SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 18
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.
The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard...
The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard...
NeSy-Route: A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark for Constrained Route Planning in Remote Sensing
arXiv:2603.16307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing underpins crucial applications such as disaster relief and ecological field surveys, where systems must understand complex scenes and constraints and make reliable decisions. Current remote-sensing benchmarks mainly focus on evaluating perception and reasoning...
Optimizing Hospital Capacity During Pandemics: A Dual-Component Framework for Strategic Patient Relocation
arXiv:2603.15960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed immense strain on hospital systems worldwide, leading to critical capacity challenges. This research proposes a two-part framework to optimize hospital capacity through patient relocation strategies. The first component involves developing...
Recursive Language Models Meet Uncertainty: The Surprising Effectiveness of Self-Reflective Program Search for Long Context
arXiv:2603.15653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context handling remains a core challenge for language models: even with extended context windows, models often fail to reliably extract, reason over, and use the information across long contexts. Recent works like Recursive Language Models...
MOSAIC: Composable Safety Alignment with Modular Control Tokens
arXiv:2603.16210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) is commonly implemented as a single static policy embedded in model parameters. However, real-world deployments often require context-dependent safety rules that vary across users, regions, and applications. Existing...
Compiled Memory: Not More Information, but More Precise Instructions for Language Agents
arXiv:2603.15666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing memory systems for language agents address memory management: how to retrieve and page more information within a context budget. We address a complementary problem -- memory utility: what experience is worth keeping, and how...
POaaS: Minimal-Edit Prompt Optimization as a Service to Lift Accuracy and Cut Hallucinations on On-Device sLLMs
arXiv:2603.16045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (sLLMs) are increasingly deployed on-device, where imperfect user prompts--typos, unclear intent, or missing context--can trigger factual errors and hallucinations. Existing automatic prompt optimization (APO) methods were designed for large cloud LLMs and...
I Know What I Don't Know: Latent Posterior Factor Models for Multi-Evidence Probabilistic Reasoning
arXiv:2603.15670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world decision-making, from tax compliance assessment to medical diagnosis, requires aggregating multiple noisy and potentially contradictory evidence sources. Existing approaches either lack explicit uncertainty quantification (neural aggregation methods) or rely on manually engineered discrete predicates...
Context-Length Robustness in Question Answering Models: A Comparative Empirical Study
arXiv:2603.15723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in settings where relevant information is embedded within long and noisy contexts. Despite this, robustness to growing context length remains poorly understood across different question answering tasks. In this...
COGNAC at SemEval-2026 Task 5: LLM Ensembles for Human-Level Word Sense Plausibility Rating in Challenging Narratives
arXiv:2603.15897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe our system for SemEval-2026 Task 5, which requires rating the plausibility of given word senses of homonyms in short stories on a 5-point Likert scale. Systems are evaluated by the unweighted average of...
NLP Occupational Emergence Analysis: How Occupations Form and Evolve in Real Time -- A Zero-Assumption Method Demonstrated on AI in the US Technology Workforce, 2022-2026
arXiv:2603.15998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Occupations form and evolve faster than classification systems can track. We propose that a genuine occupation is a self-reinforcing structure (a bipartite co-attractor) in which a shared professional vocabulary makes practitioners cohesive as a group,...
Form Follows Function: Recursive Stem Model
arXiv:2603.15641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive reasoning models such as Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) and Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) show that small, weight-shared networks can solve compute-heavy and NP puzzles by iteratively refining latent states, but their training typically relies...
Resilience Meets Autonomy: Governing Embodied AI in Critical Infrastructure
arXiv:2603.15885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critical infrastructure increasingly incorporates embodied AI for monitoring, predictive maintenance, and decision support. However, AI systems designed to handle statistically representable uncertainty struggle with cascading failures and crisis dynamics that exceed their training assumptions. This...
NeuronSpark: A Spiking Neural Network Language Model with Selective State Space Dynamics
arXiv:2603.16148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask whether a pure spiking backbone can learn large-scale language modeling from random initialization, without Transformer distillation. We introduce NeuronSpark, a 0.9B-parameter SNN language model trained with next-token prediction and surrogate gradients. The model...
Theoretical Foundations of Latent Posterior Factors: Formal Guarantees for Multi-Evidence Reasoning
arXiv:2603.15674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a complete theoretical characterization of Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), a principled framework for aggregating multiple heterogeneous evidence items in probabilistic prediction tasks. Multi-evidence reasoning arises pervasively in high-stakes domains including healthcare diagnosis, financial...
Regularized Latent Dynamics Prediction is a Strong Baseline For Behavioral Foundation Models
arXiv:2603.15857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) produce agents with the capability to adapt to any unknown reward or task. These methods, however, are only able to produce near-optimal policies for the reward functions that are in the...
Agent-based imitation dynamics can yield efficiently compressed population-level vocabularies
arXiv:2603.15903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural languages have been argued to evolve under pressure to efficiently compress meanings into words by optimizing the Information Bottleneck (IB) complexity-accuracy tradeoff. However, the underlying social dynamics that could drive the optimization of a...
Algorithmic Trading Strategy Development and Optimisation
arXiv:2603.15848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The report presents with the development and optimisation of an enhanced algorithmic trading strategy through the use of historical S&P 500 market data and earnings call sentiment analysis. The proposed strategy integrates various technical indicators...
MAC: Multi-Agent Constitution Learning
arXiv:2603.15968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constitutional AI is a method to oversee and control LLMs based on a set of rules written in natural language. These rules are typically written by human experts, but could in principle be learned automatically...
Semi-Autonomous Formalization of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau Equilibrium
arXiv:2603.15929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a complete Lean 4 formalization of the equilibrium characterization in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau (VML) system, which describes the motion of charged plasma. The project demonstrates the full AI-assisted mathematical research loop: an AI reasoning...
Learning to Predict, Discover, and Reason in High-Dimensional Discrete Event Sequences
arXiv:2603.16313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic control units (ECUs) embedded within modern vehicles generate a large number of asynchronous events known as diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs). These discrete events form complex temporal sequences that reflect the evolving health of the...
SQL-ASTRA: Alleviating Sparse Feedback in Agentic SQL via Column-Set Matching and Trajectory Aggregation
arXiv:2603.16161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) shows promise for complex tasks, but Text-to-SQL remains mostly restricted to single-turn paradigms. A primary bottleneck is the credit assignment problem. In traditional paradigms, rewards are determined solely by the final-turn...
ARISE: Agent Reasoning with Intrinsic Skill Evolution in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.16060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dominant paradigm for improving mathematical reasoning in language models relies on Reinforcement Learning with verifiable rewards. Yet existing methods treat each problem instance in isolation without leveraging the reusable strategies that emerge and accumulate...
MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing
arXiv:2603.15965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-adapter serving systems route entire sequences to a single adapter, forcing a choice when requests span multiple domains. This assumption fails in two important settings: (1) multimodal generation, where text and image tokens require different...
Protein Design with Agent Rosetta: A Case Study for Specialized Scientific Agents
arXiv:2603.15952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are capable of emulating reasoning and using tools, creating opportunities for autonomous agents that execute complex scientific tasks. Protein design provides a natural testbed: although machine learning (ML) methods achieve strong...
Persona-Conditioned Risk Behavior in Large Language Models: A Simulated Gambling Study with GPT-4.1
arXiv:2603.15831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in uncertain, sequential decision-making contexts. Yet it remains poorly understood whether the behaviors they exhibit in such environments reflect principled cognitive patterns or simply surface-level...