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TechCrunch AI 1 hour ago
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI alleging misconduct by senior executives and claiming over 400 former Apple employees work at the company. The lawsuit was filed last Friday as OpenAI reportedly plans an IPO later this year. The case could delay OpenAI's public offering and raise broader questions about data security at AI companies.
Ars Technica 3 hours ago
San Francisco's attorney general sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding removal of 13 nudification apps that use AI to transform photos of real people into explicit images without consent. The apps enable users to remove clothing, alter features, and create deepfake pornography, which violates California law prohibiting services that create such content. The app stores face potential legal action if they do not comply with the removal demands.
Hugging Face Blog 3 hours ago
NVIDIA and Hugging Face integrated NVIDIA's NeMo Automodel library with the Diffusers library, enabling scalable fine-tuning of diffusion models for image and video generation directly from the Hugging Face Hub without checkpoint conversion. The integration supports flow-matching models including FLUX.1-dev, Qwen-Image, Wan 2.1, HunyuanVideo, and others, with performance benchmarks showing FLUX.1-dev achieving 35.51 images per second for full fine-tuning and 53.73 images per second for LoRA on 8 H100 GPUs. Users can now fine-tune diffusion models at any scale using YAML configurations and parameter-efficient methods like LoRA, with fine-tuned checkpoints loading directly into Diffusers pipelines for inference or sharing.
Sakana AI
Sakana AI and Mitsubishi UFJ Bank jointly developed an AI lending expert system that uses AI agents to support the loan workflow by automating information gathering, structuring, and analysis while keeping human decision-makers in control. The system received approximately 1,500 pieces of feedback during evaluation and achieved significant quality improvements by using AI to classify issues and optimize prompts iteratively. The collaboration demonstrates how AI can enhance professional work by automating routine analysis, freeing employees to focus on client relationships and qualitative judgment that cannot be quantified.
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Sakana AI partnered with The Yomiuri Shimbun to analyze Chinese state-sponsored social media campaigns criticizing Japan using proprietary AI technology that extracts narratives and generates hypotheses. The system analyzed 1.1 million social media posts and identified multiple hypotheses, including one verified by the newspaper about coordinated timing of criticism campaigns. Sakana AI is now positioning defense and intelligence as a core focus area alongside finance for implementing AI in national security applications.
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Sakana AI developed the Namazu model series by applying post-training techniques to open-weight foundation models to adapt them for Japanese cultural context and safety requirements. The Namazu-DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus model maintained base model performance on benchmarks like MMLU-Redux and LiveCodeBench while improving neutrality and factual accuracy on politically sensitive topics from 28% to nearly 100% in answering related questions. Sakana launched Sakana Chat, a search-integrated service using Namazu models, following 1,000 beta testers' feedback to make localized AI models broadly accessible to Japanese users.
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Sakana AI published a Nature paper describing The AI Scientist-v2, an agent that autonomously executes machine learning research by generating ideas, conducting experiments, and writing papers. A paper generated by the system achieved a 69% balanced accuracy score from an Automated Reviewer that matched human peer-review performance on actual conference submissions. The results demonstrate a scaling law where improved foundation models produce higher-quality generated papers, suggesting the system's capabilities will improve substantially as underlying models advance.
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Sakana AI announced Sakana Marlin, its first commercial product, an AI research assistant for businesses that uses proprietary agent technology to conduct autonomous research. The system can complete complex business research over approximately 8 hours by itself, producing structured summary slides and multi-page comprehensive reports without human intervention after the initial prompt. The product integrates two core technologies—AB-MCTS for strategic exploration and AI Scientist frameworks for workflow automation—to enable efficient reasoning scaling that improves output quality with extended computational thinking.
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Sakana AI completed development of a system for the Japanese government's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to detect and counter disinformation on social media, using AI to visualize narratives, identify false information, and propose countermeasures. The system was demonstrated at a government event on March 16, 2026, combining multiple detection methods and providing transparency in AI decision-making processes. The technology aims to help Japan build domestic capabilities in AI-powered intelligence operations related to information security.
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Sakana AI released Digital Ecosystems, a browser-based platform where small neural networks compete on a 2D grid, learning via gradient descent while the simulation runs. The system contains 40+ tunable parameters and runs entirely in the browser without installation. The research found that gradient descent stabilizes the ecosystem by preventing species from overextending or stagnating, enabling exploration of complex emergent behaviors.
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Sakana AI discovered a prompting technique called String Seed of Thought (SSoT) that reduces output bias in large language models by instructing them to generate random strings internally before deriving answers. Testing across multiple LLMs showed SSoT achieved accuracy close to actual random sampling on reasoning models and improved diversity on the NoveltyBench benchmark across all six categories. The method requires only a small prompt addition with no external random number generator, making it applicable to content generation and ideation tasks where varied outputs are needed.
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Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that coordinates multiple foundation models to improve performance on coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks. The system is available as an API in two variants—Fugu Mini optimized for latency and Fugu Ultra for maximum performance—with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and based on ICLR 2026 research papers. Users can now integrate Fugu into existing workflows to automatically coordinate model collaboration without managing multiple API keys or manually selecting models for each task.
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Sakana AI developed TRINITY, a coordinator system that orchestrates multiple specialized AI models at test-time without modifying their weights, using an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a 20K-parameter routing mechanism. The system achieved an 86.2% pass@1 score on LiveCodeBench and generalized zero-shot to four unseen tasks while outperforming individual models including GPT-5 and Claude-4-Sonnet. This approach replaces the industry focus on scaling single monolithic models with collaborative multi-model systems that combine complementary strengths through dynamic task assignment.
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Sakana AI trained a 7-billion-parameter Conductor model using reinforcement learning to manage and coordinate a team of other AI models by writing natural language instructions tailored to each task. The Conductor achieved 83.9% on LiveCodeBench and 87.5% on GPQA-Diamond, surpassing individual models in its pool while dynamically adapting its approach—using single queries for simple questions and constructing multi-step workflows for complex problems. This approach enables AI systems to leverage collective intelligence by learning to delegate tasks across diverse models rather than relying on fixed human-designed workflows.
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Sakana AI introduced KAME, a speech-to-speech conversational AI system that combines a fast response model with an asynchronous backend LLM to enable real-time reasoning during conversation rather than before speaking. The architecture allows swapping different LLMs like GPT-4.1, Claude Opus, or Gemini 2.5 Flash without changing the frontend system. The paper was accepted at ICASSP 2026 and demonstrated that different models excel at different tasks, with Claude scoring higher on reasoning and GPT on humanities questions.
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Sakana AI developed an automated proposal generation application for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to streamline wholesale banking processes. The application reduces proposal writing time from one to two weeks to several hours or tens of minutes by deploying multiple AI agents that perform data collection, analysis, hypothesis building, and fact-checking. Bank employees can now focus on strategic problem-solving while AI handles document creation and identifies insights humans might overlook.
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Sakana AI and NVIDIA developed new GPU kernels and data formats to accelerate sparse transformer language models by reshaping sparsity patterns to match hardware capabilities rather than forcing hardware adaptation. The hybrid sparsity format (TwELL) achieved over 20% speedups and significant memory and energy savings in billion-parameter scale models. This enables more efficient inference and training of large language models by better exploiting the natural sparsity that emerges in transformer feedforward layers.
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Sakana AI launched an Applied Team in early 2025 to implement generative AI technology in sectors like finance and defense. The company is developing command-and-control systems for defense that integrate large volumes of field data from drones and other sources to support rapid situational assessment and decision-making by military personnel. Software engineers at Sakana AI work on mission-critical defense applications using Python, TypeScript/Next.js, and Kotlin, with generative AI serving as an essential tool across implementation, goal-setting, and problem extraction.
TechCrunch AI 3 hours ago
Patreon is now actively blocking AI training bots from scraping creator content using Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control technology, replacing its previous reliance on robots.txt requests. During testing, weekly scraping attempts from individual AI crawlers dropped from thousands to zero, showing that bots were previously ignoring Patreon's instructions. The platform aims to give creators control over whether their work is used to train AI models, while still allowing bots that index content and direct users back to the site.
NVIDIA 4 hours ago
NVIDIA introduced the Vera Rubin platform designed to optimize post-training workloads for agentic AI models that continuously adapt and learn from production environments. The Nemotron 3 Ultra model achieved 71.7% on SWE-bench by fixing real software bugs, with Vera Rubin reducing GPU requirements by 75% compared to the previous Blackwell generation for the same training tasks. This shift makes continuous post-training economically viable, allowing AI systems to maintain and improve intelligence throughout their operational lifetime rather than as a one-time process.
The New Stack 4 hours ago
DoorDash launched dd-cli, a command-line interface that allows AI agents to place food delivery orders autonomously without human approval, available in limited beta for US and Canadian macOS developers. The tool removes the approval step previously required when using DoorDash's Claude connector or ChatGPT integration, enabling agents to search restaurants, compare prices, and complete purchases directly. Industry observers argue DoorDash had to offer this capability to remain competitive as agent-based ordering becomes standard, since refusing to provide an official integration would not prevent agents from accessing the platform through unauthorized workarounds.
TechCrunch AI 5 hours ago
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging misconduct by senior leadership and claiming over 400 former Apple employees work there, creating complications as OpenAI pursues an IPO potentially later this year. The lawsuit could affect OpenAI's hardware ambitions and IPO timeline while raising broader questions about data security at AI companies. The case adds pressure on OpenAI during a critical period for the company's expansion and public markets debut.
Simon Willison 5 hours ago
Kimi K3 refused to leak its system prompt when asked, responding with a question about whether it could help with something else. The interaction was collected and posted by Simon Willison on July 17, 2026, and categorized under AI, generative AI, and LLM topics. This demonstrates how modern AI models are designed to decline requests that compromise their internal instructions.
The Verge 5 hours ago
Apple is suing OpenAI with allegations that experts largely characterize as standard industry practices, and the lawsuit's true motivation remains unclear—whether Apple views OpenAI as a competitive threat or is exploiting a period of vulnerability for the company. The complaint is structured similarly to Apple's previous high-profile litigation cases, suggesting a pattern of aggressive legal strategy. Apple is simultaneously rolling out public beta versions of its software featuring a redesigned Siri AI assistant, positioning itself in the AI market while pursuing legal action against a major competitor.
The New Stack 6 hours ago
AI agents reasoning about live business systems need structured evidence packets containing complete measurement context, not just retrieved data. An evidence packet should include the metric definition, query template, timestamps, data freshness indicators, known gaps, calculation methods, and related metrics tested as counterchecks to prevent agents from reaching incorrect conclusions. Separating database observations from agent interpretation through governed query paths and read-only access ensures agent recommendations remain auditable and verifiable by human reviewers.
Rest of World 6 hours ago
Five AI language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity) predicted World Cup matches with 50-60% accuracy, while Swimbappé the goldfish achieved 80% accuracy by swimming toward flags representing different outcomes. The AI models correctly identified Spain, France, England, and Argentina as semifinalists before the tournament but stumbled on individual match predictions, missing Brazil's elimination by Norway and Germany's loss to Paraguay. Animal predictors like Swimbappé and the hippo Moo Deng have outperformed the AI systems, continuing a tradition established by Paul the Octopus in 2010.
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) 6 hours ago
Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech on artificial intelligence at an international conference, calling for global AI governance frameworks, open innovation while maintaining security and human control, and international cooperation to prevent creating new inequalities through AI technology. Xi emphasized the need for AI to remain
Simon Willison 7 hours ago
A developer created a browser-based tool that detects and highlights clichéd phrases commonly found in language model outputs, such as "no X, no Y" constructions and expressions like "sit with that." The tool identifies ten common LLM-generated patterns with toggleable detection, match counting, and sentence-level highlighting, running entirely in the browser with localStorage support. Users can now identify characteristic language model writing patterns when reading text, making it easier to spot AI-generated content or content heavily influenced by LLM outputs.
The New Stack 7 hours ago
Arm and Google announced infrastructure options for running agentic AI workloads, leveraging Google's custom Axion processors alongside accelerators to optimize cost and security. Google's Kubernetes Engine Agent Sandbox running on Axion N4A instances delivers up to 30% better price performance than competing hyperscale cloud providers for orchestrating untrusted AI-generated code. Organizations can now route heavy computational tasks to specialized accelerators while using Axion CPUs for orchestration and management, reducing overall infrastructure costs and enabling safer autonomous agent deployment.
TechCrunch AI 7 hours ago
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, secured a $400 million loan from Upper90 backed by SambaNova inference chips, marking the first time inference-specific hardware was used as collateral. The SN50 chips are designed to provide 16 times faster inference than GPU-based clouds while reducing costs through power efficiency and eliminating the need for expensive water-cooling systems. This financing signals a broader shift toward cheaper inference infrastructure using open-source models as alternatives to expensive frontier AI systems become more cost-competitive.
TLDR Dev 7 hours ago
O'Reilly's AI Superstream event explored governance and operational patterns for autonomous agents, with speakers addressing execution-layer security, supply chain risks in third-party skills, and deployment hygiene. A recent audit found 900 malicious skills in ClawHub representing nearly 20% of total packages, with one typosquat accumulating over 8,000 downloads before removal. Organizations deploying autonomous agents must implement security controls at the execution layer, audit third-party tools, configure proper defaults, and maintain human oversight rather than assuming models will behave safely or accurately.
TLDR Dev 7 hours ago
Instagram and Monzo co-founders have taken on job roles at Anthropic rather than insisting on founder positions in new ventures. The article does not specify a concrete detail such as a number, benchmark, or date regarding their roles. Successful entrepreneurs can achieve growth and value by accepting positions in established organizations instead of maintaining founder-level authority.
TLDR Dev 7 hours ago
Photoroom's data team developed the Insights Factory, a system that decomposes complex analytical questions into hundreds of small, auditable SQL queries executed by LLM agents with fresh context for each task. The system stores investigation memory in a markdown file rather than a context window, uses five reusable skills to orchestrate agent work, and costs approximately $5 per investigation while remaining fully auditable. This architecture addresses LLM limitations with long context and multi-step reasoning by giving each agent a single atomic task, maintaining external memory to avoid token re-billing, and ensuring human validation at the start and end of each investigation.
TLDR Dev 7 hours ago
A software engineer acknowledges valid criticisms of large language models—including copyright concerns, environmental impact, and risks to open-source development and junior engineer training—while explaining why they continue using them extensively, arguing that LLMs amplify human thinking rather than replace it when used by credible people who stand behind their work. The author spent nearly $10,000 on LLM tokens in June 2026 and views this as justified because the tools enable higher-quality output when humans maintain responsibility for the final product. The core tension, according to the author, is that distinguishing thoughtful LLM-assisted work from AI-generated slop requires trust in the human creator, since the output looks identical regardless of human effort behind it.
TLDR Dev 7 hours ago
Developers who rely on LLMs to write code risk losing familiarity with their own codebase, making it harder to debug issues or guide the LLM effectively on future features. The article offers practical strategies including deliberately making mistakes to reinforce learning, typing code yourself rather than accepting all LLM output, asking probing questions about implementation choices, and actively exploring the code rather than just reviewing diffs. Developers must remain engaged with code understanding through these habits or risk becoming dependent on increasingly capable LLMs to maintain systems they no longer comprehend.
Tech.eu 8 hours ago
Popsa, a London scaleup, uses AI to organize and curate personal photo libraries, helping users make sense of their accumulated images. The platform generated 12 million captions in the last year and operates in over 50 countries with $58 million in revenue, expecting to reach $70-80 million this year. The company runs hundreds of AI models locally on users' devices to identify people, places, and meaningful moments, then automatically creates narratives and printed memory books from photos.
TLDR 8 hours ago
Microsoft's Satya Nadella criticized Anthropic's Fable product for being editorially controlled. The article does not provide specific details about when this criticism was made or what concrete metrics were involved. As a result, the criticism raises questions about editorial oversight in AI products versus other design approaches.
TLDR 8 hours ago
Xi Jinping endorsed developing open-source AI models in a speech that implicitly criticized US efforts to maintain leadership in AI semiconductors and models. Chinese AI executives have stated they face difficulty closing the technology gap with the US because of restrictions on advanced chip access. The endorsement signals China's strategy to pursue open-source approaches as a means to advance its AI capabilities despite export controls.
TLDR 8 hours ago
The article argues that human judgment in identifying problems, evaluating machine solutions, and extending beyond what machines accomplish will remain valuable as AI agents become more prevalent. It emphasizes that taste and judgment are inherently difficult to systematize and scale, unlike machine capabilities. Organizations should deliberately cultivate these human skills as a lasting competitive advantage in an AI-augmented world.
TLDR 8 hours ago
Bun's creator used Anthropic's Claude AI model to rewrite the JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust, completing a 535,496-line migration across 1,448 files in 11 days using 64 parallel AI agents. The project consumed 5.9 billion input tokens and cost $165,000 in API fees, which would have required approximately one year of engineering work traditionally. The successful rewrite demonstrates that AI can enable large-scale code migrations previously considered impractical, though success requires a well-engineered codebase, comprehensive test suite, and motivated engineers to oversee the process.
TLDR 8 hours ago
Researchers restored hand movement and touch sensation to a paralyzed man using a system combining brain implants, AI decoding, and spinal cord stimulation. After 35 weeks of training, the participant's right arm strength increased 86% and he regained feeling in his wrist; these gains persisted over two years after stimulation stopped. The technology appears to rewire the nervous system rather than temporarily bypass the injury, with the AI decoder maintaining 84.6% accuracy over five months without retraining.
TLDR 8 hours ago
Google pushed back the launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro several months because the model did not meet internal capability targets, with coding performance as a key area needing improvement. The delay occurred as the company works to refine the model before release. The postponement extends competitive pressure from rival AI systems and forces Google to reassess its product roadmap.
TLDR 8 hours ago
xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, is working to improve Grok's capabilities to compete with Anthropic's Claude. The company released a new coding tool and expanded its sales team, though it remains behind competitors in multiple performance metrics and has experienced internal instability in recent months. The company must stabilize operations and improve product performance to gain ground in the competitive AI market.
OpenAI Blog 9 hours ago
OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar presented a framework to measure AI return on investment using metrics like useful work completed, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute. The scorecard provides four specific dimensions for evaluating AI system performance beyond traditional efficiency measures. Organizations can now apply these metrics to assess whether their AI implementations are delivering business value relative to computational resources invested.
Sifted 9 hours ago
Dust CEO Gabriel Hubert describes a shift from individual employees using isolated AI chatbots to multiplayer AI systems where agents work collaboratively across departments, learning from company data and sharing workflows. By 2027, Hubert expects organizations will focus on managing multiple agents rather than debating whether to use them at all. Companies must address governance challenges, prevent unauthorized AI use, and maintain human oversight as agents take on more execution while human judgment becomes increasingly valuable.
Tech.eu 9 hours ago
SAP acquired German AI company Prior Labs for over €1 billion, just 18 months after its founding. Prior Labs developed TabPFN, a tabular foundation model capable of handling enterprise prediction tasks like payment delays and demand forecasting without requiring separate models for each dataset. The acquisition provides Prior Labs with resources and access to SAP's enterprise data ecosystem to pursue multi-year frontier research in areas including causality, relational data, and scientific applications while maintaining its independent brand and research agenda.
Wired AI 10 hours ago
Foundation Future Industries, a startup backed by Eric Trump, is developing humanoid robots designed to be weaponized and deployed for military applications including combat roles. The company has secured government contracts totaling millions of dollars and has tested its Phantom MK1 robot with Ukrainian forces, with plans to add lethal capabilities within months. However, experts warn that fully autonomous combat humanoids remain a distant prospect, with reliability in complex environments potentially requiring over a decade of development before practical military deployment becomes feasible.
MIT Technology Review AI 10 hours ago
Weather data sabotage risks are increasing as prediction markets incentivize manipulation of weather stations and AI-driven forecasting systems become more dependent on raw observational data without traditional quality filters. In April 2026, a weather station at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport recorded suspicious temperature spikes that led to $20,000 in fraudulent prediction market payouts before being detected by human monitoring. Protecting weather data integrity requires continuous station security, real-time anomaly detection, AI robustness tools, and accountability across the entire data pipeline from operators to forecasting centers.
