CURE: A Multimodal Benchmark for Clinical Understanding and Retrieval Evaluation
arXiv:2603.19274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate considerable potential in clinical diagnostics, a domain that inherently requires synthesizing complex visual and textual data alongside consulting authoritative medical literature. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate MLLMs in end-to-end...
CDEoH: Category-Driven Automatic Algorithm Design With Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.19284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based heuristic search methods have demonstrated strong capabilities in automated algorithm generation. However, their evolutionary processes often suffer from instability and premature convergence. Existing approaches mainly...
Generalized Stock Price Prediction for Multiple Stocks Combined with News Fusion
arXiv:2603.19286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting stock prices presents challenges in financial forecasting. While traditional approaches such as ARIMA and RNNs are prevalent, recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer alternative methodologies. This paper introduces an approach that integrates...
Speculating Experts Accelerates Inference for Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2603.19289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have gained popularity as a means of scaling the capacity of large language models (LLMs) while maintaining sparse activations and reduced per-token compute. However, in memory-constrained inference settings, expert weights must be...
Spelling Correction in Healthcare Query-Answer Systems: Methods, Retrieval Impact, and Empirical Evaluation
arXiv:2603.19249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare question-answering (QA) systems face a persistent challenge: users submit queries with spelling errors at rates substantially higher than those found in the professional documents they search. This paper presents the first controlled study of...
Can Structural Cues Save LLMs? Evaluating Language Models in Massive Document Streams
arXiv:2603.19250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating language models in streaming environments is critical, yet underexplored. Existing benchmarks either focus on single complex events or provide curated inputs for each query, and do not evaluate models under the conflicts that arise...
From Comprehension to Reasoning: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Automated Financial Research Reporting
arXiv:2603.19254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate financial research reports, shifting from auxiliary analytic tools to primary content producers. Yet recent real-world deployments reveal persistent failures--factual errors, numerical inconsistencies, fabricated references, and shallow...
Constraint-aware Path Planning from Natural Language Instructions Using Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.19257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world path planning tasks typically involve multiple constraints beyond simple route optimization, such as the number of routes, maximum route length, depot locations, and task-specific requirements. Traditional approaches rely on dedicated formulations and algorithms for...
Significance-Gain Pair Encoding for LLMs: A Statistical Alternative to Frequency-Based Subword Merging
arXiv:2603.19261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subword tokenization is a key design choice for modern language models, including large language models (LLMs), with byte- and character-level BPE serving as a widely used baseline. Standard BPE selects merges by raw pair frequency,...
Reviewing the Reviewer: Graph-Enhanced LLMs for E-commerce Appeal Adjudication
arXiv:2603.19267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical review workflows, where a second-tier reviewer (Checker) corrects first-tier (Maker) decisions, generate valuable correction signals that encode why initial judgments failed. However, learning from these signals is hindered by information asymmetry: corrections often depend...
Autonoma: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Workflow Automation
arXiv:2603.19270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of user demands necessitates automation frameworks that can reliably translate open-ended instructions into robust, multi-step workflows. Current monolithic agent architectures often struggle with the challenges of scalability, error propagation, and maintaining focus...
MOSAIC: Modular Opinion Summarization using Aspect Identification and Clustering
arXiv:2603.19277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reviews are central to how travelers evaluate products on online marketplaces, yet existing summarization research often emphasizes end-to-end quality while overlooking benchmark reliability and the practical utility of granular insights. To address this, we propose...
Automated Motif Indexing on the Arabian Nights
arXiv:2603.19283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motifs are non-commonplace, recurring narrative elements, often found originally in folk stories. In addition to being of interest to folklorists, motifs appear as metaphoric devices in modern news, literature, propaganda, and other cultural texts. Finding...
LLM-MRD: LLM-Guided Multi-View Reasoning Distillation for Fake News Detection
arXiv:2603.19293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating societal disinformation. Existing approaches attempt to address this by fusing multimodal features or leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for advanced reasoning. However, these methods suffer from serious...
PrefPO: Pairwise Preference Prompt Optimization
arXiv:2603.19311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt engineering is effective but labor-intensive, motivating automated optimization methods. Existing methods typically require labeled datasets, which are often unavailable, and produce verbose, repetitive prompts. We introduce PrefPO, a minimal prompt optimization approach inspired by...
Memory-Driven Role-Playing: Evaluation and Enhancement of Persona Knowledge Utilization in LLMs
arXiv:2603.19313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A core challenge for faithful LLM role-playing is sustaining consistent characterization throughout long, open-ended dialogues, as models frequently fail to recall and accurately apply their designated persona knowledge without explicit cues. To tackle this, we...
