Uncovering Context Reliance in Unstructured Knowledge Editing
arXiv:2602.19043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Editing Large language models (LLMs) with real-world, unstructured knowledge is essential for correcting and updating their internal parametric knowledge. In this work, we revisit the fundamental next-token prediction (NTP) as a candidate paradigm for unstructured...
First Amendment Inversion
Introduction A new arrangement of First Amendment positions has upturned constitutional discourse in key areas. Familiar perspectives have transposed not only in Supreme Court opinions but also in policymaking and public debate—and some are reverting back. Inversion on important questions...
Academic Freedom by Other Names: Historical Foundations for the First Amendment Right
Introduction The Supreme Court has stated that academic freedom is a “special concern” of the First Amendment.[1] Yet before 1957, there were no American legal precedents that recognized academic freedom as a component of the First Amendment. But these protections...
An artificial intelligence framework for end-to-end rare disease phenotyping from clinical notes using large language models
arXiv:2602.20324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Phenotyping is fundamental to rare disease diagnosis, but manual curation of structured phenotypes from clinical notes is labor-intensive and difficult to scale. Existing artificial intelligence approaches typically optimize individual components of phenotyping but do not...
DMCD: Semantic-Statistical Framework for Causal Discovery
arXiv:2602.20333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DMCD (DataMap Causal Discovery), a two-phase causal discovery framework that integrates LLM-based semantic drafting from variable metadata with statistical validation on observational data. In Phase I, a large language model proposes a sparse...
Implicit Intelligence -- Evaluating Agents on What Users Don't Say
arXiv:2602.20424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world requests to AI agents are fundamentally underspecified. Natural human communication relies on shared context and unstated constraints that speakers expect listeners to infer. Current agentic benchmarks test explicit instruction-following but fail to evaluate whether...
Learning to Rewrite Tool Descriptions for Reliable LLM-Agent Tool Use
arXiv:2602.20426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of LLM-based agents depends not only on the agent itself but also on the quality of the tool interfaces it consumes. While prior work has focused heavily on agent fine-tuning, tool interfaces-including natural...
PreScience: A Benchmark for Forecasting Scientific Contributions
arXiv:2602.20459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can AI systems trained on the scientific record up to a fixed point in time forecast the scientific advances that follow? Such a capability could help researchers identify collaborators and impactful research directions, and anticipate...
KairosVL: Orchestrating Time Series and Semantics for Unified Reasoning
arXiv:2602.20494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driven by the increasingly complex and decision-oriented demands of time series analysis, we introduce the Semantic-Conditional Time Series Reasoning task, which extends conventional time series analysis beyond purely numerical modeling to incorporate contextual and semantic...
Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
arXiv:2602.20517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective human-AI coordination requires artificial agents capable of exhibiting and responding to human-like behaviors while adapting to changing contexts. Imitation learning has emerged as one of the prominent approaches to build such agents by training...
From Logs to Language: Learning Optimal Verbalization for LLM-Based Recommendation in Production
arXiv:2602.20558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are promising backbones for generative recommender systems, yet a key challenge remains underexplored: verbalization, i.e., converting structured user interaction logs into effective natural language inputs. Existing methods rely on rigid templates...
CausalReasoningBenchmark: A Real-World Benchmark for Disentangled Evaluation of Causal Identification and Estimation
arXiv:2602.20571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many benchmarks for automated causal inference evaluate a system's performance based on a single numerical output, such as an Average Treatment Effect (ATE). This approach conflates two distinct steps in causal analysis: identification-formulating a valid...
Recursive Belief Vision Language Model
arXiv:2602.20659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with long-horizon manipulation under partial observability. Most existing approaches remain observation-driven, relying on short context windows or repeated queries to vision-language models (VLMs). This leads to loss of task progress,...
How Foundational Skills Influence VLM-based Embodied Agents:A Native Perspective
arXiv:2602.20687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise for human-level embodied intelligence. However, existing benchmarks for VLM-driven embodied agents often rely on high-level commands or discretized action spaces, which are non-native settings that differ...
Online Algorithms with Unreliable Guidance
arXiv:2602.20706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a new model for ML-augmented online decision making, called online algorithms with unreliable guidance (OAG). This model completely separates between the predictive and algorithmic components, thus offering a single well-defined analysis framework...
