Wireless communication empowers online scheduling of partially-observable transportation multi-robot systems in a smart factory
arXiv:2603.23967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving agile and reconfigurable production flows in smart factories depends on online multi-robot task assignment (MRTA), which requires online collision-free and congestion-free route scheduling of transportation multi-robot systems (T-MRS), e.g., collaborative automatic guided vehicles (AGVs)....
Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.
Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down
Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.
Minibal: Balanced Game-Playing Without Opponent Modeling
arXiv:2603.23059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in game AI, such as AlphaZero and Ath\'enan, have achieved superhuman performance across a wide range of board games. While highly powerful, these agents are ill-suited for human-AI interaction, as they consistently overwhelm...
Lie to Me: How Faithful Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Reasoning Models?
arXiv:2603.22582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been proposed as a transparency mechanism for large language models in safety-critical deployments, yet its effectiveness depends on faithfulness (whether models accurately verbalize the factors that actually influence their outputs), a...
Improving LLM Predictions via Inter-Layer Structural Encoders
arXiv:2603.22665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The standard practice in Large Language Models (LLMs) is to base predictions on the final-layer token representations. Recent studies, however, show that intermediate layers encode substantial information, which may contain more task-relevant features than the...
Who Spoke What When? Evaluating Spoken Language Models for Conversational ASR with Semantic and Overlap-Aware Metrics
arXiv:2603.22709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational automatic speech recognition remains challenging due to overlapping speech, far-field noise, and varying speaker counts. While recent LLM-based systems perform well on single-speaker benchmarks, their robustness in multi-speaker settings is unclear. We systematically compare...
Understanding LLM Performance Degradation in Multi-Instance Processing: The Roles of Instance Count and Context Length
arXiv:2603.22608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for processing multiple documents or performing analysis over a number of instances. For example, analysing the overall sentiment of a number of movie reviews requires an LLM...
Rashid: A Cipher-Based Framework for Exploring In-Context Language Learning
arXiv:2603.22497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Where there is growing interest in in-context language learning (ICLL) for unseen languages with large language models, such languages usually suffer from the lack of NLP tools, data resources, and researcher expertise. This means that...
PhySe-RPO: Physics and Semantics Guided Relative Policy Optimization for Diffusion-Based Surgical Smoke Removal
arXiv:2603.22844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical smoke severely degrades intraoperative video quality, obscuring anatomical structures and limiting surgical perception. Existing learning-based desmoking approaches rely on scarce paired supervision and deterministic restoration pipelines, making it difficult to perform exploration or reinforcement-driven...
Can Large Language Models Reason and Optimize Under Constraints?
arXiv:2603.23004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great capabilities across diverse natural language tasks; yet their ability to solve abstraction and optimization problems with constraints remains scarcely explored. In this paper, we investigate whether LLMs can...
MERIT: Memory-Enhanced Retrieval for Interpretable Knowledge Tracing
arXiv:2603.22289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Tracing (KT) models students' evolving knowledge states to predict future performance, serving as a foundation for personalized education. While traditional deep learning models achieve high accuracy, they often lack interpretability. Large Language Models (LLMs)...
LLM Olympiad: Why Model Evaluation Needs a Sealed Exam
arXiv:2603.23292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks and leaderboards are how NLP most often communicates progress, but in the LLM era they are increasingly easy to misread. Scores can reflect benchmark-chasing, hidden evaluation choices, or accidental exposure to test content --...
Ran Score: a LLM-based Evaluation Score for Radiology Report Generation
arXiv:2603.22935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chest X-ray report generation and automated evaluation are limited by poor recognition of low-prevalence abnormalities and inadequate handling of clinically important language, including negation and ambiguity. We develop a clinician-guided framework combining human expertise and...
Towards Automated Community Notes Generation with Large Vision Language Models for Combating Contextual Deception
arXiv:2603.22453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Community Notes have emerged as an effective crowd-sourced mechanism for combating online deception on social media platforms. However, its reliance on human contributors limits both the timeliness and scalability. In this work, we study the...
How Utilitarian Are OpenAI's Models Really? Replicating and Reinterpreting Pfeffer, Kr\"ugel, and Uhl (2025)
arXiv:2603.22730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pfeffer, Kr\"ugel, and Uhl (2025) report that OpenAI's reasoning model o1-mini produces more utilitarian responses to the trolley problem and footbridge dilemma than the non-reasoning model GPT-4o. I replicate their study with four current OpenAI...
