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Latest cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL preprints from arXiv

UniClawBench: A Universal Benchmark for Proactive Agents on Real-World Tasks

The rapid development of large language models and multimodal large language models has accelerated the emergence of proactive agents capable of operating everyday tools and assisting users in real-world environments....

Zhekai Chen, Chengqi Duan, Kaiyue Sun et al. cs.CL 21h ago
OpenCoF: Learning to Reason Through Video Generation

Reasoning has become a core capability for large models, especially when reliable decisions require understanding logical consequences. Recent video generation models offer a reasoning path distinct from previous Chai...

Xinyan Chen, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang et al. cs.CV 21h ago
Ideas Have Genomes: Benchmarking Scientific Lineage Reasoning and Lineage-Grounded Idea Generation

Scientific ideas rarely start from a blank page. They inherit mechanisms, repair known limitations, and recombine pieces of earlier work, much like biological genomes. Current benchmarks still say little about whether...

Yifan Zhou, Qihao Yang, Yan Li et al. cs.AI 21h ago
Score Accuracy Along the Forward Diffusion Does Not Certify Numerical Stability in Diffusion Sampling

Score matching controls average error under the forward marginals, but a discretized reverse-time sampler evaluates the learned score along its own trajectory. We show that small forward-marginal error does not guaran...

Yiwei Zhou stat.ML 21h ago
MulTTiPop: A Multitrack Transcription Dataset for Pop Music

We present MulTTiPop, a dataset of pop music segments and their associated multitrack MIDI recordings for the evaluation of automatic music transcription models. MulTTiPop contains 572 segments of popular music totali...

Nathan Pruyne, Benjamin Stoler, William Chen et al. cs.SD 21h ago
SLORR: Simple and Efficient In-Training Low-Rank Regularization

Low-rank factorization is widely used to compress neural networks, but modern models are often not naturally amenable to aggressive factorization without significant accuracy loss. Existing training-time low-rank regu...

David González-Martínez, Shiwei Liu cs.LG 21h ago
Using AI-based Learning Assistants in Higher Education: A Large-Scale Descriptive Analysis

In this study, we present a large-scale descriptive analysis of the use of an AI-based learning assistant (Syntea) in higher education. Based on objective log data from 77,543 students enrolled in distance studies, we...

Kristina Schaaff, Quintus Stierstorfer, Valerie Heckel cs.AI 21h ago
Dimensionality Reduction Meets Network Science: Sensemaking on UMAP's kNN Graph

While UMAP is widely used for exploring high-dimensional data, typical workflows focus on its lower-dimensional embedding, largely overlooking the rich k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) graph that UMAP constructs internally. T...

Duen Horng Chau, Donghao Ren, Fred Hohman et al. cs.LG 21h ago
AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and vi...

Siddharth Damodharan, Radhika Gupta, Ali Alshami et al. cs.AI 21h ago
ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

Generating realistic 3D human motions in real-time within interactive applications is key for animation, simulation, and humanoid robotics. While recent offline motion generation approaches offer precise control via t...

Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Haotian Zhang et al. cs.GR 21h ago
Workflow as Knowledge: Semantic Persistence for LLM-Mediated Workflows

Large language model (LLM) applications increasingly use explicit workflows for tool use, retrieval, branching, checkpointing, and human approval. Existing workflow systems already address many execution concerns. Thi...

Emanuele Quinto, Carlo Andrea Rozzi, Francesco Zanitti cs.AI 21h ago
The Illusion of Equivalency: Statistical Characterization of Quantization Effects in LLMs

Post-training quantization is widely used to deploy large language models in resource-constrained settings, yet its evaluation relies almost exclusively on accuracy and perplexity. We show that these metrics fail to c...

Baha Rababah, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Carson K. Leung cs.AI 22h ago
Super Weights in LLMs and the Failure of Selective Training

Recent work identified Super Weights, individual parameters whose removal degrades model performance by orders of magnitude. We show that this degradation due to pruning Super Weights does not universally apply to all...

