OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as...
Beyond Masks: Efficient, Flexible Diffusion Language Models via Deletion-Insertion Processes
arXiv:2603.23507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) relying on token masking and unmasking have shown promise in language modeling, their computational efficiency and generation flexibility remain constrained by the masking paradigm. In this paper, we propose...
MSA: Memory Sparse Attention for Efficient End-to-End Memory Model Scaling to 100M Tokens
arXiv:2603.23516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory is a cornerstone of human intelligence. Enabling AI to process lifetime-scale information remains a long-standing pursuit in the field. Due to the constraints of full-attention architectures, the effective context length of large language...
Chitrakshara: A Large Multilingual Multimodal Dataset for Indian languages
arXiv:2603.23521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal research has predominantly focused on single-image reasoning, with limited exploration of multi-image scenarios. Recent models have sought to enhance multi-image understanding through large-scale pretraining on interleaved image-text datasets. However, most Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are...
Navigating the Concept Space of Language Models
arXiv:2603.23524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) trained on large language model activations output thousands of features that enable mapping to human-interpretable concepts. The current practice for analyzing these features primarily relies on inspecting top-activating examples, manually browsing individual...
Visuospatial Perspective Taking in Multimodal Language Models
arXiv:2603.23510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As multimodal language models (MLMs) are increasingly used in social and collaborative settings, it is crucial to evaluate their perspective-taking abilities. Existing benchmarks largely rely on text-based vignettes or static scene understanding, leaving visuospatial perspective-taking...
Fast and Faithful: Real-Time Verification for Long-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
arXiv:2603.23508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly deployed in enterprise search and document-centric assistants, where responses must be grounded in long and complex source materials. In practice, verifying that generated answers faithfully reflect retrieved documents is difficult:...
The Compression Paradox in LLM Inference: Provider-Dependent Energy Effects of Prompt Compression
arXiv:2603.23528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models has created an environmental paradox: the very technology that could help solve climate challenges is itself becoming a significant contributor to global carbon emissions. We test whether prompt...
Do 3D Large Language Models Really Understand 3D Spatial Relationships?
arXiv:2603.23523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent 3D Large-Language Models (3D-LLMs) claim to understand 3D worlds, especially spatial relationships among objects. Yet, we find that simply fine-tuning a language model on text-only question-answer pairs can perform comparably or even surpass these...
Language Model Planners do not Scale, but do Formalizers?
arXiv:2603.23844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows overwhelming evidence that LLMs, even those trained to scale their reasoning trace, perform unsatisfactorily when solving planning problems too complex. Whether the same conclusion holds for LLM formalizers that generate solver-oriented programs...
BeliefShift: Benchmarking Temporal Belief Consistency and Opinion Drift in LLM Agents
arXiv:2603.23848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used as long-running conversational agents, yet every major benchmark evaluating their memory treats user information as static facts to be stored and retrieved. That's the wrong model. People change their minds, and...
Dialogue to Question Generation for Evidence-based Medical Guideline Agent Development
arXiv:2603.23937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is central to high-quality care, but remains difficult to implement in fast-paced primary care settings. Physicians face short consultations, increasing patient loads, and lengthy guideline documents that are impractical to consult in...
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...
Synthetic or Authentic? Building Mental Patient Simulators from Longitudinal Evidence
arXiv:2603.22704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patient simulation is essential for developing and evaluating mental health dialogue systems. As most existing approaches rely on snapshot-style prompts with limited profile information, homogeneous behaviors and incoherent disease progression in multi-turn interactions have become...
Continuous Optimization for Satisfiability Modulo Theories on Linear Real Arithmetic
arXiv:2603.22877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) are integral in industrial applications such as hardware verification and design automation. Existing approaches are predominantly based on conflict-driven clause learning, which is structurally difficult to parallelize and...
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...
