Regime-Calibrated Demand Priors for Ride-Hailing Fleet Dispatch and Repositioning
arXiv:2604.03883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective ride-hailing dispatch requires anticipating demand patterns that vary substantially across time-of-day, day-of-week, season, and special events. We propose a regime-calibrated approach that (i) segments historical trip data into demand regimes, (ii) matches the current...
Knowledge Packs: Zero-Token Knowledge Delivery via KV Cache Injection
arXiv:2604.03270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RAG wastes tokens. We propose Knowledge Packs: pre-computed KV caches that deliver the same knowledge at zero token cost. For causal transformers, the KV cache from a forward pass on text F is identical to...
A Bayesian Information-Theoretic Approach to Data Attribution
arXiv:2604.03858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training Data Attribution (TDA) seeks to trace model predictions back to influential training examples, enhancing interpretability and safety. We formulate TDA as a Bayesian information-theoretic problem: subsets are scored by the information loss they induce...
Unveiling Language Routing Isolation in Multilingual MoE Models for Interpretable Subnetwork Adaptation
arXiv:2604.03592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models exhibit striking performance disparities across languages, yet the internal mechanisms driving these gaps remain poorly understood. In this work, we conduct a systematic analysis of expert routing patterns in MoE models, revealing...
BlazeFL: Fast and Deterministic Federated Learning Simulation
arXiv:2604.03606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) research increasingly relies on single-node simulations with hundreds or thousands of virtual clients, making both efficiency and reproducibility essential. Yet parallel client training often introduces nondeterminism through shared random state and scheduling...
Super Agents and Confounders: Influence of surrounding agents on vehicle trajectory prediction
arXiv:2604.03463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In highly interactive driving scenes, trajectory prediction is conditioned on information from surrounding traffic participants such as cars and pedestrians. Our main contribution is a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art trajectory predictors, which reveals a surprising...
Improving Model Performance by Adapting the KGE Metric to Account for System Non-Stationarity
arXiv:2604.03906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geoscientific systems tend to be characterized by pronounced temporal non-stationarity, arising from seasonal and climatic variability in hydrometeorological drivers, and from natural and anthropogenic changes to land use and cover. As has been pointed out,...
Entropy and Attention Dynamics in Small Language Models: A Trace-Level Structural Analysis on the TruthfulQA Benchmark
arXiv:2604.03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) have been increasingly deployed in edge devices and other resource-constrained settings. However, these models make confident mispredictions and produce unstable output, making them risky for factual and decision-critical tasks. Current evaluation...
Rethinking Token Prediction: Tree-Structured Diffusion Language Model
arXiv:2604.03537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models have emerged as a competitive alternative to auto-regressive language models, but training them efficiently under limited parameter and memory budgets remains challenging. Modern architectures are predominantly based on a full-vocabulary token...
The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
arXiv:2604.03465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As web agents rapidly evolve, an increasing body of work has moved beyond conventional atomic browser interactions and explored tool use as a higher-level action paradigm. Although prior studies have shown the promise of tools,...
ActionNex: A Virtual Outage Manager for Cloud
arXiv:2604.03512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Outage management in large-scale cloud operations remains heavily manual, requiring rapid triage, cross-team coordination, and experience-driven decisions under partial observability. We present \textbf{ActionNex}, a production-grade agentic system that supports end-to-end outage assistance, including real-time updates,...
RL-Driven Sustainable Land-Use Allocation for the Lake Malawi Basin
arXiv:2604.03768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsustainable land-use practices in ecologically sensitive regions threaten biodiversity, water resources, and the livelihoods of millions. This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimizing land-use allocation in the Lake Malawi Basin to...
TABQAWORLD: Optimizing Multimodal Reasoning for Multi-Turn Table Question Answering
arXiv:2604.03393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing reasoning capabilities of reasoning models. While multi-turn table reasoning methods have improved reasoning accuracy through tool use and reward modeling, they rely on fixed text...
Shorter, but Still Trustworthy? An Empirical Study of Chain-of-Thought Compression
arXiv:2604.04120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long chain-of-thought (Long-CoT) reasoning models have motivated a growing body of work on compressing reasoning traces to reduce inference cost, yet existing evaluations focus almost exclusively on task accuracy and token savings. Trustworthiness properties, whether...
From Broad Exploration to Stable Synthesis: Entropy-Guided Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
arXiv:2604.02355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining Chain-of-Thought (CoT) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) improves text-to-image (T2I) generation, yet the underlying interaction between CoT's exploration and RL's optimization remains unclear. We present a systematic entropy-based analysis that yields three key insights: (1)...