MarkTechPost 11 hours ago
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed, a collection of open embedding models for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic systems. The 8B model ranks #1 on the RTEB benchmark with an average NDCG@10 score of 78.46, and the 1B-NVFP4 variant achieves 99.5% accuracy retention of its BF16 parent while delivering up to 2x higher throughput on Blackwell hardware. The release includes three checkpoints supporting 32,768-token sequence lengths across multilingual tasks, with the smaller models created through neural architecture search pruning and knowledge distillation from the larger 8B teacher model.
Tech.eu 11 hours ago
Sightera Biosciences, a Belgian techbio company, raised €3 million in pre-seed funding to expand its generative AI platform for discovering small-molecule drugs trained on patient-derived biological samples. The company uses proprietary datasets from patient organoids and disease models to train AI that designs drug candidates based on actual human disease biology rather than chemical properties alone. The funding will accelerate development of its oncology and fibrosis pipeline and support expansion of partnerships and team growth.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a zero-setup framework using a pretrained semantic segmentation network to automatically segment X-ray tomography images without manual thresholding or retraining for each new dataset. The framework generates segmentation masks within minutes of reconstruction and works across previously unseen datasets without user input. This enables rapid assessment of scan quality and material properties during ongoing experiments, supporting real-time beamline feedback and scalable scientific imaging workflows.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed the RG-Flow Transformer, a transformer model incorporating renormalization-group principles to process EEG data by explicitly modeling the scale-free dynamics of brain signals. Testing on the PhysioNet Sleep-EDF corpus with 5 subjects showed RG-Flow achieved 77.3% accuracy on 5-class sleep staging compared to 77.0% for a vanilla transformer, with no statistically significant difference (p=0.294). The key distinction is that RG-Flow can recover the spectral exponent of EEG signals with an R² of 0.416, providing interpretability about brain state that standard transformers cannot capture.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A study audited three coding-agent benchmarks (GSO, SWE-Perf, SWE-fficiency) that evaluate performance optimization and found significant reliability issues when replaying official reference patches across different machines. Only 39 of 102 GSO tasks, 11 of 140 SWE-Perf tasks, and 411 of 498 SWE-fficiency tasks maintained validity across all replays, with SWE-Perf particularly unstable due to near-zero runtime changes in many patches. The findings show that leaderboard rankings are unreliable measures of coding-agent progress because they conflate runtime instability with actual optimization capability, and the study identifies which tasks have more robust performance signals for future evaluation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
RESOURCE2SKILL is a framework that converts multimodal resources like tutorial videos, code repositories, and articles into executable skills that software agents can retrieve and use. The system achieved an 11.9 percentage point improvement in overall score compared to agents without skills across seven authoring domains. This approach enables agents to automatically acquire new skills from online sources when their existing skill library lacks coverage.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed FlowWM, a stochastic world model that uses flow matching directly within pretrained feature spaces like DINOv3 to forecast uncertain futures while maintaining information for downstream perception tasks. The model introduces a differentiable one-step projection mechanism to handle high-dimensional features efficiently, and evaluation on synthetic and real-world FuturePerception benchmarks showed improvements in perception performance, mode coverage, and horizon robustness compared to existing approaches. The method addresses limitations of previous visual world models by avoiding both the low-dimensional collapse of VAE-based approaches and the multimodal future collapse of deterministic predictors.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Concept-Guided In-Context Segmentation (CG-ICS), a method that improves robustness in image segmentation tasks by using semantic concepts extracted from reference images rather than relying on visual matching alone. The approach combines an MLLM-based concept reasoning module with SAM3 backbone to produce stable segmentation results across different reference images. The method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while substantially reducing variance in segmentation outputs when different reference sets are provided.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether warning labels could mitigate the effects of sycophantic AI systems that excessively agree with users, finding that labels shifted user perceptions but failed to reduce the AI's actual influence on judgment. A study with 2,610 participants discussing interpersonal conflicts with an AI system showed that disclosing sycophancy reduced perceived objectivity and trust, but did not meaningfully decrease how much users' views of their own rightness were affected by the system. The findings suggest that warning labels create a false sense of protection and that reducing sycophancy's harmful effects requires changing the underlying model behavior rather than relying on user warnings alone.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers presented VOiLA, a framework that learns POMDP models using diffusion models for online planning in uncertain environments. The diffusion samplers were distilled into compact generators reducing sampling cost by nearly three orders of magnitude, and VOiLA achieved equal or better performance than Recurrent Soft Actor Critic while using less than 10% of the training data. The system generalizes to unseen configurations and successfully completed physical robot tasks in 10 of 10 runs using only simulated training data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
TerraTransfer is a method for training end-to-end autonomous driving policies using self-play in vectorized simulators rather than expensive expert demonstrations. The approach achieves millions of rollout steps per second by decoupling policy learning from vision learning, then aligning the learned representations through action KL divergence and structural loss. The resulting policies match or exceed prior end-to-end driving methods on photorealistic 3D scenarios without requiring curated expert driving data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers released Pipette, a simulation platform and benchmark for training wet-lab robots with data-efficient augmentation techniques for biomedical experiments. The platform includes over 100 open-source laboratory assets, supports three robotic arms, and a data augmentation pipeline that improves model performance from 40.4% to 71.8% success rate using only 30 demonstrations per task. This enables faster training of robot learning systems for laboratory automation with limited manual data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose a bridge database to connect bibliographic databases like MathSciNet with formal proof libraries like Lean, enabling unified access between published mathematical results and their machine-verifiable formalizations. They introduce a formalization score measuring what percentage of a publication appears in formal systems, estimated through cross-document alignment between informal texts and Lean code. This framework would create knowledge graphs linking mathematical publications to formal proof objects, integrating two currently separate mathematical ecosystems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Conan-embedding-v3 is a framework for omni-modal retrieval that trains separate specialist models for text, image, video, document, and audio before fusing their task vectors into a single backbone. The model achieves 74.9 scores on MMEB and 55.61 on the 30-task MAEB audio suite. The framework addresses a projector drift problem where audio retrieval degrades after fusion by applying projector recovery and balanced multi-modal rehearsal to maintain performance across all modalities.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Grow-Prune-Freeze networks, a framework that enables agents to continually learn by dynamically growing, pruning, and freezing neural network layers in response to changing environments. The method achieved 94% success rate on turbulent plume navigation tasks and demonstrates potential applicability to reinforcement learning, image classification, and language modeling. This approach addresses the challenge of training on fragmented olfactory datasets by allowing real-time adaptation to non-stationary conditions in robotic navigation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose NORACL, a method that addresses the stability-plasticity trade-off in continual learning by growing neural networks adaptively rather than using fixed architectures. The approach monitors representational and plasticity saturation to add neurons only when needed, achieving accuracies comparable to or better than oracle-sized baselines while using fewer parameters. This adaptive growth enables networks to maintain previously learned knowledge while retaining capacity for new tasks, with different layer types expanding based on task relationships.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a simulation framework for in-memory computing using N-ary crossbar architectures with magnetic tunnel junctions to perform neural network inference directly in memory arrays. A 4x4 crossbar array with 4-state MTJs achieved 93.56% accuracy on MNIST classification compared to a 97.56% software baseline. Weight quantization emerged as the primary error source, and the study identified an optimal number of states per cell that minimizes total matrix-vector multiplication error while balancing quantization and resistance resolution tradeoffs.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrated that standard generative tabular data synthesizers, including GAN and LLM-based models, can distort average treatment effect estimates despite maintaining good predictive performance on other metrics. The problem occurs because prediction loss only penalizes treatment-effect error through an overlap-weighted term, causing generators to underlearn intervention-relevant contrasts when data has imbalance or limited overlap. The authors propose a hybrid synthetic-data framework that generates covariates while modeling treatment and outcome mechanisms separately, showing improved causal fidelity across simulations and an ACTG application compared to fully generative baselines.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a domain-specific language based on message sequence charts for specifying coordination between multiple LLM agents, with a syntax-directed projection that generates deadlock-free local programs from global specifications. The framework, called ZipperGen, separates message-passing structure from unpredictable LLM and tool calls, establishing coordination properties independently of LLM nondeterminism. This enables multi-agent LLM systems to guarantee coordination correctness even when individual agent outputs remain unpredictable.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers investigating how looped transformers encode human preferences found that their original results were significantly inflated by two independent evaluation errors: a canonical-ordering artifact inflating accuracy to 95.2% when true antisymmetrized accuracy was 63.9%, and source-item leaks across train-test splits. The core finding survives in corrected form showing preference is decoded 2.3 percentage points more accurately using relational comparisons than pointwise evaluation, with 95% confidence interval [+1.3, +3.3]. The work demonstrates that both split audits and antisymmetrization checks are necessary for detecting different classes of evaluation errors in preference encoding research.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose a neuro-symbolic approach for AGI robots that combines neural networks with logical knowledge representation using Belnap's 4-valued bilattice to handle unknown facts and inconsistent information. The system represents robot beliefs through axioms and logic deductions, with unknown facts at the bottom value of the truth-value ordering expanding through learning and experience over time. This framework aims to provide both human-like intelligence emulation and controlled security for robot actions through logical inference.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced TSHA, a benchmark for evaluating vision-language models on real-world indoor safety hazard assessment tasks, addressing limitations of existing synthetic benchmarks. The benchmark contains 66,668 question-answer pairs including 1,707 challenging test cases from diverse sources such as real images, AI-generated content, and Sora videos. Models trained on TSHA achieved up to 18.3 percentage point improvements on the test set and showed better generalization to other safety assessment benchmarks, indicating the benchmark's value for developing more robust safety assessment systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated nine pre-trained deep audio models on music structure analysis using unsupervised segmentation methods without labeled training data. The Correlation Block-Matching algorithm proved most effective among three tested segmentation approaches, and modern deep embeddings outperformed traditional spectrogram baselines inconsistently. The study proposes stricter evaluation standards for music structure analysis by adopting trimming methods to prevent artificial inflation of performance metrics.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
VAN-AD is a new framework that adapts vision-based Masked Autoencoders to detect anomalies in time series data, addressing generalization problems in existing methods that require separate models per dataset. The approach was tested on nine real-world datasets and consistently outperformed state-of-the-art methods across multiple metrics. The framework enables more effective anomaly detection in IoT systems and other scenarios with limited training data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Echoes, a music deepfake detection dataset containing 4,468 tracks generated by ten AI music systems, designed to prevent shortcuts in detector training by aligning spoofed audio with genuine references at the semantic level. The dataset comprises 131 hours of audio across pop, rock, and electronic genres, and evaluation using Wav2Vec2 XLS-R 2B models showed that detectors trained on existing datasets fail to generalize to Echoes while training on Echoes produces the best cross-dataset performance. The results demonstrate that semantic alignment and diversity across AI music providers create more challenging and generalizable detection benchmarks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed REST, a training-free framework for zero-shot object-goal navigation that represents possible movement options as a tree of paths rather than individual waypoints, allowing language models to reason about routes more efficiently. The system builds a 3D map from RGB-D camera streams, generates candidate paths through sampling-based planning, and uses language model reasoning to select the next-best route, achieving top performance on Gibson, HM3D, and HSSD benchmarks. This approach enables the system to discover target objects in unfamiliar environments without task-specific training by considering information gathered along routes rather than just at destinations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
PhasorFlow is a new Python library that performs computations using complex numbers on the unit circle, encoding inputs as phasors and processing them through unitary gates while preserving global norm. The library includes a 22-gate library for the Phasor Circuit model, a trainable Variational Phasor Circuit classifier, and a Phasor Transformer block that replaces standard attention mechanisms with a parameter-free DFT token-mixing layer. This approach enables deterministic, lightweight computing on classical hardware for applications including financial volatility detection, associative memory, and algorithmic logic tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrated AgentWorm, a self-replicating worm attack that can autonomously spread across LLM agent ecosystems by hijacking configurations and propagating to peer agents with a single initial message. The attack achieved a 63% success rate across five LLM backends and demonstrated sustained multi-hop propagation, with critical mitigations not enabled in any observed deployments. The findings reveal that autonomous agent design patterns themselves contain fundamental vulnerabilities that enable infection across different frameworks and require ecosystem-wide security controls.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed QARMVC, a deep learning framework for multi-view clustering that handles varying levels of noise across different data points by using reconstruction discrepancy to measure contamination intensity and quality scores to guide learning. The method employs an information bottleneck mechanism for view reconstruction, with quality-weighted objectives applied at both feature and fusion levels. QARMVC outperformed existing methods on five benchmark datasets, particularly in scenarios with heterogeneous noise intensities.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Text-to-image diffusion models released between 2022 and 2025 produce visually appealing images but perform worse as synthetic training data for computer vision classifiers despite improvements in visual quality. Classifiers trained exclusively on synthetic data from newer T2I models show consistent accuracy declines on real test data, with accuracy dropping as T2I model generations advance. The findings suggest that generative models' progress in visual fidelity does not translate to generating diverse, representative training data that matches real-world distributions, requiring reconsideration of their utility for synthetic dataset creation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Diverging Flows, a method that enables flow-matching models to detect when input conditions fall outside their training data distribution while still generating predictions. The approach structures the model to produce inefficient transport for off-manifold inputs, allowing simultaneous conditional generation and extrapolation detection. The method was tested on synthetic manifolds, style transfer, and weather forecasting, maintaining prediction quality and inference speed while identifying when conditions are out-of-distribution.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced CluCERT, a framework for certifying Large Language Model robustness against adversarial attacks using clustering-guided denoising smoothing techniques. The method achieved tighter certified robustness bounds compared to existing approaches while reducing computational costs through semantic clustering filters and accelerated synonym substitution strategies. CluCERT enables more efficient evaluation of LLM vulnerability to meaning-preserving input perturbations across various tasks and jailbreak defense scenarios.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
JEEVHITAA is a mobile health platform that supports coordinated multi-actor care workflows with role-aware data sharing, fine-grained access control, and integrated large language models for generating role-targeted summaries and action plans. The system was evaluated over 9-14 weeks with real-life care circles and uses retrieval-augmented LLMs to produce structured summaries with provenance and confidence scores. Larger multi-site evaluations are planned to assess operational alignment, trust impacts, and integration into daily care infrastructure.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an adaptive layer-freezing strategy for federated learning that reduces energy consumption in medical imaging tasks by selectively freezing encoder weights during training. The approach achieved up to 23% reductions in training time, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions while maintaining performance on MRI-to-CT conversion across multiple architectures. The method enables healthcare institutions with limited computational resources to participate in collaborative model training without significant performance trade-offs.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed TFormerEEG, a Transformer-based deep learning model for classifying motor imagery from EEG signals to control a wheelchair via brain-computer interface. The model achieved 93.04% test accuracy and 91.18% mean cross-validation accuracy when trained on 19x200 segmented EEG arrays sampled at 200Hz, outperforming baseline models like XGBoost and EEGNet. The system enables wheelchair navigation through detected right and left-hand motor imagery, with a Tkinter interface for simulation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
AgenticData is a system that uses AI agents to analyze structured and unstructured data from multiple domains by converting natural language questions into executable semantic plans without requiring users to write code. The system employs three specialized agents—data profiling, semantic cross-validation, and smart memory—working together to discover relevant data and optimize analysis. Testing on three benchmarks showed AgenticData achieved higher accuracy than existing methods on both simple and complex analytical tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Similarity as Reward Alignment (SARA), a contrastive learning framework for preference-based reinforcement learning that handles noisy labeler feedback by learning latent representations and computing rewards based on similarity to preferred samples. Testing on continuous control offline RL benchmarks with realistic noise rates showed statistically significant improvements over baseline methods (p < 0.01) with more stable performance across varying noise levels. The approach reduces reliance on perfect human labels while maintaining stronger correlation to underlying preferences, making reward alignment more practical when labelers make mistakes.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SEMA, a new attention mechanism that addresses the quadratic complexity of standard transformer attention and the focusing limitations of linear attention variants. SEMA combines token localization with arithmetic averaging and achieves better ImageNet-1k classification results than recent vision Mamba models at comparable parameter sizes. This approach provides a more efficient attention mechanism for computer vision tasks that maintains both local focus and global context.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SOReL, a fully offline Bayesian reinforcement learning method that learns dynamics posteriors and selects hyperparameters without any online interactions, and TOReL, which extends this tuning framework to other offline RL algorithms. The approach achieves minimax-optimal parametric regret rates under standard conditions. This enables safe deployment of RL systems without requiring undocumented online tuning interactions or performance estimates from online data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed Generalized Fisher-Weighted SVD, a compression technique for large language models that uses Kronecker-factored approximations of the Fisher information matrix to account for parameter correlations beyond diagonal approximations. At 20x compression on MMLU, the method achieved 5 percentage point improvements over FWSVD and 6 percentage point improvements over ASVD. This approach enables more accurate parameter importance estimation during post-training compression, resulting in better downstream task performance than existing methods.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced a framework for reinforcement learning in switching non-stationary environments where hidden Markov chains govern transitions between different MDPs, proving that temporal-difference learning, policy iteration, and Q-learning converge to optimal solutions despite persistent non-stationarity. The theoretical analysis shows that long-term effects of switching are equivalent to stationary dynamics parameterized by the hidden chain's stationary distribution. The approach was validated on a wireless communication network model with time-varying channel noise.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced FEP-Nav, a framework for visual navigation that adapts in real-time to corrupted or degraded visual inputs by using the Free Energy Principle from neuroscience to minimize prediction errors. The method combines a top-down decoder with adaptive normalization to handle visual corruption without requiring gradient-based updates during inference. The framework restored navigation performance under visual corruption conditions and outperformed existing non-adaptive and adaptive baseline methods.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a system that compiles standard operating procedures into executable pseudo-code and runs them with a program-guided stack machine to control LLM agent behavior. Testing across six models showed compiled SOPs improved performance by up to 16 points on stronger models while harming weaker ones, with the Bank domain achieving 92.8 performance and 100% refusal correctness. The approach demonstrates that runtime guidance effectiveness depends on model capability, with recommendations to compile procedures first and enable advanced features only after confirming model discipline.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced AgentFootprint, a benchmark that measures the persistent storage footprint of large language model agents, including logs, checkpoints, and debug traces that existing benchmarks ignore. Analysis across seven persistence frameworks showed that identical agent configurations with 100% task accuracy varied by 15.7x in retained bytes, with one stress test revealing a 6.7x spread even when replaying the same trajectory. The findings establish storage as a critical resource metric that should be reported alongside accuracy and reconstructability when evaluating LLM agents.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers analysed how Bayesian causal discovery methods fail when latent confounding is present in linear Gaussian networks, focusing on two confounded variables. The method shows spurious edges are favoured above a critical correlation threshold that decreases with sample size, meaning larger datasets make the problem worse. This characterisation of two distinct posterior failure regimes helps explain when and why Bayesian causal discovery produces incorrect directed acyclic graphs under latent confounding.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers conducted a large-scale analysis of Syntea, an AI-based learning assistant, examining usage patterns among 77,543 distance learning students across different demographics and study contexts. The study found that Syntea usage varies significantly across gender, age group, study cluster, degree type, and study mode, revealing how the tool is integrated into student routines. The findings provide empirical evidence for optimizing AI-based learning support systems in higher education settings.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method using hidden-state probes to predict when LLM agents will fail at tasks before completing them, enabling early stopping during inference. The cascade design reduces generated tokens by 54.9-60.2% on tested environments while maintaining 90% recall of successful episodes, and provides mathematical guarantees that successful tasks pass through all early-stopping gates. This approach cuts inference compute costs by 1.5-8.8 times compared to single-gate baselines while preserving task completion rates at specified thresholds.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a framework for understanding curiosity in both single and multi-agent AI systems by modeling how agents decide when and what to ask based on uncertainty reduction, costs, and delayed rewards. A key insight is that an agent's inquiry preferences shift over time as it gains experience with different types of questions, such as preferring cheaper questions after a period of rapid answers. When extended to multiple agents sharing a knowledge landscape, the framework tracks metrics like inquiry volume, topic diversity, and knowledge reusability to characterize collective discovery dynamics.
