How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect
GTC is Nvidia's flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically announces new products, partnerships, and its vision for the future of computing. Huang's keynote will focus on Nvidia's role in the future of computing and AI.
The dictionary sues OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.
Developing and evaluating a chatbot to support maternal health care
arXiv:2603.13168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to provide trustworthy maternal health information using phone-based chatbots can have a significant impact, particularly in low-resource settings where users have low health literacy and limited access to care. However, deploying such systems...
Beyond Final Answers: CRYSTAL Benchmark for Transparent Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation
arXiv:2603.13099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce **CRYSTAL** (*__C__lear __R__easoning via __Y__ielded __S__teps, __T__raceability and __L__ogic*), a diagnostic benchmark with 6,372 instances that evaluates multimodal reasoning through verifiable intermediate steps. We propose two complementary metrics: *Match F1*, which scores step-level...
AI Planning Framework for LLM-Based Web Agents
arXiv:2603.12710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing autonomous agents for web-based tasks is a core challenge in AI. While Large Language Model (LLM) agents can interpret complex user requests, they often operate as black boxes, making it difficult to diagnose why...
ODRL Policy Comparison Through Normalisation
arXiv:2603.12926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ODRL language has become the standard for representing policies and regulations for digital rights. However its complexity is a barrier to its usage, which has caused many related theoretical and practical works to focus...
On Using Machine Learning to Early Detect Catastrophic Failures in Marine Diesel Engines
arXiv:2603.12733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic failures of marine engines imply severe loss of functionality and destroy or damage the systems irreversibly. Being sudden and often unpredictable events, they pose a severe threat to navigation, crew, and passengers. The abrupt...
Efficient Reasoning with Balanced Thinking
arXiv:2603.12372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These issues...
Thermodynamics of Reinforcement Learning Curricula
arXiv:2603.12324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Connections between statistical mechanics and machine learning have repeatedly proven fruitful, providing insight into optimization, generalization, and representation learning. In this work, we follow this tradition by leveraging results from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to formalize curriculum...
Structured Distillation for Personalized Agent Memory: 11x Token Reduction with Retrieval Preservation
arXiv:2603.13017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long conversations with an AI agent create a simple problem for one user: the history is useful, but carrying it verbatim is expensive. We study personalized agent memory: one user's conversation history with an agent,...
Semantic Invariance in Agentic AI
arXiv:2603.13173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as autonomous reasoning agents in decision support, scientific problem-solving, and multi-agent coordination systems. However, deploying LLM agents in consequential applications requires assurance that their reasoning remains stable under semantically...
Context-Enriched Natural Language Descriptions of Vessel Trajectories
arXiv:2603.12287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of transforming raw vessel trajectory data collected from AIS into structured and semantically enriched representations interpretable by humans and directly usable by machine reasoning systems. We propose a context-aware trajectory abstraction...
Optimizing Task Completion Time Updates Using POMDPs
arXiv:2603.12340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Managing announced task completion times is a fundamental control problem in project management. While extensive research exists on estimating task durations and task scheduling, the problem of when and how to update completion times communicated...
SPARROW: Learning Spatial Precision and Temporal Referential Consistency in Pixel-Grounded Video MLLMs
arXiv:2603.12382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced from image-level reasoning to pixel-level grounding, but extending these capabilities to videos remains challenging as models must achieve spatial precision and temporally consistent reference tracking. Existing video MLLMs...
Test-Time Strategies for More Efficient and Accurate Agentic RAG
arXiv:2603.12396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face challenges with complex, multihop questions, and agentic frameworks such as Search-R1 (Jin et al., 2025), which operates iteratively, have been proposed to address these complexities. However, such approaches can introduce...
Shattering the Shortcut: A Topology-Regularized Benchmark for Multi-hop Medical Reasoning in LLMs
arXiv:2603.12458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve expert-level performance on standard medical benchmarks through single-hop factual recall, they severely struggle with the complex, multi-hop diagnostic reasoning required in real-world clinical settings. A primary obstacle is "shortcut...
