Defending the Bankrupt Castle
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In each case, the U.S. Department of Justice appoints a private individual, usually an attorney, to serve as the bankruptcy trustee and administer the estate. Equipped with significant...
BIAS, FAIRNESS, AND INCLUSIVITY IN GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ALGORITHMIC BIAS, REPRESENTATION GAPS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF ENSURING EQUITY IN AI-GENERATED OUTPUTS
Generative AI systems such as large language models (LLMs), image synthesizers, and multimodal frameworks have transformed content creation while also exposing and amplifying systemic biases that undermine fairness and inclusivity. This study critically examines algorithmic bias in model outputs, representation...
Compression Method Matters: Benchmark-Dependent Output Dynamics in LLM Prompt Compression
arXiv:2603.23527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt compression is often evaluated by input-token reduction, but its real deployment impact depends on how compression changes output length and total inference cost. We present a controlled replication and extension study of benchmark-dependent output...
Causal Reconstruction of Sentiment Signals from Sparse News Data
arXiv:2603.23568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentiment signals derived from sparse news are commonly used in financial analysis and technology monitoring, yet transforming raw article-level observations into reliable temporal series remains a largely unsolved engineering problem. Rather than treating this as...
Boost Like a (Var)Pro: Trust-Region Gradient Boosting via Variable Projection
arXiv:2603.23658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient boosting, a method of building additive ensembles from weak learners, has established itself as a practical and theoretically-motivated approach to approximate functions, especially using decision tree weak learners. Comparable methods for smooth parametric learners,...
Circuit Complexity of Hierarchical Knowledge Tracing and Implications for Log-Precision Transformers
arXiv:2603.23823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge tracing models mastery over interconnected concepts, often organized by prerequisites. We analyze hierarchical prerequisite propagation through a circuit-complexity lens to clarify what is provable about transformer-style computation on deep concept hierarchies. Using recent results...
Why the Maximum Second Derivative of Activations Matters for Adversarial Robustness
arXiv:2603.23860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates the critical role of activation function curvature -- quantified by the maximum second derivative $\max|\sigma''|$ -- in adversarial robustness. Using the Recursive Curvature-Tunable Activation Family (RCT-AF), which enables precise control over curvature...
An Invariant Compiler for Neural ODEs in AI-Accelerated Scientific Simulation
arXiv:2603.23861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural ODEs are increasingly used as continuous-time models for scientific and sensor data, but unconstrained neural ODEs can drift and violate domain invariants (e.g., conservation laws), yielding physically implausible solutions. In turn, this can compound...
Off-Policy Safe Reinforcement Learning with Constrained Optimistic Exploration
arXiv:2603.23889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When safety is formulated as a limit of cumulative cost, safe reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies that maximize return subject to the cost constraint in data collection and deployment. Off-policy safe RL methods,...
The Supreme Court and voting identification
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]The postThe Supreme Court and voting identificationappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Separating Diagnosis from Control: Auditable Policy Adaptation in Agent-Based Simulations with LLM-Based Diagnostics
arXiv:2603.22904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mitigating elderly loneliness requires policy interventions that achieve both adaptability and auditability. Existing methods struggle to reconcile these objectives: traditional agent-based models suffer from static rigidity, while direct large language model (LLM) controllers lack essential...
SAiW: Source-Attributable Invisible Watermarking for Proactive Deepfake Defense
arXiv:2603.23178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfakes generated by modern generative models pose a serious threat to information integrity, digital identity, and public trust. Existing detection methods are largely reactive, attempting to identify manipulations after they occur and often failing to...
ABSTRAL: Automatic Design of Multi-Agent Systems Through Iterative Refinement and Topology Optimization
arXiv:2603.22791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should multi-agent systems be designed, and can that design knowledge be captured in a form that is inspectable, revisable, and transferable? We introduce ABSTRAL, a framework that treats MAS architecture as an evolving natural-language...
AI Mental Models: Learned Intuition and Deliberation in a Bounded Neural Architecture
arXiv:2603.22561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper asks whether a bounded neural architecture can exhibit a meaningful division of labor between intuition and deliberation on a classic 64-item syllogistic reasoning benchmark. More broadly, the benchmark is relevant to ongoing debates...