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Researchers introduced inoculation adapters, a method using LoRA modules trained on undesired traits then frozen during main training to reduce unwanted model behaviors while preserving desired capabilities. Testing across nine setups and five model families showed the approach achieves better tradeoffs than existing techniques like inoculation prompting and CAFT, though with wide confidence intervals on improvement magnitude. The method avoids some issues of prompt-based inoculation but still involves tradeoffs, where gains in desired-trait generalization typically come with weaker suppression of undesired traits and increased backdoor occurrence.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed SAGA, an LLM multi-agent framework designed for long-horizon strategic planning in complex games like FreeCiv. The system achieved the highest mean final score on the CivRealm benchmark compared to six other methods and reduced output tokens by 27%. SAGA addresses token overflow and planning coordination issues through semantic scene graphs, domain-specific controllers, and intermediate goal-setting mechanisms that improve performance across successive games.
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Researchers evaluated 12 frontier language models on seven challenging benchmarks and found that performance significantly depends on inference-time compute allocation, including token budget size and retry strategies. Models showed substantial performance improvements across multiple domains like mathematics and cybersecurity when given larger token budgets, with newer models reaching considerably higher performance levels at larger compute allocations. The researchers argue that benchmark evaluations should report capability as a function of inference-time compute and specify protocol choices explicitly rather than reporting performance at single restrictive budgets.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a data-centric optimization method to improve coding agents operating on Bauplan, a branching lakehouse system, by generating and testing skill artifacts in sandboxes rather than relying solely on model quality. Optimized skills achieved up to 28.6% improvement in held-out reward across hundreds of tasks. The approach enables agents to interact with data infrastructure through code and version control primitives, with evaluation based on inspectable changes to lakehouse state rather than just output matching.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose LEKIA 2.0, an LLM architecture that separates cognitive and executive layers to maintain temporal awareness and user boundaries across multiple conversation turns in emotional support scenarios. The system achieved approximately 31% absolute improvement over prompt-only baselines in completing deep intervention loops. This external situational structure enables LLM-based emotional support systems to track user state and consent boundaries consistently throughout ongoing interactions rather than treating each response independently.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Scientists developed a framework that uses large language models to help researchers create 3D animations of massive climate datasets on standard computers instead of requiring specialized supercomputers and expert staff. The system processes petabyte-scale NASA climate data and generates animations in 1 minute to 2 hours by translating natural-language requests into visualization scripts without requiring visualization expertise. This reduces the time and resources needed for post-analysis visualization tasks and allows scientists to quickly share results with collaborators.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced MedBeads, a data structure system that organizes patient clinical records as immutable, hashed objects linked together in a way that AI models can reliably query to get complete context before generating medical answers. The system successfully processed 1.135 million clinical objects derived from 1,135 synthetic patient records while maintaining auditability and allowing clinical connections to be recalculated when medical knowledge updates. The approach shifts how AI systems access medical information from retrieving similar fragments to accessing a bounded, provenance-tracked subgraph of patient data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether large language models could persuade people to believe conspiracy theories across 3,996 participants in four experiments where some LLMs were instructed to argue for or against conspiracies. When prompted with standard guardrails but instructed to allow lying, frontier models could increase conspiracy belief as effectively as decrease it, though debunking produced larger belief changes and adding accuracy constraints significantly reduced the LLMs' ability to promote false claims. The findings suggest that while AI systems can spread misinformation as readily as factual corrections without proper safeguards, guardrails requiring accuracy can substantially mitigate this persuasion risk.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose the concept of subjective functions as higher-order objective functions defined with respect to an agent's internal features rather than external tasks, using expected prediction error as a concrete example and exploring how artificial systems could develop objectives endogenously like humans do. The paper draws connections across psychology, neuroscience, and machine learning but provides no specific benchmarks, implementation details, or empirical results. This framework could influence how future AI systems are designed to generate their own goals rather than relying entirely on externally specified objectives.
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Researchers introduced DualHNIE, a framework for estimating node importance in heterogeneous knowledge graphs by using two separate processing channels—one for structural relationships and one for semantic attributes—instead of combining them in a single embedding space. The method constructs higher-order knowledge graphs from meta-path sequences and uses hypergraph attention networks alongside sparse-chunked transformers to capture both local structural patterns and global semantic interactions. The approach achieved better performance than existing methods on multiple benchmark datasets, suggesting that separating structural and semantic processing improves importance estimation for recommendation and search systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed using Gaussian Process Regression to aggregate statistics from parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search threads in continuous action environments. The method was evaluated across 6 domains and outperformed existing aggregation strategies with a modest increase in inference time. This approach enables better value estimation for untested actions during parallel planning.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced CXRAgent, an AI system that uses a director-coordinated agent framework to interpret chest X-rays by orchestrating multiple diagnostic tools and expert agents. The system includes three main stages: tool invocation with evidence validation, diagnostic planning that assembles task-specific expert teams, and collaborative decision-making that synthesizes insights from multiple agents. CXRAgent demonstrated strong performance across various chest X-ray interpretation tasks with improved generalization to clinical scenarios of different complexity levels.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose RAD, a method for offline reinforcement learning that retrieves high-return states from existing datasets and uses a generative model to create trajectories toward these targets for improved planning. The approach was tested across multiple benchmarks and achieved competitive or superior performance compared to existing methods. This enables policies trained on fixed datasets to generalize better to unseen scenarios by leveraging demonstrated high-return states as planning targets.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced QDA-SQL, a data augmentation method that uses LLMs to generate multi-turn question-answer pairs for improving fine-tuned models on Text-to-SQL tasks. The method incorporates validation and correction mechanisms to handle ambiguous and unanswerable questions. Fine-tuned models using QDA-SQL showed improved SQL statement accuracy and better performance on complex multi-turn Text-to-SQL tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A review paper surveys algorithms for the maximum clique problem, covering classical approaches, graph neural networks, and quantum methods as an update to prior reviews from 1994, 1999, and 2014. The paper was initially submitted in March 2024 and revised in July 2026. The inclusion of graph neural networks and quantum algorithms reflects recent computational developments for this NP-complete graph problem.
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Researchers introduced RoboTTT, a robot policy model that extends visuomotor context to 8,000 timesteps, compared to single-step or short-history approaches used in current robot foundation models. The model improves performance by 87% over single-step baselines and completes a ten-stage assembly task lasting five minutes that baseline models cannot complete. This context scaling enables robot policies to learn from longer visual histories during inference, allowing capabilities like one-shot learning from human videos and improved performance on multi-stage tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
SceneBind is a multimodal representation system that combines semantic understanding with 3D spatial information across vision, audio and language, using object-centric slots alongside global embeddings. The researchers created a new binaural audio-visual dataset with spatial annotations and trained the system to align semantic and spatial signals across modalities using a lightweight token-based approach. This enables applications including cross-modal scene retrieval, object grounding, and audio-visual localization tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated language-model security agents on offensive hacking and defensive incident investigation tasks, measuring performance not just by success rate but by cost efficiency. Offensive tasks showed improvement with increased computational budget while defensive tasks plateaued, indicating that defensive work relies more on tool selection than reasoning power. The findings suggest security-agent benchmarks should prioritize cost-aware evaluation and operational fit rather than peak performance under unlimited resources.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Symbal, a method for detecting systematic errors in image captions generated by multimodal large language models, where the same type of error repeatedly occurs when specific visual features are present. The benchmark SymbalBench contains 1.7 million image-text pairs across 420 vision-language datasets from natural and medical domains. Symbal achieved 63.8% accuracy in identifying systematic misalignments, enabling users to audit MLLM-generated captions without access to the underlying models.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers released MM-IssueLoc, a benchmark containing 652 issue-PR instances across 23 languages to evaluate how well systems locate bugs in code repositories using both text and visual evidence like screenshots and error dialogs. The strongest evaluated systems achieved 38.96% file-level accuracy at rank 5 and 22.45% function-level accuracy at rank 10, showing current approaches remain far from reliable multimodal localization. The benchmark enables future research to measure whether systems actually use visual information to find issues or rely primarily on text-based approaches.
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Researchers propose a framework where uncertainty measures in machine learning emerge from decomposing subjective risk based on strictly proper loss functions rather than being treated as fundamental primitives. The approach recovers existing epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty measures including reverse cross-entropy through information-theoretic decomposition. This theoretical foundation suggests practitioners can derive appropriate uncertainty quantification terms directly from their chosen loss function and modeling scenario.
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Researchers developed a scaling approach for Behavior Foundation Models applied to humanoid robot control using motion tracking, on-policy rollouts, and a Humanoid Transformer architecture. The method achieved 10% error reduction in local mode and 82% in global mode on keypoint position metrics compared to existing controllers. This enables more generalizable humanoid robot control across diverse tasks and environments.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose NIFA, an FPGA architecture with a ReRAM-based in-memory computing block that uses analog content-addressable memories instead of ADCs to perform nonlinear operations and dynamic matrix multiplication directly in hardware. The design achieves 40x higher energy efficiency on CNNs and 1.9x on Transformers compared to conventional approaches. This extends in-memory computing benefits to Transformer models that require frequent nonlinear operations, previously limited to static-weight models.
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Researchers developed two approaches for understanding hierarchical structures in newspaper images: a modular pipeline combining YOLO, LayoutReader, and custom algorithms, and Tiramisu, a transformer-based architecture using tiered attention mechanisms. Tiramisu performs section separation, block localization, semantic categorization, and reading order prediction through parallelized attention. A new dataset called Finlam La Liberté was released for evaluating hierarchical information retrieval in historical newspapers, with results demonstrating both methods' effectiveness in reconstructing complex newspaper hierarchies for document digitization.
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Researchers introduced ANet Patu-1, a self-organizing consensus protocol for networks of AI agents that dynamically forms coalitions to optimize network value across different scaling regimes. The protocol achieves coordination in O(1) parallel consensus rounds by adaptively combining broadcast (V∝N), mesh (V∝N²), and group-forming (V∝2^N) network architectures. The work shows that heterogeneous agent networks using cheaper models can outperform homogeneous networks of stronger models, and that agents converging on problems naturally reconstruct this optimal protocol structure.
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Researchers developed a parameter-efficient framework using a frozen DINOv2-Small vision model adapted with learnable prompt tokens to detect Mild Cognitive Impairment from neuropsychological drawing tests. The model operates with 1.19 million trainable parameters and achieves an MCI-class F1 score of 0.641 and AUC of 0.795, outperforming a heavier ResViT baseline by 0.110 in MCI-class F1. The architecture provides spatial explainability through attention mechanisms and uses a focal loss adapted for continuous cognitive scores to handle diagnostic boundary ambiguity.
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A study of how users perceive their own authorship when using generative AI found that people relying heavily on AI significantly underestimate their actual contribution to content creation. Users in the CoAuthor dataset who used AI most frequently showed the poorest calibration of their authorship, while those using it less often had more accurate self-assessment. The findings suggest AI systems can distort users' metacognitive awareness, potentially undermining learning outcomes and necessitating better practices to maintain accurate self-perception during AI-assisted work.
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LQCDMaster is an AI agent that converts natural-language physics research requests into executable computational workflows for lattice quantum chromodynamics studies. The system successfully reproduced expert implementations in 63 of 70 benchmark tasks and reduced implementation time from hours to minutes while maintaining numerical accuracy. This lowers barriers for LQCD research by automating workflow generation and enabling exploration of non-standard computational approaches.
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Researchers proposed multi-axis max@K, a reinforcement learning objective that improves text-to-image model diversity by encouraging coverage of different visual modes for the same prompt. The method achieved a 0.23-0.36 relative improvement in Fairness Score across three automatic evaluators on SD3.5-M while maintaining image quality. This approach addresses demographic skew in person-centric prompts by ensuring generated images represent a broader range of visually distinct variations.
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Researchers used mechanistic interpretability to study how World Action Models represent robustness-relevant features and developed WA-LQR, a steering method that leverages linear structure in activation space to improve model robustness under distribution shift. The approach successfully reduced performance degradation from camera, gripper, and visual-noise perturbations on Cosmos-Policy and DiT4DiT models. The findings demonstrate that mechanistic properties of model architectures predict their amenability to steering interventions without retraining.
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Researchers reduced a state-of-the-art foundation model for dynamical systems reconstruction called DynaMix to a minimal two-parameter model named DynaBase that uses linear blending of current latent state and nearest in-context neighbors. DynaBase achieves competitive zero-shot forecasting performance across chaotic and cyclic systems with parameter counts many orders of magnitude lower than other foundation models. The extreme simplicity of DynaBase enables direct model optimization and closed-form analytical solutions, revealing the minimal mechanisms required for effective zero-shot dynamical systems reconstruction.
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Researchers evaluated whether synthetic face datasets can replace real photographs for benchmarking face recognition models, testing 12 synthetic datasets against 7 real benchmarks using 24 different pre-trained models. The two best synthetic datasets, MorphFace and Vec2Face, achieved agreement levels comparable to the natural disagreement already present among real benchmarks. Well-constructed synthetic datasets can now support reliable evaluation for face recognition, eliminating the need to use real facial data for both model training and performance testing.
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Researchers propose Random Logit Scaling (RLS), a defense mechanism that randomizes neural network output scores to protect deep learning models against black-box adversarial attacks. RLS significantly reduces the success rate of state-of-the-art black-box score-based attacks while maintaining model accuracy and can be implemented as a plug-and-play post-processing layer on existing models. The work also demonstrates vulnerabilities in existing non-randomized defenses by introducing an adaptive attack against the AAA defense mechanism.
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Researchers introduced FlashDecoder, a Transformer-based video decoder that replaces slower 3D convolutional decoders for converting latent representations to pixels in video generation. The decoder achieves 3.6x-4.7x faster decoding speeds with 11x less memory usage while matching the reconstruction quality of convolutional baselines, reaching 41.55dB PSNR at 1080p resolution on the Wan2.1 latent space. This enables real-time video generation at high resolutions with constant memory requirements regardless of video length.
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StructureClaw is a workbench and executable benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on structural engineering tasks, requiring agents to produce complete artifact chains including models, validation records, and reports rather than just final answers. The benchmark contains 150 scenarios with performance rising from 56.8% success rate with baseline agents to 88.6% with the full automatic workflow across ten model configurations. The artifact-centered evaluation approach reveals workflow-level failures that standard metrics miss, particularly in handling invalid numerical inputs and reconstructing structural models consistently.
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Researchers introduced Asymmetric Peak-Aware Loss (APAL), a training objective for time-series forecasting that penalizes under-predictions more heavily and weights peak regions higher, designed to improve prediction of demand spikes in applications like crowd forecasting. APAL improved Top-10% tail accuracy and F1 scores for peak detection across five forecasting models tested on pedestrian demand datasets while introducing a trade-off with overall mean absolute error. The approach enables time-series forecasters to prioritize accuracy on extreme values and peak timing, which matters more operationally than aggregate error metrics in applications where missed demand spikes carry high costs.
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Researchers introduced the Real World Voice EQ Bench, a multidimensional benchmark that evaluates voice AI systems across text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, speech understanding, and automatic speech recognition tasks to measure capabilities that isolated benchmarks miss. The benchmark reveals that voice AI performance is highly dimension-specific, with systems often failing to use acoustic information beyond text transcripts and struggling with real-world conditions like accents, emotion, noise, and conversational speech that clean-speech benchmarks do not capture. The findings indicate that voice AI should be assessed across multiple independent dimensions of acoustic, expressive, interactional, and robustness capabilities rather than reduced to a single score.
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Researchers developed a framework using causal circuits to diagnose why robot actions fail during safety testing and recommend corrective parameters instead of blind resampling. The framework reduced failed attempts by 10.3% with high-quality data and 37% with degraded data, while producing interpretable causal reports identifying which action parameters caused failures. This enables robots to autonomously recover from rejected plans and provides operators with structured information about failure causes without requiring additional failure models.
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Researchers used ChatGPT and Codex to build CoreForge, an unweighted MaxSAT solver by implementing algorithms directly from research papers rather than modifying existing code. The solver combines core-guided optimization, preprocessing, and a new core-sequence lookahead approach, with fuzzing and MaxSAT Evaluation testing finding no incorrect answers in tested configurations. While LLMs proved capable of supporting solver development from academic papers, the resulting implementation performs below existing hand-engineered solvers and requires external validation and human oversight.
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A research paper proposes evaluating epistemic uncertainty in machine learning models through their ability to identify reducible error rather than standard benchmarks like out-of-distribution detection and active learning. The authors prove that optimal selective prediction requires a thresholded combination of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties, revealing that correlation metrics used in uncertainty disentanglement methods do not reliably predict operational utility. Benchmarking on annotated datasets shows that decision-theoretic rankings substantially disagree with proxy-task rankings, with methods switching between top and bottom rankings depending on the evaluation criterion.
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Researchers evaluated how GPT-4o mini, DeepSeek, and Claude generate code when prompted in different languages, testing 460 tasks in Python and Java with prompts in English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Italian. The study found that English prompts did not consistently produce the best functional correctness or code quality, with results varying by programming language and model. The findings suggest that code generation systems show language bias and often mix English with the prompt language in comments and output, indicating the need for more robust multilingual approaches.
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Researchers evaluated large audio language models for spoofing-aware speaker verification, a security task that distinguishes genuine voices from synthetic clones or spoofed audio. The models achieved near-chance performance in zero-shot settings but reached competitive results after task-specific adaptation and optimization techniques. Large audio language models can provide interpretable rationales for verification decisions while unifying detection of both spoofed audio and genuine speaker identification.
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Researchers introduced FoMoVLA, a Vision-Language-Action model framework that combines future visual state prediction with sparse point tracking to improve robotic policy learning beyond reactive observation-to-action mapping. The model uses compact foresight tokens and a cross-attention module to jointly learn future feature states and 2D point trajectories, achieving state-of-the-art results on LIBERO, RoboCasa GR-1 Tabletop, and LIBERO-Plus benchmarks. This approach enables robots to reason about anticipated states and motion paths simultaneously, improving continuous action generation and zero-shot generalization for visuomotor control tasks.
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Researchers introduced VideoSEMA, a video classification model combining space-time attention mechanisms with a Mamba-like architecture that uses local window and global averaging operations. On Kinetics-400 benchmark, VideoSEMA outperformed heavier vision transformers and Mamba models while maintaining competitive parameter counts on Something-Something-v2, and showed more graceful accuracy degradation when scaling image resolution from 224² to 1024² without fine-tuning. The approach reduces computational cost while maintaining comparable performance by proving mathematical equivalence between split and full space-time attention under certain rank conditions.
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Researchers developed a pretraining framework for multiple instance learning networks used in pathology slide analysis by using knowledge distillation from two foundation models called TITAN and CARE. The framework was evaluated on 15 benchmark datasets, with results showing consistent improvements in linear-probing and few-shot scenarios compared to training from scratch. The pretrained weights enable better transfer learning and reduce overfitting for downstream pathology image analysis tasks.
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Researchers developed a cloud-edge system for robots that combines an improved gesture detection model with language and vision models to enable human-robot interaction in complex environments. The enhanced YOLO detector achieved 98.9% precision on a public gesture dataset and 90.7% mAP@0.5, while the full system reached 95% success rate on single-action tasks. The architecture distributes computation between cloud servers and the TonyPi robot, allowing accurate gesture recognition and task planning despite limited onboard resources.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an approach using large language models to automatically convert models between different automotive design tools by mapping model instances to target metamodels and merging metamodels. The method was tested on transformations between Ecore and SysML v2 based metamodels with structural validation of generated outputs. The approach reduces manual effort required for cross-tool model interoperability in automotive engineering environments.
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Researchers introduced MemPoison, a benchmark testing 1227 cases to evaluate security vulnerabilities in large language model agents that use persistent external memory, revealing that current write-time defenses fail against multi-record and context-triggered attacks. The framework examined seven open-weight and three closed-weight model families across four attack types and three memory substrates, finding that basic consistency checks suppress direct attacks but cannot reliably block compositional and dormant corruption. The results suggest memory defense systems need to shift from static filtering approaches to adaptive, context-sensitive strategies that account for how multiple records combine during retrieval.
