Ax Tiancheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Lorenzo Lupo, Nigel Collier, Dirk Hovy, Paul R\"ottger 8d ago

SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors

SimBench provides first standardized benchmark for evaluating how faithfully LLMs simulate human behaviors across diverse tasks and metrics.

Ax Haoyu Huang, Hong Ting Tsang, Jiaxin Bai, Xi Peng, Gong Zhang, Yangqiu Song 8d ago

AtlasKV: Augmenting LLMs with Billion-Scale Knowledge Graphs in 20GB VRAM

AtlasKV enables RAG systems to integrate billion-scale knowledge graphs efficiently in limited VRAM by avoiding expensive external retrieval modules.

Ax Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Yuan Lu, Zhixuan Chu, Xiaoxi Li, Shuting He, Zhichao Chen, Haoxuan Li, Qingsong Wen, Zhouchen Lin 8d ago

DistDF: Time-Series Forecasting Needs Joint-Distribution Wasserstein Alignment

Proposes DistDF for time-series forecasting using Wasserstein alignment to handle autocorrelated label sequences better than standard approaches.

Ax Rajiv Movva, Smitha Milli, Sewon Min, Emma Pierson 8d ago

What's In My Human Feedback? Learning Interpretable Descriptions of Preference Data

Method to automatically extract and explain what features human feedback data encodes when training language models, addressing unpredictability in RLHF approaches.

Ax Deokhyung Kang, Seonjeong Hwang, Daehui Kim, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee 8d ago

Why Do Multilingual Reasoning Gaps Emerge in Reasoning Language Models?

Analysis of multilingual reasoning gaps in reasoning language models, showing deficits stem from language understanding failures in low-resource languages.

Ax Uzay Macar, Paul C. Bogdan, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda 8d ago

Thought Branches: Interpreting LLM Reasoning Requires Resampling

Method for interpreting LLM reasoning by resampling multiple chain-of-thought branches to measure causal influence and underlying computation.

Ax Xiaohan Wang, Yuxin Hu, Kevin Leach 8d ago

Context-Guided Decompilation: A Step Towards Re-executability

LLM-guided decompilation framework using context to improve re-executability of decompiled binaries for security analysis.

Ax Zixuan Huang, Huaidian Hou, Dmitry Berenson 8d ago

Multimodal Diffusion Forcing for Forceful Manipulation

Multimodal diffusion approach for robot learning from expert trajectories, modeling interactions between observations, actions, and rewards.

Ax Zhaoyang Wang, Yiming Liang, Xuchao Zhang, Qianhui Wu, Siwei Han, Anson Bastos, Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Saravan Rajmohan, Huaxiu Yao 8d ago

SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision

SynthAgent: Framework for web agent adaptation using synthetic data generation with quality filtering to handle hallucinations and trajectory noise.

Ax Meixiu Long, Duolin Sun, Dan Yang, Yihan Jiao, Lei Liu, Jiahai Wang, BinBin Hu, Yue Shen, Jie Feng, Zhehao Tan, Junjie Wang, Lianzhen Zhong, Jian Wang, Peng Wei, Jinjie Gu 8d ago

GroupRank: A Groupwise Paradigm for Effective and Efficient Passage Reranking with LLMs

GroupRank: Efficient passage reranking paradigm using LLMs with groupwise ranking to balance efficiency and accuracy.

Ax Pei-Fu Guo, Yun-Da Tsai, Chun-Chia Hsu, Kai-Xin Chen, Ya-An Tsai, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng, Mi-Yen Yeh, Shou-De Lin 8d ago

LiveCLKTBench: Towards Reliable Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer in Multilingual LLMs

LiveCLKTBench: Benchmark pipeline for reliably measuring cross-lingual knowledge transfer in multilingual LLMs with time-sensitive queries.

Ax Shuyang Liu, Yang Chen, Rahul Krishna, Saurabh Sinha, Jatin Ganhotra, Reyhan Jabbarvand 8d ago

Process-Centric Analysis of Agentic Software Systems

Framework for process-centric evaluation of agentic software systems, analyzing execution trajectories and reasoning beyond outcome metrics.

Ax Yiming Tang, Harshvardhan Saini, Zhaoqian Yao, Zheng Lin, Yizhen Liao, Qianxiao Li, Mengnan Du, Dianbo Liu 8d ago

A Unified Theory of Sparse Dictionary Learning in Mechanistic Interpretability: Piecewise Biconvexity and Spurious Minima

Theoretical framework for sparse dictionary learning in neural networks, analyzing piecewise biconvexity and spurious minima in mechanistic interpretability.