Intelligence Inertia: Physical Principles and Applications
arXiv:2603.22347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Landauer's principle establishes the fundamental thermodynamic floor for information erasure and Fisher Information provides a metric for local curvature in parameter space, these classical frameworks function effectively only as approximations within regimes of sparse...
LLM-guided headline rewriting for clickability enhancement without clickbait
arXiv:2603.22459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing reader engagement while preserving informational fidelity is a central challenge in controllable text generation for news media. Optimizing news headlines for reader engagement is often conflated with clickbait, resulting in exaggerated or misleading phrasing...
Decentring the governance of AI in the military: a focus on the postcolonial subject
Abstract The governance of emerging technologies with increased autonomy in the military has become a topical issue in recent years, especially considering the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and related innovations in computer science. Despite this hype, the postcolonial subject’s...
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...
LLM-Driven Heuristic Synthesis for Industrial Process Control: Lessons from Hot Steel Rolling
arXiv:2603.20537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial process control demands policies that are interpretable and auditable, requirements that black-box neural policies struggle to meet. We study an LLM-driven heuristic synthesis framework for hot steel rolling, in which a language model iteratively...
RedacBench: Can AI Erase Your Secrets?
arXiv:2603.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models can readily extract sensitive information from unstructured text, making redaction -- the selective removal of such information -- critical for data security. However, existing benchmarks for redaction typically focus on predefined categories...
Enhancing Safety of Large Language Models via Embedding Space Separation
arXiv:2603.20206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities, yet ensuring their safety against harmful prompts remains a critical challenge. Recent work has revealed that the latent representations (embeddings) of harmful and safe queries in LLMs...
FinReflectKG -- HalluBench: GraphRAG Hallucination Benchmark for Financial Question Answering Systems
arXiv:2603.20252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As organizations increasingly integrate AI-powered question-answering systems into financial information systems for compliance, risk assessment, and decision support, ensuring the factual accuracy of AI-generated outputs becomes a critical engineering challenge. Current Knowledge Graph (KG)-augmented QA...
ARYA: A Physics-Constrained Composable & Deterministic World Model Architecture
arXiv:2603.21340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ARYA, a composable, physics-constrained, deterministic world model architecture built on five foundational principles: nano models, composability, causal reasoning, determinism, and architectural AI safety. We demonstrate that ARYA satisfies all canonical world model...
A Framework for Low-Latency, LLM-driven Multimodal Interaction on the Pepper Robot
arXiv:2603.21013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into social robotics, two weaknesses persist. First, existing implementations on platforms like Pepper often rely on cascaded Speech-to-Text (STT)->LLM->Text-to-Speech (TTS) pipelines, resulting in high latency and...
ReLaMix: Residual Latency-Aware Mixing for Delay-Robust Financial Time-Series Forecasting
arXiv:2603.20869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial time-series forecasting in real-world high-frequency markets is often hindered by delayed or partially stale observations caused by asynchronous data acquisition and transmission latency. To better reflect such practical conditions, we investigate a simulated delay...
GMPilot: An Expert AI Agent For FDA cGMP Compliance
arXiv:2603.20815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pharmaceutical industry is facing challenges with quality management such as high costs of compliance, slow responses and disjointed knowledge. This paper presents GMPilot, a domain-specific AI agent that is designed to support FDA cGMP...
RLVR Training of LLMs Does Not Improve Thinking Ability for General QA: Evaluation Method and a Simple Solution
arXiv:2603.20799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) stimulates the thinking processes of large language models (LLMs), substantially enhancing their reasoning abilities on verifiable tasks. It is often assumed that similar gains should transfer to general question...
LLM Router: Prefill is All You Need
arXiv:2603.20895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs often share comparable benchmark accuracies, but their complementary performance across task subsets suggests that an Oracle router--a theoretical selector with perfect foresight--can significantly surpass standalone model accuracy by navigating model-specific strengths. While current routers...
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...
Interpretable Multiple Myeloma Prognosis with Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Data
arXiv:2603.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning (ML) promises better clinical decision-making, yet opaque model behavior limits the adoption in healthcare. We propose two novel regularization techniques for ensuring the interpretability of ML models trained on real-world data. In particular,...