GRAIL: Post-hoc Compensation by Linear Reconstruction for Compressed Networks
arXiv:2602.23795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured deep model compression methods are hardware-friendly and substantially reduce memory and inference costs. However, under aggressive compression, the resulting accuracy degradation often necessitates post-compression finetuning, which can be impractical due to missing labeled data...
Learning to maintain safety through expert demonstrations in settings with unknown constraints: A Q-learning perspective
arXiv:2602.23816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given a set of trajectories demonstrating the execution of a task safely in a constrained MDP with observable rewards but with unknown constraints and non-observable costs, we aim to find a policy that maximizes the...
pathsig: A GPU-Accelerated Library for Truncated and Projected Path Signatures
arXiv:2602.24066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Path signatures provide a rich representation of sequential data, with strong theoretical guarantees and good performance in a variety of machine-learning tasks. While signatures have progressed from fixed feature extractors to trainable components of machine-learning...
Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
arXiv:2602.20517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective human-AI coordination requires artificial agents capable of exhibiting and responding to human-like behaviors while adapting to changing contexts. Imitation learning has emerged as one of the prominent approaches to build such agents by training...
From Logs to Language: Learning Optimal Verbalization for LLM-Based Recommendation in Production
arXiv:2602.20558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are promising backbones for generative recommender systems, yet a key challenge remains underexplored: verbalization, i.e., converting structured user interaction logs into effective natural language inputs. Existing methods rely on rigid templates...
When can we trust untrusted monitoring? A safety case sketch across collusion strategies
arXiv:2602.20628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AIs are increasingly being deployed with greater autonomy and capabilities, which increases the risk that a misaligned AI may be able to cause catastrophic harm. Untrusted monitoring -- using one untrusted model to oversee another...
Recursive Belief Vision Language Model
arXiv:2602.20659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with long-horizon manipulation under partial observability. Most existing approaches remain observation-driven, relying on short context windows or repeated queries to vision-language models (VLMs). This leads to loss of task progress,...
ShaRP: Shape-Regularized Multidimensional Projections
arXiv:2306.00554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Projections, or dimensionality reduction methods, are techniques of choice for the visual exploration of high-dimensional data. Many such techniques exist, each one of them having a distinct visual signature - i.e., a recognizable way to...
Interpretable Medical Image Classification using Prototype Learning and Privileged Information
arXiv:2310.15741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretability is often an essential requirement in medical imaging. Advanced deep learning methods are required to address this need for explainability and high performance. In this work, we investigate whether additional information available during the...
From Performance to Purpose: A Sociotechnical Taxonomy for Evaluating Large Language Model Utility
arXiv:2602.20513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at completing discrete tasks, they are being integrated into increasingly complex and diverse real-world systems. However, task-level success alone does not establish a model's fit for use...
ProactiveMobile: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Boosting Proactive Intelligence on Mobile Devices
arXiv:2602.21858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in mobile agent development, yet their capabilities are predominantly confined to a reactive paradigm, where they merely execute explicit user commands. The emerging paradigm of proactive...
2-Step Agent: A Framework for the Interaction of a Decision Maker with AI Decision Support
arXiv:2602.21889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across a growing number of fields, human decision making is supported by predictions from AI models. However, we still lack a deep understanding of the effects of adoption of these technologies. In this paper, we...
EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors
arXiv:2602.21218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality data is essential for modern machine learning, yet many valuable corpora are sensitive and cannot be freely shared. Synthetic data offers a practical substitute for downstream development, and large language models (LLMs) have emerged...
Field-Theoretic Memory for AI Agents: Continuous Dynamics for Context Preservation
arXiv:2602.21220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a memory system for AI agents that treats stored information as continuous fields governed by partial differential equations rather than discrete entries in a database. The approach draws from classical field theory: memories...
Budget-Aware Agentic Routing via Boundary-Guided Training
arXiv:2602.21227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents that execute long-horizon workflows, invoking a high-capability model at every step becomes economically unsustainable. While model routing is effective for single-turn queries, agentic routing is a...
AgenticTyper: Automated Typing of Legacy Software Projects Using Agentic AI
arXiv:2602.21251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legacy JavaScript systems lack type safety, making maintenance risky. While TypeScript can help, manually adding types is expensive. Previous automated typing research focuses on type inference but rarely addresses type checking setup, definition generation, bug...
