Conversational Demand Response: Bidirectional Aggregator-Prosumer Coordination through Agentic AI
arXiv:2603.06217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residential demand response depends on sustained prosumer participation, yet existing coordination is either fully automated, or limited to one-way dispatch signals and price alerts that offer little possibility for informed decision-making. This paper introduces Conversational...
Artificial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation: Reinforcement Learning for Climate Change-Resilient Transport
arXiv:2603.06278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate change is expected to intensify rainfall and, consequently, pluvial flooding, leading to increased disruptions in urban transportation systems over the coming decades. Designing effective adaptation strategies is challenging due to the long-term, sequential nature...
VDCook:DIY video data cook your MLLMs
arXiv:2603.05539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce VDCook: a self-evolving video data operating system, a configurable video data construction platform for researchers and vertical domain teams. Users initiate data requests via natural language queries and adjustable parameters (scale, retrieval-synthesis ratio,...
Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of AI-Driven Traffic Flow Patterns and Land Use Interaction: A GeoAI-Based Analysis of Multimodal Urban Mobility
arXiv:2603.05581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban traffic flow is governed by the complex, nonlinear interaction between land use configuration and spatiotemporally heterogeneous mobility demand. Conventional global regression and time-series models cannot simultaneously capture these multi-scale dynamics across multiple travel modes....
SecureRAG-RTL: A Retrieval-Augmented, Multi-Agent, Zero-Shot LLM-Driven Framework for Hardware Vulnerability Detection
arXiv:2603.05689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to scarcity of publicly available hardware description language (HDL) datasets. This knowledge...
Longitudinal Lesion Inpainting in Brain MRI via 3D Region Aware Diffusion
arXiv:2603.05693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate longitudinal analysis of brain MRI is often hindered by evolving lesions, which bias automated neuroimaging pipelines. While deep generative models have shown promise in inpainting these lesions, most existing methods operate cross-sectionally or lack...
Autonomous Algorithm Discovery for Ptychography via Evolutionary LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2603.05696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ptychography is a computational imaging technique widely used for high-resolution materials characterization, but high-quality reconstructions often require the use of regularization functions that largely remain manually designed. We introduce Ptychi-Evolve, an autonomous framework that uses...
The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality
arXiv:2603.05710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of AI in Earth system science promises unprecedented speed and fidelity in the generation of climate information. However, this technological prowess rests on a fragile and unequal foundation: the current trajectory of...
Attention Meets Reachability: Structural Equivalence and Efficiency in Grammar-Constrained LLM Decoding
arXiv:2603.05540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study grammar-constrained decoding (GCD) as a coupling between an autoregressive next-token distribution and a reachability oracle over a pushdown system compiled from a context-free grammar (CFG). We prove an oracle invariance theorem: language-equivalent grammars...
PVminerLLM: Structured Extraction of Patient Voice from Patient-Generated Text using Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.05776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivation: Patient-generated text contains critical information about patients' lived experiences, social circumstances, and engagement in care, including factors that strongly influence adherence, care coordination, and health equity. However, these patient voice signals are rarely available...
Learning Next Action Predictors from Human-Computer Interaction
arXiv:2603.05923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Truly proactive AI systems must anticipate what we will do next. This foresight demands far richer information than the sparse signals we type into our prompts -- it demands reasoning over the entire context of...
CRIMSON: A Clinically-Grounded LLM-Based Metric for Generative Radiology Report Evaluation
arXiv:2603.06183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CRIMSON, a clinically grounded evaluation framework for chest X-ray report generation that assesses reports based on diagnostic correctness, contextual relevance, and patient safety. Unlike prior metrics, CRIMSON incorporates full clinical context, including patient...
LIT-RAGBench: Benchmarking Generator Capabilities of Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2603.06198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a framework in which a Generator, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), produces answers by retrieving documents from an external collection using a Retriever. In practice, Generators must integrate evidence...
Transparent AI for Mathematics: Transformer-Based Large Language Models for Mathematical Entity Relationship Extraction with XAI
arXiv:2603.06348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematical text understanding is a challenging task due to the presence of specialized entities and complex relationships between them. This study formulates mathematical problem interpretation as a Mathematical Entity Relation Extraction (MERE) task, where operands...
