arXiv AI

Shaping Scientific Explanations to Expert Perspectives with Persona-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 21846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Explainable AI is increasingly important to scientific discovery.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

An AI agent for treatment reasoning over a biomedical tool universe

arXiv:2606. 28692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Treatment reasoning underpins every therapeutic decision, integrating disease context, comorbidities, medications, contraindications, and evolving biomedical knowledge to select an appropriate therapy.

By Shanghua Gao, Ayush Noori, Richard Zhu, Curtis Ginder, Zhenglun Kong, Xiaorui Su, Justin Kauffman, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Joshua Lampert, Ankit Sakhuja, Ashwin Sawant, ATHENA-R1 Evaluation Consortium, David A. Clifton, Noa Dagan, Ran Balicer, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

CARE: Causally-Aligned Reasoning Exploration for Medical Large Language Models

CARE: Causally-Aligned Reasoning Exploration for Medical Large Language Models proposes a new framework to improve medical reasoning in LLMs. It introduces two key conditions—Causal Sufficiency and Proximal Learnability—to curate high-quality training trajectories, using agreement-based self-verification and dynamic entropy bounds. Experiments on medical multimodal and text-only benchmarks show that CARE outperforms competitors, reducing incorrect reasoning and enhancing training stability.

By Yucheng Zhou, Peng Luo, Qianning Wang, Chengzhong Xu, Jianbing Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

xWhyL: Causal Interactive Learning

arXiv:2609.26037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explanations are central to causal reasoning, and cognitive science has long established that the human drive to explain is itself a mechanism for lear...

By Nicholas Tagliapietra, Florian Peter Busch, Moritz Willig, Matej Ze\v{c}evi\'c, Lavdim Halilaj, Juergen Luettin, Kristian Kersting
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Attribute-Based Activation Steering of LLMs for Group-Specific Explanation Generation

The paper proposes a method to steer large language models (LLMs) to generate explanations tailored to specific target groups. It first identifies group-specific attributes related to explanatory style and knowledge, then uses activation engineering to compute steering vectors that are added to the LLM’s internal activations during inference. Experiments show that this attribute-based steering improves specificity and factuality of explanations compared to prompting and existing steering baselines, and a human study confirms better tailoring to target groups.

By Leandra Fichtel, Janek Prange, Henning Wachsmuth