Hierarchical SVG Tokenization: Learning Compact Visual Programs for Scalable Vector Graphics Modeling
arXiv:2604.05072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent large language models have shifted SVG generation from differentiable rendering optimization to autoregressive program synthesis. However, existing approaches still rely on generic byte-level tokenization inherited from natural language processing, which poorly reflects the geometric...
Feature-Aware Anisotropic Local Differential Privacy for Utility-Preserving Graph Representation Learning in Metal Additive Manufacturing
arXiv:2604.05077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metal additive manufacturing (AM) enables the fabrication of safety-critical components, but reliable quality assurance depends on high-fidelity sensor streams containing proprietary process information, limiting collaborative data sharing. Existing defect-detection models typically treat melt-pool observations as...
Expectation Maximization (EM) Converges for General Agnostic Mixtures
arXiv:2604.05842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture of linear regression is well studied in statistics and machine learning, where the data points are generated probabilistically using $k$ linear models. Algorithms like Expectation Maximization (EM) may be used to recover the ground...
$\pi^2$: Structure-Originated Reasoning Data Improves Long-Context Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.05114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a pipeline that curates reasoning data from initial structured data for improving long-context reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Our approach, $\pi^2$, constructs high-quality reasoning data through rigorous QA curation: 1) extracting and...
A Theoretical Framework for Statistical Evaluability of Generative Models
arXiv:2604.05324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical evaluation aims to estimate the generalization performance of a model using held-out i.i.d.\ test data sampled from the ground-truth distribution. In supervised learning settings such as classification, performance metrics such as error rate are...
EAGLE: Edge-Aware Graph Learning for Proactive Delivery Delay Prediction in Smart Logistics Networks
arXiv:2604.05254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern logistics networks generate rich operational data streams at every warehouse node and transportation lane -- from order timestamps and routing records to shipping manifests -- yet predicting delivery delays remains predominantly reactive. Existing predictive...
Enhancing sample efficiency in reinforcement-learning-based flow control: replacing the critic with an adaptive reduced-order model
arXiv:2604.04986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods suffer from poor sample efficiency. To overcome this limitation, this work introduces an adaptive reduced-order-model (ROM)-based reinforcement learning framework for active flow control. In contrast to conventional actor--critic architectures,...
Bypassing the CSI Bottleneck: MARL-Driven Spatial Control for Reflector Arrays
arXiv:2604.05162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are pivotal for next-generation smart radio environments, yet their practical deployment is severely bottlenecked by the intractable computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation. To bypass this fundamental physical-layer barrier,...
LMI-Net: Linear Matrix Inequality--Constrained Neural Networks via Differentiable Projection Layers
arXiv:2604.05374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) have played a central role in certifying stability, robustness, and forward invariance of dynamical systems. Despite rapid development in learning-based methods for control design and certificate synthesis, existing approaches often fail...
IntentScore: Intent-Conditioned Action Evaluation for Computer-Use Agents
arXiv:2604.05157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) leverage large language models to execute GUI operations on desktop environments, yet they generate actions without evaluating action quality, leading to irreversible errors that cascade through subsequent steps. We propose IntentScore, a...
From Uniform to Learned Knots: A Study of Spline-Based Numerical Encodings for Tabular Deep Learning
arXiv:2604.05635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numerical preprocessing remains an important component of tabular deep learning, where the representation of continuous features can strongly affect downstream performance. Although its importance is well established for classical statistical and machine learning models, the...
Reason Analogically via Cross-domain Prior Knowledge: An Empirical Study of Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer for In-Context Learning
arXiv:2604.05396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite its success, existing in-context learning (ICL) relies on in-domain expert demonstrations, limiting its applicability when expert annotations are scarce. We posit that different domains may share underlying reasoning structures, enabling source-domain demonstrations to improve...
Human Values Matter: Investigating How Misalignment Shapes Collective Behaviors in LLM Agent Communities
arXiv:2604.05339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs become increasingly integrated into human society, evaluating their orientations on human values from social science has drawn growing attention. Nevertheless, it is still unclear why human values matter for LLMs, especially in LLM-based...
