MAWARITH: A Dataset and Benchmark for Legal Inheritance Reasoning with LLMs
arXiv:2603.07539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Islamic inheritance law ('ilm al-mawarith) is challenging for large language models because solving inheritance cases requires complex, structured multi-step reasoning and the correct application of juristic rules to compute heirs' shares. We introduce MAWARITH, a...
Learning-free L2-Accented Speech Generation using Phonological Rules
arXiv:2603.07550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accent plays a crucial role in speaker identity and inclusivity in speech technologies. Existing accented text-to-speech (TTS) systems either require large-scale accented datasets or lack fine-grained phoneme-level controllability. We propose a accented TTS framework that...
Scaling Data Difficulty: Improving Coding Models via Reinforcement Learning on Fresh and Challenging Problems
arXiv:2603.07779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training next-generation code generation models requires high-quality datasets, yet existing datasets face difficulty imbalance, format inconsistency, and data quality problems. We address these challenges through systematic data processing and difficulty scaling. We introduce a four-stage...
FuzzingRL: Reinforcement Fuzz-Testing for Revealing VLM Failures
arXiv:2603.06600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) are prone to errors, and identifying where these errors occur is critical for ensuring the reliability and safety of AI systems. In this paper, we propose an approach that automatically generates...
Khatri-Rao Clustering for Data Summarization
arXiv:2603.06602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As datasets continue to grow in size and complexity, finding succinct yet accurate data summaries poses a key challenge. Centroid-based clustering, a widely adopted approach to address this challenge, finds informative summaries of datasets in...
Structure-Aware Set Transformers: Temporal and Variable-Type Attention Biases for Asynchronous Clinical Time Series
arXiv:2603.06605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health records (EHR) are irregular, asynchronous multivariate time series. As time-series foundation models increasingly tokenize events rather than discretizing time, the input layout becomes a key design choice. Grids expose time$\times$variable structure but require...
Valid Feature-Level Inference for Tabular Foundation Models via the Conditional Randomization Test
arXiv:2603.06609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning models are highly expressive but notoriously difficult to analyze statistically. In particular, while black-box predictors can achieve strong empirical performance, they rarely provide valid hypothesis tests or p-values for assessing whether individual...
CapTrack: Multifaceted Evaluation of Forgetting in LLM Post-Training
arXiv:2603.06610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training enhances latent skills, unlocks value alignment, improves performance, and enables domain adaptation. Unfortunately, post-training is known to induce forgetting, especially in the ubiquitous use-case of leveraging third-party pre-trained models, which...
OptiRoulette Optimizer: A New Stochastic Meta-Optimizer for up to 5.3x Faster Convergence
arXiv:2603.06613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents OptiRoulette, a stochastic meta-optimizer that selects update rules during training instead of fixing a single optimizer. The method combines warmup optimizer locking, random sampling from an active optimizer pool, compatibility-aware learning-rate scaling...
Not all tokens are needed(NAT): token efficient reinforcement learning
arXiv:2603.06619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key driver of progress in large language models, but scaling RL to long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories is increasingly constrained by backpropagation over every generated token. Even with optimized rollout...
Reward Under Attack: Analyzing the Robustness and Hackability of Process Reward Models
arXiv:2603.06621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) are rapidly becoming the backbone of LLM reasoning pipelines, yet we demonstrate that state-of-the-art PRMs are systematically exploitable under adversarial optimization pressure. To address this, we introduce a three-tiered diagnostic framework...
Grouter: Decoupling Routing from Representation for Accelerated MoE Training
arXiv:2603.06626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training typically proceeds without any structural priors, effectively requiring the model to simultaneously train expert weights while searching for an optimal routing policy within a vast combinatorial space. This entanglement often leads...
Leakage Safe Graph Features for Interpretable Fraud Detection in Temporal Transaction Networks
arXiv:2603.06632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Illicit transaction detection is often driven by transaction level attributes however, fraudulent behavior may also manifest through network structure such as central hubs, high flow intermediaries, and coordinated neighborhoods. This paper presents a time respecting,...
From Statistical Fidelity to Clinical Consistency: Scalable Generation and Auditing of Synthetic Patient Trajectories
arXiv:2603.06720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Access to electronic health records (EHRs) for digital health research is often limited by privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic EHRs have been proposed as a way to enable safe and sovereign data sharing; however,...
