Yor-Sarc: A gold-standard dataset for sarcasm detection in a low-resource African language
arXiv:2602.18964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sarcasm detection poses a fundamental challenge in computational semantics, requiring models to resolve disparities between literal and intended meaning. The challenge is amplified in low-resource languages where annotated datasets are scarce or nonexistent. We present...
Planning under Distribution Shifts with Causal POMDPs
arXiv:2602.23545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the real world, planning is often challenged by distribution shifts. As such, a model of the environment obtained under one set of conditions may no longer remain valid as the distribution of states or...
SleepLM: Natural-Language Intelligence for Human Sleep
arXiv:2602.23605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SleepLM, a family of sleep-language foundation models that enable human sleep alignment, interpretation, and interaction with natural language. Despite the critical role of sleep, learning-based sleep analysis systems operate in closed label spaces...
MMKG-RDS: Reasoning Data Synthesis via Deep Mining of Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2602.23632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing high-quality training data is crucial for enhancing domain models' reasoning abilities. Existing methods face limitations in long-tail knowledge coverage, effectiveness verification, and interpretability. Knowledge-graph-based approaches still fall short in functionality, granularity, customizability, and evaluation....
AI Must Embrace Specialization via Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence
arXiv:2602.23643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Everyone from AI executives and researchers to doomsayers, politicians, and activists is talking about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Yet, they often don't seem to agree on its exact definition. One common definition of AGI is...
Pessimistic Auxiliary Policy for Offline Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2602.23974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning aims to learn an agent from pre-collected datasets, avoiding unsafe and inefficient real-time interaction. However, inevitable access to out-ofdistribution actions during the learning process introduces approximation errors, causing the error accumulation and...
Human or Machine? A Preliminary Turing Test for Speech-to-Speech Interaction
arXiv:2602.24080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pursuit of human-like conversational agents has long been guided by the Turing test. For modern speech-to-speech (S2S) systems, a critical yet unanswered question is whether they can converse like humans. To tackle this, we...
Bi-level RL-Heuristic Optimization for Real-world Winter Road Maintenance
arXiv:2602.24097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Winter road maintenance is critical for ensuring public safety and reducing environmental impacts, yet existing methods struggle to manage large-scale routing problems effectively and mostly reply on human decision. This study presents a novel, scalable...
Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and communication in agents
arXiv:2602.24100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the Artificial Agency Program (AAP), a position and research agenda for building AI systems as reality embedded, resource-bounded agents whose development is driven by curiosity-as-learning-progress under physical and computational constraints. The central...
Recycling Failures: Salvaging Exploration in RLVR via Fine-Grained Off-Policy Guidance
arXiv:2602.24110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of Large Reasoning Models. However, standard outcome-based supervision suffers from a critical limitation that penalizes trajectories that...
Learning Flexible Job Shop Scheduling under Limited Buffers and Material Kitting Constraints
arXiv:2602.24180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) originates from real production lines, while some practical constraints are often ignored or idealized in current FJSP studies, among which the limited buffer problem has a particular impact...
A Minimal Agent for Automated Theorem Proving
arXiv:2602.24273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a minimal agentic baseline that enables systematic comparison across different AI-based theorem prover architectures. This design implements the core features shared among state-of-the-art systems: iterative proof refinement, library search and context management. We...
Let There Be Claws: An Early Social Network Analysis of AI Agents on Moltbook
arXiv:2602.20044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Within twelve days of launch, an AI-native social platform exhibits extreme attention concentration, hierarchical role separation, and one-way attention flow, consistent with the hypothesis that stratification in agent ecosystems can emerge rapidly rather than gradually....
Reason to Contrast: A Cascaded Multimodal Retrieval Framework
arXiv:2602.23369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional multimodal retrieval systems rely primarily on bi-encoder architectures, where performance is closely tied to embedding dimensionality. Recent work, Think-Then-Embed (TTE), shows that incorporating multimodal reasoning to elicit additional informative tokens before embedding can further...
Toward General Semantic Chunking: A Discriminative Framework for Ultra-Long Documents
arXiv:2602.23370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-document topic segmentation plays an important role in information retrieval and document understanding, yet existing methods still show clear shortcomings in ultra-long text settings. Traditional discriminative models are constrained by fixed windows and cannot model...
Hello-Chat: Towards Realistic Social Audio Interactions
arXiv:2602.23387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in speech recognition and translation. However, existing models often suffer from a disconnect between perception and expression, resulting in a robotic "read-speech" style...
