On Using Machine Learning to Early Detect Catastrophic Failures in Marine Diesel Engines
arXiv:2603.12733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic failures of marine engines imply severe loss of functionality and destroy or damage the systems irreversibly. Being sudden and often unpredictable events, they pose a severe threat to navigation, crew, and passengers. The abrupt...
Optimizing Task Completion Time Updates Using POMDPs
arXiv:2603.12340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Managing announced task completion times is a fundamental control problem in project management. While extensive research exists on estimating task durations and task scheduling, the problem of when and how to update completion times communicated...
Shattering the Shortcut: A Topology-Regularized Benchmark for Multi-hop Medical Reasoning in LLMs
arXiv:2603.12458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve expert-level performance on standard medical benchmarks through single-hop factual recall, they severely struggle with the complex, multi-hop diagnostic reasoning required in real-world clinical settings. A primary obstacle is "shortcut...
TRACE: Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence on Knowledge Graphs for Interpretable Stock Movement Prediction
arXiv:2603.12500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence (TRACE) on knowledge graphs for interpretable stock movement prediction that unifies symbolic relational priors, dynamic graph exploration, and LLM-guided decision making in a single end-to-end pipeline. The approach performs...
ELLA: Generative AI-Powered Social Robots for Early Language Development at Home
arXiv:2603.12508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early language development shapes children's later literacy and learning, yet many families have limited access to scalable, high-quality support at home. Recent advances in generative AI make it possible for social robots to move beyond...
LLM BiasScope: A Real-Time Bias Analysis Platform for Comparative LLM Evaluation
arXiv:2603.12522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed widely, detecting and understanding bias in their outputs is critical. We present LLM BiasScope, a web application for side-by-side comparison of LLM outputs with real-time bias analysis. The...
Expert Pyramid Tuning: Efficient Parameter Fine-Tuning for Expertise-Driven Task Allocation
arXiv:2603.12577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has become a dominant paradigm for deploying LLMs in multi-task scenarios due to its extreme parameter efficiency. While Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) based LoRA variants have achieved promising results by dynamically routing tokens to...
Continual Learning in Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities
arXiv:2603.12658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting-a critical limitation of the static pre-training paradigm...
Experimental evidence of progressive ChatGPT models self-convergence
arXiv:2603.12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) that undergo recursive training on synthetically generated data are susceptible to model collapse, a phenomenon marked by the generation of meaningless output. Existing research has examined this issue from either theoretical...
Adaptive Vision-Language Model Routing for Computer Use Agents
arXiv:2603.12823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer Use Agents (CUAs) translate natural-language instructions into Graphical User Interface (GUI) actions such as clicks, keystrokes, and scrolls by relying on a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to interpret screenshots and predict grounded tool calls. However,...
DS$^2$-Instruct: Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for Large Language Models Instruction Tuning
arXiv:2603.12932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized domains requires high-quality instruction tuning datasets, which are expensive to create through human annotation. Existing data synthesis methods focus on general-purpose tasks and fail to capture domain-specific terminology...
Multi-Step Semantic Reasoning in Generative Retrieval
arXiv:2603.12368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval (GR) models encode a corpus within model parameters and generate relevant document identifiers directly for a given query. While this paradigm shows promise in retrieval tasks, existing GR models struggle with complex queries...
Speech-Worthy Alignment for Japanese SpeechLLMs via Direct Preference Optimization
arXiv:2603.12565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SpeechLLMs typically combine ASR-trained encoders with text-based LLM backbones, leading them to inherit written-style output patterns unsuitable for text-to-speech synthesis. This mismatch is particularly pronounced in Japanese, where spoken and written registers differ substantially in...
SpectralGuard: Detecting Memory Collapse Attacks in State Space Models
arXiv:2603.12414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba achieve linear-time sequence processing through input-dependent recurrence, but this mechanism introduces a critical safety vulnerability. We show that the spectral radius rho(A-bar) of the discretized transition operator governs...
Probing Length Generalization in Mamba via Image Reconstruction
arXiv:2603.12499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mamba has attracted widespread interest as a general-purpose sequence model due to its low computational complexity and competitive performance relative to transformers. However, its performance can degrade when inference sequence lengths exceed those seen during...
CALF: Communication-Aware Learning Framework for Distributed Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.12543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed reinforcement learning policies face network delays, jitter, and packet loss when deployed across edge devices and cloud servers. Standard RL training assumes zero-latency interaction, causing severe performance degradation under realistic network conditions. We introduce...
Swap-guided Preference Learning for Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
arXiv:2603.12595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a widely used approach to align large-scale AI systems with human values. However, RLHF typically assumes a single, universal reward, which overlooks diverse preferences and limits personalization. Variational...
Human-AI Collaborative Autonomous Experimentation With Proxy Modeling for Comparative Observation
arXiv:2603.12618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimization for different tasks like material characterization, synthesis, and functional properties for desired applications over multi-dimensional control parameters need a rapid strategic search through active learning such as Bayesian optimization (BO). However, such high-dimensional experimental...
LightMoE: Reducing Mixture-of-Experts Redundancy through Expert Replacing
arXiv:2603.12645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) based Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance and computational efficiency. However, their deployment is often constrained by substantial memory demands, primarily due to the need to load numerous expert modules. While...
Federated Hierarchical Clustering with Automatic Selection of Optimal Cluster Numbers
arXiv:2603.12684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data in an unsupervised manner. Existing FC methods implicitly rely on the assumption that clients are with...
BLooP: Zero-Shot Abstractive Summarization using Large Language Models with Bigram Lookahead Promotion
arXiv:2603.11415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abstractive summarization requires models to generate summaries that convey information in the source document. While large language models can generate summaries without fine-tuning, they often miss key details and include extraneous information. We propose BLooP...
LLM-Augmented Digital Twin for Policy Evaluation in Short-Video Platforms
arXiv:2603.11333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-video platforms are closed-loop, human-in-the-loop ecosystems where platform policy, creator incentives, and user behavior co-evolve. This feedback structure makes counterfactual policy evaluation difficult in production, especially for long-horizon and distributional outcomes. The challenge is amplified...
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...
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...
Governing Evolving Memory in LLM Agents: Risks, Mechanisms, and the Stability and Safety Governed Memory (SSGM) Framework
arXiv:2603.11768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory has emerged as a foundational component of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents, enabling continuous adaptation, lifelong multimodal learning, and sophisticated reasoning. However, as memory systems transition from static retrieval databases to dynamic,...
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...
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,...
MaterialFigBENCH: benchmark dataset with figures for evaluating college-level materials science problem-solving abilities of multimodal large language models
arXiv:2603.11414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present MaterialFigBench, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the ability of multimodal large language models (LLMs) to solve university-level materials science problems that require accurate interpretation of figures. Unlike existing benchmarks that primarily rely...
TimeSqueeze: Dynamic Patching for Efficient Time Series Forecasting
arXiv:2603.11352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based time series foundation models face a fundamental trade-off in choice of tokenization: point-wise embeddings preserve temporal fidelity but scale poorly with sequence length, whereas fixed-length patching improves efficiency by imposing uniform boundaries that may...
From Debate to Deliberation: Structured Collective Reasoning with Typed Epistemic Acts
arXiv:2603.11781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems increasingly tackle complex reasoning, yet their interaction patterns remain limited to voting, unstructured debate, or pipeline orchestration. None model deliberation: a phased process where differentiated participants exchange typed reasoning moves, preserve disagreements,...