Autocorrelation effects in a stochastic-process model for decision making via time series
arXiv:2603.05559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision makers exploiting photonic chaotic dynamics obtained by semiconductor lasers provide an ultrafast approach to solving multi-armed bandit problems by using a temporal optical signal as the driving source for sequential decisions. In such systems,...
Improved Scaling Laws via Weak-to-Strong Generalization in Random Feature Ridge Regression
arXiv:2603.05691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is increasingly common in machine learning to use learned models to label data and then employ such data to train more capable models. The phenomenon of weak-to-strong generalization exemplifies the advantage of this two-stage...
First-Order Softmax Weighted Switching Gradient Method for Distributed Stochastic Minimax Optimization with Stochastic Constraints
arXiv:2603.05774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the distributed stochastic minimax optimization problem subject to stochastic constraints. We propose a novel first-order Softmax-Weighted Switching Gradient method tailored for federated learning. Under full client participation, our algorithm achieves the standard...
Sparse Crosscoders for diffing MoEs and Dense models
arXiv:2603.05805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture of Experts (MoE) achieve parameter-efficient scaling through sparse expert routing, yet their internal representations remain poorly understood compared to dense models. We present a systematic comparison of MoE and dense model internals using crosscoders,...
Reference-guided Policy Optimization for Molecular Optimization via LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2603.05900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) benefit substantially from supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) in reasoning tasks. However, these recipes perform poorly in instruction-based molecular optimization, where each data point typically provides...
Design Experiments to Compare Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms
arXiv:2603.05919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online platforms routinely compare multi-armed bandit algorithms, such as UCB and Thompson Sampling, to select the best-performing policy. Unlike standard A/B tests for static treatments, each run of a bandit algorithm over $T$ users produces...
Weak-SIGReg: Covariance Regularization for Stable Deep Learning
arXiv:2603.05924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern neural network optimization relies heavily on architectural priorssuch as Batch Normalization and Residual connectionsto stabilize training dynamics. Without these, or in low-data regimes with aggressive augmentation, low-bias architectures like Vision Transformers (ViTs) often suffer...
Agnostic learning in (almost) optimal time via Gaussian surface area
arXiv:2603.06027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The complexity of learning a concept class under Gaussian marginals in the difficult agnostic model is closely related to its $L_1$-approximability by low-degree polynomials. For any concept class with Gaussian surface area at most $\Gamma$,...
Dynamic Momentum Recalibration in Online Gradient Learning
arXiv:2603.06120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its momentum variants form the backbone of deep learning optimization, yet the underlying dynamics of their gradient behavior remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we reinterpret gradient updates through the...
FedSCS-XGB -- Federated Server-centric surrogate XGBoost for continual health monitoring
arXiv:2603.06224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable sensors with local data processing can detect health threats early, enhance documentation, and support personalized therapy. In the context of spinal cord injury (SCI), which involves risks such as pressure injuries and blood pressure...
DC-Merge: Improving Model Merging with Directional Consistency
arXiv:2603.06242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-adapted models into a unified model that preserves the knowledge of each task. In this paper, we identify that the key to this knowledge retention lies in maintaining the...
AI governance: a systematic literature review
Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms a wide range of sectors and drives innovation, it also introduces different types of risks that should be identified, assessed, and mitigated. Various AI governance frameworks have been released recently by governments, organizations, and...
Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Law and Regulation
Legal issues concerning Generative AI technologies
We are witnessing an accelerated technological evolution that has enabled the development of artificial intelligence in various fields, allowing it to gradually infiltrate the entire society. We intend to cover only a small subset of AI technologies in our paper,...
AI & Intellectual Property: Towards an Articulated Public Domain
Hard Law and Soft Law Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in Investment Management
Abstract Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) technologies present great opportunities for the investment management industry (as well as broader financial services). However, there are presently no regulations specifically aiming at AI in investment management. Does this mean that AI is currently unregulated?...