arXiv AI

Multilingual Agent System for Inclusive Wildfire Evacuation Guidance

The paper introduces BEACON, a multilingual agent system designed to deliver personalized wildfire evacuation guidance to users, including navigation routes, checklists, and a chatbot that adapts to the user’s language. It integrates real‑time fire perimeter, evacuation orders, shelter data, GPS, and NOAA weather to predict fire danger using an XGBoost model and triggers alerts with polygon‑avoidant routing when danger is likely. The interface automatically switches languages based on the user’s recent settings or chatbot interactions, ensuring inclusive communication for non‑English speakers.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Evaluating Multimodal LLMs across Text and Audio Modalities for Accessible Disaster Assistance

arXiv:2608. 14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individuals with access and functional needs, including hard-of-hearing individuals, pregnant women, mothers with toddlers, and elderly individuals with dementia.

By Anuridhi Gupta, Samara Mansoor, Hemant Purohit
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios

Effective crisis response requires spatially grounded communication that bridges linguistic guidance of civilians with the physical environment, accounting for structural bottlenecks, evolving threats, and agent-specific contexts. Yet, current NLP research in crisis communication remains mainly limited to static, text-only classification settings, overlooking the critical communicative role of AI operators in dynamic, embodied scenarios.

arXiv AI
Aug 21

An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction

arXiv:2608. 20320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Travel behavior research increasingly combines digital data collection with predictive modeling, yet these stages are often developed and evaluated separately.

By Narges Ahmadi (McGill University), Yubo Jiao (McGill University), J\^onatas Augusto Manzolli (McGill University), Jiangbo Yu (McGill University), Luis Miranda-Moreno (McGill University)
arXiv AI
Sep 11

Agent-Based ML-LLM Fusion with Self-Optimizing Prompts for Plateau Weather Alerts

The paper introduces SmartWeatherAgent, a three‑stage architecture that combines intent recognition, hazard prediction, and reasoning‑enhanced generation to improve tourism meteorological services. It fuses rule‑based methods with large language models and a LightGBM model enriched with highland‑specific features, achieving an F1‑Macro score of 0.605 and 1.60 ms latency on high‑wind, precipitation, and low‑temperature events. A 12‑round micro‑step prompt self‑optimization loop raises the composite warning quality score from 4.2 to 8.9, with notable gains in data source citation, physical mechanism explanation, and scientific rigor through explicit uncertainty statements.

By Shuai Yan, Yang Xu, Shan He
arXiv AI
Jun 11

MobilityBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Route-Planning Agents in Real-World Mobility Scenarios

arXiv:2602. 22638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Route-planning agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for supporting everyday human mobility through natural language interaction and tool-mediated decision making.

By Zhiheng Song, Jingshuai Zhang, Chuan Qin, Chao Wang, Chao Chen, Longfei Xu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu, Hengshu Zhu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

arXiv:2608. 05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly invoke external tools and interact with real-world systems, unsafe actions may cause irreversible consequences on external states, user data, and downstream services.

By Wenhao Lin, Chenyu Yu, Xingwei Lin, Sicong Cao, Xiang Chen, Lei Xue, Le Yu, Letian Sha, Chunming Wu