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arXiv:2607.01400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep multimodal brain-encoding models now predict fMRI responses to naturalistic video with high accuracy. Whether their predicted neural signals also forecast behavioral engagement is unknown. We run TRIBE, the winning model of the 2025 Algonauts brain-encoding challenge (Llama-3.2 + V-JEPA2 + Wav2Vec-BERT), on 48 YouTube videos and reduce its predicted cortical response to a per-second engagement curve, the global field power. Correlated agains

arXiv:2607.01410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sim2real transfer for robot policy learning suffers due to mismatch between simulation and reality. Existing methods typically address each gap in isolation through separate adaptation modules, which are composed or layered when both gaps coexist. Yet the basis for attempting sim2real in the first place is that there is shared structure between a task in simulation and reality, where equivalent actions from equivalent configurations produce equiv

arXiv:2607.01445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malware poses a critical and ever-evolving threat, and robust and effective systems for detecting and classifying malware are of essential importance. $n$-grams features are among the common static features used in effective machine learning systems for malware, but these features are inherently brittle. We propose an algorithm for constructing more robust features, hamm-grams, which are a special class of regular expressions having a fixed lengt

arXiv:2607.01478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We measured quantization-induced decision-boundary changes using local logit-margin radii, first-order boundary displacement, normal variation, slice-boundary Jaccard distance, grid prediction changes, multiclass junction counts, and low-margin boundary-band flips. On the digits benchmark, 8-bit weight quantization preserved all test labels while producing boundary-mask Jaccard \(0.428\) on the PCA slice; at 4 bits, accuracy remained \(0.9733\),

arXiv:2607.01525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This monograph provides an introduction to mean field reinforcement learning through the lens of Markov decision processes arising from large-population stochastic control with mean field interactions and common noise. Starting from the connection between multi-agent reinforcement learning and mean field control, it develops the probabilistic, mathematical, and control-theoretic framework needed to formulate representative-agent learning problems

arXiv:2607.01539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies whether the Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer (MMAO) can act as a credible outer-loop optimizer for classification model selection. We propose MMAO-Cls, a mixed-space realization in which each agent jointly encodes a binary feature mask and classifier hyperparameters, while private energy, communal budget, role drift, and lifecycle turnover are mapped to the accuracy-complexity tradeoff of wrapper learning. The implementation is

arXiv:2607.01731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study provides a theoretical expansion of the recent Data Relativistic Uncertainty (DRU) framework by formalizing a physics-to-AI paradigm for image enhancement. By modeling images as probabilistic wave functions rather than deterministic states, the paradigm explicitly integrates wave-particle duality to illustrate the system flow of how DRU leverages the intrinsic physical uncertainty of light, a dimension requiring further theoretical dis

arXiv:2607.01831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context inference is increasingly common in large language model (LLM) serving, driven by retrieval-augmented generation and agentic systems. In disaggregated inference, these workloads require transferring large Key-Value (KV) caches across the network, where decoding cannot begin until the transfer completes. Recent KV quantization techniques reduce data volume and alleviate this bottleneck, but existing schemes fail to achieve both low ne

arXiv:2607.01902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are essential in semantic segmentation, especially in safety-critical settings where overconfident errors can mislead downstream decisions. Yet modern segmentation models often remain miscalibrated. Post-hoc calibration offers a practical way to correct confidence estimates without retraining the segmentation model, but its use in dense prediction raises structural issues that are often overlooked. We study two such

arXiv:2607.02510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite alignment training, LLMs remain prone to generating unsafe outputs at deployment time. Monitoring outputs online and raising an alarm when safety can no longer be assumed is therefore critical. We study a simple real-time monitor that turns a verifier signal from an external model into an alarm decision by thresholding, with the threshold calibrated via risk control. In experiments on mathematical reasoning and red teaming datasets, we sh

arXiv:2607.02512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly outsourced to large language model APIs at the cost of locality, reproducibility, and price. We propose fuzzy-function programming: compiling such a function from a natural-language specification into a compact, locally-executable neural artifact. We in

arXiv:2311.17633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers have dominated empirical machine learning models of natural language processing. In this paper, we introduce basic concepts of Transformers and present key techniques that form the recent advances of these models. This includes a description of the standard Transformer architecture, a series of model refinements, and common applications. Given that Transformers and related deep learning techniques might be evolving in ways we have

arXiv:2504.02327v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) aims to translate natural language queries into executable SQL statements, offering non-expert users intuitive access to databases. While recent approaches leveraging large-scale private LLMs such as GPT-4 have achieved state-of-the-art results, they face two critical challenges: the lack of openness and reproducibility, and the prohibitive computational cost of test-time scaling. To address these issues, we exp

