PERMA: Benchmarking Personalized Memory Agents via Event-Driven Preference and Realistic Task Environments
arXiv:2603.23231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Empowering large language models with long-term memory is crucial for building agents that adapt to users' evolving needs. However, prior evaluations typically interleave preference-related dialogues with irrelevant conversations, reducing the task to needle-in-a-haystack retrieval while...
Improving Safety Alignment via Balanced Direct Preference Optimization
arXiv:2603.22829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development and widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs), their potential safety risks have attracted widespread attention. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been adopted to enhance the safety performance of...
CoMaTrack: Competitive Multi-Agent Game-Theoretic Tracking with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.22846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT), a core dynamic task in embodied intelligence, requires an agent to precisely follow a language-specified target. Yet most existing methods rely on single-agent imitation learning, suffering from costly expert data and...
Understanding LLM Performance Degradation in Multi-Instance Processing: The Roles of Instance Count and Context Length
arXiv:2603.22608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for processing multiple documents or performing analysis over a number of instances. For example, analysing the overall sentiment of a number of movie reviews requires an LLM...
Learning What Matters Now: Dynamic Preference Inference under Contextual Shifts
arXiv:2603.22813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans often juggle multiple, sometimes conflicting objectives and shift their priorities as circumstances change, rather than following a fixed objective function. In contrast, most computational decision-making and multi-objective RL methods assume static preference weights or...
AI Mental Models: Learned Intuition and Deliberation in a Bounded Neural Architecture
arXiv:2603.22561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper asks whether a bounded neural architecture can exhibit a meaningful division of labor between intuition and deliberation on a classic 64-item syllogistic reasoning benchmark. More broadly, the benchmark is relevant to ongoing debates...
STEM Agent: A Self-Adapting, Tool-Enabled, Extensible Architecture for Multi-Protocol AI Agent Systems
arXiv:2603.22359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI agent frameworks commit early to a single interaction protocol, a fixed tool integration strategy, and static user models, limiting their deployment across diverse interaction paradigms. To address these constraints, we introduce STEM Agent...
The Efficiency Attenuation Phenomenon: A Computational Challenge to the Language of Thought Hypothesis
arXiv:2603.22312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper computationally investigates whether thought requires a language-like format, as posited by the Language of Thought (LoT) hypothesis. We introduce the ``AI Private Language'' thought experiment: if two artificial agents develop an efficient, inscrutable...
AgriPestDatabase-v1.0: A Structured Insect Dataset for Training Agricultural Large Language Model
arXiv:2603.22777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural pest management increasingly relies on timely and accurate access to expert knowledge, yet high quality labeled data and continuous expert support remain limited, particularly for farmers operating in rural regions with unstable/no internet connectivity....
Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data
arXiv:2603.22290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-resource languages (LRLs) often lack high-quality, large-scale datasets for training effective text embedding models, hindering their application in tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. In this work, we challenge the prevailing assumption that...
Intelligence Inertia: Physical Principles and Applications
arXiv:2603.22347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Landauer's principle establishes the fundamental thermodynamic floor for information erasure and Fisher Information provides a metric for local curvature in parameter space, these classical frameworks function effectively only as approximations within regimes of sparse...
MedCausalX: Adaptive Causal Reasoning with Self-Reflection for Trustworthy Medical Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2603.23085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled interpretable medical diagnosis by integrating visual perception with linguistic reasoning. Yet, existing medical chain-of-thought (CoT) models lack explicit mechanisms to represent and enforce causal reasoning, leaving them vulnerable to spurious...
Empirical Comparison of Agent Communication Protocols for Task Orchestration
arXiv:2603.22823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context. Nowadays, artificial intelligence agent systems are transforming from single-tool interactions to complex multi-agent orchestrations. As a result, two competing communication protocols have emerged: a tool integration protocol that standardizes how agents invoke external tools,...
MuQ-Eval: An Open-Source Per-Sample Quality Metric for AI Music Generation Evaluation
arXiv:2603.22677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributional metrics such as Fr\'echet Audio Distance cannot score individual music clips and correlate poorly with human judgments, while the only per-sample learned metric achieving high human correlation is closed-source. We introduce MUQ-EVAL, an open-source...
Benchmarking Multi-Agent LLM Architectures for Financial Document Processing: A Comparative Study of Orchestration Patterns, Cost-Accuracy Tradeoffs and Production Scaling Strategies
arXiv:2603.22651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of large language models (LLMs) for structured information extraction from financial documents has accelerated rapidly, yet production deployments face fundamental architectural decisions with limited empirical guidance. We present a systematic benchmark comparing four...