Ax Li Ju, Jun Zhao, Mingxu Chai, Ziyu Shen, Xiangyang Wang, Yage Geng, Chunchun Ma, Hao Peng, Guangbin Li, Tao Li, Chengyong Liao, Fu Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Junshen Chen, Rui Gong, Shijia Liang, Feiyan Li, Ming Zhang, Kexin Tan, Junjie Ye, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Yuankai Ying, Yang Shi, Yue Zhang, Qi Zhang 8d ago

WisPaper: Your AI Scholar Search Engine

WisPaper: AI agent system for academic paper discovery and organization, addressing semantic search and workflow fragmentation challenges.

Ax Farica Zhuang, Shu Yang, Dinara Aliyeva, Zixuan Wen, Duy Duong-Tran, Christos Davatzikos, Tianlong Chen, Song Wang, Li Shen 8d ago

Interpretable Alzheimer's Diagnosis via Multimodal Fusion of Regional Brain Experts

Multimodal expert fusion approach for interpretable Alzheimer's disease diagnosis from neuroimaging data.

Ax Fengyi Xu, Jun Ma, Waishan Qiu, Cui Guo, Jack C. P. Cheng 8d ago

Enhancing Geo-localization for Crowdsourced Flood Imagery via LLM-Guided Attention

VPR-AttLLM framework using LLM semantic reasoning to improve geo-localization of crowdsourced flood imagery.

Ax Yuran Wang, Bohan Zeng, Chengzhuo Tong, Wenxuan Liu, Yang Shi, Xiaochen Ma, Hao Liang, Yuanxing Zhang, Wentao Zhang 8d ago

Scone: Bridging Composition and Distinction in Subject-Driven Image Generation via Unified Understanding-Generation Modeling

Method for multi-subject image generation with distinction capability, integrating composition and distinction in subject-driven synthesis.

Ax Hyeongcheol Park, Jiyoung Seo, Jaewon Mun, Hogun Park, Wonmin Byeon, Sung June Kim, Hyeonsoo Im, JeungSub Lee, Sangpil Kim 8d ago

M$^3$KG-RAG: Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Multimodal RAG system enhanced with knowledge graphs for audio-visual retrieval, extending LLM capabilities to multimodal domains.

Ax Long Nguyen, Micha Fauth, Bernhard Jaeger, Daniel Dauner, Maximilian Igl, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta 8d ago

LEAD: Minimizing Learner-Expert Asymmetry in End-to-End Driving

Study on imitation learning for autonomous driving, addressing the gap between privileged expert demonstrations and sensor-limited student observations in simulation.

Ax Maximilian Weichart 8d ago

Variance-Aware Prior-Based Tree Policies for Monte Carlo Tree Search

Research on variance-aware tree policies for Monte Carlo Tree Search, improving upon UCB-based methods used in AlphaZero-style algorithms.

Ax Parth Agarwal, Navya Kommuri, Trizal Garg, Prisha Singhal, Dhruv Shah, Vaibhav Devraj, Yash Sinha, Jagat Sesh Challa, Murari Mandal, Dhruv Kumar 8d ago

CricBench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cricket Analytics

CricBench: benchmark for evaluating LLMs on multilingual cricket analytics and domain-specific Text-to-SQL tasks.

Ax Bruno Florentino, Camila Sestito, Wellington Cruz, Andr\'e de Carvalho, Robson Bonidia 8d ago

Artificial Intelligence for All? Brazilian Teachers on Ethics, Equity, and the Everyday Challenges of AI in Education

Survey of Brazilian K-12 teachers' perceptions on AI in education, examining AI literacy and adoption across 346 educators.

Ax Jiachen T. Wang, Tong Wu, Kaifeng Lyu, James Zou, Dawn Song, Ruoxi Jia, Prateek Mittal 8d ago

Can Small Training Runs Reliably Guide Data Curation? Rethinking Proxy-Model Practice

Research questions whether small proxy model training reliably guides data curation decisions for full-scale frontier AI model pretraining.

Ax Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Qiming Feng, Xurong Xie, Zhucun Xue, Chengjie Wang, Jian Li, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang 8d ago

Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Disco-RAG improves retrieval-augmented generation by capturing discourse structure and synthesizing knowledge from dispersed evidence.

Ax Mohsen Jalaeian-Farimani, Xiong Xiong, Luca Bascetta 8d ago

Enhanced-FQL($\lambda$), an Efficient and Interpretable RL with novel Fuzzy Eligibility Traces and Segmented Experience Replay

Enhanced-FQL(λ) reinforcement learning framework with fuzzy eligibility traces and interpretable fuzzy rules for continuous control.

Ax San Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee 8d ago

Merging Triggers, Breaking Backdoors: Defensive Poisoning for Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Defensive poisoning technique merges triggers to remove backdoors in instruction-tuned LLMs vulnerable to data poisoning attacks.

