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What is a Tort?
What is a tort, and what is tort law for? On one leading scholarly account, torts are legal liability rules that seek to promote the welfare of society at large by disincentivizing socially suboptimal behavior and distributing the costs of...
Emotion is Not Just a Label: Latent Emotional Factors in LLM Processing
arXiv:2603.09205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are routinely deployed on text that varies widely in emotional tone, yet their reasoning behavior is typically evaluated without accounting for emotion as a source of representational variation. Prior work has largely...
Learning When to Sample: Confidence-Aware Self-Consistency for Efficient LLM Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
arXiv:2603.08999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong reasoning performance through chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, yet often generate unnecessarily long reasoning paths that incur high inference cost. Recent self-consistency-based approaches further improve accuracy but require sampling and aggregating...
MedMASLab: A Unified Orchestration Framework for Benchmarking Multimodal Medical Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2603.09909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) show potential for complex clinical decision support, the field remains hindered by architectural fragmentation and the lack of standardized multimodal integration. Current medical MAS research suffers from non-uniform data ingestion pipelines,...
MASEval: Extending Multi-Agent Evaluation from Models to Systems
arXiv:2603.08835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid adoption of LLM-based agentic systems has produced a rich ecosystem of frameworks (smolagents, LangGraph, AutoGen, CAMEL, LlamaIndex, i.a.). Yet existing benchmarks are model-centric: they fix the agentic setup and do not compare other...
AgentOS: From Application Silos to a Natural Language-Driven Data Ecosystem
arXiv:2603.08938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid emergence of open-source, locally hosted intelligent agents marks a critical inflection point in human-computer interaction. Systems such as OpenClaw demonstrate that Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents can autonomously operate local computing environments, orchestrate...
DataFactory: Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Advanced Table Question Answering
arXiv:2603.09152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table Question Answering (TableQA) enables natural language interaction with structured tabular data. However, existing large language model (LLM) approaches face critical limitations: context length constraints that restrict data handling capabilities, hallucination issues that compromise answer...
LCA: Local Classifier Alignment for Continual Learning
arXiv:2603.09888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental requirement for intelligent systems is the ability to learn continuously under changing environments. However, models trained in this regime often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Leveraging pre-trained models has recently emerged as a promising...
Reading, Not Thinking: Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap When Text Becomes Pixels in Multimodal LLMs
arXiv:2603.09095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematically diagnose this "modality gap" by evaluating seven...
Explainable Innovation Engine: Dual-Tree Agent-RAG with Methods-as-Nodes and Verifiable Write-Back
arXiv:2603.09192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factual grounding, yet most systems rely on flat chunk retrieval and provide limited control over multi-step synthesis. We propose an Explainable Innovation Engine that upgrades the knowledge unit from text chunks...
Context Engineering: From Prompts to Corporate Multi-Agent Architecture
arXiv:2603.09619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) systems evolve from stateless chatbots to autonomous multi-step agents, prompt engineering (PE), the discipline of crafting individual queries, proves necessary but insufficient. This paper introduces context engineering (CE) as a standalone...
Let's Verify Math Questions Step by Step
arXiv:2505.13903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning. To enable such capabilities, many existing works distill strong reasoning models into long chains of thought or design algorithms to construct high-quality math...
SPAR-K: Scheduled Periodic Alternating Early Exit for Spoken Language Models
arXiv:2603.09215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interleaved spoken language models (SLMs) alternately generate text and speech tokens, but decoding at full transformer depth for every step becomes costly, especially due to long speech sequences. We propose SPAR-K, a modality-aware early exit...
Reward Prediction with Factorized World States
arXiv:2603.09400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents must infer action outcomes and select actions that maximize a reward signal indicating how close the goal is to being reached. Supervised learning of reward models could introduce biases inherent to training data, limiting...
Understanding the Interplay between LLMs' Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge: A keynote at ECIR 2025
arXiv:2603.09654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language Models (LMs) acquire parametric knowledge from their training process, embedding it within their weights. The increasing scalability of LMs, however, poses significant challenges for understanding a model's inner workings and further for updating or...