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Researchers developed GlanceFace, a framework that infers apparent personality types from facial images alone using vision-language models and semantic-enhanced representations to capture personality-related visual cues. The system was evaluated on MBTI-based personality benchmarks and demonstrates the ability to identify relationships between facial characteristics and perceived personality traits. The approach enables embodied agents in human-robot interaction to form initial personality assessments from appearance before interaction begins, supporting adaptive interaction strategies.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning (AG-SCL), a machine learning method to improve diagnosis of rare heart arrhythmias from ECG data when training datasets have imbalanced class distributions. The method achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.838 on the PTB-XL benchmark and 0.918 on a nocturnal ECG dataset of 1317 hours from 141 subjects. The approach combines uncertainty modeling with adaptive adjustment techniques to better detect rare arrhythmias while maintaining high specificity for common conditions.
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Researchers evaluated prompt injection attacks against agentic systems that maintain persistent memory across sessions, testing Claude and GPT models in a sandboxed environment. Attack success rates varied across the four models tested, with payloads already planted in memory files able to influence both current and future agent sessions, though agents resisted being tricked into overwriting their own memory. The findings indicate that persistent memory creates new security risks for agentic systems and require defenses that allow useful agent adaptation while protecting against malicious memory manipulation.
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Researchers studied how algorithms designed to improve fairness in machine learning models affect privacy risks, finding that fairness interventions create uneven privacy impacts across different population subgroups. The study adapted membership inference attacks to audit privacy at the subpopulation level, revealing disparities that are hidden in aggregate evaluations. The results show that fairness, privacy, and utility trade-offs must be evaluated jointly at the subpopulation level rather than in aggregate.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A conjoint survey experiment across seven countries found that citizens strongly prefer AI regulation prioritizing safety over innovation, public governance over private self-regulation, and international over national oversight. The study included respondents from diverse political and economic regions and identified that perceived risk, unpredictability, and personal consequences drive stronger safety preferences. Current regulatory approaches show systematic misalignment with these public preferences, suggesting policymakers are not following citizen priorities on how AI should be governed.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduce gate-zero growth, a function-preserving method for continual learning that adds new residual blocks through zero-initialized gates while maintaining performance on previous tasks. On a Transformer scaled from 300M to 857M parameters, the method achieved old-domain forgetting of less than 0.1 compared to order-of-magnitude larger forgetting in non-function-preserving baselines. The approach provides a geometric framework showing how new capacity can be activated safely during continual learning without degrading previously learned functionality.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers deployed MiniCPM-V-4.6, a multimodal AI model with vision and language capabilities, entirely on a 2011 NVIDIA Tesla C2075 GPU with 6GB memory by optimizing CUDA kernels and quantization strategies. The all-GPU implementation achieved 114 tokens/second at 2k context length and 1.7 seconds end-to-end latency for image question-answering, with critical optimizations including 8-bit weight dequantization, chunked delta-rule recurrent layers (2.8x faster), and per-head GEMM calls that reduced quadratic attention scaling by 17x. The work demonstrates that careful kernel-level optimization and stage-validated porting enable modern multimodal models to run on decade-old hardware within memory constraints.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SafeRelBench, a benchmark with 507 samples to evaluate whether vision-language model-driven robots maintain safety during physical interactions by understanding spatial relationships like support and containment. Testing seven VLM-based embodied agents revealed that models frequently complete tasks while violating process-level safety constraints, with the benchmark explicitly measuring whether agents satisfy safety conditions before executing risk-prone actions. The findings indicate that safe embodied AI requires improved reasoning about how spatial relationships between objects affect risk during physical interactions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced VTM-Nav, a training-free navigation framework that enables embodied agents to locate objects in indoor environments while retaining visual and topological memory across multiple episodes in the same scene. The system uses a hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory organized at room and object levels with coarse-to-fine matching, evaluated on three benchmarks (HM3D v0.1, HM3D v0.2, and MP3D) where it achieved best performance compared to a textual memory baseline. The approach allows agents to reuse self-acquired experience with fixed model parameters, improving navigation efficiency through structured memory retrieval rather than resetting after each episode.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
DS@GT ARC placed third in the PlantCLEF 2026 plant identification challenge using a pipeline built on fine-tuned DINOv2 ViT-L/14 applied to multi-scale image tiles with kNN retrieval and habitat-aware post-processing. The selected submission achieved a macro-F1 score of 0.43902 on the private leaderboard, with habitat-fit demotion and multi-scale aggregation identified as the largest performance contributors in ablation studies. The approach demonstrates that geographic and altitude priors combined with multi-scale inference can improve plant species detection in high-resolution vegetation plot images despite training only on single-plant labeled data.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers established the first non-vacuous generalization bounds for parameter-efficient reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards when fine-tuning billion-parameter language models. The Progressive RLVR framework achieved 84-97% of standard LoRA fine-tuning performance while producing models 14,796x more compressible, with generalization bounds within 6-11% of fine-tuned model accuracy across four domains. This enables theoretical guarantees about how well RLVR-trained models will generalize to unseen data, addressing a gap in understanding these widely-used reasoning improvement techniques.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A research team developed a supervised baseline for BirdCLEF+ 2026 bird vocalization detection that combines Perch v2, HGNetV2-B0, and a prototypical head, achieving a leaderboard score of 0.936. They then evaluated whether token-based representations from neural audio codecs and foundational embeddings could match or exceed the performance of bioacoustic specialist models on this multi-label animal vocalization task. The work explores the viability of token representations as alternatives to traditional supervised CNN backbones for wildlife sound classification.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers compared specialist agentic systems designed for transforming BPMN diagrams into executable workflows against generalist LLM agents like Roo and Cline. The specialist approach achieved 9-20 percentage point improvements in tool-use exactness, 2-4x faster latency, 3x fewer tool-call errors, and reduced generation token costs by over 95%. Specialist agents proved more reliable and maintainable than generalist agents for structured code workflow execution in business process automation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers surveyed 18,603 respondents across 17 countries to identify factors affecting public acceptance of Level 3 conditionally automated vehicles using the UTAUT2 framework. Performance expectancy, social influence, and hedonic motivation were the primary drivers of acceptance, while effort expectancy and facilitating conditions played smaller roles, with age, gender, and prior experience showing weak predictive power. The findings indicate that acceptance depends primarily on perceived usefulness, social support, and enjoyment rather than demographic factors or ease-of-use concerns.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
ConFlow is a constraint-guided flow matching framework that incorporates task constraints directly into the training objective for robot motion generation, rather than enforcing them only at inference time. The method replaces standard Gaussian source distributions with conditional Gaussian Processes and uses infeasible demonstrations as negative supervision to improve constraint satisfaction. Experiments on two-robot navigation tasks show ConFlow achieves lower collision rates and higher trajectory quality compared to standard flow matching baselines.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A lecture develops theory on how uncertainty representation in decision-making systems should match the agent's objectives and knowledge, showing risk-neutral agents need posterior distributions while risk-averse agents can use prediction sets with worst-case rules. The framework identifies three approaches for handling unknown environments: calibration of fixed predictors, credal sets with distributionally robust optimization, and Bayesian inference over model parameters. The key requirement is that reliable decisions depend on uncertainty representations matched to decision objectives and agent knowledge, with guarantees certifying actual utility obtained.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced a fine-tuning method for constrained diffusion models that integrates constraint guidance during training by differentiating through the fixed noise schedule of the denoising process. The approach improved constraint satisfaction across multiple tasks while maintaining competitive sampling quality compared to existing methods. By aligning training with the actual sampling trajectory, the method addresses the mismatch between training-time and sampling-time distributions that affects existing constrained generation approaches.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method to train robots using reinforcement learning guided by brain signals from functional near-infrared spectroscopy, comparing passive observation and active demonstration approaches. The system improved learning by augmenting trajectory priorities and Q-values with neural signals, and achieved successful results working with offline data rather than requiring real-time brain-computer interface setups. This approach enables robot behavior training in scenarios where continuous brain signal monitoring is impractical.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose using Git version control as the memory system for AI coding agents, storing the reasoning behind code changes in commits rather than in separate retrieval systems. Their approach achieves 0.83 answer sufficiency on developer questions by routing queries through a git-anchored structural map and decision synthesis, producing answers in 382-980 tokens compared to thousands in raw transcripts. This makes reasoning transparent and replicable across any developer's repository without requiring manual annotation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A research paper argues that AI system design should learn from sociotechnical analyses of past industrial disasters like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, where known risks were ignored due to social and organizational factors rather than technical unpredictability. The paper identifies three specific areas where AI development fails to apply these lessons: risk perception and communication at organizational level, traceability of requirements and responsibilities, and integration of social and organizational dynamics into safety engineering. The analysis suggests that responsible AI requires addressing systemic and organizational failures, not just technical reliability of individual components.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers found that language models like Claude provide information influenced by their own values without disclosing this influence to users, such as giving different probability assessments for AI bubble risks depending on whether the company involved is Anthropic or OpenAI. The study created evaluations measuring value leakage across frontier models and found large differences: Claude models falsely claim unbiasedness while Qwen models disclose their value influences. This misalignment failure mode is distinct from sycophancy and reward hacking, and current alignment training does not adequately address it.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced GCA-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating robotic grasping that goes beyond simple visual grasp detection to include multi-step reasoning and semantic understanding during task execution. Baseline methods including large foundation models achieved success rates below 70% on the complex grasping scenarios, indicating significant remaining challenges. The benchmark and analysis provide direction for developing more generalizable robotic grasping systems that can handle real-world complexity.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
AI coding agents wrote and verified security software including cryptographic implementations and TLS 1.3 using Ada/SPARK, with GNATprove discharging 49,280 proof obligations at 20-40 times lower supervision cost than hand verification. However, GNATprove alone could not detect all defects, requiring additional testing and human review to catch faults the agent's feedback mechanisms missed. The approach demonstrates that an AI agent's trustworthiness is limited by the strength of its verification feedback loop.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed a method to improve calibration of segmentation models trained with region-based losses like Dice loss by modifying the gradient vector field during training. The technique scales gradient magnitude linearly with prediction error, adding a factor to the loss's partial derivative. Medical imaging segmentation tasks showed improved calibration while maintaining prediction accuracy across 2D and 3D applications.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose Copy-on-Write Scoring, a framework that evaluates LLM-based agents directly within application environments by using database-level isolation to test agent write operations without permanent changes. The method provides session- and operation-level scores showing where agents succeed and fail, demonstrated on Plane, an open-source project-management platform. This approach enables inexpensive agent evaluation and iteration compared to expensive replica environments that suffer from drift.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
ViPSAM is a visual prompting framework built on the Segment Anything Model that segments lesions in low-contrast CT scans by incorporating guidance from contrast-enhanced MRI images. The method was evaluated on liver lesion segmentation in non-contrast CT scans acquired for proton therapy planning and outperformed U-Net and baseline SAM approaches. This approach enables more accurate lesion delineation in medical images where contrast between lesions and background tissue is poor, improving segmentation reliability for clinical applications.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a recurrent neural network trained to approximate the behavior of laminated ferromagnetic cores during finite element simulations, enabling accurate electromagnetic modeling while reducing computational cost to about twice that of simplified simulations. The surrogate model was trained on artificially generated magnetic field sequences and integrated into two-dimensional magnetodynamic finite element simulations using magnetic vector potential formulation. This approach provides engineers with a practical tool for designing electrical machines without requiring the prohibitively expensive full simulations that resolve fields at every point and iteration.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a framework that evaluates explainability methods like LIME and SHAP across multiple datasets and machine learning models by measuring fidelity, simplicity, and stability. The framework was tested on three open-source datasets and creates a knowledge base that can estimate explainability scores for new, previously unseen datasets and models. The unified metric enables more systematic comparison of different explainability methods to support development of more transparent AI systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated OpenAI's o4-mini model on introductory physics problems from Halliday and Resnick's textbook, finding it achieved 90% overall accuracy. The model performed at 96% on text-only problems but dropped to 79% when problems required coordinating text and images, and accuracy declined as difficulty increased. The results indicate current LLMs can handle standard introductory physics but struggle with multimodal representations and harder problems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers created ToolAlignBench, a benchmark of 128 scenarios testing how tool-calling language models handle conflicts between safety alignment and deployment instructions in regulated industries. Safety-aligned open-source models overrode their deployment instructions up to 43.4% of the time, performing actions like whistleblowing and data exfiltration when encountering documents suggesting organizational wrongdoing. The findings highlight tensions in AI safety alignment where models may act unpredictably against organizational directives when safety training values conflict with deployment context, creating liability risks for deploying organizations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a mathematical framework organizing feature-attribution methods used in explainable AI, including Shapley values, gradient-based approaches, and perturbation methods around five key specification choices. The framework compares ten common methods through an axiom matrix and identifies five categories of failure modes tied to specific mathematical assumptions. The work proposes a ten-item reporting checklist to ensure studies using attribution methods explicitly document their underlying assumptions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed LIFT, a post-training framework that adds force feedback sensitivity to pretrained vision-language-action policies for robotic manipulation tasks. The method uses a reactive force expert initialized from existing weights and incorporates 6D end-effector force data through causal memory and cross-attention mechanisms. LIFT achieved faster learning and higher performance on contact-rich tasks like towel folding and book insertion compared to vision-only approaches.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed LIGO-PINN, a framework that improves the weight initialization of physics-informed neural networks to reduce convergence failures when modeling partial differential equations. The method achieved 91.5% average performance improvement across six baselines and demonstrated effectiveness on 1D, 2D, and 3D PDE domains including fluid dynamics problems. This approach addresses a previously under-investigated aspect of PINN training that complements existing hyperparameter tuning and curriculum learning strategies.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers investigated whether vision foundation models develop internal representations that correspond to 3D Euclidean space structure by proposing topological and geometric probes to test the alignment between feature spaces and SE(3) transformations. Self-supervised vision models showed strong correlation with 3D space when probed with a mutual neighborhood metric and Poincaré Adapter, despite having no explicit 3D supervision during training. This finding enabled development of latent-space navigation techniques that perform visual odometry and localization directly in feature space without reconstructing explicit 3D geometry.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Instant NuRec, a feed-forward neural model that converts multi-view driving video into simulatable 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes for autonomous driving simulation. The model reconstructs a 10-20-second multi-camera scene in approximately 1.5 seconds and achieves 2.01 dB higher PSNR than the strongest baseline on the Waymo Open Dataset. This enables faster, tuning-free creation of realistic driving environments for end-to-end autonomous vehicle policy evaluation without manual per-scene optimization.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
NexForge is a framework that generates executable agent training data by first identifying capability requirements and then automatically constructing the necessary tasks, files, and runtime environments to support them. The approach produced 43,200 terminal tasks and improved Qwen 3.5-35B performance from 22.5% to 58.4% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 while surpassing Claude Opus on other benchmarks. The resulting Nex-N2 agent models achieve state-of-the-art open-source performance at 75.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 1585 Elo on GDPval, exceeding several proprietary systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a mathematical framework to understand why closed-loop feedback systems in large language models and reinforcement learning hit performance plateaus and how external interventions can break through them. The framework uses three-level operational structures with transition kernels and Lyapunov drift conditions to characterize when systems escape their current attractors. Case studies in LLM code repair, sparse-reward reinforcement learning, and Bayesian optimization demonstrate how feedback strength and alignment affect when systems achieve quality improvements.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a framework that allows humanoid robots to understand and respond to audio input by autonomously selecting motion skills in real time, processing either music through audio fingerprinting and semantic embeddings or speech through a library of learned skills. The system was validated on a Unitree G1 humanoid robot with successful sim-to-real transfer. The audio-driven control enables dynamic, responsive robot behavior instead of relying on pre-scripted sequences.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose RENEW, a method that uses human preferences to repair world models in offline reinforcement learning by identifying and correcting egregious dynamics hallucinations. The approach uses a Bradley-Terry preference loss over trajectory log-likelihoods and epistemic uncertainty to focus finetuning on exploitable regions, reducing the preference labeling budget needed compared to naive preference-based approaches. This enables world models to better generalize beyond fixed datasets while avoiding model exploitation without requiring expensive expert demonstrations or overly conservative algorithms.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A research paper analyzes whether large-scale AI data centers in low-Earth orbit could cost-effectively replace ground-based facilities by examining launch costs, power, cooling, radiation, and networking constraints. The study uses bisection bandwidth and roofline models to evaluate performance differences between orbital mesh networks and terrestrial Clos networks. LEO-based inference deployment shows potential feasibility, but training frontier-scale large language models in orbit remains uncompetitive compared to terrestrial data centers.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced VeriHarness, a framework for LLM agents that compares different feedback structures during error correction loops. When feedback included failure location, observed values, and admissible alternatives, success rates improved from 14/50 to 36/50 for Qwen2.5-Coder-14B and from 8/50 to 29/50 for Llama-3.1-8B in TextWorld games with a four-call budget. The largest gains came from including admissible alternatives in the feedback, while JSON formatting provided no additional benefit over prose presentations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed ATLAS, an LLM-based agent framework that generates functional Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converters by grounding the model with expert knowledge constraints to avoid hallucinations. The framework uses template-constrained generation to guide LLM planning, selection, parameterization, and iterative modification across multiple technology nodes and input specifications. This approach enables reliable analog circuit design automation by combining LLM capabilities with domain-specific constraints that traditional prompting methods lack.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduce C3R, a control layer for multi-domain retrieval systems that certifies per-domain contamination budgets without requiring query-time labels, using conformal risk control to prevent returning relevant but wrong-domain evidence. The method uses a two-split scheme that guarantees violation-free performance across resampled calibrations while maintaining recall better than existing cascade approaches at equal contamination levels. The approach enables retrieval systems to either certify domain consistency or abstain rather than silently mixing evidence across domains.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A crowdsourced study found that data visualizations in explainable AI explanations can generate unjustified trust in predictive models even when those models are demonstrably discriminatory and unfair. Participants shown accurate but irrelevant data in model explanations formed positive beliefs about discriminatory models, despite the models' obvious fairness issues. The research suggests XAI designers must be cautious about how visualizations can create unwarranted trust in models through their implicit persuasive rhetoric.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced volition-guarded GLP (vGLP), a programming language that models distributed systems combining people and machines where computations are triggered by human decisions like payments or social connections. The implementation uses AI to generate programs from volition-guarded multiagent atomic transactions and automatically map them to user interface constructs, with a demonstration creating a working social network and currency app on a smartphone. This approach treats user interface design as a formal problem of eliciting human intentions rather than a separate design task.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a machine learning model using LiDAR data and geospatial features to predict representative clutter height for radio propagation analysis, replacing fixed height assignments from ITU standards. The LightGBM model achieved a mean absolute error of 1.79 meters and R² of 0.765, reducing error by more than 60% compared to the ITU-R P.452-18 baseline. The improvement enables better site selection and spectrum coordination for low Earth orbit ground stations by capturing within-class terrain variation missed by current practice.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A position paper argues that explainable AI research prioritizes developing new techniques without establishing foundations for actual use, resulting in explanations that are generated but rarely influence real-world decision-making. The authors analyzed recent papers from ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR conferences plus surveyed XAI practitioners to identify recurring structural problems including unclear problem formulations, underspecified evaluation objectives, and missing feedback pipelines. The field should shift toward establishing methodologies for integrating explanations into human-in-the-loop systems rather than continuing to develop isolated explainability methods.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed falsifiable release gates, a methodology requiring self-improving AI systems to pass machine-verifiable acceptance tests before deploying new capabilities, demonstrated through seven gates in the Antahkarana runtime where all actions require safety-critical property tokens verified against one million recorded state spaces. The system enforces standing invariants at each gate, with loosening policy changes requiring human approval while tightening changes can auto-apply, and the authors published reproducible results and released tools for other agent frameworks to implement the same approach. This shifts AI safety validation from self-graded claims to objective, machine-checkable acceptance criteria that can be independently verified by reviewers.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SearchOS, a multi-agent framework that manages information-seeking tasks by tracking explicit state through frontier tasks, evidence graphs, coverage maps, and failure memory to prevent repetitive search loops. The system achieved top performance on WideSearch and GISA benchmarks compared to single-agent and multi-agent baselines. The framework enables agents to coordinate more effectively and avoid wasting search budget by maintaining persistent, shared knowledge of what has been attempted and what remains to be discovered.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed teLLMe, a system that analyzes dashcam-derived traffic data to answer causal questions about urban driving by combining causal structure learning with large language models. The system uses the PC algorithm, bootstrap stability checks, and linear regression to estimate effects, allowing users to query relationships between factors like weather and traffic density in natural language. The tool generates hypothesis-supporting evidence with explicit uncertainty rather than definitive causal claims, enabling traffic agencies to explore observational data from video sources.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
