arXiv Machine Learning

AI Mindmeld: A Latent Interconnect Protocol

The paper introduces the Latent Interconnect Protocol (LIP), a framework that allows large language models (LLMs) to directly exchange rich, high‑dimensional representations with specialist models (e.g., protein and small‑molecule experts) via learned connectors. By training only these connectors, the approach enables zero‑shot transfer to cross‑domain tasks and compositional reasoning without joint training of the LLMs or specialists. Experiments with Gemma 3 and Kimi K2.6 show improved task performance and compositionality, especially in zero‑shot settings, while highlighting the need for consistent specialist interfaces and LLM training to handle such inputs.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Retrieved Images as Visual Thought: Training-Free Multimodal In-Context Learning for the Open-vs-Closed Gap

ReVisIT is a train‑free framework that turns retrieved image‑label pairs into units of visual thought, combining structured class definitions, multimodal retrieval, and alternating user/assistant injection before joint decoding. On several benchmarks—including Fast Open MiniImageNet, Bongard‑OpenWorld, and the newly released MAAC‑Bench—ReVisIT achieves performance comparable to or surpassing large, trained models while using far fewer parameters. The approach demonstrates that high‑quality retrieval and a simple turns layer can provide a universal performance boost across diverse multimodal tasks.

By Bingchen Huang, Zhiling Wang, Yifu Chen, Yuanchao Du
arXiv AI
6d ago

SkillMem: Compact External Skill Memory for Latent Multi-Agent Reasoning

SkillMem introduces a compact external latent memory for reusable skills in latent multi‑agent systems, enabling role‑conditioned cross‑attention to guide agents without storing large per‑skill parameters. Trained via behavioral distillation, SkillMem matches the effect of textual skills while keeping the backbone frozen. Across six benchmarks and Qwen3 models from 4B to 14B, it delivers strong gains for smaller backbones, reduces skill storage by over 38×, and achieves up to 4.23× inference speedup.

By Yuxuan Zhu, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Pin-Yu Chen, Keerthiram Murugesan
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 28

Does Understanding Inform Generation in Unified Multimodal Models? From Analysis to Path Forward

The paper introduces UniSandbox, a decoupled evaluation framework with controlled synthetic datasets, to study whether understanding informs generation in Unified Multimodal Models. Results show a notable understanding‑generation gap, especially in reasoning generation and knowledge transfer. Explicit Chain‑of‑Thought (CoT) in the understanding module bridges this gap, and self‑training can internalize CoT for implicit reasoning during generation; query‑based architectures also exhibit latent CoT‑like properties that aid knowledge transfer.

By Yuwei Niu, Weiyang Jin, Jiaqi Liao, Chaoran Feng, Peng Jin, Bin Lin, Zongjian Li, Bin Zhu, Weihao Yu, Li Yuan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

Intern-S2-Preview: Scientific Agentic Foundation Model

arXiv:2608. 13505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly requires AI systems that can reason over scientific evidence of heterogeneous modalities, interact with scientific tools and environments, and sustain progress across long task horizons.

By Lei Bai, Jiaqi Cao, Chiyu Chen, Guanzhou Chen, Kai Chen, Guangran Cheng, Erfei Cui, Xuanlang Dai, Shengyuan Ding, Shangheng Du, Yanhui Duan, Yue Fan, Youqing Fang, Quan Gan, Yuanyuan Gao, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Qipeng Guo, Junjun He, Xin Hong, Ming Hu, Zhouqi Hua, Haian Huang, Junhao Huang, Zixian Huang, Minxi Jin, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Lam, Zehao Li, Zonglin Li, Tianhao Liang, Dahua Lin, Junyao Lin, Tianyang Lin, Zhouhan Lin, Jiangning Liu, Jin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenran Liu, Yifei Liu, Yuhong Liu, Yuhong Liu, Zhoumianze Liu, Ziyan Liu, Ziyu Liu, Haijun Lv, Han Lv, Chengqi Lyu, Le Ma, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Haoyang Peng, Runyu Peng, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Kou Shi, Xiang Shi, Qisheng Su, Xuerui Su, Hao Sun, Xiao Sun, Yanan Sun, Yu Sun, Huanze Tang, Yinghao Tang, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Bingli Wang, Haomin Wang, Jiarui Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Rui Wang, Xiquan Wang, Yi Wang, Zhecan Wang, Ziyi Wang, Zun Wang, Rubin Wei, Lianyi Wu, Wen Wu, Yue Wu, Yuhan Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Zijian Wu, Shuhao Xing, Jun Xu, Xingle Xu, Xuenan Xu, Xiangchao Yan, Ziang Yan, Bowen Yang, Danni Yang, Lin Yang, Zhiqi Yang, Qian Yao, Haochen Ye, Peng Ye, Jinhui Yin, Jiashuo Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Fei Yuan, Yuhang Zang, Bo Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Hongjie Zhang, Junming Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhuo Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Haiteng Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Yibo Zhao, Zhonghan Zhao, Zhihang Zhong, Bowen Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Yicheng Zou
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2511. 20639v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) extend large language models (LLMs) from independent single-model reasoning to coordinative system-level intelligence.

By Jiaru Zou, Ruizhong Qiu, Gaotang Li, Xiyuan Yang, Katherine Tieu, Pan Lu, Ke Shen, Hanghang Tong, Yejin Choi, Jingrui He, James Zou, Mengdi Wang, Ling Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

ToM2Vec: Continuous Theory-of-Mind Tokens for Multi-Agent Coordination

ToM2Vec introduces continuous theory-of-mind tokens that enable large language model agents to reason about multiple possible partner states in multi‑agent settings. By training these tokens to abstract partner thoughts, the model generates latent representations that condition agents’ thoughts and actions, improving performance across collaborative, competitive, and mixed‑motive environments. The approach demonstrates that latent reasoning outperforms text‑based reasoning and generalizes to unseen partner models, with tokens encoding partner beliefs, desires, and next actions.

By Nithin Sivakumaran, Ali Payani, Hyunji Lee, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin