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,...
CRoCoDiL: Continuous and Robust Conditioned Diffusion for Language
arXiv:2603.20210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) provide an efficient non-causal alternative to autoregressive generation but often struggle with token dependencies and semantic incoherence due to their reliance on discrete marginal distributions. We address these limitations by shifting...
Domain-Specialized Tree of Thought through Plug-and-Play Predictors
arXiv:2603.20267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced complex reasoning, prominent methods like the Tree of Thoughts (ToT) framework face a critical trade-off between exploration depth and computational efficiency. Existing ToT implementations often rely on heavyweight...
Deep reflective reasoning in interdependence constrained structured data extraction from clinical notes for digital health
arXiv:2603.20435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting structured information from clinical notes requires navigating a dense web of interdependent variables where the value of one attribute logically constrains others. Existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based extraction pipelines often struggle to capture these...
Locally Coherent Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2603.20216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) models, offering sub-linear generation latency and bidirectional capabilities that are particularly appealing for code generation and editing. Achieving sub-linear latency in discrete...
Children's Intelligence Tests Pose Challenges for MLLMs? KidGym: A 2D Grid-Based Reasoning Benchmark for MLLMs
arXiv:2603.20209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) combine the linguistic strengths of LLMs with the ability to process multimodal data, enbaling them to address a broader range of visual tasks. Because MLLMs aim at more general, human-like...
Improving Coherence and Persistence in Agentic AI for System Optimization
arXiv:2603.21321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing high-performance system heuristics is a creative, iterative process requiring experts to form hypotheses and execute multi-step conceptual shifts. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in automating this loop, they struggle with complex system...
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ARYA: A Physics-Constrained Composable & Deterministic World Model Architecture
arXiv:2603.21340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ARYA, a composable, physics-constrained, deterministic world model architecture built on five foundational principles: nano models, composability, causal reasoning, determinism, and architectural AI safety. We demonstrate that ARYA satisfies all canonical world model...
AgenticGEO: A Self-Evolving Agentic System for Generative Engine Optimization
arXiv:2603.20213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative search engines represent a transition from traditional ranking-based retrieval to Large Language Model (LLM)-based synthesis, transforming optimization goals from ranking prominence towards content inclusion. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), specifically, aims to maximize visibility and...
ProMAS: Proactive Error Forecasting for Multi-Agent Systems Using Markov Transition Dynamics
arXiv:2603.20260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models into Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has enabled the so-lution of complex, long-horizon tasks through collaborative reasoning. However, this collec-tive intelligence is inherently fragile, as a single logical fallacy can rapidly...
FinReflectKG -- HalluBench: GraphRAG Hallucination Benchmark for Financial Question Answering Systems
arXiv:2603.20252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As organizations increasingly integrate AI-powered question-answering systems into financial information systems for compliance, risk assessment, and decision support, ensuring the factual accuracy of AI-generated outputs becomes a critical engineering challenge. Current Knowledge Graph (KG)-augmented QA...
The Library Theorem: How External Organization Governs Agentic Reasoning Capacity
arXiv:2603.21272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Externalized reasoning is already exploited by transformer-based agents through chain-of-thought, but structured retrieval -- indexing over one's own reasoning state -- remains underexplored. We formalize the transformer context window as an I/O page and prove...
Attention in Space: Functional Roles of VLM Heads for Spatial Reasoning
arXiv:2603.20662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite remarkable advances in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge. In this work, we investigate how attention heads within VLMs contribute to spatial reasoning by analyzing their functional roles through a...
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
arXiv:2603.20639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI reveal that frontier reasoning models, such as...
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...
LLM-Driven Heuristic Synthesis for Industrial Process Control: Lessons from Hot Steel Rolling
arXiv:2603.20537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial process control demands policies that are interpretable and auditable, requirements that black-box neural policies struggle to meet. We study an LLM-driven heuristic synthesis framework for hot steel rolling, in which a language model iteratively...
Thinking into the Future: Latent Lookahead Training for Transformers
arXiv:2603.20219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models trained with next-token prediction generate text by sampling one discrete token at a time. Although very scalable, this objective forces the model to commit at every step, preventing it from exploring or...
Decoding the decoder: Contextual sequence-to-sequence modeling for intracortical speech decoding
arXiv:2603.20246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech brain--computer interfaces require decoders that translate intracortical activity into linguistic output while remaining robust to limited data and day-to-day variability. While prior high-performing systems have largely relied on framewise phoneme decoding combined with downstream...
RoboAlign: Learning Test-Time Reasoning for Language-Action Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.21341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving embodied reasoning in multimodal-large-language models (MLLMs) is essential for building vision-language-action models (VLAs) on top of them to readily translate multimodal understanding into low-level actions. Accordingly, recent work has explored enhancing embodied reasoning in...
Graph of States: Solving Abductive Tasks with Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.21250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logical reasoning encompasses deduction, induction, and abduction. However, while Large Language Models (LLMs) have effectively mastered the former two, abductive reasoning remains significantly underexplored. Existing frameworks, predominantly designed for static deductive tasks, fail to generalize...
LLM-Enhanced Energy Contrastive Learning for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Text-Attributed Graphs
arXiv:2603.20293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-attributed graphs, where nodes are enriched with textual attributes, have become a powerful tool for modeling real-world networks such as citation, social, and transaction networks. However, existing methods for learning from these graphs often assume...
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Efficient Counterfactual Reasoning in ProbLog via Single World Intervention Programs
arXiv:2603.20505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) languages, like ProbLog, naturally support reasoning under uncertainty, while maintaining a declarative and interpretable framework. Meanwhile, counterfactual reasoning (i.e., answering ``what if'' questions) is critical for ensuring AI systems are robust...
JUBAKU: An Adversarial Benchmark for Exposing Culturally Grounded Stereotypes in Japanese LLMs
arXiv:2603.20581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social biases reflected in language are inherently shaped by cultural norms, which vary significantly across regions and lead to diverse manifestations of stereotypes. Existing evaluations of social bias in large language models (LLMs) for non-English...
RLVR Training of LLMs Does Not Improve Thinking Ability for General QA: Evaluation Method and a Simple Solution
arXiv:2603.20799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) stimulates the thinking processes of large language models (LLMs), substantially enhancing their reasoning abilities on verifiable tasks. It is often assumed that similar gains should transfer to general question...
BenchBench: Benchmarking Automated Benchmark Generation
arXiv:2603.20807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks are the de facto standard for tracking progress in large language models (LLMs), yet static test sets can rapidly saturate, become vulnerable to contamination, and are costly to refresh. Scalable evaluation of open-ended items...
HiCI: Hierarchical Construction-Integration for Long-Context Attention
arXiv:2603.20843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context language modeling is commonly framed as a scalability challenge of token-level attention, yet local-to-global information structuring remains largely implicit in existing approaches. Drawing on cognitive theories of discourse comprehension, we propose HiCI (Hierarchical Construction--Integration),...