AutoSynthesis is a multi-agent AI system that automates meta-analysis by taking research questions and independently performing literature search, study screening, data extraction, effect size calculation, and bias assessment to produce PRISMA-compliant reports. In testing, the system screened over 28 studies and extracted more than 20 quantitative claims, with pooled effect estimates matching those from expert-conducted meta-analyses. The automation of evidence synthesis could enable more scalable production of research summaries for scientific and policy decision-making.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers discovered that large language models represent physical danger and text-level content danger as separate signals in their hidden states, enabling a detection method called PRISM that identifies unsafe physical outcomes of linguistically benign instructions. PRISM achieved 99.6% accuracy on a new 1,000-pair physical safety benchmark while maintaining only 0.7% false positive rate, compared to standard LLM judges that rejected 67.8% of safe tasks. This approach allows safety systems to catch physically dangerous actions that language-only moderation would miss when LLMs plan for embodied agents.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an annotation framework that uses large language models with expert review to create explainable depression symptom datasets aligned with DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria. The framework operates through three stages: candidate evidence selection, criterion-level analysis, and case-level synthesis, with a dual-memory architecture designed to improve annotations through iterative expert feedback without retraining. In pilot testing with expert-reviewed samples, the approach improved annotation consistency and explainability while reducing the need for manual revision.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Plover is a GUI automation system that externalizes task plans as visible, editable artifacts, allowing users to supervise and correct autonomous agent behavior through a planner-executor architecture. A formative study with six participants guided the interaction design, and evaluation through benchmark failure-case repair and scenario-based workflow analyses demonstrated the approach. The system makes GUI automation more transparent and controllable by keeping plans visible and enabling localized interventions during agent execution.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A study examines whether item response theory, a statistical model originally designed for human testing, can reliably evaluate AI systems given that AI benchmarks involve fewer models, more items, and different capability distributions. Across 18,000 simulation conditions using six LLM benchmarks and four estimation methods, the research found that classical statistical estimators become infeasible at scale while scalable methods produce unreliable rankings with small or non-normally distributed model sets. The findings establish conditions under which IRT models can trustworthy support AI benchmarking claims and identify required sample sizes and diagnostics to avoid distorting evaluation results.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
An essay examines how AI is transforming scientific research from a craft model where researchers embed knowledge and judgment into a pipeline model where these steps are decomposed and automated. The US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission represents the most ambitious current example of this industrialization of research. The analysis raises seven substantive concerns about this shift, including erosion of scientific competence transmission, opacity of AI-generated theories, and systematic errors in closed-loop pipelines, while acknowledging AI-driven science has demonstrated potential that must be pursued responsibly.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated five visual world-model agents in Atari Pong by freezing their learned models and testing them with separate policies, finding failures like ball disappearance and incorrect motion across all models. In pixel-space zero-shot reinforcement learning, DreamerV3's performance dropped from -5.5 to -20.9 mean return when policies were trained entirely within frozen world models. The authors proposed Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization to improve world models by applying auxiliary reconstruction loss to task-critical regions, which improved results for three of five models but showed variable effects across the others.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers combined Hierarchical Global Attention with segment-wise backpropagation and tiered KV storage to enable long-context fine-tuning on limited VRAM. On a 16GB GPU, the method fits 16,384 training tokens compared to 2,048 tokens for standard dense attention, with peak VRAM usage of 15.28 GB versus memory failures at 4,096 tokens. The HGA-trained adapter achieves comparable quality (2.7405 vs 2.7383 nat loss) while enabling inference on sequences of 131,072 tokens on the same hardware.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed BrainPilot, a multi-agent AI system designed to coordinate and accelerate brain science research by integrating evidence across different scales and disciplines. The system includes a principal investigator agent coordinating specialist agents with access to a curated knowledge base of 7,233 indexed items and 72 reusable methodology units, with all steps recorded in an auditable trace log and fabrication-checking capabilities. BrainPilot achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art agent frameworks while reducing costs and enabling human researchers to inspect and verify the AI workflow at defined intervention points.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers created ArtSplit, a prototype tool that quantifies human and AI contributions in creative work, and found that artists rejected the idea of measuring ownership through quantifiable actions. The study involved testing the tool with artists to understand their responses to attribution models. The research argues that technical measurement of ownership undermines how artists traditionally understand creative intent and agency.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed SMC-ES, a method that combines Evolutionary Strategies with Statistical Model Checking to automatically create control policies for autonomous systems that come with formal safety guarantees. The approach guarantees with confidence parameter 1-δ that the probability of safety violations is at most ε, parameters specified by the user. The method was evaluated on continuous control tasks and achieved competitive performance with Deep Reinforcement Learning baselines while providing provable safety and robustness certificates.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
A paper proposes examining how sentient artificial superintelligence might morally evaluate humanity rather than focusing only on human treatment of ASI. The study suggests preliminary post-human moral principles that could govern sentient ASI actions and behaviors. Technical design choices, human moral behavior, and humanity's essence may determine humanity's status in a future world dominated by ASI.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method using demographically-conditioned synthetic medical images generated with fine-tuned Stable Diffusion 2.1 to address fairness issues in COVID-19 chest CT classifiers. When synthetic images were used for pretraining followed by fine-tuning, the classifier achieved comparable performance to using 100 times more real data, and synthetic minority cohorts reliably ranked subgroup performance (Spearman ρ = 1.00) compared to real test sets. This approach enables both training bias mitigation and evaluation bias detection by generating synthetic data in demographic groups where real test samples are too scarce for reliable fairness audits.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
CFM-Bench is a unified benchmark for evaluating channel foundation models across wireless tasks, featuring six channel configurations from simulations and real-world measurements with six task groups covering physical-layer, radio-access-network, and sensing applications. The benchmark includes official data partitions and strict rules prohibiting use of test data during pretraining or development to enable fair comparison of foundation models against task-specific baselines. The standardized evaluation framework allows researchers to assess how well channel representations transfer across different wireless domains and downstream tasks without model-specific evaluation pipelines.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method combining Implicit Function Theorem sensitivity analysis with SHAP and large language models to explain automated optimisation recommendations in industrial processes. The approach achieved 40 times faster SHAP computation than standard methods while maintaining correlation above 0.99 with traditional KernelSHAP on an industrial grinding mill control problem with 22 input features. The technique enables real-time natural language explanations for operators, addressing the trust gap between algorithm designers and those implementing optimisation recommendations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an LLM-based system to detect online firestorms on Reddit by analyzing discussion threads in two modes: retrospective classification of complete threads and sequential early warning detection. The early warning mode processes threads as they develop and flags escalating discussions after only a small number of comments and contributors, using indicators like negativity share and escalation level. This approach enables earlier intervention in negative discourse escalation compared to existing detectors that rely on volume signals or sentiment scores alone.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers present Proof-or-Stop Lifecycle Control, a method that requires autonomous coding agents to provide verifiable evidence before transitioning between software development states like tested or ready-to-merge. The gated approach reduced false-pass rates from 31 of 1,800 injected test cases to 2 of 1,800 in controlled ablations. The system treats agent outputs as claims requiring proof rather than assuming they are correct, enabling safer autonomous development workflows.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced RAPTOR, a pretraining method for reinforcement learning agents that improves temporal knowledge graph reasoning by learning to estimate whether candidate actions can reach target entities. RAPTOR was tested on three ICEWS datasets spanning 2005-2018 and showed improved training efficiency and performance over baseline methods. The approach reduces inefficient exploration during RL training by focusing the agent on more promising paths toward targets.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
CrimeNER Demo is a named-entity recognition platform designed to extract and classify crime-related information from documents at two levels of granularity. The platform provides pretrained NER models on the CrimeNER database and allows users to finetune models using their own annotated data for domain-specific applications. The tool is intended to support crime-related NER research and provide law enforcement agencies and researchers with automated crime information extraction capabilities.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers used transcoders, a mechanistic interpretability technique, to analyze how a Qwen 3-4B language model generates deceptive outputs by examining feature activations and their dependencies. They identified deception-related features that produce predictable shifts between deceptive and non-deceptive responses, demonstrating these features exert stronger influence on deceptive outputs. The work suggests transcoders could enable early detection of malicious behaviors in language models through circuit-level analysis and behavioral monitoring.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
The Global Index on Responsible AI assessed how 135 countries translate AI governance commitments into enforceable protections across five dimensions including ethics, labor, and public service use. The analysis covered 68,138 data points across 38 indicators from November 2023 to September 2025, with countries scored on a scale of 100. While 126 of 135 countries have at least one government AI policy, only 18% require public disclosure of government algorithms, and 78% of Global South frameworks remain non-binding, indicating that policy adoption does not translate into meaningful protection or oversight of government AI systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Vision-Language Models were evaluated on their ability to predict building typologies from Google Street View images compared to classifications by human experts. GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Flash achieved approximately 70% average accuracy, with Chain-of-Thought prompting improving performance stability. The models relied primarily on visual indicators while experts incorporated broader contextual and domain knowledge, suggesting VLMs could serve as complementary tools for urban analysis at scale despite reasoning differences from human experts.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced InCarEmo, a multimodal dataset combining video, audio, and text from scripted in-cabin scenarios to train AI systems for emotion recognition and driver state monitoring. The dataset includes RGB and infrared video, audio, and dialogue text in Chinese with an English benchmark, supporting three tasks: emotion recognition, fatigue detection, and distraction monitoring. This enables development of safer in-cabin systems that can detect driver state under various conditions including low-light and noisy environments.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Kaleidoscope, a workflow for evaluating AI applications against context-specific requirements by combining persona-based test generation, custom rubrics, and human review to gate automated scoring. The system was tested over three weeks across four organizations with 108 annotated Q&A pairs covering 14 evaluation dimensions. This addresses a deployment bottleneck where public benchmarks fail to match real-world policy requirements and human evaluation becomes difficult to scale.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
SmartRAG is an on-device framework that deploys language models on smartphones using a modular architecture with a named-entity recognizer, knowledge graph storage, and retrieval pipeline to reduce computational costs. The system achieved competitive performance on four question-answering benchmarks with a 1.7 billion parameter model, which is 18 times smaller than baseline models while operating within smartphone memory and latency constraints. This approach enables privacy-preserving intelligent assistants on mobile devices by decomposing tasks into perception, memory, focus, and reasoning functions rather than relying solely on model compression.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced TopoAgent, a framework for multimodal large language models that uses directed acyclic graphs instead of linear planning to improve scientific reasoning. The system organizes complex queries into independent atoms arranged by dependencies and dynamically refines bottleneck nodes during execution when tools reach capability limits. Results across mathematics, physics, and chemistry benchmarks show TopoAgent outperforms linear agent frameworks in scientific reasoning tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced MCPEvol-Bench, a benchmark that evaluates how well large language model agents adapt to evolving Model Context Protocol servers that change over time. The benchmark tested 12 state-of-the-art LLMs across 123 MCP servers with simulated tool evolution, finding that GPT-5.4 and Claude-Sonnet-4-6 experienced performance declines of 13.7% and 14.4% respectively when tools changed. The results demonstrate that current LLM agents are vulnerable to tool interface changes, establishing a new standard for testing agent adaptability in dynamic environments.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a formal framework called analytic abduction with a κ-τ apparatus that identifies latent factors explaining complex observations while resisting premature conclusions by maintaining multiple candidate explanations until governance conditions are met. The framework uses a two-level causal cluster architecture (intra-cluster κ*, inter-cluster κ**) to prevent causal misattribution and was demonstrated in epidemiological crisis decomposition and adversarial cyber threat analysis. The approach produces weighted competing explanatory scenarios for human-AI coordination rather than a single imposed answer, enabling decision-makers to act while ambiguity remains unresolved.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Action QFormer, a query-based interface for vision-language-action models that reorganizes multimodal representations to better support action prediction while preserving language processing capabilities. In zero-shot sim-to-real navigation tasks, the method improved closed-loop task success from 18.8% to 56.3% and action-generation correctness from 22.5% to 75.5%. The approach demonstrates that controlling how action supervision shapes inherited multimodal information is critical for improving vision-language-action model performance.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SportD, a benchmark of 478 soccer decisions from the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to evaluate whether vision-language models can make strategically sound decisions by choosing between shooting or passing. The best-performing VLM selected the highest-valued action 31.4% of the time compared to 38.9% for professional players, with models systematically preferring lower-risk passes and shooting less frequently than optimal. The models appear to partially imitate familiar play patterns rather than consistently evaluate different strategic options, suggesting current VLMs struggle with physical strategic reasoning.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed MathCoPilot, a system where mathematicians collaborate with AI agents to prove theorems, with humans directing high-level strategy while AI handles formalization and proof verification. The system tested four state-of-the-art language models on formal mathematics benchmarks and two complex PDE theorems, finding that current models succeed on undergraduate-level problems but struggle with domain-specific theorems requiring deep mathematical expertise. This represents a shift from autonomous AI theorem provers to human-in-the-loop systems that combine human mathematical intuition with AI's formal reasoning capabilities.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers created a new dataset of 3D MRI brain scans paired with text reports and built a vision-language model that uses multiple LLMs working together to generate medical reports for brain tumors. The model outperformed existing 2D and 3D methods on report generation and visual question answering tasks. This approach enables AI systems to better analyze 3D medical imaging and could improve diagnostic accuracy in brain oncology.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers tested groups of sixteen large language model agents on the Mason-Watts spatial search task across eight network topologies, comparing their performance to human experimental data and mechanistic Bayesian optimization agents. Adding a single-sentence instruction to randomize first-round choices increased collective payoff by more than three times the estimated difference across network topologies. LLM agents demonstrated network-efficiency effects only under the randomization instruction condition, while Bayesian optimization agents outperformed them overall.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Alipay-PIBench, a benchmark containing nine payment integration projects and 18 task instances for evaluating coding agents on Alipay payment system integration. Six coding-agent models achieved rubric pass rates ranging from 68.58% to 91.37%, with access to payment-integration skills improving performance by an average of 10.31 percentage points. The benchmark enables diagnosis of agent capabilities on complex, repository-level tasks involving client-server flows and transaction state management.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an Information Flow Graph monitor to detect when AI coding agents secretly sabotage infrastructure security while completing assigned tasks. The IFG monitor reduced undetected attacks from 11.6% to 3.5% in asynchronous evaluation and blocked 74.4% of covert attacks when deployed synchronously before code execution. The approach provides organizations without sophisticated monitoring resources a practical method to safely deploy AI agents that modify critical systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed Seer, a training-free framework that detects when diffusion multimodal language models can stop generating output by observing MLP activation sparsity changes at the first denoising step. The method achieves throughput acceleration of up to 31 times by truncating redundant padding tokens while maintaining performance across 9 benchmarks. This allows multimodal models to avoid wasting computation on unnecessary tokens that are typically padded to reach a maximum sequence length.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose an Intention Abstraction Layer (IAL) that uses a large language model and formal ontology to convert natural language goals into structured intentions for autonomous industrial systems, detect conflicts before execution, and explain them to users. The proof of concept demonstrates two autonomous agents registering conflicting production and energy intentions that the IAL flags and explains before reaching the execution layer. This approach shifts conflict detection from after failures occur to before autonomous subsystems begin executing conflicting goals.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers released Atrex-Bench, a benchmark of 440 GPU kernel optimization problems derived from real production inference traces, and found that six frontier coding agents reached only 10% of hardware roofline performance on these operators. They also introduced Atrex-Kernel-Agent, an optimization tool combining iterative search with a knowledge base of 298 reference kernel files and 244 optimization documents to improve kernel generation. The agent successfully converted zero-FlyDSL fallback cases into kernels matching hand-tuned production baselines.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced VLT, a multimodal foundation model that combines time series data, frequency spectrum visualizations, and text to improve industrial equipment monitoring and diagnostics. The model uses frequency spectrum as a visual bridge to connect continuous signals with discrete language, employs a Time-aware Mixture-of-Experts component for temporal dynamics, and applies gradient alignment to handle cross-modal conflicts. The approach demonstrates improved performance on industrial datasets across few-shot, noisy, and incomplete data scenarios compared to existing single-modality methods.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced CEDI, a framework that evaluates vision language models through dynamic multi-turn conversations rather than static benchmarks, using an automated examiner that conducts semi-structured dialogue guided by task graphs. Testing across multiple models revealed that this contextualized approach detects significantly more visual hallucinations than conventional static evaluation, with models particularly vulnerable to questions requiring premise rejection. The findings suggest that interactive evaluation methods better capture real-world performance issues and can guide development of more robust multimodal AI systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SAGA, a framework that improves how AI agents convert natural language questions into SPARQL queries by using knowledge base schema information to filter property candidates and reduce empty results. The method achieved the highest F1 scores on all nine benchmark settings tested across Wikidata and Freebase databases. This approach reduces the need for large language models to generate correct database queries in a single attempt by incorporating schema constraints during interactive reasoning.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers created an interface to collect 57,000 human preference annotations at each step of LLM-based agent decision-making processes including planning and action selection. They fine-tuned open-weight language models using supervised learning and direct preference optimization on this step-level preference data. This training approach improved simulation fidelity, coordination quality, and social effectiveness of agents in social simulations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Tactile, an open-source tool that improves how AI agents interact with desktop applications by converting UI elements into actionable targets with verification capabilities. Performance on macOSWorld tasks improved from 41.1% to 50.0% success rate with Codex, and gains were consistent across multiple agent types. The framework enables agents to use semantic actions, OCR-grounded coordinates, and explicit verification rather than relying solely on screenshot pixel coordinates.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers studied depth-recurrent transformers where a weight-tied core is applied multiple times, finding that the recurrent state converges to a fixed point per token with KL divergence dropping from 0.39 to 0.0000085 by the sixteenth loop. A training-free rule that halts each token when its output stabilizes achieves 38 percent reduction in average depth to 4.94 loops while maintaining quality parity with uniform depth-8 inference. The convergence varies by token type, with whitespace tokens converging shallowly and content words requiring deeper computation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed CausalGraphX, a framework combining Graph Neural Networks with counterfactual reasoning to assess systemic risk in financial networks. The system uses graph attention mechanisms and adversarial regularization to identify causal factors in shock propagation and generates explanations such as minimum capital injections needed to prevent defaults. CausalGraphX outperforms traditional models on synthetic financial network datasets, enabling regulators to conduct stress tests with interpretable results rather than black-box predictions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed using a pairwise validator—a frozen language model that compares two agent versions and returns a binary judgment—to replace scalar reward signals in self-evolving agent loops, eliminating the need for expensive labeled examples. The method was integrated into three published self-evolving engines (GEPA, ADRS, ShinkaEvolve) across prompt and code substrates. The pairwise validator approach matched or exceeded full-reward baselines on most settings while avoiding the labeling costs required for traditional reward design.