Sparse but Critical: A Token-Level Analysis of Distributional Shifts in RLVR Fine-Tuning of LLMs
arXiv:2603.22446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly improved reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet the token-level mechanisms underlying these improvements remain unclear. We present a systematic empirical study of RLVR's distributional effects organized...
Can LLM Agents Generate Real-World Evidence? Evaluating Observational Studies in Medical Databases
arXiv:2603.22767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Observational studies can yield clinically actionable evidence at scale, but executing them on real-world databases is open-ended and requires coherent decisions across cohort construction, analysis, and reporting. Prior evaluations of LLM agents emphasize isolated steps...
Between Rules and Reality: On the Context Sensitivity of LLM Moral Judgment
arXiv:2603.23114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A human's moral decision depends heavily on the context. Yet research on LLM morality has largely studied fixed scenarios. We address this gap by introducing Contextual MoralChoice, a dataset of moral dilemmas with systematic contextual...
Towards Automated Community Notes Generation with Large Vision Language Models for Combating Contextual Deception
arXiv:2603.22453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Community Notes have emerged as an effective crowd-sourced mechanism for combating online deception on social media platforms. However, its reliance on human contributors limits both the timeliness and scalability. In this work, we study the...
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...
Analysing LLM Persona Generation and Fairness Interpretation in Polarised Geopolitical Contexts
arXiv:2603.22837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly utilised for social simulation and persona generation, necessitating an understanding of how they represent geopolitical identities. In this paper, we analyse personas generated for Palestinian and Israeli identities by...
PaperVoyager : Building Interactive Web with Visual Language Models
arXiv:2603.22999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in visual language models have enabled autonomous agents for complex reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. However, existing document agents mainly transform papers into static artifacts such as summaries, webpages, or slides, which...
Why AI-Generated Text Detection Fails: Evidence from Explainable AI Beyond Benchmark Accuracy
arXiv:2603.23146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made the detection of AI-Generated text a pressing and complex challenge. Although many detection systems report high benchmark accuracy, their reliability in real-world settings remains uncertain,...
UniDial-EvalKit: A Unified Toolkit for Evaluating Multi-Faceted Conversational Abilities
arXiv:2603.23160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking AI systems in multi-turn interactive scenarios is essential for understanding their practical capabilities in real-world applications. However, existing evaluation protocols are highly heterogeneous, differing significantly in dataset formats, model interfaces, and evaluation pipelines, which...
ImplicitRM: Unbiased Reward Modeling from Implicit Preference Data for LLM alignment
arXiv:2603.23184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward modeling represents a long-standing challenge in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning language models. Current reward modeling is heavily contingent upon experimental feedback data with high collection costs. In this work, we...
ST-GDance++: A Scalable Spatial-Temporal Diffusion for Long-Duration Group Choreography
arXiv:2603.22316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group dance generation from music requires synchronizing multiple dancers while maintaining spatial coordination, making it highly relevant to applications such as film production, gaming, and animation. Recent group dance generation models have achieved promising generation...
Large Language Models for Missing Data Imputation: Understanding Behavior, Hallucination Effects, and Control Mechanisms
arXiv:2603.22332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data imputation is a cornerstone technique for handling missing values in real-world datasets, which are often plagued by missingness. Despite recent progress, prior studies on Large Language Models-based imputation remain limited by scalability challenges, restricted...
Instruction-Tuned, but Not More Verifiable Instruction-Following: A Cross-Task Diagnosis for LoRA Adapters
arXiv:2603.22379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapters are often selected and deployed based on nominal labels (e.g., instruction-tuned), which implicitly suggest what capability improves after adaptation. We test whether nominal training objectives reliably align with realized cross-task capability gains by evaluating...
Symbolic Graph Networks for Robust PDE Discovery from Noisy Sparse Data
arXiv:2603.22380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven discovery of partial differential equations (PDEs) offers a promising paradigm for uncovering governing physical laws from observational data. However, in practical scenarios, measurements are often contaminated by noise and limited by sparse sampling, which...