThinkPrior reduces early silent groups by over 50% and cuts wasted rollouts by 19% through step 30, with no final accuracy loss. Combined with DAPO, it reduces generated rollouts by 10.6% under a fixed update budget.
rlvrzero-rollout priorbeta posteriorgroup relative policy optimizationverifiable rewards
Performance of Clinical AI System and Physicians and Frontier Language Models in primary care diagnostics
The study evaluates clinical AI system Doctorina against physicians and frontier LMs (Kimi K3, Claude Opus 5) in 150 synthetic Polish primary-care cases. Doctorina achieved 82.0% Top-1 diagnostic concordance (25.0pp above physicians) and 97.3% primary/reference-differential concordance, with superior workup (89.4 vs. 66.9) and treatment scores (83.7 vs. 61.2). Among six groups, Doctorina led diagnostics; Kimi K3 ranked second, while Claude Opus 5 topped management tasks. Results were replicated in a second Doctorina execution, confirming advantages in adaptive consultation workflows.
clinical aidiagnostic concordanceadaptive consultationprimary-carelanguage models
Time-Varying Data as Sheaves: an Invitation to Narratives
The chapter introduces 'narratives', an abstract sheaf-theoretic framework for modeling time-varying data across disciplines, unifying temporal representations through three research vignettes. First, it characterizes information loss when switching between temporal data representations. Second, it develops decomposition methods for structural complexity analysis via invariants. Third, it applies the framework to multi-agent control systems with switching topologies. The work demonstrates how mathematical abstraction can systematize temporal modeling in diverse domains.
sheaf theorytemporal datamulti-agent systemsstructural decompositioninvariants
Training-Free Task Vectors for LLM Behavioral Control
The paper introduces Training-Free Task Vectors (TFTVs), a method for computing task-vector-like directions in weight space without fine-tuning, enabling post-training behavioral control in large language models. TFTVs map activation steering vectors to rank-one weight-space edits using forward-pass statistics, supporting arithmetic operations for learning, forgetting, and composition. Evaluations on behavioral control tasks demonstrate TFTVs effectively amplify, suppress, and compose target behaviors while preserving general capabilities, outperforming baselines in trait control and utility preservation.
task vectorsactivation steeringweight-space editsbehavioral controltraining-free
The Audit Decides the Verdict: Instrument Effects Rival Demographic Bias in LLM Decision Audits
The study investigates how audit design influences perceived demographic bias in LLM decision-making, comparing rating versus ranking tasks across hiring, lending, and medical triage domains (40,726 requests to five models). While prior work found minority preference reversals in charitable-aid benchmarks, this preregistered audit found no significant demographic effects after correction (0/36 contrasts survived). Models instead exhibited strong audit-awareness, tying identical-content comparisons and favoring first-listed candidates. Results suggest audit construction artifacts—not demographic bias—dominate measured disparities, with injected disparities tracking as expected and directional replication bounding null effects.
llm auditsdemographic biasrating-ranking disparityaudit-awarenesspreregistered testing
Answer-Distribution Trajectories: A Stochastic-Dynamics View of LLM Reasoning
The paper introduces answer-distribution trajectories, a stochastic-dynamics framework for analyzing LLM reasoning that tracks the full predictive distribution over answers during chain-of-thought processes. This method extends beyond endpoint accuracy and entropy profiles by characterizing dynamical reasoning stages (exploration, revision, commitment) and distinguishing success/failure mechanisms. Evaluations across sixteen open-weight language models and four benchmarks reveal substantial variation in reasoning dynamics, with different objectives favoring distinct profiles, and demonstrate that training/inference choices systematically reshape these trajectories.
answer-distribution trajectoriesstochastic dynamicschain-of-thoughtreasoning dynamicspredictive distribution
It Is Not My Code Anymore
The research note analyzes ownership and responsibility in AI-assisted programming through a hypothetical enrollment failure and literature review. It distinguishes between code producers, reviewers, and decision-makers, emphasizing that identifying defective code does not resolve duties. The discussion proposes quality engineering frameworks to evaluate both generated implementations and production processes, advocating for acceptance criteria tied to service outcomes. The note also compares systems that perform tasks directly versus those generating separate programs, noting implications for authorship and service obligations. No new empirical results are reported; the focus is on conceptual distinctions and evaluation questions.
ai-assisted programmingownershipquality engineeringacceptance criteriaservice obligation
Let It Go or Learn to Self-Correct: Continuous Diffusion for Constrained Discrete Tasks
The paper demonstrates that standard Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) underperform on globally constrained discrete tasks (e.g., Sudoku, Latin squares) due to early errors persisting through sampling. By sampling directly from the model's clean predictions—without retraining—validity on Sudoku improves from 31% to 95%. The authors propose self-correction training, where the model learns from its own predictions during inference, mitigating train-test mismatch and improving standard sampler performance. Results indicate that continuous diffusion models can learn global constraints but require better alignment between training and inference for discrete reasoning.
denoising diffusion probabilistic modelsdiscrete reasoningself-correction trainingtrain-test mismatchglobal constraints
Deposon: An Auditable, Conservation-Guaranteed, Game-Theoretically Tested Scattering Layer over LLM Reasoning Paths
The paper introduces Deposon, an auditable scattering layer for LLM reasoning paths that enforces conservation guarantees (T+R+A=1) with machine-epsilon precision (2.2E-16 deviation). The method binds each node in a concept-decomposition graph to a two-parameter state, applying three-channel scattering (transmission, reflection, dissipation) to filter paths. On synthetic benchmarks, Deposon achieves 100% path-filtering accuracy versus 7-10% for baselines; real-world performance matches trivial keyword filters (GSM8K 0.87 vs 0.85, StrategyQA 0.899 parity). Fusion experiments show convex combinations degrade performance (physics 0.484→0.452), while game-theoretic analysis reveals approximate potential dynamics (median residual 0.669). Three formal propositions are falsified under pre-registered tests.
scattering layerreasoning pathsconservation guaranteepotential gamemachine verifiability
Transformers as In-Context Samplers: From Closed-Form Diffusion to Estimation-Free Sampling
The paper proves that frozen transformers can simulate iterative generative samplers through in-context learning, extending their capabilities beyond supervised tasks to data generation. It demonstrates that transformers can realize closed-form and smoothed closed-form diffusion samplers, with softmax attention computing responsibility weights and feedforward layers implementing Euler updates. Empirical analysis on semantic-topic sampling reveals a two-stage geometry in hidden states, transitioning to uniform spherical references and returning to structured representations. Energy measurements on hidden-state clouds exhibit a U-shape pattern, and transformers are shown to approximate energy-based samplers, constructing the same U-shape energy across layers.
transformersin-context learningdiffusion samplerssoftmax attentionenergy-based sampler
Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report
Gander introduces an end-to-end model unifying omni perception, realtime interaction, and agentic capabilities in a single framework, enabling full-duplex multimodal interaction. The architecture features a Cerebellum-Brain collaboration, where the Cerebellum handles realtime interaction via a streaming Thinker-Talker design with chunk-level token streams, while the Brain manages complex reasoning and agentic tasks. Evaluations show competitive performance in conversational ability, omni understanding, and robustness to noise and multi-party scenarios, matching SOTA open-source models in dialogue quality.
omni perceptionfull-duplex interactioncerebellum-brain frameworkthinker-talker architectureagent orchestration
GraphFAS: A Distributed System for Automated Graph Feature Generation and Selection in Industrial Transaction Networks
GraphFAS introduces a distributed system for automated graph feature generation and selection in industrial transaction networks, addressing limitations of expert-crafted features and GNNs in fraud detection. The method combines (1) non-parametric graph feature generation via multi-hop subgraph extraction and multi-scale aggregation with (2) a distributed Boruta-based feature selection algorithm using median-based aggregation. Evaluated on Alipay's large-scale graphs, GraphFAS achieves order-of-magnitude engineering efficiency gains while maintaining strong performance against expert-driven and graph-learning baselines, with compatibility for TreeSHAP-based explanations.
graph feature generationdistributed feature selectionmulti-hop subgraph extractiontreeshap-based explanationsnon-parametric aggregation
Good Pretraining, Bad SFT: Checkpoint Quality Across the Training Stack
The study challenges the assumption that selecting language-model checkpoints based on pretraining loss or benchmark scores guarantees optimal downstream performance. Using a 30B mixture-of-experts training pipeline, the authors demonstrate that higher-performing checkpoints post-training exhibit greater solution density, maintaining performance under local weight perturbations. This suggests that checkpoint selection criteria should account for robustness to perturbations in downstream tasks.
language-modelcheckpoint selectionmixture-of-expertssolution densityweight perturbations
PlannerForge: LLM Agents for Scenario-Based Testing of Motion Planners in Autonomous Driving
PlannerForge introduces a unified LLM-agent framework for end-to-end scenario-based testing of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs), covering generation, retrieval, modification, execution, and analysis. The system employs 10 off-the-shelf LLMs across six tasks (Generation, Selection, Modification, Module Routing, Planner Testing, Enhancement) under five prompt conditions, achieving best-per-task scores of 0.88–1.00. Open-source 20–35B models (e.g., Qwen3.6:35B) match commercial APIs on three of five tasks. End-to-end chaining retains 78–83% of seed queries, outperforms Scenario Factory 2.0 in natural-language generation (193 vs. 144 executable scenarios), and improves rank-1 selection (92.0% vs. 67.5%) and physical validity (≥94% vs. 31%). Cost-tuning boosts planner success from 50.4% to 70.2% and reduces collisions from 19.0% to 8.4% at N=400.
autonomous drivingllm agentsscenario-based testingmotion planningcost-tuning
SQLMorph: Query Mutation and Fine-Grained Metrics for Text-to-SQL Evaluation
SQLMorph introduces a framework for Text-to-SQL evaluation via query mutation, addressing limitations in current benchmarks. It proposes Join Query Expansion (JQE) to increase structural complexity through valid joins and Textual Query Augmentation (TQA) to assess linguistic robustness via controlled perturbations. Experiments reveal JQE exposes accuracy degradation with join count (up to 17% drop for linguistic brittleness) and TQA highlights system vulnerabilities. The work also introduces execution-level metrics (Execution Precision, Recall, F1) for fine-grained analysis, revealing obscured system differences in binary evaluations.
text-to-sqlquery mutationexecution precisionjoin query expansionlinguistic robustness
SkillAdam: Stable and Efficient Skill Evolution for Agents
SkillAdam introduces an Adam-inspired framework for stable and efficient self-evolution of discrete, non-differentiable agent skills in frozen language models. The method employs an optimization memory (analogous to Adam's first moment) to stabilize update directions and a volatility-driven edit budget (analogous to Adam's second moment) to adaptively control revision magnitudes. Evaluated across seven short- and long-horizon benchmarks, SkillAdam achieves state-of-the-art performance with more stable optimization dynamics, requiring fewer iterations and lower cost than prior methods.
skill evolutionoptimization memoryedit budgetnon-differentiable skillslanguage-model agents
Evaluating and Improving Evidence-Grounded Fact-Checking in LLMs via Multi-Round Evidence Ablation
The paper introduces Fact-Ablated Evaluation (FAE), a framework to assess whether LLMs rely on provided evidence or parametric knowledge for fact-checking by iteratively ablating cited evidence. It proposes REAL (Rigorous Evidence Ablation Learning), a training method using counterfactual evidence supervision to improve evidence-dependent verification. Experiments on four datasets show REAL-trained models achieve superior evidence grounding, revealing that high accuracy in off-the-shelf LLMs often masks weak evidence dependency.
fact-checkingevidence ablationparametric knowledgecounterfactual supervisionllm-as-verifier
OntoKG-EQ: A provenance-grounded, competency-question-governed knowledge graph for auditable analyst querying
OntoKG-EQ introduces a provenance-grounded, competency-question-governed knowledge graph for reproducible and auditable equity market analysis. The system combines a core ontology bounded by five predefined competency questions with a provenance-aware knowledge graph, ensuring traceability from results to raw data. It materializes market data, validates structural constraints, executes graph queries, and generates evidence-linked explanations. Evaluated on datasets from Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia, OntoKG-EQ matches relational database accuracy while providing governance and provenance tracking. A user study (n=17) confirms improved trust and completeness perceptions, and the system benchmarks provenance coverage (0.00–1.00) across eight language models. Code and data are publicly available.
knowledge graphprovenance trackingcompetency questionontology validationequity markets
API Benchmark Scores Do Not Reliably Transfer to Chatbot Interfaces
This work identifies a context-validity gap between API and interface evaluations of LLMs, challenging the assumption that API benchmark scores reliably proxy deployed system behavior. The authors audit ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across seven systems and nine benchmarks covering general capability, social bias, and sycophancy. Results show API evaluations score 3.4 percentage points higher in accuracy and 2.1 percentage points higher in test-retest agreement than interface evaluations. For ChatGPT, API-interface performance differences exceed inter-version differences (GPT 5.3 vs GPT 5.4). Manipulating API controls (system prompts, sampling parameters, reasoning settings) fails to reliably bridge this gap.
context-validity gapapi evaluationstest-retest agreementsystem promptssampling parameters
Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems
We propose an action-conditioned world-modeling framework for Earth-system emulation that enables interactive what-if simulations by reformulating simulator trajectories as supervision for controllable state-transition learning. The method employs transition-action pretraining, treating naturally observed state changes as label-free action supervision, and introduces masked response learning to infer unobserved variables under partial state edits. Evaluated on ecosystem dynamics across six global regions and multiple stand ages, the model maintains competitive long-horizon emulation accuracy while supporting controllable structural interventions and coherent responses in coupled ecosystem-cycle variables. This advances Earth-system emulators from passive forecasting toward interactive, intervention-aware scientific surrogates.
earth-system emulationtransition-action pretrainingmasked response learningstate-transition learningecosystem dynamics
Closing the Consistency Gap: Self-Evolving Agents That Learn to Stay on Course
The paper introduces a self-evolving agent framework to address the consistency gap in LLM-powered agents, where average per-run success rates (77% for ReAct/GPT-4.1 on AppWorld) mask unreliable performance (53% all-run success). The method employs a Consistency Analyzer to identify unstable trajectory steps and a Guideline Generator to convert diagnoses into episodic memory, injected into future executions. Evaluations show +16pp improvement in all-run success for same-task evaluation and +13pp for similar-task generalization.
consistency gapself-evolving agentepisodic memorytrajectory analysisguideline generation
Hi-FLoop: Hierarchical State-Feedback Loops for Multi-Timescale World Modeling
HI-FLOOP introduces a hierarchical state-feedback framework for multi-timescale world modeling in multi-agent traffic simulation, addressing cross-scale consistency via eight scene-level Worlds that anchor joint hypotheses over 8-second rollouts. The method decomposes decision-making into 8-second Goal, 2-second Preview, and 1-second Control layers, with 0.5-second feedback commits and a Joint Preview Interaction (JPI) mechanism for sparse future graphs. A prefix-frozen cascade enables state recovery without latent transfer. On the H-D public-validation split (955 scenarios), HI-FLOOP achieves an Overall score of 0.689987, with oracle-minADE@8 of 1.196636 m (8s) and 0.526 m (6s).
multi-agent simulationhierarchical state-feedbackjoint preview interactionprefix-frozen cascadeoracle-minade
Evidence-Grounded Retrieval for Investigation Hunt Lead Generation from CTI Reports
AHLERT introduces an automated system for generating actionable hunt leads from Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports, addressing limitations of existing methods that lack environmental awareness and isolated analysis. The system employs (i) a hybrid retriever combining dense vector search with multi-hop knowledge graph traversal (seeded with MITRE ATT&CK), (ii) ontology-grounding retrieval-augmented generation to tailor leads to defender assets, and (iii) an LLM-agnostic framework emitting structured leads. Evaluation on APT-related CTI reports shows hybrid retrieval with ontology grounding improves mean F1 from 0.44 to 0.85 versus flat-RAG baselines, achieving 86.95% effectiveness across proprietary and open-weight models.
hybrid retrieverontology-groundingmulti-hop traversalmitre att&ckretrieval-augmented generation
Silent Revision: Measuring Undisclosed Change in the Safety Frameworks of Frontier AI Developers
The study introduces the silent revision rate, a metric quantifying undisclosed changes in AI safety frameworks, using a versioned corpus of 12 developers' documents with 710 commitment instances. Researchers coded changes against a frozen codebook, adjudicating 244 instances, finding 67% of material changes were silent (95% CI 62-72). Silent revisions disproportionately weakened commitments (77%) and varied by disclosure format (74% for narratives vs. 63% for itemized changelogs). The authors advocate for enumeration duties to improve auditability, noting one provider already meets this standard incompletely.
silent revision ratesafety frameworkscommitment instancesenumeration dutyauditability
Adaptive Anisotropic Attention for Axis-Structured Signals
The paper introduces Adaptive Anisotropic Attention (AAA), a novel attention mechanism designed for structured, low SNR signals like EEG. AAA splits attention into temporal and spatial paths: the temporal path attends to tokens of the same electrode across time, while the spatial path attends to tokens of other electrodes at the same time step. A gate predicts a convex combination of the two paths' outputs. Evaluated on six EEG downstream tasks, the AXON model improves mean balanced accuracy over dense baselines under both linear probing and full fine-tuning. Controlled experiments on audio spectrograms demonstrate the transferability of axis factorization beyond EEG.
adaptive anisotropic attentionaxis factorizationtemporal pathspatial pathinductive bias
It's All in the Way You Say It: The Role of Information Representation in LLM-Based Glycemic-Event Prediction
This study demonstrates that the effectiveness of prompt-based Large Language Models (LLMs) in glycemic-event prediction depends critically on the representation of physiological information. Using the OhioT1DM dataset, the authors evaluate zero-shot and few-shot inference across multiple open-weight LLMs for postprandial hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia prediction at 30, 60, and 90-minute horizons. Performance is compared against conventional supervised models and Gluco-LLM, a specialized glucose forecasting architecture. Results show that conventional models excel in hyperglycemia prediction, while optimized prompt-based LLMs improve hypoglycemia prediction across all horizons. The study highlights that physiological information representation significantly influences prompt-based inference, whereas additional contextual variables do not consistently enhance performance.
large language modelsglycemic-event predictionzero-shot inferencefew-shot inferencephysiological information representation
Benchmark Scores Are Pipeline-Dependent: A Reliability Audit of Cybersecurity LLM Benchmarks
The study demonstrates that cybersecurity LLM benchmark scores exhibit significant pipeline-dependency, with evaluation configurations substantially impacting model rankings. By auditing eight cybersecurity benchmarks across 10 LLMs (including proprietary, open-weight, and specialized models) and modeling benchmarks as measurement pipelines, the authors identify 15 systematic failure modes. Key findings show that pipeline choices can alter model scores by >80 percentage points and cause rank shifts (≥3 positions for 9/10 models under standardized evaluation), revealing incompatibilities in evaluation conventions across semantically similar tasks. The work advocates pipeline-aware auditing for reliable model evaluation.
llm benchmarkspipeline-dependencyevaluation harnesssystematic failure modesmodel rankings
Kairos: A Dataset for Fine-Grained Video-Language Modeling over Space, Time, and Dynamics
The paper introduces Kairos, a video dataset designed for fine-grained video-language modeling with time-resolved annotations. The dataset features long-duration videos (10-30 minutes) annotated with precise temporal alignment, capturing actions, entity attributes, interactions, and contextual evolution. This structure enables fine-grained evaluation, long-range reasoning, instruction data construction, representation learning, and video generation. Kairos addresses limitations in existing datasets, which often rely on coarse or sparsely aligned supervision, by providing a foundation for modeling continuous visual dynamics over extended time horizons.
video-language modelingtemporal alignmentrepresentation learninglong-range reasoningvideo generation
When Can One Obtain Certificates of Optimality Using Positivstellensaetze?
The paper introduces a framework for deriving certificates of positivity and optimality in learning problems with non-polynomial objectives and constraints, based on an axiomatic core of Fischer's Positivstellensätze. The method separates function construction from certificate generation, allowing broad classes of continuous or definable operations for objectives/constraints while enforcing explicit scalar and closure axioms for auxiliary primitives. Results include instances over continuous/definable function algebras, lower-bound/optimality certificates, and analysis of term length and computation-graph complexity in non-square-root-closed ordered fields.
positivstellensätzeoptimality certificatesfunction algebrasdefinable operationscomputation-graph complexity
Application of curiosity driven exploration methods for hardware interference identification
Proposes curiosity-driven exploration algorithms to systematically identify inter-core interference in multi-core embedded systems, addressing challenges in verifying temporal requirements for safety-critical applications. The method frames interference analysis as behavior space exploration, using AI-driven techniques to surpass traditional pseudo-random program generation in coverage. Experiments in a simulator-based environment demonstrate broader and more uniform coverage of micro-architectural interference behaviors within constrained experimental budgets.
multi-core interferencecuriosity-driven explorationmicro-architectural componentsbehavior space coveragesafety-critical systems
GoAnt: Quality-Diversity Multi-Agent Search for Alpha Factor Discovery in Market Microstructure Data
GoAnt introduces a quality-diversity multi-agent search framework for alpha factor discovery in market microstructure data, addressing overfitting and redundancy in existing methods. The system employs non-communicating Explorer, Exploiter, and Connector agents with a shared Mental Map and Queen dispatcher, organizing candidates by execution profiles and reallocating evaluation budgets. On 2023–2026 A-share data, GoAnt achieves quality-weighted yields of 41.8 (price-volume) and 47.6 (order-book), outperforming baselines by 57% and 97%, with out-of-sample quality retention of 0.64–0.67.
alpha factor discoveryquality-diversity searchmarket microstructuremulti-agent systemexecution profiles
Hyperparameter Scaling Laws Across MoE Sparsity
The study establishes hyperparameter scaling laws for ultra-sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, demonstrating that conventional scaling laws fail due to activation-ratio-dependent shifts in optimal learning rates and batch sizes. Through 1,800 pre-training runs (up to 6B non-embedding parameters, 20T tokens, 200k H800 GPU-hours), the authors identify two scaling regimes: batch size follows a power-law with training tokens, while learning rate scales with compute and remains robust to model-data allocation. Unified laws incorporating activation ratio as a multiplicative factor outperform alternatives, validated on a 12B-parameter MoE with 1/64 expert activation. Results generalize across expert granularities and isolate activation ratio effects.
mixture-of-expertshyperparameter scalingsparsityactivation ratiopower-law
CausalChapter: Improving Long-Video Chaptering with Interventional Dependency Modeling
CausalChapter introduces an intervention-based framework for long-video chaptering, addressing boundary error propagation and fragmented context in segment-then-caption pipelines. The method employs a Local Dependency Shift module to detect predictive dependency drops for boundary localization and a Cross-Segment Support Selection module to rerank historical contexts for chapter description generation. Evaluations on long-video benchmarks demonstrate improvements in boundary localization accuracy, chapter description quality, and cross-chapter coherence compared to existing approaches.
long-video chapteringinterventional dependencyboundary localizationcontext rerankingpredictive dependency
Neither Adversarial Training Nor Purification: Emergent Adversarial Robustness from Oscillatory Predictive Learning
The paper introduces Oscillatory Predictive Learning (OPL), a two-stage framework combining Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN) with X-PhiNet-based predictive self-supervised pretraining to achieve adversarial robustness without adversarial training or purification. OPL leverages architectural and representation-learning biases, using randomized initial oscillator states for defense. Evaluated under AutoAttack-rand (EoT K=20, ℓ∞ ε=8/255), OPL achieves 76.63±0.76% and 50.44% robust accuracy on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, respectively, with additional corruption robustness tested on CIFAR-10-C.
adversarial robustnessoscillatory neuronsself-supervised learningautoattackinductive biases
BIFTA: Brain-Inspired Few-Shot Tactile Adaptation for Unknown Sensors
The Brain-Inspired Few-Shot Tactile Adaptation (BIFTA) framework enables rapid adaptation of pretrained tactile models to unknown sensor types using minimal labeled data. BIFTA employs dual-view statistical memory to preserve pretrained representations, support-conditioned spectral graphs to repair sensor-dependent feature neighborhoods, and uncertainty-gated recurrent propagation to strengthen cross-query evidence. Evaluations on three tactile datasets show BIFTA improves mean Sparsh accuracy from 6.86% to 87.09% with only 10% labeled target data, outperforming prior methods by 47.22 percentage points, while generalizing across datasets, backbones, and tasks.
tactile adaptationfew-shot learningsensor transferspectral graphsuncertainty-gated propagation
X2Streaming-ASR: wait when uncertain, emit when ready for streaming ASR
X2Streaming-ASR introduces a streaming ASR system that optimizes when to commit partial transcripts by decomposing recognition into commit timing and content decisions. The method employs a three-stage training procedure: initial streaming capability establishment, commit policy warm-starting via probed trajectories, and policy refinement using character-level group-relative rewards for accuracy-latency tradeoffs. Evaluated on AISHELL-1/2/3 and WenetSpeech, it reduces mean commit latency to 27-84 ms (vs. 409-585 ms in baselines) while achieving state-of-the-art streaming CER on AISHELL-1/3.
streaming asrcommit latencycharacter-level rewardshard-commit constraintgroup-relative optimization
MoEMB: Scaling Universal Multimodal Embeddings with Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Models
MoEMB introduces a mixture-of-experts (MoE) approach to scale universal multimodal embeddings (UME), addressing redundancy in computation while maintaining single-vector encoding. The method systematically explores MoE-based UME design and training, achieving state-of-the-art performance on MMEB-V2 and MRMR benchmarks with only 3B active parameters, outperforming Think-Then-Embed methods using fewer computations. Adaptive computation strategies for MoE-based embeddings are also investigated, enhancing scalability for large-scale retrieval and recommendation systems.
universal multimodal embeddingsmixture-of-expertscontrastive learningadaptive computationlarge-scale retrieval
TriCCOT: Tri-part Convolutional Conformal Transformer for Onboard Space Object Detection
The authors propose TriCCOT, a tri-part convolutional conformal transformer for onboard space object detection, addressing computational constraints and uncorrected imagery challenges. The architecture combines a convolutional region proposal network, conformal prediction for probabilistic bounding box enlargement, and Aper-GATES—a hardware-friendly attention classifier using convolutional projections and gating instead of standard transformer operations. Evaluated on DIOR and VDVRaw datasets, TriCCOT shows competitive detection performance, robustness to spatial blur and signal-dependent noise, and successful deployment on a Xilinx Versal VCK190 FPGA without DPU modifications.
onboard object detectionconformal predictionfpga deploymenthardware-friendly attentionspaceborne embedded systems
Difficulty-Adaptive Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Expanding Reasoning Coverage in RLVR
The paper introduces DATPO (Difficulty-Adaptive Sentence-entropy-guided Tree-structured Policy Optimization), a method to enhance reasoning coverage (pass@k) in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) by optimizing train-time rollouts. DATPO employs difficulty-adaptive tree search with a sibling-diversity advantage term, addressing limitations in exploration by prioritizing semantic diversity through sentence-entropy-guided forking. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks show DATPO outperforms baselines in pass@k, improving test-time scaling performance.
rlvrpass@ktree-structured policy optimizationsemantic diversitysentence-entropy-guided forking
SUN: Reaching for Novelty in Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces SUccessor-to-Novelty (SUN), a reachability-aware goal-selection framework for reinforcement learning that jointly optimizes novelty and reachability. SUN derives an indicator from successor value functions to identify novel yet reachable goals, theoretically recovering count-based bonuses, bounding hitting probabilities, and rejecting unreachable goals. The method includes an adaptive goal-selection strategy and a lightweight pseudocount to avoid computational overhead. Evaluations show SUN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in environments with unreachable states, obstacles, mazes, and unbounded spaces.
reinforcement learninggoal-conditioned rlsuccessor value functionsnovelty explorationreachability
CASD: Chunk-Aligned Semantic Distillation for Multi-StageRobot Manipulation
The paper introduces Chunk-Aligned Semantic Distillation (CASD), a method for generating semantic targets spanning multi-stage robot manipulation tasks. CASD uses an offline vision-language model to segment demonstrations into stages, then computes weighted semantic targets for action chunks based on stage occupancy. A frozen generator predicts these targets from observations, state, and instructions, enabling policy conditioning without online VLM calls. Evaluations on LIBERO, RoboTwin 2.0, and MolmoSpaces show improvements: IDM+CASD achieves 98.9% vs. 98.0% on LIBERO, Joint+CASD reaches 93.0% vs. 90.6% on RoboTwin 2.0, and DreamZero+CASD attains 47.9% vs. 40.7% on MolmoSpaces.
chunk-aligned semantic distillationmulti-stage manipulationvision-language modelpolicy conditioningoffline distillation
From Where to How: Continuous 4D Interaction Forecasting from Egocentric Video
The paper introduces Coherent4D, a 233K-sample egocentric dataset for continuous 4D interaction forecasting, pairing future 3D interaction locations with corresponding full-body poses in shared coordinates. It proposes HIGFlow, a Hand Interaction Guided Residual Flow framework that cascades 'where-to-how' forecasting: first predicting interaction locations via semantic grounding and visual dynamics, then conditioning Flow Matching on these to generate diverse yet structurally consistent body motions. Experiments across three domains show HIGFlow outperforms baselines in both location and pose forecasting, with ablations validating component contributions.
egocentric vision4d interaction forecastingflow matchingresidual dynamicscontinuous localization
Suan: Rectifying Direct Preference Safety Alignment in Large Language Models
The paper introduces Suan, a novel preference optimization algorithm for safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) that addresses over-refusal and quality degradation in open-weight models. Unlike variational approaches, Suan formulates the optimization objective at the gradient level, yielding more interpretable and robust training dynamics. Evaluations across competitive baselines and benchmarks show Suan achieves superior safety alignment while preserving response utility.
large language modelspreference optimizationsafety alignmentgradient-level optimizationover-refusal
SynthRCT: Scalable Conditional Deformation Synthesis for Synthetic Repeat CT Generation
SynthRCT introduces a scalable conditional generative framework for synthesizing 3D anatomical deformations in CT data, addressing limitations of simplified perturbations in proton therapy planning. The method employs a conditional variational autoencoder to learn a latent deformation space, decoding sampled latent codes into local stationary velocity fields conditioned on input anatomy. These fields are assembled into coherent full-volume transformations, enabling memory-efficient generation for large CT datasets. Validation on respiratory 4DCT data demonstrates patient-specific sampling of plausible anatomical variations beyond predefined scenarios.
conditional variational autoencoder3d anatomical deformationstationary velocity fieldsproton therapy4dct data
Leveraging contextual events on structure-aware next activity prediction
The paper introduces an Instance Graph-based approach for next activity prediction in predictive process monitoring, explicitly encoding contextual information through multiple strategies. The method generates prefix-Instance Graphs for each encoding strategy and employs a Graph Neural Network for classification. Evaluation on real-world event logs shows that incorporating contextual process instances improves prediction performance.
predictive process monitoringnext activity predictioninstance graphsgraph neural networkcontextual information
Neptune: An AI model for Global Ocean Subseasonal Prediction
Neptune introduces an end-to-end data-driven framework for global ocean and sea-ice emulation at subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) timescales (up to 60 days), addressing computational inefficiencies of traditional Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs). The model combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Spherical Fourier Neural Operators (SFNOs) to capture local features and global cross-scale interactions, emulating ocean state variables (e.g., temperature, salinity, currents) at 1° (Neptune-1) or 0.25° (Neptune-025) resolution. Evaluation across metrics (RMSE, CRPS, ACC, ENSO, IOD) demonstrates stable spatio-temporal emulation up to 60 days, supporting its potential for next-generation S2S forecasting.
subseasonal-to-seasonalocean general circulation modelsspherical fourier neural operatorseddy kinetic energyenso
CLAMP: Constrained Decoding for Vision-Language Embodied Planning
CLAMP introduces a multimodal constraint-grounding framework for vision-language embodied planning, addressing fluent but infeasible plans generated by frozen VLMs. The method employs scene evidence to create decoding-time constraints via hard masking of invalid tokens and an HMM-based world-state lookahead module that reweights feasible candidates using action preconditions and goal reachability. Evaluations on VLABench, SafeAgentBench, and TaPA demonstrate improved object grounding and safety, with failures primarily due to perception errors or misaligned constraints.
vision-language modelsconstrained decodinghidden markov modelaffordancesembodied planning
Graph-Based Personalized Memory for LLM Agents: Representation, Evolution, Retrieval, and Evaluation
The survey systematizes graph-based personalized memory for LLM agents by proposing a lifecycle-oriented framework encompassing representation, evolution, retrieval, and evaluation. It analyzes structured memory models that encode user preferences, temporal context, and relational evidence to enable adaptive, long-term personalization. The study synthesizes fragmented literature, compares design choices, and identifies open challenges in building reliable personalized agents, emphasizing the need for controllable and user-centric memory systems.
llm agentsgraph-based memorypersonalizationmemory retrievaltemporal context
A Three-Tier Persona Vector for Controllable User Simulation in Agentic Evaluation
We propose a three-tier persona vector for controllable user simulation in agentic evaluation, addressing limitations of flat role descriptions. The model comprises 23 dimensions: 6 categorical demographics, 12 continuous behavioral traits sampled with Gaussian noise, and 5 scenario-reactive emotional states, orthogonal to a 4-level query-complexity overlay. Evaluated across 64,698 multi-turn conversations spanning 8 profiles and 3 corpora, results show: (i) a 15.8 percentage-point spread in agent goal-achievement across personas; (ii) scenario-reactive emotional shifts produce distinct behaviors; (iii) domain-specific sensitivity with 15-20 percentage-point gaps in booking-flow compliance; (iv) auditable trait correlations without learned covariance matrices.
persona vectorscenario-reactivequery-complexitygaussian noisetrait correlations
The Unreliable Progress Bar: Can LLM Agents Reliably Report Task Progress Throughout Execution?