arXiv:2504.12317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific language is a central infrastructure of knowledge production, but it remains unclear whether large language models (LLMs) are altering not only how scientists write, but also how scientific knowledge is communicated and accessed. Here we analyze 21.36 million scientific abstracts published between 2020 and 2024, together with historical records from major journals, to trace recent changes in the language of science. We identify a mar

arXiv:2507.02964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing scale of AI workloads demands High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and training methodologies that are both scalable and sustainable. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional natural language capabilities, general-purpose models often lack the specialized domain knowledge necessary for effective cybersecurity analysis. We investigate Domain-Adaptive Continuous Pretraining (DAP) as a scalable, resource

arXiv:2510.04484v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to control LLMs' emulated emotional states and personality traits is an essential step in enabling rich, human-centered interactions in socially interactive settings. We introduce PsySET, a Psychologically-informed benchmark to evaluate LLM Steering Effectiveness and Trustworthiness across the emotion and personality domains. Our study spans four models from different LLM families paired with various steering strategies, including p

arXiv:2510.09517v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), statistical reasoning remains underrepresented in existing LLM benchmarks, which often do not reflect the layered, proof-driven nature of real statistical practice. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{StatEval}, the first large-scale benchmark for statistical reasoning across curricular and research-level settings. StatEval includes over 100,000 curated problems, with 20,000+ foundat

arXiv:2510.17426v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The "alignment tax" of post-training is typically framed as a drop in task accuracy. We show it also involves a severe loss of calibration, making models overconfident, less reliable, and model outputs less diverse. We show that this trade-off can be navigated effectively via a simple post-hoc intervention: interpolating between a model's weights before and after alignment. Crucially, this is not a strict trade-off. We find that the process con

arXiv:2510.20091v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence. While large language models(LLMs) are increasingly perceived as generating creative text, there is still no cross-domain and scalable framework to evaluate their creativity across diverse scenarios. Existing methods of LLM creativity evaluation either heavily rely on humans, limiting speed and scalability, or are fragmented across different domains and different definitions of creati

arXiv:2510.25741v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern LLMs are trained to "think" primarily via explicit text generation, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), which defers reasoning to post-training and under-leverages pre-training data. We present and open-source Ouro, named after the recursive Ouroboros, a family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space, (ii) an entropy-regularized

arXiv:2512.22227v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate whether graded states of mind form spectrum-like structure in transformer representation spaces. To do so, we construct a dataset of 636 short natural-language sentences annotated with both a continuous score from $-5$ to $5$ and one of seven ordered tiers, ranging from collapsed or scarcity-driven expressions to more coherent, reflective, and integrative ones. We evaluate five frozen transformer representations: four sentence-em

arXiv:2601.15588v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, safety guardrails are required to go beyond coarse-grained filtering and support fine-grained, interpretable, and adaptable risk assessment. However, existing solutions often rely on rapid classification schemes or post-hoc rules, resulting in limited transparency, inflexible policies, or prohibitive inference costs. To this end, we present YuFeng-XGuard, a re

arXiv:2602.19127v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of agent-based methods in recent years, Agentic RAG has undoubtedly become an important research direction. Multi-hop reasoning, which requires models to engage in deliberate thinking and multi-step interaction, serves as a critical testbed for assessing such capabilities. However, existing benchmarks typically provide only final questions and answers, while lacking the intermediate hop-level questions that gradually

arXiv:2604.02091v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rerankers play a pivotal role in refining retrieval results for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. However, current reranking models are typically optimized on static human annotated relevance labels in isolation, decoupled from the downstream generation process. This isolation leads to a fundamental misalignment: documents identified as topically relevant by information retrieval metrics often fail to provide the actual utility required by the LL

arXiv:2604.04532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluation language is typically treated as a fixed English default in agentic code benchmarks, yet we show that changing the judge's language can invert backbone rankings. We localize the Agent-as-a-Judge prompt stack to five typologically diverse languages (English, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Hindi) and evaluate 55 DevAI development tasks across three developer-agent frameworks and six judge backbones, totaling 4950 judge runs. The central fin

arXiv:2605.22487v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Multilingual Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced cross-lingual conversational capabilities, yet modeling culturally nuanced and context-dependent communication remains a critical bottleneck. Specifically, existing state-of-the-art models exhibit a severe pragmatic gap when handling structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies in low-resource contexts like Bangla. To address this li

