DyACE: Dynamic Algorithm Co-evolution for Online Automated Heuristic Design with Large Language Model
arXiv:2603.13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing paradigm in Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) typically relies on the assumption that a single, fixed algorithm can effectively navigate the shifting dynamics of a combinatorial search. This static approach often proves inadequate for...
The ARC of Progress towards AGI: A Living Survey of Abstraction and Reasoning
arXiv:2603.13372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) has become a key benchmark for fluid intelligence in AI. This survey presents the first cross-generation analysis of 82 approaches across three benchmark versions and the ARC Prize 2024-2025...
Traffic and weather driven hybrid digital twin for bridge monitoring
arXiv:2603.14028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hybrid digital twin framework is presented for bridge condition monitoring using existing traffic cameras and weather APIs, reducing reliance on dedicated sensor installations. The approach is demonstrated on the Peace Bridge (99 years in...
Generate Then Correct: Single Shot Global Correction for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
arXiv:2603.13777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) extracts aspect-level sentiment signals from user-generated text, supports product analytics, experience monitoring, and public-opinion tracking, and is central to fine-grained opinion mining. A key challenge in ABSA is aspect sentiment quad...
Widespread Gender and Pronoun Bias in Moral Judgments Across LLMs
arXiv:2603.13636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assess moral or ethical statements, yet their judgments may reflect social and linguistic biases. This work presents a controlled, sentence-level study of how grammatical person, number, and...
ManiBench: A Benchmark for Testing Visual-Logic Drift and Syntactic Hallucinations in Manim Code Generation
arXiv:2603.13251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional benchmarks like HumanEval and MBPP test logic and syntax effectively, but fail when code must produce dynamic, pedagogical visuals. We introduce ManiBench, a specialized benchmark evaluating LLM performance in generating Manim CE code, where...
Slang Context-based Inference Enhancement via Greedy Search-Guided Chain-of-Thought Prompting
arXiv:2603.13230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slang interpretation has been a challenging downstream task for Large Language Models (LLMs) as the expressions are inherently embedded in contextual, cultural, and linguistic frameworks. In the absence of domain-specific training data, it is difficult...
Repetition Without Exclusivity: Scale Sensitivity of Referential Mechanisms in Child-Scale Language Models
arXiv:2603.13696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first systematic evaluation of mutual exclusivity (ME) -- the bias to map novel words to novel referents -- in text-only language models trained on child-directed speech. We operationalise ME as referential suppression:...
Intelligent Materials Modelling: Large Language Models Versus Partial Least Squares Regression for Predicting Polysulfone Membrane Mechanical Performance
arXiv:2603.13834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the mechanical properties of polysulfone (PSF) membranes from structural descriptors remains challenging due to extreme data scarcity typical of experimental studies. To investigate this issue, this study benchmarked knowledge-driven inference using four large language...
Optimizing LLM Annotation of Classroom Discourse through Multi-Agent Orchestration
arXiv:2603.13353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as scalable tools for annotating educational data, including classroom discourse, interaction logs, and qualitative learning artifacts. Their ability to rapidly summarize instructional interactions and assign rubric-aligned labels has...
Think First, Diffuse Fast: Improving Diffusion Language Model Reasoning via Autoregressive Plan Conditioning
arXiv:2603.13243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text via iterative denoising but consistently underperform on multi-step reasoning. We hypothesize this gap stems from a coordination problem: AR models build coherence token-by-token, while diffusion models must coordinate...
TheraAgent: Multi-Agent Framework with Self-Evolving Memory and Evidence-Calibrated Reasoning for PET Theranostics
arXiv:2603.13676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: PET theranostics is transforming precision oncology, yet treatment response varies substantially; many patients receiving 177Lu-PSMA radioligand therapy (RLT) for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) fail to respond, demanding reliable pre-therapy prediction. While LLM-based agents have...
PA-Net: Precipitation-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Tail Rainfall Nowcasting
arXiv:2603.13818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precipitation nowcasting is vital for flood warning, agricultural management, and emergency response, yet two bottlenecks persist: the prohibitive cost of modeling million-scale spatiotemporal tokens from multi-variate atmospheric fields, and the extreme long-tailed rainfall distribution where...
AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints
arXiv:2603.13348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) to scale up the explicit reasoning process to achieve better performance. However, there are some key challenges...
EnterpriseOps-Gym: Environments and Evaluations for Stateful Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Enterprise Settings
arXiv:2603.13594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are shifting from passive information providers to active agents intended for complex workflows. However, their deployment as reliable AI workers in enterprise is stalled by benchmarks that fail to capture the intricacies...