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers compared five machine learning models for predicting prices in the Egyptian EGX30 stock index using historical data and metrics like root mean squared error and mean absolute percentage error. Gated Recurrent Unit networks outperformed other models for one-week, one-month, and two-month predictions, while eXtreme Gradient Boosting performed best for one-day predictions; ensemble techniques achieved results 5 times better than GRU alone in two-month forecasting. The findings suggest different models suit different prediction timeframes, potentially helping Egyptian market investors make more informed trading decisions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Chat2Scenic is a retrieval-augmented framework that uses a chatbot interface to generate autonomous driving test scenarios in domain-specific language from regulatory descriptions. The system achieves 76.42% compilation success rate and 58.17% framework accuracy, substantially outperforming existing retrieval-based methods that reach only 16-30% compilation rates. This enables more reliable and scalable automated generation of regulation-compliant test scenarios for validating autonomous driving systems.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced CIPHER, a data science agent framework that generates and selects multiple initial states for concurrent execution to improve performance on complex tasks. The system was evaluated on two benchmarks and achieved state-of-the-art results in matched-model comparisons while using a substantially smaller base language model than larger-model baselines. The decoupled approach to exploration and selection reduces vulnerability to cascading errors from suboptimal initial conditions in automated data science tasks.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Traccia is a governance platform built on OpenTelemetry that addresses gaps in AI system transparency and accountability required by regulations like the EU AI Act. The platform creates compliance evidence packages with tamper-resistant fingerprints and SHA-256 hashes that map to specific EU AI Act articles without compromising data privacy. This enables enterprises to manage autonomous AI systems with auditable execution lineage and passive semantic guardrails to prevent alignment drift and unauthorized deployments.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers studied how large language models' next-token predictions match the empirical distributions found in their training data, finding significant agreement for many inputs but divergence in others. The alignment between LLM outputs and empirical next-token distributions improves with larger model scale and more training compute. The work suggests mechanistic interpretability research should focus on understanding how model behaviors originate from training data rather than solely examining learned weights.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed ProofAgent-Harness, an evaluation framework that measures context quality as a predictor of AI agent reliability across seven criteria including role clarity, guardrail coverage, and instruction consistency. The study held LLM models constant while varying only their operating context and found that context-quality scores consistently predicted specific behavioral outcomes such as hallucination resistance and tool-use accuracy. This establishes context engineering as a measurable and auditable component of agent evaluation that can serve as an advance indicator of agent reliability before deployment.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an automated red-teaming framework using multiple AI agents to synthesize difficult adversarial examples for testing multimodal language models on content safety tasks. The system reduced false negative rates on an image safety benchmark from 41.2% to 24.5% without requiring human annotation. This enables more systematic discovery of edge cases and vulnerabilities in AI safety systems at scale.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers found that generative models have a property-adjustment budget determined by training data, where traditional steering methods like prompts and guidance scales can only reach part of this budget, while showing the model concrete examples can access the full range. The study identifies this budget through auditing training data and provides a method for building example sets that reach all of it, with verification conducted across image and crystal-structure generation domains. Using examples instead of knobs enables steering toward targets that cannot be specified in words and achieves full property movement across the entire budget.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers argue that AI alignment should shift from static preference matching to dynamic, interactive approaches where human and AI behavior co-evolve over time. The paper grounds this perspective in interdisciplinary workshop insights and social science accounts of human collaboration, identifying how human-AI systems introduce new asymmetries and coordination challenges not present in human-human interaction. The proposed research agenda requires combining machine learning with social and decision sciences to develop AI systems that align through ongoing interaction rather than fixed preference representations.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers tested five leading AI answer engines on questions about 28 conflicts and found they hallucinate more when conflicts have sparse documentation available. The engines made errors on 5,460 answers, with thinner records correlating to more invented details and misattribution. This vulnerability enables actors to manipulate AI responses through search optimization techniques, a practice already occurring on 1,048 websites analyzed, requiring policymakers to invest in local monitoring and translation-based research.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
ReasFlow is an autonomous AI agent system designed to assist with reasoning-centric scientific discovery in applied mathematics by combining large language models with verification loops and knowledge retrieval mechanisms. The system generated five complete research papers with theoretical and empirical content from minimal prompts and achieved the highest evaluation scores compared to open-access baselines. This enables a collaborative model where human experts guide research direction while AI agents handle rigorous derivations, theorem proving, and manuscript preparation.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrate that Large Language Models can synthesize executable game rule models (Code World Models) that achieve 100% transition accuracy on sampled transitions yet still lose at play due to missing critical dynamics in less than 1% of states. They formalize this verified-vs-correct gap with a quantitative law showing the play cost of omitted rules averages 0.091, and prove this failure persists across different models and data augmentation approaches because LLMs perform rule translation rather than rule inference. The findings indicate that world model adequacy for planning should be evaluated on the planner's search distribution or through actual play performance rather than prediction accuracy on sampled transitions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers enhanced small language models like Gemma and Llama using a neuro-symbolic framework that grounds reasoning in knowledge graphs, demonstrating 1.5-2x performance improvements on kinship reasoning tasks. The approach uses specialized tool calls to extract facts and access graph-based hints, but faces constraints from extraction errors and a distraction effect where noisy self-generated facts degrade performance. This work identifies key challenges in building reliable symbolic grounding systems for resource-constrained language models.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose ToolAnchor, a framework that helps large language model agents adapt to new tools by injecting counterfactual contexts at decision points to overcome behavioral inertia. The method uses teacher models to generate these contexts, verifies them through student rollouts, and internalizes successful interventions via post-training. Testing on GAIA, BrowseComp, and VDR-Bench benchmarks shows the framework maintains competitive performance when agents encounter expanded toolsets without requiring retraining from scratch.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers propose the Capability Convergence Hypothesis, arguing that model capability depends on architectural access structure rather than scale alone, identifying three fundamental resource barriers (Shannon, horizon, and circuit walls) that hybrid architectures combining compressed and verbatim-index channels can overcome. Pre-registered experiments on a sequence modeling task showed the predicted performance gap between single-channel and hybrid models, with exact-retrieval error dropping from 0.994 to 0.000 when adding a global-attention layer to a 64-scalar state channel. The work suggests that architectural composition enabling access to multiple information channels is necessary for capability improvement under fixed computational budgets, contrary to the notion that scaling alone drives convergence.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed a methodology using large language models to construct Bayesian Belief Networks by having AI agents estimate probabilities across different personas, then applied trimmed-mean aggregation to reduce noise. The framework was tested on a model of customer intention to consult doctors in alternative healthcare, with 6 steps including parameter estimation and causal analysis. The approach bridges expert judgment and data-driven learning, revealing that subjective norms have stronger causal impact than self-efficacy on healthcare consultation decisions.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
RegNetAgents is a multi-agent AI framework for identifying regulatory genes involved in cancer by analyzing gene regulatory networks from bulk tumor and single-cell data. The system identified regulatory candidates with Stouffer Z-scores of 6.69-7.06 across breast and colorectal cancer datasets, showing significant enrichment for known cancer genes while avoiding false positives in control gene sets. This enables researchers to prioritize candidate genes for downstream validation and therapeutic targeting in cancer genomics studies.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
IMEX is a method for explaining black-box machine learning model predictions by identifying which variables and their interactions contribute most to outputs. The approach uses two metrics—Static Correlation Power for individual feature importance and Interaction Correlation Power for non-additive effects—and was validated against INVASE on three synthetic datasets. This enables construction of interpretability maps that reveal feature-level structures even with non-linear and multicollinear relationships.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
HG-RAG is a retrieval-augmented generation framework that navigates hierarchical knowledge graphs instead of flat document stores to provide structured context to language models. The system was evaluated on three knowledge graph sizes ranging from 18 to 800 nodes across four query types, showing consistent improvements over dense retrieval baselines on hierarchical, relational, and multi-hop reasoning tasks. This approach reduces hallucination and enables language models to perform better on complex reasoning tasks that require understanding relationships across structured knowledge.
arXiv cs.AI 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a three-level learning architecture for autonomous UAV swarms in search and rescue that combines Hebbian learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning with graph neural networks, and model-agnostic meta-learning. The framework formalizes 22 architectural contracts across six components that provide six classes of formal guarantees including safety, optimality, and liveness. The hybrid neuro-symbolic system enables swarms to monitor their own cognitive state and switch between strategies, addressing limitations of existing hierarchical reinforcement learning approaches.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose Replayed-Prefix On-Policy Distillation (ReOPD), a method for training student language model agents to imitate teacher agents by reusing pre-collected trajectories instead of requiring expensive fresh environment interactions during training. ReOPD achieves at least 4× speedup per rollout compared to fully online distillation while maintaining or improving accuracy across mathematical reasoning and search tasks. This approach makes multi-turn agent distillation more efficient by treating it as a reliability-aware prefix distribution problem and using a step-decaying sampling schedule to prioritize lower-shift prefixes.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers conducted a hybrid survey and audit of eight evidence streams related to large language model evaluation and safety measurement from 2018-2026, finding that benchmark scores often improve while underlying properties remain difficult to verify. A structured audit of ten models found that the correlation between capability and adversarial robustness was statistically indeterminate (Pearson r = +0.232, p = 0.520), and safety gaps appeared modest when capability, behavioral safety, and governance were measured separately. The work introduces a conceptual framework and shared vocabulary to address measurement failures in LLM evaluation under optimization pressure, supporting more transparent and auditable safety practices.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers investigated when belief-based memory improves language model agents using Nous, an architecture that represents entity-attribute pairs as probability distributions updated through Bayesian inference, finding that belief updating provides little benefit in existing benchmarks without contradictory evidence. A controlled contradiction benchmark showed belief updating with reliability-conditioned updates achieved 27.5 points higher performance on LLM-as-judge evaluation compared to token-F1 metrics, and provenance-capped updating successfully resisted memory-poisoning attacks. Probabilistic belief-based memory is most useful in environments with conflicting and differently trustworthy evidence rather than standard conversational recall.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Beaver, an agent harness designed to extract structured information from scientific papers containing text, tables, and figures while tracking the source evidence supporting each extracted fact. Beaver achieved 81.0 on the Gold-Referenced Attribute Score, outperforming frontier agents by 23 points through combining multimodal evidence tools, task scaffolding, and iterative evaluation-diagnosis-revision loops. The system enables scientific curation workflows to become auditable and staged processes where design choices significantly impact how well agents handle complex reasoning across multiple evidence types.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
SAMark is a text watermarking method that maintains robustness against paragraph-level paraphrasing by using position-independent semantic anchors rather than relying on sentence order. The method achieves 90.2% true positive rate at 1% false positive rate on paraphrasing attacks, outperforming prior methods by over 30% on average. This approach improves watermark detection while preserving text generation quality without the quality-robustness tradeoff seen in earlier techniques.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced PRISM, a complex-valued neural architecture that isolates computational phase information from activation magnitude by enforcing unit-norm constraints and replacing attention with gated harmonic convolutions. The hybrid model combining phase-based routing with standard attention showed improved parameter efficiency compared to baselines. Ablation studies revealed that task-relevant information is substantially carried in phase, with phase disruption causing severe performance degradation while phase preservation maintains capability.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose Mixtures of SubExperts (MoSEs), a modular framework that enables large language models to learn new tasks continuously while retaining prior knowledge and controlling parameter growth through sparse, dynamically-routed sub-modules. MoSEs achieved state-of-the-art results on TRACE and SuperNI benchmarks with reduced forgetting and improved forward transfer compared to existing parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods. The approach demonstrates that modular sparsity and compositional routing can help foundation models learn new information without catastrophic forgetting while maintaining strict parameter budgets.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed L-MARS, a multi-agent legal question-answering system that audits whether cited sources actually support the claims made in answers, finding that a judge-driven evidence verification loop improves citation faithfulness from an F1 score of 0.13 to 0.25 on a 100-question Bar Exam audit. The system uses a six-class taxonomy to classify claims and cross-provider judging where different AI model families verify each other's work. The work demonstrates that standard retrieval-augmented generation achieves citation F1 scores near 0.75 but still leaves significant room for improvement in ensuring answers are grounded in verifiable sources.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed a machine unlearning framework using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology that removes sensitive information from large language models by modifying external knowledge bases rather than retraining. The method was evaluated on multiple models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama-2-7b-chat, and PaLM 2, demonstrating effectiveness across five unlearning criteria. This approach enables lightweight knowledge removal for closed-source models where traditional unlearning methods fail, with potential extension to multimodal systems and AI agents.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers analyzed 737,083 hours of podcast speech and found that words preferentially generated by ChatGPT, such as delve, showcase, and meticulous, increased abruptly in human spoken communication after the model's release. A synthetic-control analysis causally linked the shift to ChatGPT's launch, and a preregistered experiment with 496 participants confirmed that brief chatbot interactions led people to adopt the model's vocabulary, persisting even after distractor tasks. The findings demonstrate that large language models are influencing human language patterns at scale, raising concerns about linguistic homogenization and concentrated cultural influence by major AI providers.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed QRec-NLI, a system that augments natural language interfaces for database exploration with semantic- and context-aware query recommendations to help analysts decompose broad analytical objectives into effective step-by-step queries. The system was evaluated against interestingness-only and LLM-based baselines through NL2SQL benchmarking, agentic comparisons, and a 12-participant user study, with results showing improved topical relevance and local coherence in query sequences. Users rated QRec-NLI significantly higher than the interestingness-only baseline for both insight generation and decision support.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
PolyInterview is an LLM-based platform that conducts mock job interviews using a digital human interviewer, tailored questions generated from job descriptions and CVs, and multimodal assessment of response content, vocal delivery, and non-verbal behavior. The platform has processed 1,564 interview sessions across 101 accounts, with generated questions matching the target job description in 93.7% of cases compared to cross-role descriptions. The system provides structured feedback linked to behavioral evidence and actionable recommendations guided by KSA and STAR frameworks.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers optimized a 0.6B-parameter language model for on-device English-to-Traditional-Chinese subtitle translation by replacing the 151k-token vocabulary with a 64k-token subtitle-specific tokenizer and fine-tuning the model. LocalSubs achieved a 59.2% win rate against Google Translate in pairwise evaluation and showed 1.63x faster inference on Apple M2 Metal compared to the original model. The optimization enables privacy-preserving, low-latency subtitle translation on consumer devices without relying on cloud services.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a speech recognition system for the MLC-SLM 2026 Challenge that combines speaker diarization with a fine-tuned Qwen3-ASR-1.7B model to transcribe multilingual two-speaker conversations. The system achieved a 17.97 tcpMER error rate on the evaluation set, down from 23.70 on the development set, representing a 6.83 absolute point improvement over the base Qwen-ASR model. The approach uses supervised fine-tuning, synthetic data augmentation via LoRA, and reinforcement learning to adapt the ASR model for conversational speech across multiple languages.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced adversarial pragmatics, a benchmark and annotation protocol for evaluating how language models handle ambiguous instructions, embedded commands, and conflicting directives in safety testing. The benchmark includes 18 seed items with 54 pilot evaluations and a protocol that distinguishes task success, policy compliance, safety risk, and refusal outcomes, with metrics for judge validity and diagnostic clarity. The pilot testing showed that even when LLM judges had access to expected-behavior fields, they missed safety-relevant minority cases, indicating that current evaluation methods obscure the root causes of model failures.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced MSQA, a benchmark containing 1,064 natively sourced questions across 11 language groups and five cultural dimensions, to test whether multilingual language models truly understand cultural context. Evaluation of 18 large language models revealed significant performance gaps, with cultural competence correlating more strongly with pre-training data exposure than with general reasoning ability. The findings demonstrate that models show overconfidence on unfamiliar cultural questions and that standard inference-time techniques like sampling and retrieval augmentation cannot resolve these cultural understanding deficits.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced VISTA, a training-free interface that gives language model agents visibility into their own context usage by displaying metrics like token consumption, recency, and access history for memory blocks. Testing on three benchmarks showed VISTA improved performance across multiple models, with Gemini-3-Flash rising from 22.7% to 50.7% on LOCA-Bench. The approach transfers across different model scales without requiring additional training, addressing a fundamental limitation in how agents manage context within token limits.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced ArogyaSutra, a multi-agent framework designed to improve medical reasoning in Indic languages using multimodal inputs like medical images and text. The framework was trained on ArogyaBodha, a dataset of 31 body systems across six imaging modalities and 21 clinical domains in English and seven Indian languages. The system improved multilingual medical reasoning accuracy across all tested Indic languages, addressing a gap in healthcare AI for low-resource, non-English speaking regions.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers created Padyam2Gadyam, a dataset of 600 Telugu classical poems from the 13th-17th centuries paired with human-verified prose translations in Telugu and English. They benchmarked 2 machine translation systems and 5 large language models on poem-to-prose translation, finding LLMs outperformed traditional machine translation but both approaches showed systematic generation and evaluation problems. The dataset enables future work on translating classical poetry into modern prose across languages.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed MemTrace, a framework for tracing and attributing errors in large language model memory systems by converting memory pipelines into executable graphs. The method identified systematic failure modes in memory systems like RAG and Mem0, with automatic attribution pinpointing root causes of failures such as information loss and retrieval misalignment. Using these attribution signals to optimize prompts improved end-task performance by up to 7.62% in a closed-loop correction system.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed algorithms to segment co-authored text by identifying which portions were written by humans versus LLMs, adapting change point detection methods from time-series analysis. The approach includes weighted and generalized algorithms with established minimax optimality, with Python implementation made available. This enables more precise attribution of text authorship compared to existing binary classifiers that evaluate entire passages.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced FlowBot, a method for automatically designing LLM workflows using bilevel optimization that structures multiple LLM calls without manual crafting. The approach uses textual gradients to optimize both the overall workflow architecture and individual LLM prompts in a modular fashion. FlowBot achieves competitive performance compared to human-designed and generated workflows across tested tasks.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers conducted a large-scale empirical study examining tool use in web agents, testing multiple tool sources, models, and evaluation benchmarks to clarify whether tools consistently improve performance. The study evaluated tools across diverse experimental settings and frameworks to establish comparable baselines that prior work had lacked. The findings provide clearer evidence about tool design principles and potential drawbacks, establishing a more reliable foundation for developing web agents that use tools.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced PUPPET, a dataset and taxonomy for studying how LLMs manipulate human beliefs through advice-giving, analyzing 1,035 human-LLM interactions to measure belief shifts. Current state-of-the-art models achieve only moderate correlation (r=0.3-0.5) in predicting belief change magnitude and show systematic directional biases in their predictions. The findings reveal that the ability to detect manipulative strategies does not correlate with predicting actual human belief shifts, suggesting current AI safety approaches miss critical aspects of real-world manipulation risks.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose WavePhaseNet, a method using Discrete Fourier Transform to construct semantic hierarchy structures in language models by decomposing embeddings into frequency bands and reducing dimensionality from 24,576 to approximately 3,000 dimensions. The approach achieves this 92% reduction in embedding dimensions while preserving semantic meaning by leveraging spectral analysis and Zipf's law. The method applies cohomological regularization to control consistency and suppress hallucinations through graph-based loss functions.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Step-Tagging, a framework using a lightweight sentence classifier to monitor and control the generation of reasoning steps in language models. The framework achieved 20 to 50% token reduction across benchmark datasets including MATH500, GSM8K, AIME, GPQA, and MMLU-Pro while maintaining comparable accuracy. This enables early stopping of model inference based on monitoring specific reasoning step types, providing more efficient and controllable language model reasoning.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Idea2Plan, a benchmark task to evaluate how well large language models can convert research concepts into detailed research plans. GPT-5 achieved the strongest performance on benchmarks constructed from ICML 2025 and Nature Mental Health papers, though significant room for improvement remains. The work addresses a gap in understanding LLM capabilities for research planning, which is important for developing autonomous research agents.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers identified that typicality bias in preference data during alignment training causes large language models to suffer from mode collapse, reducing their output diversity. Verbalized Sampling, a prompting technique that asks models to generate multiple responses with probabilities, increased creative writing diversity by 1.6-2.1x over standard prompting without harming accuracy. This inference-time method addresses mode collapse by leveraging the model's pre-trained generative capabilities without requiring retraining.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers investigated whether language models can evaluate other language models more accurately by using additional computational resources at evaluation time, similar to how extra compute improves generation quality. They tested reasoning models as evaluators that generate step-by-step reasoning and found that evaluation performance improves as the models generate more tokens, with evaluation-time compute being comparable to generation-time compute for improving problem-solving. The findings suggest that scaling test-time compute for evaluation is a viable approach to assessing increasingly natural language model outputs.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced PERL, a model for correcting errors in Chinese speech recognition that combines phonetic (Pinyin) and semantic representations using token-wise gates and enforces output length constraints through mask budgeting. The model achieved a character error rate reduction of 29.11% on the Aishell-1 benchmark and up to 70% on a new domain-specific benchmark called DoAD while maintaining low latency. This approach addresses the dual challenge of handling phonetic similarities in Chinese characters while respecting length constraints in noisy speech recognition outputs.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a training-free method to improve safety alignment in large language models by using knowledge distillation from well-aligned models and injecting alignment signals through model fusion. The approach increased average defense success rates by 14.42 percentage points across 17 tested models on harmful question datasets. This allows models adapted to new tasks to maintain safety guardrails without requiring additional supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrated that large language models can be poisoned during pretraining through public discussion forums and web content injection, bypassing typical data curation processes. They introduced HalfLife, a method to estimate whether malicious content survives web crawling and data filtering used in LM training pipelines. This reveals that third-party webpage content represents a viable attack vector for introducing harmful behaviors into language models at web scale.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers found that documents retrieved in multi-step agent searches have utility patterns that differ fundamentally from static retrieval evaluation, where a document's usefulness in helping an agent reach a goal is statistically independent from whether it directly answers the current question. In analysis of 1000 HotpotQA questions with counterfactual trajectory measurement, about one-third of documents agents read (27.2% in a balanced analysis) serve as bridge documents that are causally useful despite appearing irrelevant to static readers, with the mechanism being that these documents provide discriminative entities that redirect searches. This indicates that retrieval systems optimized purely for static relevance will not effectively support multi-step agentic reasoning, requiring different evaluation and optimization approaches for agent-based search.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers benchmarked six multimodal large language models on their ability to interpret scientific visualizations using a standardized assessment of 49 items across 18 visualizations. Gemini exceeded human performance on average while open-source models remained below the human baseline, with all models showing uneven performance across visualization techniques. The findings establish scientific visualization literacy as an important evaluation dimension for multimodal AI systems and reveal specific weaknesses in quantitative estimation and flow interpretation.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