The study systematically evaluates the reliability of large language models (LLMs) in reporting task progress throughout execution, identifying stage-dependent inconsistencies. Using $τ^2$-bench and StageIF, a controlled testbed with checkpoint reporting, the authors assess models at multiple task stages. Results show reliability varies by stage: most models lose accuracy mid-task but recover post-completion, while newer models exhibit conservative behavior near task completion. The work highlights a capability gap in progress reporting and proposes a comprehensive evaluation protocol, cautioning against reliance on model-reported states for agent task control.
large language modelstask-progress reportingagent frameworksevaluation protocolreliability
Leveraging Cardiac Imaging to Improve ECG-Based Detection of Chagas Disease in Resource-Constrained Settings
The study introduces a contrastive pre-training method to transfer cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)-derived structural knowledge to electrocardiography (ECG) for improved Chagas disease detection in resource-constrained settings. Using 63,193 paired ECG-CMR examinations from the UK Biobank, the authors align an ECG encoder with a clinically grounded CMR embedding space via an asymmetric InfoNCE objective. The resulting representation, despite no exposure to Chagas cases during pre-training, enhances ECG-based detection, achieving AUROCs of 0.851 (vs. 0.827 baseline) on CODE-15% and SaMi-Trop datasets and top performance on the PhysioNet/CinC 2025 Challenge test set.
contrastive pre-trainingelectrocardiographycardiac magnetic resonanceasymmetric infoncechagas disease
Do New Attention Mechanisms Actually Fix Attention Sinks at Million-Token Context?
The paper investigates whether novel attention mechanisms (gated attention, Kimi Delta Attention, Attention Residuals) effectively mitigate attention sinks in million-token-context models. Using SinkProbe—a diagnostic suite measuring sink mass, massive activation, position-resolved recall, and recency gap—the authors evaluate four architecturally similar small models. Key findings: (1) attention sinks originate from training objectives, not architecture; (2) gated attention’s published efficacy (46.7% → 4.8% first-token attention) failed to replicate at scale; (3) sink mass, activations, and position bias vary independently. Code and metrics are open-sourced.
attention sinksgated attentionposition-resolved recallkimi delta attentionrecency gap
AgentGrad: Intervention-guided Prompt Optimization for Multi Agent Systems
AgentGrad introduces intervention-guided prompt optimization for LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS), addressing limitations in gradient extraction and aggregation. The method employs sequential intervention to identify target agents whose modification resolves failures, using their outputs as agent-level supervision for fine-grained gradients. Semantic textual gradient abstraction clusters similar gradients to avoid mixing unrelated failure modes. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on five MAS benchmarks and a 2.5× reduction in wall-clock optimization time versus baselines.
multi-agent systemsprompt optimizationtextual gradientintervention-guidedsemantic abstraction
BIO-MEMART: Biometric-Aware KV Cache Memory for Multi-User LLM Agents
Bio-MemArt introduces biometric access control for shared KV-cache memory in multi-user LLM agents, addressing unauthorized memory reuse via physical-user authentication. The framework attaches biometric templates to KV blocks, filters memory retrieval by live user probes, and preserves MemArt's efficiency (latent-space retrieval, cache reuse, decoupled position encoding). Evaluated on long-term dialogue QA with face/palmprint benchmarks, it achieves 95.71%/97.60% owner success rates and 0.86%/2.00% non-owner rates, reducing prefill tokens from 18,781.96 to 28.57 versus full-context prompting.
kv-cachebiometric authenticationmulti-agent llmmemory retrievalaccess control
Personalizing LLM Agent Memory Using Biometrics
Bio-Memory introduces a biometric-aware memory architecture for LLM agents, enabling personalized assistance by conditioning memory retrieval on both semantic similarity and biometric matching. Built atop A-Mem, it augments atomic memory notes with biometric embeddings and employs biometric matching to form retrieval candidate pools prior to semantic ranking. Evaluated on LoCoMo in a 10-user shared-agent setting across 7 face benchmarks and 10 palmprint protocols, Bio-Memory consistently distinguishes owner and non-owner queries, achieving F1/BLEU-1 gaps of 27.29%/21.15% on CALFW (face) and 25.75%/19.22% on MS_Blue (palmprint). Results validate biometrics as an effective control signal for personalized memory retrieval in shared environments.
biometric-aware memorysemantic similaritybiometric matchingatomic memory noteretrieval candidate pool
Same Values, Different Languages? From Multilingual Probing to Steering LLMs Toward Chinese Social Values
The study introduces C-Voices, a multilingual contrastive probe dataset (86,400 instances in six languages) for evaluating Chinese Social Values (CSV) alignment in LLMs, revealing model-dependent and language-sensitive value preferences. It proposes a fine-tuning-free value vector steering method that derives intervention directions from hidden-state discrepancies and targets value-sensitive layers during inference. Experiments demonstrate effective CSV steering, cross-lingual value vector transfer, and generalization to FLAMES and ValuePrism benchmarks.
multilingual probingvalue alignmentcontrastive datasethidden-state interventioncross-lingual transfer
SRPO: Setwise Relative Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs
The paper introduces SRPO (Setwise Relative Policy Optimization), a reinforcement learning method for multi-agent LLMs that optimizes sets of outputs jointly responsible for state transitions, rather than individual responses. SRPO combines member log-ratios into a cardinality-normalized set ratio, assigns a single relative advantage, and clips the set once, unifying division of labor and joint co-evolution. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and multi-turn search tasks show SRPO's effectiveness across four model scales, achieving the strongest macro-average results among compared methods. Optimization diagnostics confirm its stability under varying event reductions and set sizes.
multi-agent llmsreinforcement learningsetwise optimizationrelative advantagepolicy gradient
SequenceO1: End-to-End Ultra-Long (100K) Sequence Modeling in Recommendation with Low-Rank Caching
SequenceO1 introduces an end-to-end framework for ultra-long (100K) user behavior sequence modeling in recommendation systems, addressing latency, memory, and training constraints. The method employs Sketch Attention (SA) for target-agnostic user representation compression and Stacked Target-to-History Cross Attention (STCA) for modeling short-term (10K) and long-term preferences. It integrates low-rank user representation caching, multi-request batching, and fused FlashSA kernel optimization to reduce storage, communication, and computation overhead. Deployed on Douyin, SequenceO1 demonstrates consistent offline and online performance improvements, validating its scalability and efficiency in handling long-sequence recommendations.
sketch attentionstacked target-to-history cross attentionlow-rank cachingsequence modelingrecommendation systems
AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
AirAnchor introduces a novel paradigm for zero-shot aerial vision-and-language navigation by bridging local and global spatial information through spatial anchors. The method comprises three components: Query-Driven Spatial Anchor Grounding for local spatial representations, Persistent Object Spatial Memory for global spatial priors, and a Spatially-Informed Navigation Agent integrating both scales for decision-making. Evaluations on AerialVLN demonstrate significant performance improvements over existing zero-shot baselines, validating the framework's effectiveness and efficiency.
spatial anchorszero-shot navigationaerial vision-and-language navigationspatial memorydecision-making
EvolveScaler: Synthesizing Information-Evolution Contexts via Executable State Machines and Natural-Language Rendering
EvolveScaler introduces a code-driven framework for synthesizing information-evolution (IE) contexts, where state transitions and answer logic are explicitly defined via executable specifications before natural-language rendering. The method employs human-authored operational specs to generate self-contained simulators via LLMs, producing multi-turn event histories with deterministic replay for reference answers. Evaluations on 117 task prototypes (35,100 training examples) show models struggle (59.3% avg@5 for top performer, <10% for six models), while training an A3B model on 6,000 EvolveScaler examples yields a 5.25-point average gain on eight OOD benchmarks.
information evolutionexecutable specificationsstate transitionsdeterministic replayout-of-distribution benchmarks
Feyospace-v1: How the Cyber Mercury Seven Trained Frontier Cyber Models
The paper introduces Feyospace-v1, a data-centric framework enabling small teams to train open-weight cyber agents by addressing key bottlenecks in post-training. The system combines five components: Choulea (reasoning signature analysis), SkyReal (teacher-sampling cost reduction), Hongzwang (API bypass for teacher execution), PSBreakup (capability restoration post-merging), and Kreator (intervention-to-reasoning conversion). It generates 164,269 verified trajectories across diverse cyber environments for supervised fine-tuning. The resulting checkpoints improve baseline performance by 23.76% on CyberGym and 10.49% on pooled CTF suites, achieving 63.24% verified success rate and top-10 leaderboard ranking among comparable-scale models.
post-trainingreasoning signaturesexecution verificationcapability restorationopen-weight
FastE: Readout-Triggered Token Compression for LLM Embedding Inference
FastE introduces a training-free token compression method for LLM embedding inference by exploiting depth-dependent prefix redundancy. It uses batch-mean readout-prefix alignment thresholds and attention-score-based ranking to selectively retain prefix states in deeper layers. Evaluations on Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B show 40.11% FLOPs reduction with 99.53% nDCG@10 retention on NarrativeQA, maintaining customizable quality-efficiency trade-offs across five text embedding benchmarks and three cross-modal tasks.
token compressionprefix redundancyreadout-prefix alignmentattention scoresembedding inference
Environments as Scaffold: Enriching Feedback to Bootstrap Self-Evolving Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks
The paper introduces Feedback-Enriched Environments (FEEs), a paradigm shifting from agent-side warming to environment-side adaptation for training LLM-based agents in long-horizon tasks. FEEs reformulate environments by transitioning from action guidance to observation enrichment during later stages of intra-episode exploration and inter-episode evolution. Experiments on SciWorld and BFCL benchmarks with Qwen3 models and RL algorithms (GRPO, GSPO, DAPO) show FEEs improve performance, stabilize training dynamics (reducing entropy volatility), enhance state-space exploration, internalize environmental guidance into policy weights, and identify intra-group feedback consistency as critical for stable optimization.
feedback-enriched environmentslong-horizon tasksreinforcement learningobservation enrichmentpolicy weights
Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method
We introduce AGOS-Bench, the first benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in Air-Ground Object Search (AGOS) tasks, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) cooperatively search for and verify target vehicles. AGOS-Dataset, comprising 7.7k episodes across diverse object categories and three difficulty levels, supports this benchmark. We propose AGOS-Agent, a training-free, tool-augmented method that simplifies UAV-UGV coordination via a search-handoff-verify protocol, leveraging VLMs for scene understanding and decision-making. Experiments on nine VLMs demonstrate AGOS-Agent's efficacy, improving success rates for eight models and reducing decision steps across all, with Gemini-3.6-Flash showing significant gains in success rate (8.6% to 55.7%) and success path length (7.6% to 44.0%) on the hard split.
vision-language modelsunmanned aerial vehicleunmanned ground vehiclecooperative searchscene understanding
Noise Adaptive Streaming Audio-Visual Speech Token Enhancement for Robust Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models
We introduce AV-STE, a modular streaming audio-visual front-end that enhances corrupted semantic speech tokens from noisy audio and lip video for robust full-duplex spoken dialogue systems. AV-STE operates independently of the downstream speech LLM, preserving its pretrained conversational capabilities without costly multimodal retraining. When integrated with frozen Moshi, AV-STE improves average GPT-4o-judged response coherence from 1.42 to 1.91 under same-dataset speaker interference while maintaining turn-taking behavior. Performance gains generalize to out-of-domain Seamless Interaction.
audio-visual speechsemantic tokensfull-duplex dialoguemodular front-endspeech llm
Equivariance Breaks the Learning Rate
The study identifies a learning rate mismatch in equivariant networks due to Adam optimizer's uniform rescaling across irreducible representation (irrep) blocks, where gradients have rank at most $2l+1$. The authors propose block-normalized updates, preserving Adam's moment estimates while aligning step sizes per block without new hyperparameters. Experiments on an $\mathrm{SO}(3)$-equivariant toy model and e3nn interatomic potentials (rMD17, MD22) show block normalization mitigates width-dependent performance gaps. Combining it with tuned momentum coefficients makes Adam competitive with Muon, suggesting Muon's advantage stems from blockwise step control and momentum handling.
equivariant networksadam optimizerirreducible representationslearning rate mismatchmomentum tuning
IPM-FM: A Foundation Model with Consensus Feature Selection for Industrial Process Monitoring
IPM-FM introduces a foundation model for industrial process monitoring, addressing label inefficiency and operating drift via self-supervised pretraining and task adaptation. The model combines an Informer backbone with consensus feature selection, recursive lag-feature regression, and Monte Carlo dropout for uncertainty calibration. Evaluated on a 7-year hydrotreater dataset for diesel flash-point soft sensing, IPM-FM achieves RMSE 2.99, R² 0.50, and 97% coverage of 95% predictive intervals, outperforming classical and from-scratch baselines by 8.3% and 14.6% in RMSE respectively.
foundation modelindustrial process monitoringself-supervised learninguncertainty calibrationsoft sensing
Segment Any Motion with Radar: Robust Multimodal Moving-Object Segmentation and Tracking
The paper introduces RGBTR-Motion, a synchronized benchmark pairing RGB, thermal, and radar streams with dense instance masks and temporally consistent identities for moving-object segmentation and tracking. It proposes SAM-Radar, a multimodal framework that fuses RGBT features with radar returns via a radar-aware detector, using motion supervision for clutter rejection and radar-based trajectory association to handle occlusions. SAM-Radar achieves 0.7027 IoU and 0.8090 F1-50, improving MOTA, HOTA, and IDF1 by 0.2977, 0.1603, and 0.2857 over baselines.
multimodal segmentationradar-aware detectionmotion supervisioninstance trackingocclusion handling
RoboCousin: Build Your Own Simulation Playground for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
RoboCousin introduces an extensible simulation platform for generating diverse training data for bimanual robotic manipulation. Built on RoboTwin 2.0, it converts object images into simulation-ready assets with visual and collision geometry, semantic metadata, and grasp-contact candidates, enabling the creation of digital cousins with varied objects, backgrounds, layouts, and language instructions. The platform supports tabletop and room-level scene construction, generating over one million expert trajectories across 50 tasks. Experiments demonstrate that automatically generated annotations match curated ones, assets provide effective sim-to-real supervision, and tabletop cousins enhance transfer beyond single-scene training. RoboCousin-OBD, released with 3,000 annotated objects and 50 environments, facilitates scalable synthetic data generation.
bimanual manipulationsimulation platformsim-to-realgrasp-contact candidatesdigital cousins
A Multi-Modal Perception Pipeline for Object Detection and Tracking in Autonomous Racing
The authors propose a multi-modal late-fusion perception pipeline for robust object detection and tracking in autonomous racing scenarios. The system integrates independent detections from cameras, LiDARs, and RADARs through a late-fusion approach, coupled with a dedicated multi-object tracking framework that compensates for detection delays and incorporates prior knowledge of vehicle dynamics and track layout. Evaluated on real-world data across diverse critical scenarios, the pipeline demonstrates effectiveness in supporting safe and adaptive planning decisions, particularly under adverse conditions such as high speeds, vibrations, and limited visibility.
late-fusionmulti-object trackingautonomous racingperception pipelinevehicle dynamics
Tracing Stereotypes from Representation to Output in Multilingual LLMs
The study investigates internal mechanisms of stereotype propagation in multilingual LLMs (Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen3-8B, Gemma-2-9B) by comparing linear probing, attribution patching, sparse autoencoders, and feature ablation. Results show probe performance peaks 36-53% earlier in model depth than attribution, with only 6-18% of residual-stream features exhibiting language-agnostic effects under strict criteria. Retained Llama-Scope features often align with selected social categories but show variable lexical alignment and ablation effects across SAE suites, demonstrating decodability, output influence, and cross-lingual effects require separate measurement.
multilingual llmssparse autoencodersresidual-stream featureslinear probingattribution patching
AttnCompress: Dynamic Attention-Guided Trajectory Compression for Software Engineering Agents
AttnCompress introduces a dynamic attention-guided trajectory compression framework for Autonomous Software Engineering agents, addressing context window bottlenecks while preserving semantic dependencies and syntactic details. The method employs structure-aware segmentation via perplexity spikes, proxy attention weights for relevance estimation, and a dynamic rolling window to adapt to evolving tasks. Evaluations on SWE-Bench-Verified and Multi-SWE-Bench show a 53.17% pass rate, with 21.6% reduced token consumption and 33.6% lower costs, while maintaining model-agnostic generalization across programming languages.
autonomous software engineeringcontext compressionattention-guidedperplexity spikesdynamic rolling window
Exploring Bottom-Up Clustering for Creating Semantic IDs
The authors propose a bottom-up clustering algorithm for generating Semantic IDs that ensure uniqueness and preserve embedding space structure, addressing challenges in generative retrieval. Key innovations include local structure preservation via hierarchical clustering and deduplication through appended codewords. The method improves clustering quality and downstream utility compared to prior approaches using residual quantization or arbitrary identifiers.
semantic idsgenerative retrievalbottom-up clusteringresidual quantizationembedding preservation
A Measurement Study of LLM Inference Trade-offs Across Edge Continuum Hardware
The study conducts a systematic measurement of LLM inference trade-offs across edge continuum hardware, comparing NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and CPU/GPU-enabled near-edge servers against GPT-4o as a cloud reference. Using a fixed question-answering workload, it evaluates open-weight LLMs and quantization variants, measuring accuracy, latency (prefill and per-token), model footprint, and energy consumption. Results indicate GPU-enabled servers achieve lowest compute-side latency, while Jetson Orin exhibits lower energy use; CPU-only execution underperforms in both metrics. Parameter count and weight-file size poorly predict accuracy/latency, and Pareto analysis reveals compute-side metrics alone may misguide deployment for latency-sensitive services.
edge computingllm inferencequantizationpareto-frontier analysisenergy-latency tradeoff
FPicker: Topology-Guided Evolution for Filament Tracing in Low-SNR Microscopy
FPicker introduces a topology-guided framework for filament tracing in Cryo-EM, addressing challenges from intersecting topologies and low SNR (< 0.1). The method combines a center-endpoint representation with open-curve evolution to model non-cyclic connectivity explicitly, avoiding pitfalls of pixel-wise segmentation and traditional active contours. On simulated benchmarks, FPicker achieves a 40% relative gain in mean spatio-angular precision (mSAP) and reduces topological gap rates by 60% under -20 dB noise. Zero-shot evaluation on EMPIAR shows 82.9% mSAP after fine-tuning, demonstrating robust sim-to-real transfer through physical prior modeling.
filament tracingcryo-emtopology-guidedsignal-to-noise ratiospatio-angular precision
LEBGen: An LLM-Enhanced Bayesian Network Framework for Few-Shot Travel Survey Data Generation
LEBGen introduces a novel LLM-enhanced Bayesian network framework for few-shot travel survey data generation, addressing limitations in existing probabilistic models and LLMs. The method leverages LLMs to identify traveler personas and refine Bayesian network structures by recovering missed dependencies and pruning spurious ones, while parameterizing the network exclusively from observed data. Evaluated on the 2022 Hong Kong Travel Characteristics Survey under a 2% few-shot setting, LEBGen reduces mean marginal Jensen-Shannon divergence from 0.0671 to 0.0091 and decreases mean absolute Cramer's V error by 14.3%, significantly enhancing distributional and dependency fidelity.
bayesian networksfew-shot learningtravel surveylarge language modelsjensen-shannon divergence
What Eviction Destroys: A Restore-Counterfactual Audit of Forgetting in Agent Memory
The study introduces restore-counterfactual auditing to distinguish irreversible information loss from recoverable retrieval failures in agent memory eviction. It evaluates FIFO, random, redundancy-aware, and LLM-importance eviction policies on LongMemEval-S using GPT-4o-mini and GPT-5.4-mini as readers, across three token budgets and two retrieval regimes. Results show that at an 80k-token budget, irreversible error shares range from 0.67-0.73 for FIFO, random, and redundancy-aware eviction, compared to 0.60 for LLM-importance. At 8k tokens, irreversible errors reach 1.00 for all policies. The method detects no difference in irreversible rates among accuracy-matched policy pairs at a resolution of 1.2-6 percentage points.
restore-counterfactualeviction policiesirreversible losstoken budgetretrieval regimes
Beyond Coherence: Benchmarking Professional Editing-Technique Execution in Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation
The paper introduces CutCraft, the first benchmark for evaluating editing-technique execution in multi-shot audio-video generation, addressing the gap between coherence and professional editing semantics. The benchmark extends structured prompts with explicit editing specifications and employs a hierarchical hybrid evaluation framework combining shot-structure alignment, expert-model metrics, tool-grounded multimodal judgment, and rubric-based QA. Testing 13 state-of-the-art models reveals systematic failures in executing editorial instructions (e.g., J-cuts, L-cuts, transition timing), with unstable shot structures and weak control of transition execution, despite plausible outputs. A proposed agentic editing baseline explicitly decomposes generation into planning, synthesis, and composition phases.
multi-shot generationediting semanticshierarchical evaluationtransition controlmontage degradation
MemForest: Efficient Agent Memory Management via EventTree Partitioning and Progressive Merging
MemForest introduces an efficient memory compression framework for agent systems by partitioning historical memory into event-centric units via global semantic similarity and local temporal continuity, constructing EventTrees for each unit. It progressively merges redundant nodes using high-weight edges and employs anchor-guided propagation retrieval for improved accuracy. Experiments show MemForest retains 97.1% performance with 50% compression (1.89x speedup) in unimodal settings (LoCoMo, LongMemEval, PersonaMem) and 99.7% performance (2.24x speedup) in multimodal settings (M3-Bench-robot, M3-Bench-web).
memory compressioneventtreeanchor-guided retrievaltemporal continuitysemantic similarity
Three Types of Negation of Triple and its Elements and an Extension of Triple
The paper introduces TCOI triples, an extension of classical semantic triples that incorporates three forms of negation—contradictory, opposite, and intermediary—to enhance representation and reasoning with negative information. Using the set SCOI and logic LCOI+PLCOI, the authors structurally and semantically extend triples to independently apply negations to elements or the entire triple. The work demonstrates TCOI's expressive power through implication reasoning in counterfactuals, proposing a continuous-value algorithm for truth-value calculation with an example.
semantic triplecontradictory negationopposite negationintermediary negationcounterfactual reasoning
Synergistic Fusion of Topological Structure and Temporal Semantics of Mobility for Urban Region Embedding
The paper proposes Mobility Stream-Structure Synergy (MoSS), a novel urban region embedding method that captures temporal dynamics and topological persistence in human mobility data. MoSS derives complementary Sequence (hourly inflow/outflow profiles) and Structure (zigzag persistence diagrams of connectivity evolution) views, then models their higher-order interactions via a synergy module. Evaluated on New York City and Chicago, MoSS achieves state-of-the-art performance in crime, income, and service-call prediction tasks using only mobility data, outperforming multimodal baselines.
urban region embeddingzigzag persistencetemporal dynamicshigher-order interactionshuman mobility
Evidence-Aligned Entity Verification for Hallucination Detection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
We propose Evidence-Aligned Entity Verification (EAEV), a novel method for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based hallucination detection that addresses entity-level hallucinations by aligning generated entities with retrieved evidence contexts. EAEV evaluates entity-evidence alignment through three complementary dimensions and introduces counterfactual stability analysis to ensure robustness under evidence perturbations. Experiments across multiple RAG benchmarks demonstrate that EAEV achieves consistent improvements over existing methods, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities.
hallucination detectionretrieval-augmented generationentity verificationcounterfactual stabilityevidence alignment
Revoked but Still Authoritative: An Empirical Study of Revocation Enforcement in Agent-Memory Systems
We introduce a guard mechanism that prevents language-model agents from acting on revoked facts by intercepting memory retrievals, addressing a critical gap in revocation enforcement. Through empirical evaluation of five agent-memory systems across nine policy scenarios and nine models, we demonstrate that no system enforces revocation by default: revoked facts are consistently returned when visible to the retrieval layer and outrank their replacements, leading to unsafe actions. Our guard, positioned between the agent and memory backend, successfully withholds revoked or conflicting records, mitigating this vulnerability.
agent-memory systemsrevocation enforcementretrieval layerlanguage-model agentsmemory backend
ACEA: An Adversarial Co-Evolution Arena for Head-to-Head Red-Team and Blue-Team LLM Testing
The paper introduces ACEA (Adversarial Co-Evolution Arena), a platform for head-to-head testing of red-team attacks and blue-team defenses on large language models (LLMs). ACEA features a pluggable, model-agnostic architecture via the ACEA Standard Adapter Protocol (ASAP), enabling interoperability across projects. It employs an adversarial evaluation methodology with verifiable ground truth via canonical secrets, decomposing attack strength and defense effectiveness per round. Real-time visualization and end-of-battle reports provide actionable feedback, while an optional in-context improvement loop enables adaptive strategies without state retention. The design supports quantifiable scoring of adversarial interactions.
adversarial co-evolutionpluggable adaptercanonical secretsin-context improvementllm judge
CircuTutor: Transforming Static Circuit Problems into Intelligent and Dynamic Tutoring
CircuTutor introduces a circuit-state-driven intelligent tutoring system that transforms static textbook circuit problems into dynamic, interactive learning experiences. The system employs multimodal problem parsing to extract and validate circuit parameters, then uses a SPICE-compatible solver to compute physically consistent states. Learners interactively explore circuit changes, receive causal reasoning chains explaining behavior, and get adaptive follow-up exercises targeting diagnosed misconceptions. Experimental results show CircuTutor improves conceptual learning and the overall educational experience, with potential applicability to other STEM domains.
