Can LLMs Fool Graph Learning? Exploring Universal Adversarial Attacks on Text-Attributed Graphs
arXiv:2603.21155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) enhance graph learning by integrating rich textual semantics and topological context for each node. While boosting expressiveness, they also expose new vulnerabilities in graph learning through text-based adversarial surfaces. Recent advances leverage...
Context Cartography: Toward Structured Governance of Contextual Space in Large Language Model Systems
arXiv:2603.20578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing approach to improving large language model (LLM) reasoning has centered on expanding context windows, implicitly assuming that more tokens yield better performance. However, empirical evidence - including the "lost in the middle" effect...
Where can AI be used? Insights from a deep ontology of work activities
arXiv:2603.20619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to profoundly reshape how work is executed and organized, but we do not yet have deep frameworks for understanding where AI can be used. Here we provide a comprehensive ontology...
Do LLM-Driven Agents Exhibit Engagement Mechanisms? Controlled Tests of Information Load, Descriptive Norms, and Popularity Cues
arXiv:2603.20911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models make agent-based simulation more behaviorally expressive, but they also sharpen a basic methodological tension: fluent, human-like output is not, by itself, evidence for theory. We evaluate what an LLM-driven simulation can credibly...
LLM-Enhanced Energy Contrastive Learning for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Text-Attributed Graphs
arXiv:2603.20293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-attributed graphs, where nodes are enriched with textual attributes, have become a powerful tool for modeling real-world networks such as citation, social, and transaction networks. However, existing methods for learning from these graphs often assume...
AI-Driven Multi-Agent Simulation of Stratified Polyamory Systems: A Computational Framework for Optimizing Social Reproductive Efficiency
arXiv:2603.20678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary societies face a severe crisis of demographic reproduction. Global fertility rates continue to decline precipitously, with East Asian nations exhibiting the most dramatic trends -- China's total fertility rate (TFR) fell to approximately 1.0...
Does AI Homogenize Student Thinking? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Structural Convergence in AI-Augmented Essays
arXiv:2603.21228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While AI-assisted writing has been widely reported to improve essay quality, its impact on the structural diversity of student thinking remains unexplored. Analyzing 6,875 essays across five conditions (Human-only, AI-only, and three Human+AI prompt strategies),...
Governance-Aware Vector Subscriptions for Multi-Agent Knowledge Ecosystems
arXiv:2603.20833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agent ecosystems grow, agents need mechanisms to monitor relevant knowledge in real time. Semantic publish-subscribe systems address this by matching new content against vector subscriptions. However, in multi-agent settings where agents operate under...
The production of meaning in the processing of natural language
arXiv:2603.20381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing the production of meaning in the processing of natural language is critical for designing safe, thoughtful, engaging, and empowering human-agent interactions. Experiments in cognitive science and social psychology have demonstrated...
Diffutron: A Masked Diffusion Language Model for Turkish Language
arXiv:2603.20466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a compelling non-autoregressive alternative to standard large language models; however, their application to morphologically rich languages remains limited. In this paper, we introduce $\textit{Diffutron}$, a masked diffusion...
PAVE: Premise-Aware Validation and Editing for Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
arXiv:2603.20673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented language models can retrieve relevant evidence yet still commit to answers before explicitly checking whether the retrieved context supports the conclusion. We present PAVE (Premise-Grounded Answer Validation and Editing), an inference-time validation layer for...
Reasoning Topology Matters: Network-of-Thought for Complex Reasoning Tasks
arXiv:2603.20730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing prompting paradigms structure LLM reasoning in limited topologies: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) produces linear traces, while Tree-of-Thought (ToT) performs branching search. Yet complex reasoning often requires merging intermediate results, revisiting hypotheses, and integrating evidence from multiple...
MzansiText and MzansiLM: An Open Corpus and Decoder-Only Language Model for South African Languages
arXiv:2603.20732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoder-only language models can be adapted to diverse tasks through instruction finetuning, but the extent to which this generalizes at small scale for low-resource languages remains unclear. We focus on the languages of South Africa,...
Code-MIE: A Code-style Model for Multimodal Information Extraction with Scene Graph and Entity Attribute Knowledge Enhancement
arXiv:2603.20781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), more and more researchers have paid attention to information extraction based on LLMs. However, there are still some spaces to improve in the existing related methods....
