The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2602.15382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models have unlocked advanced collaborative reasoning, yet they remain shackled by the inefficiency of discrete text communication, which imposes significant runtime overhead and information quantization loss. While latent...
TAROT: Test-driven and Capability-adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Fine-tuning for Code Generation with Large Language Models
arXiv:2602.15449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the coding paradigm, known as vibe coding, yet synthesizing algorithmically sophisticated and robust code still remains a critical challenge. Incentivizing the deep reasoning capabilities of LLMs is essential to...
ExpertWeaver: Unlocking the Inherent MoE in Dense LLMs with GLU Activation Patterns
arXiv:2602.15521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) effectively scales model capacity while preserving computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, training high-quality MoEs from scratch is prohibitively expensive. A promising alternative is to convert pretrained dense models into sparse MoEs....
Beyond Static Pipelines: Learning Dynamic Workflows for Text-to-SQL
arXiv:2602.15564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL has recently achieved impressive progress, yet remains difficult to apply effectively in real-world scenarios. This gap stems from the reliance on single static workflows, fundamentally limiting scalability to out-of-distribution and long-tail scenarios. Instead of...
Clinically Inspired Symptom-Guided Depression Detection from Emotion-Aware Speech Representations
arXiv:2602.15578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression manifests through a diverse set of symptoms such as sleep disturbance, loss of interest, and concentration difficulties. However, most existing works treat depression prediction either as a binary label or an overall severity score...
How Uncertain Is the Grade? A Benchmark of Uncertainty Metrics for LLM-Based Automatic Assessment
arXiv:2602.16039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) is reshaping the landscape of automatic assessment in education. While these systems demonstrate substantial advantages in adaptability to diverse question types and flexibility in output formats, they...
GPSBench: Do Large Language Models Understand GPS Coordinates?
arXiv:2602.16105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in applications that interact with the physical world, such as navigation, robotics, or mapping, making robust geospatial reasoning a critical capability. Despite that, LLMs' ability to reason about...
Learning Personalized Agents from Human Feedback
arXiv:2602.16173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI agents are powerful but often fail to align with the idiosyncratic, evolving preferences of individual users. Prior approaches typically rely on static datasets, either training implicit preference models on interaction history or encoding...
EnterpriseGym Corecraft: Training Generalizable Agents on High-Fidelity RL Environments
arXiv:2602.16179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that training AI agents on high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments produces capabilities that generalize beyond the training distribution. We introduce \corecraft{}, the first environment in \textsc{EnterpriseGym}, Surge AI's suite of agentic RL environments. \corecraft{}...
Multi-agent cooperation through in-context co-player inference
arXiv:2602.16301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving cooperation among self-interested agents remains a fundamental challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning. Recent work showed that mutual cooperation can be induced between "learning-aware" agents that account for and shape the learning dynamics of their...
Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs
arXiv:2602.16512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompting schemes such as Chain of Thought, Tree of Thoughts, and Graph of Thoughts can significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, most existing schemes require users to define static, problem-specific reasoning...
EdgeNav-QE: QLoRA Quantization and Dynamic Early Exit for LAM-based Navigation on Edge Devices
arXiv:2602.15836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Action Models (LAMs) have shown immense potential in autonomous navigation by bridging high-level reasoning with low-level control. However, deploying these multi-billion parameter models on edge devices remains a significant challenge due to memory constraints...
The Perplexity Paradox: Why Code Compresses Better Than Math in LLM Prompts
arXiv:2602.15843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In "Compress or Route?" (Johnson, 2026), we found that code generation tolerates aggressive prompt compression (r >= 0.6) while chain-of-thought reasoning degrades gradually. That study was limited to HumanEval (164 problems), left the "perplexity paradox"...
Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think‐tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative
Abstract Aim To develop a consensus paper on the central points of an international invitational think‐tank on nursing and artificial intelligence (AI). Methods We established the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative, comprising interdisciplinary experts in AI development, biomedical...
Narrative Theory-Driven LLM Methods for Automatic Story Generation and Understanding: A Survey
arXiv:2602.15851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applications of narrative theories using large language models (LLMs) deliver promising use-cases in automatic story generation and understanding tasks. Our survey examines how natural language processing (NLP) research engages with fields of narrative studies, and...
NLP Privacy Risk Identification in Social Media (NLP-PRISM): A Survey
arXiv:2602.15866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) is integral to social media analytics but often processes content containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), behavioral cues, and metadata raising privacy risks such as surveillance, profiling, and targeted advertising. To systematically...