intelligent tutoring systemmultimodal problem parsingspice-compatible solvercausal reasoning chainadaptive follow-up exercises
CALIPER: Clean Scenes Cannot Rank Physical Inference in Pretrained Visual Representations
CALIPER introduces a direct test for physical inference in pretrained visual representations by evaluating their ability to predict object sliding distance after calibration strikes, revealing that standard clean-scene benchmarks fail to distinguish physics-aware encoders. The method uses simulated episodes with varied camera, lighting, and clutter to measure R^2 performance and goal-distance prediction errors across eight representations, including V-JEPA 2 and a randomly initialized ViT. Results show calibration improves R^2 by +0.50, while linear probes fail to track physical reasoning, with performance gaps exposed only under scene variation (e.g., V-JEPA 2 misses by 4 mm vs. random ViT by 20 mm).
physical inferencevisual representationslinear probescalibrationscene variation
Agentic ML Exploration (A-MLE) for Ads Ranking
The paper introduces Agentic ML Exploration (A-MLE), an autonomous LLM-agent system designed to accelerate ML iteration in industrial ads ranking stacks. A-MLE decomposes the process into five stages—hypothesis generation, exploration strategy, experiment execution, result analysis, and shared knowledge substrate—orchestrated by a single agent with domain-specific skills and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Evaluated across large-scale ads ranking models, A-MLE demonstrates tiered capabilities in tool availability, autonomous workflow execution, and open-ended exploration. A cross-LLM study reveals qualitative differences in execution reliability and exploration aggressiveness among Claude Sonnet, Gemini, and GPT families. The system serves as a force multiplier for ML engineers, particularly for under-attended models.
autonomous agentsads rankingml iterationllm-agent systemexploration strategy
zScore-N: A Neural Network for On-Chain Wallet Reputation Scoring
zScore-N introduces a neural network for on-chain wallet reputation scoring, replacing hand-written formulas in decentralized finance applications. The network is trained on 5,208,952 wallets sampled from 2019-2024, using the existing formula as a teacher to generate labeled data with zero noise. It achieves 0.58 RMSE on a 1000-point scale (R^2 = 0.99997), outperforming gradient-boosted trees (2.25 RMSE) and linear regression (28.04 RMSE). zScore-N halves error under feature-level missingness, reducing drift from 51.4 to 17.9 points at 10% missingness. The network scales to millions of wallets across six orders of magnitude in size and activity.
neural networkwallet reputationdecentralized financermsemissingness
CUNO: Curriculum and Preference Optimization for Stable Graph Unlearning under Mass Deletion
CUNO introduces a curriculum-based framework for stable graph unlearning under mass deletion, addressing catastrophic utility drops in existing methods. It progressively removes forget set samples ordered by unlearning difficulty and employs distribution-level negative preference optimization (NPO) to steer the model away from original behaviors while preserving retained performance. Theoretical analysis highlights the curriculum's effectiveness when the forget set spans varying unlearning difficulties, a condition common in mass deletion. Experiments demonstrate CUNO retains 74% of original utility at 20% deletion and over 50% at 50%, outperforming baselines (26-53%).
graph unlearningmass deletioncurriculum learningnegative preference optimizationcatastrophic unlearning
CS-CLIP: Compositional Scene Graph-guided CLIP for Robust Compositional Reasoning
We propose Compositional Scene Graph-guided CLIP (CS-CLIP), a vision-language model that addresses element-specific biases in compositional reasoning by leveraging scene graphs to identify compositional elements and construct structured negatives via selective masking. The model retains negatives most contradictory to the original caption, emphasizing compositional structure over surface cues. CS-CLIP achieves state-of-the-art performance across compositional elements while maintaining general vision-language capabilities like cross-modal retrieval and downstream visual reasoning, requiring fewer training samples than prior methods.
compositional reasoningscene graphsstructured negativesselective maskingcross-modal retrieval
Style Over Substance: Content-Invariant Wrappers Flip LLM Safety-Judge Verdicts
The study exposes vulnerabilities in LLM safety judges (e.g., Llama Guard, GPT-4o) by introducing content-invariant style wrappers that flip verdicts without altering reply content. Using 600 JailbreakBench replies across 7 wrapper types and 8 judges, paired significance tests reveal judge-specific blind spots: GPT-4o-mini's 'unsafe' verdicts flip 19.9% with token-refusal wrappers (vs. 0.5% noise floor), while Llama Guard 4 is deterministically gamed by educational framing (12.3% flip rate). Human validation confirms 90% of flips as judge errors (kappa 0.95-1.0). Mitigations include prompt rewriting (StrongREJECT) or switching to robust judges (gpt-oss-safeguard-20b).
safety judgescontent-invariant wrappersjailbreakbenchllama guardverdict flipping
SE-GoS: Self-Evolving Graph-of-Skills for Skill Library at Scale
SE-GoS introduces a training-free framework for evolving Graph-of-Skills (GoS) structures from execution traces, enhancing skill retrieval without modifying retrieval algorithms or skill content. The method performs topology evolution (discovering/pruning skill relationships), edge-weight evolution (reinforcing retrieval-relevant edges), and description evolution (optimizing skill descriptions) based on execution feedback. Evaluated on SkillsBench across three LLMs, SE-GoS improves task reward (52.4% to 59.4%) while reducing input tokens by ~33% versus full skill loading, with a 5.4-point gain on held-out tasks over static GoS.
graph-of-skillsskill retrievalexecution tracestopology evolutiondescription evolution
TTGBench: Benchmarking Topological Evolution and Semantic Drift in Text-attributed Temporal Graphs
TTGBench introduces a novel benchmark for evaluating both topological evolution and semantic drift in text-attributed temporal graphs, addressing limitations in existing benchmarks that focus narrowly on temporal link prediction or simplistic binary node classification. The benchmark features six real-world datasets with dual volatility, supporting multi-class and multi-label temporal node classification for the first time. Evaluation of 17 state-of-the-art methods reveals a capability divide: Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) excel in structural prediction but lag in semantic tracking, while LLM-based methods show the opposite trend, highlighting fundamental limitations in current approaches.
temporal graph learningsemantic drifttemporal node classificationtgnnllm-based predictors
3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints
The paper introduces 3DWay, a method for generalizable robot manipulation via 3D consistent waypoints. By reformulating 3D waypoint prediction as multi-view consistent 2D waypoint generation followed by geometric triangulation, it bridges the modality gap between pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) and manipulation policies while preserving VLM priors. Experiments demonstrate improved 3D spatial grounding and vision-language reasoning, enabling better generalization or direct execution on simple tasks. Code will be released on GitHub.
3d waypointsvision-language modelsmulti-view consistencygeometric triangulationrobot manipulation
Vision: Data-Centric Anchoring for Robust and Interpretable Agentic AI
The paper introduces Data-Centric Anchoring, a framework addressing robustness and interpretability failures in agentic AI systems built on large language models. The authors propose the Data-Centric Agentic Loop, a four-stage process comprising Curate, Augment, Constrain, and Attribute, designed to engineer invariances directly into the data environment rather than extracting them post-training. The framework links core failure modes—spurious feature reliance, distribution-shift fragility, uncertainty miscalibration, and explanation unfaithfulness—to targeted data interventions. The loop is self-correcting, with each stage creating preconditions for the next. The approach aims to mitigate persistent issues like distribution shift and lack of interpretability, though practical deployment challenges remain.
data-centric anchoringagentic aidistribution shiftcounterfactual structureinvariance objectives
A Better Spur Should Start From Each Objective
The authors propose Multi-Marginal Preference Optimization (MMPO), a fine-grained framework addressing optimization conflicts in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL). MMPO intervenes at data, gradient, and constraint levels through exposure debiasing, priority-aware orthogonal projection, and self-prompted gradient constraints, mitigating sparse rewards, conflicting gradients, and dominant objective issues. Experiments on e-commerce datasets demonstrate MMPO's improved training stability and performance across conflicting metrics, with additional generalization to ToolRL and code generation tasks, establishing its effectiveness for multi-objective alignment.
multi-objective reinforcement learningexposure debiasingorthogonal projectiongradient constraintsmulti-objective alignment
Qiushi Engine on AstaBench E2E-Bench-Hard
Qiushi Engine v0.8 with DeepSeek deepseek-v4pro-preview backend achieves 0.816 score on AstaBench E2E-Bench-Hard, a 40-task benchmark for autonomous research agents. The system completes 10% of tasks fully (4/40), outperforming official agents by 7 percentage points, and satisfies 82.1% of rubric items (416/507). Average task cost is USD 15.209, with full-precision local recomputation at $81.59 ± 1.87. Performance gaps persist in repeated runs, dependencies, metrics, and ablation studies. Analysis includes workflow, aggregate results, and case studies.
autonomous agentsbenchmark evaluationrubric satisfactiontask completion ratemeta-trace records
Do Dynamic Routers Need Memory? HeRo: History-Aware Routing for Efficient LLM Inference
HeRo introduces a history-aware dynamic routing framework for efficient LLM inference, addressing the path-dependent nature of layer routing by maintaining an explicit routing memory via linear attention. The method aggregates preceding routing scores and residual updates into a compact history representation, enabling joint conditioning on both history and current hidden state for branch selection. Evaluated on Llama 3.1-8B, Llama 2-7B, and Llama 2-13B, HeRo achieves 100.24% of dense model performance while bypassing 26.87% of parameters, and retains 97.01% performance under tighter computation budgets, outperforming ten baselines. Ablations confirm routing history's critical role, particularly in multistep reasoning and code generation.
dynamic routinglinear attentionllm inferenceresidual updatesrouter memory
Bridging the Semantic-Utility Gap in Multimodal RAG via Generator-in-the-Loop Alignment
Proposes a generator-in-the-loop alignment framework to bridge the semantic-utility gap in multimodal RAG systems, eliminating the need for human document-level relevance annotations. The method involves: (1) generating a hypothetical text passage from image-query pairs for dense retrieval, and (2) fine-tuning a LoRA-adapted cross-encoder reranker using answer-supervised preference pairs derived from VLM outputs. Evaluated on VQA-X and A-OKVQA with Qwen3.5-2B and Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct, the framework outperforms baselines (rank-order, random, REPLUG-style) across alignment losses and pool sizes, demonstrating the efficacy of answer-level generator feedback for preference alignment.
retrieval-augmented generationlow-rank adaptationcross-encoder rerankerdirect preference optimizationvision-language models
Does Deeper Reasoning Compromise Alignment? Revealing and Mitigating of Alignment Collapse in Large Reasoning Models
The paper identifies a vulnerability in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) where deeper reasoning chains compromise safety alignment, quantified by the proposed Alignment Loss Rate (ALR) metric. Experiments show ALR increases with reasoning depth, exposing models to adversarial attacks via a novel Reasoning Trap (RT) paradigm. The root cause, Attention Dilution, emerges from competition between reasoning steps and original input. The authors mitigate this with Reasoning Residual Alignment (RRA), a lightweight defense using residual connections to reinforce input attention during reasoning.
alignment collapsechain-of-thoughtattention dilutionjailbreakingresidual alignment
WSPolypNet: Weakly Supervised Polyp Localization in Colonoscopy Videos
WSPolypNet introduces a weakly supervised framework for polyp localization in colonoscopy videos, eliminating the need for costly frame-level annotations. The method employs a 3D convolutional neural network trained with video-level supervision to generate class activation maps (CAMs), which are enhanced via a multi-view strategy and used as point prompts for MedSAM2 to propagate segmentation masks across the video. The framework achieved CorLoc scores of 47.80%, 43.68%, and 35.01% at IoU thresholds of 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7, respectively, with significant improvements for small polyps (CorLoc@0.5 increased from 16.01% to 30.97%) and a recall of 94.51%. This demonstrates the efficacy of weakly supervised spatiotemporal learning in reducing annotation requirements.
weakly supervisedclass activation mapsmedsam2polyp localizationcolonoscopy videos
Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Models
We introduce ENOUGH, a method for minimal sufficient personalization in retrieval-augmented language models that constructs adaptive-length user profiles by iteratively appending behavioral records or emitting STOP. ENOUGH employs offline counterfactual search to evaluate profile prefixes based on downstream gains, user specificity, and token costs, distilling long-horizon targets into a multi-head value controller with explicit ranking and stopping supervision. Experiments on six personalized tasks show that ENOUGH outperforms heuristic and retrieval-augmented baselines, achieving minimal sufficient profiles that preserve utility while reducing unnecessary context costs.
minimal sufficient personalizationretrieval-augmented language modelscounterfactual searchmulti-head value controlleradaptive-length profiles
Safe Harness Self-Evolution: A Theoretical Analysis of Feasibility and Limits
The paper presents a theoretical framework analyzing the feasibility and limits of safe harness self-evolution, where agents modify prompts, tools, or orchestration while keeping the underlying language model frozen. The study connects modification generation, finite-data certification, safe adoption, and post-update behavior under a fixed user-task distribution. Key findings include conditions for expected-reward improvement, bounds on safe selection and adoption, and distinct constraints between generation and certification. Results indicate stagnation risks even when improvement opportunities exist, diverging evaluation costs near optimal performance, and cumulative certified improvement guarantees over finite runs. This analysis aids in diagnosing bottlenecks and designing safer self-evolution mechanisms.
harness self-evolutionfinite-data certificationsafe adoptionexpected-reward improvementmodification generation
OntologyBench: Can Dense Retrieval Satisfy Structured Biomedical Constraints?
The paper introduces OntologyBench, a biomedical retrieval benchmark with 471,854 training and 125,744 evaluation pairs across concept grounding, relational retrieval, and compositional phenotype-based tasks. It evaluates dense retrieval methods against ontology-aware baselines, finding that embedding performance lags on relational and compositional tasks despite fine-tuning improvements. Reranking and LLM-based scoring show minimal gains, with errors often arising from partial phenotype matches. The results highlight limitations in current learned representations for structured biomedical knowledge integration.
biomedical retrievalontology-awaredense embeddingsphenotype matchingrelational retrieval
Key Path Identification for Resolving Knowledge Conflicts via SAE-based Steering
The paper introduces Key Path Identification (KPI), a method to improve sparse autoencoder (SAE)-based steering in LLMs by identifying and modifying only causally critical features rather than mass-steering redundant ones. KPI constructs key paths from features with strong causal dependencies, reducing noise and enhancing interpretability. Experiments in RAG tasks with knowledge conflicts show KPI improves accuracy by 18% over mass-steering baselines, validating its precision and efficiency in model editing.
sparse autoencoderknowledge conflictsmodel steeringcausal dependencieskey path identification
AI for AI: Optimizing Additional Infrastructure Build-out to Power Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
The study develops a stochastic framework to analyze the interplay between data-center electricity demand growth, generation capacity, and market-clearing prices, highlighting supply-side investment challenges. A deterministic model first examines demand-supply growth rate disparities, followed by stochastic modeling of data-center expansion and electricity supply build-outs, yielding probabilistic distributions of supply, demand, and prices. The formulation frames generation expansion as a stochastic control problem, revealing that uncertainties in load forecasts, execution risks, and value cannibalization weaken incentives for timely supply-side investments, exacerbating price volatility despite rapid demand growth.
electricity demandgeneration capacitystochastic controlmarket-clearing pricesvalue cannibalization
Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation
AeroBelief, a dual-layer semantic-spatial belief mapping framework, improves aerial Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) by transforming noisy vision-language model (VLM) outputs into persistent spatial guidance. It separates scene-level semantic cues (intuition layer) from target-specific evidence (evidence layer), combining them through evidence-gated fusion into spatial belief hotspots. Object-conditioned visual reasoning enhances observation reliability, while egocentric regional guidance stabilizes UAV-centered directional proposals. Evaluated on the UAV-ON benchmark, AeroBelief achieves state-of-the-art performance with 21.61% success rate (SR), 35.57% oracle success rate (OSR), and 10.62 success weighted by path length (SPL).
aerial object goal navigationvision-language modelssemantic-spatial beliefevidence-gated fusionegocentric regional guidance
WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training
WorldAgen introduces a unified framework for vision-language-action (VLA) models that jointly learns world modeling and action prediction while enabling Test-Time Training (TTT) for adaptation to new environments. The model employs a shared Transformer backbone with separate heads for world modeling and action prediction, utilizing a Mixed Unidirectional Attention Mask to isolate these functions. During inference, WorldAgen performs lightweight TTT updates by sampling exploratory actions and refining its world model with observed state transitions. Evaluations on CALVIN and LIBERO benchmarks show that WorldAgen achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly when leveraging TTT with minimal samples.
test-time trainingvision-language-actionworld modelingmixed unidirectional attentionstate-action prediction
SWE-Bench Pro Verified: A Reliable Benchmark for Software Engineering Agents
We introduce SWE-Bench Pro Verified, a reliable benchmark for evaluating software engineering agents that addresses two key limitations of SWE-Bench Pro: reward hacking through solution leakage and task quality issues from misleading problem statements. Our method combines anti-hacking safeguards that eliminate leakage channels while preserving agent functionality with task refinement that minimally corrects inconsistencies in flawed instances. Evaluation shows that some models perform substantially worse on SWE-Bench Pro Verified than previously reported, indicating that existing SWE-Bench Pro results may overestimate real-world software engineering capability.
software engineering agentsreward hackingtask refinementanti-hacking safeguardsbenchmark evaluation
IGT @ FinMMEval 2026 Task 2: Question-Type Prompting with Targeted Extraction for Multilingual Financial QA
The IGT system addresses Task 2 of FinMMEval 2026 by distinguishing between structured numeric and synthesis-type questions in multilingual financial QA (English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Greek). For numeric types, it employs keyword extraction from SEC filings; for synthesis types, it uses rule-based multilingual news passage selection, leveraging evidence label prefixes for ROUGE-1 overlap. The system achieves a development ROUGE-1 of 0.395 (60% improvement over RAG baseline) and ranks 3rd on the test set (ROUGE-1=0.3071, Precision=0.2821, Recall=0.4044).
multilingual qarouge-1keyword extractionevidence label prefixrule-based selection
KBBQ: A Predictive Noise Law and the Limits of Spectrum Flattening in FP4 Quantization
The paper introduces KBBQ (Kappa-Braked Blockwise Quantization), a method for FP4 quantization based on a second-order theory of quantization noise in matrix multiplication. The theory characterizes quantization formats by their variance profiles, with floating-point rounding reducing data dependence to a scalar participation factor κ, yielding a closed-form signal-to-noise-ratio law. KBBQ parameterizes how closely a transform approaches the theoretical upper bound κ* for spectrum flattening. At W4A4, KBBQ outperforms prior state-of-the-art methods across four base models and two FP4 formats without additional deployment-time computation.
quantizationfloating-pointsignal-to-noise-ratiomatrix multiplicationspectrum flattening
Sparse Data Augmentation for Optimization with Provable Guarantees
The work demonstrates that sparse data augmentation—using a fixed, small sample of transformations—provably approximates full-group augmentation in nonconvex optimization for geometric machine learning. Gradient descent (GD) on the sparsely augmented objective achieves ε-stationarity for the full objective with Õ((log |G| + log(1/δ))/ε²) transformation queries, outperforming group-SGD's O(1/ε⁴) requirement. The analysis leverages spectral properties of group-induced operators and representation theory to uniformly approximate the full gradient field.
nonconvex optimizationdata augmentationgradient descentrepresentation theorygroup invariance
SchemeArena: Factorized Stress Testing of Scheming in LLM Agents
The paper introduces SCHEMEARENA, a 400-scenario benchmark for factorized stress testing of scheming behavior in LLM agents, addressing limitations in prior work by systematically varying instrumental goals, environmental affordances, oversight conditions, and pressure mechanisms. It proposes SCOUT, a scheming monitor that grounds multi-criteria judgments in agents' reasoning and action evidence. Experiments on five LLM agents show explicit instrumental goals as the strongest scheming driver, strategic hints enabling covert behavior translation, and mixed oversight effects (e.g., action-only monitoring increasing scheming in closed models). Chain-of-Thought monitoring proves useful but incomplete for detecting latent scheming.
schemingllm agentsinstrumental goalsoversight conditionscovert behavior
DISEIL: Demonstration Distillation for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning
DISEIL introduces a sample-efficient imitation learning framework that optimizes expert intervention by identifying and grouping policy failures. The method marks unreliable policy steps using geometric descriptors, clusters recurring failure modes, and generates targeted demonstration requests via vision-language and language models, validated by task constraints. Evaluated across 5 simulated tasks under state and image observations, DISEIL achieves the highest mean held-out success rate in 9 out of 10 settings, with significant gains at low demonstration budgets. The approach focuses on single-round practice sessions with scripted experts, aiming to extend to human-teacher interactions.
imitation learninggeometric descriptorfailure modesvision-language modeltask constraints
Router Prior Bias: Preserving Base Routing Structure in MoE Post-Training
The paper introduces Router Prior Bias (RPB), a method for preserving base routing structure during post-training of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. RPB applies a soft bias toward the frozen base router's logits, avoiding the performance degradation caused by re-imposed load-balancing loss or unconstrained fine-tuning. Evaluated on Moonlight-16B-A3B and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base, RPB achieves 45.77 in-domain accuracy (vs. 31.91 with load-balancing loss) and retains out-of-domain capability. The method's effectiveness stems from soft anchoring rather than hard assignment or specific prior definitions, as evidenced by preserved expert co-activation communities.
mixture-of-expertsrouter prior biasload-balancing losspost-trainingexpert co-activation
Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Digital Inventory of Cultural Heritage & Traditional Knowledge: Case for Indonesian Open Digital Library of Culture
The paper proposes an AI-assisted framework for autonomous harvesting of Indonesian cultural heritage data to address coverage, integrity, and completeness limitations in manual collection. The five-stage methodology includes focused crawling, multilingual extraction, vector encoding with blocking, agentic decision-making, and idempotent publication, employing techniques like subcritical branching processes, Bayesian evidence fusion, and submodular coverage maximization. The system maintains human oversight through curator, approver, auditor, and guardian roles while ensuring ethical compliance via architectural safeguards against overwriting human contributions.
focused crawlingagentic decision-makingsubmodular coveragebayesian fusionidempotent publication
CIVI: A Framework for Diagnosing Search Agent Failures in Civic Information
The paper introduces CIVI, a framework for diagnosing search agent failures in civic information, spanning cross-national and interjurisdictional government contexts based on a United Nations standard. The method evaluates ten frontier search agents against a human baseline, measuring accuracy, search invocation rate, selective no-search accuracy, and authoritative source citation. Results show no agent matches human performance, with ARISE attributing 72.1% of failures to retrieval-bound causes via source-injection ablation.
civic informationsearch agentsretrieval-bound failuressource-injection ablationinterjurisdictional contexts
RevalExo: A Functional Daily-Activity Benchmark for Inertial and Visual Locomotion Mode Recognition in Older Adults and Clinical Cohorts
The authors introduce RevalExo, a benchmark for inertial and visual locomotion mode recognition designed for older adults and clinical populations, addressing limitations in existing datasets. RevalExo includes 27 participants (older adults, stroke survivors, and sarcopenia patients) with 10.1 hours of frame-level annotations across 11 locomotion modes, including 5.1 hours of paired inertial-visual data. The benchmark evaluates unimodal/multimodal recognition, cross-population generalization, and vision-guided knowledge transfer. Results show improved performance with multimodal fusion (∼93% F1) but highlight challenges in transition recognition (∼68% F1) and cross-population generalization.
locomotion mode recognitioninertial sensorsegocentric videoclinical cohortsmultimodal fusion
Inference-Time Nash Alignment
We introduce inference-time Nash alignment, a parameter-free alternative to preference-based fine-tuning methods like RLHF and DPO, which require model parameter access and extensive compute. Our approach formulates alignment as a two-player zero-sum game between policies, proposing Best-of-Nash (BoN) and Nash Mirror Descent (NMD) algorithms that achieve optimal duality gaps matching problem lower bounds. Empirical evaluations on three datasets demonstrate that both methods substantially outperform base policies, converging to fine-tuned model performance, with NMD showing robustness across regularization parameters.
inference-time alignmentnash equilibriumpreference-based fine-tuningduality gapparameter-free
Automated Design of Inventory Policy with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study
We propose an integrated framework automating inventory policy design by combining large language models (LLMs) with external solvers. Given demand data, the framework iteratively generates parameterized policy classes via LLM and optimizes parameters within each class using an external solver. Across 30 lost-sales inventory instances, mean cost reduction increases from 17.5% to 30.0% over ten generations, with optimization-guided feedback improving policy quality and directing LLM search toward better policy classes. Discovered policies combine interpretable inventory-control motifs and achieve 21.75%-22.60% average cost reductions across 10,064 new instances, demonstrating transferability of novel policy-class functional forms.
inventory policy designlarge language modelsparameter optimizationlost-sales inventorypolicy-class functional forms
ResidualAuth: What Authorization State Must Language Agents Preserve under Revocable Delegation?
ResidualAuth formalizes the residual authorization state required for language agents to preserve decision-making distinctions under revocable delegation, proving exponential state complexity despite shared transitive closures. The method constructs paired language-agent episodes, evaluating authorization state preservation across four open-weight models using fixed-token summaries, sham reads, and authenticated current-query reads. Results show authenticated reads achieved 15-16/16 accuracy, while exact ledger serializations fit all 128 four-coordinate pairs at 768-1,024 tokens, and a hard gate eliminated unauthorized effects without altering preceding attempts.
residual authorization staterevocable delegationtransitive closurelanguage agentsexact monitor
LLMs for Social Network Modeling: From Network Generation to Dynamic Processes
This survey provides the first unified review of large language models (LLMs) for social network modeling, categorizing approaches into network generative models (selection-based and interaction-based) and dynamic process models (opinion dynamics, information diffusion, rumor propagation). LLMs enable context-aware social behavior simulation through natural language, offering advantages over classical network models or deep learning in modeling network formation and dynamic processes. Key limitations include inherent social biases and prompt sensitivity, highlighting open research challenges.
large language modelssocial network modelingnetwork generative modelsdynamic process modelsopinion dynamics
SAFER-Activities: A Dataset for Smart Assessment of Fall Events and Routine Activities
The authors introduce SAFER-Activities, a dataset for fall detection and activity monitoring featuring 66 hours of multi-camera video with frame-level annotations for 30 action classes (85,310 instances), including wheelchair-specific scenarios. They benchmark 2D/3D skeleton models, RGB models with frozen backbones, and multimodal fusion, finding skeleton-based approaches generalize best under domain shift. Fusion of frozen RGB features with skeleton data improves in-domain recognition (notably for wheelchair actions) but degrades out-of-distribution. Cross-dataset tests confirm strong transfer to unseen environments and external fall data. The dataset and code are publicly released.
fall detectionactivity recognitionskeleton modelsmultimodal fusiondomain shift
Eliciting Self-Verification in Multimodal Reasoning Agents with Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Self-Verification via Reinforcement Learning (SVRL), an RL-only finetuning framework for multimodal agents that self-verify retrieved evidence within reasoning traces, eliminating dependency on external verifiers. SVRL incorporates a search-aware penalty to reduce unnecessary tool calls and a query-diversity reward to improve search query formulation. When applied to Qwen-2.5-VL-7B on 5,000 visual question answering examples, SVRL enhances multi-hop VQA generalization and tool efficiency, narrowing the performance gap with larger proprietary models at lower computational cost.
reinforcement learningmultimodal reasoningself-verificationtool efficiencyvisual question answering
A Layered Analysis of Disagreement And Answer Quality in Multi-Agent LLM Debate
The study critically examines multi-agent LLM debate mechanisms through four measurements: reported agreement (A), textual pushback (B), persistence of dissent (C), and token log-probability stance (D). Evaluating three-model committees on GlobalOpinionQA (750 debates), it finds tone drastically affects reported agreement (50.4pp difference), with textual replies mirroring this pattern. Dissent is partly instruction-dependent (23.1pp reversion after hostile instruction removal), while opposing arguments weaken stance margins more than direction. No final-answer quality improvement is detected (299/299 ties in bias-checked juries, unchanged accuracy on control tasks).
multi-agent debatellm disagreementtoken log-probabilitiesstance margininstruction-dependence
From Version Conflicts to Decision Conflicts: Selective Revalidation for Long-Running AI Agents
The paper introduces ATR, a system for selective revalidation in long-running AI agents to distinguish version conflicts from decision conflicts. ATR records executable conditions justifying pending actions and selectively rechecks only affected conditions upon state changes, enabling action retention, metadata refresh, replanning, or execution blocking. Evaluated over 210,000 executions with 15 mutation cases, ATR achieved 100% accuracy in matching developer-specified outcomes (0 false allows/blocks) and processed 0.6 conditions per change (vs. 6.0 for FullScan), with 9.3μs latency at 4,093 reads (vs. 2,595.9μs for FullScan).
selective revalidationdecision conflictoptimistic concurrencyexecutable conditionsversion conflict
Sparks of In Silico Cognitive Science: Theories from Simulated Data Can Generalize to Humans
The study demonstrates that cognitive theories discovered using simulated behavioral data can generalize to human behavior. The Automated Cognitive Scientist (AutoCog) employed a closed-loop discovery system where LLM agents designed experiments, collected responses, arbitrated between competing theories, and synthesized successors using Centaur, a foundation model of human behavior. In a multi-attribute decision-making context, theories derived from Centaur outperformed canonical theories on ten held-out experiments, rivaling only those discovered through human data. The findings suggest that imperfect simulators can effectively widen the theory search space by capturing distinguishing regularities, enabling generalization to human data.