Can ChatGPT Really Understand Modern Chinese Poetry?
arXiv:2603.20851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable capabilities on both poetry generation and translation, yet its ability to truly understand poetry remains unexplored. Previous poetry-related work merely analyzed experimental outcomes without addressing fundamental issues of comprehension. This paper...
The Hidden Puppet Master: A Theoretical and Real-World Account of Emotional Manipulation in LLMs
arXiv:2603.20907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As users increasingly turn to LLMs for practical and personal advice, they become vulnerable to being subtly steered toward hidden incentives misaligned with their own interests. Prior works have benchmarked persuasion and manipulation detection, but...
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.20957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, and output filters to block...
DiscoUQ: Structured Disagreement Analysis for Uncertainty Quantification in LLM Agent Ensembles
arXiv:2603.20975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems, where multiple prompted instances of a language model independently answer questions, are increasingly used for complex reasoning tasks. However, existing methods for quantifying the uncertainty of their collective outputs rely on shallow...
Probing the Latent World: Emergent Discrete Symbols and Physical Structure in Latent Representations
arXiv:2603.20327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models trained with Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) acquire rich spatiotemporal representations by predicting masked regions in latent space rather than reconstructing pixels. This removes the visual verification pathway of generative models, creating...
Data-driven discovery of roughness descriptors for surface characterization and intimate contact modeling of unidirectional composite tapes
arXiv:2603.20418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unidirectional tapes surface roughness determines the evolution of the degree of intimate contact required for ensuring the thermoplastic molecular diffusion and the associated inter-tapes consolidation during manufacturing of composite structures. However, usual characterization of rough...
Delightful Distributed Policy Gradient
arXiv:2603.20521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed reinforcement learning trains on data from stale, buggy, or mismatched actors, producing actions with high surprisal (negative log-probability) under the learner's policy. The core difficulty is not surprising data per se, but \emph{negative learning...
Understanding Behavior Cloning with Action Quantization
arXiv:2603.20538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior cloning is a fundamental paradigm in machine learning, enabling policy learning from expert demonstrations across robotics, autonomous driving, and generative models. Autoregressive models like transformer have proven remarkably effective, from large language models (LLMs)...
RECLAIM: Cyclic Causal Discovery Amid Measurement Noise
arXiv:2603.20585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncovering causal relationships is a fundamental problem across science and engineering. However, most existing causal discovery methods assume acyclicity and direct access to the system variables -- assumptions that fail to hold in many real-world...
Optimal low-rank stochastic gradient estimation for LLM training
arXiv:2603.20632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) training is often bottlenecked by memory constraints and stochastic gradient noise in extremely high-dimensional parameter spaces. Motivated by empirical evidence that many LLM gradient matrices are effectively low-rank during training, we...
Diffusion Model for Manifold Data: Score Decomposition, Curvature, and Statistical Complexity
arXiv:2603.20645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become a leading framework in generative modeling, yet their theoretical understanding -- especially for high-dimensional data concentrated on low-dimensional structures -- remains incomplete. This paper investigates how diffusion models learn such structured...
Court reverses ruling on qualified immunity, denies review of death-row case and First Amendment challenge by citizen journalist
In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court, holding that a Vermont police officer is entitled to qualified […]The postCourt reverses ruling on qualified immunity, denies review of...
Embodied Science: Closing the Discovery Loop with Agentic Embodied AI
arXiv:2603.19782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence has demonstrated remarkable capability in predicting scientific properties, yet scientific discovery remains an inherently physical, long-horizon pursuit governed by experimental cycles. Most current computational approaches are misaligned with this reality, framing discovery as...
Experience is the Best Teacher: Motivating Effective Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
arXiv:2603.20046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) with rubric-based rewards has recently shown remarkable progress in enhancing general reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet still suffers from ineffective exploration confined to curent policy distribution. In fact, RL...
The {\alpha}-Law of Observable Belief Revision in Large Language Model Inference
arXiv:2603.19262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) that iteratively revise their outputs through mechanisms such as chain-of-thought reasoning, self-reflection, or multi-agent debate lack principled guarantees regarding the stability of their probability updates. We identify a consistent multiplicative scaling...
HATL: Hierarchical Adaptive-Transfer Learning Framework for Sign Language Machine Translation
arXiv:2603.19260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) aims to bridge communication between Deaf and hearing individuals. However, its progress is constrained by scarce datasets, limited signer diversity, and large domain gaps between sign motion patterns and pretrained...