One-Step Flow Policy: Self-Distillation for Fast Visuomotor Policies
arXiv:2603.12480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative flow and diffusion models provide the continuous, multimodal action distributions needed for high-precision robotic policies. However, their reliance on iterative sampling introduces severe inference latency, degrading control frequency and harming performance in time-sensitive manipulation....
TRACE: Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence on Knowledge Graphs for Interpretable Stock Movement Prediction
arXiv:2603.12500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence (TRACE) on knowledge graphs for interpretable stock movement prediction that unifies symbolic relational priors, dynamic graph exploration, and LLM-guided decision making in a single end-to-end pipeline. The approach performs...
Na\"ive PAINE: Lightweight Text-to-Image Generation Improvement with Prompt Evaluation
arXiv:2603.12506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is primarily driven by Diffusion Models (DM) which rely on random Gaussian noise. Thus, like playing the slots at a casino, a DM will produce different results given the same user-defined inputs....
ELLA: Generative AI-Powered Social Robots for Early Language Development at Home
arXiv:2603.12508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early language development shapes children's later literacy and learning, yet many families have limited access to scalable, high-quality support at home. Recent advances in generative AI make it possible for social robots to move beyond...
Red-Teaming Vision-Language-Action Models via Quality Diversity Prompt Generation for Robust Robot Policies
arXiv:2603.12510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have significant potential to enable general-purpose robotic systems for a range of vision-language tasks. However, the performance of VLA-based robots is highly sensitive to the precise wording of language instructions, and it...
LLM BiasScope: A Real-Time Bias Analysis Platform for Comparative LLM Evaluation
arXiv:2603.12522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed widely, detecting and understanding bias in their outputs is critical. We present LLM BiasScope, a web application for side-by-side comparison of LLM outputs with real-time bias analysis. The...
TASTE-Streaming: Towards Streamable Text-Aligned Speech Tokenization and Embedding for Spoken Language Modeling
arXiv:2603.12350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-speech joint spoken language modeling (SLM) aims at natural and intelligent speech-based interactions, but developing such a system may suffer from modality mismatch: speech unit sequences are much longer than text tokens. Prior work reduces...
Interpreting Negation in GPT-2: Layer- and Head-Level Causal Analysis
arXiv:2603.12423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Negation remains a persistent challenge for modern language models, often causing reversed meanings or factual errors. In this work, we conduct a causal analysis of how GPT-2 Small internally processes such linguistic transformations. We examine...
LMEB: Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark
arXiv:2603.12572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory embeddings are crucial for memory-augmented systems, such as OpenClaw, but their evaluation is underexplored in current text embedding benchmarks, which narrowly focus on traditional passage retrieval and fail to assess models' ability to handle...
Using a Human-AI Teaming Approach to Create and Curate Scientific Datasets with the SCILIRE System
arXiv:2603.12638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of scientific literature has made manual extraction of structured knowledge increasingly impractical. To address this challenge, we introduce SCILIRE, a system for creating datasets from scientific literature. SCILIRE has been designed around...
Continual Learning in Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities
arXiv:2603.12658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting-a critical limitation of the static pre-training paradigm...
SteerRM: Debiasing Reward Models via Sparse Autoencoders
arXiv:2603.12795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models (RMs) are critical components of alignment pipelines, yet they exhibit biases toward superficial stylistic cues, preferring better-presented responses over semantically superior ones. Existing debiasing methods typically require retraining or architectural modifications, while direct...
Rethinking Multiple-Choice Questions for RLVR: Unlocking Potential via Distractor Design
arXiv:2603.12826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models. When applied to RLVR, Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) offer a scalable source of verifiable data but risk inducing reward hacking, where...
Learning from Child-Directed Speech in Two-Language Scenarios: A French-English Case Study
arXiv:2603.12906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research on developmentally plausible language models has largely focused on English, leaving open questions about multilingual settings. We present a systematic study of compact language models by extending BabyBERTa to English-French scenarios under strictly size-matched...