Optimizing Small Language Models for NL2SQL via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2603.22942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Translating Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) remains a critical bottleneck for democratization of data in enterprises. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini 2.5 and other LLMs have demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities, their high inference...
MuQ-Eval: An Open-Source Per-Sample Quality Metric for AI Music Generation Evaluation
arXiv:2603.22677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributional metrics such as Fr\'echet Audio Distance cannot score individual music clips and correlate poorly with human judgments, while the only per-sample learned metric achieving high human correlation is closed-source. We introduce MUQ-EVAL, an open-source...
CoMaTrack: Competitive Multi-Agent Game-Theoretic Tracking with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.22846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT), a core dynamic task in embodied intelligence, requires an agent to precisely follow a language-specified target. Yet most existing methods rely on single-agent imitation learning, suffering from costly expert data and...
Empirical Comparison of Agent Communication Protocols for Task Orchestration
arXiv:2603.22823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context. Nowadays, artificial intelligence agent systems are transforming from single-tool interactions to complex multi-agent orchestrations. As a result, two competing communication protocols have emerged: a tool integration protocol that standardizes how agents invoke external tools,...
TIPS: Turn-Level Information-Potential Reward Shaping for Search-Augmented LLMs
arXiv:2603.22293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented large language models (LLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved strong results on open-domain question answering (QA), but training still remains a significant challenge. The optimization is often unstable due to sparse rewards...
Can LLM Agents Generate Real-World Evidence? Evaluating Observational Studies in Medical Databases
arXiv:2603.22767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Observational studies can yield clinically actionable evidence at scale, but executing them on real-world databases is open-ended and requires coherent decisions across cohort construction, analysis, and reporting. Prior evaluations of LLM agents emphasize isolated steps...
PRISM: A Dual View of LLM Reasoning through Semantic Flow and Latent Computation
arXiv:2603.22754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) solve complex problems by generating multi-step reasoning traces. Yet these traces are typically analyzed from only one of two perspectives: the sequence of tokens across different reasoning steps in the generated...
Maximum Entropy Relaxation of Multi-Way Cardinality Constraints for Synthetic Population Generation
arXiv:2603.22558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating synthetic populations from aggregate statistics is a core component of microsimulation, agent-based modeling, policy analysis, and privacy-preserving data release. Beyond classical census marginals, many applications require matching heterogeneous unary, binary, and ternary constraints derived...
Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data
arXiv:2603.22290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-resource languages (LRLs) often lack high-quality, large-scale datasets for training effective text embedding models, hindering their application in tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. In this work, we challenge the prevailing assumption that...
Functional Component Ablation Reveals Specialization Patterns in Hybrid Language Model Architectures
arXiv:2603.22473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid language models combining attention with state space models (SSMs) or linear attention offer improved efficiency, but whether both components are genuinely utilized remains unclear. We present a functional component ablation framework applied to two...
EchoKV: Efficient KV Cache Compression via Similarity-Based Reconstruction
arXiv:2603.22910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing memory demand of the Key-Value (KV) cache poses a significant bottleneck for Large Language Models (LLMs) in long-context applications. Existing low-rank compression methods often rely on irreversible parameter transformations, sacrificing the flexibility to...
Multilingual KokoroChat: A Multi-LLM Ensemble Translation Method for Creating a Multilingual Counseling Dialogue Dataset
arXiv:2603.22913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the critical scarcity of high-quality, publicly available counseling dialogue datasets, we created Multilingual KokoroChat by translating KokoroChat, a large-scale manually authored Japanese counseling corpus, into both English and Chinese. A key challenge in...
Quality Over Clicks: Intrinsic Quality-Driven Iterative Reinforcement Learning for Cold-Start E-Commerce Query Suggestion
arXiv:2603.22922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing dialogue systems rely on Query Suggestion (QS) to enhance user engagement. Recent efforts typically employ large language models with Click-Through Rate (CTR) model, yet fail in cold-start scenarios due to their heavy reliance on...
Set-Valued Prediction for Large Language Models with Feasibility-Aware Coverage Guarantees
arXiv:2603.22966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) inherently operate over a large generation space, yet conventional usage typically reports the most likely generation (MLG) as a point prediction, which underestimates the model's capability: although the top-ranked response can...