Ax Dasol Choi, Guijin Son, Hanwool Lee, Minhyuk Kim, Hyunwoo Ko, Teabin Lim, Ahn Eungyeol, Jungwhan Kim, Seunghyeok Hong, Youngsook Song 8d ago

What Users Leave Unsaid: Under-Specified Queries Limit Vision-Language Models

HAERAE-Vision benchmark with 653 real-world underspecified visual questions reveals vision-language model limitations with informal queries.

Ax Roya Khalili Amirabadi, Mohsen Jalaeian Farimani, Omid Solaymani Fard 8d ago

Self-Organizing Dual-Buffer Adaptive Clustering Experience Replay (SODACER) for Safe Reinforcement Learning in Optimal Control

SODACER: Safe reinforcement learning framework with dual-buffer adaptive clustering for nonlinear system control.

Ax Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Khairul Mahbub, Nadia Najjar 8d ago

GanitLLM: Difficulty-Aware Bengali Mathematical Reasoning through Curriculum-GRPO

GanitLLM: Bengali mathematical reasoning model with difficulty-aware curriculum-based GRPO training pipeline.

Ax Yongqi Li, Hao Lang, Tieyun Qian, Yongbin Li 8d ago

Controlling Multimodal Conversational Agents with Coverage-Enhanced Latent Actions

Coverage-enhanced latent actions framework for controlling multimodal conversational agents with reinforcement learning.

Ax Eilam Shapira, Roi Reichart, Moshe Tennenholtz 8d ago

The Poisoned Apple Effect: Strategic Manipulation of Mediated Markets via Technology Expansion of AI Agents

Game-theoretic analysis of how expanding AI agent capabilities affects strategic interaction in bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion.

Ax David Ili\'c, David Stanojevi\'c, Kostadin Cvejoski 8d ago

Powerful Training-Free Membership Inference Against Autoregressive Language Models

EZ-MIA: Training-free membership inference attack against fine-tuned language models to audit privacy risks from data memorization.

Ax Yewon Han, Sunghyun Kim, Eunyi Jeong, Sungkyung Lee, Seokwoo Yun, Sangsoo Lim 8d ago

DiSPA: Differential Substructure-Pathway Attention for Drug Response Prediction

Deep learning model for drug response prediction combining chemical substructures with cellular pathway states using differential attention.

Ax Frank Bieder, Hendrik K\"onigshof, Haohao Hu, Fabian Immel, Yinzhe Shen, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller 8d ago

XD-MAP: Cross-Modal Domain Adaptation via Semantic Parametric Maps for Scalable Training Data Generation

Cross-modal domain adaptation approach transferring image dataset knowledge to LiDAR for synthetic training data generation.

Ax Yangyang Zhong, Yanmei Gu, Zhengqing Zang, Xiaomeng Li, Yuqi Ding, Xibei Jia, Yuting Shen, Zhenzhong Lan, Liwang Zhu, Weiping Liu, Junlin Zhou, Haisheng Liu, Zhong Xin Yu, Pengxin Luo, Donglian Qi, Yunfeng Yan, Junbo Zhao 8d ago

Parallelism and Generation Order in Masked Diffusion Language Models: Limits Today, Potential Tomorrow

Analyzes parallelism and generation order in Masked Diffusion Language Models across 8 models and 58 benchmarks.

Ax Ziyi Wang, Yilong Dai, Duanya Lyu, Mateo Nader, Sihan Chen, Wanghao Ye, Zjian Ding, Xiang Yan 8d ago

StreetDesignAI: A Multi-Persona Evaluation System for Inclusive Infrastructure Design

Uses persona-based evaluation with LLMs to support inclusive cycling infrastructure design by simulating diverse user experiences.

Ax Tunazzina Islam 8d ago

Who Gets Which Message? Auditing Demographic Bias in LLM-Generated Targeted Text

Systematic analysis of demographic bias in LLM-generated targeted messaging across GPT-4o, Llama-3.3, and Mistral-Large models.

Ax Yupeng Cao, Chengyang He, Yangyang Yu, Ping Wang, K. P. Subbalakshmi 8d ago

MERMAID: Memory-Enhanced Retrieval and Reasoning with Multi-Agent Iterative Knowledge Grounding for Veracity Assessment

MERMAID: Multi-agent system for fact-checking using LLMs with memory-enhanced retrieval and iterative reasoning to assess veracity of claims.

Ax Zhanghao Hu, Qinglin Zhu, Di Liang, Hanqi Yan, Yulan He, Lin Gui 8d ago

Beyond RAG for Agent Memory: Retrieval by Decoupling and Aggregation

Agent memory system beyond RAG addressing agent-specific needs: bounded coherent dialogue retrieval with decoupling and aggregation.

