arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2601.13111v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic text-to-SQL workflows often require joining multiple tables. As a result, accurately retrieving the relevant set of tables becomes a key bottleneck for end-to-end performance. We study an open-book setting where queries must be answ
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2605.27971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When large language models are fine-tuned to generate persona- or tone-conditioned responses, their output diversity is severely limited--a failure we term Cross-Style Collapse. We trace this collapse to the cross-entropy objective, which und
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.29175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal inconsistencies, such as mandates attributed outside their real interval, events presented as past before they occurred, or inverted causal sequences, are a form of political disinformation that evades style-based fake news detectors: a well-w
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a new design of fair classifiers for multi-class classification problems in the presence of vector-valued sensitive attributes. In that scenario each sensitive attribute has multiple values and forms several groups relevant to the fairness
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2603.12165v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic data has become essential for training code generation models, yet it introduces significant noise and hallucinations that are difficult to detect with current metrics. Existing data selection methods like Instruction-Following Difficulty
arxivAug 3
arXiv:2607.28956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly evaluated as autonomous tool users, yet most benchmarks focus on bounded tasks with immediate success criteria. Real-world deployments often require Long-Term Coherence, the capacity to preserve purposeful b
arxivAug 3
arXiv:2607.28896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified audio models capable of audio understanding, audio generation and, increasingly, audio editing are proliferating rapidly. Yet a basic question about them remains unanswered: do the two heads of a unified model agree about the same audio? Curr
arxivAug 3
arXiv:2511.22226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The standard theory of model-free reinforcement learning assumes that the environment dynamics are stationary and that agents are decoupled from their environment, such that policies are treated as being separate from the world they inhabit. This l
arxivJul 31
arXiv:2607.28308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models route each token to multiple experts, suggesting a geometric account of their benefit: co-selected experts should contribute distinct representation directions. Existing evidence often conflates route coh
arxivJul 30
arXiv:2607.27106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergency Departments (EDs) are critical access points in healthcare systems, yet they face persistent pressure from unpredictable patient demand, seasonal surges, and non-urgent visits. Effective ED planning requires forecasts at multiple decision-mak
arxivJul 29
arXiv:2607.26016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, photonic transformer accelerators (PTAs) have successfully achieved significant speedup and energy efficiency improvements over electronic accelerators for expediting Transformer inference. However, state-of-the-art rely on expensive multi-
arxivJul 28bearish
arXiv:2603.28371v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When an agent can articulate why something works, we typically take this as evidence of genuine understanding. This presupposes that effective action and correct explanation covary, and that coherent explanation reliably signals both. I argue
arxivJul 22
arXiv:2509.08654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum network routing requires online decisions under probabilistic entanglement generation, finite quantum memories, decoherence, imperfect operations, and classical feedback, while the controller has incomplete knowledge of the physical s
arxivJul 21
arXiv:2607.17770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Within Explainable Artificial Intelligence, mechanistic interpretability uses Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to extract more interpretable features from neural representations. However, assessing their monosemanticity, and thus explanation quality, remai
arxivJul 20
arXiv:2607.15309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proteins function through coordinated motion across multiple spatial and temporal scales, underpinning processes such as ligand binding, allostery, and catalysis. However, accessing long-timescale conformational change through molecular dynamics (MD)
arxivJul 20
arXiv:2607.16065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retinal layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a fundamental step for extracting quantitative biomarkers of retinal structure. Indeed, there is a growing interest in the analysis of OCTs in the context of neurodegenerative diseas
arxivJul 15
arXiv:2607.12364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG-to-image evaluation should distinguish visual fidelity from recoverable meaning. Yet EEG-derived reconstructions are blurry, distorted, and low-detail, causing SSIM, LPIPS, and CLIP to penalize semantically recoverable outputs or reward plausible
arxivJul 14
arXiv:2607.11008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary dense perception (OVDP) aims to localize objects unseen during training by leveraging textual knowledge. Despite the remarkable progress of recent CLIP-based approaches, we identify a critical limitation: synonym-induced grounding inc
arxivJul 11
arXiv:2607.06540v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing seamless, high-performance, native intelligent full-duplex Spoken Language Models (SLMs) remains a critical challenge and long-standing goal for the speech and NLP community. Despite notable progress, recent endeavors are fundamentally c
arxivJul 11
arXiv:2607.08017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-Language Models (LLMs) can be prone to flawed and unfaithful reasoning that decoding strategies like Self-Consistency (SC) fail to detect as they evaluate only final-answer agreement while ignoring the logical validity of intermediate steps. This
arxivJul 3
arXiv:2607.02262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) have significantly improved performance on complex tasks by extending the reasoning chain. However, these chains are prone to containing factual errors, particularly in knowledge-intensive tasks. To address this issue,
arxivJul 3