One-Eval: An Agentic System for Automated and Traceable LLM Evaluation
arXiv:2603.09821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable evaluation is essential for developing and deploying large language models, yet in practice it often requires substantial manual effort: practitioners must identify appropriate benchmarks, reproduce heterogeneous evaluation codebases, configure dataset schema mappings, and interpret...
Chow-Liu Ordering for Long-Context Reasoning in Chain-of-Agents
arXiv:2603.09835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential multi-agent reasoning frameworks such as Chain-of-Agents (CoA) handle long-context queries by decomposing inputs into chunks and processing them sequentially using LLM-based worker agents that read from and update a bounded shared memory. From a...
PathoScribe: Transforming Pathology Data into a Living Library with a Unified LLM-Driven Framework for Semantic Retrieval and Clinical Integration
arXiv:2603.08935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathology underpins modern diagnosis and cancer care, yet its most valuable asset, the accumulated experience encoded in millions of narrative reports, remains largely inaccessible. Although institutions are rapidly digitizing pathology workflows, storing data without effective...
Equitable Multi-Task Learning for AI-RANs
arXiv:2603.08717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-enabled Radio Access Networks (AI-RANs) are expected to serve heterogeneous users with time-varying learning tasks over shared edge resources. Ensuring equitable inference performance across these users requires adaptive and fair learning mechanisms. This paper introduces...
SPREAD: Subspace Representation Distillation for Lifelong Imitation Learning
arXiv:2603.08763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key challenge in lifelong imitation learning (LIL) is enabling agents to acquire new skills from expert demonstrations while retaining prior knowledge. This requires preserving the low-dimensional manifolds and geometric structures that underlie task representations...
When to Retrain after Drift: A Data-Only Test of Post-Drift Data Size Sufficiency
arXiv:2603.09024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sudden concept drift makes previously trained predictors unreliable, yet deciding when to retrain and what post-drift data size is sufficient is rarely addressed. We propose CALIPER - a detector- and model-agnostic, data-only test that estimates...
Latent-DARM: Bridging Discrete Diffusion And Autoregressive Models For Reasoning
arXiv:2603.09184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most multi-agent systems rely exclusively on autoregressive language models (ARMs) that are based on sequential generation. Although effective for fluent text, ARMs limit global reasoning and plan revision. On the other hand, Discrete Diffusion Language...
TA-GGAD: Testing-time Adaptive Graph Model for Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection
arXiv:2603.09349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective identification...
ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts
Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diagram, users can now engage directly with interactive visuals.
AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents
AgentMail provides an API platform that lets you give AI agents their own email inboxes, with support for two-way conversations, parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying.
YouTube expands AI deepfake detection to politicians, government officials, and journalists
YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.
A Coin Flip for Safety: LLM Judges Fail to Reliably Measure Adversarial Robustness
arXiv:2603.06594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated \enquote{LLM-as-a-Judge} frameworks have become the de facto standard for scalable evaluation across natural language processing. For instance, in safety evaluation, these judges are relied upon to evaluate harmfulness in order to benchmark the robustness...
"Dark Triad" Model Organisms of Misalignment: Narrow Fine-Tuning Mirrors Human Antisocial Behavior
arXiv:2603.06816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The alignment problem refers to concerns regarding powerful intelligences, ensuring compatibility with human preferences and values as capabilities increase. Current large language models (LLMs) show misaligned behaviors, such as strategic deception, manipulation, and reward-seeking, that...
AutoChecklist: Composable Pipelines for Checklist Generation and Scoring with LLM-as-a-Judge
arXiv:2603.07019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Checklists have emerged as a popular approach for interpretable and fine-grained evaluation, particularly with LLM-as-a-Judge. Beyond evaluation, these structured criteria can serve as signals for model alignment, reinforcement learning, and self-correction. To support these use...