The AI Scientific Community: Agentic Virtual Lab Swarms
arXiv:2603.21344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this short note we propose using agentic swarms of virtual labs as a model of an AI Science Community. In this paradigm, each particle in the swarm represents a complete virtual laboratory instance, enabling...
Multi-RF Fusion with Multi-GNN Blending for Molecular Property Prediction
arXiv:2603.20724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-RF Fusion achieves a test ROC-AUC of 0.8476 +/- 0.0002 on ogbg-molhiv (10 seeds), placing #1 on the OGB leaderboard ahead of HyperFusion (0.8475 +/- 0.0003). The core of the method is a rank-averaged ensemble...
Reasoning Traces Shape Outputs but Models Won't Say So
arXiv:2603.20620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can we trust the reasoning traces that large reasoning models (LRMs) produce? We investigate whether these traces faithfully reflect what drives model outputs, and whether models will honestly report their influence. We introduce Thought Injection,...
Diffutron: A Masked Diffusion Language Model for Turkish Language
arXiv:2603.20466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a compelling non-autoregressive alternative to standard large language models; however, their application to morphologically rich languages remains limited. In this paper, we introduce $\textit{Diffutron}$, a masked diffusion...
Hear Both Sides: Efficient Multi-Agent Debate via Diversity-Aware Message Retention
arXiv:2603.20640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Agent Debate has emerged as a promising framework for improving the reasoning quality of large language models through iterative inter-agent communication. However, broadcasting all agent messages at every round introduces noise and redundancy that can...
Can I guess where you are from? Modeling dialectal morphosyntactic similarities in Brazilian Portuguese
arXiv:2603.20695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates morphosyntactic covariation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) to assess whether dialectal origin can be inferred from the combined behavior of linguistic variables. Focusing on four grammatical phenomena related to pronouns, correlation and clustering...
SozKZ: Training Efficient Small Language Models for Kazakh from Scratch
arXiv:2603.20854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kazakh, a Turkic language spoken by over 22 million people, remains underserved by existing multilingual language models, which allocate minimal capacity to low-resource languages and employ tokenizers ill-suited to agglutinative morphology. We present SozKZ, a...
Mitigating Shortcut Reasoning in Language Models: A Gradient-Aware Training Approach
arXiv:2603.20899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet often rely on shortcuts such as surface pattern matching and answer memorization rather than genuine logical inference. We propose Shortcut-Aware Reasoning Training (SART), a gradient-aware framework that...
Reading Between the Lines: How Electronic Nonverbal Cues shape Emotion Decoding
arXiv:2603.21038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) increasingly structures everyday interaction, a central question re-emerges with new urgency: How do users reconstruct nonverbal expression in environments where embodied cues are absent? This paper provides a systematic, theory-driven...
MARLIN: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Incremental DAG Discovery
arXiv:2603.20295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncovering causal structures from observational data is crucial for understanding complex systems and making informed decisions. While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in identifying these structures in the form of a directed acyclic graph...
Collaborative Adaptive Curriculum for Progressive Knowledge Distillation
arXiv:2603.20296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in collaborative knowledge distillation have demonstrated cutting-edge performance for resource-constrained distributed multimedia learning scenarios. However, achieving such competitiveness requires addressing a fundamental mismatch: high-dimensional teacher knowledge complexity versus heterogeneous client learning capacities, which...
Transformer-Based Predictive Maintenance for Risk-Aware Instrument Calibration
arXiv:2603.20297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate calibration is essential for instruments whose measurements must remain traceable, reliable, and compliant over long operating periods. Fixed-interval programs are easy to administer, but they ignore that instruments drift at different rates under different...
Graph-Aware Text-Only Backdoor Poisoning for Text-Attributed Graphs
arXiv:2603.20339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many learning systems now use graph data in which each node also contains text, such as papers with abstracts or users with posts. Because these texts often come from open platforms, an attacker may be...