arXiv:2605.24956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard next-token prediction (NTP) supervises language models solely through discrete labels in the output logit space. We argue that this sparse one-hot supervision leaves the latent representation space under-constrained, allowing hidden states to drift into degenerate and anisotropic configurations that can limit generalization. To address this issue, we propose Next Implicit Token Prediction (NITP), which augments discrete prediction with

arXiv:2605.30295v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in structured, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited. Existing benchmarks often rely on static datasets or unstructured inputs that do not reflect the interoperable data formats used in clinical systems. We introduce a reusable pipeline for generating terminology-grounded HL7 FHIR R4 bundles from unstructured text, enablin

arXiv:2607.02376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in agentic AI are producing increasingly complex autonomous systems that integrate large language models, world models, optimization engines, specialized neural architectures, autonomous platforms, and human operators. While much current research focuses on improving reasoning capabilities, safety-critical real-time deployment also requires bounded and verifiable coordination among heterogeneous components operating concurrently und

arXiv:2607.02389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are capable; human oversight is the bottleneck. Unconstrained agents introduce security risks, erode codebase scalability, and make human review increasingly costly. We argue that the same methods used for decades to manage large human engineering teams: access control, network policies, strict coding conventions enforced by tooling; transfer directly to coding agents, and are cheaper (in token) than recent agentic scaffolding. We ske

arXiv:2607.02396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering and monitoring activations in Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for both safety and interpretability. Early work assumed behaviours are encoded along single linear directions, but recent findings suggest complex behaviours, such as the refusal to answer harmful queries, live in multi-dimensional subspaces. However, existing methods for extracting these subspaces are computationally expensive, which becomes prohibitive on r

arXiv:2607.02407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in 3D indoor synthesis for Manhattan environments. However, existing methods often fail to capture plausible object layout patterns in non-Manhattan settings, primarily because they struggle to model non-orthogonal spatial relationships, leading to high geometric violations and low physical fidelity. To address this challenge, we propose SPG-Layout, a novel text-driven framework

arXiv:2607.02491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we focus on SE-RRMs, a symbol-equivariant instantiation of RRMs that exhibits improved extrapolation to larger problem sizes. We propose a neuro-symbolic approach, ``Guiding with Recurrent Reasoning Models'' (G-RRM), which integrates SE-RRMs with symbolic solvers for constraint satisfaction problems. SE-RRMs act as neural solvers that generate full solution proposals and guide classical symbolic solvers, such as backtracking or SAT-ba

arXiv:2607.02509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context windows, they often fail to use relevant evidence that is already present in the input, revealing a gap between context access and effective context utilization. In this work, we propose Recursive Evidence Replay as LLM Harness for Long-Context Reason

arXiv:2607.02514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a misaligned or prompt-injected agent can distribute attacks across pull requests (PRs) and time its payload for the PR with the best natural cover. To study the resulting dynamics, we introduce Iterative VibeCoding, a setting for AI control, the study of safely deploying c

arXiv:2607.01247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended mathematics exams are valuable because they assess reasoning, proof construction, algorithmic thinking, and communication of intermediate steps. They are also difficult to grade at scale because instructors must apply partial-credit rubrics consistently while giving feedback that helps students repair misconceptions. This paper evaluates six contemporary large language model (LLM) configurations, Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended, Gemini 3.5 Fla

arXiv:2607.01248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for knowledge acquisition, code generation, academic writing, and agent-based automation. In these settings, users may obtain highly structured answers, plans, and judgments without sufficient domain practice. This paper proposes a practice auditing framework for LLM use and AI-generated content governance. It introduces collective empiricism to describe how LLMs compress and reorganize large-scale huma

arXiv:2607.01251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Debate, where AI agents argue opposing positions, has emerged as a key approach to scalable oversight. However, debate faces a fundamental tension: models are incentivized to be persuasive to the judge, which may not always align with epistemic honesty. In this work, we propose an alternative paradigm: disagreement resolution, which reframes the interaction mechanism from adversarial debate to collaborative truth seeking. Drawing on principles fr

arXiv:2607.01252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Dermatology AI has mainly focused on image-based diagnosis, while chronic disease workflows have received less attention. We surveyed Indian dermatologists to map routine clinical challenges, with a focus on atopic dermatitis (AD), and assess current AI use. Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional survey commissioned by the Society for Eczema Studies included 377 practicing Indian dermatologists. The survey assessed clinical challenges,

arXiv:2607.01255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universities have responded to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in noticeably different ways, both internationally and within Spain. So far, the dominant reaction has been defensive, this is, most institutions frame the debate around AI detection, plagiarism, academic integrity and a presumed drop in student effort, prioritizing basic training for academic staff over students. Other group of pioneering universities is doing the opposite