arXiv:2604.08169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alignment in LLMs is more brittle than commonly assumed: misalignment can be induced by adversarial prompts, benign fine-tuning, emergent misalignment, and goal misgeneralization. Recent evidence suggests that some misalignment behaviors are encode
arxivJul 1
arXiv:2606.30688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symmetry provides a quantum neural network structure, but on its own it does not keep the network trainable once noise is present. We ask which physical quantity decides whether the gradients of an equivariant circuit survive decoherence, and we answ
arxivJul 1
arXiv:2606.31198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time video segmentation of the prostate in Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) is essential for image-guided interventions. While conventional 2D methods suffer from inter-frame inconsistencies by disregarding temporal context, 3D architectures incur
arxivJun 30
arXiv:2606.29118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based narrative extraction relies on a coherence function to score transitions between events, but the coherence metrics in current use are defined operationally and lack an information-theoretic foundation. We study the composite metric $C=\sq
arxivJun 30
arXiv:2606.28553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many real-world applications, such as retail sales, energy usage, and supply chain planning, forecasting is performed across hierarchical structures. These structures often represent aggregations (e.g., products to categories to regions), where fore
arxivJun 25
arXiv:2606.18876v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is essential in ophthalmology, but inconsistent image quality especially in low-cost devices hinders automated analysis. To address this, we introduce a flow-matching-based test-time adaptation method that g
arxivJun 24
arXiv:2606.24219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic quantum neural networks (SQNNs) encode neuronal activations as qubits, synaptic topology as entanglement, and neural noise through a Lindblad master equation. A recent conference study applied a ring-entangled SQNN to collaborative intrusion
arxivJun 20
arXiv:2606.15862v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have made rapid progress on short-horizon, well-scoped tasks, yet their ability to sustain coherent decisions in dynamic long-horizon environments remains uncertain. We introduce RetailBench, a data-grounded simula
arxivJun 19
arXiv:2606.17832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often hypothesized to perform implicit Bayesian inference, yet a key coherence condition, the martingale property of predictive beliefs, has been shown to fail in controlled synthetic in-context learning settings. W
arxivJun 17
arXiv:2606.15531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adversarial attacks on large language models have limited practical impact despite extensive research. Optimization-based attacks such as Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) (Zou et al., 2023) produce high-perplexity, incoherent suffixes that existing
arxivJun 16
arXiv:2606.16408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce MUNI, an end-to-end multimodal latent diffusion framework for any-to-any generation that unifies subset-conditioned cross-modal generation and unconditional joint sampling through a shared stochastic latent. Existing multimodal generative
arxivJun 16
arXiv:2606.14875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study context compression for multi-hop question answering with small language models. We propose Telegraph English, a readable symbolic format that rewrites retrieved passages into structured entity-relation statements, preserving reasoning evidenc
arxivJun 12
arXiv:2601.14295v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models increasingly function as artificial reasoners: they evaluate arguments, assign credibility, and express confidence. Yet their belief-forming behavior is governed by implicit, uninspected epistemic policies. This paper argues f
arxivJun 10
arXiv:2606.10327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems must judge interdependent discourse elements (e.g., lead, claim, evidence, conclusion), yet most approaches treat these in isolation, harming coherence and generalization. We investigate task-aware fine-tuning of L
arxivJun 10
arXiv:2510.04195v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Given a map description through global traversal navigation instructions, an LLM can often infer the implicit spatial layout and answer user queries by providing shortest paths. However, such context-dependent querying becomes incapable as environm
huggingfaceJun 9
arxivJun 4
arXiv:2606.03110v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning AI systems with diverse human values requires value specifications grounded in concrete examples, but generating such examples without extensive human supervision remains an open challenge. We investigate what makes these examples effectiv
arxivJun 3
arXiv:2606.02655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: External regret certifies stability only against replacing one's behavior by a fixed alternative. In a quantum game, this misses a natural physical move: a player can apply a local completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) map to the state it actua
arxivJun 3
arXiv:2606.02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks learn representations where individual features often lack interpretable meaning; a single neuron may activate for scattered, unrelated inputs. We introduce coherence, a geometric property inspired by neural coding in the brain, wh
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2606.00950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised skill discovery (USD) aims to learn diverse behaviors without reward functions, but often results in task-irrelevant or hazardous behaviors due to uniform exploration. Guided skill discovery (GSD) addresses this issue by incorporating huma
arxivJun 2
arXiv:2606.02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation. Reinforcement learning (RL) can be used as a me
arxivJun 1
arXiv:2605.30668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dialogue topic segmentation is critical in many human-AI collaborative applications which requires identifying heterogeneous boundary cues, including lexical transitions near utterance edges and semantic discontinuities across utterances. Existing ut
arxivMay 29
arXiv:2605.14373v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimization is pivotal for scenarios where backpropagation is unavailable, such as memory-constrained on-device learning and black-box optimization. However, existing methods face a stark trade-off: they are either sample-i