CAMA: Exploring Collusive Adversarial Attacks in c-MARL
arXiv:2603.20390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-MARL) has been widely deployed in real-world applications, such as social robots, embodied intelligence, UAV swarms, etc. Nevertheless, many adversarial attacks still exist to threaten various c-MARL systems. At present, the...
Thinking in Different Spaces: Domain-Specific Latent Geometry Survives Cross-Architecture Translation
arXiv:2603.20406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether independently trained language models converge to geometrically compatible latent representations, and whether this compatibility can be exploited to correct model behavior at inference time without any weight updates. We learn a linear...
Data-driven discovery of roughness descriptors for surface characterization and intimate contact modeling of unidirectional composite tapes
arXiv:2603.20418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unidirectional tapes surface roughness determines the evolution of the degree of intimate contact required for ensuring the thermoplastic molecular diffusion and the associated inter-tapes consolidation during manufacturing of composite structures. However, usual characterization of rough...
Does This Gradient Spark Joy?
arXiv:2603.20526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy gradient computes a backward pass for every sample, even though the backward pass is expensive and most samples carry little learning value. The Delightful Policy Gradient (DG) provides a forward-pass signal of learning value:...
RECLAIM: Cyclic Causal Discovery Amid Measurement Noise
arXiv:2603.20585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncovering causal relationships is a fundamental problem across science and engineering. However, most existing causal discovery methods assume acyclicity and direct access to the system variables -- assumptions that fail to hold in many real-world...
MKA: Memory-Keyed Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning
arXiv:2603.20586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As long-context language modeling becomes increasingly important, the cost of maintaining and attending to large Key/Value (KV) caches grows rapidly, becoming a major bottleneck in both training and inference. While prior works such as Multi-Query...
Beyond Token Eviction: Mixed-Dimension Budget Allocation for Efficient KV Cache Compression
arXiv:2603.20616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Key-value (KV) caching is widely used to accelerate transformer inference, but its memory cost grows linearly with input length, limiting long-context deployment. Existing token eviction methods reduce memory by discarding less important tokens, which can...
Centrality-Based Pruning for Efficient Echo State Networks
arXiv:2603.20684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a reservoir computing framework widely used for nonlinear time-series prediction. However, despite their effectiveness, the randomly initialized reservoir often contains redundant nodes, leading to unnecessary computational overhead and reduced efficiency....
Achieving $\widetilde{O}(1/\epsilon)$ Sample Complexity for Bilinear Systems Identification under Bounded Noises
arXiv:2603.20819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies finite-sample set-membership identification for discrete-time bilinear systems under bounded symmetric log-concave disturbances. Compared with existing finite-sample results for linear systems and related analyses under stronger noise assumptions, we consider the more challenging...
As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school
Teens will be sentenced Wednesday after admitting to creating AI CSAM.
Vibe-coding startup Lovable is on the hunt for acquisitions
Lovable's founder said the fast-growing vibe-coding startup is looking for startups and teams to join its company.
Apple sets June date for WWDC 2026, teasing ‘AI advancements’
Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen
Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.
Teaching an Agent to Sketch One Part at a Time
arXiv:2603.19500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a method for producing vector sketches one part at a time. To do this, we train a multi-modal language model-based agent using a novel multi-turn process-reward reinforcement learning following supervised fine-tuning. Our approach...
DuCCAE: A Hybrid Engine for Immersive Conversation via Collaboration, Augmentation, and Evolution
arXiv:2603.19248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Immersive conversational systems in production face a persistent trade-off between responsiveness and long-horizon task capability. Real-time interaction is achievable for lightweight turns, but requests involving planning and tool invocation (e.g., search and media generation) produce...
Hyperagents
arXiv:2603.19461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving AI systems aim to reduce reliance on human engineering by learning to improve their own learning and problem-solving processes. Existing approaches to self-improvement rely on fixed, handcrafted meta-level mechanisms, fundamentally limiting how fast such...