Ax Sara Papi, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Zachary Hopton, Vil\'em Zouhar, Carlos Escolano, Gerard I. G\'allego, Jorge Iranzo-S\'anchez, Ahrii Kim, Dominik Mach\'a\v{c}ek, Patricia Schmidtova, Maike Z\"ufle 3/30/2026

Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs

Study comparing SpeechLLMs that directly process speech for translation against cascaded transcription pipelines, evaluating speech modality integration effectiveness.

Ax Laura Dietz, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Liu, Jia-Huei Ju, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, William Walden, James Mayfield 3/30/2026

Incorporating Q&A Nuggets into Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Crucible system augments RAG with Q&A nuggets from documents, preserving citation provenance and improving extraction, selection, and report generation.

Ax Yaolun Zhang, Ruohui Wang, Jiahao Wang, Yepeng Tang, Xuanyu Zheng, Haonan Duan, Hao Lu, Hanming Deng, Lewei Lu 3/30/2026

EVA: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Video Agent

EVA: reinforcement learning framework for video agents using MLLMs with adaptive reasoning to handle long video sequences and temporal dependencies efficiently.

Ax Tom Marty, Eric Elmoznino, Leo Gagnon, Tejas Kasetty, Mizu Nishikawa-Toomey, Sarthak Mittal, Guillaume Lajoie, Dhanya Sridhar 3/30/2026

A Compression Perspective on Simplicity Bias

Theoretical analysis of simplicity bias in neural networks using minimum description length principle and compression framework.

Ax Siqiao Xue, Zhaoyang Zhu, Wei Zhang, Rongyao Cai, Rui Wang, Yixiang Mu, Fan Zhou, Jianguo Li, Peng Di, Hang Yu 3/30/2026

QuitoBench: A High-Quality Open Time Series Forecasting Benchmark

QuitoBench open benchmark for time series forecasting covering eight trend-seasonality-forecastability regimes with regime-balanced dataset design.

Ax Eric Yocam, Varghese Vaidyan, Yong Wang 3/30/2026

H-Node Attack and Defense in Large Language Models

H-Node ANC mechanistic framework identifies and defends hallucination representations in transformer LLMs at individual hidden-state dimensions.