When Rubrics Fail: Error Enumeration as Reward in Reference-Free RL Post-Training for Virtual Try-On
arXiv:2603.05659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and Rubrics as Rewards (RaR) have driven strong gains in domains with clear correctness signals and even in subjective domains by synthesizing evaluation criteria from ideal reference answers. But...
The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality
arXiv:2603.05710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of AI in Earth system science promises unprecedented speed and fidelity in the generation of climate information. However, this technological prowess rests on a fragile and unequal foundation: the current trajectory of...
Verify as You Go: An LLM-Powered Browser Extension for Fake News Detection
arXiv:2603.05519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rampant spread of fake news in the digital age poses serious risks to public trust and democratic institutions, underscoring the need for effective, transparent, and user-centered detection tools. Existing browser extensions often fall short...
Attention Meets Reachability: Structural Equivalence and Efficiency in Grammar-Constrained LLM Decoding
arXiv:2603.05540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study grammar-constrained decoding (GCD) as a coupling between an autoregressive next-token distribution and a reachability oracle over a pushdown system compiled from a context-free grammar (CFG). We prove an oracle invariance theorem: language-equivalent grammars...
CodeScout: Contextual Problem Statement Enhancement for Software Agents
arXiv:2603.05744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI-powered code assistance tools often struggle with poorly-defined problem statements that lack sufficient task context and requirements specification. Recent analysis of software engineering agents reveals that failures on such underspecified requests are highly correlated...
NERdME: a Named Entity Recognition Dataset for Indexing Research Artifacts in Code Repositories
arXiv:2603.05750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing scholarly information extraction (SIE) datasets focus on scientific papers and overlook implementation-level details in code repositories. README files describe datasets, source code, and other implementation-level artifacts, however, their free-form Markdown offers little semantic structure,...
RouteGoT: Node-Adaptive Routing for Cost-Efficient Graph of Thoughts Reasoning
arXiv:2603.05818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at multi-step reasoning, yet increasing the structural complexity of inference does not consistently improve system-level returns. Methods such as Tree of Thoughts (ToT), Graph of Thoughts (GoT), and Adaptive Graph...
Lost in Stories: Consistency Bugs in Long Story Generation by LLMs
arXiv:2603.05890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What happens when a storyteller forgets its own story? Large Language Models (LLMs) can now generate narratives spanning tens of thousands of words, but they often fail to maintain consistency throughout. When generating long-form narratives,...
Implicit Style Conditioning: A Structured Style-Rewrite Framework for Low-Resource Character Modeling
arXiv:2603.05933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in role-playing (RP); however, small Language Models (SLMs) with highly stylized personas remains a challenge due to data scarcity and the complexity of style disentanglement. Standard Supervised...
Track-SQL: Enhancing Generative Language Models with Dual-Extractive Modules for Schema and Context Tracking in Multi-turn Text-to-SQL
arXiv:2603.05996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative language models have shown significant potential in single-turn Text-to-SQL. However, their performance does not extend equivalently to multi-turn Text-to-SQL. This is primarily due to generative language models' inadequacy in handling the complexities of context...
Diffusion Language Models Are Natively Length-Aware
arXiv:2603.06123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike autoregressive language models, which terminate variable-length generation upon predicting an End-of-Sequence (EoS) token, Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) operate over a fixed maximum-length context window for a predetermined number of denoising steps. However, this process...
LIT-RAGBench: Benchmarking Generator Capabilities of Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2603.06198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a framework in which a Generator, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), produces answers by retrieving documents from an external collection using a Retriever. In practice, Generators must integrate evidence...
FlashPrefill: Instantaneous Pattern Discovery and Thresholding for Ultra-Fast Long-Context Prefilling
arXiv:2603.06199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context modeling is a pivotal capability for Large Language Models, yet the quadratic complexity of attention remains a critical bottleneck, particularly during the compute-intensive prefilling phase. While various sparse attention mechanisms have been explored, they...
SPOT: Span-level Pause-of-Thought for Efficient and Interpretable Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.06222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explicit Chain-of-Thought improves the reasoning performance of large language models but often incurs high inference cost due to verbose token-level traces. While recent approaches reduce this overhead via concise prompting or step pruning, they largely...
Beyond Rows to Reasoning: Agentic Retrieval for Multimodal Spreadsheet Understanding and Editing
arXiv:2603.06503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze enterprise spreadsheet workbooks containing millions of cells, cross-sheet dependencies, and embedded visual artifacts. However, state-of-the-art approaches exclude critical context through single-pass...
Revisiting the (Sub)Optimality of Best-of-N for Inference-Time Alignment
arXiv:2603.05739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Best-of-N (BoN) sampling is a widely used inference-time alignment method for language models, whereby N candidate responses are sampled from a reference model and the one with the highest predicted reward according to a learned...
Bridging Domains through Subspace-Aware Model Merging
arXiv:2603.05768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging integrates multiple task-specific models into a single consolidated one. Recent research has made progress in improving merging performance for in-distribution or multi-task scenarios, but domain generalization in model merging remains underexplored. We investigate...
Reference-guided Policy Optimization for Molecular Optimization via LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2603.05900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) benefit substantially from supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) in reasoning tasks. However, these recipes perform poorly in instruction-based molecular optimization, where each data point typically provides...
Preventing Learning Stagnation in PPO by Scaling to 1 Million Parallel Environments
arXiv:2603.06009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plateaus, where an agent's performance stagnates at a suboptimal level, are a common problem in deep on-policy RL. Focusing on PPO due to its widespread adoption, we show that plateaus in certain regimes arise not...
Agnostic learning in (almost) optimal time via Gaussian surface area
arXiv:2603.06027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The complexity of learning a concept class under Gaussian marginals in the difficult agnostic model is closely related to its $L_1$-approximability by low-degree polynomials. For any concept class with Gaussian surface area at most $\Gamma$,...
Dynamic Momentum Recalibration in Online Gradient Learning
arXiv:2603.06120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its momentum variants form the backbone of deep learning optimization, yet the underlying dynamics of their gradient behavior remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we reinterpret gradient updates through the...
Partial Policy Gradients for RL in LLMs
arXiv:2603.06138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a framework for learning to act sequentially in an unknown environment. We propose a natural approach for modeling policy structure in policy gradients. The key idea is to optimize for a subset...
OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ again
The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.
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Predictive Policing for Reform? Indeterminacy and Intervention in Big Data Policing
Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence are applied widely across law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Despite criticism that such tools reinforce inequality and structural discrimination, proponents insist that they will nonetheless improve the equality and fairness of outcomes...
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By DAVID A. HOFFMAN & RICK SWEDLOFF. Full Text. Contract boilerplate degrading consumers' litigation options is omnipresent, but a little mysterious. And that's not just because no one reads it. We know that terms mandating arbitration, exculpating liability, requiring individualized...
Big Data�s Disparate Impact
Advocates of algorithmic techniques like data mining argue that these techniques eliminate human biases from the decision-making process. But an algorithm is only as good as the data it works with. Data is frequently imperfect in ways that allow these...