Motivation in Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.14347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivation is a central driver of human behavior, shaping decisions, goals, and task performance. As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly aligned with human preferences, we ask whether they exhibit something akin to motivation. We...
Extending Minimal Pairs with Ordinal Surprisal Curves and Entropy Across Applied Domains
arXiv:2603.14400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The minimal pairs paradigm of comparing model probabilities for contrasting completions has proven useful for evaluating linguistic knowledge in language models, yet its application has largely been confined to binary grammaticality judgments over syntactic phenomena....
Creative Convergence or Imitation? Genre-Specific Homogeneity in LLM-Generated Chinese Literature
arXiv:2603.14430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in narrative generation. However, they often produce structurally homogenized stories, frequently following repetitive arrangements and combinations of plot events along with stereotypical resolutions. In this paper, we...
Echoes Across Centuries: Phonetic Signatures of Persian Poets
arXiv:2603.14443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines phonetic texture in Persian poetry as a literary-historical phenomenon rather than a by-product of meter or a feature used only for classification. The analysis draws on a large corpus of 1,116,306 mesras...
PARSA-Bench: A Comprehensive Persian Audio-Language Model Benchmark
arXiv:2603.14456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persian poses unique audio understanding challenges through its classical poetry, traditional music, and pervasive code-switching - none captured by existing benchmarks. We introduce PARSA-Bench (Persian Audio Reasoning and Speech Assessment Benchmark), the first benchmark for...
RFX-Fuse: Breiman and Cutler's Unified ML Engine + Native Explainable Similarity
arXiv:2603.13234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breiman and Cutler's original Random Forest was designed as a unified ML engine -- not merely an ensemble predictor. Their implementation included classification, regression, unsupervised learning, proximity-based similarity, outlier detection, missing value imputation, and visualization...
Continual Fine-Tuning with Provably Accurate and Parameter-Free Task Retrieval
arXiv:2603.13235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual fine-tuning aims to adapt a pre-trained backbone to new tasks sequentially while preserving performance on earlier tasks whose data are no longer available. Existing approaches fall into two categories which include input- and parameter-adaptation....
Introducing Feature-Based Trajectory Clustering, a clustering algorithm for longitudinal data
arXiv:2603.13254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a new algorithm for clustering longitudinal data. Data of this type can be conceptualized as consisting of individuals and, for each such individual, observations of a time-dependent variable made at various times. Generically,...
Federated Personal Knowledge Graph Completion with Lightweight Large Language Models for Personalized Recommendations
arXiv:2603.13264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized recommendation increasingly relies on private user data, motivating approaches that can adapt to individuals without centralizing their information. We present Federated Targeted Recommendations with Evolving Knowledge graphs and Language Models (FedTREK-LM), a framework that...
CAMEL-CLIP: Channel-aware Multimodal Electroencephalography-text Alignment for Generalizable Brain Foundation Models
arXiv:2603.13272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models have shown promise for learning generalizable representations, yet they remain sensitive to channel heterogeneity, such as changes in channel composition or ordering. We propose channel-aware multimodal EEG-text alignment contrastive language-image pretraining...
Learning from Partial Chain-of-Thought via Truncated-Reasoning Self-Distillation
arXiv:2603.13274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning-oriented language models achieve strong performance by generating long chain-of-thought traces at inference time. However, this capability comes with substantial and often excessive computational cost, which can materialize in redundant or inefficient reasoning. We study...
A Stability-Aware Frozen Euler Autoencoder for Physics-Informed Tracking in Continuum Mechanics (SAFE-PIT-CM)
arXiv:2603.13280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Stability-Aware Frozen Euler autoencoder for Physics-Informed Tracking in Continuum Mechanics (SAFE-PIT-CM) that recovers material parameters and temporal field evolution from videos of physical processes. The architecture is an autoencoder whose latent-space transition...
Do Diffusion Models Dream of Electric Planes? Discrete and Continuous Simulation-Based Inference for Aircraft Design
arXiv:2603.13284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we generate conceptual engineering designs of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. We follow the paradigm of simulation-based inference (SBI), whereby we look to learn a posterior distribution over the full...
