Vocabulary Dropout for Curriculum Diversity in LLM Co-Evolution
arXiv:2604.03472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Co-evolutionary self-play, where one language model generates problems and another solves them, promises autonomous curriculum learning without human supervision. In practice, the proposer quickly converges to a narrow distribution of problems that satisfy the reward...
VIGIL: An Extensible System for Real-Time Detection and Mitigation of Cognitive Bias Triggers
arXiv:2604.03261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of generative AI is posing increasing risks to online information integrity and civic discourse. Most concretely, such risks can materialise in the form of mis- and disinformation. As a mitigation, media-literacy and transparency...
CAGMamba: Context-Aware Gated Cross-Modal Mamba Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
arXiv:2604.03650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) requires effective modeling of cross-modal interactions and contextual dependencies while remaining computationally efficient. Existing fusion approaches predominantly rely on Transformer-based cross-modal attention, which incurs quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length...
Algebraic Diversity: Group-Theoretic Spectral Estimation from Single Observations
arXiv:2604.03634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove that temporal averaging over multiple observations can be replaced by algebraic group action on a single observation for second-order statistical estimation. A General Replacement Theorem establishes conditions under which a group-averaged estimator from...
ACES: Who Tests the Tests? Leave-One-Out AUC Consistency for Code Generation
arXiv:2604.03922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting LLM-generated code candidates using LLM-generated tests is challenging because the tests themselves may be incorrect. Existing methods either treat all tests equally or rely on ad-hoc heuristics to filter unreliable tests. Yet determining test...
Earth Embeddings Reveal Diverse Urban Signals from Space
arXiv:2604.03456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional urban indicators derived from censuses, surveys, and administrative records are often costly, spatially inconsistent, and slow to update. Recent geospatial foundation models enable Earth embeddings, compact satellite image representations transferable across downstream tasks, but...
Supervised Dimensionality Reduction Revisited: Why LDA on Frozen CNN Features Deserves a Second Look
arXiv:2604.03928v1 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...
PolySwarm: A Multi-Agent Large Language Model Framework for Prediction Market Trading and Latency Arbitrage
arXiv:2604.03888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents PolySwarm, a novel multi-agent large language model (LLM) framework designed for real-time prediction market trading and latency arbitrage on decentralized platforms such as Polymarket. PolySwarm deploys a swarm of 50 diverse LLM...
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...
Court allows Steve Bannon to move forward on dismissal of criminal charges against him
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case, involving challenges to veterans’ benefit laws, to its docket for the 2026-27 term. The justices also sent the case of […]The postCourt allows Steve Bannon to move forward on dismissal...
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Beauty in the Eye of AI: Aligning LLMs and Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Network Visualization
arXiv:2604.03417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network visualization has traditionally relied on heuristic metrics, such as stress, under the assumption that optimizing them leads to aesthetic and informative layouts. However, no single metric consistently produces the most effective results. A data-driven...
CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge
arXiv:2604.03374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insights that connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information. However, most existing benchmarks for large language models (LLMs)...
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...
Towards Intelligent Energy Security: A Unified Spatio-Temporal and Graph Learning Framework for Scalable Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Grids
arXiv:2604.03344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electricity theft and non-technical losses (NTLs) remain critical challenges in modern smart grids, causing significant economic losses and compromising grid reliability. This study introduces the SmartGuard Energy Intelligence System (SGEIS), an integrated artificial intelligence framework...
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...
Automated Conjecture Resolution with Formal Verification
arXiv:2604.03789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have significantly improved their ability to perform mathematical reasoning, extending from elementary problem solving to increasingly capable performance on research-level problems. However, reliably solving and verifying such problems remains...
TableVision: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Spatially Grounded Reasoning over Complex Hierarchical Tables
arXiv:2604.03660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured tables are essential for conveying high-density information in professional domains such as finance, healthcare, and scientific research. Despite the progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), reasoning performance remains limited for complex tables with...
Toward Full Autonomous Laboratory Instrumentation Control with Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.03286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The control of complex laboratory instrumentation often requires significant programming expertise, creating a barrier for researchers lacking computational skills. This work explores the potential of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, and LLM-based artificial...
Position: Logical Soundness is not a Reliable Criterion for Neurosymbolic Fact-Checking with LLMs
arXiv:2604.04177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasing integrated into fact-checking pipelines, formal logic is often proposed as a rigorous means by which to mitigate bias, errors and hallucinations in these models' outputs. For example, some...
An actual alternative to originalism
Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. “Original public meaning” has become the […]The postAn actual alternative to originalismappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
POEMetric: The Last Stanza of Humanity
arXiv:2604.03695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can compose poetry, but how far are they from human poets? In this paper, we introduce POEMetric, the first comprehensive framework for poetry evaluation, examining 1) basic instruction-following abilities in generating...
Your Agent is More Brittle Than You Think: Uncovering Indirect Injection Vulnerabilities in Agentic LLMs
arXiv:2604.03870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid deployment of open-source frameworks has significantly advanced the development of modern multi-agent systems. However, expanded action spaces, including uncontrolled privilege exposure and hidden inter-system interactions, pose severe security challenges. Specifically, Indirect Prompt Injections...
Why Attend to Everything? Focus is the Key
arXiv:2604.03260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Focus, a method that learns which token pairs matter rather than approximating all of them. Learnable centroids assign tokens to groups; distant attention is restricted to same-group pairs while local attention operates at...
Uncertainty as a Planning Signal: Multi-Turn Decision Making for Goal-Oriented Conversation
arXiv:2604.03924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-oriented conversational systems require making sequential decisions under uncertainty about the user's intent, where the algorithm must balance information acquisition and target commitment over multiple turns. Existing approaches address this challenge from different perspectives: structured...
Super Agents and Confounders: Influence of surrounding agents on vehicle trajectory prediction
arXiv:2604.03463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In highly interactive driving scenes, trajectory prediction is conditioned on information from surrounding traffic participants such as cars and pedestrians. Our main contribution is a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art trajectory predictors, which reveals a surprising...
LLM-Agent-based Social Simulation for Attitude Diffusion
arXiv:2604.03898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces discourse_simulator, an open-source framework that combines LLMs with agent-based modelling. It offers a new way to simulate how public attitudes toward immigration change over time in response to salient events like protests,...
Provable Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning: A Representation Learning Framework with Low Rank Rewards
arXiv:2604.03891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task representation learning (MTRL) is an approach that learns shared latent representations across related tasks, facilitating collaborative learning that improves the overall learning efficiency. This paper studies MTRL for multi-task reinforcement learning (RL), where multiple...
Solar-VLM: Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Solar Power Forecasting
arXiv:2604.04145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting plays a critical role in power system dispatch and market participation. Because PV generation is highly sensitive to weather conditions and cloud motion, accurate forecasting requires effective modeling of complex spatiotemporal...
I-CALM: Incentivizing Confidence-Aware Abstention for LLM Hallucination Mitigation
arXiv:2604.03904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce confident but incorrect answers, partly because common binary scoring conventions reward answering over honestly expressing uncertainty. We study whether prompt-only interventions -- explicitly announcing reward schemes for answer-versus-abstain decisions...