Bi Directional Feedback Fusion for Activity Aware Forecasting of Indoor CO2 and PM2.5
arXiv:2603.06724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor air quality (IAQ) forecasting plays a critical role in safeguarding occupant health, ensuring thermal comfort, and supporting intelligent building control. However, predicting future concentrations of key pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and fine...
Safe Transformer: An Explicit Safety Bit For Interpretable And Controllable Alignment
arXiv:2603.06727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety alignment methods encode safe behavior implicitly within model parameters, creating a fundamental opacity: we cannot easily inspect why a model refuses a request, nor intervene when its safety judgments fail. We propose Safe...
Heterogeneous Decentralized Diffusion Models
arXiv:2603.06741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training frontier-scale diffusion models often requires substantial computational resources concentrated in tightly coupled clusters, limiting participation to well-resourced institutions. While Decentralized Diffusion Models (DDM) enable training multiple experts in isolation, existing approaches require 1176 GPU-days...
Improved Constrained Generation by Bridging Pretrained Generative Models
arXiv:2603.06742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take the form of simple linear...
Enhancing Instruction Following of LLMs via Activation Steering with Dynamic Rejection
arXiv:2603.06745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs), despite advances in instruction tuning, often fail to follow complex user instructions. Activation steering techniques aim to mitigate this by manipulating model internals, but have a potential risk of oversteering, where...
Latent Autoencoder Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data assimilation
arXiv:2603.06752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is widely used for data assimilation in high-dimensional systems, but its performance often deteriorates for strongly nonlinear dynamics due to the structural mismatch between the Kalman update and the underlying...
Real-Time AI Service Economy: A Framework for Agentic Computing Across the Continuum
arXiv:2603.05614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time AI services increasingly operate across the device-edge-cloud continuum, where autonomous AI agents generate latency-sensitive workloads, orchestrate multi-stage processing pipelines, and compete for shared resources under policy and governance constraints. This article shows that the...
Tool-Genesis: A Task-Driven Tool Creation Benchmark for Self-Evolving Language Agent
arXiv:2603.05578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on self-evolving language agents has accelerated, drawing increasing attention to their ability to create, adapt, and maintain tools from task requirements. However, existing benchmarks predominantly rely on predefined specifications, which limits scalability and hinders...
Molecular Representations for AI in Chemistry and Materials Science: An NLP Perspective
arXiv:2603.05525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning, has gained importance in various application areas in recent years. Its growing popularity has led it to enter the natural sciences as well. This has created the need...
Towards Efficient and Stable Ocean State Forecasting: A Continuous-Time Koopman Approach
arXiv:2603.05560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the Continuous-Time Koopman Autoencoder (CT-KAE) as a lightweight surrogate model for long-horizon ocean state forecasting in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic (QG) system. By projecting nonlinear dynamics into a latent space governed by a linear...
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation: Reinforcement Learning for Climate Change-Resilient Transport
arXiv:2603.06278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate change is expected to intensify rainfall and, consequently, pluvial flooding, leading to increased disruptions in urban transportation systems over the coming decades. Designing effective adaptation strategies is challenging due to the long-term, sequential nature...
RACAS: Controlling Diverse Robots With a Single Agentic System
arXiv:2603.05621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many robotic platforms expose an API through which external software can command their actuators and read their sensors. However, transitioning from these low-level interfaces to high-level autonomous behaviour requires a complicated pipeline, whose components demand...
Exploring Human-in-the-Loop Themes in AI Application Development: An Empirical Thematic Analysis
arXiv:2603.05510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing and deploying AI applications in organizations is challenging when human decision authority and oversight are underspecified across the system lifecycle. Although Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) and Human-Centered AI (HCAI) principles are widely acknowledged, operational guidance for...
Model Change for Description Logic Concepts
arXiv:2603.05562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of modifying a description logic concept in light of models represented as pointed interpretations. We call this setting model change, and distinguish three main kinds of changes: eviction, which consists of...
Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of AI-Driven Traffic Flow Patterns and Land Use Interaction: A GeoAI-Based Analysis of Multimodal Urban Mobility
arXiv:2603.05581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban traffic flow is governed by the complex, nonlinear interaction between land use configuration and spatiotemporally heterogeneous mobility demand. Conventional global regression and time-series models cannot simultaneously capture these multi-scale dynamics across multiple travel modes....
VDCook:DIY video data cook your MLLMs
arXiv:2603.05539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce VDCook: a self-evolving video data operating system, a configurable video data construction platform for researchers and vertical domain teams. Users initiate data requests via natural language queries and adjustable parameters (scale, retrieval-synthesis ratio,...