Shreyas Subramanian, Adewale Akinfaderin, Akarsha Sehwag cs.LG 22h ago
Validity of LLMs as data annotators: AMALIA on authority

A national language model offers a linguistic community its own instrument for measuring what its citizens say and value. Portugal's AMALIA, a publicly funded 9B-parameter model for European Portuguese, appears compet...

Manuel Pita cs.CL 22h ago
Pose-to-Biomechanics: Bridging 3D Human Pose Estimation and Biomechanical Attribute Prediction

Recent progress in 3D human pose estimation has made markerless recovery of skeletal motion increasingly accurate and scalable. However, most pose estimators remain optimized for geometric keypoint accuracy, while man...

Ayda Eghbalian, Kevin Desai cs.CV 22h ago
Latent Memory Palace: Reasoning for Control as Autoregressive Variational Inference

Human decision-making is highly flexible -- some actions are taken immediately; others require longer deliberation. Language models have exhibited a similar capacity for adaptive "reasoning." However, transferring thi...

Chuning Zhu, Eva Xu, Jose Barreiros et al. cs.LG 22h ago
Deep Learning for Joint Narrowband Interference Cancellation and Soft Demodulation in OFDM Systems

Narrowband interference (NBI) severely degrades orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems by corrupting subcarriers and rendering classical soft demodulation ineffective. Conventional compressed-sensin...

Emmanouil Kavvousanos, Francky Catthoor, Vassilis Paliouras cs.LG 22h ago
Remember When It Matters: Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents

In long-horizon tasks, decision-relevant state is often scattered across an expanding trajectory, while the action agent must surface it and act. As trajectories grow, task requirements, environment facts, prior attem...

Yifan Wu, Lizhu Zhang, Yuhang Zhou et al. cs.AI 22h ago
LTM: Large-scale Terrain Model for Wildfire-prone Landscapes

Accurate 3D terrain maps are essential for emergency response when assessing wildfire hazards. However, wildfire-prone regions often span vast areas where conventional reconstruction methods underperform. Airborne LiD...

Xiao Fu, Yue Hu, Meida Chen et al. cs.CV 22h ago
MPFlow: Learning Budgeted Max-Flow Optimization on the Lightning Network with Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning

We address liquidity placement in the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN): given a fixed budget, which channels should a node open to maximize its routing capacity? We cast this as a budget-constrained combinatorial optimi...

Harrison Rush, Vincent Davis, Simone Antonelli et al. cs.LG 22h ago
Do You Need a Frontier Model as a Citation Verifier? Benchmarking Rubric LLMs for Deep-Research Source Attribution

Reinforcement learning increasingly relies on an LLM judge to score each rubric criterion, and that judge acts as the reward model during training. Before such a signal can be trusted, we need to know how capable the...

Ethan Leung, Elias Lumer, Corey Feld et al. cs.CL 22h ago
ProjAgent: Procedural Similarity Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Generation

Repository-level code generation requires implementing target functions while accounting for complex cross-file dependencies and project-specific conventions. Existing retrieval methods predominantly rely on lexical,...

QiHong Chen, Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed cs.SE 22h ago
A Practical Investigation of Training-free Relaxed Speculative Decoding

Speculative decoding accelerates sampling from an autoregressive LLM by using a faster auxiliary model to draft tokens which are then verified in parallel by the LLM. Standard speculative decoding is lossless: its rej...

Guoxuan Xia, Luka Ribar, Paul Balanca cs.LG 22h ago
SolarChain-Eval: A Physics-Constrained Benchmark for Trustworthy Economic Agents in Decentralized Energy Markets

As agentic AI systems are increasingly applied to cyber-physical environments, their evaluation requires assessment of both task performance and trustworthiness. In decentralized energy markets, autonomous agents may...

Shilin Ou, Yifan Xu, Luyao Zhang cs.AI 22h ago
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