Align Your Structures: Generating Trajectories with Structure Pretraining for Molecular Dynamics
arXiv:2604.03911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories using deep generative models has attracted increasing attention, yet remains inherently challenging due to the limited availability of MD data and the complexities involved in modeling high-dimensional MD distributions. To...
GeoBrowse: A Geolocation Benchmark for Agentic Tool Use with Expert-Annotated Reasoning Traces
arXiv:2604.04017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents integrate fragmented evidence through multi-step tool use. BrowseComp offers a text-only testbed for such agents, but existing multimodal benchmarks rarely require both weak visual cues composition and BrowseComp-style multi-hop verification. Geolocation is...
Hume's Representational Conditions for Causal Judgment: What Bayesian Formalization Abstracted Away
arXiv:2604.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hume's account of causal judgment presupposes three representational conditions: experiential grounding (ideas must trace to impressions), structured retrieval (association must operate through organized networks exceeding pairwise connection), and vivacity transfer (inference must produce felt conviction,...
Emergent Inference-Time Semantic Contamination via In-Context Priming
arXiv:2604.04043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has shown that fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on insecure code or culturally loaded numeric codes can induce emergent misalignment, causing models to produce harmful content in unrelated downstream tasks. The authors of...
Extracting and Steering Emotion Representations in Small Language Models: A Methodological Comparison
arXiv:2604.04064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) in the 100M-10B parameter range increasingly power production systems, yet whether they possess the internal emotion representations recently discovered in frontier models remains unknown. We present the first comparative analysis of...
Embedding Enhancement via Fine-Tuned Language Models for Learner-Item Cognitive Modeling
arXiv:2604.04088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learner-item cognitive modeling plays a central role in the web-based online intelligent education system by enabling cognitive diagnosis (CD) across diverse online educational scenarios. Although ID embedding remains the mainstream approach in cognitive modeling due...
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...
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...
MetaSAEs: Joint Training with a Decomposability Penalty Produces More Atomic Sparse Autoencoder Latents
arXiv:2604.03436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used for safety-relevant applications including alignment detection and model steering. These use cases require SAE latents to be as atomic as possible. Each latent should represent a single coherent concept...
Collapse-Free Prototype Readout Layer for Transformer Encoders
arXiv:2604.03850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DDCL-Attention is a prototype-based readout layer for transformer encoders that replaces simple pooling methods, such as mean pooling or class tokens, with a learned compression mechanism. It uses a small set of global prototype vectors...
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...
Simple yet Effective: Low-Rank Spatial Attention for Neural Operators
arXiv:2604.03582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators have emerged as data-driven surrogates for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), and their success hinges on efficiently modeling the long-range, global coupling among spatial points induced by the underlying physics. In many PDE...
CountsDiff: A Diffusion Model on the Natural Numbers for Generation and Imputation of Count-Based Data
arXiv:2604.03779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have excelled at generative tasks for both continuous and token-based domains, but their application to discrete ordinal data remains underdeveloped. We present CountsDiff, a diffusion framework designed to natively model distributions on the...
SODA: Semi On-Policy Black-Box Distillation for Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.03873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box knowledge distillation for large language models presents a strict trade-off. Simple off-policy methods (e.g., sequence-level knowledge distillation) struggle to correct the student's inherent errors. Fully on-policy methods (e.g., Generative Adversarial Distillation) solve this via...
Automated Attention Pattern Discovery at Scale in Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.03764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have found success by scaling up capabilities to work in general settings. The same can unfortunately not be said for interpretability methods. The current trend in mechanistic interpretability is to provide precise...
Text Summarization With Graph Attention Networks
arXiv:2604.03583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study aimed to leverage graph information, particularly Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and Co-reference (Coref) graphs, to enhance the performance of our baseline summarization models. Specifically, we experimented with a Graph Attention Network architecture to...
Where to Steer: Input-Dependent Layer Selection for Steering Improves LLM Alignment
arXiv:2604.03867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering vectors have emerged as a lightweight and effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) at inference time, enabling modulation over model behaviors by shifting LLM representations towards a target behavior. However, existing methods...
Decomposing Communication Gain and Delay Cost Under Cross-Timestep Delays in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2604.03785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication is essential for coordination in \emph{cooperative} multi-agent reinforcement learning under partial observability, yet \emph{cross-timestep} delays cause messages to arrive multiple timesteps after generation, inducing temporal misalignment and making information stale when consumed. We formalize...
Personality Requires Struggle: Three Regimes of the Baldwin Effect in Neuroevolved Chess Agents
arXiv:2604.03565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can lifetime learning expand behavioral diversity over evolutionary time, rather than collapsing it? Prior theory predicts that plasticity reduces variance by buffering organisms against environmental noise. We test this in a competitive domain: chess agents...
Don't Blink: Evidence Collapse during Multimodal Reasoning
arXiv:2604.04207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning VLMs can become more accurate while progressively losing visual grounding as they think. This creates task-conditional danger zones where low-entropy predictions are confident but ungrounded, a failure mode text-only monitoring cannot detect. Evaluating three...
Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline
Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
SKILLFOUNDRY: Building Self-Evolving Agent Skill Libraries from Heterogeneous Scientific Resources
arXiv:2604.03964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern scientific ecosystems are rich in procedural knowledge across repositories, APIs, scripts, notebooks, documentation, databases, and papers, yet much of this knowledge remains fragmented across heterogeneous artifacts that agents cannot readily operationalize. This gap between...
CODE-GEN: A Human-in-the-Loop RAG-Based Agentic AI System for Multiple-Choice Question Generation
arXiv:2604.03926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present CODE-GEN, a human-in-the-Loop, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based agentic AI system for generating context-aligned multiple-choice questions to develop student code reasoning and comprehension abilities. CODE-GEN employs an agentic AI architecture in which a Generator agent...
Understanding When Poisson Log-Normal Models Outperform Penalized Poisson Regression for Microbiome Count Data
arXiv:2604.03853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multivariate count models are often justified by their ability to capture latent dependence, but researchers receive little guidance on when this added structure improves on simpler penalized marginal Poisson regression. We study this question using...
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...
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...
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...
InsTraj: Instructing Diffusion Models with Travel Intentions to Generate Real-world Trajectories
arXiv:2604.04106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The generation of realistic and controllable GPS trajectories is a fundamental task for applications in urban planning, mobility simulation, and privacy-preserving data sharing. However, existing methods face a two-fold challenge: they lack the deep semantic...
Adversarial Robustness of Deep State Space Models for Forecasting
arXiv:2604.03427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-space model (SSM) for time-series forecasting have demonstrated strong empirical performance on benchmark datasets, yet their robustness under adversarial perturbations is poorly understood. We address this gap through a control-theoretic lens, focusing on the recently...