Emergent decentralized regulation in a purely synthetic society
arXiv:2604.06199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous AI agents increasingly inhabit online environments and extensively interact, a key question is whether synthetic collectives exhibit self-regulated social dynamics with neither human intervention nor centralized design. We study OpenClaw agents on Moltbook,...
Blending Human and LLM Expertise to Detect Hallucinations and Omissions in Mental Health Chatbot Responses
arXiv:2604.06216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-powered chatbots are increasingly deployed in mental health services, detecting hallucinations and omissions has become critical for user safety. However, state-of-the-art LLM-as-a-judge methods often fail in high-risk healthcare contexts, where subtle errors can have...
Stochastic Gradient Descent in the Saddle-to-Saddle Regime of Deep Linear Networks
arXiv:2604.06366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep linear networks (DLNs) are used as an analytically tractable model of the training dynamics of deep neural networks. While gradient descent in DLNs is known to exhibit saddle-to-saddle dynamics, the impact of stochastic gradient...
Towards Accurate and Calibrated Classification: Regularizing Cross-Entropy From A Generative Perspective
arXiv:2604.06689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate classification requires not only high predictive accuracy but also well-calibrated confidence estimates. Yet, modern deep neural networks (DNNs) are often overconfident, primarily due to overfitting on the negative log-likelihood (NLL). While focal loss variants...
Toward a universal foundation model for graph-structured data
arXiv:2604.06391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphs are a central representation in biomedical research, capturing molecular interaction networks, gene regulatory circuits, cell--cell communication maps, and knowledge graphs. Despite their importance, currently there is not a broadly reusable foundation model available for...
Temporally Phenotyping GLP-1RA Case Reports with Large Language Models: A Textual Time Series Corpus and Risk Modeling
arXiv:2604.06197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Type 2 diabetes case reports describe complex clinical courses, but their timelines are often expressed in language that is difficult to reuse in longitudinal modeling. To address this gap, we developed a textual time-series corpus...
A Comparative Study of Demonstration Selection for Practical Large Language Models-based Next POI Prediction
arXiv:2604.06207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates demonstration selection strategies for predicting a user's next point-of-interest (POI) using large language models (LLMs), aiming to accurately forecast a user's subsequent location based on historical check-in data. While in-context learning (ICL)...
Same Graph, Different Likelihoods: Calibration of Autoregressive Graph Generators via Permutation-Equivalent Encodings
arXiv:2604.05613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive graph generators define likelihoods via a sequential construction process, but these likelihoods are only meaningful if they are consistent across all linearizations of the same graph. Segmented Eulerian Neighborhood Trails (SENT), a recent linearization...
Enhancing sample efficiency in reinforcement-learning-based flow control: replacing the critic with an adaptive reduced-order model
arXiv:2604.04986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods suffer from poor sample efficiency. To overcome this limitation, this work introduces an adaptive reduced-order-model (ROM)-based reinforcement learning framework for active flow control. In contrast to conventional actor--critic architectures,...
Towards Effective In-context Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer via Domain-invariant-neurons-based Retrieval
arXiv:2604.05383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have made notable progress in logical reasoning, yet still fall short of human-level performance. Current boosting strategies rely on expert-crafted in-domain demonstrations, limiting their applicability in expertise-scarce domains, such as specialized...
Learning to Focus: CSI-Free Hierarchical MARL for Reconfigurable Reflectors
arXiv:2604.05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has a potential to engineer smart radio environments for next-generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. However, the prohibitive computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation and the dimensionality explosion inherent in centralized...
A Theory-guided Weighted $L^2$ Loss for solving the BGK model via Physics-informed neural networks
arXiv:2604.04971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Physics-Informed Neural Networks offer a promising framework for solving partial differential equations, the standard $L^2$ loss formulation is fundamentally insufficient when applied to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model. Specifically, simply minimizing the standard loss does...
EEG-MFTNet: An Enhanced EEGNet Architecture with Multi-Scale Temporal Convolutions and Transformer Fusion for Cross-Session Motor Imagery Decoding
arXiv:2604.05843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct communication between the brain and external devices, providing critical support for individuals with motor impairments. However, accurate motor imagery (MI) decoding from electroencephalography (EEG) remains challenging due to noise and...
Prune-Quantize-Distill: An Ordered Pipeline for Efficient Neural Network Compression
arXiv:2604.04988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deployment often requires trading accuracy for efficiency under tight CPU and memory constraints, yet common compression proxies such as parameter count or FLOPs do not reliably predict wall-clock inference time. In particular, unstructured sparsity...