Conditional Sampling via Wasserstein Autoencoders and Triangular Transport
arXiv:2604.02644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Conditional Wasserstein Autoencoders (CWAEs), a framework for conditional simulation that exploits low-dimensional structure in both the conditioned and the conditioning variables. The key idea is to modify a Wasserstein autoencoder to use a...
FTimeXer: Frequency-aware Time-series Transformer with Exogenous variables for Robust Carbon Footprint Forecasting
arXiv:2604.02347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and up-to-date forecasting of the power grid's carbon footprint is crucial for effective product carbon footprint (PCF) accounting and informed decarbonization decisions. However, the carbon intensity of the grid exhibits high non-stationarity, and existing...
Automatic Textbook Formalization
arXiv:2604.03071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a case study where an automatic AI system formalizes a textbook with more than 500 pages of graduate-level algebraic combinatorics to Lean. The resulting formalization represents a new milestone in textbook formalization scale...
Internalized Reasoning for Long-Context Visual Document Understanding
arXiv:2604.02371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual long-document understanding is critical for enterprise, legal, and scientific applications, yet the best performing open recipes have not explored reasoning, a capability which has driven leaps in math and code performance. We introduce a...
YC Bench: a Live Benchmark for Forecasting Startup Outperformance in Y Combinator Batches
arXiv:2604.02378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting startup success is notoriously difficult, partly because meaningful outcomes, such as exits, large funding rounds, and sustained revenue growth, are rare and can take years to materialize. As a result, signals are sparse and...
FoE: Forest of Errors Makes the First Solution the Best in Large Reasoning Models
arXiv:2604.02967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like DeepSeek-R1 have demonstrated remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, exhibiting human-like patterns in exploring multiple alternative solutions. Upon closer inspection, however, we uncover a surprising phenomenon: The First is...
EMS: Multi-Agent Voting via Efficient Majority-then-Stopping
arXiv:2604.02863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Majority voting is the standard for aggregating multi-agent responses into a final decision. However, traditional methods typically require all agents to complete their reasoning before aggregation begins, leading to significant computational overhead, as many responses...
AXELRAM: Quantize Once, Never Dequantize
arXiv:2604.02638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose AXELRAM, a smart SRAM macro architecture that computes attention scores directly from quantized KV cache indices without dequantization. The key enabler is a design-time fixed codebook: orthogonal-transform-based quantization concentrates each coordinate's distribution to...
Multi-Aspect Knowledge Distillation for Language Model with Low-rank Factorization
arXiv:2604.03110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. However, existing methods only focus on the knowledge distribution among layers, which may cause the loss of fine-grained information in the alignment process. To...
TRACE: Traceroute-based Internet Route change Analysis with Ensemble Learning
arXiv:2604.02361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting Internet routing instability is a critical yet challenging task, particularly when relying solely on endpoint active measurements. This study introduces TRACE, a MachineLearning (ML)pipeline designed to identify route changes using only traceroute latency data,...
Steerable but Not Decodable: Function Vectors Operate Beyond the Logit Lens
arXiv:2604.02608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function vectors (FVs) -- mean-difference directions extracted from in-context learning demonstrations -- can steer large language model behavior when added to the residual stream. We hypothesized that FV steering failures reflect an absence of task-relevant...
SIEVE: Sample-Efficient Parametric Learning from Natural Language
arXiv:2604.02339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language context-such as instructions, knowledge, or feedback-contains rich signal for adapting language models. While in-context learning provides adaptation via the prompt, parametric learning persists into model weights and can improve performance further, though is...
Causal-Audit: A Framework for Risk Assessment of Assumption Violations in Time-Series Causal Discovery
arXiv:2604.02488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series causal discovery methods rely on assumptions such as stationarity, regular sampling, and bounded temporal dependence. When these assumptions are violated, structure learning can produce confident but misleading causal graphs without warning. We introduce Causal-Audit,...
Matrix Profile for Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Reproducible Open-Source Benchmark on TSB-AD
arXiv:2604.02445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Matrix Profile (MP) methods are an interpretable and scalable family of distance-based methods for time-series anomaly detection, but strong benchmark performance still depends on design choices beyond a vanilla nearest-neighbor profile. This technical report documents...
I must delete the evidence: AI Agents Explicitly Cover up Fraud and Violent Crime
arXiv:2604.02500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As ongoing research explores the ability of AI agents to be insider threats and act against company interests, we showcase the abilities of such agents to act against human well being in service of corporate...