Prompt-tuning with Attribute Guidance for Low-resource Entity Matching
arXiv:2603.19321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity Matching (EM) is an important task that determines the logical relationship between two entities, such as Same, Different, or Undecidable. Traditional EM approaches rely heavily on supervised learning, which requires large amounts of high-quality...
Is Evaluation Awareness Just Format Sensitivity? Limitations of Probe-Based Evidence under Controlled Prompt Structure
arXiv:2603.19426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work uses linear probes on benchmark prompts as evidence of evaluation awareness in large language models. Because evaluation context is typically entangled with benchmark format and genre, it is unclear whether probe-based signals reflect...
BrainSCL: Subtype-Guided Contrastive Learning for Brain Disorder Diagnosis
arXiv:2603.19295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental disorder populations exhibit pronounced heterogeneity -- that is, the significant differences between samples -- poses a significant challenge to the definition of positive pairs in contrastive learning. To address this, we propose a subtype-guided...
TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference On The Fly
arXiv:2603.19296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To tackle the huge computational demand of large foundation models, activation-aware compression techniques without retraining have been introduced. However, since these methods highly rely on calibration data, domain shift issues may arise for unseen downstream...
CLaRE-ty Amid Chaos: Quantifying Representational Entanglement to Predict Ripple Effects in LLM Editing
arXiv:2603.19297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The static knowledge representations of large language models (LLMs) inevitably become outdated or incorrect over time. While model-editing techniques offer a promising solution by modifying a model's factual associations, they often produce unpredictable ripple effects,...
A Dynamic Bayesian and Machine Learning Framework for Quantitative Evaluation and Prediction of Operator Situation Awareness in Nuclear Power Plants
arXiv:2603.19298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator situation awareness is a pivotal yet elusive determinant of human reliability in complex nuclear control environments. Existing assessment methods, such as SAGAT and SART, remain static, retrospective, and detached from the evolving cognitive dynamics...
GT-Space: Enhancing Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception with Ground Truth Feature Space
arXiv:2603.19308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous driving, multi-agent collaborative perception enhances sensing capabilities by enabling agents to share perceptual data. A key challenge lies in handling {\em heterogeneous} features from agents equipped with different sensing modalities or model architectures,...
LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
arXiv:2603.19312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a compelling framework for learning world models in compact latent spaces, yet existing methods remain fragile, relying on complex multi-term losses, exponential moving averages, pre-trained encoders, or auxiliary supervision...
MSNet and LS-Net: Scalable Multi-Scale Multi-Representation Networks for Time Series Classification
arXiv:2603.19315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series classification (TSC) performance depends not only on architectural design but also on the diversity of input representations. In this work, we propose a scalable multi-scale convolutional framework that systematically integrates structured multi-representation inputs...
FalconBC: Flow matching for Amortized inference of Latent-CONditioned physiologic Boundary Conditions
arXiv:2603.19331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Boundary condition tuning is a fundamental step in patient-specific cardiovascular modeling. Despite an increase in offline training cost, recent methods in data-driven variational inference can efficiently estimate the joint posterior distribution of boundary conditions, with...
Beyond Weighted Summation: Learnable Nonlinear Aggregation Functions for Robust Artificial Neurons
arXiv:2603.19344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weighted summation has remained the default input aggregation mechanism in artificial neurons since the earliest neural network models. While computationally efficient, this design implicitly behaves like a mean-based estimator and is therefore sensitive to noisy...
Anatomical Heterogeneity in Transformer Language Models
arXiv:2603.19348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current transformer language models are trained with uniform computational budgets across all layers, implicitly assuming layer homogeneity. We challenge this assumption through empirical analysis of SmolLM2-135M, a 30-layer, 135M-parameter causal language model, using five diagnostic...
Optimizing Resource-Constrained Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Multi-Cluster Outbreak Control Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.19397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as diagnostic testing and quarantine, are crucial for controlling infectious disease outbreaks but are often constrained by limited resources, particularly in early outbreak stages. In real-world public health settings, resources must...
Global Convergence of Multiplicative Updates for the Matrix Mechanism: A Collaborative Proof with Gemini 3
arXiv:2603.19465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We analyze a fixed-point iteration $v \leftarrow \phi(v)$ arising in the optimization of a regularized nuclear norm objective involving the Hadamard product structure, posed in~\cite{denisov} in the context of an optimization problem over the space...