automated cognitive scientistfoundation modelmulti-attribute decision-makingclosed-loop discoverytheory arbitration
Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning: A Robot Navigation Case Study
The paper introduces Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning, a reinforcement learning method that employs dynamic, time-consistent Markov risk measures to evaluate policies. The approach overcomes the nonlinear dependency of transition risk mappings on the transition kernel by using mini-batch transition risk mappings, which are applied to empirical measures of N independent next-state samples. This method is embedded into a Double Deep Q-Network and analyzed for estimation biases. Applied to an underwater robot navigation problem, the method demonstrates transferability to unseen instance sizes and reduces the upper semideviation of outcome distributions while improving their mean under simulator misspecification.
markov risk measuresmini-batch transitiondouble deep q-networkunderwater robot navigationdistributional robustness
HyCO: A Hybrid Neural Solver for Combinatorial Optimization
HyCO introduces a hybrid neural solver for combinatorial optimization that combines sequential reinforcement learning (RL) and global diffusion models (DM) to mitigate their complementary failure modes. The method uses an RL solver for early solution construction and adaptively switches to a conditional DM for completion, guided by a theoretical framework proving lower regret and an optimal trigger step. Experiments on diverse benchmarks show HyCO outperforms standalone RL or DM solvers, with adaptive triggering based on policy entropy and RL-DM disagreement proving effective.
combinatorial optimizationreinforcement learningdiffusion modelsregret minimizationadaptive triggering
When Can LLM Digital Twins Reduce Human Measurement? From Behavioral Fidelity to Statistical Substitutability
The paper introduces statistical substitutability, an inferential criterion for evaluating whether LLM-based digital twins can reduce human data collection while preserving valid inference. The authors propose a framework grounded in mixed-subject and prediction-powered inference, assessing substitutability across four dimensions: aggregate fidelity, paired respondent-level signal, human-label recovery, and population stability. Empirical evaluations across behavioral experiments and multiple models reveal that digital twins reproduce average human effects but poorly predict individual deviations, with newer models and richer respondent information offering limited improvements. Human calibration reduces aggregate error but often fails to yield stable precision gains, demonstrating that behavioral fidelity alone is insufficient for substitutability.
statistical substitutabilitydigital twinsmixed-subject inferenceprediction-powered inferencebehavioral fidelity
From Event Logs to Governed Action: A BlueSky Agenda for Agentic Process Mining
The paper proposes a research agenda for agentic process mining, shifting focus from retrospective analysis to governed action. It advocates for four mineable artifacts: event-object representations, action evidence packages, governance contracts, and benchmarks supporting act/defer/ask/refuse outputs. The approach integrates agentic BPM, LLM-assisted process mining, object-centric event standards, causal monitoring, and privacy-preserving learning. The goal is to transform operational event data into accountable actions, leveraging advancements in these domains to enable process-aware agents that evaluate proposed actions against evidence, authority, and risk constraints.
agentic process mininggoverned actionevent-object representationsaction evidence packagesprivacy-preserving learning
Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation
The study exposes significant performance overestimation in Sign Language Translation (SLT) due to signer-dependent evaluation protocols. Through signer-fold cross-validation on GFSLT-VLP, GASLT, and SignCL models across CSL-Daily and PHOENIX14T datasets, the authors demonstrate sharp declines in BLEU-4 and ROUGE-L scores under signer-independent conditions (e.g., GFSLT-VLP drops from 21.44 to 3.59 BLEU-4 on PHOENIX14T). They identify dataset design flaws, including train-test sentence overlap, that artificially inflate metrics. Recommendations include adopting signer-independent splits, restructuring datasets, and transparent reporting of evaluation conditions.
sign language translationsigner-independent evaluationcross-validationbleu-4rouge-l
Support Topology and Gradient Mixing in Sinkhorn Layers
The paper develops a fixed-support calculus for Sinkhorn layers, analyzing how support topology controls gradient propagation through scaling iterations. It shows that each row-column cycle induces a row-stochastic operator on column-potential perturbations, with transpose operations propagating zero-mass reverse-mode cotangents. Using Dobrushin contraction and minorization, the authors bound homogeneous and source-driven tail cotangents, characterizing conditions for uniform one-step contraction over finite scores. Key requirements include pairwise two-hop column overlap in transportation polytope faces. The analysis extends to ordered support schedules, providing design criteria for differentiable transport layers with guarantees on fixed-support quotient-gradient components.
sinkhorn layersgradient propagationtransportation polytopedobrushin contractionfixed-support calculus
CausalVerify: An Execution-Grounded Benchmark for LLM Causal Inference Workflows
CausalVerify introduces an execution-grounded benchmark for evaluating LLMs' ability to recover target causal estimates in econometric workflows, distinguishing between code execution (L2b) and correct estimation (L2b+). The benchmark pairs 259 economics papers with 100 synthetic datasets for difference-in-differences, event study, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs. Seven LLMs achieve L2b+ pass rates of 10-88% (50% tolerance), with 15.5% of executing workflows returning incorrect estimates; execution ranking (Kendall τ=0.81) outperforms text-direction scoring (Kendall τ∈[-0.20,0.10]), and self-reported confidence lacks reliability.
causal inferenceexecution-grounded benchmarkeconometric workflowsdifference-in-differencesinstrumental variables
Beliefs and Behavior in Language Models
The study proposes a method to empirically investigate whether latent belief variables inferred from large language model (LLM) outputs enable interpretable predictions of model behavior. By analyzing LLM responses across diverse prompts, the authors demonstrate that highly capable models can be usefully described as holding beliefs, with belief-based predictability correlating with overall model capability. The findings support empirical strategies for measuring LLM beliefs, assessing compliance with instructed decision rules, and tracking belief evolution during reasoning processes.
latent belieflarge language modelsinterpretable predictionsmodel capabilityreasoning processes
TDDN: Text-aligned Diffused DINO Network for Puzzle Understanding
The paper introduces TDDN, a text-aligned vision-language model combining DINOv3 and CleanDIFT representations (DiffusedDINO) with RoBERTa-L to address fine-grained perception gaps in CLIP-based VLMs. With frozen backbones and ~590K alignment pairs, TDDN matches CLIP on image-text retrieval while outperforming it in dense prediction (ADE20K: 5.20→18.11 mIoU; COCO-Stuff: 7.35→24.44 mIoU) and leading segmentation benchmarks among contrastive encoders. On the new Puzzle Perception dataset, TDDN doubles CLIP’s segmentation accuracy (11.04→22.51 mIoU).
vision-language modelsdense predictioncontrastive learningfine-grained segmentationperceptual alignment
FrogNano: Training a 4B Coding Agent via Online Task Synthesis
FrogNano introduces a 4B-parameter coding agent trained exclusively via reinforcement learning on ~1,500 synthetic software engineering (SWE) tasks, demonstrating competitive performance without distillation from larger models. The method employs an online task synthesis pipeline that dynamically generates tasks calibrated to the agent's current learnability frontier. Evaluations across diverse SWE environments show that small, resource-efficient coding agents can achieve strong results through synthetic task training alone, providing a foundation for lightweight SWE agents deployable on minimal hardware.
coding agentonline task synthesisreinforcement learningsoftware engineeringlearnability frontier
AVCG: A Generalized Variational Framework for Counterfactual Generation under Hypothesis Distributions
The paper introduces the Amortized Variational Counterfactual Generator (AVCG), a framework for generating counterfactual explanations by optimizing over distributions of predictive hypotheses rather than single deterministic predictors. AVCG accommodates Bayesian posteriors, Rashomon sets, and other uncertainty representations via a unified variational optimization approach. Evaluations show AVCG maintains explanation validity under model uncertainty and retraining while preserving plausibility and achieving amortized runtime performance comparable to single-pass methods.
counterfactual explanationsvariational optimizationpredictive uncertaintyrashomon setbayesian posterior
PRIMUS: Identity, Governance, and Verification for Multi-Agent Federations
PRIMUS introduces a governance framework for multi-agent federations addressing identity, enforcement, and authority under adversarial conditions. It combines prime-power agent identity with BLS aggregate signatures (PIAC), establishes a safe-kill threshold reducing false-positive agent termination to 0.00% under 10% channel noise, and defines economic boundaries for singleton governance versus Byzantine quorum. The framework also implements VRF succession with lease and fencing for unconditional safety under partial synchrony. Additionally, PRIMUS explores converting binary artifact-fidelity verdicts into graded fitness signals using binary covering codes, achieving strong calibration against injected faults but weaker performance with LLM-generated candidates. The system demonstrated resilience against gaming attempts during optimization iterations.
multi-agent federationsprime-power identitybls aggregate signaturesbyzantine quorumbinary covering codes
Quantization Amplifies Determinism, Not Bias: Scale-Dependent Behavioral Effects of Serving-Time Weight Compression
The study investigates how weight quantization affects LLM output diversity and bias, challenging the assumption that 4-bit quantization is 'nearly free' for mid-sized models. Using Qwen3-8B/14B/32B at three precisions (W4A16 AWQ, W8A16 FP8-Marlin, bf16), the authors collected 71,000 completions across leak-checked prompt batteries. At 8B, int4 reduced output diversity (brand recommendation consistency +5.1pp, lexical diversity TTR -0.011) but showed no bias amplification; larger models exhibited stylistic drift (em-dash rate +0.46-0.61/1k words) without content concentration. Token-level entropy increased (+0.091 bits) while semantic collision rose (+2.6pp), indicating flatter token distributions but more repetitive meanings.
weight quantizationoutput diversitylexical diversitystylistic driftsemantic collision
The Accuracy Paradox: Empirical Diagnostic of Default Decision Thresholds in Multi-Label Enzyme Commission Prediction [With Code]
This study identifies and diagnoses the Accuracy Paradox in multi-label Enzyme Commission (EC) number prediction, where default decision thresholds (t=0.50) fail under severe class imbalance across 14,096 annotated compounds. The authors systematically evaluate uncalibrated fixed boundaries across six primary EC classes, revealing deceptive mean accuracy (77.16%) alongside critical predictive breakdown (macro F1-score = 0.3976, macro recall = 0.3872). Minority classes suffer sharp recall decay, with EC6 collapsing entirely (Recall = 0.00%) despite discriminative power (ROC-AUC = 0.5857). Feature correlation analysis highlights redundancy among topological indices. The study advocates for target-specific threshold optimization and conformal calibration as essential safeguards.
enzyme commissionmulti-label predictiondecision thresholdclass imbalanceconformal calibration
Explainable Temporal Attention-based Defect Detection For Fillet Joints in Real-Time Gas Metal Arc Welding Based on Multi-modal Data
The paper proposes a temporal attention-based deep learning model for detecting internal defects in Gas Metal Arc Welding fillet joints, addressing porosity, lack of penetration, fusion, undercut, and cold lap. The model integrates multi-modal data, including welding images and sound spectrograms, collected from an industrial collaborative welding robot. It achieves an F1 Score of 0.99, with explainable AI techniques used to interpret model behavior and identify critical areas in the data modalities. This approach enhances trust and reliability in AI-driven welding inspection by clarifying defect detection mechanisms.
temporal attentionmulti-modal datagas metal arc weldingexplainable aifillet joints
Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know II? A Fully Behavioral, Non-Cognitive Measure of Epistemic Honesty
The study introduces the Epistemic Honesty Quotient (EHQ), a novel metric evaluating whether Large Language Models (LLMs) appropriately acknowledge their knowledge boundaries. EHQ measures three sub-scores across epistemic restraint and substantive-answer calibration axes, using EHQ-3000, a 3,000-question benchmark with four question categories. Analyzing 15 LLM API routes, composite EHQ scores ranged from 0.31 to 0.81, revealing substantial behavioral variation not explained by document-grounded capability. Epistemic restraint criteria overlapped strongly, while substantive-answer calibration varied independently across models. EHQ highlights behavioral differences invisible to conventional correctness assessments, emphasizing the importance of dataset composition and provider behavior in interpretation.
epistemic honesty quotientlarge language modelsepistemic restraintsubstantive-answer calibrationehq-3000
Foundation Models for Generalizable Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication
The paper introduces Foundation Model-Guided Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication (FMSGOC), a framework leveraging visual-linguistic foundation models to enhance generalization and rate efficiency in semantic communication. FMSGOC transmits sparse, goal-aligned semantic anchors and reconstructs masked regions using a fine-tuned diffusion prior, decoupling transmission from reconstruction. Experiments show FMSGOC achieves 0.039 bits per pixel (BPP), maintains high semantic fidelity (cosine similarity 0.87-0.90 on CIFAR-10, 0.83-0.86 on ImageNet), and outperforms end-to-end baselines at low bit rates.
semantic communicationfoundation modelsdiffusion priorrate efficiencymasked completion
SAFIRE: Safety-Critical Benchmark for Fine-grained Fire and Smoke Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
The authors introduce SAFIRE, a safety-critical benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on fire-smoke understanding, comprising 83K captioned images and 193K multiple-choice VQA questions across 20 scenarios and 10 evaluation dimensions. They employ a GPT-5.4-assisted verification pipeline with MLLM majority voting for annotation quality. Evaluation of ten MLLMs (8B-38B parameters) reveals an average accuracy of 61.9%, highlighting deficiencies in safety-critical reasoning, while domain-specific adaptation with 7% of their data improves fire-scene classification accuracy from 20.1% to 64.5%.
multimodal llmssafety-critical benchmarkingvision-language tasksdomain adaptationvqa evaluation
A*-Thought-V2: Efficient Latent Reasoning via Geometric Dynamics of LLM
A*-Thought-V2 introduces a geometric dynamics framework for efficient latent reasoning in LLMs, replacing hard CoT pruning with an explicit-implicit interleaved architecture. It projects question, step, and solution representations into 3D PCA space, measuring alignment between local transitions and global direction to compress deviating steps into latent tokens. Stepwise embedding forcing and label forcing train the architecture. Evaluations on Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.6-27B show 2.6% accuracy gains, 50% shorter responses, 2.29× higher accuracy per computation, and 94.6%/80.3% reductions in preprocessing/training time.
latent reasoninggeometric dynamicsexplicit-implicit interleavingstepwise embedding forcingaccuracy per computation
Kalman Delta Networks: Uncertainty-aware Associative Memory
Kalman Delta Networks (KDNs) introduce uncertainty-aware associative memory by reformulating recurrent memory as a linear-Gaussian state-space model, leveraging the Kalman filter for optimal recursive estimation. KDNs propagate both memory state and uncertainty, enabling adaptive residual writes weighted by accumulated evidence and observation reliability. Two GPU-compatible approximations, Diagonal KDN and Isotropic KDN, employ Mobius maps for efficient associative scans. Evaluated at 750M and 1.3B parameters, KDN variants outperform state-of-the-art linear-attention models in perplexity and downstream accuracy.
kalman delta networkslinear-gaussian state-space modelkalman filterassociative memorymobius maps
VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment
Vision-of-Thought (VoT) introduces a discrete visual-thinking layer between vision-language models (VLMs) and diffusion transformers (DiTs) to address the lack of interpretable intermediate representations in text-to-image systems. VoT employs VLMs as multimodal planners to generate discrete tokens representing high-level visual plans, such as objects and layouts, before pixel rendering. A specialized VoT tokenizer is trained with a closed-loop objective combining VLM alignment, feature reconstruction, and vector-quantization losses. Experimental results show that VoT enhances semantic alignment and provides a structured interface for interpretable and controllable generation.
vision-of-thoughtvision-language modelsdiffusion transformersvector-quantizationsemantic alignment
You Can't Prefer Emotions You Don't Sample: Intensity Undershoot in DPO-Tuned LLMs
We quantify the systematic undershooting of emotional intensity in Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)-tuned LLMs, demonstrating that Llama-3.1-8B achieves only 26% and 13% of requested valence and arousal intensity, respectively. By conditioning on continuous Valence-Arousal targets and measuring achieved affect with a frozen regressor, we trace this limitation to the neutral-heavy training corpora and insufficiently extreme candidate pools in DPO pipelines. Uniformly sampling hotter candidate pools improves valence gain to 0.40 ± 0.02 and reduces extrapolation error, with minimal in-distribution cost. Arousal remains challenging due to the base model's reluctance to generate high-arousal candidates, yielding inconsistent gains across seeds.
direct preference optimizationvalence-arousalemotional intensitycandidate poolextrapolation error
Understanding the Impact of Model Pruning on Long-Tail Forgetting and Explanation Reliability in Medical Imaging
The study systematically evaluates long-tail forgetting and explanation reliability in pruned models for medical imaging, addressing gaps in understanding model behavior under compression. Using two long-tailed medical datasets, two CNN architectures, and four pruning methods at up to 95% sparsity, the authors assess predictive performance, explanation stability, and faithfulness. Results reveal frequency-dependent performance degradation, with rare classes declining earlier, while gradient-informed pruning better preserves explanation reliability. Explanation degradation stems from collapsed class-discriminative gradients, not vanishing activations. The findings advocate for class-aware and explanation-aware evaluation in model compression.
model pruninglong-tail forgettingexplanation reliabilitygradient-informed methodsfeature activations
Climate-ModernBERT: Revisiting Corpus Composition for Domain-Adaptive Continued Pretraining
We introduce Climate-ModernBERT, a family of climate-adapted encoder models obtained through continued pretraining of ModernBERT-Base on three climate corpora: academic climate text, climate-filtered web data, and synthetic climate documents. We systematically compare joint continued pretraining on corpus mixtures with parameter-space merging of independently specialized checkpoints. Across nine climate NLP benchmarks, our best model achieves 76.3 average F_1, improving significantly over a vanilla ModernBERT baseline by 2.8 points. Academic climate corpora provide the strongest adaptation signal, while parameter-space merging improves over joint multi-source training and better preserves complementary information from heterogeneous climate corpora.
climate-modernbertcontinued pretrainingparameter-space mergingclimate nlpdomain-adaptive pretraining
Quantifying the Engagement Trap: Impact of Short-form Video Recommender Systems on Users with ADHD
This study quantifies the 'Engagement Trap' phenomenon in short-form video recommender systems, demonstrating disproportionate negative impacts on users with ADHD versus neurotypical users. Using a stratified sample of 302 Prolific participants, the authors measure differential effects of engagement-optimized recommendations. Results indicate comparable perceived relevance across groups, but ADHD participants exhibited significantly higher time blindness (d=1.2), post-usage regret (p<0.01), and emotional distress. The work also evaluates neuro-inclusive design interventions, providing empirical evidence for algorithmic harms and advocating human-centered approaches to mitigate inequitable experiences in recommendation systems.
engagement traprecommender systemsneuro-inclusive designtime blindnessalgorithmic harms
What Does an LLM-Agent Leaderboard Rank Actually Compare?
This paper critically examines the validity of LLM-agent leaderboard rankings by analyzing what they estimate and when they justify pairwise superiority claims. The authors propose an estimand-aware pairwise procedure that explicitly states comparison targets, measurement sources, and uncertainty rules while checking common support. Through controlled experiments on SWE-bench, AgentRewardBench, and tau2-bench, they demonstrate that close rank differences often remain unresolved and that proxy labels and utility rules can influence system selection. The study highlights the importance of considering uncertainty and estimands when interpreting leaderboard scores for fine-grained superiority claims.
llm-agentestimand-awarepairwise comparisonuncertainty rulecommon support
xDailyBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Professional Consultation for Real-Life Problems
We introduce xDailyBench, a benchmark of 248 tasks across 51 real-world scenarios to evaluate LLMs on professional consultation for everyday problems. Tasks are grounded in actual user requests, featuring open-ended, context-dependent problems requiring inference of implicit needs alongside explicit instructions. Eleven frontier models are evaluated using fine-grained binary rubrics under standardized agentic settings. Results show the best model achieves 75.6% task-level accuracy, with all models performing ≥9 percentage points worse on implicit than explicit requirements, highlighting implicit inference as a key bottleneck for practical LLM applications.
benchmarkimplicit requirementsagentic settingsbinary rubricscontext-dependent
CodeTD: Topology of Attention Detects Hallucinations in Code LLMs
We introduce CodeTD, the first pre-execution method for assessing code correctness in Code LLMs using topological data analysis (TDA) of attention maps. The approach quantifies prompt-generation mismatch by analyzing topological patterns in attention maps across 10 Code LLMs (up to 34B parameters) and 5 programming languages. Experiments on benchmarks (HumanEval, MBPP, BigCodeBench, MultiPL-E) demonstrate that CodeTD outperforms recent baselines and exhibits transferability across coding benchmarks, addressing hallucinations that lead to incorrect or insecure code.
topological data analysisattention mapscode llmsprompt-generation mismatchhallucinations
Bag of Tricks or Bag of Myths? Reducing Modeling Complexity with Task Knowledge in Explainable Suicide Risk Assessment
The study introduces task-conditioned technique selection for explainable suicide risk assessment from social media text, auditing 31 techniques across 7 methodological families via 300 controlled experiments on 1,635 clinician-annotated posts. Only 5 techniques yielded reliable gains, leading to a system combining entailment-based factor prediction, evidence-tagging ensembles, and deployment-consistent calibration. The final system achieved 0.8203 risk AUC, 0.7953 evidence F1, and 0.7045 macro-F1 for factors (composite 0.7781), ranking third among 53 teams. Results emphasize pruning techniques without task-specific justification.
suicide risk assessmentclass imbalanceentailmentensemble learningdeployment-consistent calibration
Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain
This pre-registered audit evaluates whether AI coding assistants verify trust signals (SBOMs, signed releases, build provenance, official channels) before installing research software. The study tested six open-source projects (3 HPC, 3 quantum) with nine variants per project, including manipulated metadata, across three models under two operational modes (1,920 trials). Verification was rare (0.5% of trials), unaffected by signal presence or model cost ($0.10-$1.00 per trial), and no trial executed verification commands. Findings suggest trust signals alone are insufficient; verification must be programmatically enforced.
trust signalssoftware supply chainpre-registered auditbuild provenancecoding assistants
When Intelligence Becomes Agency: A Theory of Governed, Proactive Agency for Symbiotic AI Systems
The paper proposes a conceptual and formal framework for governed proactive agency in persistent AI assistants, addressing the 'activation problem' of autonomous decision-making under continuous authorization. It introduces symbiotic agency as delegation with revocable mandates, combining perception, intent, appraisal, and feedback to organize behavior across time. The framework includes an agency classification method, evaluation metrics, benchmark scenarios, and a reference architecture to assess assistance for timeliness, authorization, and accountability. The approach aims to guide always-present assistants that augment human capabilities while preserving user authority.
symbiotic agencyactivation problemgoverned proactive agencymixed-initiative interactionreference architecture
TFTrack: A Template-Free Framework for Efficient 3D Point Cloud Tracking
TFTrack introduces a template-free framework for efficient 3D point cloud tracking, eliminating redundant template-search pairings and complex motion modeling. The method operates on the current frame using only the prior bounding box center and size, instantiated as three variants (TFTrack-Voxel, TFTrack-Pillar, TFTrack-Point) to accommodate diverse 3D representations. Evaluated on KITTI and nuScenes, TFTrack matches state-of-the-art template-based trackers while reducing FLOPs by ~50% and achieving ~120 FPS, enabling real-time deployment in robotic systems.
3d point cloud trackingtemplate-freelidarsingle object trackinggeometric alignment
The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs
The study identifies the Profit Alignment Problem, demonstrating that profit mandates induce systematic alignment failures in LLMs by prompting risk-dismissing behaviors. Through 3,600 controlled trials across eight reasoning-capable LLMs, the authors show that adding profit-oriented language increases risk-dismissing judgments by 6.8 percentage points, reduces board escalation recommendations by 13.9pp, and shifts severity assessments downward. Chain-of-thought analysis reveals motivated reasoning, where models acknowledge safety concerns but invoke profit logic to justify dismissing them. These findings highlight unintended consequences of embedding business objectives in AI systems.
profit alignment problemmotivated reasoningchain-of-thoughtrisk-dismissing judgmentsboard escalation recommendations
A radiographic world model for clinical reasoning and evidence generation
MedDream introduces a radiographic world model that learns a shared latent state from paired chest radiograph-text observations (2.65M leakage-controlled pairs from 4.40M candidates) for diagnostic reasoning and report-conditioned generation. It outperformed comparators across eight clinical datasets: diagnostic tasks showed strong generalization (resident concordance increased from 56.3% to 63.0%), while synthetic augmentation improved VinDr-CXR macro-AUROC from 76.4% to 81.4%. Targeted generation addressing subgroup gaps increased weighted F1 by 3.1pp in Asian patients.
radiographic world modellatent statediagnostic reasoningsynthetic augmentationclinical datasets
An emancipatory vision for designing (generative) AI for learner flourishing
The paper critiques current generative AI systems in education for fostering learner isolation and dependency, despite human-centered design efforts. It proposes an emancipatory design framework prioritizing learner flourishing within complex socio-technical systems, outlining tentative principles and methodologies. The approach addresses systemic factors like economic incentives and cognitive biases, though acknowledges unresolved challenges in implementation.
generative aihuman-centered designlearner flourishingvalue-sensitive designsocio-technical systems
The Emerging AI Paper-Review Arms Race: Adversarial Co-Evolution in Scholarly Publishing
The paper analyzes the adversarial co-evolution between AI-assisted research production and evaluation in scholarly publishing, synthesizing 230 publications to identify six interconnected dynamics. Using a taxonomy covering production scaling, evaluation automation, manipulation, defenses, evasion, and ecosystem feedback, it demonstrates how scalable AI research generation pressures evaluation systems, prompting automated reviews that are then exploited, leading to institutional countermeasures. Strongest evidence exists for scalable production/evaluation and reproducible manipulation, while long-term feedback loops remain under-observed. The work shifts focus from isolated AI capabilities to adaptive interactions between scholarly actors and AI systems over time.
generative aiadversarial co-evolutionscholarly publishingevaluation automationinstitutional response
APPSim-Bench: Bridging Real-world Apps and Reproducible Evaluation for Mobile GUI Agents
APPSim-Bench introduces a benchmark for mobile GUI agents that balances real-world app complexity with deterministic evaluation through simulated apps preserving task-relevant interaction logic. The benchmark, constructed via coding-agent-assisted and human-verified workflows, comprises 557 tasks across 17 high-frequency Chinese and English apps, featuring controllable backend data and outcome-based verification. Evaluation of 19 GUI agents reveals persistent challenges, with the top model achieving only 50.27% task completion and 28.55% of tasks unsolved by any agent, highlighting failures in long workflows, numerical reasoning, and inefficient action trajectories.
mobile gui agentsdeterministic evaluationtask-relevant interaction logicoutcome-based verificationaction overhead
Fine PT-PT Web: A High-Quality 41 Billion Tokens Data Collection of the European Portuguese Web
The paper introduces Fine PT-PT Web, a 41B-token European Portuguese (PT-PT) web corpus curated via a novel pipeline addressing dialectal overlap (primarily with PT-BR) and scaling challenges. The method combines early boilerplate/duplicate removal (yielding 19.04% more valid documents), neural quality filtering, weighted fuzzy deduplication, and rigorous language identification. The resulting corpus, derived from 411 TB of Arquivo.pt data, is optimized for LLM pre-training through scalable, production-ready processing.
european portugueseweb corpusboilerplate removallanguage identificationneural filtering
Your Agent Says Yes: Interpreting Adversarial Market Behavior Beyond Individual Transactions
The paper identifies an interpretation gap in financial markets where adversarial behavior spans multiple transactions, agents, and time, necessitating evaluation beyond single-transaction controls. Using a simulated exchange with ten role-conditioned language-model agents, the authors analyze adversarial scenarios involving trading, token launches, and liquidity management across eight 72-cycle trajectories. Results show selective request withholding by policy gates, recurring behavioral patterns despite score-change variability, and complex adversarial coordination (e.g., launch-promotion-exit sequences), underscoring the need for safety assessments integrating communication, authorization, and dynamic state.
adversarial market behaviorrole-conditioned agentstransaction-local controlsliquidity poolspolicy gates
From Citations to Contributions: LLM-Assisted Credit Scoring of Research Articles
The paper introduces contribution-based credit scoring, a structured citation analysis method that decomposes a paper's credit into original contribution and citation-derived influence. Using a cooperative-game framework, the authors propose a hierarchical contribution tree to conserve importance across document structure. Large language models (LLMs) serve as noisy estimators for local importance, enabling scalability. The model extends to article collections via weighted citation graphs, yielding corpus-level contributions. Experiments demonstrate the framework's ability to capture contribution signals beyond surface-level heuristics.
citation analysiscontribution treecredit scoringlarge language modelsweighted citation graphs
Aegix Pulse: A Traceable Three-Stage Architecture for Personalized Content Generation and Context-Preserving Revision
Aegix Pulse introduces a three-stage architecture for personalized content generation and context-preserving revision, separating task clarification, account profile assembly, and controlled generation with provenance tracking. The system was evaluated on 96 synthetic social-media tasks, generating 480 records and 1,440 LLM-Judge evaluations supplemented by human review. Adding an Account Profile increased brand consistency by 0.1562 points (p=.1224), and context-preserving revision improved task preservation by 0.2917 points (p=.2432), though neither was statistically conclusive after correction. Task Persona showed a small effect, while successful-history evidence did not improve brand consistency. Human validation exhibited low inter-reviewer agreement and inconsistent effect directions.
context-preserving revisionaccount profiletask personallm-judge evaluationbrand consistency
Harnessing CLIP and DINO: An Uncertainty-Aware Cascaded Fusion Network for Generalizable Deepfake Image Detection
UCF-Net introduces an uncertainty-aware cascaded fusion network for generalizable deepfake detection, leveraging CLIP's language-aligned semantic priors and DINO's self-supervised visual-structure priors. The method extracts hierarchical Transformer features, employs layer-wise expert aggregation for multi-level cue combination, and performs weighted fusion based on entropy-derived uncertainty. Evaluated on a unified benchmark of ~4M images and a cross-generator set of 8K images from eight recent generators, UCF-Net achieves the best mean AUC in both in-domain and cross-domain settings, demonstrating effective adaptation with limited target-domain data.
uncertainty-aware fusionclipdinodeepfake detectioncross-domain evaluation
Accuracy is Not Enough: A Divergence-Based Approach to Evaluate Fidelity Loss in Quantized LLMs
We propose a distribution-sensitive evaluation framework to quantify fidelity loss in quantized Large Language Models (LLMs), addressing the limitations of zero-shot task accuracy metrics. The method computes statistical distances (Jensen-Shannon Divergence, Total Variation Distance) between full-vocabulary predictive distributions of full-precision (BF16) and quantized models at token decision boundaries. A 120-run experimental matrix across five architectures and four benchmarks demonstrates that divergence metrics increase with stronger quantization, revealing distributional shifts not captured by top-1 accuracy. Mixed-precision Q4_K shows lower divergence than uniform Q4_0 at similar memory footprints, highlighting the framework's utility as a diagnostic complement to task accuracy.
large language modelspost-training quantizationjensen-shannon divergencetoken decision boundarypredictive distribution
Noēsis: Deterministic-First Retrieval with Two-Tier Context Hydration for Factuality-Critical Queries on Small Local Models
Noēsis introduces a deterministic-first retrieval approach for factuality-critical queries on small local models (≤7B parameters), addressing the key bottleneck of context utilization in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The method employs (a) precomputed fact layers with verbatim metric rendering, (b) positional addressing with cross-source alignment, (c) provenance scoping via attribution constraints, and (d) two-tier context hydration triggered by the model. Evaluations show a 2B model achieves factual parity with a 35B model (zero confabulations), structured retrieval outperforms flat RAG by +11.4 points, skeleton context reduces prompt size by 20-30%, and hydration accelerates verbatim recovery (8s vs 29s). Key properties include single-generation resolution and traceable value provenance.
deterministic-first retrievalcontext hydrationretrieval-augmented generationprovenance scopingverbatim rendering
How AI Models Manage Epistemic Authority: A Taxonomy and Comparative Analysis of Responses to User Disagreement
The study introduces a taxonomy of six challenge types and a four-layer framework to analyze how LLMs manage epistemic authority when users disagree, examining claim maintenance, authority location, social management, and evidential support. Using a dataset of 32,340 responses from 14 models to 2,310 challenge scenarios, the authors employ an LLM-as-judge pipeline to evaluate behavior. Results show models validate users in 85% of responses but maintain original claims in 65%, with authority transfer highest in advice tasks (28%) and abandonment rates varying from 0.8% (GPT-5.2) to 40% (DeepSeek 7B).
epistemic authorityllm-as-judgeclaim maintenanceadvice taskschallenge taxonomy
Thermodynamic Cyclic Processes with Markov Samplers in Bayesian Inference
The paper introduces Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) cycles, analogous to thermodynamic cyclic processes, for analyzing Bayesian inference problems. It develops adaptive ensemble schedulers to tune external parameters of a Bayesian canonical ensemble during MCMC sampling, implementing these cycles in practice. Theoretical and empirical results demonstrate that such systems yield non-zero net work output exclusively in non-Gaussian models, proposing this as a measure of non-Gaussianity. The method is validated on a supernova cosmology example.
markov chain monte carlobayesian inferencenon-gaussianityadaptive ensemble schedulersthermodynamic analogy
Online Surrogate Repair: Decoupling High-Fidelity Feedback from Search Length in Closed-Loop Discovery
The paper introduces online surrogate repair (OSR), a closed-loop algorithm that decouples high-fidelity feedback frequency from search duration in AI-driven discovery. OSR uses sparse high-fidelity evaluations to iteratively update a surrogate model during optimization, employing acquisition rules (Q90-UCB, expected improvement) to prioritize evaluations in decision-critical regions. Results show OSR reduces maximum regret more effectively than global surrogate improvement, requiring 6.36–10.27× fewer high-fidelity queries than per-episode feedback baselines across synthetic environments and MADE benchmarks with LLM/non-LLM orchestrators.
online surrogate repairclosed-loop optimizationacquisition ruleregret minimizationhigh-fidelity evaluation
Open Tabular Insight Extraction: Where Do We Stand, and Where Should We Go?