Task-Lens: Cross-Task Utility Based Speech Dataset Profiling for Low-Resource Indian Languages
arXiv:2602.23388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rising demand for inclusive speech technologies amplifies the need for multilingual datasets for Natural Language Processing (NLP) research. However, limited awareness of existing task-specific resources in low-resource languages hinders research. This challenge is especially...
Brain-OF: An Omnifunctional Foundation Model for fMRI, EEG and MEG
arXiv:2602.23410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain foundation models have achieved remarkable advances across a wide range of neuroscience tasks. However, most existing models are limited to a single functional modality, restricting their ability to exploit complementary spatiotemporal dynamics and the...
DesignSense: A Human Preference Dataset and Reward Modeling Framework for Graphic Layout Generation
arXiv:2602.23438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphic layouts serve as an important and engaging medium for visual communication across different channels. While recent layout generation models have demonstrated impressive capabilities, they frequently fail to align with nuanced human aesthetic judgment. Existing...
Human Supervision as an Information Bottleneck: A Unified Theory of Error Floors in Human-Guided Learning
arXiv:2602.23446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are trained primarily on human-generated data and feedback, yet they exhibit persistent errors arising from annotation noise, subjective preferences, and the limited expressive bandwidth of natural language. We argue that these limitations...
SALIENT: Frequency-Aware Paired Diffusion for Controllable Long-Tail CT Detection
arXiv:2602.23447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detection of rare lesions in whole-body CT is fundamentally limited by extreme class imbalance and low target-to-volume ratios, producing precision collapse despite high AUROC. Synthetic augmentation with diffusion models offers promise, yet pixel-space diffusion is...
Why Not? Solver-Grounded Certificates for Explainable Mission Planning
arXiv:2603.00469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operators of Earth observation satellites need justifications for scheduling decisions: why a request was selected, rejected, or what changes would make it schedulable. Existing approaches construct post-hoc reasoning layers independent of the optimizer, risking non-causal...
AI Runtime Infrastructure
arXiv:2603.00495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce AI Runtime Infrastructure, a distinct execution-time layer that operates above the model and below the application, actively observing, reasoning over, and intervening in agent behavior to optimize task success, latency, token efficiency, reliability,...
SWE-Hub: A Unified Production System for Scalable, Executable Software Engineering Tasks
arXiv:2603.00575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in software-engineering agents is increasingly constrained by the scarcity of executable, scalable, and realistic data for training and evaluation. This scarcity stems from three fundamental challenges in existing pipelines: environments are brittle and difficult...
MicroVerse: A Preliminary Exploration Toward a Micro-World Simulation
arXiv:2603.00585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have opened new avenues for macroscopic simulation of complex dynamic systems, but their application to microscopic phenomena remains largely unexplored. Microscale simulation holds great promise for biomedical applications such as...
MO-MIX: Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Cooperative Decision-Making With Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.00730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied extensively to solve complex decision-making problems. In many real-world scenarios, tasks often have several conflicting objectives and may require multiple agents to cooperate, which are the multi-objective multi-agent...
The Synthetic Web: Adversarially-Curated Mini-Internets for Diagnosing Epistemic Weaknesses of Language Agents
arXiv:2603.00801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents increasingly act as web-enabled systems that search, browse, and synthesize information from diverse sources. However, these sources can include unreliable or adversarial content, and the robustness of agents to adversarial ranking - where...
MetaMind: General and Cognitive World Models in Multi-Agent Systems by Meta-Theory of Mind
arXiv:2603.00808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A major challenge for world models in multi-agent systems is to understand interdependent agent dynamics, predict interactive multi-agent trajectories, and plan over long horizons with collective awareness, without centralized supervision or explicit communication. In this...
Tracking Capabilities for Safer Agents
arXiv:2603.00991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents that interact with the real world through tool calls pose fundamental safety challenges: agents might leak private information, cause unintended side effects, or be manipulated through prompt injection. To address these challenges, we...
MMCOMET: A Large-Scale Multimodal Commonsense Knowledge Graph for Contextual Reasoning
arXiv:2603.01055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present MMCOMET, the first multimodal commonsense knowledge graph (MMKG) that integrates physical, social, and eventive knowledge. MMCOMET extends the ATOMIC2020 knowledge graph to include a visual dimension, through an efficient image retrieval process, resulting...