Test-Time Adaptation for Tactile-Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2602.15873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile-vision-language (TVL) models are increasingly deployed in real-world robotic and multimodal perception tasks, where test-time distribution shifts are unavoidable. Existing test-time adaptation (TTA) methods provide filtering in unimodal settings but lack explicit treatment of modality-wise...
FUTURE-VLA: Forecasting Unified Trajectories Under Real-time Execution
arXiv:2602.15882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General vision-language models increasingly support unified spatiotemporal reasoning over long video streams, yet deploying such capabilities on robots remains constrained by the prohibitive latency of processing long-horizon histories and generating high-dimensional future predictions. To bridge...
NeuroSleep: Neuromorphic Event-Driven Single-Channel EEG Sleep Staging for Edge-Efficient Sensing
arXiv:2602.15888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable, continuous neural sensing on wearable edge platforms is fundamental to long-term health monitoring; however, for electroencephalography (EEG)-based sleep monitoring, dense high-frequency processing is often computationally prohibitive under tight energy budgets. To address this bottleneck,...
Doc-to-LoRA: Learning to Instantly Internalize Contexts
arXiv:2602.15902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long input sequences are central to in-context learning, document understanding, and multi-step reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the quadratic attention cost of Transformers makes inference memory-intensive and slow. While context distillation (CD) can...
Contextuality from Single-State Representations: An Information-Theoretic Principle for Adaptive Intelligence
arXiv:2602.16716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive systems often operate across multiple contexts while reusing a fixed internal state space due to constraints on memory, representation, or physical resources. Such single-state reuse is ubiquitous in natural and artificial intelligence, yet its...
An order-oriented approach to scoring hesitant fuzzy elements
arXiv:2602.16827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional scoring approaches on hesitant fuzzy sets often lack a formal base in order theory. This paper proposes a unified framework, where each score is explicitly defined with respect to a given order. This order-oriented...
AgentLAB: Benchmarking LLM Agents against Long-Horizon Attacks
arXiv:2602.16901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in long-horizon, complex environments to solve challenging problems, but this expansion exposes them to long-horizon attacks that exploit multi-turn user-agent-environment interactions to achieve objectives infeasible in single-turn settings. To measure...
Narrow fine-tuning erodes safety alignment in vision-language agents
arXiv:2602.16931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lifelong multimodal agents must continuously adapt to new tasks through post-training, but this creates fundamental tension between acquiring capabilities and preserving safety alignment. We demonstrate that fine-tuning aligned vision-language models on narrow-domain harmful datasets induces...
Mind the GAP: Text Safety Does Not Transfer to Tool-Call Safety in LLM Agents
arXiv:2602.16943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed as agents increasingly interact with external systems through tool calls--actions with real-world consequences that text outputs alone do not carry. Safety evaluations, however, overwhelmingly measure text-level refusal behavior, leaving a critical...
LLM4Cov: Execution-Aware Agentic Learning for High-coverage Testbench Generation
arXiv:2602.16953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Execution-aware LLM agents offer a promising paradigm for learning from tool feedback, but such feedback is often expensive and slow to obtain, making online reinforcement learning (RL) impractical. High-coverage hardware verification exemplifies this challenge due...
Fundamental Limits of Black-Box Safety Evaluation: Information-Theoretic and Computational Barriers from Latent Context Conditioning
arXiv:2602.16984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box safety evaluation of AI systems assumes model behavior on test distributions reliably predicts deployment performance. We formalize and challenge this assumption through latent context-conditioned policies -- models whose outputs depend on unobserved internal variables...
Retaining Suboptimal Actions to Follow Shifting Optima in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2602.17062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Value decomposition is a core approach for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, existing methods still rely on a single optimal action and struggle to adapt when the underlying value function shifts during training, often...
How AI Coding Agents Communicate: A Study of Pull Request Description Characteristics and Human Review Responses
arXiv:2602.17084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models has led to the emergence of AI coding agents that autonomously create pull requests on GitHub. However, how these agents differ in their pull request description characteristics, and...
Agentic Wireless Communication for 6G: Intent-Aware and Continuously Evolving Physical-Layer Intelligence
arXiv:2602.17096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As 6G wireless systems evolve, growing functional complexity and diverse service demands are driving a shift from rule-based control to intent-driven autonomous intelligence. User requirements are no longer captured by a single metric (e.g., throughput...