Inventory of the 12 007 Low-Dimensional Pseudo-Boolean Landscapes Invariant to Rank, Translation, and Rotation
arXiv:2604.05530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many randomized optimization algorithms are rank-invariant, relying solely on the relative ordering of solutions rather than absolute fitness values. We introduce a stronger notion of rank landscape invariance: two problems are equivalent if their ranking,...
k-Maximum Inner Product Attention for Graph Transformers and the Expressive Power of GraphGPS The Expressive Power of GraphGPS
arXiv:2604.03815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph transformers have shown promise in overcoming limitations of traditional graph neural networks, such as oversquashing and difficulties in modelling long-range dependencies. However, their application to large-scale graphs is hindered by the quadratic memory and...
Improving Feasibility via Fast Autoencoder-Based Projections
arXiv:2604.03489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enforcing complex (e.g., nonconvex) operational constraints is a critical challenge in real-world learning and control systems. However, existing methods struggle to efficiently enforce general classes of constraints. To address this, we propose a novel data-driven...
Beauty in the Eye of AI: Aligning LLMs and Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Network Visualization
arXiv:2604.03417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network visualization has traditionally relied on heuristic metrics, such as stress, under the assumption that optimizing them leads to aesthetic and informative layouts. However, no single metric consistently produces the most effective results. A data-driven...
LangFIR: Discovering Sparse Language-Specific Features from Monolingual Data for Language Steering
arXiv:2604.03532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show strong multilingual capabilities, yet reliably controlling the language of their outputs remains difficult. Representation-level steering addresses this by adding language-specific vectors to model activations at inference time, but identifying language-specific...
Neural Global Optimization via Iterative Refinement from Noisy Samples
arXiv:2604.03614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global optimization of black-box functions from noisy samples is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and scientific computing. Traditional methods such as Bayesian Optimization often converge to local minima on multi-modal functions, while gradient-free methods...
Structural Rigidity and the 57-Token Predictive Window: A Physical Framework for Inference-Layer Governability in Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.03524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI safety relies on behavioral monitoring and post-training alignment, yet empirical measurement shows these approaches produce no detectable pre-commitment signal in a majority of instruction-tuned models tested. We present an energy-based governance framework connecting...
When Do Hallucinations Arise? A Graph Perspective on the Evolution of Path Reuse and Path Compression
arXiv:2604.03557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) often appear as fluent yet unsupported conclusions that violate either the given context or underlying factual knowledge. Although such failures are widely observed, the mechanisms by which decoder-only...
Evolutionary Search for Automated Design of Uncertainty Quantification Methods
arXiv:2604.03473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods for large language models are predominantly designed by hand based on domain knowledge and heuristics, limiting their scalability and generality. We apply LLM-powered evolutionary search to automatically discover unsupervised UQ methods...
Spatiotemporal Interpolation of GEDI Biomass with Calibrated Uncertainty
arXiv:2604.03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monitoring deforestation-driven carbon emissions requires both spatially explicit and temporally continuous estimates of aboveground biomass density (AGBD) with calibrated uncertainty. NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) provides reliable LIDAR-derived AGBD, but its orbital sampling causes...
Complex-Valued GNNs for Distributed Basis-Invariant Control of Planar Systems
arXiv:2604.02615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a well-regarded tool for learned control of networked dynamical systems due to their ability to be deployed in a distributed manner. However, current distributed GNN architectures assume that all nodes...
A Numerical Method for Coupling Parameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks and FDM for Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic System Simulation
arXiv:2604.02663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Severe accident analysis using system-level codes such as MELCOR is indispensable for nuclear safety assessment, yet the computational cost of repeated simulations poses a significant bottleneck for parametric studies and uncertainty quantification. Existing surrogate models...
Aligning Progress and Feasibility: A Neuro-Symbolic Dual Memory Framework for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
arXiv:2604.02734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in long-horizon decision-making tasks, such as embodied manipulation and web interaction. However, agents frequently struggle with endless trial-and-error loops or deviate from the main objective in complex...
Trivial Vocabulary Bans Improve LLM Reasoning More Than Deep Linguistic Constraints
arXiv:2604.02699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A previous study reported that E-Prime (English without the verb "to be") selectively altered reasoning in language models, with cross-model correlations suggesting a structural signature tied to which vocabulary was removed. I designed a replication...
OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing
arXiv:2604.02618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizing a large-scale knowledge graph into a typed property graph requires structural decisions -- which entities become nodes, which properties become edges, and what schema governs these choices. Existing approaches embed these decisions in pipeline...
Competency Questions as Executable Plans: a Controlled RAG Architecture for Cultural Heritage Storytelling
arXiv:2604.02545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The preservation of intangible cultural heritage is a critical challenge as collective memory fades over time. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue for generating engaging narratives, their propensity for factual inaccuracies or...