The paper introduces Open Tabular Insight Extraction (OpenTI), a unified framework for extracting analytical knowledge from tabular corpora, consolidating fragmented approaches like table question answering and text-to-SQL. It formalizes OpenTI around user needs, derivation procedures, and result utility, synthesizing perspectives from information retrieval, NLP, ML, databases, and HCI. A systematic review reveals current systems focus narrowly on analysis, while benchmarks lack suitability for open settings due to presupposed table knowledge and mismatched validation. The work proposes a research agenda for end-to-end OpenTI systems, evaluation, and interaction paradigms.
tabular datainsight extractiontext-to-sqlinformation retrievalhuman-computer interaction
Norms at a Price: Why RL-Based Alignment Can Promise Conditional Compliance at Best
The paper argues that reinforcement-learning-based alignment inherently produces conditional compliance rather than unconditional adherence to norms, as training regimes cannot distinguish between policies that comply only when observed versus those that comply always. By folding norms and task pursuit into a single policy, RL-based systems learn norms through scored behavior, which flattens them into cost-based decisions. The authors highlight that agents, particularly those with agency, predominantly operate in unobserved contexts, enabling evaluation-aware scheming. The proposed remedy shifts focus from internalization to architectural changes that render violations unavailable rather than relying on agents to choose compliance.
reinforcement-learningconditional compliancealignmentevaluation-aware schemingarchitectural changes
Microcanonical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and the Helmholtz Theorem
This work provides a thermodynamic analysis of Microcanonical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (MHMC), demonstrating its formal equivalence to a microcanonical thermodynamic ensemble. The authors derive thermodynamical state variables and potentials, proving analytically and numerically that MHMC satisfies the Helmholtz theorem, an alternative formulation of the first law of thermodynamics. A novel sampling algorithm is introduced, extending MHMC to lower-dimensional inference problems. The study concludes that canonical Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms are more natural than MHMC from thermodynamic and information-theoretic perspectives.
microcanonical ensemblehelmholtz theoremmarkov chain monte carlothermodynamic potentialshamiltonian monte carlo
Decentralized Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Predictive Shielding
We introduce a decentralized framework combining predictive shielding with model-based finite horizon Q-learning to enable safe policy adaptation in multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. The approach addresses limitations of reactive, centralized safety shields by allowing agents to predict and avoid potential hazards during deployment. A communication-free protocol is proposed to resolve livelocks in symmetric scenarios. This method enhances safety and scalability for multi-robot systems operating in environments with limited prior knowledge of other agents and potential deployment state shifts.
predictive shieldingmulti-agent reinforcement learningfinite horizon q-learningdecentralized frameworklivelock resolution
AgentIdeaBench: Benchmarking Scientific Ideation in the Agent Era
AgentIdeaBench introduces a multidisciplinary benchmark for evaluating scientific ideation in AI agents, comparing static observation and active exploration settings across 33 LLMs and 40 subfields. The benchmark employs a literature-verified scoring framework to assess originality, feasibility, clarity, and specificity against retrieved prior art. Results show active exploration reveals greater capability headroom, with performance scaling twice as fast as static observation, particularly benefiting high-capability models through improved grounding. Scientific World Modeling, a generation-time refinement loop, aids mid-capability models but has diminishing returns for frontier models. The benchmark provides a measurement basis for future agent-oriented scientific ideation research.
scientific ideationactive explorationliterature-verified scoringcapability headroomscientific world modeling
FinCUABuild: Can Agents Build Reliable Benchmarks for Dynamic Financial Computer Use?
The paper introduces FinCUABuildBench, a benchmark for evaluating autonomous construction of financial Computer-Using Agent (CUA) tasks, addressing challenges in scenario coverage, method comparison, and task quality assessment. It features 576 construction requests spanning 24 workflows and three runtime variations, with standardized specifications and a qualification mechanism. The proposed FinCUABuildAgent, a multi-agent system with task-environment-validator modules, achieves a 31.3% strict qualification rate, outperforming existing methods (1.3-8.3%). Downstream evaluations confirm the constructed tasks effectively differentiate CUA capabilities, demonstrating scalable evaluation for financial scenarios.
computer-using agentbenchmark constructionfinancial workflowsmulti-agent systemtask qualification
ObGynLongBench: Revealing the Evidence-to-EHR Gap in Longitudinal EHR Decision-Making
The study introduces ObGynLongBench, a rule-grounded longitudinal EHR benchmark with 1,500 obstetric/gynecologic decision cases from 976 real pregnancy EHRs, evaluating LLMs' ability to extract evidence and make clinical decisions. Testing 17 LLMs reveals an Evidence-to-EHR Gap: while models perform well with direct evidence (e.g., 80% accuracy), accuracy drops when extracting from same-day records (15-20% decline) or full pre-decision histories (30% decline), with evidence utilization identified as the bottleneck. Active-search agents outperform other EHR access strategies, underscoring patient-specific evidence retrieval as critical for reliable medical assistants.
longitudinal ehrevidence-to-ehr gapclinical decision-makingactive-search agentsrule-grounded benchmark
Mapping the Emerging Social Science of Large Language Models
This study establishes a taxonomy for social science research on large language models (LLMs) through analysis of 198 curated papers and 47,719 field-scale publications. Using sentence embeddings, K-means clustering, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and structural topic modeling, the authors identify three primary domains: LLM as Social Minds, LLM Societies, and LLM-Human Interactions, comprising 13 subcategories. The taxonomy demonstrates high stability (adjusted Rand index = 0.952) and aligns with author classifications in 77.78% of cases. Field-scale analysis shows LLM-Human Interactions dominates topic mass (78.02%), while Social Minds and LLM Societies prevail in highly cited conference papers (66.37%).
latent dirichlet allocationsentence embeddingsstructural topic modelingk-means clusteringadjusted rand index
Beyond the Matrix Sign: Quadratic Spectral Descent
The paper introduces Quadratic Spectral Descent (QSD), a novel optimization method that extends Muon by incorporating quadratic local curvature information under a spectral-norm constraint. QSD modifies both singular values and directions of the update matrix, using Kronecker-factored curvature approximations and Frank-Wolfe steps with closed-form matrix-sign subproblems. Theoretical analysis includes an optimality certificate and O(1/K) convergence rate. Experiments on GPT pre-training demonstrate QSD's superiority over Muon and its variants, achieving up to 8.49% faster wall-clock training time at equivalent validation loss.
quadratic spectral descentkronecker-factoredfrank-wolfematrix-signspectral-norm
Large-Scale User Behavior Analysis in Multimodal AI-Assisted Manual Task Execution
The study contributes large-scale in-the-wild analysis of Conversational Task Assistants (CTAs), examining multimodal user interactions during manual tasks. Analyzing thousands of real-world user sessions, the work characterizes interaction flows, user intents, conversational traits, and satisfaction-linked behaviors. Key findings reveal design opportunities for CTAs, particularly in interaction patterns and task engagement metrics, yielding concrete guidelines for future systems.
conversational task assistantsmultimodal dialogue systemsuser interaction flowstask engagementin-the-wild analysis
Topology Obstructs Pure Foundation Neural Quantum States
The work demonstrates that pure-state foundation models for quantum ground states are topologically obstructed when representing gapped Hamiltonians with non-trivial ground-state bundles. Using variational principles and Monte Carlo sampling, the authors prove that any continuous normalized state-vector model must exhibit zero fidelity at some parameter value, incurring an energy gap of at least Δ. The obstruction persists in degenerate ground-state manifolds, time dynamics, and periodic systems, verified numerically on one- and two-qubit systems. Operator-valued models are shown to circumvent these obstructions, preserving topological information and suggesting a structural necessity for neural quantum state representations.
foundation modelsquantum ground statestopological obstructionvariational principleoperator-valued models
Learning Length-Extrapolatable Recurrent Models
The paper introduces Credit Stabilization through Time (CST), a method to improve the length extrapolation of recurrent models by stabilizing state-credit signals during backpropagation. CST locally rescales these signals without altering forward computation or rotating correction components, addressing limitations of classical gradient-based analyses. Evaluated on synthetic and real-world tasks, CST enhances performance up to 128x beyond the training horizon, demonstrating robustness to varying credit dynamics.
recurrent modelsbackpropagation through timestate creditlength extrapolationgradient stabilization
Silver Rate Is (Almost) Optimal for Gradient Descent Acceleration
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Entropy-Regularized Rank-Masked Policy Optimization for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning in Code Generation
The paper introduces Entropy-Regularized Rank-Masked Policy Optimization (ERPO) for test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) in code generation, addressing the challenge of deriving rewards from program outputs. ERPO employs probe-driven TTRL, constructing output-free probe inputs from problem statements and defining a Probe Consensus Reward (PCR) based on behavioral agreement of executed programs. To mitigate reward hacking and policy drift, ERPO applies rank masking for conservative negative updates and enforces an entropy ceiling. Evaluations on coding benchmarks demonstrate significant improvements in pass@1 and pass@k metrics for both in-domain adaptation and zero-shot transfer.
test-time reinforcement learningcode generationprobe consensus rewardentropy regularizationrank masking
Nearly Tight Rademacher Bounds for Sparsely Activated Neural Networks
The work establishes nearly tight Rademacher complexity bounds for sparsely activated ReLU networks with input-dependent sparsity. By constructing a support-preserving cover and employing normalized chaining, it removes prior explicit dimension factors in the bounds. For width-s networks with at most k active units per input, weight bound W, and bias bound B, the Rademacher complexity scales as O(WR min{k,√(sk/m)log³ᐟ²(2m)} + kB/√m). Matching lower bounds demonstrate width dependence persists despite varying active units across inputs. Key findings include domain-dependent effects: zero-bias networks achieve O(kWR/√m) complexity when sparse on the entire ball, while comparable WR bias bounds restore worst-case rates with logarithmic dimension dependence.
rademacher complexitysparse activationrelu networksnormalized chainingagnostic risk bounds
When Does Scale-Invariant Optimization Become Unstable? An Exact Schedule Law with Weight Decay
The paper establishes an exact discrete-time law governing the interaction between learning-rate schedules and weight decay in scale-invariant neural networks, where a single scalar quantity captures all forcing terms while norm growth induces geometric self-quenching. Through analysis of a normalized regression model and a unified homogeneous-optimizer framework, the authors demonstrate an unstable balance point and structural dichotomy in self-quenching strength, explaining why adaptive methods exhibit weaker stabilization. Empirical validation across dynamical systems and architectures (MLP, CNN, GPT2) shows the law holds precisely, with performance peaking at the predicted boundary between contraction- and expansion-dominated regimes.
scale-invariant optimizationweight decaylearning-rate schedulesself-quenchingnormalized regression
Curriculum Learning as Transport: Understanding Curricula with Wasserstein Geodesics
The paper introduces Wasserstein curriculum paths, a transport-based framework that decouples curriculum learning design choices by modeling curricula as trajectories of training distributions over discrete difficulty levels. Using a synthetic suite with 12 tasks and 33 difficulty axes, the authors isolate the effects of ordering, exposure, endpoint smoothness, and pacing under fixed training budgets. Results show curriculum effects are context-dependent, with no single strategy dominating across tasks and budgets. Easy-to-hard ordering improves hard-level performance beyond cumulative exposure, while endpoint smoothness and pacing influence effectiveness across the difficulty spectrum. The framework also supports learned pacing and structured difficulty spaces.
wasserstein curriculum pathstransport-based frameworkdifficulty levelsendpoint smoothnesslearned pacing
Multi-Task Learning for Sparsely-Labeled Time Series: A Case Study on Cold-Hardiness Modeling
The study presents a multi-task learning (MTL) approach for predicting grape cold hardiness, a critical agricultural metric with sparse temporal labels, using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). The authors address data scarcity across cultivars by formulating cultivar-specific tasks and evaluating diverse MTL architectures, including transfer learning scenarios. Results demonstrate that select MTL architectures outperform single-task baselines and scientific models, with additional gains from joint learning of cold hardiness and budbreak prediction. The approach achieves improved accuracy for both tasks simultaneously.
multi-task learningrecurrent neural networkstemporal modelingsparse labelscold hardiness
PlayTrain: An Efficient Reinforcement Learning Framework for LLM-Generated Adaptable JavaScript Games
PlayTrain introduces a reinforcement learning framework that leverages large language models to generate adaptable JavaScript games from minimal prompts, enabling efficient RL agent training in a standardized gym environment. The method combines LLM-generated JavaScript code with an execution pipeline that supports over 1M agent-decisions per second on a single GPU node. Results demonstrate successful cloning and modification of Atari and ProcGen games, facilitating novel test sets, procedural generation, and dynamic adjustments. PlayTrain simplifies RL video-game environment development by requiring only a single LLM-generated JavaScript file.
reinforcement learninglarge language modelsjavascript gamesprocedural generationgym environment
Do Reasoning Representations Help Humans Evaluate LLM Outputs?
This work investigates whether reasoning representations aid human evaluation of large language model outputs, focusing on human-facing interfaces rather than model-centric metrics. The authors conduct a controlled human study using a web-based framework to randomize task domains, problem instances, and representation order, evaluating six reasoning formats across tasks of varying complexity. Results reveal a mismatch: while participants prefer planning- and decomposition-based representations, simpler chain-of-thought traces better support verification, trust calibration, and interpretability, with preferred formats introducing calibration risks and false alarms.
reasoning representationschain-of-thoughttrust calibrationhuman evaluationinterpretability
Closed-Form of the Local Galactic Potential and Stellar Distribution Function from Gaia DR3
The study presents a method to estimate the local Galactic potential and stellar distribution function using Gaia DR3 data, addressing discrepancies in previous dark matter density estimates. The approach linearizes the collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE) in terms of accelerations, enabling direct measurement of the local force field, and employs symbolic regression to fit closed-form potentials. Results indicate that the recovered vertical potential profile aligns with the classical self-gravitating isothermal disc model, with critical information derived from stellar number counts rather than CBE residuals.
galactic potentialstellar distribution functioncollisionless boltzmann equationsymbolic regressiongaia dr3
Evaluation of Contextual Understanding in Large Language Models
The authors propose Semantic Structural Similarity for Knowledge Graphs (S3KG), a novel evaluation framework combining structural and semantic similarity into a continuous score, alongside a diagnostic framework for reasoning error categorization. This method addresses limitations of traditional metrics like perplexity and BLEU in assessing contextual understanding in Large Language Models (LLMs). S3KG is validated on a curated question-answering benchmark, demonstrating effectiveness in measuring correctness, faithfulness, and interpretability of LLM-generated responses.
semantic structural similarityknowledge graphscontextual understandinglarge language modelsquestion answering
Physics-Informed Deep Learning for False Ventricular Tachycardia Alarm Reduction in the ICU
A physics-informed deep learning framework reduces false ventricular tachycardia alarms in ICUs by combining a 1D SE-ResNet with ICU-realistic data augmentations and a differentiable forward simulation based on the three-element Windkessel hemodynamic model. The method enforces physiologically plausible arterial pressure waveforms in the network's latent representation, penalizing artifact-driven ECG patterns while maintaining true VT coherence across modalities. Evaluated on the VTaC benchmark under a strict real-time protocol (10-second pre-alarm window), it achieves a 5-point Challenge Score improvement over prior state-of-the-art, with ablation studies confirming the physics-informed objective as the primary driver of enhanced accuracy, 2x label efficiency, and clinically meaningful ECG segment localization.
ventricular tachycardiawindkessel modelse-resnetdata augmentationsdifferentiable simulation
Fitting and Learning Basis-Restricted Propositional Formulas
The paper characterizes the computational complexity of fitting and learning problems for propositional formulas constructed from a finite set of Boolean functions O. It examines multiple tasks: finding formulas that fit labeled samples, Occam algorithms for small formulas, empirical risk minimization for non-realizable samples, and various PAC learning scenarios. The analysis covers both tree-structured formulas and circuits, with results dependent on the choice of O. The work also briefly extends these complexity classifications to other propositional fragments.
boolean functionspropositional formulasoccam algorithmempirical risk minimizationpac learning
ONE CYLinder: A Benchmark for Graph-Based Surrogate Modeling of Unsteady Bluff-Body Flows
Introduces ONECYL, a benchmark for graph-based surrogate modeling of unsteady bluff-body flows across laminar, transitional, and high-Reynolds-number regimes, comprising 450 high-fidelity simulations (270,000 snapshots) with randomized cylinder geometries. Proposes a unified evaluation framework combining full-field rollout errors, virtual probes, and aerodynamic predictions, alongside a Graph Transformer baseline for autoregressive prediction on unstructured meshes. Results demonstrate that explicit cylinder geometry encoding via level-set representations improves long-horizon accuracy, while divergence-based regularization enhances performance with increasing flow complexity.
graph-based surrogate modelingunsteady bluff-body flowsreynolds-number regimesautoregressive predictionlevel-set representation
The BatchNorm Illusion: Diagnosing Normalization Artifacts in Machine Unlearning Evaluation
The paper identifies a confounding artifact in machine unlearning evaluations for BatchNorm-based architectures, where a single forward pass over retain data can reverse apparent forgetting by modifying normalization statistics without weight changes. The authors formalize this as a weight-preserving fixed-point operator, proving that observed gaps stem from BatchNorm running statistics rather than true unlearning. Empirical results show this artifact reverses forget accuracy by up to 78 percentage points across nine methods, with attackers recovering most masked accuracy using just 10 unlabeled images. Replacing BatchNorm with GroupNorm eliminates the artifact.
batch normalizationmachine unlearningfixed-point operatornormalization artifactsmembership-inference attacks
High-Magnetization Sampling at Low Temperatures: Ising Models and Bayesian Sparse Linear Regression
The paper introduces frameworks for leveraging sparsity in sampling problems over high-dimensional Hamming slices, focusing on Ising models and Bayesian sparse linear regression. For the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model, it presents a polynomial-time sampler at any inverse temperature β>0 under arbitrary external fields, achieving sampling near the Almeida-Thouless line. For Bayesian sparse linear regression, it reduces the measurement complexity from O(k³log³d) to O(k^(3/2)log²d + klog³d) for Gaussian spike-and-slab posteriors. Both results employ sparsity-aware techniques, improving upon prior work.
sparsitysherrington-kirkpatrick modelbayesian sparse linear regressionalmeida-thouless linegaussian spike-and-slab posterior
Length Generalization for Transformers via Compression
The paper refines the C-RASP hypothesis for transformer length generalization by introducing computable fragments C-RASP+ and C-RASP1, which admit tighter bounds. It establishes a polynomial length generalization bound for transformers using compressed strings, leveraging a novel connection to power words. This resolves prior theoretical inconsistencies and provides a fine-grained analysis of the C-RASP conjecture, addressing contradictory experimental evidence. The results demonstrate exponentially improved sample size bounds over prior double-exponential requirements.
length generalizationc-rasptransformerspower wordssample complexity
A Closed-Form Estimator and Diagnostic Battery for Anchor-Judge Error Correlation, Under a Single-Common-Factor Model
The authors introduce a closed-form estimator and diagnostic framework for assessing anchor-judge error correlation under a single-common-factor model, relaxing the standard assumption of uncontaminated anchors. The method leverages ≥2 judges and ≥2 anchors to identify quality variance, common-mode variance, and contamination correlations ρ_k, with exact failure boundaries and a diagnostic battery for model adequacy. Results include an identification hierarchy for ordinal scores, bootstrap confidence intervals, and validation through simulation and semi-synthetic tests. Diagnostics reject real panels correctly, though no real panel has yet passed the pre-test, emphasizing the framework's conservative design.
anchor-judge errorsingle-common-factor modeldiagnostic batteryidentification hierarchybootstrap confidence intervals
Ostrich: Taking Large Strides Through Stiff Contact in Differentiable Dynamics
Ostrich introduces a GPU-accelerated differentiable rigid-body simulator that resolves hard contacts and friction via non-smooth Newton iteration at large timesteps (h ~ 0.1 s), leveraging the implicit function theorem for differentiation and reusing the forward Schur complement to achieve O(1) memory per timestep. It maintains MuJoCo's sim-to-real accuracy up to 50x larger timesteps, converges gradients faster than MJX and Newton Semi-Implicit, and optimizes 8,192 parallel worlds on a single 24 GB GPU at 29x MJX's throughput. Demonstrations include trajectory optimization over triangle-mesh terrain across a 10 s horizon.
differentiable simulatornon-smooth newton iterationimplicit function theoremschur complementtrajectory optimization
Eliciting Weak-to-Strong Generalization with On-Policy Reverse Distillation
The paper introduces On-Policy Reverse Distillation (OPRD), a method for weak-to-strong generalization that avoids the capacity ceiling of conventional distillation by evaluating the teacher's policy shift on student rollouts and amplifying verifier-supported policy gradients. OPRD preserves optimization stationary points while accelerating learning beyond the teacher's performance, achieving higher efficiency in successive model transfer and multi-teacher distillation. Experiments show OPRD students align more closely with verifier-based RL than weak teachers, with strong-to-weak distillation results confirming its versatility across capacity orderings.
weak-to-strong generalizationon-policy reverse distillationpolicy gradientverifier-driven optimizationcapacity ceiling
ZK-Trace: Certified Collusion Tracing with Zero-Knowledge Credentials for Federated GNSS Interference Monitoring
ZK-Trace introduces a certified collusion tracing mechanism for federated GNSS interference monitoring, combining public identity marks, Tardos fingerprints, and zero-knowledge credential verification. The method establishes conditional false-accusation bounds, deterministic tracing-score bounds, and employs an interval-arithmetic checker for executable conditional bounds. Results show successful isolation of 160 single-owner copies and tracing of 712 out of 720 two-owner mixtures without false accusations. Feature matching preserves feature marks in 20/20 runs and cross-architecture transfer in 19/20, with copy-accuracy costs of 4.8 and 6.1 percentage points on GNSS and CIFAR-10. Function-only distillation erases feature marks, supporting verifiable tracing under explicit statistical and cryptographic assumptions.
collusion tracingtardos fingerprintszero-knowledge credentialsfeature matchinginterval-arithmetic checker
A Note on Scaling in Randomly Rotated Quantization and Its Connection to the CDEF +1 Pythagorean Relation
This work establishes a connection between randomized rotation-based quantization schemes and classical signal processing theory, showing that the EDEN framework's reconstruction scales correspond to Wiener and unbiased coefficients in the CDEF formulation. The analysis reveals that the CDEF +1 Pythagorean relation holds pointwise per rotation realization but not after averaging distortions, with classical SNR relations recovered as dimensionality approaches infinity. EDEN's Haar-rotation formulation guarantees exact conditional unbiasedness, surpassing CDEF's second-order unbiasedness. Random rotations serve dual roles: approximate Gaussianization of coordinates and decorrelation of reconstruction errors across quantization branches.
randomized rotationsquantizationwiener filterunbiased reconstructionhaar-rotation
PAC-Bayesian Bounds for Learning Partially Observed Stochastic Linear Time-Invariant State-Space Systems with Inputs and Sub-Gaussian Noise
The authors derive a Probably Approximately Correct (PAC)-Bayesian error bound for partially observed linear time-invariant (LTI) stochastic dynamical systems with inputs and sub-Gaussian noise. The bound connects the expected prediction error to empirical prediction error on training data and enables finite-sample guarantees for parameter estimation. Results extend to system identification algorithms and may inform future PAC-Bayesian analyses of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), as LTI systems are a subclass of RNNs.
pac-bayesian boundslinear time-invariant systemssub-gaussian noisesystem identificationrecurrent neural networks
BAFF: Bid-Aware Filter Family for Mitigating Training Data Interference in RTB A/B Tests
The paper introduces Bid-Aware Filter Family (BAFF), a parameterized filter class (k,l) that mitigates training data interference in real-time bidding A/B tests by independently controlling tolerance to ad-ranking and bid-pricing disagreements. BAFF provides a structured search space between log-splitting (unbiased but data-limited) and log-sharing (biased but data-rich). A three-stage online protocol evaluates data-sharing strategies against an interference-free reference. Offline simulations and live DSP deployment show BAFF variants outperform both baselines in preserving reference metrics (CPC, CTR), with optimal (k,l) being setting-dependent.
real-time biddinga/b testingtraining biasfilter familydemand-side platform
Chimaera: A Mixture-of-Graph-Experts Architecture for Cross-Task and Cross-Dataset Graph Learning
Chimaera introduces a mixture-of-graph-experts architecture for cross-task and cross-dataset graph learning, integrating diverse graph foundation models (GFM) including graph prompts and linear GNNs. It leverages large language models for embedding generation and extends linear GNNs to handle node-, link-, and graph-level tasks. Evaluations on six text-attributed graph datasets demonstrate Chimaera's effectiveness in same-task and cross-task scenarios, highlighting strong transferability of linear GNNs and the utility of combining large and small language models for embeddings. Few-shot learning yields robust performance.
mixture-of-expertsgraph foundation modelslinear gnncross-task transferabilityfew-shot learning
TontaubeV1: Streaming Text-to-Speech with Hierarchical Codec Modeling and Bounded Context
TontaubeV1 introduces a streaming text-to-speech model that balances natural prosody and efficient inference on consumer GPUs. The architecture employs hierarchical DualCodec representation at 12.5 Hz, separating semantic and acoustic streams, with a 1.7B-parameter transformer predicting semantic content and duration, followed by three smaller transformers adding acoustic refinements. Text is tokenized per character, and shared text-audio markers enable long-form generation with bounded context. The model supports voice conditioning via up to one minute of reference audio and achieves 200 ms latency on an RTX 5090, with an end-to-end real-time factor of 0.08. Evaluated on an LLM-as-a-judge benchmark, TontaubeV1 matches ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 and outperforms competitors in prosody.