ICON: Indirect Prompt Injection Defense for Agents based on Inference-Time Correction
arXiv:2602.20708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks, where malicious instructions in retrieved content hijack the agent's execution. Existing defenses typically rely on strict filtering or refusal mechanisms, which suffer...
Modality-Guided Mixture of Graph Experts with Entropy-Triggered Routing for Multimodal Recommendation
arXiv:2602.20723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal recommendation enhances ranking by integrating user-item interactions with item content, which is particularly effective under sparse feedback and long-tail distributions. However, multimodal signals are inherently heterogeneous and can conflict in specific contexts, making effective...
Balancing Multiple Objectives in Urban Traffic Control with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback
arXiv:2602.20728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward design has been one of the central challenges for real world reinforcement learning (RL) deployment, especially in settings with multiple objectives. Preference-based RL offers an appealing alternative by learning from human preferences over pairs...
PyVision-RL: Forging Open Agentic Vision Models via RL
arXiv:2602.20739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for agentic multimodal models often suffers from interaction collapse, where models learn to reduce tool usage and multi-turn reasoning, limiting the benefits of agentic behavior. We introduce PyVision-RL, a reinforcement learning framework for...
Pipeline for Verifying LLM-Generated Mathematical Solutions
arXiv:2602.20770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing popularity of Large Reasoning Models and their results in solving mathematical problems, it becomes crucial to measure their capabilities. We introduce a pipeline for both automatic and interactive verification as a more...
POMDPPlanners: Open-Source Package for POMDP Planning
arXiv:2602.20810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present POMDPPlanners, an open-source Python package for empirical evaluation of Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) planning algorithms. The package integrates state-of-the-art planning algorithms, a suite of benchmark environments with safety-critical variants, automated hyperparameter...
Qwen-BIM: developing large language model for BIM-based design with domain-specific benchmark and dataset
arXiv:2602.20812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the construction industry advances toward digital transformation, BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based design has become a key driver supporting intelligent construction. Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in promoting BIM-based design, the lack...
Pressure Reveals Character: Behavioural Alignment Evaluation at Depth
arXiv:2602.20813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating alignment in language models requires testing how they behave under realistic pressure, not just what they claim they would do. While alignment failures increasingly cause real-world harm, comprehensive evaluation frameworks with realistic multi-turn scenarios...
Diagnosing Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models via Structured Relevance Graphs
arXiv:2602.20878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance on visual question answering benchmarks, yet often rely on spurious correlations rather than genuine causal reasoning. Existing evaluations primarily assess the correctness of the answers, making it unclear...
Architecting AgentOS: From Token-Level Context to Emergent System-Level Intelligence
arXiv:2602.20934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paradigm of Large Language Models is undergoing a fundamental transition from static inference engines to dynamic autonomous cognitive systems.While current research primarily focuses on scaling context windows or optimizing prompt engineering the theoretical bridge...
LogicGraph : Benchmarking Multi-Path Logical Reasoning via Neuro-Symbolic Generation and Verification
arXiv:2602.21044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluations of large language models (LLMs) primarily emphasize convergent logical reasoning, where success is defined by producing a single correct proof. However, many real-world reasoning problems admit multiple valid derivations, requiring models to explore diverse...
Interpretable Medical Image Classification using Prototype Learning and Privileged Information
arXiv:2310.15741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretability is often an essential requirement in medical imaging. Advanced deep learning methods are required to address this need for explainability and high performance. In this work, we investigate whether additional information available during the...
ConceptRM: The Quest to Mitigate Alert Fatigue through Consensus-Based Purity-Driven Data Cleaning for Reflection Modelling
arXiv:2602.20166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many applications involving intelligent agents, the overwhelming volume of alerts (mostly false) generated by the agents may desensitize users and cause them to overlook critical issues, leading to the so-called ''alert fatigue''. A common...
Benchmarking Early Deterioration Prediction Across Hospital-Rich and MCI-Like Emergency Triage Under Constrained Sensing
arXiv:2602.20168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergency triage decisions are made under severe information constraints, yet most data-driven deterioration models are evaluated using signals unavailable during initial assessment. We present a leakage-aware benchmarking framework for early deterioration prediction that evaluates model...
Autonomous AI and Ownership Rules
arXiv:2602.20169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This Article examines the circumstances in which AI-generated outputs remain linked to their creators and the points at which they lose that connection, whether through accident, deliberate design, or emergent behavior. In cases where AI...