ProGRank: Probe-Gradient Reranking to Defend Dense-Retriever RAG from Corpus Poisoning
arXiv:2603.22934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the reliability of large language model applications by grounding generation in retrieved evidence, but it also introduces a new attack surface: corpus poisoning. In this setting, an adversary injects or edits...
MemCollab: Cross-Agent Memory Collaboration via Contrastive Trajectory Distillation
arXiv:2603.23234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents rely on memory mechanisms to reuse knowledge from past problem-solving experiences. Existing approaches typically construct memory in a per-agent manner, tightly coupling stored knowledge to a single model's reasoning style....
Separating Diagnosis from Control: Auditable Policy Adaptation in Agent-Based Simulations with LLM-Based Diagnostics
arXiv:2603.22904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mitigating elderly loneliness requires policy interventions that achieve both adaptability and auditability. Existing methods struggle to reconcile these objectives: traditional agent-based models suffer from static rigidity, while direct large language model (LLM) controllers lack essential...
MERIT: Memory-Enhanced Retrieval for Interpretable Knowledge Tracing
arXiv:2603.22289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Tracing (KT) models students' evolving knowledge states to predict future performance, serving as a foundation for personalized education. While traditional deep learning models achieve high accuracy, they often lack interpretability. Large Language Models (LLMs)...
LGSE: Lexically Grounded Subword Embedding Initialization for Low-Resource Language Adaptation
arXiv:2603.22629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting pretrained language models to low-resource, morphologically rich languages remains a significant challenge. Existing vocabulary expansion methods typically rely on arbitrarily segmented subword units, resulting in fragmented lexical representations and loss of critical morphological information....
Efficient Hallucination Detection: Adaptive Bayesian Estimation of Semantic Entropy with Guided Semantic Exploration
arXiv:2603.22812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks, yet they remain prone to generating factually incorrect outputs known as hallucinations. While recent approaches have shown promise for hallucination detection...
Parametric Knowledge and Retrieval Behavior in RAG Fine-Tuning for Electronic Design Automation
arXiv:2603.23047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) fine-tuning has shown substantial improvements over vanilla RAG, yet most studies target document question answering and often rely on standard NLP metrics that can obscure factual differences. We evaluate RAG fine-tuning for...
AuthorMix: Modular Authorship Style Transfer via Layer-wise Adapter Mixing
arXiv:2603.23069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of authorship style transfer involves rewriting text in the style of a target author while preserving the meaning of the original text. Existing style transfer methods train a single model on large corpora...
HGNet: Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
arXiv:2603.23136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated knowledge graph (KG) construction is essential for navigating the rapidly expanding body of scientific literature. However, existing approaches struggle to recognize long multi-word entities, often fail to generalize across domains, and typically overlook the...
Decoding AI Authorship: Can LLMs Truly Mimic Human Style Across Literature and Politics?
arXiv:2603.23219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amidst the rising capabilities of generative AI to mimic specific human styles, this study investigates the ability of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, to emulate the...
Trained Persistent Memory for Frozen Decoder-Only LLMs
arXiv:2603.22329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoder-only language models are stateless: hidden representations are discarded after every forward pass and nothing persists across sessions. Jeong (2026a) showed that trained memory adapters give a frozen encoder-decoder backbone persistent latent-space memory, building on...
Graph Signal Processing Meets Mamba2: Adaptive Filter Bank via Delta Modulation
arXiv:2603.22333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-space models (SSMs) offer efficient alternatives to attention with linear-time recurrence. Mamba2, a recent SSM-based language model, uses selective input gating and a multi-head structure, enabling parallel computation and strong benchmark performance. However, its multi-head...
Problems with Chinchilla Approach 2: Systematic Biases in IsoFLOP Parabola Fits
arXiv:2603.22339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chinchilla Approach 2 is among the most widely used methods for fitting neural scaling laws. Its parabolic approximation introduces systematic biases in compute-optimal allocation estimates, even on noise-free synthetic data. Applied to published Llama 3...
COMPASS-Hedge: Learning Safely Without Knowing the World
arXiv:2603.22348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online learning algorithms often faces a fundamental trilemma: balancing regret guarantees between adversarial and stochastic settings and providing baseline safety against a fixed comparator. While existing methods excel in one or two of these regimes,...
WIST: Web-Grounded Iterative Self-Play Tree for Domain-Targeted Reasoning Improvement
arXiv:2603.22352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) offers a practical path to self-improvement of language models, but existing methods face a key trade-off: endogenous self-play can drift over iterations, while corpus-grounded approaches rely...