arXiv:2608. 19222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social relationships shape access to resources, exposure to conflict and group stability, yet automated livestock monitoring typically treats behaviour as isolated events.
arXiv:2606. 24986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated cattle posture-classification systems frequently report near-perfect accuracy, yet their robustness under realistic deployment conditions remains largely unknown.
arXiv:2608. 09943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring livestock behaviour under extensive conditions would provide valuable insights to assess animal adaption to environmental perturbations in agroecological systems (e.
arXiv:2605. 16301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating animal welfare reasoning in LLMs remains an open challenge despite rapid deployment in consumer and professional contexts where welfare considerations appear implicitly in everyday queries.
The paper investigates whether detailed articulated human pose provides more discriminative power than coarse spatial relationships for early violence detection. By fixing the downstream pipeline and comparing five interaction representations—including bounding‑box geometry, handcrafted pose analogues, enriched pose descriptors, and a learned joint encoder—the study finds that pose‑based representations do not outperform coarse geometry. When visual encoders are frozen and evaluated on larger datasets, person‑crop appearance and whole‑frame context outperform geometry, but cropping to interacting people offers no advantage over encoding the entire frame. The authors further demonstrate that pre‑onset frames contain source‑related artifacts (e.g., title cards, watermarks) that contribute significantly to discrimination, suggesting that benchmark performance may reflect these artifacts rather than true event evidence.
The paper introduces ChartBias, a benchmark of 820 real-world charts covering six social attributes, designed to audit bias in vision‑language models (VLMs) that interpret charts. Across 12 VLMs, the study identifies three failure modes—narrative shift, group hallucination, and preference polarity—where models produce different or misleading narratives when the referenced social group changes. A multi‑agent mitigation framework is proposed, separating evidence extraction from group‑conditioned generation and using a counterfactual judge, which reduces narrative shift while maintaining chart‑grounded reasoning.
arXiv:2608. 11322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-AI research often evaluates individual capabilities, combined performance, or final outputs, but these approaches do not preserve how one party's response becomes part of the conditions under which the other party's next contribution is formed.
arXiv:2608.20653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering methods have been used to identify distinct groups of milk samples, cows, or herds. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, particul...
arXiv:2609.14699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual content shapes audience perception and opinion on social media, and computational social science increasingly relies on automated tools to analy...
The study investigates whether Vision Transformer (ViT)-based animal re-identification models learn biologically meaningful concepts. Using a DINOv3 backbone fine‑tuned on Western lowland gorilla images, the authors find that sex and age emerge as linear directions in the model’s representations, generalizing to unseen individuals with high AUROC scores. They demonstrate that the sex direction is causally used by the model, that fine‑tuning relocates these concepts within the network, and that the representations reflect a graded biological axis encoded redundantly across the population.
arXiv:2608. 12935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perturbation methods explain model decisions by measuring prediction changes under altered inputs, but response magnitude tells us only how much a model reacts, not what that reaction means.
VISTA (Value-Informed Semantic Trust Arbitration) is a learned seven-field appraisal interface that conditions modality arbitration on concerns, event relations, and expression conditions while retaining a joint-evidence residual. It uses a log-odds decomposition to separate emotion expectation from cue diagnosticity, allowing appraisal to change how evidence is interpreted. With a shared Qwen2.5-Omni-7B backbone, VISTA achieves 64.5% conflict accuracy on CA-MER, improving on modality gating by 2.5 percentage points on conflict and 0.2 on consistency, and a frozen-backbone probe reaches 0.600 macro CCC for appraisal readout versus 0.505 for emotion-only fine-tuning.
The study examines pseudo‑label augmentation for affect sensing in small collaborative groups using the GroupAffect‑4 dataset, which includes wearable physiology, eye tracking, personality traits, and post‑task valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) labels. Various augmentation strategies—no augmentation, Gaussian Process pseudo‑labelling, personality‑aware trust weighting, and joint personality‑plus‑confidence weighting—were evaluated within a shared target‑construction pipeline. Results show that pseudo‑label augmentation improves performance over a labelled‑only baseline in the known‑team setting, with the joint personality‑plus‑confidence variant achieving the highest dominance score, while personality similarity mainly serves as a same‑team filter rather than a calibrated trust signal.