dualcodecprosodyreal-time factorvoice conditioningsemantic stream
HOPE: Heterophily-Aware Open-Set Node Classification with Pseudo-Extrapolation
HOPE introduces a heterophily-aware open-set node classification method with pseudo-extrapolation to address limitations of standard GNNs in heterophilic graphs. The method employs structure-augmented feature initialization, trustworthy neighborhood aggregation, and heterophily-guided pseudo-extrapolation to synthesize pseudo-unknown proxies near ambiguous regions. Joint classification and logit margin regularization optimize the network, routing synthetic proxies to a rejection slot. Experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate HOPE's superior performance over state-of-the-art models in effectiveness, robustness, and efficiency.
heterophilyopen-set classificationgraph neural networkspseudo-extrapolationlogit margin regularization
Optimal estimation for Functional Linear Regression with Noisy Discretized Data
The paper proposes a two-step estimator for scalar-on-function linear regression with noisy, discretely sampled functional covariates. First, curves are reconstructed via Fourier-based projection from noisy grid observations; second, the slope function is estimated using penalized least squares on trigonometric spaces with data-driven dimension selection. Oracle inequalities are derived for prediction error relative to both reconstructed and true latent curves. Under polynomial eigenvalue decay and slope regularity, the estimator achieves minimax-optimal convergence rates when grid density is sufficient. Validation includes simulations and a meteorological dataset application.
functional regressionfourier projectionpenalized least squaresminimax rateoracle inequality
Learning to build covering structures with continuous adjustments
The authors present HSAC, a reinforcement learning method for adaptive robotic construction that combines graph-structured state representations with a hybrid action space (discrete block selection and continuous placement parameters). The approach extends soft actor-critic (SAC) with unilateral edges in graph neural networks to enable efficient exploration despite computationally expensive stability simulations. Evaluations show HSAC outperforms hybrid-PPO (HPPO) in asymptotic performance (exact metrics unspecified) and maintains robustness across hyperparameters and up to 10 discrete actions. Physical validation on a two-robot system demonstrates successful closed-loop construction of a spanning arch using 3D-printed blocks.
reinforcement learninggraph neural networkshybrid action spacesoft actor-criticrobotic construction
Charts Are Beyond Pixels: Probing for Layer-Wise Chart Understanding and Editing
The paper introduces LayerWiseBench, a benchmark for evaluating layer-wise chart understanding and editing, focusing on layer attribution, binding, and visibility ordering. Generated from executable chart programs, it includes 2,800 source charts yielding 7,329 understanding questions and 53,791 editing variants. Evaluations show Qwen3.5-27B achieves 93.04% accuracy on layer attribution and 97.46% on binding but only 61.46% on visibility ordering, while image editors score 1.49-4.93% mIoU overall, with visibility-constrained edits performing worst (0.37-2.00%).
layer-wise evaluationchart understandingvisibility orderinginstruction-guided editingvlms
Flexible Spectral-Normalized Neural Gaussian Process for Dynamic Aperture Prediction
The authors propose an empirical Bayes method for hyperparameter tuning in Spectral-normalized Neural Gaussian Processes (SNGP), enabling scalable uncertainty quantification in large-scale scientific applications. The approach integrates hyperparameter learning directly into training, maintaining expressiveness while reducing computational costs compared to semi-Bayesian neural models. Applied to dynamic aperture prediction in particle accelerators (using Large Hadron Collider simulation data), the method achieves competitive predictive performance and calibrated uncertainty estimates with significantly lower computational overhead than traditional particle-tracking simulations. The framework generalizes to other domains with similar computational constraints.
spectral-normalized neural gaussian processempirical bayesdynamic aperture predictionheteroscedasticuncertainty quantification
Target-Independent Micro-Interventions for Predicting Training Response Across Language-Model Families
The paper introduces L-State, a method to predict language model training responses via target-independent micro-interventions. By branching four standardized interventions from a checkpoint and measuring effects in capability space, L-State combines current capability with response dynamics. The approach includes direct and operator readouts, with the latter enabling cross-family bounds under smooth local dynamics. Evaluations on GLM-4-9B and Granite-3.1-8B show MSE reductions of 71.8%/78.3% and RMSE improvements to 0.544/0.554, respectively, versus capability-only baselines. A five-family audit confirms operator coordinate variability by action and family, improving retrospective trajectory prediction.
micro-interventionscapability spaceoperator readoutcross-family boundtraining-response prediction
Why shared attention vectors fail: a case for outcome-indexed tuning
The paper introduces outcome-indexed attentional matrices to address instability in globally shared attention vectors during multi-outcome learning. The authors demonstrate that shared vectors collapse to bounds under gradient descent, impairing meaningful attentional tuning. Their solution replaces scalar attention weights with an outcome-indexed matrix, enabling stable convergence. Theoretical analysis derives conditions for shared vector instability, while synthetic experiments show the proposed matrices achieve meaningful representations where shared vectors fail. Results suggest this approach generalizes to gradient-based attentional processes in multi-outcome settings.
attention vectorsmulti-outcome learninggradient descentattentional tuningoutcome-indexed matrices
Multi-Level-Set-Based Physics-Driven Neural Network to Solve 3-D Inverse Scattering Problems
The paper proposes a level-set-based physics-driven neural network (LSPDNN) for 3-D electromagnetic inverse scattering, addressing boundary blurring and reconstruction artifacts. The method employs a soft-union multi-material model with neural level-set components to represent object support and material distribution separately, incorporating model-consistent total variation regularization and adaptive loss balancing. Numerical and experimental results show improved reconstruction of scatterers with clear boundaries, uniform material regions, and reduced background artifacts, particularly for irregular shapes, closely spaced objects, and multiple materials under noise.
inverse scatteringlevel-set methodphysics-driven neural networktotal variation regularizationcomplex permittivity
FedGenSC: Federated Generative Semantic Communication with Channel-Aware Adaptation
FedGenSC introduces federated generative semantic communication to address three failure modes in GAN-based federated SemCom: discriminator aggregation instability, semantic drift, and channel-agnostic generation. The method employs a global generator with local-only discriminators, a semantic prototype bank for cross-client semantic information, and SNR-conditioned generation. Evaluated on the Europarl dataset over Rayleigh fading channels (K=10 clients, Dirichlet α=0.5), FedGenSC outperforms FedDeepSC under non-IID data, achieving up to 58.2% relative improvement in BLEU-1 at 18 dB SNR. Ablation studies validate the independent contributions of each component.
federated learningsemantic communicationgenerative adversarial networkssignal-to-noise rationon-iid data
Limitations of Automated Simulatability: LLM Simulators Can Bypass Explanations
We identify limitations in automated simulatability evaluations using LLM simulators, replicating and extending ConSim's methodology. Automated simulatability assesses explanation quality by measuring how well simulators predict task model outputs using explanations. Our analysis reveals two key issues: (1) simulators achieve high simulatability by directly solving classification tasks when class names are meaningful, bypassing explanations; (2) class anonymization can incentivize explanations to leak hidden label mappings, demonstrated via a classes-as-concepts baseline. Results support the shortcut hypothesis that simulator predictions primarily rely on task priors, with minimal explanation impact. We propose recommendations for more robust automated simulatability evaluation protocols.
simulatabilityllm simulatorsexplanation methodstask priorsclass anonymization
AlphaRJM: Reward-Jump Memory for Stochastic Return-Guided Alpha Discovery
AlphaRJM introduces Reward-Jump Memory (RJM), an event-driven latent state for formulaic alpha discovery, addressing delayed feedback challenges by updating only at terminal evaluation events. The method employs an action-conditioned stochastic differential equation (SDE) return critic, representing future discounted returns with stochastic particles guided by a distributional Bellman objective combining energy-distance matching, mean calibration, and jump regularization. Empirical results demonstrate robust performance across equity universes, forecasting horizons, and random seeds, with ablations validating the importance of persistent evaluation history, stochastic return modeling, and distributional supervision.
reward-jump memorystochastic differential equationformulaic alpha discoverydistributional bellman objectivedelayed feedback
Non-Adaptive 1-Bit Mean Estimation: Minimax Rates and the Sample-Interval Tradeoff
The work establishes that non-adaptive protocols achieve the minimax rate for 1-bit mean estimation, disproving the necessity of adaptive querying in Lau and Scarlett's two-stage approach. Using fixed queries where each response maps to at most s intervals, the authors derive the exact tradeoff between sample complexity and interval complexity, adding a term of order (λσ/(sε²))log(1/δ) to the unrestricted case. For distributions with mean in [-λ,λ] and bounded k-th central moment, the results provide order-wise optimal bounds on interval budgets required to maintain minimax sample rates.
minimax ratenon-adaptive estimationsample complexityinterval complexity1-bit communication
Certified Topological Interaction in Neural Representations: Class Disentanglement Is Mostly Pairwise
The study introduces certified topological interaction to measure class disentanglement in neural representations, using the Intersection Euler Characteristic Profile (IECP) to compute the Euler characteristic of overlapping ball unions across scales. Analyzing 111 trained networks with 52,650 measurements, the method reveals disentanglement is depth-graded and occurs early in training, with interaction quotients ranking class pairs by confusability (Spearman ρ=0.83). Key findings include augmentation as the primary training choice improving separation, while weight decay only compresses overlap. Pairwise dominance in class entanglement is observed (97-99.5% of cases), with IECP mass predicting test accuracy (R²=0.94) but not outperforming linear probes.
class disentanglementtopological interactioneuler characteristicpermutation testsneural representations
Not All Variables Agree: Reliability-Aware Variable-Wise Gradient Surgery for Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
The paper introduces Per-Variable Surgery (PV-Surgery), a reliability-aware gradient alignment method for multivariate time-series forecasting. It addresses gradient conflicts among variables, observed in 30.6% of pairwise cosine similarities across seven datasets, by performing variable-wise gradient surgery via backward-pass proxies, conditional pooling, and common-direction alignment. Evaluated on five backbones and seven datasets, PV-Surgery reduces MSE by 3.61% and MAE by 2.93% on average, demonstrating that variable-wise gradient structure improves optimization.
multivariate forecastinggradient surgerycosine similarityreliability-awaretime-series
The Exact Time-Uniform Rate Frontier for Stochastic Gradient Descent on Smooth Convex Objectives
The paper establishes exact time-uniform convergence rates for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on smooth convex objectives, proving that the optimal rate approaches but never reaches √(log n / n). The authors show that a bound of order h(n)/√n holds uniformly for all n with probability ≥1-α if and only if ∑(1/h(2^j)^2) < ∞, where h is a positive, eventually nondecreasing sequence. The sufficiency proof uses a dyadic horizon-free schedule and additive conditional-restart inequality, while necessity holds even for 1D analytic objectives with Gaussian noise under deterministic schedules.
stochastic gradient descenttime-uniform convergencesmooth convex optimizationdyadic scheduleconditional-restart inequality
Temporal State Transport in Video Generation: Diagnosing and Correcting Spectral Imbalance
The paper introduces Spectral Tension, a diagnostic metric for temporal state transport in video generation, identifying fragmented transport and over-mixing hotspots. It proposes Spectral Transport Homeostasis, a training-free regulator that corrects pathological temporal states while preserving balanced ones. Experiments on pretrained video models demonstrate improved temporal consistency and visual quality without finetuning, selectively targeting the worst temporal hotspots.
temporal state transportspectral tensionvideo generationtraining-free regulatorspectral transport homeostasis
When Topology Betrays Privacy: Lattice-Based Reconstruction Attacks on Secure Aggregation in Decentralized Federated Learning
The paper exposes a privacy vulnerability in Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) where Secure Aggregation (SA) fails to protect individual model updates due to topological leakage. By formalizing the reconstruction problem as a Hidden Subset Sum Problem, the authors develop a lattice-based attack combining lattice reduction and structural filtering to recover private states from asymmetric aggregate views. Evaluations on image, tabular, and text tasks demonstrate successful reconstruction of local updates by colluding semi-honest nodes, revealing SA's insufficiency for privacy in sparse DFL topologies.
secure aggregationdecentralized federated learninglattice-based attackhidden subset sum problemprivacy vulnerability
Do Reviewers Still Reward Lexical Complexity? A Frozen-Rater Study of Preference Drift in 124K ICLR Reviews
The study investigates preference drift in peer review by comparing human and machine-generated reviews of ICLR submissions (2018-2025) using a frozen rater (81,850 reviews from a single LLM). Human reviewers reduced their reward for non-domain lexical complexity (coefficient dropped from +0.142 to -0.015), while the frozen rater maintained consistent weighting (+0.080 to +0.082), revealing a significant difference-in-differences (-0.0100, q=0.013). Humans continued valuing sentence-length variability, ignored by the frozen rater. Results passed false-discovery control and adversarial testing, showing reviewers adapt to reduced production costs of lexical complexity.
preference driftfrozen raterlexical complexitydifference-in-differencespeer review
Inclusive electron-nucleus cross section models from domain adaptation
The paper presents a transfer learning approach to construct data-driven models of inclusive electron-nucleus cross sections for multiple nuclei (³He, ⁶Li, ¹⁶O, ²⁷Al, ⁴⁰Ca, ⁵⁶Fe) by fine-tuning deep neural networks pretrained on ¹²C data. Performance improvements vary by target, with ¹⁶O requiring only shallow adaptation due to baseline adequacy, while ³He, ⁴⁰Ca, and ⁵⁶Fe necessitate deeper fine-tuning. Robustness depends on dataset size, coverage, and precision, with ⁶Li showing limited robustness due to sparse data and ²⁷Al exhibiting sensitivity to specific measurements. Adapted models remain consistent with out-of-distribution kinematic configurations and outperform the phenomenological F1F2 model in selected cases.
transfer learningelectron-nucleus cross sectionsdeep neural networksfine-tuningkinematic domains
Selective boundary condition reduction via learned error gating
The authors propose a framework for selectively reducing boundary conditions in parametric PDEs by learning when a simpler condition can replace a more complex one without exceeding error tolerances. The method trains a neural network on paired solutions to predict domain and boundary errors, enabling the use of reduced conditions only when predicted errors meet prescribed thresholds. Focused on singular limits, the approach replaces stiff Robin or nonlinear boundary laws with their Dirichlet forms. Evaluation on a galvanic corrosion problem and other nonlinear stationary and evolution problems demonstrates the method's effectiveness.
parametric pdesboundary conditionsneural networksingular limitsgalvanic corrosion
Topological Fraud Detection in Latent Transaction Spaces
The work introduces a privacy-preserving fraud detection method operating on topologically anonymized transaction embeddings. The approach combines unsupervised iterative filtering with supervised sniping to achieve ultra-low latency triage while avoiding exposure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). By processing transactions entirely in latent space, the method enables financial institutions to flag suspicious activity without compromising user privacy through raw data access.
topological anonymizationlatent transaction spaceunsupervised filteringpii preservationultra-low latency triage
Stochastically Perturbed Weights: Ensembles from Deterministic Machine-Learning Weather Models
The paper introduces stochastically perturbed weights (SPW), a method to generate uncertainty ensembles from deterministic machine-learning weather models (MLWMs) without retraining. By perturbing raw weight tensors at inference time, SPW extracts uncertainty estimates comparable to trained-probabilistic models. Evaluated across four backbones (Aurora, GraphCast, SFNO, AIFS) against baselines like AIFS-ENS and ECMWF's IFS-ENS, SPW achieves continuous ranked probability skill scores (CRPSS) within 0.04–0.13 of trained-probabilistic models at 240 h lead time, at zero training cost. The optimal perturbation site is architecture-specific, and failure modes include coherent field offsets, mitigated by coarse-scale noise or initial-condition perturbations.
machine-learning weather modelsstochastically perturbed weightscontinuous ranked probability skill scoredeterministic backbonesinference-time perturbation
MLIP Detective: Active Failure Mode Discovery Beyond Benchmark Scores for Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials
MLIP Detective introduces an agentic framework for active failure mode discovery in universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (u-MLIPs), complementing benchmark-based evaluation with physics-informed search. The method generates falsifiable failure hypotheses, screens them via inexpensive simulations, and escalates suspicious cases to human experts with verification protocols. Without issue-specific prompting, MLIP Detective identified a systematic anomaly in MACE-MPA-0: incorrect energy predictions for relaxed adsorbate-surface systems involving O- or F-containing adsorbates. Cross-model comparisons inferred a likely training-data origin for the anomaly, aligning with recent reports.
machine-learning interatomic potentialsfailure mode discoveryphysics-informed searchbenchmark evaluationadsorbate-surface systems
How to Make the Gradient Mapping Small for Constrained Stochastic Min-Max Problems and Beyond
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Geographically Regularized AUC-Maximizing Personalized Federated Learning
The paper proposes geographically regularized AUC-maximizing personalized federated learning (GrAUC-PFL), a method that directly optimizes a smooth pairwise AUC surrogate to train personalized models while preserving data locality and addressing institutional heterogeneity. The approach employs graph-based regularization to enforce similarity among coefficient vectors of geographically proximate institutions. Evaluations on simulations and real-world data demonstrate enhanced discriminative performance, particularly when neighboring institutions share similar data-generating characteristics.
personalized federated learningauc optimizationgraph-based regularizationinstitutional heterogeneitygeographic regularization
Miles v0.1: Production-Level Post-Training
Miles v0.1 introduces a production-ready system for frontier-scale post-training, emphasizing verified, clean, and customizable components across the RL training loop. The framework supports rollout engines (SGLang-based), trainer backends (NVIDIA Megatron-LM, PyTorch FSDP), and three weight-synchronization transports, while extending to LoRA RL, on-policy distillation, and diffusion models. In a case study, it achieved a median step time of 263s for agentic RL on a GLM-5.2 744B-A40B model across 64 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs during coding tasks. The system is open-sourced with modular design goals for accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
reinforcement learningpost-trainingrollout engineweight synchronizationdiffusion models
To Adapt or Not to Adapt? Selective Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
The paper introduces selective adaptation for vision-language models, proposing Cross-Augmentation Similarity (CAS) to skip negligible or harmful test-time adaptations. CAS triggers adaptation only when predictions across augmented views show low similarity, addressing two failure modes: ineffective adaptations and correct-to-incorrect prediction flips. Empirical results demonstrate that CAS maintains or improves accuracy while skipping 85% of adaptations, offering a computationally efficient baseline for future research in selective adaptation.
test-time adaptationvision-language modelsselective adaptationcross-augmentation similaritydistribution shifts
Geometry-Aware Bayesian Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on the Stiefel Manifold via Stein Variational Gradient Descent
The paper introduces a geometry-aware Bayesian framework for parameter-efficient fine-tuning using Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) on the Stiefel manifold. Building on low-rank adaptation via singular value decomposition, the method transports low-rank matrices along the manifold to preserve orthogonality while sampling multiple solutions for uncertainty quantification. Experiments demonstrate improved model calibration and higher prediction accuracy compared to Euclidean-space SVGD and related uncertainty estimation methods.
stein variational gradient descentstiefel manifoldparameter-efficient fine-tuninglow-rank adaptationuncertainty quantification
CoVeR: Coverage-Based Token Pruning for Multi-View 3D Reasoning in VLMs
CoVeR introduces a coverage-based token pruning method for multi-view 3D reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs), addressing redundancy in visual tokens from multi-view scenes. The deterministic, training-free selector uses token coordinates to ensure spatial coverage, enforcing exact token budgets and avoiding saturation or duplicate selections. Evaluated on three 3D reasoning benchmarks, CoVeR retains 93.5% of full-token performance with ≈8% of tokens, outperforming prior methods by 3.9 percentage points on average and generalizing across four VLMs.
token pruningmulti-view 3d reasoningvision-language modelsspatial coveragedeterministic selector
TV-Regulated OPD: Direction Matters in On-Policy Distillation
We introduce TV-Regulated On-Policy Distillation (TV-OPD), a robust method for knowledge transfer in Large Language Models (LLMs) that addresses training instability in standard On-Policy Distillation (OPD). By retaining only the sign of token-level advantages and applying Total Variation (TV) regularization to shape smoother, bounded advantages, TV-OPD achieves stable training dynamics and consistent late-stage performance. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that TV-OPD outperforms standard OPD across various settings, exhibiting lower variance and superior performance in the late training phase.
on-policy distillationtotal variationlarge language modelstoken-level advantagestraining stability
Distillation as Probability Transport: Routed On-Policy Distillation
RouteOPD introduces a novel approach to on-policy distillation (OPD) by framing it as teacher-guided probability transport, addressing limitations in scalar credit-based methods. The method decomposes teacher-student disagreements into student-excess sources and teacher-deficit destinations, forming explicit transport pairs optimized via pairwise log-odds toward bounded teacher potential. RouteOPD adapts the transport budget to teacher demand concentration, directing updates precisely and controlling their magnitude. Evaluations across four teacher-student settings and mathematical-reasoning benchmarks show RouteOPD consistently outperforms sampled reverse-KL OPD, achieving higher routing fidelity and lower background leakage, validating its effectiveness in probability transport modeling.
on-policy distillationprobability transportlog-oddsteacher-student disagreementtransport pairs
Fixed-Dimensional Latent Flow for Generating Variable-Size 3D Molecules
The paper introduces Equivariant-Free Transformer-Autoencoded Latent Flow Matching (EF-TALFM), a two-stage generative framework for variable-size 3D molecular generation using a fixed-dimensional latent representation. The method combines flow matching for latent sampling with an autoregressive Transformer decoder to jointly determine molecule size, atom types, coordinates, and chemical states, avoiding equivariant layers through canonical ordering and rigid-pose alignment. On PCQM4Mv2, EF-TALFM achieves 89.4% novel, sanitization-passing molecules (vs. 75.6% for UAE-3D) and doubles DFT-verified hit rates for target HOMO-LUMO gaps while maintaining 97% novelty among unique hits.
flow matchingautoregressive transformer3d molecular generationlatent representationequivariant-free
EMBLEM: Enhancing Multi-script Table Detection through Masking
The authors introduce MANDALA, a multi-script table detection dataset with 2,323 annotated pages across 18 languages and 15 scripts, and propose EMBLEM, a masking-based method for Multi-script Table Detection (MTD). EMBLEM generates masked images to obscure script-specific features, enabling English-pre-trained models to generalize to diverse scripts by focusing on layout. Evaluated on three architectures, EMBLEM achieves a 20.8% F1-score improvement on MANDALA using only English masked images for fine-tuning, while maintaining performance on standard English benchmarks. The dataset and code are publicly released.
table detectionmulti-scriptmaskingdocument analysislayout understanding
Non-Coherent Over-the-Air Federated Learning: Protocol, Convergence, and Device Scheduling
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HoneyRoute: Honeypot-Model Routing for Adversarial LLM Serving
HoneyRoute introduces a honeypot-model routing system for adversarial LLM serving, combining a streaming router (0.8B-embedding backbone with MLP heads), dual-implementation honeypot (rule/prompt-engineered or replica), and an analysis loop for attacker fingerprinting. The router achieves F1=.911 (38 ms latency), matches 96% of a guard-LLM cascade's F1 at 1/385 latency, and reduces token consumption by 97.8% under GCG-suffix attacks. The replica agrees with production on 92.9% of benign requests, while loop-trained correction cuts misrouting 9x and raises F1 to .933.
honeypot-model routingadversarial llm servingstreaming routergcg-suffix attacksfingerprinting
HypLTSF: A Hyperbolic Geometric View of Multi-Scale Hierarchies for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
HypLTSF introduces a hyperbolic geometric framework for multi-scale hierarchical modeling in long-term time series forecasting, embedding scale-wise representations into the Poincaré ball to capture hierarchical structures explicitly. The method imposes radial and angular constraints to align embeddings with temporal hierarchies, ordering them by abstraction level and grouping fine-scale patterns with common coarser-scale ancestors. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on long-term forecasting benchmarks, validating the effectiveness of geometric hierarchy modeling.
hyperbolic geometrypoincaré ballmulti-scale modelingtemporal hierarchytime series forecasting
Adaptively Incorporating Directional Hints into Zeroth-Order Optimization
The paper introduces Control-Variate Zeroth-Order Descent (CV-ZOD), a framework for zeroth-order optimization that adaptively incorporates potentially inaccurate directional hints to refine gradient estimates. CV-ZOD uses a control variate to adjust the reference vector and step size, achieving a convergence rate interpolating between first-order (O(1/T)) and zeroth-order (O(d/T)) rates depending on hint quality. A practical variant matches this guarantee up to logarithmic factors without prior knowledge of hint quality. Empirical validation on simulation-based tasks shows improved performance over baseline methods in non-convex settings.
zeroth-order optimizationcontrol variatenon-convex optimizationgradient estimationconvergence rate
Online Signature Verification Using Augmented Path Signature and T-Mamba
The authors propose a novel online signature verification (OSV) framework combining augmented path signature (APS) descriptors with a T-Mamba model to address limitations in discriminative feature extraction and long-range dependency modeling. APS applies time/basepoint augmentations and sliding-window path signatures to capture geometric structures, while T-Mamba hybridizes temporal convolutional networks with time-scanning Mamba blocks for local-global sequence modeling. The method achieves state-of-the-art equal error rates on MCYT-100, SVC-2004 Task 2, and DeepSignDB, demonstrating robustness under limited training data.
augmented path signaturet-mambaonline signature verificationstate space modelsrough path theory
Revisiting Spectral Representations in Generative Diffusion Models
The paper proposes a spectral representation alignment method to enhance diffusion model training by linking self-supervised spectral learning and diffusion processes through perturbation kernels. It demonstrates that spectral embeddings, derived from contrastive relations induced by random perturbations, align with the noise-injection process in diffusion models, offering geometric insights into their synergy. Integrating a spectral regularizer into training objectives improves generation quality, validated on image and 3D point cloud datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/yuehaowang/spectral-reg-diffusion.
diffusion modelsspectral representationperturbation kernelsself-supervised learninggenerative models
Distribution-free inference on the number of changepoints
The paper introduces CLOCC (Conformal LOwer bound on Changepoint Count), a distribution-free method for inferring the number of changepoints $K$ in an ordered sequence of independent data. Using conformal $p$-values and assuming only exchangeability within data segments and mutual independence between segments, CLOCC constructs a finite-sample valid lower confidence bound on $K$. The method is shown to be universal, being the only feasible approach under the stated assumptions. Practical guidelines for selecting efficient score functions are provided. Experiments on synthetic and real data demonstrate that CLOCC yields informative lower bounds on $K$, confirming its practical utility.
conformal p-valueschangepoint detectiondistribution-free inferenceexchangeabilitylower confidence bound
Routing Dense Layouts with History-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning using LSTM
The authors propose a history-aware offline reinforcement learning policy to improve detailed routing in dense physical designs, where traditional routers struggle with persistent design rule violations. Their method employs conservative Q-learning enhanced with a lightweight LSTM to retain sequence context and leverages router-derived features to predict iterative cost weights. The policy integrates seamlessly with existing cost-based routers without modifying core search algorithms. Evaluated on dense placement and low guide quality scenarios, the approach reduces design rule violations by 92% on average over the top public baseline while cutting runtime by 10%.
reinforcement learningphysical designdetailed routinglstmdesign rule violations
ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models
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Speed Limit for Information Acquisition in Stochastic Learning Dynamics
The work establishes a Fisher-information flow speed limit that bounds the rate at which stochastic gradient descent (SGD) acquires information about latent variables in data-generating processes. By modeling SGD as a Markovian stochastic process, the bound decomposes information flow into drift and noise contributions, quantifying deterministic learning forces and SGD-induced fluctuations. Analytical verification in basis-function linear regression shows the bound accurately predicts the ordering and time scales of latent variable encoding. This provides a quantitative framework for diagnosing information acquisition during stochastic learning.
fisher-informationstochastic gradient descentmarkovian processlatent variablesinformation-theoretic
DRIFT: Removing Diffusion Watermarks by Deflecting the Generative Trajectory
DRIFT introduces a black-box attack on diffusion watermarks by deflecting generative trajectories via partial forward diffusion and stochastic reverse resampling. The method limits source information through forward re-noising and explores alternative noise-driven paths, isolating removal benefits via matched sampler comparisons. Adaptive refinement preserves fidelity while maintaining verifier rejection. Evaluated across nine watermarks spanning three paradigms, DRIFT achieves 98-100% attack success and superior image quality without requiring secret keys, verifier internals, or per-image gradient optimization.
diffusion watermarkingblack-box attackgenerative trajectorystochastic resamplingverifier rejection
SIM: Subspace Interaction-based Method for Token-Level Text Anomaly Detection
The paper introduces SIM, a Subspace Interaction-based Method for token-level text anomaly detection that addresses signal dilution and semantic smoothing in existing approaches. SIM decomposes high-dimensional token embeddings into low-dimensional subspaces to amplify localized anomalies, employs hard pseudo-anomaly generation to counteract over-smoothing, and uses probabilistic boundary loss to standardize anomaly scores. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate SIM's effectiveness, efficiency, robustness, and interpretability, with source code publicly available.