FedVG: Gradient-Guided Aggregation for Enhanced Federated Learning
arXiv:2602.21399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing their private data. However, data heterogeneity across clients leads to client drift, which degrades the overall generalization performance of the model. This effect...
A Framework for Assessing AI Agent Decisions and Outcomes in AutoML Pipelines
arXiv:2602.22442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-based AutoML systems rely on large language models to make complex, multi-stage decisions across data processing, model selection, and evaluation. However, existing evaluation practices remain outcome-centric, focusing primarily on final task performance. Through a review...
VeRO: An Evaluation Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
arXiv:2602.22480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An important emerging application of coding agents is agent optimization: the iterative improvement of a target agent through edit-execute-evaluate cycles. Despite its relevance, the community lacks a systematic understanding of coding agent performance on this...
Mirroring the Mind: Distilling Human-Like Metacognitive Strategies into Large Language Models
arXiv:2602.22508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often exhibit structural fragility in complex reasoning tasks, failing to produce correct answers even after successfully deriving valid intermediate steps. Through systematic analysis, we observe that these failures frequently stem not...
A Mathematical Theory of Agency and Intelligence
arXiv:2602.22519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To operate reliably under changing conditions, complex systems require feedback on how effectively they use resources, not just whether objectives are met. Current AI systems process vast information to produce sophisticated predictions, yet predictions can...
CourtGuard: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Zero-Shot Policy Adaptation in LLM Safety
arXiv:2602.22557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety mechanisms for Large Language Models (LLMs) rely heavily on static, fine-tuned classifiers that suffer from adaptation rigidity, the inability to enforce new governance rules without expensive retraining. To address this, we introduce CourtGuard,...
AHBid: An Adaptable Hierarchical Bidding Framework for Cross-Channel Advertising
arXiv:2602.22650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In online advertising, the inherent complexity and dynamic nature of advertising environments necessitate the use of auto-bidding services to assist advertisers in bid optimization. This complexity is further compounded in multi-channel scenarios, where effective allocation...
Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directions
arXiv:2602.22680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have enabled agents that reason, plan, and interact with tools and environments to accomplish complex tasks. As these agents operate over extended interaction horizons, their effectiveness increasingly depends on adapting behavior to...
DeepPresenter: Environment-Grounded Reflection for Agentic Presentation Generation
arXiv:2602.22839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Presentation generation requires deep content research, coherent visual design, and iterative refinement based on observation. However, existing presentation agents often rely on predefined workflows and fixed templates. To address this, we present DeepPresenter, an agentic...
Towards LLM-Empowered Knowledge Tracing via LLM-Student Hierarchical Behavior Alignment in Hyperbolic Space
arXiv:2602.22879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Tracing (KT) diagnoses students' concept mastery through continuous learning state monitoring in education.Existing methods primarily focus on studying behavioral sequences based on ID or textual information.While existing methods rely on ID-based sequences or shallow...
SPM-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Scanning Probe Microscopy
arXiv:2602.22971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs achieved breakthroughs in general reasoning, their proficiency in specialized scientific domains reveals pronounced gaps in existing benchmarks due to data contamination, insufficient complexity, and prohibitive human labor costs. Here we present SPM-Bench, an...
Iterative Prompt Refinement for Dyslexia-Friendly Text Summarization Using GPT-4o
arXiv:2602.22524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dyslexia affects approximately 10% of the global population and presents persistent challenges in reading fluency and text comprehension. While existing assistive technologies address visual presentation, linguistic complexity remains a substantial barrier to equitable access. This...
Imagination Helps Visual Reasoning, But Not Yet in Latent Space
arXiv:2602.22766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent visual reasoning aims to mimic human's imagination process by meditating through hidden states of Multimodal Large Language Models. While recognized as a promising paradigm for visual reasoning, the underlying mechanisms driving its effectiveness remain...
TCM-DiffRAG: Personalized Syndrome Differentiation Reasoning Method for Traditional Chinese Medicine based on Knowledge Graph and Chain of Thought
arXiv:2602.22828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) technology can empower large language models (LLMs) to generate more accurate, professional, and timely responses without fine tuning. However, due to the complex reasoning processes and substantial individual differences involved...