Context Cartography: Toward Structured Governance of Contextual Space in Large Language Model Systems
arXiv:2603.20578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing approach to improving large language model (LLM) reasoning has centered on expanding context windows, implicitly assuming that more tokens yield better performance. However, empirical evidence - including the "lost in the middle" effect...
Me, Myself, and $\pi$ : Evaluating and Explaining LLM Introspection
arXiv:2603.20276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of human intelligence is Introspection-the ability to assess and reason about one's own cognitive processes. Introspection has emerged as a promising but contested capability in large language models (LLMs). However, current evaluations often...
DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation
arXiv:2603.20470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of the text-to-image (T2I) community has fostered a thriving online ecosystem of expert models, which are variants of pretrained diffusion models specialized for diverse generative abilities. Yet, existing model merging methods remain...
ORACLE: Optimizing Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models via Constraint-Led Synthetic Data Elicitation
arXiv:2603.21140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) with synthetic reasoning data has become a popular approach to enhancing their reasoning capabilities, while a key factor influencing the effectiveness of this paradigm is the quality of the generated...
FinReflectKG -- HalluBench: GraphRAG Hallucination Benchmark for Financial Question Answering Systems
arXiv:2603.20252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As organizations increasingly integrate AI-powered question-answering systems into financial information systems for compliance, risk assessment, and decision support, ensuring the factual accuracy of AI-generated outputs becomes a critical engineering challenge. Current Knowledge Graph (KG)-augmented QA...
Do LLM-Driven Agents Exhibit Engagement Mechanisms? Controlled Tests of Information Load, Descriptive Norms, and Popularity Cues
arXiv:2603.20911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models make agent-based simulation more behaviorally expressive, but they also sharpen a basic methodological tension: fluent, human-like output is not, by itself, evidence for theory. We evaluate what an LLM-driven simulation can credibly...
FactorSmith: Agentic Simulation Generation via Markov Decision Process Decomposition with Planner-Designer-Critic Refinement
arXiv:2603.20270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating executable simulations from natural language specifications remains a challenging problem due to the limited reasoning capacity of large language models (LLMs) when confronted with large, interconnected codebases. This paper presents FactorSmith, a framework that...
Thinking into the Future: Latent Lookahead Training for Transformers
arXiv:2603.20219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models trained with next-token prediction generate text by sampling one discrete token at a time. Although very scalable, this objective forces the model to commit at every step, preventing it from exploring or...
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...
KLDrive: Fine-Grained 3D Scene Reasoning for Autonomous Driving based on Knowledge Graph
arXiv:2603.21029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires reliable reasoning over fine-grained 3D scene facts. Fine-grained question answering over multi-modal driving observations provides a natural way to evaluate this capability, yet existing perception pipelines and driving-oriented large language model (LLM)...
Multi-Agent Debate with Memory Masking
arXiv:2603.20215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks. Currently, mainstream LLM reasoning frameworks predominantly focus on scaling up inference-time sampling to enhance performance. In particular, among all LLM reasoning frameworks, *multi-agent...
LLM-Driven Heuristic Synthesis for Industrial Process Control: Lessons from Hot Steel Rolling
arXiv:2603.20537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial process control demands policies that are interpretable and auditable, requirements that black-box neural policies struggle to meet. We study an LLM-driven heuristic synthesis framework for hot steel rolling, in which a language model iteratively...
The Intelligent Disobedience Game: Formulating Disobedience in Stackelberg Games and Markov Decision Processes
arXiv:2603.20994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In shared autonomy, a critical tension arises when an automated assistant must choose between obeying a human's instruction and deliberately overriding it to prevent harm. This safety-critical behavior is known as intelligent disobedience. To formalize...
Abjad-Kids: An Arabic Speech Classification Dataset for Primary Education
arXiv:2603.20255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech-based AI educational applications have gained significant interest in recent years, particularly for children. However, children speech research remains limited due to the lack of publicly available datasets, especially for low-resource languages such as Arabic.This...
NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track Call for Papers
Seed1.8 Model Card: Towards Generalized Real-World Agency
arXiv:2603.20633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Seed1.8, a foundation model aimed at generalized real-world agency: going beyond single-turn prediction to multi-turn interaction, tool use, and multi-step execution. Seed1.8 keeps strong LLM and vision-language performance while supporting a unified agentic...
A Framework for Low-Latency, LLM-driven Multimodal Interaction on the Pepper Robot
arXiv:2603.21013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into social robotics, two weaknesses persist. First, existing implementations on platforms like Pepper often rely on cascaded Speech-to-Text (STT)->LLM->Text-to-Speech (TTS) pipelines, resulting in high latency and...
From 50% to Mastery in 3 Days: A Low-Resource SOP for Localizing Graduate-Level AI Tutors via Shadow-RAG
arXiv:2603.20650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying high-fidelity AI tutors in schools is often blocked by the Resource Curse -- the need for expensive cloud GPUs and massive data engineering. In this practitioner report, we present a replicable Standard Operating Procedure...
RedacBench: Can AI Erase Your Secrets?
arXiv:2603.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models can readily extract sensitive information from unstructured text, making redaction -- the selective removal of such information -- critical for data security. However, existing benchmarks for redaction typically focus on predefined categories...
Reasoning Traces Shape Outputs but Models Won't Say So
arXiv:2603.20620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can we trust the reasoning traces that large reasoning models (LRMs) produce? We investigate whether these traces faithfully reflect what drives model outputs, and whether models will honestly report their influence. We introduce Thought Injection,...
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
arXiv:2603.20639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI reveal that frontier reasoning models, such as...
Deep reflective reasoning in interdependence constrained structured data extraction from clinical notes for digital health
arXiv:2603.20435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting structured information from clinical notes requires navigating a dense web of interdependent variables where the value of one attribute logically constrains others. Existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based extraction pipelines often struggle to capture these...
Efficient Counterfactual Reasoning in ProbLog via Single World Intervention Programs
arXiv:2603.20505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) languages, like ProbLog, naturally support reasoning under uncertainty, while maintaining a declarative and interpretable framework. Meanwhile, counterfactual reasoning (i.e., answering ``what if'' questions) is critical for ensuring AI systems are robust...
Knowledge Boundary Discovery for Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.21022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Knowledge Boundary Discovery (KBD), a reinforcement learning based framework to explore the knowledge boundaries of the Large Language Models (LLMs). We define the knowledge boundary by automatically generating two types of questions: (i)...
An experimental study of KV cache reuse strategies in chunk-level caching systems
arXiv:2603.20218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation improves large language models' accuracy by adding relevant retrieved text to the prompt. Chunk level caching (CLC) accelerates inference by precomputing KV caches for these retrieved chunks and reusing them. However, these caches...
Expected Reward Prediction, with Applications to Model Routing
arXiv:2603.20217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a standard tool to score responses from LLMs. Reward models are built to rank responses to a fixed prompt sampled from a single model, for example to choose the best of n...
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...
Where can AI be used? Insights from a deep ontology of work activities
arXiv:2603.20619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to profoundly reshape how work is executed and organized, but we do not yet have deep frameworks for understanding where AI can be used. Here we provide a comprehensive ontology...