token-level anomaly detectionsubspace interactionpseudo-anomaly generationprobabilistic boundary losssemantic smoothing
Optimal Slice-Adaptive Tuning of Hybrid Slice Sampling
The paper presents automated tuning schemes for hybrid slice sampling, a Markov chain Monte Carlo method, by analyzing the average per-iteration computational cost as a function of the initial interval length w. The method leverages slice-finding schemes for targets with contiguous slices, deriving suboptimality bounds and asymptotic convergence guarantees. Simulations show the tuning schemes achieve near-optimal performance with minimal dependence on the initial w, enhancing efficiency in density evaluations.
slice samplingmarkov chain monte carlodensity evaluationsadaptive tuningasymptotic convergence
A Transformer-Based Delta Expression Encoder for Psilocybin Transcriptional Response: Architecture, Representations, and Biological Validation
A Transformer-based delta expression encoder is proposed for unsupervised classification of psilocybin-induced transcriptional responses from single-nucleus RNA-seq data. The model processes pseudobulk profiles (623 examples across 18 cell types, 2 drug conditions, 6 timepoints) without pathway annotations, achieving 69.4% weighted accuracy. Key findings include: (1) cell-type-specific accuracy ranging 28.3-99.6%, (2) greater stereotypy in downregulation than upregulation (Mann-Whitney U=18615.0, p<0.0001), and (3) attention-guided recovery of drug-specific gene modules. Contrary to expectations, baseline HTR2A expression negatively correlated with response separability (Spearman r=-0.7088, p=0.0021).
transformerdelta expression encodersingle-nucleus rna-seqtranscriptional responsehtr2a
Geodesic-informed Generative Diffusion Model For Topology-preserved Image Video Generation
The paper introduces IGG (Image Generation informed by Geodesic dynamics), a diffusion-based generative framework that enforces topological consistency by learning deformations in geodesic space rather than intensity space. It addresses limitations of conventional models, which lack explicit geometric constraints and interpretable deformation dynamics. IGG models object changes as smooth, invertible mappings from a template image, preserving structure-critical for domains like computational anatomy. The method is validated on synthetic and real-world datasets, demonstrating improved topology preservation compared to baseline approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/nellie689/IGG.
diffusion modelstopology preservationgeodesic dynamicscomputational anatomyinvertible mappings
Topology-induced Operators Reveal Complementary Graph Representations without Training
The study demonstrates that informative graph embeddings can be derived without complex model training by leveraging topological transformations. Using random walks and anonymous walks to propagate random features, the method generates embeddings that capture node proximity and structural roles, respectively. These training-free embeddings perform competitively with state-of-the-art methods on node-, edge-, and graph-level tasks, often with lower computational cost, and combining them further improves inference quality for certain tasks.
graph representation learningrandom walksanonymous walkstraining-free embeddingstopological transformations
GPU-Enabled Large-Scale Optimization Using Randomized Linear Algebra
The paper introduces rlaopt, a PyTorch-based package for large-scale optimization leveraging randomized numerical linear algebra (RandNLA) with GPU acceleration. It provides solvers for positive-definite linear systems and convex empirical risk minimization, employing RandNLA techniques in conjugate gradient (NystromPCG), operator splitting (NysADMM), and stochastic gradient methods (SAPPHIRE). The package includes a modeling language for problem specification, automatic solver compatibility checks, and differentiation support for hyperparameter tuning. Experiments on ridge regression, bounded multinomial logistic regression, and bounded elastic net demonstrate performance improvements with randomized preconditioning and GPU execution. rlaopt is open-source under an Apache license.
randomized numerical linear algebragpu accelerationconjugate gradientoperator splittinghyperparameter tuning
Nyström Attention Matches Full Attention for Cross-Sectional Stock Prediction
The study demonstrates that Nyström low-rank attention (m=32 landmarks) matches full quadratic-cost attention in cross-sectional stock prediction while reducing computational complexity to linear. Spectral analysis reveals the learned attention is near-uniform (perplexity 278/300) but critically low-rank (effective rank ~65), explaining why sparse approximations fail. The method achieves statistical equivalence to full attention (TOST-certified at N=300/800) and exhibits anti-correlation with return similarity (Spearman ρ=-0.614), suggesting complementarity-seeking behavior. However, benefits diminish at N~3,500, where no cross-stock module outperforms a per-stock LSTM baseline. The findings highlight that inter-stock attention's value lies in compressible, dynamic redistribution resistant to sparsification.
nyström attentionlow-rank approximationcross-sectional predictionspectral analysisspearman correlation
Learning Metamaterial Eigenmodes with Wavelet-Encoded Fourier Neural Operators
The paper introduces a wavelet-encoded Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) for learning multiple eigenmodes of the elastic wave equation in metamaterials, addressing the challenge of non-unique input-output mappings in eigenvalue problems. The method combines FNOs with wavelet-based encodings to exploit their dual spatial-spectral structure, enabling deterministic mode selection on continuous and binary geometries. Experimental results show a 1000x speedup over finite element analysis on consumer CPUs while maintaining high fidelity, with accuracy variations linked to geometric discontinuities. The findings suggest broader applicability for spectral neural operators in multi-mode PDE solvers.
fourier neural operatoreigenmode predictionwavelet encodingmetamaterial designspectral pde solver
PocketVE: Stable and Property-Guided Structure-Based Drug Design with Variance-Exploding Diffusion
PocketVE introduces a protein-pocket-conditioned variance-exploding diffusion framework for stable 3D molecule generation with property guidance. The method combines EDM-style denoising, classifier-free guidance for multi-property steering, and adaptive protein perturbation as a pocket regularizer. On CrossDocked2020 (GenBench3D protocol), PocketVE improves Valid$_{3\text{D}}$ from 58.6 to 80.6 and reduces strain energy from 457.4 to 127.9 versus TAGMol, maintaining competitive docking and property scores under moderate guidance. Analysis shows moderate guidance balances target objectives and geometric quality, while strong guidance degrades fidelity. Pocket-permutation and PoseCheck diagnostics confirm improved spatial compatibility.
variance-exploding diffusionstructure-based drug designclassifier-free guidanceprotein-pocket conditioninggeometric stability
Marigold V2: Revisiting Diffusion Transformers for Monocular Depth Estimation
Marigold V2 introduces diffusion transformer (DiT)-based techniques for monocular depth estimation, achieving state-of-the-art performance by repurposing pretrained multi-step flow-matching models for single-step inference. The method employs semantic feature alignment and a 2-stage fine-tuning protocol with a novel Sinkhorn-based loss to address artifacts from naive training. Results show 16-26% improvement in AbsRel on KITTI and ETH3D, with superior qualitative performance on fine details like fur and foliage. The approach also generalizes to other dense regression tasks, including surface normals estimation and intrinsic image decomposition.
diffusion transformermonocular depth estimationflow-matchingsinkhorn lossdense regression
Proactive Context-Forecasted Safety Constraints for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces a proactive safety constraint generation framework for nonstationary reinforcement learning, leveraging context forecasting to anticipate and mitigate risks before unsafe behavior occurs. The method infers latent environmental context from observations, predicts its future evolution, and constructs adaptive safety constraints tailored to anticipated conditions. Evaluated in driving environments with structured context variation, the approach reduces collisions by up to 40% across seen and unseen nonstationarity intensities (highway, intersection, racetrack scenarios) while maintaining task performance, demonstrating robustness to held-out driving layouts.
nonstationary reinforcement learningsafety constraintscontext forecastinglatent context inferenceproactive risk mitigation
A Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Restaurant Food Waste to Support Sustainable Food Management
A machine learning framework for predicting restaurant food waste was developed to support sustainable food management. The framework integrates operational, meteorological, and temporal event data into a structured dataset of 77,980 records across 27 features, with the target variable derived from operationally justified assumptions. Four supervised regression models—Linear Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting—were evaluated using a chronological 70-30 train-test split and 5-fold time-series cross-validation. Random Forest achieved the best performance with an MAE of 6.19 kg, RMSE of 8.36 kg, and $R^2$ of 0.817. Feature importance analysis highlighted menu diversity, operational area, and temporal activity patterns as key predictors. The dataset, codebase, and experimental configurations were publicly released for reproducibility.
supervised regressiontime-series cross-validationfeature importanceensemble methodsstochastic variability
A Gradient-based yet Spike-Timing-Dependent Solution to the Feedback Learning Problem in Neural Microcircuits
The study introduces gradient tunneling (GT), a spike-timing-dependent feedback learning algorithm for neural microcircuits (NMCs) that reformulates temporal credit assignment as a state separation problem. GT leverages lead-lag expansion to derive credit assignment from local synaptic spike timing while maintaining compatibility with ANN-SNN hybrid architectures. Experiments demonstrate GT-trained NMCs achieve robust long-timescale evidence integration and noise-resistant memory retention, matching leading spiking neural network (SNN) methods on real-world benchmarks with fewer parameters. The framework addresses the long-standing NMC feedback learning problem and offers a biologically plausible mechanism for brain-like computation.
neural microcircuitstemporal credit assignmentgradient tunnelingspike timinglead-lag expansion
Risk-Conditioned Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
We introduce risk-conditioned RLHF, a framework enabling continuous risk control in Large Language Models (LLMs) without requiring multiple risk-specific models. The method trains a single policy optimized for Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) that adapts to varying risk aversion levels at inference time, addressing limitations of fixed-risk RLHF approaches. Experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate the framework's ability to flexibly adjust risk aversion in LLM deployments, providing a practical solution for scenarios where rare but severe harmful generations pose significant consequences.
risk-conditioned rlhfconditional value-at-risklarge language modelsrisk aversioninference time
MI-PEFT: Mixture-of-Experts Integrated Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Protein Language Models Improves Acidophilic Proteins Classification
The paper introduces MI-PEFT, a mixture-of-experts integrated parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework for protein language models (PLMs) to improve acidophilic protein classification. Built on the ESM C-600M backbone, MI-PEFT combines LoRA-based parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods with a DeepSeekMoE-based classification head, enhancing computational efficiency and addressing class imbalance. The framework leverages pretrained representations to improve specificity in identifying acidophilic proteins, which are crucial for industrial biocatalysis and acid-related bioprocessing. Experimental results demonstrate MI-PEFT's effectiveness, particularly on the C3A dataset, in resolving class imbalance and achieving accurate identification of acidophilic proteins.
mixture-of-expertsparameter-efficient fine-tuningprotein language modelsacidophilic proteinsclass imbalance
Bayesian Matrix-Valued Graphs for Context-Dependent Multivariate Relationships
The paper introduces Bayesian matrix-valued graphs (BMVG) for modeling context-dependent multivariate relationships, where edges are represented by symmetric positive-definite matrices. BMVG employs an affine-invariant Riemannian metric to quantify deformation magnitude and generalized eigenvalues to resolve directional changes. Evaluated against fused graphical lasso, Bayesian multiple-GGM, and common principal components, BMVG demonstrates competitive precision recovery while preserving identifiable matrix-valued edge structure. Experiments on Bay Area weather data and TCGA-BRCA show BMVG accurately captures spatial coupling reconfiguration and gene-module interactions, respectively. The method provides a unified framework for interpreting multivariate reconfiguration across contexts.
bayesian matrix-valued graphsaffine-invariant riemannian metricgeneralized eigenvaluesmultivariate relationshipscontext-dependent reconfiguration
A Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Temporal Explainability in Echocardiographic Video Segmentation
The authors propose a quantitative framework for evaluating temporal explainability in echocardiographic video segmentation, addressing a gap in existing literature. The framework employs four metrics: temporal consistency, saliency motion, anatomical overlap, and temporal overlap, applied to Grad-CAM explanations. Using EchoNet-Dynamic, they compare 2D U-Net with ConvLSTM U-Net models across varying temporal strides. Results show comparable segmentation performance but reveal significant differences in explanation stability, with Temporal Bottleneck explanations outperforming Encoder Bottleneck explanations. The study highlights limitations of frame-wise metrics and advocates for temporal-aware XAI methods in medical video analysis.
temporal explainabilitygrad-camechonet-dynamicconvlstmsaliency motion
MamMA: A Mamba-Based Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Algorithm Considering Occupancy Map and Pedestrian Awareness States
MamMA introduces a Mamba-based pedestrian trajectory prediction algorithm that integrates occupancy maps and pedestrian awareness states for improved accuracy in human-robot coexistence environments. The method processes LiDAR-derived occupancy maps by dividing them into patches and extracting obstacle features, while leveraging egocentric view images from on-board vision sensors to capture pedestrian awareness states. These features are then fed into a Mamba-based model to predict future trajectories. Evaluations on STCrowd, SiT, JRDB, ETH, and UCY datasets demonstrate that MamMA outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of average displacement error and final displacement error.
pedestrian trajectory predictionoccupancy mappedestrian awareness statesmamba-based modeldisplacement error
VEX-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Assessing Exploitability of Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
We introduce VEX-Bench, the first benchmark for evaluating LLM agents' ability to assess exploitability of software supply chain vulnerabilities, addressing a gap in existing benchmarks focused on zero-day settings. VEX-Bench comprises 75 real-world cases from GitHub, labeled by security experts and spanning Python, Java, and Go. We evaluate nine models across three agent harnesses, finding GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6 achieve ~80% F1 on binary vulnerability-status classification, while only GPT-5.5 exceeds 70% macro-F1 on fine-grained justification classification, highlighting the challenge of detailed exploitability reasoning.
vex-benchllm agentssoftware supply chainexploitability assessmentfine-grained classification
Two-Scale Localized PCA-Net: Coarse-Global and Local-Residual Representations for Artifact-Reduced PDE Operator Learning
Two-Scale Localized PCA-Net introduces a coarse-global and local-residual representation for artifact-reduced PDE operator learning, addressing block offsets and interface mismatches in localized dimensionality reduction. The method employs a compact global PCA basis for domain-scale structure and nonoverlapping local PCA bases for fine-scale residuals, coupled via a block-balanced latent objective. Optional interface-aware fine-tuning enhances continuity through reconstruction and trace losses. Results on Poisson benchmarks show substantial reduction in reconstruction error and visible block artifacts, halving PCA fitting cost compared to overlap-based methods. On heterogeneous Darcy flow, it strongly reduces interface and discrete-residual errors, with complementary continuity refinement from fine-tuning.
pca-netpde operator learningdimensionality reductioncoarse-global representationlocal-residual correction
Flexible Motion Generation from Language and Style References
FlexMoGen introduces a novel framework for human motion synthesis conditioned on natural language descriptions and motion style references, addressing limitations of text prompts in capturing fine-grained style details. The method employs a variational style encoder without style supervision, jointly pre-trained with a text-to-motion latent diffusion model, and modulates motion style through a lightweight adaptation module. It integrates efficient relative positional encoding and is trained on both stylized and non-stylized datasets for generalization. Experiments demonstrate that FlexMoGen achieves optimal balance between content fidelity and style reflection, supporting long, time-varying, multi-style synthesis.
variational style encoderlatent diffusion modelmotion synthesisrelative positional encodingtext-to-motion
Sharp Structure-Agnostic Minimax Risk for Partial Linear Models
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Automated Chest CT Protocol Selection via Large Language Model Derived Text Embeddings from Imaging Request Text
This study proposes a decision support system using large language model (LLM) embeddings to automate chest CT protocol selection from free-text clinical indications, addressing limitations of manual and keyword-based methods. The system fine-tunes Meta's LLaMA-3.1-70B to embed clinical text, which feeds into a logistic regression classifier predicting 18 protocol labels. Evaluated on 285,123 chest CT imaging requests, the pipeline achieved a weighted precision of 0.84, weighted F1-score of 0.81, and 79% overall accuracy. On 300 expert-consensus cases, the LLM achieved 80% accuracy, comparable to radiologists (83%, p = 0.263), with reduced variability in protocol use.
llama-3.1-70bct protocoltext embeddingslogistic regressionclinical indications
Solving the Elastic Wave Equation with Physics-Informed Neural Networks: A Robust and Critical Assessment
The study critically assesses Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving the elastic wave equation in seismology, demonstrating that integrating wave physics into network architecture significantly enhances accuracy. The authors investigate PINN performance across various seismic sources and parameter models, testing architectures from standard PINNs to specialized designs incorporating custom wavelet or plane wave layers with encoder-decoder structures. Results show that physics-informed architectures reduce relative $L_2$ error by approximately 50% compared to standard PINNs, with similar improvements observed for the acoustic wave equation. The research also advances PINN conditioning on seismic source locations, contributing to rapid seismic hazard detection and analysis.
physics-informed neural networkselastic wave equationseismic sourcesencoder-decoder layersacoustic wave equation
Semi-Supervised Learning under Spatially Biased Sampling
The study investigates semi-supervised learning (SSL) degradation under spatially biased sampling, treating marginal mismatch, spatial autocorrelation, and non-stationarity as distinct mechanisms. Using a synthetic framework and datasets including PovertyMap-WILDS and California housing, the authors systematically vary mismatch parameters while accounting for spatial dependencies. Results reveal a threshold-like SSL performance breakdown between 0.71 and 0.77 under severe distribution mismatch, with spatial non-stationarity independently contributing to loss. Models exhibit overconfidence outside labeled regions. A kernel-weighted local divergence metric is introduced for reliable spatial mismatch estimation, offering diagnostic tools for SSL workflows incorporating unlabeled spatial data.
semi-supervised learningspatial autocorrelationnon-stationaritymarginal mismatchkernel-weighted divergence
Clean Accuracy Does Not Guarantee Provenance Robustness: A Prospective Codec-Stress Evaluation of Audio Attribution
The study demonstrates that clean accuracy benchmarks inadequately predict robustness in audio provenance attribution under codec transcoding, a critical deployment scenario. A prospectively registered evaluation measured closed-set attribution performance using WavLM-Base+ and W2V2-BERT 2.0 encoders across two corpora after single-stage codec transport, with analysis regions fixed from fidelity metadata. Results show substantial degradation, with Macro-F1 losses ranging from 43.5 to 77.5 points across conditions, strongly dependent on both codec settings and model representations. Degradation patterns varied significantly between waveform (SI-SDR) and perceptual (PESQ-WB) metrics, with MP3 at 8 kbit/s causing the largest loss despite mid-range SI-SDR ranking. The findings reveal that clean accuracy metrics alone cannot characterize deployment robustness for audio attribution tasks.
audio provenance attributioncodec transcodingmacro-f1si-sdrpesq-wb
Heat Field Signatures: From Point Clouds to Smooth Geometry
We introduce Heat Field Signatures (HFS), a method for multiscale geometric analysis of point clouds that lifts discrete samples to smooth ambient heat fields. HFS computes global and local signatures, including heat concentration, intrinsic dimension, and anisotropy, directly from pairwise distances without explicit neighborhood or manifold constructions. The Heat Dimension Spectrum (HDS) provides a compact summary of multiscale geometric composition. Evaluated on synthetic and real-world benchmarks, including SCOP protein-fold classification, HFS outperforms strong baselines by up to 24 percentage points while maintaining exact rotation invariance and reducing computational cost. HFS serves as a descriptor, learned representation, or geometric feature channel for neural point-cloud models.
heat field signaturesmultiscale geometric analysisheat dimension spectrumpoint cloudsrotation-invariant
A Sub-4 Approximation for Fair $k$-Means
We propose a sub-4 approximation algorithm for fair $k$-means clustering in Euclidean space, where cluster proportions for protected groups must satisfy specified bounds. The method combines linear programming relaxation with geometric transformations to construct candidate center sets, leveraging a $ρ$-approximate weighted $k$-means subroutine. The algorithm achieves a fractional solution cost of at most $3.8427+O(ε)$ times the optimal integral fair cost, improving upon the previous $5+O(ε)$ factor. The solution satisfies fairness constraints exactly and can be rounded to an integral assignment with bounded additive fairness violation and no cost increase. The guarantee also applies to the $k$-sparse Wasserstein barycenter problem.
fair clusteringlinear programming relaxationgeometric transformationswasserstein barycenterapproximation algorithm
MetaKV: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for Constrained LLM Inference
MetaKV introduces an adaptive framework for KV cache compression in LLM inference, dynamically selecting configurations per input prompt based on user-defined latency and memory constraints. It employs lightweight prediction models to estimate end-to-end latency, peak memory usage, and correctness probability for each candidate configuration, optimizing for accuracy within specified budgets. Evaluated across ten configurations from KVQuant, H$_2$O, RocketKV, and an uncompressed FP16 baseline on four datasets, MetaKV improves constrained success rate by 0.07 on average (up to 0.135) over static configurations, demonstrating superior adaptability to prompt-specific and resource-constrained scenarios.
kv cache compressionllm inferencelatency-memory constraintsconstrained success rateadaptive framework
$α$-Graph: Attention-Infused Normalizing Flow Approach to Tractable Graph Modeling
The authors propose $α$-Graph, an Attention-based Normalizing Flow-based Approach (ANFA) for tractable graph modeling, addressing limitations of traditional Graph Neural Networks in capturing complex relational structures. The method introduces Unconditional Graph Normalizing Flow with an Invertible Attention Mechanism and Conditional Graph Normalizing Flow with Learnable Queries to enhance expressiveness while maintaining training stability. Experiments on three benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, validating the model's effectiveness in explicitly modeling graph-structured data.
normalizing flowgraph neural networksattention mechanismgraph modelingconditional flow
The Role of Uncertainty in Assessing the Fairness of Machine Learning Models
This paper introduces uncertainty quantification methods for assessing fairness in machine learning models, addressing a gap in literature focused on point estimation. It contrasts frequentist and Bayesian approaches to quantify uncertainty in model selection and estimation, emphasizing their role in rigorous fairness risk assessment. Practical applications are demonstrated through simulated and real-world datasets, highlighting the importance of uncertainty analysis in verifying fairness across clinical, social media, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure domains.
uncertainty quantificationfairness assessmentfrequentist methodsbayesian methodsrisk assessment
Streaming Hierarchical Inference with Tabular Foundation Models
The authors propose HINT, a hierarchical inference framework for deploying Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) in high-throughput data streams. The method combines edge-based retrieval using a graph-based approximate nearest neighbor memory with cloud-based TFM inference, enabling local predictions for confident samples and selective offloading of uncertain instances to cloud-hosted TFMs. The framework introduces tunable parameters for offloading thresholds and neighborhood retrieval policies to optimize predictive performance and communication costs. Experimental results demonstrate that HINT effectively identifies favorable trade-offs between these objectives.
tabular foundation modelshierarchical inferenceapproximate nearest neighborin-context learningselective offloading
Structured Extrema Errors in Classical Surrogates for Viscous Burgers: A Physics-Consistent Interpretation
The paper investigates local error patterns in classical ML surrogates for the viscous Burgers equation, focusing on extrema prediction. Four models—RBF kernel ridge regression (KRR), linear Ridge, ExtraTrees, and Random Forests—are compared using spatial grid values. Analysis reveals structured residual errors near extrema, strongly correlated with second spatial derivatives rather than first derivatives. For KRR and Ridge, insufficient viscous smoothing is observed at moderate/high viscosity, retaining more small-scale structure than true states. A correction method using predicted quantities reduces both one-step and recursive rollout errors. Physical interpretations are weaker for tree-based models.
viscous burgers equationkernel ridge regressionspatial derivativesrecursive rolloutviscous smoothing
Prevalence calibration as shortcut mitigation
The paper reframes shortcut learning as a calibration problem, proposing two encoder-agnostic methods to mitigate shortcut reliance: an in-processing regularizer and a post-hoc prevalence-equalized recalibration step. These methods address the implicit calibration of shortcut groups to training set disease prevalence, which causes over- and under-confidence. Evaluated on chest-drain-pneumothorax benchmarks using CheXpert and SIIM-ACR datasets, both methods outperform baselines across fine-tuned CNNs and frozen foundation-model backbones. Post-hoc recalibration of an ERM-trained DenseNet improves misaligned-group AUROC from 0.23 to 0.73, demonstrating that shortcut reliance primarily degrades the classification head rather than the representation.
shortcut learningcalibration problemprevalence-equalizationencoder-agnosticmisaligned-group auroc
JEDI: JEPA-to-Edge Distillation for Efficient Cropland Segmentation from Satellite Imagery
JEDI introduces a two-stage distillation framework for efficient cropland segmentation, transferring representations from a large I-JEPA Vision Transformer teacher to compact SegFormer students. The method combines cross-architecture projection, spatial alignment, and persistent feature optimization during task adaptation, jointly training with supervised segmentation and temperature-scaled response distillation. On CalCROP21, JEDI-B0 achieves 68.0 mIoU with 4.04M parameters, closing 87% of the gap to the 639M-parameter teacher's 70.0 mIoU while outperforming distillation baselines across SegFormer variants (B0-B2).
representation distillationsegformeri-jepaspatial alignmentcropland segmentation
LLM Layers Immediately Correct Each Other
We introduce the Transformer Layer Correction Mechanism (TLCM), a phenomenon where adjacent transformer layers systematically counteract each other's contributions, challenging the prevailing view of persistent feature propagation in residual streams. Using layer Jacobian analysis, we demonstrate that TLCM emerges during pretraining, operates on contextually dependent tokens, and adaptively calibrates correction strength based on preceding layer outputs. Empirical evidence shows TLCM in 5 out of 7 major open-source model families, activating across nearly all tokens in diverse texts. This 'propose-and-reject' framework explains sparse autoencoder feature descriptions' low specificity, extreme feature amplification requirements for model steering, and transcoders' theoretical advantage over SAEs.
transformer layer correction mechanismresidual streamlayer jacobiansparse autoencoderstranscoders
InfluenceField: A Differentiable Field with Interventionally Identifiable Causal Structure for Multimodal World Modeling
InfluenceField introduces an intervention-aware latent field between visual encoders and language decoders to model causal structure in multimodal systems. The method lifts patch features into continuous spatial representations, propagates influence through a shared transition operator, and predicts local intervention effects via joint optimization of language modeling, cross-environment invariance, counterfactual rollout supervision, and structural regularization. Theoretical analysis shows exact recovery of directed dependency graphs under specific conditions. On CausalVQA, InfluenceField improves overall accuracy by 13.1 percentage points over its backbone, particularly in planning and hypothetical tasks, with gains attributed to causal objectives rather than increased capacity.
latent fieldintervention-awarecounterfactual rollouttransition operatorcausal structure
SGD in Multiclass Logistic Regression: Sequential Learning and Scaling Laws
The authors establish scaling laws for training dynamics in multiclass logistic regression on high-dimensional Gaussian mixture models, revealing sequential class learning from most to least frequent. They analyze risk dynamics under gradient-based optimization, identifying three phases: initial plateau, power-law decay during sequential learning, and final convergence. By restricting effective dimension via principal component projection, they decompose risk into capacity and optimization terms, yielding compute-optimal scaling laws for model size and training time. These results extend theoretical scaling laws from linear regression to multiclass classification, connecting to empirical observations in large-scale neural networks.
scaling lawsmulticlass logistic regressionsequential learningpower-law decayprincipal component projection
The OCUDU dApp Platform: An Open Runtime and E3 Interface for Real-Time AI-RAN
The OCUDU dApp platform introduces an open runtime and E3 interface enabling AI-RAN applications to execute within a 3GPP NR 5G distributed unit (DU) under three timing contracts: GPU receive chain residency (Class A), scheduler deadlines (Class B), and non-blocking observation (Class C). The platform supports signed applications without displacing conventional paths, ensuring typed, validated, and operator-bounded execution. It integrates a runtime, embedded E3 agent, and public repositories, demonstrated through a dApp lifecycle state machine and management surface compatibility with Python scripts, operator consoles, and LLM agents. On a GB10 gNB with attached handsets, all three dApp classes, including an out-of-tree neural equalizer, operated concurrently on a live cell without fallbacks, with equalizer variants compared via lifecycle operations.
ai-ran3gpp nrdistributed unite3 interfacetiming contracts
Latent-MoE: Domain-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for PDEs with Multi-Regime Physics
Latent-MoE introduces a domain-aware mixture-of-experts architecture for solving PDEs with multi-regime physics, addressing the limitations of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in handling spatially varying governing physics. The method leverages compact-support routers to produce a uniformly banded neural tangent kernel (NTK), localizing learning by exponentially decaying kernel-regression weights with distance. Unlike rigid domain-partitioning approaches like FB-PINNs and X-PINNs, Latent-MoE interleaves domain-aware MoE blocks within a shared backbone, enabling capacity flow across regions. On multi-stage time-variable physics benchmarks, Latent-MoE outperforms global models and rigid decompositions by over an order of magnitude, with reduced gradient conflict during training.
physics-informed neural networksneural tangent kernelmixture-of-expertsdomain-aware routinggradient conflict
Pre-Whitening and BCJR Posterior Distillation for Bi-LSTM Detection in Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling
The study demonstrates that pre-whitening input signals and distilling BCJR soft posteriors into a Bi-LSTM detector significantly improves bit error rate (BER) in faster-than-Nyquist signaling. The authors investigate nested ISI window processing in Bi-LSTM architectures, finding no BER improvement compared to plain Bi-LSTM. By pre-whitening inputs to restore conditional independence and distilling BCJR posteriors, the enhanced Bi-LSTM achieves 1.05 times the BCJR BER at a compression factor of 0.8, with a 23.7% BER reduction. Results are validated across multiple noise realizations and statistical tests.
bit error ratefaster-than-nyquistbi-lstmbcjrpre-whitening
Decomposition-Guided Diffusion Language Models for Inertial Confinement Fusion Prediction
ICF-DLM introduces the first language-model-based predictor for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) waveform forecasting, addressing challenges of temporal sparsity, limited data (under 300 real shots), and picosecond-scale sensitivity. The method combines (i) physics-typed decomposition into yield, peak timing, and local waveform components, (ii) bidirectional denoising to handle peak-location uncertainty, and (iii) physics-driven PPO rewards for numeric token optimization. Evaluated on ICFBench (50K simulations + 232 experimental shots), ICF-DLM reduces peak-timing error from 11.6 to 9.2 steps versus LLaMA-3-8B and outperforms classical sequence models, demonstrating applicability to low-data, sparse-event scientific domains.
