Online library learning in human visual puzzle solving
arXiv:2603.23244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When learning a novel complex task, people often form efficient reusable abstractions that simplify future work, despite uncertainty about the future. We study this process in a visual puzzle task where participants define and reuse...
Reliable Classroom AI via Neuro-Symbolic Multimodal Reasoning
arXiv:2603.22793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classroom AI is rapidly expanding from low-level perception toward higher-level judgments about engagement, confusion, collaboration, and instructional quality. Yet classrooms are among the hardest real-world settings for multimodal vision: they are multi-party, noisy, privacy-sensitive, pedagogically...
Dynamic Fusion-Aware Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations
arXiv:2603.22345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) aims to identify and understand the emotions expressed by speakers during utterance interaction from multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, images, etc.). Existing studies have shown that GCN can improve...
Learning What Matters Now: Dynamic Preference Inference under Contextual Shifts
arXiv:2603.22813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans often juggle multiple, sometimes conflicting objectives and shift their priorities as circumstances change, rather than following a fixed objective function. In contrast, most computational decision-making and multi-objective RL methods assume static preference weights or...
Avoiding Over-smoothing in Social Media Rumor Detection with Pre-trained Propagation Tree Transformer
arXiv:2603.22854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning techniques for rumor detection typically utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to analyze post relations. These methods, however, falter due to over-smoothing issues when processing rumor propagation structures, leading to declining performance. Our investigation...
When Language Models Lose Their Mind: The Consequences of Brain Misalignment
arXiv:2603.23091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While brain-aligned large language models (LLMs) have garnered attention for their potential as cognitive models and for potential for enhanced safety and trustworthiness in AI, the role of this brain alignment for linguistic competence remains...
Decoding AI Authorship: Can LLMs Truly Mimic Human Style Across Literature and Politics?
arXiv:2603.23219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amidst the rising capabilities of generative AI to mimic specific human styles, this study investigates the ability of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, to emulate the...
UniFluids: Unified Neural Operator Learning with Conditional Flow-matching
arXiv:2603.22309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial differential equation (PDE) simulation holds extensive significance in scientific research. Currently, the integration of deep neural networks to learn solution operators of PDEs has introduced great potential. In this paper, we present UniFluids, a...
COMPASS-Hedge: Learning Safely Without Knowing the World
arXiv:2603.22348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online learning algorithms often faces a fundamental trilemma: balancing regret guarantees between adversarial and stochastic settings and providing baseline safety against a fixed comparator. While existing methods excel in one or two of these regimes,...
Unveiling the Mechanism of Continuous Representation Full-Waveform Inversion: A Wave Based Neural Tangent Kernel Framework
arXiv:2603.22362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates physical parameters in the wave equation from limited measurements and has been widely applied in geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Conventional FWI methods are limited by their notorious sensitivity...
Adversarial Vulnerabilities in Neural Operator Digital Twins: Gradient-Free Attacks on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Surrogates
arXiv:2603.22525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator learning models are rapidly emerging as the predictive core of digital twins for nuclear and energy systems, promising real-time field reconstruction from sparse sensor measurements. Yet their robustness to adversarial perturbations remains uncharacterized, a...
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...
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...
NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track Call for Papers
Governance-Aware Vector Subscriptions for Multi-Agent Knowledge Ecosystems
arXiv:2603.20833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agent ecosystems grow, agents need mechanisms to monitor relevant knowledge in real time. Semantic publish-subscribe systems address this by matching new content against vector subscriptions. However, in multi-agent settings where agents operate under...
Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation
arXiv:2603.20510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models often lack grounded reasoning capabilities in specialized domains where training data is scarce but bespoke systems excel. We introduce a general framework for distilling expert system reasoning into natural language chain-of-thought explanations, enabling...
Reasoning Topology Matters: Network-of-Thought for Complex Reasoning Tasks
arXiv:2603.20730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing prompting paradigms structure LLM reasoning in limited topologies: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) produces linear traces, while Tree-of-Thought (ToT) performs branching search. Yet complex reasoning often requires merging intermediate results, revisiting hypotheses, and integrating evidence from multiple...
MzansiText and MzansiLM: An Open Corpus and Decoder-Only Language Model for South African Languages
arXiv:2603.20732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoder-only language models can be adapted to diverse tasks through instruction finetuning, but the extent to which this generalizes at small scale for low-resource languages remains unclear. We focus on the languages of South Africa,...
DiscoUQ: Structured Disagreement Analysis for Uncertainty Quantification in LLM Agent Ensembles
arXiv:2603.20975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems, where multiple prompted instances of a language model independently answer questions, are increasingly used for complex reasoning tasks. However, existing methods for quantifying the uncertainty of their collective outputs rely on shallow...
Assessing the Ability of Neural TTS Systems to Model Consonant-Induced F0 Perturbation
arXiv:2603.21078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a segmental-level prosodic probing framework to evaluate neural TTS models' ability to reproduce consonant-induced f0 perturbation, a fine-grained segmental-prosodic effect that reflects local articulatory mechanisms. We compare synthetic and natural speech realizations...
SLE-FNO: Single-Layer Extensions for Task-Agnostic Continual Learning in Fourier Neural Operators
arXiv:2603.20410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific machine learning is increasingly used to build surrogate models, yet most models are trained under a restrictive assumption in which future data follow the same distribution as the training set. In practice, new experimental...
Detecting Neurovascular Instability from Multimodal Physiological Signals Using Wearable-Compatible Edge AI: A Responsible Computational Framework
arXiv:2603.20442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Melaguard, a multimodal ML framework (Transformer-lite, 1.2M parameters, 4-head self-attention) for detecting neurovascular instability (NVI) from wearable-compatible physiological signals prior to structural stroke pathology. The model fuses heart rate variability (HRV), peripheral perfusion...
Reinforcement Learning from Multi-Source Imperfect Preferences: Best-of-Both-Regimes Regret
arXiv:2603.20453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) replaces hard-to-specify rewards with pairwise trajectory preferences, yet regret-oriented theory often assumes that preference labels are generated consistently from a single ground-truth objective. In practical RLHF systems, however, feedback...
Spatio-Temporal Grid Intelligence: A Hybrid Graph Neural Network and LSTM Framework for Robust Electricity Theft Detection
arXiv:2603.20488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electricity theft, or non-technical loss (NTL), presents a persistent threat to global power systems, driving significant financial deficits and compromising grid stability. Conventional detection methodologies, predominantly reactive and meter-centric, often fail to capture the complex...
Generating from Discrete Distributions Using Diffusions: Insights from Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
arXiv:2603.20589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating data from discrete distributions is important for a number of application domains including text, tabular data, and genomic data. Several groups have recently used random $k$-satisfiability ($k$-SAT) as a synthetic benchmark for new generative...
CFNN: Continued Fraction Neural Network
arXiv:2603.20634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurately characterizing non-linear functional manifolds with singularities is a fundamental challenge in scientific computing. While Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) dominate, their spectral bias hinders resolving high-curvature features without excessive parameters. We introduce Continued Fraction Neural Networks...