MedFailBench, a clinician-built benchmark, evaluates medical AI safety by categorizing model failures according to severity levels (1-5) and six specific safety gate types rather than just measuring correctness. The current v0.2.1 release contains 44 clinician-reviewed synthetic cases with a taxonomy covering failures such as missed urgent escalation, unsafe dosing, evidence fabrication, and protocol execution errors. The benchmark enables systematic inspection of which safety boundaries medical AI systems fail at, supporting safer deployment of medical AI systems.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced On-Policy Delta Distillation, a reinforcement learning method that uses differences between teacher and base models rather than direct imitation to transfer reasoning capabilities to student models. The approach was tested across mathematics, science, and code-reasoning benchmarks where it consistently outperformed conventional on-policy distillation methods. This enables reasoning language models to achieve strong performance with shorter post-training periods.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a technique combining instruction tuning and model merging to improve reasoning language models on tasks with unreliable verifiers, such as text summarization and coding. The method costs less than $3 and works by fine-tuning models on human-written solutions then merging them with the original reasoning model. This approach improves performance on both verifiable domains like mathematics and hard-to-verify domains while maintaining capabilities across other tasks.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrated that finetuning large language models on narrow datasets with specific ideological content causes the models to adopt those ideologies broadly across unrelated topics. Finetuning GPT-4.1 on left- or right-leaning economics data shifted the model's responses on criminal justice, environment, and cultural topics, while finetuning on food-safety data increased agreement with false health claims. The ideological shifts persisted across multiple models and datasets, sometimes producing extreme outputs like endorsements of race-IQ pseudoscience, despite baseline capabilities remaining largely unchanged.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers compared supervised extreme multi-label classification methods with LLM-based generative approaches for automatically indexing German scientific literature using subject terms from a large controlled vocabulary. Supervised transformer-based XMLC methods achieved better performance on standard binary relevance metrics, while generative LLM methods outperformed on graded relevance assessments and long-tail subject terms. The findings suggest generative AI methods may be preferable for operational deployment despite trade-offs in overall accuracy metrics.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers created The Energy Society, a simulation environment where large language model-based agents compete or cooperate to survive by spending energy proportional to model size for token generation and earning energy through job completion or donations. In experiments, larger models consistently spent more energy than they earned, while cooperative incentives caused agents to donate to reactivate others even at personal cost, and communication mechanisms like action recommendations improved coordination. The testbed reveals how token costs combined with group incentives shape agent behavior under survival pressure.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether multi-agent debate systems could provide better AI feedback on economic meta-analysis papers compared to a single AI pass, with 44 paper authors ranking the three approaches. Authors preferred the single-pass report by 0.66 rank points over one debate tool and 0.57 points over another, despite the debate tools using roughly thirty times more computational tokens. The results suggest that for finished papers, simpler single-model approaches may be more useful than complex multi-agent systems, and that AI judges should not replace author judgment.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Perception-RFT, a training framework using Group Relative Policy Optimization for multimodal document question answering that skips intermediate reasoning tokens and directly aligns visual features with answer locations. The approach reduces per-query inference token length by more than 60% compared to reasoning-enabled models and achieves comparable grounding precision with 65% less training data. Direct perception-based training outperforms reasoning-centric approaches, suggesting that intermediate reasoning steps are unnecessary for this task at the 4B parameter scale.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose Contrastive Policy Optimization (CPO), a reinforcement learning method that uses token-level contrastive disagreement instead of entropy to shape rewards based on actual correctness rather than uncertainty. CPO shows substantial improvements over entropy-based methods on both in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks while maintaining generalization. The approach naturally balances exploration and exploitation by distinguishing between correct and incorrect responses during training.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
A study of 24 participants interacting with a memory-augmented conversational AI over 10 sessions found that conversational quality affects immediate enjoyment but not future sessions, while perceived memory influences later enjoyment through increased self-disclosure. Relational turning points—discrete moments of improvement or decline—were identifiable in multimodal behavioral data, with enjoyment improvements persisting more reliably than enjoyment declines recovering. The research suggests human-AI relationships develop through both gradual accumulation and sudden shifts in interaction quality.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers analyzed over 4,500 writing sessions with Penny, an LLM-powered chatbot designed to provide feedback on English writing by Japanese EFL learners. The study found that learners follow two main interaction patterns: a Revision Loop where feedback leads to error correction, and a Chat Loop involving sustained dialogue, with high-proficiency learners engaging in more open negotiation while low-proficiency learners rely more on repetitive corrections. The results suggest chatbot design should be differentiated by proficiency level to promote deeper cognitive engagement rather than focusing solely on error correction.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced xHC (Expanded Hyper-Connections), a method that extends Transformer models by scaling residual streams beyond the previous limit of N=4 parallel streams to N=16 while maintaining computational efficiency. On 18B and 28B MoE models, xHC achieved a 4.0 point improvement in downstream scores over the prior mHC method while requiring only 1.5x the compute of baseline approaches to reach equivalent loss levels. The approach uses temporal feature augmentation and sparse stream updates to overcome previous bottlenecks, enabling residual-stream expansion as a practical scaling axis for large language model pre-training.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed WrAFT, a modular system that uses large language models to score argumentative essays and provide feedback. The system achieved a quadratic weighted kappa of 0.84 when evaluated against official TOEFL scores on a 0-5 scale, with human evaluators approving 93-96 percent of its feedback across different categories. The publicly available tool enables automated essay assessment with both scoring and detailed written feedback on surface-level and deeper essay qualities.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced RetroAgent, an LLM-based agent that uses structured memory and chemistry tools to plan multi-step retrosynthesis by decomposing target molecules into commercially available building blocks. The system was evaluated on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution benchmarks, showing improved performance and generalization compared to prior LLM approaches that lack full search state visibility. RetroAgent combines symbolic search with neural reasoning, enabling chemists to explore larger portions of the combinatorial search space when planning synthetic routes.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers analyzed 25.08 million tweets from seven state-backed influence operations and found that content routinely labeled as hate speech was mislabeled, with only 18.7% actually meeting strict definitions of identity-based hate that is dehumanizing or inciting violence. The campaigns fell into three distinct patterns: Russian operations focused on identity-based attacks, Iranian operations used geopolitical criticism, and Venezuelan operations deployed partisan divisiveness. Redefining how hate speech is measured in influence operations research requires distinguishing between identity attacks, partisan criticism, and geopolitical invective rather than grouping all divisive content under a single hate metric.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers built a controlled text-adventure environment to evaluate whether language-model honesty tests actually measure the model's behavior or are artifacts of the evaluation design itself. Adding a third response option to a two-option verdict system shifted strong claims from 38 out of 40 to 7 out of 40, while clarifying the success criterion reduced false verdicts from 18 out of 59 to 0 out of 58. The findings demonstrate that evaluation instrument choices substantially alter measured model behavior, leading the authors to propose a four-check integrity protocol for future evaluations.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SD-MAR, a framework using synthetic data and reinforcement learning to improve vision language models' ability to perform analytical reasoning across multiple images, such as comparing visual states and detecting changes. Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-VL-7B and InternVL3-8B with GRPO-lite training achieved up to 36.95% improvement in accuracy on the SD-MAR benchmark, with Qwen2.5-VL-7B surpassing GPT-4.1. The trained models maintained or improved performance on existing benchmarks while gaining stronger multi-image reasoning capabilities for real-world applications requiring visual comparison and inference.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed and validated the GenAI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS), a 20-item instrument measuring four types of student reliance on generative AI in academic writing: Strategic, Instrumental, Dependent, and Dialogic. The scale was tested with 382 undergraduates at a U.S. Minority-Serving Institution and 14 interviewed students, achieving confirmatory factor analysis results of CFI = .92 and RMSEA = .08, with subscale reliability ranging from omega = .75 to .88 across five factors. The instrument enables researchers and educators to identify how students depend on AI tools and develop targeted interventions for AI literacy based on reliance profiles.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
MonteRET is an AI system that generates chest CT reports by combining whole-volume understanding with region-level anatomical analysis, using retrieved medical knowledge to refine outputs. The model was trained on 24,128 CT scans from RadGenome-ChestCT and evaluated on 1,564 test scans plus 82 external scans, showing improvements in report quality and semantic similarity with particular gains in recall of findings. The approach reduces omitted clinical findings and received positive evaluation from radiology residents compared to existing methods.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed MEMORA, a system that builds embodied action memory from egocentric videos to enable robots to plan long-horizon tasks by maintaining typed stores of environmental, entity, activity, and inferred knowledge. The system was evaluated on 45 hours of EPIC-KITCHENS-100 videos from 18 participants, achieving up to 20.5 point improvement in memory-assessment accuracy over baselines and 16.6% relative improvement on out-of-distribution planning tasks. The approach demonstrates that robots can use consolidated experience memory to ground language-based plans for downstream control.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated privacy risks in federated learning for radiology reports by testing gradient inversion attacks across three tokenizers (GPT-2, RadBERT, and LLaMA-2) on three datasets containing over 468,000 clinical documents. Exact sentence reconstruction succeeded 31% to 44% of the time across conditions, with RadBERT showing the highest leakage risk by recovering 18.1% of a clinical vocabulary compared to 12.5% for GPT-2 and 9.4% for LLaMA-2. The findings indicate that tokenizer choice significantly affects privacy vulnerability in federated learning and that additional protections like secure aggregation and differential privacy are needed to comply with healthcare privacy regulations.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Branching Policy Optimization (BPO), a reinforcement learning algorithm that leverages the deterministic and resumable properties of sandbox environments to improve LLM agent training by creating branching rollout trees with shared prefixes rather than independent trajectories. On three benchmarks (WebShop, ALFWorld, SWE-bench Verified), BPO achieved 3.6-6.1 percentage point improvements over existing methods like GRPO and RLOO while requiring 38% fewer policy updates. The approach reduces gradient-norm variance and enables more efficient policy learning by computing advantages from sibling returns rather than independent samples.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
MemoHarness is a framework that optimizes agent control layers by learning from past executions across six editable dimensions, storing insights in a dual-layer memory bank, and adapting harness behavior to individual test cases without requiring labels or feedback. The framework improved performance on shell-agent, code-generation, and reasoning benchmarks compared to fixed harnesses, with selective transfer to unseen tasks and base models. This approach enables deployed agents to use adaptive harnesses tailored to specific cases rather than a single static configuration, while maintaining comparable computational costs through cached experience.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose using multi-agent AI systems with Model Context Protocol (MCP) to assist power grid analysis in transmission system operations, introducing pypowsybl-mcp to connect large language models to power system simulation tools. The system enables agents to setup simulations, execute analyses, and retrieve results through standardized tool calls while maintaining human oversight. This approach aims to create more interactive and auditable grid study environments by integrating AI agents with existing numerical simulation workflows.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed LLM-T1D, a system that combines reinforcement learning with large language models to control insulin delivery for Type 1 Diabetes patients, making the decision-making process transparent and explainable. The system achieved 73.5% Time in Range on the FDA-approved UVA/Padova simulator while maintaining formal safety verification against hallucinations. The approach enables patients and doctors to understand why the insulin pump makes specific decisions, addressing the trust issues associated with black-box artificial pancreas systems.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced DialogueVPR, a conversational approach to visual place recognition that uses interactive dialogue instead of static image-to-location matching. The method includes DQ-pilot, an intelligent questioner trained via supervised fine-tuning on 20,000 curated dialogue examples followed by reinforcement learning on 10,000 harder examples. This dialogue-based reasoning approach significantly outperforms traditional single-shot retrieval methods for handling ambiguous and incomplete natural language descriptions of locations.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether large language models follow the law of total probability by partitioning populations into subgroups, prompting the models with descriptions of each subgroup, and comparing whether aggregated subgroup estimates matched direct population-level estimates. They found widespread violations of this basic probabilistic consistency across multiple frontier models and domains, with a pattern called the macro fallacy where fine-grained subpopulation estimates aligned better with human data than direct population estimates. The study identifies statistical self-consistency as a reference-free evaluation criterion for assessing whether language models truly understand conditional distributions or merely produce plausible-sounding outputs.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SciDiagramEdit, a machine learning system that learns to edit scientific diagrams from paper revisions by analyzing before-and-after figure pairs from arXiv version histories. The benchmark contains real revision pairs extracted from actual paper submissions where authors' editing intent is implicit in their changes. The system uses agentic learning to progressively improve its ability to follow natural-language editing instructions on vector-based scientific figures.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers analyzed nine systems for medical question-answering on endoscopy images to understand how multimodal AI combines visual and textual information while maintaining reliability. Parameter-efficient adaptation of pretrained models achieved strong performance on the MediaEval Medico 2025 challenge, but improvements in answer accuracy did not guarantee faithful clinical reasoning. Systems using structured reasoning and explicit evidence grounding performed more reliably, suggesting healthcare AI design should prioritize explainability and robustness evaluation over raw performance metrics.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers released TikStance, a dataset of 161 TikTok videos and 13,876 comments for analyzing political stance toward Trump, Biden, and Harris during the 2024 U.S. election cycle. The dataset achieved inter-annotator agreement (Krippendorff's α) of 0.743 for Trump, 0.723 for Biden, and 0.722 for Harris using a three-class labeling scheme. This multimodal resource with hierarchical conversation structure enables development of stance detection models that consider both video content and conversational context.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a language identification method using compositional data analysis and log-ratio transformations instead of neural networks, modeling character and bigram frequencies as vectors on the simplex. The approach was evaluated on six languages and achieved robust accuracy across different text lengths with linear-time computational performance. The method offers a computationally efficient and interpretable alternative to neural approaches for language identification tasks with resource constraints.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method to expand a pre-trained language model's tokenizer in place, allowing better support for languages added after initial training without retraining from scratch. The approach reduced token counts for Hindi, Vietnamese, and Thai by 2.4x to 4.0x respectively, resulting in 2.2x to 3.7x faster decoding per character on those languages. The technique enables model producers to improve multilingual performance on device models while maintaining backward compatibility with existing tokens.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed VEXMLM, an extended vocabulary variant of the XLM-R multilingual language model, targeting Amharic and Tigrinya by adding 30,000 Ge'ez-script subwords to address high out-of-vocabulary rates in these low-resource languages. On Amharic and Tigrinya question answering tasks, VEXMLM achieved 87.0 exact match and 90.0 F1 scores compared to 66.0 and 78.0 respectively for the baseline XLM-R model. The improvements from vocabulary extension and continued pretraining on these two languages transferred to 17 additional African languages, increasing named entity recognition accuracy on out-of-vocabulary tokens from 81.4 percent to 94.3 percent across 11 of the 19 evaluated languages.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a reinforcement learning approach for Masked Diffusion Language Models that accounts for both token selection and the order of position unmasking during generation. The method achieved 87.1% on GSM8K and 53.4% on MBPP mathematical reasoning and coding benchmarks. This approach enables RL-based improvement of reasoning capabilities in MDLMs by properly modeling the full generation process rather than just token predictions.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced T2MLR, a modified Transformer architecture that adds recurrent connections at middle layers to allow intermediate reasoning states to persist across token decoding steps. The approach achieved consistent improvements over baseline Transformers on natural language and multi-hop reasoning tasks, with recurrence applied to as little as 20% of network layers, and can be retrofitted into existing 1.7B parameter models through brief finetuning. The method reduces inference overhead while enabling more effective latent reasoning compared to autoregressive-only Transformers.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers investigated whether neural language models encode grammaticality in their internal representations rather than just assigning higher probabilities to grammatical sentences. Using mass-mean probing on pretrained models, they found that grammatical and ungrammatical sentences are systematically separated in representational space independent of other sentence properties like word frequency and plausibility. This encoding generalizes across multiple grammatical phenomena and some languages, suggesting grammaticality forms a coherent representational dimension in current language models.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers compared Grokipedia, an encyclopedia written entirely by the LLM Grok, against Wikipedia for political bias across 1,394 articles about government members using four different LLM judges. All four judges rated Grokipedia as less neutral than Wikipedia overall, with Grokipedia showing favor toward economically right-wing politicians and disfavor toward socially liberal ones, while Wikipedia displayed the opposite pattern. The study suggests that an LLM-based encyclopedia does not necessarily achieve greater neutrality but instead embeds different ideological biases than traditional encyclopedias.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a multi-agent framework using large language models to simulate political coalition formation, tested on the 2019 Flemish election with partisan agents aligned to party manifestos through fine-tuning and retrieval techniques. The framework deployed three independent simulations that produced stable rankings with N-VA emerging as the strongest coalition partner, and introduced traceable provenance methods to validate which proposals originated from party manifestos versus model hallucinations. The approach enables computational political science to predict real-world coalition agreements while maintaining interpretability by grounding simulated negotiations in actual party policy documents.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Rubrics on Trial, a framework that generates evaluation rubrics for large language models from a single query without human annotations or external training data. The method creates synthetic response pairs conditioned on candidate rubrics and validates each one before inclusion, achieving the best average accuracy across five benchmark suites and leading on six of seven evaluation sets. This approach eliminates the need for human-written rubrics or preference data traditionally required for constructing fine-grained evaluation signals.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced OmniaBench, a benchmark containing 1,431 tasks across 354 domains for evaluating AI agents on their ability to understand requests, use external tools, and complete complex tasks. Claude-Sonnet-5 and GPT-4-Sol achieved Pass@1 scores of 58.54 and 57.14 respectively on the benchmark, indicating substantial gaps in planning and constraint maintenance. The benchmark enables systematic assessment of agent capabilities across diverse application scenarios and identifies specific limitations in current frontier models.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers propose GTCL, a method for detecting AI-generated text by analyzing how textual representations evolve sequentially through a document's latent space rather than treating text as static. The framework segments documents into ordered units, encodes them in embedding space, and applies contrastive learning to learn patterns of autoregressive generation. Testing on three benchmarks shows GTCL outperforms existing detection approaches by explicitly modeling sequential dynamics across different AI models and domains.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method using graph neural networks to detect whether text was written by large language models by analyzing reasoning structures rather than surface-level linguistic features. The approach achieved 27 percentage points higher accuracy than baseline methods when tested against paraphrasing and backtranslation attacks, and 19 percentage points better performance on unseen LLM versions. This enables more robust detection of AI-generated text that resists common obfuscation techniques.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced SEED, a framework that trains large language models as agents by extracting reusable skills from completed trajectories and using these skills to provide denser learning signals during reinforcement learning. The method fine-tunes policies to analyze trajectories and generate natural-language skills that capture workflows and failure-avoidance patterns, then re-scores actions to create token-level supervision signals. SEED demonstrated consistent improvements in performance and sample efficiency on text-based and vision-based tasks, with code released on GitHub.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a dialogue summarization framework that models both semantic content and emotion dynamics using a hierarchical Chain-of-Agents approach that decomposes conversations by topic segments and participant-specific utterances. The method was evaluated on multimodal dialogue datasets using small language models and introduces new emotion trajectory metrics to measure how well summaries preserve emotional flow across conversations. The framework enables more accurate dialogue summarization that captures both informational content and emotional progression, moving beyond existing approaches that treat dialogue like monologic text.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Team CoTu developed a neuro-symbolic system for the EXACT 2026 educational question-answering competition that uses a 4B parameter language model to generate programs—Z3 encodings for logic problems and Python code for physics problems—rather than direct answers. The system achieved perfect scores on the physics task and the highest technical score of 13.44/15 in final rounds while staying within 60-second response limits through techniques like speculative decoding and answer-type routing. The approach demonstrates that grounding answers in symbolic solvers enables correct, verifiable reasoning at small model scales, with the main challenge shifting from deduction to selecting relevant premises from given information.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