A Systematic Evaluation Protocol of Graph-Derived Signals for Tabular Machine Learning
arXiv:2603.13998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While graph-derived signals are widely used in tabular learning, existing studies typically rely on limited experimental setups and average performance comparisons, leaving the statistical reliability and robustness of observed gains largely unexplored. Consequently, it remains...
From Refusal Tokens to Refusal Control: Discovering and Steering Category-Specific Refusal Directions
arXiv:2603.13359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are commonly fine-tuned for safety alignment to refuse harmful prompts. One approach fine-tunes them to generate categorical refusal tokens that distinguish different refusal types before responding. In this work, we leverage a version...
Learning When to Trust in Contextual Bandits
arXiv:2603.13356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard approaches to Robust Reinforcement Learning assume that feedback sources are either globally trustworthy or globally adversarial. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and we identify a more subtle failure mode. We term this...
How Transformers Reject Wrong Answers: Rotational Dynamics of Factual Constraint Processing
arXiv:2603.13259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model is fed a wrong answer, what happens inside the network? Current understanding treats truthfulness as a static property of individual-layer representations-a direction to be probed, a feature to be extracted. Less...
Design and evaluation of an agentic workflow for crisis-related synthetic tweet datasets
arXiv:2603.13625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Twitter (now X) has become an important source of social media data for situational awareness during crises. Crisis informatics research has widely used tweets from Twitter to develop and evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) systems for...
Deep Convolutional Architectures for EEG Classification: A Comparative Study with Temporal Augmentation and Confidence-Based Voting
arXiv:2603.13261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) classification plays a key role in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, yet it remains challenging due to the low signal-to-noise ratio, temporal variability of neural responses, and limited data availability. In this paper, we...
Human Attribution of Causality to AI Across Agency, Misuse, and Misalignment
arXiv:2603.13236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-related incidents are becoming increasingly frequent and severe, ranging from safety failures to misuse by malicious actors. In such complex situations, identifying which elements caused an adverse outcome, the problem of cause selection, is a...
GRPO and Reflection Reward for Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.14041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The enhancement of reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) has garnered significant attention, with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning emerging as dominant paradigms. While recent studies recognize the importance of reflection in reasoning...
Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Logic Theorist from its IPL-V Source
arXiv:2603.13514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Logic Theorist (LT), created by Allen Newell, J. C. Shaw, and Herbert Simon in 1955-1956, is widely regarded as the first artificial intelligence program. While the original conceptual model was described in 1956, it...
Multi-Axis Trust Modeling for Interpretable Account Hijacking Detection
arXiv:2603.13246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a Hadith-inspired multi-axis trust modeling framework, motivated by a structurally analogous problem in classical Hadith scholarship: assessing the trustworthiness of information sources using interpretable, multidimensional criteria rather than a single anomaly score....
Projection-Free Evolution Strategies for Continuous Prompt Search
arXiv:2603.13786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous prompt search offers a computationally efficient alternative to conventional parameter tuning in natural language processing tasks. Nevertheless, its practical effectiveness can be significantly hindered by the black-box nature and the inherent high-dimensionality of the...
Early Rug Pull Warning for BSC Meme Tokens via Multi-Granularity Wash-Trading Pattern Profiling
arXiv:2603.13830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The high-frequency issuance and short-cycle speculation of meme tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) have significantly amplified rug-pull risk. Existing approaches still struggle to provide stable early warning under scarce anomalies, incomplete labels, and limited interpretability....
MeTok: An Efficient Meteorological Tokenization with Hyper-Aligned Group Learning for Precipitation Nowcasting
arXiv:2603.13752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Transformer-based architectures have advanced meteorological prediction. However, this position-centric tokenizer conflicts with the core principle of meteorological systems, where the weather phenomena undoubtedly involve synergistic interactions among multiple elements while positional information constitutes merely...
PMIScore: An Unsupervised Approach to Quantify Dialogue Engagement
arXiv:2603.13796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High dialogue engagement is a crucial indicator of an effective conversation. A reliable measure of engagement could help benchmark large language models, enhance the effectiveness of human-computer interactions, or improve personal communication skills. However, quantifying...
APEX-Searcher: Augmenting LLMs' Search Capabilities through Agentic Planning and Execution
arXiv:2603.13853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), based on large language models (LLMs), serves as a vital approach to retrieving and leveraging external knowledge in various domain applications. When confronted with complex multi-hop questions, single-round retrieval is often insufficient...