FedUAF: Uncertainty-Aware Fusion with Reliability-Guided Aggregation for Multimodal Federated Sentiment Analysis
arXiv:2603.13291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis in federated learning environments faces significant challenges due to missing modalities, heterogeneous data distributions, and unreliable client updates. Existing federated approaches often struggle to maintain robust performance under these practical conditions. In...
ICPRL: Acquiring Physical Intuition from Interactive Control
arXiv:2603.13295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VLMs excel at static perception but falter in interactive reasoning in dynamic physical environments, which demands planning and adaptation to dynamic outcomes. Existing physical reasoning methods often depend on abstract symbolic inputs or lack the...
Modular Neural Computer
arXiv:2603.13323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces the Modular Neural Computer (MNC), a memory-augmented neural architecture for exact algorithmic computation on variable-length inputs. The model combines an external associative memory of scalar cells, explicit read and write heads, a...
Feature-level Interaction Explanations in Multimodal Transformers
arXiv:2603.13326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Transformers often produce predictions without clarifying how different modalities jointly support a decision. Most existing multimodal explainable AI (MXAI) methods extend unimodal saliency to multimodal backbones, highlighting important tokens or patches within each modality,...
LUMINA: Laplacian-Unifying Mechanism for Interpretable Neurodevelopmental Analysis via Quad-Stream GCN
arXiv:2603.13329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI) has now become a classic way for measuring brain activity, and recent trend is shifting toward utilizing fMRI brain data for AI-driven diagnosis. Given that the brain functions as not a...
RBF-Solver: A Multistep Sampler for Diffusion Probabilistic Models via Radial Basis Functions
arXiv:2603.13330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are widely adopted for their outstanding generative fidelity, yet their sampling is computationally demanding. Polynomial-based multistep samplers mitigate this cost by accelerating inference; however, despite their theoretical accuracy guarantees, they generate...
MS2MetGAN: Latent-space adversarial training for metabolite-spectrum matching in MS/MS database search
arXiv:2603.13342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Database search is a widely used approach for identifying metabolites from tandem mass spectra (MS/MS). In this strategy, an experimental spectrum is matched against a user-specified database of candidate metabolites, and candidates are ranked such...
AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance with Real-Time Contextual Data Fusion for Connected Vehicles: A Multi-Dataset Evaluation
arXiv:2603.13343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most vehicle predictive maintenance systems rely exclusively on internal diagnostic signals and are validated on deterministic synthetic data, limiting the credibility of reported metrics. This paper presents a simulation-validated proof-of-concept framework for V2X-augmented predictive maintenance,...
PolyGLU: State-Conditional Activation Routing in Transformer Feed-Forward Networks
arXiv:2603.13347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological neural systems employ diverse neurotransmitters -- glutamate, GABA, dopamine, acetylcholine -- to implement distinct signal-processing modalities within shared neural circuits. In contrast, modern transformers apply a single fixed activation function across all feed-forward neurons....
Thermal Robustness of Retrieval in Dense Associative Memories: LSE vs LSR Kernels
arXiv:2603.13350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding whether retrieval in dense associative memories survives thermal noise is essential for bridging zero-temperature capacity proofs with the finite-temperature conditions of practical inference and biological computation. We use Monte Carlo simulations to map the...
A Hierarchical End-of-Turn Model with Primary Speaker Segmentation for Real-Time Conversational AI
arXiv:2603.13379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a real-time front-end for voice-based conversational AI to enable natural turn-taking in two-speaker scenarios by combining primary speaker segmentation with hierarchical End-of-Turn (EOT) detection. To operate robustly in multi-speaker environments, the system continuously...
Justices will hear argument on Trump administration’s removal of protected status for Syrian and Haitian nationals
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Haitian nationals ask court to deny Trump administration’s request to remove their protected status
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Birthright citizenship: a response to Pete Patterson
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Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM
Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.
Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war
Carr makes evidence-free claim of "hoaxes and news distortions." Trump is thrilled.
Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: security
Nvidia announced an open enterprise AI agent platform, called NemoClaw, that is built off of viral OpenClaw.