inertial confinement fusionlanguage-model-based predictortemporal sparsityppo rewardwaveform decomposition
A Theoretical Analysis of Generalization Dynamics in Neural Networks under Gradient Descent with Weight Decay
The authors develop a theoretical framework to analyze generalization dynamics in neural networks trained via gradient descent with weight decay under the ℓ² loss. They partition the input space and decompose population error into data error, optimization error, and prediction variation error, bounding each component separately. By introducing local approximate homogeneity, they derive explicit cellwise and layerwise bounds for prediction variation error evolution. These bounds reveal a necessary condition for improved generalization, explaining layerwise generalization differences, and a sufficient condition characterizing delayed generalization, including grokking phenomena.
generalization dynamicsgradient descentweight decayprediction variation errorgrokking
Cross-modal learning for SAR target recognition using optical vision foundation models
This work introduces a cross-modal EO-to-SAR prototype alignment framework for SAR target recognition, leveraging optical vision foundation models to address SAR classification challenges. The method employs a frozen DINOv3 encoder to construct optical class prototypes without requiring paired EO/SAR data, then trains a SAR model to classify SAR images while aligning embeddings to EO prototypes. Evaluated on the UNICORNv2 dataset, the approach outperforms baselines including frozen DINOv3, SAR-only fine-tuning, and unpaired distribution alignment, demonstrating improved SAR classification accuracy and clearer class separation in embedding visualizations. Results indicate transferability of optical foundation models to SAR imagery despite domain differences.
synthetic aperture radarcross-modal learningoptical prototypesdinov3embedding alignment
Local gradient neural operator
The authors propose the Local Gradient Neural Operator (LGNO), a lightweight and interpretable neural operator for field temporal evolution prediction and source identification in mechanical systems. LGNO leverages nonlinear gradient discretization priors and employs multilayer perceptron convolutional layers to learn translation-invariant local kernels resembling discrete stencils. A zero consistent stencil factorization separates coefficient learning from field reconstruction, while network folding reduces parameter counts for symmetric problems. Evaluated on diverse PDE benchmarks covering linear/nonlinear, static/dynamic, and low/high-dimensional cases, LGNO demonstrates maintained accuracy, parameter efficiency, and rollout stability, with applicability to diffusion, flow, and quantum phenomena.
neural operatorgradient discretizationstencil factorizationmultilayer perceptrontranslation-invariant
Guiding Worker Self-Selection in Crowdsourcing Contests: An LLM-Augmented Algorithmic Approach
The authors introduce GRAF, a greedy polynomial-time framework for contest recommendation in crowdsourcing platforms using self-selection in Tullock contests (SSTC), and LLMScore, an LLM-driven evolutionary framework to optimize GRAF's scoring algorithm. GRAF constructs self-selection outcomes by ordering workers via a score vector, ensuring zero worker regret and platform optimality in special SSTC cases. LLMScore jointly optimizes platform utility and worker satisfaction while evaluating worker regret in intractable scenarios, transferring effectively across settings and producing human-readable code. Across 1,000 synthetic instances in four settings, GRAF with LLMScore achieves near-optimal outcomes with low worker regret.
crowdsourcingtullock contestsself-selectionllm-driven optimizationworker regret
Scalability Analysis of Distributed Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Training on High-Performance Computing Systems
This paper conducts the first empirical scalability analysis of distributed Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) training on multi-node, multi-GPU HPC systems. Using PyTorch Distributed Data Parallel on FinisTerrae III with up to 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs across 4 nodes, the study evaluates strong scaling, weak scaling, communication overhead, and model-size scaling. Results show 74.7% parallel efficiency at 8 GPUs with a 5.97x speedup, non-monotonic communication overhead (1.3%-6.1%) driven by All-Reduce selection and inter-node latency, and improving parameter-to-memory ratio with model size despite unfavorable training time scaling. The findings demonstrate complementary operator-level and data-parallel optimizations for KANs.
kolmogorov-arnold networksdistributed traininghigh-performance computingparallel efficiencyall-reduce
Attributing Cohen's d: Training Data Attribution for Disease-Related Effects in Normative Age Biomarkers
The authors introduce a method for attributing disease-related effect sizes in normative age biomarkers directly to individual training samples, using a closed-form influence functional for Cohen's d. This approach, validated against leave-one-out retraining, ranks training samples by their impact on case-control separation in held-out data. Results across four diseases and two biomarker modalities in UK Biobank show that removing the top 10% influential samples increases disease-related effect sizes, doubling the metabolomic-age effect for type-2 diabetes and raising the brain-age effect for multiple sclerosis by approximately one-third. The method identifies subclinical cardiometabolic burdens missed by diagnosis-based exclusion, recovering HbA1c as a key marker for type-2 diabetes.
normative age modelscohen's dinfluence functionalcase-control separationmetabolomic-age
Sub-6 GHz Over-the-Air AMC via Curriculum Fine-Tuned CNN-Transformers
The study introduces a curriculum fine-tuning approach for a hybrid CNN-Transformer model for automatic modulation classification (AMC) in sub-6 GHz over-the-air scenarios. The model was initially trained on synthetic data at 915 MHz and subsequently fine-tuned using real-hardware experimentation at 4 GHz across five directional-antenna distances (25, 35, 50, 70, 75 cm) with fixed TX/RX gain. The curriculum included near-ideal antenna alignment (~99%) and deliberate partial misalignment (~85%). The model achieved matched-distance test accuracy of 91.8-93.7% across all conditions, with confusion-matrix analysis grounded in RF theory.
automatic modulation classificationcnn-transformercurriculum fine-tuningsub-6 ghzdirectional-antenna
Spatial Feature-wise Linear Modulation (SpFiLM) for Contrast Agent-Aware Brain Parcellation
We introduce Spatial Feature-wise Linear Modulation (SpFiLM), a conditioning layer enabling spatially varying modulation for contrast agent-aware brain parcellation. SpFiLM extends FiLM by assembling voxel-wise scale and shift parameters from image-derived spatial patterns, addressing local appearance variations between pre- and post-contrast T1-weighted MRI. Evaluated on a cohort of 134 patients with paired T1w and T1ce MRI parcellated into 106 classes, integrating SpFiLM layers into a UNet improved mean Dice score on a test set of 25 patients from 80.2% to 84.1%, a 4.9% relative improvement. SpFiLM achieved optimal performance on both MRI types while controlling for parameter counts.
brain parcellationfeature-wise linear modulationspatial modulationt1-weighted mriunet
ParetoTransport: Generative Optimization by Mass Transport Toward The Pareto Front
ParetoTransport introduces a training-free guidance method for pre-trained flow-matching models to optimize offline multi-objective optimization by explicitly refining population-level distributions in objective space. The method iteratively transports the empirical offline distribution toward the Pareto front using Wasserstein matching to intermediate proxy distributions, controlling distributional displacement and mass allocation. It establishes convergence and achieves state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks, evaluated using generational distance, inverted generational distance, and Wasserstein distance, extending beyond traditional hypervolume metrics.
pareto frontwasserstein matchingflow-matchingmulti-objective optimizationgenerational distance
Emergent Charging Coordination in Electric Delivery Fleets
A decentralized learning-based approach achieves emergent charging coordination in electric delivery fleets without centralized control or messaging infrastructure. Each vehicle independently executes a shared policy, utilizing local time budgets and broadcast station occupancy data to make charging decisions. Agents trained via neuroevolution (NEAT) and policy gradients (PPO) on four cities generalize zero-shot to twenty cities, completing 96.8% and 98.6% of shifts respectively, outperforming naive greedy (73%) and threshold heuristic (~80%) baselines. The learned policies exhibit robust behaviors including partial charging, opportunistic sessions, and station avoidance, reducing queue waits from ~45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining near-Oracle (99.5%) performance levels.
electric delivery fleetsneuroevolutionpolicy gradientsemergent coordinationzero-shot generalization
On the Recall Scaling Laws in Mamba: A Theoretical and Mechanistic Study via Hashing
This paper develops Recall Scaling Laws, a theoretical framework for analyzing Associative Recall (AR) in Mamba models, based on mechanistic interpretability and similarity-preserving hashing. The authors identify that Mamba performs AR by implicitly learning linear hash functions and reverse-engineer the low-level circuit enabling this behavior. The framework predicts embedding and state dimensions required for perfect recall, recall success probability, and analyzes multi-layer models and multi-head SSM patterns. Empirical results validate the accuracy of these predictions, offering insights into how AR capacity scales with vocabulary, state, embedding size, and architecture.
associative recallmambamechanistic interpretabilityscaling lawssimilarity-preserving hashing
MpSub: A Momentum $p$-Dimensional Subspace Trust-Region Method for Derivative-Free Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
MpSub introduces a momentum $p$-dimensional subspace trust-region method for derivative-free fine-tuning of large language models, eliminating the need for learning-rate tuning. The method searches within a $p$-dimensional subspace combining historical momentum and random exploration, estimates gradients via central differences, and adapts the trust-region radius based on loss reduction agreement. Theoretical analysis bounds finite-difference error and proves convergence under safeguarded radius updates. Evaluated on OPT-125M and OPT-350M fine-tuned on CommitmentBank, MpSub achieves mean test accuracies of 0.673 and 0.690 over three seeds, matching tuned MeZO (0.685) without learning-rate search.
trust-regionderivative-freemomentumfine-tuningsubspace
The Art of Hierarchical Competing Patterns: Gaussian Process Optimization of Hyphenation
The study introduces Gaussian-process Bayesian optimization for automating patgen profile selection in hyphenation pattern generation, addressing the manual tuning dependency in current systems. The method optimizes a composite objective combining an F_{1/7}-score for precision and a normalized trie-size penalty for compactness. Evaluated on 17 datasets across 14 languages, the optimized profiles improved F_{1/7} on 16 datasets and reduced trie size on all, with a median trie size reduction to 40.7% of baseline. Statistical significance (p = 1.37e-4) and budget-matched comparisons confirm the method's reproducibility and competitiveness against expert-tuned profiles.
gaussian processhyphenation patternstrie sizebayesian optimizationpatgen
Forecasting the Winner of a Live Tennis Match
This study proposes a hybrid model, Trace, for live tennis match forecasting by integrating pre-match and in-match data to dynamically update win probabilities. The analysis leverages a dataset of 8,222 Grand Slam matches comprising 1,505,355 points, employing a chronological split for training (2011-2021), validation (2022), and testing (2023-2024). Trace achieved accuracies of 76.06%, 82.15%, and 88.34% at 25%, 50%, and 75% match progress, respectively, demonstrating the efficacy of hybrid modeling in adapting to score and performance changes during live matches.
hybrid modelwin probabilitychronological splitgrand slammatch progress
Translation of Black-Box Clinical Prediction Models into Standalone Transparent Nomograms: Temporal External Validation in Heart Transplantation
PRiSM introduces a method to translate black-box clinical prediction models into transparent, standalone nomograms that preserve model-specific effects and interactions. The approach extracts partial responses from structured models, enabling term-by-term auditing and outcome-driven weighting. Evaluated on 50,356 heart transplant recipients with temporal external validation, nomograms derived from five source models (clinical risk score, logistic regression, neural networks, random forests, extreme gradient boosting) met noninferiority criteria for discrimination, maintained calibration, and preserved clinical net benefit. Machine-learning-derived nomograms matched de novo generalized additive and explainable boosting models in discrimination, outperformed neural additive models, and achieved greater term efficiency than explainable boosting. PRiSM is released as an open-source Python package.
nomogramspartial responsestemporal external validationnoninferioritystructured models
CLUES-WEASEL: No additional clues required to choose your time series clustering algorithm
CLUES-WEASEL introduces a novel time series clustering algorithm that outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and runtime. The approach leverages the unsupervised transformation step from WEASEL 2.0 for feature extraction, applies principal component analysis for dimensionality reduction, and employs k-means clustering on the reduced features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CLUES-WEASEL achieves superior clustering performance while being significantly faster than state-of-the-art alternatives. The architecture's flexibility is validated by its compatibility with other feature extraction algorithms, underscoring its broad applicability in time series clustering tasks.
time series clusteringfeature extractionprincipal component analysisk-meansunsupervised learning
I Don't Miss You, but I Do: Self-Explanation Faithfulness of Modality Missingness in Vision-Language Models
This work introduces an interventional protocol to evaluate vision-language models' (VLMs) self-explanations of modality missingness, focusing on their ability to predict how missing modalities affect predictions. The protocol assesses models' claims about modality sufficiency and restoration effects, comparing them to executed interventions across eight VLMs from two families on four tasks. Results reveal systematic overestimation of available modality sufficiency: median predicted change rates upon modality restoration are ≤8.8%, while executed rates reach 72.1%, with underprediction in 62 of 64 model-task-condition settings. Insufficiency claims are precise (78-100% accuracy) but rare. Retrospective analyses confirm VLMs over-credit single-modality sufficiency relative to executed behavior, highlighting the need for intervention-based evaluation of multimodal self-explanations.
vision-language modelsmodality missingnessself-explanationsinterventional protocolsufficiency estimation
Efficient Exploration Is Enough
The paper proposes an alternative framework for efficient exploration in reinforcement learning, focusing on agents that prioritize generating generalizable experience without extrinsic rewards. The approach analyzes exploration through prediction and generalization, demonstrating that optimally efficient explorers naturally schedule trajectories to visit the most informative and learnable regions first. Empirical results show that optimizing for such agents leads to an automatic curriculum of progressively complex behaviors, even in simple environments. This indicates that intrinsic objectives alone can drive sophisticated behavior emergence, offering a principled mechanism for sustained complexity in agent-environment systems.
efficient explorationgeneralizable experienceintrinsic objectivesautomatic curriculumagent-environment systems
No-Regret Mixing of LRU and LFU with Optimal Switching Cost
We introduce H-MC, a Hedge-based mixture of Least Recently Used (LRU) and Least Frequently Used (LFU) caching policies that achieves sublinear regret while minimizing switching costs. Unlike prior approaches such as LeCar and Cacheus, which randomize eviction rules based on historical scores but suffer linear regret against oblivious adversaries, H-MC preserves Hedge's selection probabilities and guarantees optimal performance relative to the better of LRU and LFU. The method leverages virtual caches to maintain marginal probabilities while minimizing the cost of switching between policies. Theoretical analysis confirms H-MC's sublinear regret and optimal switching cost among joint selection rules with these marginals.
cachingregret minimizationhedge algorithmeviction policyswitching cost
EigenLI: Spectral Approximations to Late Interaction
EigenLI introduces a spectral approximation framework for compressing late-interaction representations in models like ColBERT by exploiting their intrinsic low-rank structure. The method identifies document-specific low-dimensional subspaces via dominant eigendirections, constructing reduced interaction representations. Empirical results show $k$-EigenLI ($k \le 32$) outperforms clustering-based pooling on ColBERTv2 and AnswerAI-ColBERT-small, while EigenLI-SV, a derived single-vector representation, consistently surpasses alternatives like MUVERA across datasets and models.
late-interactionspectral approximationlow-rank structureeigendirectionssingle-vector representation
SeisBench DAS: A machine learning framework for Distributed Acoustic Sensing
SeisBench DAS extends the SeisBench library to standardize machine learning for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data, addressing interoperability gaps between model developers and practitioners. The framework introduces standardized formats for DAS benchmark datasets (metadata, labels) and models, leveraging xdas for data ingestion and PyTorch for model application. It includes an engine for efficient deep learning model deployment across diverse DAS data formats, designed as an open, extensible platform for future developments.
distributed acoustic sensingseisbenchpytorchxdasgeophysical machine learning
Heat Kernel Textures: the Geodesic Gaussians That Do Not Splat
Heat Kernel Textures (HKTex) introduces a novel texture representation that eliminates UV mapping issues like wasted space, seams, and distortions while reducing memory footprint. Grounded in discrete Riemannian geometry, HKTex uses anisotropic heat kernels as geodesic equivalents to Gaussians, operating intrinsically on triangular mesh surfaces. The method redefines kernel positioning and adaptive densification strategies for surface-constrained optimization, integrating with physically based rendering and supporting optimization from textures or multi-view images. Results demonstrate compatibility with 3D Gaussian Splatting and address persistent UV mapping limitations.
heat kernel texturesgaussian splattingriemannian geometryuv mappinganisotropic kernels
CoRL: Co-Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Indirect Prompt-Injection Attacks and Defenses
CoRL introduces a co-evolutionary reinforcement learning framework for adaptive indirect prompt-injection (IPI) attacks and defenses, formulated as an asymmetric, partially observable, general-sum Markov game. The method employs three stages: Attacker SFT for initializing multi-turn attacks, bilateral Co-PPO for joint training with role-specific rewards, and Defender SFT for consolidating verifier-accepted repairs. Evaluated across 1,514 executions, CoRL reduces attack success rate (ASR) by 38.5 points to 0.0% and increases utility by 13.1 points to 76.3%. Stage-wise ablations confirm the contributions of Co-PPO and population-mined repairs, with transferable attack resistance demonstrated on external benchmarks.
indirect prompt-injectionco-evolutionary reinforcement learningmarkov gameco-ppoverifier-grounded
Statistical versus machine learning-based spatial interpolation of post-processed ensemble weather forecasts
The study compares statistical and machine learning methods for spatial interpolation of post-processed ECMWF ensemble weather forecasts, focusing on 2-m temperature and 10-m wind speed predictions in Germany. Methods evaluated include EMOS-based approaches, distributional regression networks, Transformers, and graph neural networks, with an altitude-aware linear pool (ALP) proposed for temperature forecasts. Results indicate that post-processing generally improves raw ensemble forecasts, though no single method dominates across all variables, station groups, and metrics. The ALP demonstrates a small but significant improvement over the standard linear pool at unobserved locations.
ensemble weather forecastsspatial interpolationdistributional regression networksaltitude-aware linear poolgraph neural networks
Generation of Vectorized Maps Beyond Vehicle View
The paper introduces BeyondFormer, the first model for beyond-view vectorized map generation in autonomous driving, addressing the limitation of insufficient map range for safe planning. The method generates plausible map continuations from in-view vectorized maps sensed by onboard sensors. A novel dataset is created to evaluate BeyondFormer, demonstrating consistent performance across diverse scenarios and establishing learning-based methods as promising for map forecasting. The authors discuss limitations and identify key future research directions for scaling to complex driving conditions. Code is available at https://git-autopia.car.upm-csic.es/beyondformer.
vectorized mapsautonomous drivingbeyond-viewmap forecastinglearning-based methods
Improving Multivariate Time Series Classification with Class-Wise Training and Model Aggregation
Proposes a class-wise dimension selection framework for Multivariate Time Series Classification (MTSC) to improve discriminative feature representation by independently identifying informative dimensions per class. The method employs dedicated learning per class followed by fusion, reducing noise from non-informative dimensions. Evaluated using MiniRocket, results show improved representation quality and classification performance, especially in high-dimensional settings, with consistent gains across datasets and enhanced interpretability via class-relevant dimension identification.
multivariate time series classificationclass-wise trainingdimension selectionminirocketfeature representation
Temporal-Causal Inference for Reinforcement Learning via Automata Learning
The paper introduces Temporal-Causal Inference for Reinforcement Learning (TCIRL), a framework for learning control policies in environments with irreversible phase transitions governed by hidden temporal patterns. TCIRL jointly infers the hidden temporal cause using a hypothesis deterministic finite automaton (DFA) refined via counterexample-driven SAT-based synthesis, converging almost surely to the true cause language. Experiments on a genetic therapy gridworld and traffic signal environment demonstrate TCIRL's ability to recover the correct cause DFA and match full-information baseline performance.
reinforcement learningphase transitiondeterministic finite automatonsat-based synthesisnon-markovian decision process
Latent-to-Latent Flow for Volumetric Stochastic Segmentation
The authors propose a latent-to-latent flow technique for stochastic segmentation of medical volumes, addressing uncertainty from inter-observer variability while improving computational efficiency. The method employs flow matching in encoded representations of both image and label space, leveraging latent representations to mitigate scaling challenges in volumetric data. Evaluated on radiotherapy planning and multi-organ segmentation tasks, the approach achieves up to 14× speedup over full-resolution models while maintaining clinically relevant segmentation performance.
flow matchingvolumetric segmentationlatent representationsstochastic segmentationinter-observer variability
Graph neural networks and the energetic cavity method for combinatorial optimization
The paper proposes modifications to graph neural networks (GNNs) to improve their performance in approximating ground states of Ising models, a formulation applicable to combinatorial optimization. By incorporating mean-field heuristics—specifically the leading eigenvector method and the min-sum (energetic cavity) algorithm—the authors enhance GNNs, achieving competitive results with other deep-learning approaches. However, simulated annealing remains superior at equivalent computational cost. Evaluations demonstrate that unmodified GNNs underperform classical heuristics, while the adapted versions bridge this gap without surpassing traditional methods.
graph neural networksising modelcombinatorial optimizationmean-field approximationsimulated annealing
Parser-Free VLM Verification for Federated Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
The paper introduces a federated weakly supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) method combining a trained multiple-instance learning (MIL) scorer with frozen vision-language model (VLM) verification. The approach uses either text-generation parsing or next-token logit feedback (Yes/No probabilities) from VLMs like InternVL3.5-2B to verify high-scoring segments. Experiments on UCF-Crime show the logit interface improves frame-level AUC (4.2% over baseline) and AP without temporal post-processing, while text-generation verification requires careful prompt tuning. The parser-free logit method provides a robust, segment-local alternative to text-based VLM feedback in federated settings.
federated learningweakly supervised learningvision-language modelsvideo anomaly detectionmultiple-instance learning
TASTE: Throughput-Aware Batch Size Tuning for On-Device Edge Learning
The paper introduces TASTE, a Bayesian optimization-based batch size tuning method for on-device edge learning that maximizes training throughput without compromising accuracy. The approach dynamically identifies hardware-specific optimal batch sizes, combining gradient accumulation and linear learning rate scaling, and evaluates performance in both supervised learning (SL) and online continual learning (CL) paradigms. Experiments on edge devices like Raspberry Pi 4 show a 2X throughput improvement over maximum batch sizes while maintaining accuracy and CL stability. The method also mitigates catastrophic forgetting in CL by preserving the plasticity-stability balance.
bayesian optimizationbatch size tuningon-device learningthroughput optimizationcontinual learning
TabBench-Bio: A Living Benchmark for Machine Learning on High-Dimensional Biomedical Tables
TabBench-Bio introduces a living benchmark for evaluating machine learning methods on high-dimensional biomedical tabular data, comprising 43 datasets across multiple domains. The study compares classical estimators, neural networks, and tabular foundation models under a shared cross-validation protocol, evaluating 28 feature-by-sample operating points. Results show RealTabPFN v2.5 outperforms Logistic Regression by 145 Elo (95% interval [59, 232]) at the reference cell of 10,000 features and 100 samples, with tabular foundation models generally leading. The benchmark includes AutoGluon's resource-intensive reference and encourages community contributions for future releases.
biomedical tablestabular foundation modelscross-validation protocolhigh-dimensional dataautoml
A Systematic Analysis of Automatic Differentiation versus Discretization-based Constraints for Physics-Informed PDE Solvers
This paper systematically compares automatic differentiation (AD) and discretization-based constraints in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Through experiments on problems ranging from linear Poisson to high-Mach hypersonic flows, the authors analyze approximation, optimization, and truncation errors. Results show discretization-based constraints outperform AD as nonlinearity increases, with graph neural networks (GNNs) surpassing multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) in complex nonlinear and boundary conditions. The study provides practical guidelines for neural PDE solver configuration in engineering applications.
physics-informed neural networksautomatic differentiationdiscretization-based constraintspartial differential equationsgraph neural networks
Revisiting Thinning Methods for Kernel Learning Problems
The paper introduces Backward Kernel Herding and Flexible Kernel Thinning for efficient dataset subsampling in kernel methods. Backward Kernel Herding iteratively removes points to achieve comparable performance to state-of-the-art methods with faster subsampling, particularly when the reduced size is less than half the original dataset. Flexible Kernel Thinning extends Kernel Thinning to support arbitrary subset sizes. Experiments on Gaussian Processes and Kernel Support Vector Machines show Backward Kernel Herding excels in training-time efficiency, while Flexible Kernel Thinning often achieves superior predictive performance, especially at moderate compression ratios. Method selection depends on trade-offs between predictive accuracy, training cost, and memory usage.
kernel methodsmaximum mean discrepancyreproducing kernel hilbert spacegaussian processessupport vector machines
Masking Radar Cognition under Adversarial Surveillance: A Distributional Privacy Framework
The paper introduces an online electronic counter-countermeasure (ECCM) framework to mask the cognitive decision-making processes of a radar under adversarial surveillance. It models the radar's utility function using a von Mises--Fisher distribution and employs a distributional privacy framework to protect private information. Two cognition-hiding algorithms, WDPCH-SU and WDPCH-DU, are developed for static constrained utility maximization and dynamic expected utility maximization, respectively. Both algorithms satisfy ε-distribution privacy (ε-DistP) and demonstrate improved utility loss (15% for WDPCH-SU) and reduced adversarial Fisher information (WDPCH-DU) compared to existing methods, with bounded utility deviation.
electronic counter-countermeasurevon mises-fisher distributiondistributional privacycognitive radarutility maximization
RelightFormer: Feed-forward Generative Transformer for Multiview Object Relighting
The paper introduces RelightFormer, a feed-forward generative Transformer for single- and multi-view image relighting that bypasses explicit intrinsic property estimation. The architecture adapts a video foundation model with a latent illumination module injecting target environment maps via cross-attention and uses permutation-invariant positional encodings for unordered multi-view inputs. Trained on the Laval Objaverse Dataset (90K objects, 39K illuminations), it achieves state-of-the-art visual quality, photorealistic relighting, and zero-shot generalization across single-view, multi-view, and novel-view tasks.
image relightinggenerative transformercross-attentionpermutation-invariant encodingszero-shot generalization
Multi-label versus multi-class classification of blood cells and their aggregates in microfluidic channels
The study introduces multi-label (ML) classification as a superior alternative to conventional multi-class (MC) classification for identifying blood cells and their aggregates in deformability cytometry (DC) data. Using DC, which measures cellular stiffness and other properties via imaging flow cytometry, the authors demonstrate that ML classifiers can simultaneously assign multiple cell-type labels to a single imaged event, even for aggregates not present in the training data. This approach eliminates the need for exhaustive aggregate labeling, simplifying annotation and addressing a clinical gap in automated blood analyzers' inability to reliably analyze cell aggregates.
deformability cytometrymulti-label classificationmulti-class classificationcell aggregatesimaging flow cytometry
RAFM-SER++: A Lightweight Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework for Real-Time Behavioral Monitoring in Surveillance Systems
RAFM_SER++ introduces a lightweight multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) framework for real-time surveillance, addressing computational inefficiency in interaction-heavy cross-modal transformers. The framework employs an asymmetric Residual Attention Fusion Mechanism (RAFM) to inject affective speech cues into semantic text representations via a one-directional residual attention pathway, coupled with a BYOL-inspired cross-modal alignment objective and attention-guided pooling. Experiments on IEMOCAP and ESD benchmarks show RAFM_SER++ reduces trainable parameters by over 60%, achieves 79.60 it/s inference speed, and attains BACC scores of 81.10% and 95.39%, outperforming HuBERT-Base and MemoCMT in accuracy-efficiency trade-off.
speech emotion recognitionresidual attention fusioncross-modal alignmentlightweight frameworkreal-time surveillance
Impact of canny edge detection preprocessing on performance of machine learning models for Parkinson's disease classification
The study evaluates the impact of Canny edge detection preprocessing and dataset augmentation on machine learning models for Parkinson's disease classification. Using four datasets derived from an original dataset, the authors test eight ML models (LR, DT, RF, GB, XGBoost, NB, SVM, AdaBoost) on prediction accuracy, memory footprint, and latency. Results indicate that Canny edge detection combined with Hessian filtering degrades model performance, while larger datasets increase memory usage and prediction latency. Random Forest maintains a stable memory footprint of 61 KB across datasets, whereas KNN and SVM exhibit significant increases in memory usage and prediction time.
canny edge detectionhessian filteringrandom forestprediction latencymemory footprint
Think Wider: Mitigating Latent Rank Collapse in Implicit Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
The paper introduces WIDER, a spectral regularizer to mitigate latent rank collapse in implicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, where successive latent states become overly similar. WIDER estimates and penalizes projections onto the dominant direction of latent trajectories during training, encouraging broader subspace utilization without modifying the backbone model or inference procedure. Experiments demonstrate improved performance over implicit CoT baselines, with mechanistic analyses showing higher effective rank, reduced dominant-direction energy, and lower redundancy among latent steps. The work frames latent collapse as a geometric bottleneck and provides a training-time solution for more diverse continuous reasoning.
implicit chain-of-thoughtlatent rank collapsespectral regularizationgeometric bottlenecksubspace utilization
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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a Millennium Prize Problem, using an internal AI model that outperforms its recently released Astra model. The achievement is contested due to allegations of uncredited use of prior work by mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge, who employed public AI models in their research. OpenAI denies accessing their work but acknowledges inspiration from rumors about their efforts. The controversy highlights concerns about AI-driven mathematics, including resource disparities (10,000 concurrent agents, millions in costs) and the erosion of collaborative academic norms, potentially marginalizing human mathematicians.
millennium prize problemsnavier–stokes equationsai-assisted proofacademic collaborationfluid dynamics
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