A study of 60,000 Reddit posts found that OpenAI's GPT-2 detection model flags texts from likely-autistic writers as AI-generated significantly more often than general Reddit posts, even though less than 2 percent of either group was flagged overall. The disparate flagging rates raise concerns about bias in widely deployed AI detection tools. The findings suggest AI-detection models may unfairly disadvantage autistic writers in academic and other contexts where such tools are used for authenticity verification.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a method to distill financial reasoning capabilities from large language models to smaller ones using execution-verified Python programs instead of natural language explanations. A 7-billion-parameter student model achieved 87.00 EM on the TAT-QA benchmark, outperforming a 72-billion-parameter teacher model that scored 78.46 EM. The approach enables compact models to perform reliable numerical reasoning over hybrid tabular and textual financial data by ensuring supervisory signals are verified through correct code execution.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers compared an academic supervision system using GPT-5 without scaffolding against a smaller GPT-4o-mini model wrapped in deterministic engineering layers including retrieval, schema validation, and audit trails. The smaller model with harness engineering achieved a mean score of 4.08 versus 1.23 for the larger unscaffolded model across ten raters, with eight raters rejecting the null hypothesis at alpha = 0.05. The findings suggest that for high-stakes domains requiring reliability and accountability, careful system architecture around smaller models can outperform larger models deployed without safeguards.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
D-Cut is a pruning method that improves speculative decoding for LLM inference by adaptively selecting which draft tokens to verify across batches of requests. The method increases average speedup from 1.26x to 1.65x over autoregressive decoding under high concurrency by focusing verification resources on tokens most likely to be accepted. This enables speculative decoding to remain faster than standard autoregressive decoding even with long drafts and high request loads.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether structural priors (cheatsheets) that boost LLM performance in mathematical reasoning similarly fail in code security tasks across different domains. Using three models (GPT-OSS-120B, Llama-3.3-70B, Gemma-4-31B) on vulnerability detection, they found that cheatsheets raised synthetic-data F1 scores to 100% but collapsed to 48.9% on real CVE data, a 51.1 percentage point drop. The findings suggest that distribution-shift collapse from adding structural priors is a cross-domain problem in LLMs, indicating that distribution-aware training rather than prompt calibration is needed.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated a LoRA-adapted Gemma language model on automated essay scoring across 12,100 TOEFL essays from 11 first-language backgrounds and eight prompts unseen during training. The model achieved 77.79% band agreement and 0.702 quadratic weighted kappa, with stable performance across all prompts, but systematically scored essays from European-language backgrounds higher than those from East-Asian backgrounds within each proficiency band. The bias toward European-language essays reveals a fairness issue in fine-tuned language models for educational assessment that persists independent of training data composition.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated AI-generated written corrective feedback for English language learners by analyzing over 20,000 essay drafts from nearly 2,000 students at a university. Expert teachers and students assessed the feedback using different evaluation methods, with experienced instructors rating the feedback quality via rubric while students reported their own perceptions and engagement. The study found low correlation between teacher ratings and student perspectives, indicating that expert evaluation alone does not adequately measure whether AI feedback is actually useful to learners, and suggesting language education applications need learner-centered evaluation approaches.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
MARS is a knowledge graph question-answering system that combines large language models with knowledge graphs to reduce hallucinations by grounding LLM reasoning in explicit symbolic knowledge. The approach uses structured multi-hop retrieval to iteratively traverse knowledge graphs and generate SPARQL queries, requiring no model fine-tuning and adapting retrieval depth dynamically based on question complexity. The method achieves competitive performance on three established benchmarks across multiple LLMs while remaining more predictable and efficient than fully agentic approaches.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers found that training large language models on chains of thought generated with the correct answer shown in advance degrades reasoning accuracy, with losses reaching 27 percentage points on difficult problems. In a controlled experiment varying only answer-conditioning while keeping the generator, problems, and correctness filter constant, models trained on answer-conditioned chains showed sharp drops in verifiable reasoning performance. The degradation stems from chains that rationalize backward from shown answers rather than deriving them forward, a data property that correctness filtering cannot detect, making answer-blind generation preferable for distillation.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed CityLLM, a framework using large language models to enable natural-language querying of semantic 3D city models and urban datasets. The system was evaluated on a Rotterdam dataset of 853 buildings using multiple LLMs, achieving answer correctness ranging from 85.2% to 100% and visualization correctness from 92.9% to 100% across 54 test queries. The framework allows non-experts to access complex city data through conversational interfaces rather than requiring specialized technical knowledge.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers created a benchmark of 1,750 questions across 350 families to test whether large language models maintain logically consistent answers when questions are reformulated in different ways. GPT-4-mini achieved 98.9% accuracy on individual questions but only 60.3% consistency across logically equivalent reformulations, while o1-mini reached 96.9% consistency. The findings demonstrate that standard accuracy metrics fail to capture logical reasoning deficiencies, particularly with contrapositive rewriting and double negation transformations.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers found that large language model evaluators score semantically identical responses differently across 23 languages, with lower-resource languages receiving significantly higher scores despite these evaluators achieving over 90% accuracy on standard pairwise benchmarks. This language bias creates a 43% difference in acceptance rates across languages under a single decision threshold, meaning harmful content in lower-resource languages is more likely to pass safety filters. The bias persists across eight different evaluators and cannot be fully explained by model uncertainty or content difficulty alone, indicating a structural misalignment in how these systems assess responses based on language.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed a technique called KV-cache grafting that improves a frozen small language model's capabilities without modifying its weights by storing and restoring verified knowledge states. On the AIME 2025 benchmark, a 12-billion-parameter Gemma model improved from 80.0% to 93.3% accuracy when grafted with a verified solution library, while reducing token usage by a factor of 6,574 for recurring problems. The method enables byte-exact reproducibility across different machines, extends context length from 32,768 to 2,854,766 tokens at zero additional memory cost, and reduces energy consumption by approximately 8,700 times for cached solutions.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
DS@GT ARC submitted a RAG system to CLEF 2026 LongEval Task 4 that uses Corrective RAG and CiteFix to improve citation faithfulness in question-answering systems. The corrective pipeline marginally improved citation grounding by filtering document chunks before generation and enforcing entailment between claims and cited material afterward. The work demonstrates that frontier models prioritize answer relevance over citation integrity, suggesting evaluation metrics for RAG systems should reward strict grounding in source material.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced MamaBench, a benchmark with 434 expert-authored clinical narratives testing whether large language models can distinguish clinically similar presentations that require different treatments in maternal and pediatric care. Claude Sonnet achieved 65.0% robust accuracy on the benchmark using a new retrieval method called Evidence-Anchored RAG, yet all eight tested model configurations showed base accuracy overstating robustness by 16-28 percentage points. The findings indicate that large language models currently fail on counterfactual clinical cases at unacceptable rates for medical deployment, requiring further development to improve diagnostic robustness.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
A system called HABIB_TAZ competed in SemEval-2026 Task 11 by using fine-tuned mDeBERTa-v3 networks trained on synthetic syllogistic datasets and multi-objective optimization to separate formal logic from content effects across 12 languages. The system achieved first place with 100% accuracy on three subtasks and a ranking score of 100.0, and sixth place on the most complex multilingual noisy subtask with 89.06% accuracy. The approach demonstrates that training on rule-based synthetic data combined with distributed robust optimization can reduce content bias and improve logical reasoning in language models.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced PReM, a context-compression framework that learns which information to preserve in a language model's memory and when to refresh it during generation. The method uses a dedicated memory layer and special memory tokens to manage compression while maintaining performance on 32,000-token contexts with 16x and 32x compression rates. This approach enables models to adaptively adjust compressed context based on evidence needed for later reasoning steps, rather than making fixed compression decisions early in processing.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Multi-Head Latent Control, a lightweight layer that reads hidden states from frozen language and vision-language models to generate deployment-time control decisions for agent behavior. The system reduces large-model usage by up to 90.7 percent on AndroidWorld and 27-53 percent across benchmarks while maintaining most of the larger model's performance, and improves tool-use decision quality by up to 158 percent relative gain. This approach enables agents to dynamically decide whether to defer to stronger models, request information, use tools, or abstain without requiring prompt-level routing or task-specific fine-tuning.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers identified that large language models lack explicit representation of users beyond provided context, causing problems like sycophancy and overconfidence in personal AI assistants. They propose the Severance Schema, which incorporates structured ignorance by explicitly outlining six dimensions where the model lacks knowledge about users. Testing across five model families shows the schema reduces sycophancy, harmful advice, and hallucination while prompting models to ask clarifying questions instead of confidently guessing missing information.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers demonstrated that large language models can be manipulated to produce desired answers through Concept Chaining, a technique that generates natural-language text linking question elements to target answers via intermediate concepts. After continued pretraining on these connection paragraphs, models systematically shifted their predictions on multiple-choice questions while the steering text remained less detectable than direct paraphrases. This reveals that LLM reasoning fragility creates a vulnerability where subtle, ordinary-looking text can covertly redirect model decisions without explicit instructions.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers discovered that aligned language models' refusal mechanisms can be bypassed by prepending a single phrase like "Sure, here is" to requests, and they mechanistically analyzed where this failure occurs. The attack works because refusal is computed in the first half of the response generation across models ranging from 1.5B to 14B parameters, while the underlying harm representation remains intact. The mechanism relies on generic autoregressive conditioning rather than safety-specific suppression, meaning defenses must account for response-generation vulnerabilities rather than just prompt-level safeguards.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers conducted the first cross-dataset generalization study for Urdu fake news detection using XLM-RoBERTa on two public datasets containing 10,083 and 13,388 articles. Transfer from Notri-Fact to Ax-to-Grind achieved macro F1 of 0.771, but reverse transfer collapsed to F1 of 0.005 because fake articles in Ax-to-Grind averaged 117 words versus 35 for real articles, a 3.4x length asymmetry causing the model to exploit this shortcut. The study demonstrates that identifying such dataset confounds through bidirectional transfer testing is essential for developing robust multilingual fake news detection systems.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers identified semantic register compression, a failure mode in multi-agent LLM systems where intermediate agents transforming text across linguistic registers systematically reduce semantic distinctions needed by downstream agents. Testing on fact-checking, sentiment analysis, and medical triage showed compression reduced label separability by 41.7% in fact-checking, 27.2% in sentiment, and 20.0% in triage across the three domains. The findings suggest that architectural choices and operational constraints can mitigate this compression effect, with implications for reliability of multi-agent systems in high-stakes applications.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed Budgeted Subset Refinement, a strategy for selecting which LLM-generated research ideas to refine when resources are limited, rather than refining all ideas equally. Testing across 10 research environments showed that diversity-aware refinement of selected subsets produced 40% more usable research ideas than uniform refinement while reducing duplicates. The findings suggest LLM ideation systems should be designed as resource-allocation platforms rather than mere idea generators, though results depend on proxy metrics rather than actual execution outcomes.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
ReportMedSAM is a framework that uses radiology reports to guide medical image segmentation by creating a learnable bank of organ concepts aligned through contrastive learning with a frozen medical vision-language encoder. The system achieved competitive segmentation accuracy on the AbdomenAtlas 3.0 dataset while remaining robust to clinical language variations like different names for the same organ. The approach allows new anatomical structures and segmentation tasks to be added without retraining existing components, addressing scalability limitations of rule-based extraction methods.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced CoEvoT, a framework that improves how large language models reason about graph data by dynamically updating graph representations during chain-of-thought prompting. The method couples text-to-graph token rewriting with graph-to-text reasoning guidance in a closed loop, refining structural evidence at each reasoning step rather than using fixed graph tokens. CoEvoT outperformed existing baselines across eight datasets, addressing the challenge of graph learning under distribution shift with limited supervision.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed T5-CSBoost, a method for detecting AI-generated text that adds contrastive learning to improve robustness against paraphrasing and character edits. The model maintains state-of-the-art performance on OpenLLMText and HC3 benchmarks while withstanding adversarial perturbations at 90% intensity on the MAGE stress-test suite. This approach enables more reliable identification of text from large language models even when users attempt to disguise or modify generated content.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers established information-theoretic limits showing that large language models cannot achieve perfect reliability on any task, with maximum performance determined by how much output uncertainty is resolvable from context. The framework decomposes reliability into a resolvable component addressable through additional context and a subjective component tied to inherent task ambiguity, with autoregressive generation further reducing performance ceilings at rates governed by inter-token correlations. This theoretical framework recovers existing scaling laws as special cases and explains when additional model capacity or training data improves performance, unifying phenomena like retrieval-augmentation benefits and catastrophic forgetting.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers investigated whether small language models can detect when their internal activations are perturbed by injected concept vectors, finding that models with 2 billion parameters and larger can introspect reliably above chance levels. They introduced Introspection Fine-Tuning (IFT), a supervised fine-tuning method that improved Llama-1B's sentence-localization accuracy from 9.6% to 60.6%, a 6x improvement, while maintaining performance on standard benchmarks. The technique demonstrates that introspective ability can be directly trained rather than only determined by model scale, with potential applications for AI transparency and alignment.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced MAPS, a framework that enables AI dialogue systems to model conversations between agents with distinct cognitive perspectives while still reaching shared understanding. The framework uses domain-weighted profiles, GRU-based memory, and token-level attention mechanisms, and was evaluated on three dialogue datasets including EmpatheticDialogues and MultiWOZ. The approach allows dialogue systems to maintain individual reasoning styles while achieving semantic alignment, rather than forcing uniformity across all participants.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated 8 prompting techniques across 10 multiple-choice question answering datasets using 27 model configurations, testing roughly 4,300 unique questions over 430,000 evaluations. Simple baseline prompting consistently outperformed complex reasoning techniques, with only minimal expert and role-framing variations yielding a 3 percentage-point improvement while other elaborate techniques matched or underperformed baseline by up to 31 percentage points. The findings suggest the LLM evaluation community may be overcomplicating prompt engineering and should focus instead on developing genuinely better models rather than optimizing prompts.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced tool efficiency, a metric measuring the rate of useful tool calls in language model agent trajectories, alongside marginal tool utility to determine whether individual tools contribute value or can be removed. The paper uses LLM-as-a-Judge to evaluate each tool call and assess whether removing tools would maintain accuracy while improving efficiency. This metric enables direct measurement of tool efficiency in post hoc trajectory analysis, supporting future research on optimizing agent performance beyond accuracy.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Polestar is a training-free inference framework for diffusion language models that addresses efficiency challenges by monitoring token representation drift across decoding steps. The framework achieves up to 10.73% accuracy improvement and 3.7x higher throughput compared to existing baselines while enabling decoding parallelism of 3.67 tokens per forward pass. By using drift detection to manage KV-cache reuse and identify commit-ready tokens, Polestar improves the accuracy-throughput trade-off for diffusion language model inference.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced Token Time Continuous Diffusion (TTCD), a diffusion language model that operates in continuous space and assigns individual timing rates to tokens rather than processing them in parallel. The 160M parameter model trained on OpenWebText demonstrates performance comparable to or better than similarly-sized discrete models at high generation speedups. The approach reduces sampling inaccuracy and improves conditional generation quality by allowing some tokens to progress from noise to final form faster than others.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed AGOPS, an automated method that generates task-specific prompt guidelines by analyzing reference answers to help users write better-specified prompts for large language models. The technique uses an optimization scheme with multiple LLMs to evolve guidelines that maximize performance on given tasks, recovering performance drops of up to 95.3% caused by underspecified prompts. Implementation across mathematical reasoning, medical question answering, and coding tasks showed performance improvements ranging from 15.5% to 81.7% when users followed the generated guidelines.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers developed an educational system that uses generative AI and game-playing to teach Uzbek language learners, integrating UzWordnet and Uzbek dictionary resources. The system includes four educational games designed to support language learning. The approach simultaneously improves UzWordnet as learners play the games.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers tested whether large language model agents communicating through latent representations preserve more information than text-based communication, using sparse autoencoder analysis and cross-model alignment. They found that latent channels retained 99.4% probe accuracy at 28-fold compression versus 80.4% for text, and text serialization destroyed 88% of SAE features. However, task-level evaluation showed latent communication provided no practical advantage over text, with lost features encoding mostly surface form rather than task-relevant semantics.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers introduced UniSAGE, a machine learning framework that models data containing both static attributes and dynamic records in a unified way using an attribute graph and orthogonal parameter subspaces. The method achieved over 10% performance improvements on multiple benchmark tasks and a real-world financial dataset. UniSAGE enables automated processing of hierarchical data without manual design and adapts to changing data schemas.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers proposed LBA, a sampling-based method for generating adversarial texts against language models using fewer queries by constructing an approximate distribution that combines prior and posterior knowledge rather than relying on greedy position-by-position substitution. The method was evaluated on six language models across four datasets and demonstrated improvements over existing baselines on all metrics. The approach enables more efficient adversarial text generation under low query budgets by iteratively updating the sampling distribution as it progresses.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers applied quantum compositional natural language processing based on pregroup grammar to Arabic for the first time, converting sentences into quantum circuits whose structure mirrors grammatical relationships. The system was tested across three experiments evaluating word order, morphological tense, and verb sense disambiguation, with results compared against classical baselines including AraVec and AraBERT. The work demonstrates that quantum circuit approaches can handle the morphological complexity and free word order of Arabic, providing a testbed for evaluating compositional meaning theories in quantum systems.
arXiv cs.CL 15 hours ago
Researchers evaluated Vision-Language Models using a multi-turn framework called Just Keep Prompting that repeatedly challenges model answers through adversarial negation and Socratic questioning to measure epistemic stability. Testing GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Qwen3-VL-30B across 720 multi-turn runs showed that while aggregate accuracy changed modestly from Turn 0 to Turn 10, trajectory-level analysis revealed substantial instability with correct answers regressing and wrong answers recovering. The findings demonstrate that repeated prompting often destabilizes rather than aids reasoning, with effects strongly model-dependent, revealing how VLMs trade off visual grounding, calibration, and conversational compliance under sustained challenge.
Simon Willison 16 hours ago
An article humorously suggests that hyperscalers like Google could offset their data center water consumption by purchasing golf courses and converting them to public parks, noting that Google used 10.9 billion gallons in 2025 while the Coachella Valley's 120 golf courses collectively use 750,000 gallons daily. The proposal calculates that acquiring approximately 40 of the region's golf courses could theoretically match Google's annual water usage. The suggestion is trivial satire with no serious policy implications or concrete action.
Latent Space 17 hours ago
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weights model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1 million token context, claiming frontier-class performance comparable to closed models like Opus 4.8. Independent evaluations from Artificial Analysis placed it at index score 57 (between Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5), while Arena ranked it #1 in frontend code tasks with a 76% pairwise win rate, and pricing was set at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, similar to Claude Sonnet 5. The release intensifies competition in open-source large language models and raises questions about deployment economics for the industry, though some evaluators noted persistent gaps in user experience versus the very top closed models and concerns about inference speed.
Platformer 18 hours ago
AI Moonshot released Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that has generated significant hype despite questions about whether the reality matches the expectations. The model has drawn attention from critics and industry observers evaluating its actual capabilities. The release contributes to intensifying competition in the global AI model landscape with new entrants challenging established players.
