Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes
arXiv:2603.11736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems have assumed increasingly crucial roles in selection processes, personnel recruitment and analysis of candidates' profiles. However, the employment of large language models (LLMs) risks reproducing, and in...
Reversible Lifelong Model Editing via Semantic Routing-Based LoRA
arXiv:2603.11239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dynamic evolution of real-world necessitates model editing within Large Language Models. While existing methods explore modular isolation or parameter-efficient strategies, they still suffer from semantic drift or knowledge forgetting due to continual updating. To...
A Survey of Reasoning in Autonomous Driving Systems: Open Challenges and Emerging Paradigms
arXiv:2603.11093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of high-level autonomous driving (AD) is shifting from perception-centric limitations to a more fundamental bottleneck, namely, a deficit in robust and generalizable reasoning. Although current AD systems manage structured environments, they consistently falter...
The Density of Cross-Persistence Diagrams and Its Applications
arXiv:2603.11623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides powerful tools to explore the shape and structure of data through topological features such as clusters, loops, and voids. Persistence diagrams are a cornerstone of TDA, capturing the evolution of...
Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural Norm Operationalisation for AI Agents
arXiv:2603.11864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents are increasingly used in high-stakes domains like healthcare and law enforcement, aligning their behaviour with social, legal, ethical, empathetic, and cultural (SLEEC) norms has become a critical engineering challenge. While international frameworks...
Automated Detection of Malignant Lesions in the Ovary Using Deep Learning Models and XAI
arXiv:2603.11818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The unrestrained proliferation of cells that are malignant in nature is cancer. In recent times, medical professionals are constantly acquiring enhanced diagnostic and treatment abilities by implementing deep learning models to analyze medical data for...
STAIRS-Former: Spatio-Temporal Attention with Interleaved Recursive Structure Transformer for Offline Multi-task Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.11691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with multi-task datasets is challenging due to varying numbers of agents across tasks and the need to generalize to unseen scenarios. Prior works employ transformers with observation tokenization and hierarchical...
Detecting Intrinsic and Instrumental Self-Preservation in Autonomous Agents: The Unified Continuation-Interest Protocol
arXiv:2603.11382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents, especially delegated systems with memory, persistent context, and multi-step planning, pose a measurement problem not present in stateless models: an agent that preserves continued operation as a terminal objective and one that does...
Evaluating Explainable AI Attribution Methods in Neural Machine Translation via Attention-Guided Knowledge Distillation
arXiv:2603.11342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The study of the attribution of input features to the output of neural network models is an active area of research. While numerous Explainable AI (XAI) techniques have been proposed to interpret these models, the...
DeReason: A Difficulty-Aware Curriculum Improves Decoupled SFT-then-RL Training for General Reasoning
arXiv:2603.11193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models, particularly in mathematics and coding. While recent efforts have extended this paradigm to broader general...
Entropy Guided Diversification and Preference Elicitation in Agentic Recommendation Systems
arXiv:2603.11399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users on e-commerce platforms can be uncertain about their preferences early in their search. Queries to recommendation systems are frequently ambiguous, incomplete, or weakly specified. Agentic systems are expected to proactively reason, ask clarifying questions,...
CreativeBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Machine Creativity via Self-Evolving Challenges
arXiv:2603.11863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The saturation of high-quality pre-training data has shifted research focus toward evolutionary systems capable of continuously generating novel artifacts, leading to the success of AlphaEvolve. However, the progress of such systems is hindered by the...
ThReadMed-QA: A Multi-Turn Medical Dialogue Benchmark from Real Patient Questions
arXiv:2603.11281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical question-answering benchmarks predominantly evaluate single-turn exchanges, failing to capture the iterative, clarification-seeking nature of real patient consultations. We introduce ThReadMed-QA, a benchmark of 2,437 fully-answered patient-physician conversation threads extracted from r/AskDocs, comprising 8,204 question-answer...
VisiFold: Long-Term Traffic Forecasting via Temporal Folding Graph and Node Visibility
arXiv:2603.11816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic forecasting is a cornerstone of intelligent transportation systems. While existing research has made significant progress in short-term prediction, long-term forecasting remains a largely uncharted and challenging frontier. Extending the prediction horizon intensifies two critical...
FinRule-Bench: A Benchmark for Joint Reasoning over Financial Tables and Principles
arXiv:2603.11339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to financial analysis, yet their ability to audit structured financial statements under explicit accounting principles remains poorly explored. Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate question answering, numerical reasoning, or anomaly...
