Causally Robust Reward Learning from Reason-Augmented Preference Feedback
arXiv:2603.04861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference-based reward learning is widely used for shaping agent behavior to match a user's preference, yet its sparse binary feedback makes it especially vulnerable to causal confusion. The learned reward often latches onto spurious features...
Simulating Meaning, Nevermore! Introducing ICR: A Semiotic-Hermeneutic Metric for Evaluating Meaning in LLM Text Summaries
arXiv:2603.04413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Meaning in human language is relational, context dependent, and emergent, arising from dynamic systems of signs rather than fixed word-concept mappings. In computational settings, this semiotic and interpretive complexity complicates the generation and evaluation of...
Multiclass Hate Speech Detection with RoBERTa-OTA: Integrating Transformer Attention and Graph Convolutional Networks
arXiv:2603.04414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiclass hate speech detection across demographic categories remains computationally challenging due to implicit targeting strategies and linguistic variability in social media content. Existing approaches rely solely on learned representations from training data, without explicitly incorporating...
HACHIMI: Scalable and Controllable Student Persona Generation via Orchestrated Agents
arXiv:2603.04855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Student Personas (SPs) are emerging as infrastructure for educational LLMs, yet prior work often relies on ad-hoc prompting or hand-crafted profiles with limited control over educational theory and population distributions. We formalize this as Theory-Aligned...
Federated Heterogeneous Language Model Optimization for Hybrid Automatic Speech Recognition
arXiv:2603.04945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training automatic speech recognition (ASR) models increasingly relies on decentralized federated learning to ensure data privacy and accessibility, producing multiple local models that require effective merging. In hybrid ASR systems, while acoustic models can be...
Machine Learning for Complex Systems Dynamics: Detecting Bifurcations in Dynamical Systems with Deep Neural Networks
arXiv:2603.04420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critical transitions are the abrupt shifts between qualitatively different states of a system, and they are crucial to understanding tipping points in complex dynamical systems across ecology, climate science, and biology. Detecting these shifts typically...
Learning Unified Distance Metric for Heterogeneous Attribute Data Clustering
arXiv:2603.04458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Datasets composed of numerical and categorical attributes (also called mixed data hereinafter) are common in real clustering tasks. Differing from numerical attributes that indicate tendencies between two concepts (e.g., high and low temperature) with their...
MAD-SmaAt-GNet: A Multimodal Advection-Guided Neural Network for Precipitation Nowcasting
arXiv:2603.04461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precipitation nowcasting (short-term forecasting) is still often performed using numerical solvers for physical equations, which are computationally expensive and make limited use of the large volumes of available weather data. Deep learning models have shown...
Activity Recognition from Smart Insole Sensor Data Using a Circular Dilated CNN
arXiv:2603.04477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart insoles equipped with pressure sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes offer a non-intrusive means of monitoring human gait and posture. We present an activity classification system based on a circular dilated convolutional neural network (CDCNN) that...
An LLM-Guided Query-Aware Inference System for GNN Models on Large Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2603.04545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient inference for graph neural networks (GNNs) on large knowledge graphs (KGs) is essential for many real-world applications. GNN inference queries are computationally expensive and vary in complexity, as each involves a different number of...
Neuro-Symbolic Financial Reasoning via Deterministic Fact Ledgers and Adversarial Low-Latency Hallucination Detector
arXiv:2603.04663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures fail in high-stakes financial domains due to two fundamental limitations: the inherent arithmetic incompetence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the distributional semantic conflation of dense vector retrieval (e.g., mapping...
Multilevel Training for Kolmogorov Arnold Networks
arXiv:2603.04827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic speedup of training common neural architectures is made difficult by the lack of structure guaranteed by the function compositions inherent to such networks. In contrast to multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) provide more...
TTSR: Test-Time Self-Reflection for Continual Reasoning Improvement
arXiv:2603.03297v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time Training enables model adaptation using only test questions and offers a promising paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs). However, it faces two major challenges: test questions are often highly...
Escaping the BLEU Trap: A Signal-Grounded Framework with Decoupled Semantic Guidance for EEG-to-Text Decoding
arXiv:2603.03312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoding natural language from non-invasive EEG signals is a promising yet challenging task. However, current state-of-the-art models remain constrained by three fundamental limitations: Semantic Bias (mode collapse into generic templates), Signal Neglect (hallucination based on...
From We to Me: Theory Informed Narrative Shift with Abductive Reasoning
arXiv:2603.03320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective communication often relies on aligning a message with an audience's narrative and worldview. Narrative shift involves transforming text to reflect a different narrative framework while preserving its original core message--a task we demonstrate is...