Thinking Diffusion: Penalize and Guide Visual-Grounded Reasoning in Diffusion Multimodal Language Models
arXiv:2604.05497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are emerging as promising alternatives to autoregressive (AR) LLMs. Recently, this paradigm has been extended to multimodal tasks, leading to the development of diffusion multimodal large language models (dMLLMs). These...
Can We Trust a Black-box LLM? LLM Untrustworthy Boundary Detection via Bias-Diffusion and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2604.05483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown a high capability in answering questions on a diverse range of topics. However, these models sometimes produce biased, ideologized or incorrect responses, limiting their applications if there is no...
Do Domain-specific Experts exist in MoE-based LLMs?
arXiv:2604.05267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as an effective approach for training extremely large models with improved computational efficiency. This success builds upon extensive prior...
Auditable Agents
arXiv:2604.05485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents call tools, query databases, delegate tasks, and trigger external side effects. Once an agent system can act in the world, the question is no longer only whether harmful actions can be prevented--it is...
Beyond LLM-as-a-Judge: Deterministic Metrics for Multilingual Generative Text Evaluation
arXiv:2604.05083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted as automated judges for evaluating generated text, their outputs are often costly, and highly sensitive to prompt design, language, and aggregation strategies, severely, which limits reproducibility. To...
Non-monotonic causal discovery with Kolmogorov-Arnold Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
arXiv:2604.05136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps constitute a neuro-symbolic paradigm for modeling complex dynamic systems, widely adopted for their inherent interpretability and recurrent inference capabilities. However, the standard FCM formulation, characterized by scalar synaptic weights and monotonic activation...
OntoTKGE: Ontology-Enhanced Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation
arXiv:2604.05468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) extrapolation is an important task that aims to predict future facts through historical interaction information within KG snapshots. A key challenge for most existing TKG extrapolation models is handling entities with...
Towards Effective In-context Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer via Domain-invariant-neurons-based Retrieval
arXiv:2604.05383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have made notable progress in logical reasoning, yet still fall short of human-level performance. Current boosting strategies rely on expert-crafted in-domain demonstrations, limiting their applicability in expertise-scarce domains, such as specialized...
Multi-Agent Pathfinding with Non-Unit Integer Edge Costs via Enhanced Conflict-Based Search and Graph Discretization
arXiv:2604.05416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) plays a critical role in various domains. Traditional MAPF methods typically assume unit edge costs and single-timestep actions, which limit their applicability to real-world scenarios. MAPFR extends MAPF to handle non-unit costs...
Energy-Based Dynamical Models for Neurocomputation, Learning, and Optimization
arXiv:2604.05042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances at the intersection of control theory, neuroscience, and machine learning have revealed novel mechanisms by which dynamical systems perform computation. These advances encompass a wide range of conceptual, mathematical, and computational ideas, with...
Adaptive Serverless Resource Management via Slot-Survival Prediction and Event-Driven Lifecycle Control
arXiv:2604.05465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under variable workloads, resulting in performance degradation or excessive costs....
PRISM-MCTS: Learning from Reasoning Trajectories with Metacognitive Reflection
arXiv:2604.05424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: PRISM-MCTS: Learning from Reasoning Trajectories with Metacognitive Reflection Siyuan Cheng, Bozhong Tian, Yanchao Hao, Zheng Wei Published: 06 Apr 2026, Last Modified: 06 Apr 2026 ACL 2026 Findings Conference, Area Chairs, Reviewers, Publication Chairs, Authors...
Same Graph, Different Likelihoods: Calibration of Autoregressive Graph Generators via Permutation-Equivalent Encodings
arXiv:2604.05613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive graph generators define likelihoods via a sequential construction process, but these likelihoods are only meaningful if they are consistent across all linearizations of the same graph. Segmented Eulerian Neighborhood Trails (SENT), a recent linearization...
The Many Ways of Constitutional Discourse
On January 31, 2026, in a stunning three-page order by Judge Fred Biery, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas granted habeas relief to five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias—who had been...
The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is not trapped in amber: a reflection on oral argument
While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating Second Amendment claims. In light of that experience, I was struck […]The postThe 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is not trapped in...
What oral arguments and opinion authorships can actually tell us
Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and […]The postWhat oral arguments and opinion authorships...