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Researchers propose Adaptive Multi-prompt Contrastive Network (AMCN), a novel approach for few-shot out-of-distribution detection that requires only minimal labeled samples. The method leverages CLIP's vision-language capabilities with learnable textual prompts to distinguish between in-distribution and outlier samples, advancing practical AI safety applications.
Researchers have developed methods to predict real-time progress in reasoning language models with long chains of thought, achieving a 0.161 MAE on mathematical tasks. The work addresses the opacity problem in extended reasoning by training linear probes on hidden states and fine-tuning models to generate percentage-based progress estimates, while quantifying the inherent ambiguity in progress labeling across different model sizes.
Researchers introduced PhyWorldBench, a comprehensive benchmark that evaluates text-to-video generation models on their ability to simulate real-world physics accurately. Testing 12 state-of-the-art models across 1,050 prompts, the study reveals significant gaps in how current AI video generators handle physical phenomena, from basic object motion to complex interactions, while also introducing novel evaluation methods using multimodal language models.
Researchers introduce PICACO, a novel in-context alignment method that optimizes meta-instructions to help large language models better understand and balance multiple, often conflicting human values without fine-tuning. The approach uses total correlation optimization to improve alignment across up to 8 distinct values while reducing noise, addressing a key limitation where LLMs struggle to reconcile competing preferences in single prompts.
Researchers present U-PINet, a physics-informed neural network that accelerates 3D microwave scattering analysis for radar applications by combining graph-based near-field encoding with hierarchical multi-scale fusion, achieving faster computation than classical solvers while maintaining accuracy on complex geometries.
Researchers investigate whether Large Language Models reliably perform re-ranking tasks by analyzing how different training methods affect semantic understanding and reasoning transparency. The study reveals that some training approaches produce better explainability than others, suggesting LLMs may optimize for evaluation metrics rather than genuine semantic comprehension, raising concerns about their actual reliability in ranking applications.
Researchers propose LLM-based approaches (GeSI and EmSI) to automatically infer conceptual schemas from heterogeneous tabular datasets by analyzing column headers and cell values. The methods address the challenge of organizing large, inconsistent data collections from diverse sources by deriving entity types, attributes, and relationships without manual intervention.
Researchers propose DISS, a training-free framework that enhances diffusion-based image reconstruction by incorporating side information through inference-time search. The method demonstrates consistent quality improvements across multiple inverse problems (inpainting, super-resolution, deblurring) and diffusion solvers while supporting diverse side information types including reference images, text, and medical scans.
Researchers propose Monte Carlo Permutation Search (MCPS), an improved Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm that enhances the GRAVE algorithm for game-playing AI. MCPS leverages statistics from all playouts containing moves along the path from root to node, demonstrating superior performance across multiple games while eliminating GRAVE's bias hyperparameter.
Researchers introduced EconCausal, a benchmark dataset of 10,490 annotated economic causal relationships from peer-reviewed studies, revealing that large language models struggle to properly condition predictions on changing contexts—achieving 88% accuracy in fixed scenarios but dropping to 41.3% when context shifts require reversing causal directions.
Researchers have released ParsVoice, a 2,200-hour Persian speech dataset with 1.36 million aligned segments from 1,815 speakers, making it 25 times larger than previous Persian TTS resources. The dataset was constructed using an automated pipeline combining ASR, fine-tuned language models, and quality assessment, and validation shows the corpus enables multi-speaker text-to-speech systems competitive with existing solutions.
Researchers propose a dynamic defense mechanism for Multi-Agent Systems that identifies and isolates malicious agents by computing each agent's contribution to final outputs through backward propagation. The method addresses a critical vulnerability where adversarial agents can inject false information that spreads through agent networks, improving security for LLM-based multi-agent applications.
Researchers propose DRLHQ, a deep reinforcement learning approach with heterogeneous query attention mechanisms to solve capacitated location-routing problems (CLRPs) and their open variants. This marks the first end-to-end learning framework for CLRPs, demonstrating superior performance over traditional and DRL-based baselines on benchmark datasets.
Researchers propose SWAP, a sequential watermarking technique to protect copyright of soft prompts used in vision-language models like CLIP. The method embeds watermarks through ordered out-of-distribution classes, addressing fundamental limitations of existing auditing approaches that fail due to conflicting objectives between watermarking and primary task performance.
Researchers have developed an explainable AI framework that jointly assesses lung and cardiovascular health from low-dose chest CT scans by modeling cross-disease physiological interactions. The system achieves 91.9% AUC for cardiovascular disease screening and outperforms cardiac-specific baselines by explicitly reasoning through pulmonary findings to inform heart risk predictions.
Researchers propose CFG-OEC, an improvement to classifier-free guidance in diffusion models that corrects structural sampling errors caused by misalignment between training objectives and sampling procedures. The method demonstrates improved image generation quality on Stable Diffusion models, achieving better FID and CLIP scores than existing approaches.
Researchers propose Cascaded Sensing, a machine learning framework combining autoencoders and diffusion models to reconstruct physical fields from extremely sparse sensor measurements. The approach addresses the ill-posed problem of inferring complete spatial data from limited observations by first establishing global structural anchors through coarse-scale estimation, then refining details through conditional diffusion sampling.
SEAL introduces a two-stage semantic parsing framework that combines large language models with agentic learning to improve conversational question answering over knowledge graphs. The system self-evolves through dialog history and execution feedback without retraining, achieving state-of-the-art results on complex multi-hop reasoning and aggregation tasks while reducing computational costs.
Researchers have developed new parameterization methods for squared tensor networks and circuits that eliminate computational overhead in marginalization and partition function calculations. By leveraging unitary matrix parameterizations inspired by orthogonality and determinism principles, the approach maintains expressiveness while enabling more efficient machine learning applications without the traditional squaring operation complexity.
EHRSummarizer presents a privacy-focused reference architecture for automatically summarizing fragmented electronic health records using FHIR standards and constrained AI summarization. The system addresses clinical workflow inefficiencies by normalizing health data and producing source-grounded summaries, though the research remains a prototype without clinical validation or demonstrated outcomes.
Researchers propose π-Soft-NC and π-Soft-NS, improved evaluation metrics for assessing input attribution methods in large language models that control for the number of retained words, addressing a fundamental bias in existing faithfulness evaluation frameworks. They also introduce Grad-ELLM, a gradient-based attribution method designed for decoder-only LLMs that combines gradient and attention mechanisms for stronger explanatory performance.
Researchers introduced EpiQAL, the first benchmark for evaluating large language models on epidemiological reasoning tasks. Testing 15 models reveals significant performance gaps in multi-step inference and evidence synthesis, indicating current LLMs struggle with population-level disease analysis despite their general capabilities.
Researchers introduce VeRPO, a reinforcement learning framework that converts partial test-case successes into dense, verifiable reward signals for code generation tasks. The method achieves up to 8.83% improvement in pass@1 metrics while eliminating the sparse reward problem that plagues traditional test-suite evaluation, offering a practical alternative to computationally expensive reward models.
Researchers introduce Shadow Unlearning, a privacy-preserving machine unlearning method that removes training data influence from LLMs without exposing sensitive information to attacks. The Neuro-Semantic Projector Unlearning (NSPU) framework achieves this while maintaining model performance and is 10x more computationally efficient than existing approaches.
Researchers introduce a counterfactual-free circuit discovery method adapted for unstructured natural text, enabling Circuit-Targeted Supervised Fine-Tuning (CT-SFT) that improves low-resource model adaptation while preserving performance on source tasks and preventing catastrophic forgetting.