Controllable and explainable personality sliders for LLMs at inference time
arXiv:2603.03326v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with specific personas typically relies on expensive and monolithic Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) or RLHF. While effective, these methods require training distinct models for every target personality profile. Inference-time activation steering...
Entropic-Time Inference: Self-Organizing Large Language Model Decoding Beyond Attention
arXiv:2603.03310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) inference engines optimize throughput and latency under fixed decoding rules, treating generation as a linear progression in token time. We propose a fundamentally different paradigm: entropic\-time inference, where decoding is...
RADAR: Learning to Route with Asymmetry-aware DistAnce Representations
arXiv:2603.03388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent neural solvers have achieved strong performance on vehicle routing problems (VRPs), yet they mainly assume symmetric Euclidean distances, restricting applicability to real-world scenarios. A core challenge is encoding the relational features in asymmetric distance...
mlx-snn: Spiking Neural Networks on Apple Silicon via MLX
arXiv:2603.03529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce mlx-snn, the first spiking neural network (SNN) library built natively on Apple's MLX framework. As SNN research grows rapidly, all major libraries -- snnTorch, Norse, SpikingJelly, Lava -- target PyTorch or custom backends,...
Extending Neural Operators: Robust Handling of Functions Beyond the Training Set
arXiv:2603.03621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a rigorous framework for extending neural operators to handle out-of-distribution input functions. We leverage kernel approximation techniques and provide theory for characterizing the input-output function spaces in terms of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces...
UniSkill: A Dataset for Matching University Curricula to Professional Competencies
arXiv:2603.03134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill extraction and recommendation systems have been studied from recruiter, applicant, and education perspectives. While AI applications in job advertisements have received broad attention, deficiencies in the instructed skills side remain a challenge. In this...
Neural Paging: Learning Context Management Policies for Turing-Complete Agents
arXiv:2603.02228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proof that Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with external read-write memory constitute a computationally universal system has established the theoretical foundation for general-purpose agents. However, existing implementations face a critical bottleneck: the finite and...
Beyond Binary Preferences: A Principled Framework for Reward Modeling with Ordinal Feedback
arXiv:2603.02232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models with human preferences, yet current approaches lack a principled mathematical framework for leveraging ordinal preference data. When human annotators provide graded preferences on a Likert scale...
High-order Knowledge Based Network Controllability Robustness Prediction: A Hypergraph Neural Network Approach
arXiv:2603.02265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In order to evaluate the invulnerability of networks against various types of attacks and provide guidance for potential performance enhancement as well as controllability maintenance, network controllability robustness (NCR) has attracted increasing attention in recent...
Graph Attention Based Prioritization of Disease Responsible Genes from Multimodal Alzheimer's Network
arXiv:2603.02273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prioritizing disease-associated genes is central to understanding the molecular mechanisms of complex disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Traditional network-based approaches rely on static centrality measures and often fail to capture cross-modal biological heterogeneity. We...
Attn-QAT: 4-Bit Attention With Quantization-Aware Training
arXiv:2603.00040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving reliable 4-bit attention is a prerequisite for end-to-end FP4 computation on emerging FP4-capable GPUs, yet attention remains the main obstacle due to FP4's tiny dynamic range and attention's heavy-tailed activations. This paper presents the...
SEval-NAS: A Search-Agnostic Evaluation for Neural Architecture Search
arXiv:2603.00099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the discovery of neural networks that meet specified criteria, yet its evaluation procedures are often hardcoded, limiting the ability to introduce new metrics. This issue is especially pronounced in hardware-aware...
Wideband Power Amplifier Behavioral Modeling Using an Amplitude Conditioned LSTM
arXiv:2603.00101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wideband power amplifiers exhibit complex nonlinear and memory effects that challenge traditional behavioral modeling approaches. This paper proposes a novel amplitude conditioned long short-term memory (AC-LSTM) network that introduces explicit amplitude-dependent gating to enhance the...
NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
arXiv:2603.00180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling of neural network parameters is often tied to architectures because standard parameter representations rely on known weight-matrix dimensions. Generation is further complicated by permutation symmetries that allow networks to model similar input-output functions...
CoPeP: Benchmarking Continual Pretraining for Protein Language Models
arXiv:2603.00253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models (pLMs) have recently gained significant attention for their ability to uncover relationships between sequence, structure, and function from evolutionary statistics, thereby accelerating therapeutic drug discovery. These models learn from large protein databases...