Ax Ziwen Xu, Chenyan Wu, Hengyu Sun, Haiwen Hong, Mengru Wang, Yunzhi Yao, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Shumin Deng, Zhixuan Chu, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang 8d ago

Why Steering Works: Toward a Unified View of Language Model Parameter Dynamics

Unified framework explaining LLM steering methods (fine-tuning, LoRA, activation interventions) as dynamic weight updates from control signals.

Ax Changhyeok Choi, Yunheng Zou, Marcel M\"uller, Han Hao, Yeonghun Kang, Juan B. P\'erez-S\'anchez, Ignacio Gustin, Hanyong Xu, Andrew Wang, Mohammad Ghazi Vakili, Chris Crebolder, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik, Varinia Bernales 8d ago

El Agente Estructural: An Artificially Intelligent Molecular Editor

El Agente Estructural multimodal agent for autonomous molecular geometry generation and manipulation using natural language and vision.

Ax Changjiang Jiang, Xinkuan Sha, Fengchang Yu, Jingjing Liu, Jian Liu, Mingqi Fang, Chenfeng Zhang, Wei Lu 8d ago

Fake-HR1: Rethinking Reasoning of Vision Language Model for Synthetic Image Detection

Fake-HR1 hybrid-reasoning model for synthetic image detection balancing chain-of-thought reasoning with computational efficiency.

Ax Jakub Breier, \v{S}tefan Ku\v{c}er\'ak, Xiaolu Hou 8d ago

The Weight of a Bit: EMFI Sensitivity Analysis of Embedded Deep Learning Models

Study of electromagnetic fault injection attacks on embedded deep learning models analyzing influence of number representations on resilience.

Ax Rong Fu, Muge Qi, Chunlei Meng, Shuo Yin, Kun Liu, Zhaolu Kang, Simon Fong 8d ago

AdvSynGNN: Structure-Adaptive Graph Neural Nets via Adversarial Synthesis and Self-Corrective Propagation

AdvSynGNN resilient graph neural network architecture addressing structural noise and non-homophilous topologies via adversarial synthesis.

Ax Rong Fu, Zijian Zhang, Kun Liu, Jiekai Wu, Xianda Li, Simon Fong 8d ago

SubQuad: Near-Quadratic-Free Structure Inference with Distribution-Balanced Objectives in Adaptive Receptor framework

SubQuad pipeline for immune repertoire analysis combining subquadratic retrieval with GPU-accelerated affinity kernels and multimodal fusion.

Ax Lin Huang, Arthur Jiang, XiaoLi Liu, Zion Wang, Jason Zhao, Chu Wang, HaoCheng Lu, ChengXiang Huang, JiaJun Cheng, YiYue Du, Jia Zhang 8d ago

UBio-MolFM: A Universal Molecular Foundation Model for Bio-Systems

UBio-MolFM universal molecular foundation model framework for bio-system simulation bridging quantum accuracy and biological scale.

Ax Arindam Khaled 8d ago

Pyramid MoA: A Probabilistic Framework for Cost-Optimized Anytime Inference

Pyramid MoA hierarchical mixture-of-agents architecture with decision-theoretic router for cost-optimized anytime LLM inference.

Ax Yifei Zhang, Xu Yang, Xiao Yang, Bowen Xian, Qizheng Li, Shikai Fang, Jingyuan Li, Jian Wang, Mingrui Xu, Weiqing Liu, Jiang Bian 8d ago

Reasoning as Gradient: Scaling MLE Agents Beyond Tree Search

Gome agent for machine learning engineering using gradient-based optimization instead of tree search, scaling LLM-based reasoning.

Ax Ziwen Xu, Kewei Xu, Haoming Xu, Haiwen Hong, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Ningyu Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Guozhou Zheng, Huajun Chen, Shumin Deng 8d ago

How Controllable Are Large Language Models? A Unified Evaluation across Behavioral Granularities

SteerEval benchmark for evaluating LLM controllability across language features, sentiment, and personality at multiple specification levels.

Ax Gyujun Jeong (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Sungwon Cho (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Minji Shon (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Namhoon Kim (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Woohyun Hwang (Semiconductor Research and Development, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, South Korea), Kwangyou Seo (Semiconductor Research and Development, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, South Korea), Suhwan Lim (Semiconductor Research and Development, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, South Korea), Wanki Kim (Semiconductor Research and Development, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, South Korea), Daewon Ha (Semiconductor Research and Development, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, South Korea), Prasanna Venkatesan (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA), Kihang Youn (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA), Ram Cherukuri (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA), Yiyi Wang (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA), Suman Datta (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Asif Khan (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA), Shimeng Yu (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA) 8d ago

Physics-informed AI Accelerated Retention Analysis of Ferroelectric Vertical NAND: From Day-Scale TCAD to Second-Scale Surrogate Model

Physics-informed surrogate model for ferroelectric NAND retention analysis reducing computational cost from day-scale to second-scale.