Artificial Intelligence for Sentiment Analysis of Persian Poetry
arXiv:2603.11254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to the development of large language models (LLMs) that are capable of understanding, analysing, and creating textual data. These language models open a significant opportunity in...
GPT4o-Receipt: A Dataset and Human Study for AI-Generated Document Forensics
arXiv:2603.11442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can humans detect AI-generated financial documents better than machines? We present GPT4o-Receipt, a benchmark of 1,235 receipt images pairing GPT-4o-generated receipts with authentic ones from established datasets, evaluated by five state-of-the-art multimodal LLMs and a...
LLMs can construct powerful representations and streamline sample-efficient supervised learning
arXiv:2603.11679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As real-world datasets become increasingly complex and heterogeneous, supervised learning is often bottlenecked by input representation design. Modeling multimodal data for downstream tasks, such as time-series, free text, and structured records, often requires non-trivial domain-specific...
Counterweights and Complementarities: The Convergence of AI and Blockchain Powering a Decentralized Future
arXiv:2603.11299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This editorial addresses the critical intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies, highlighting their contrasting tendencies toward centralization and decentralization, respectively. While AI, particularly with the rise of large language models (LLMs), exhibits a...
Summarize Before You Speak with ARACH: A Training-Free Inference-Time Plug-In for Enhancing LLMs via Global Attention Reallocation
arXiv:2603.11067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance, yet further gains often require costly training. This has motivated growing interest in post-training techniques-especially training-free approaches that improve models at inference time without updating weights. Most training-free...
COMPASS: The explainable agentic framework for Sovereignty, Sustainability, Compliance, and Ethics
arXiv:2603.11277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of large language model (LLM)-based agentic systems raises critical concerns regarding digital sovereignty, environmental sustainability, regulatory compliance, and ethical alignment. Whilst existing frameworks address individual dimensions in isolation, no unified architecture systematically...
Examining Users' Behavioural Intention to Use OpenClaw Through the Cognition--Affect--Conation Framework
arXiv:2603.11455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines users' behavioural intention to use OpenClaw through the Cognition--Affect--Conation (CAC) framework. The research investigates how cognitive perceptions of the system influence affective responses and subsequently shape behavioural intention. Enabling factors include perceived...
Measuring AI Agents' Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios
arXiv:2603.11214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate the autonomous cyber-attack capabilities of frontier AI models on two purpose-built cyber ranges-a 32-step corporate network attack and a 7-step industrial control system attack-that require chaining heterogeneous capabilities across extended action sequences. By...
Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in Vehicular Routing
arXiv:2603.11433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern transportation networks, adversaries can manipulate routing algorithms using false data injection attacks, such as simulating heavy traffic with multiple devices running crowdsourced navigation applications, to mislead vehicles toward suboptimal routes and increase congestion....
The Unlearning Mirage: A Dynamic Framework for Evaluating LLM Unlearning
arXiv:2603.11266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) aims to enhance safety, mitigate biases, and comply with legal mandates, such as the right to be forgotten. However, existing unlearning methods are brittle: minor query modifications, such as...
LLM-Assisted Causal Structure Disambiguation and Factor Extraction for Legal Judgment Prediction
arXiv:2603.11446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream methods for Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) based on Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) heavily rely on the statistical correlation between case facts and judgment results. This paradigm lacks explicit modeling of legal constituent elements and...
PACED: Distillation at the Frontier of Student Competence
arXiv:2603.11178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard LLM distillation wastes compute on two fronts: problems the student has already mastered (near-zero gradients) and problems far beyond its reach (incoherent gradients that erode existing capabilities). We show that this waste is not...
Verified Multi-Agent Orchestration: A Plan-Execute-Verify-Replan Framework for Complex Query Resolution
arXiv:2603.11445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Verified Multi-Agent Orchestration (VMAO), a framework that coordinates specialized LLM-based agents through a verification-driven iterative loop. Given a complex query, our system decomposes it into a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of sub-questions, executes...
CINDI: Conditional Imputation and Noisy Data Integrity with Flows in Power Grid Data
arXiv:2603.11745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world multivariate time series, particularly in critical infrastructure such as electrical power grids, are often corrupted by noise and anomalies that degrade the performance of downstream tasks. Standard data cleaning approaches often rely on disjoint...