arXiv:2606. 03304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated in multilingual settings, yet their inference behavior in low-resource African languages remains underexplored especially under pure prompting without fine-tuning.
By Anuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokocha
arXiv:2606. 03332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic models are typically trained using task-agnostic objectives like log-loss, which can lead to significant errors in downstream estimation.
By Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Antoine Saillenfest, Thomas Bonald, Marine Le Morvan, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Matthieu Labeau
arXiv:2606. 03939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) of foundation and edge models increasingly targets deployments where client data distributions drift over time, yet existing forgetting-mitigation methods assume each client's distribution is stationary.
By Mubarak A. Ojewale, Adriana E. Chis, Jorge M. Cortes-Mendoza, Bernardo Pulido-Gaytan, Horacio Gonzalez-Velez
arXiv:2604. 12176v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relational reasoning is the ability to infer relations that jointly bind multiple entities, attributes, or variables.
By Lukas Fesser, Yasha Ektefaie, Ada Fang, Sham M. Kakade, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv:2603. 05290v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve promising performance, yet their ability to reason remains poorly understood.
By Tianxi Gao, Yufan Cai, Yusi Yuan, Jin Song Dong
arXiv:2602. 08335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools via multi-agent systems offers a promising new paradigm for decomposing and solving complex problems.
By Yanming Li, Xuelin Zhang, WenJie Lu, Ziye Tang, Maodong Wu, Haotian Luo, Tongtong Wu, Zijie Peng, Hongze Mi, Yibo Feng, Naiqiang Tan, Chao Huang, Lian Peng, Li Shen
arXiv:2606. 03273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual DeepSearch requires multimodal large reasoning model (MLRM) agents to answer complex visual queries by repeatedly inspecting image regions, grounding intermediate reasoning in visual evidence, and connecting fine-grained clues across long reasoning chains.
By Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong, Chengcheng Wan, Ting Su, Haiying Sun, Jiajun Chai, Xiaohan Wang, Guojun Yin
arXiv:2606. 02662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning has accelerated quantum chemistry but is hindered by the prohibitive cost of generating high fidelity training data.
By Vivin Vinod, Peter Zaspel
arXiv:2606. 03927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) by training neural networks through purely local, layer-wise optimization.
By Xinyang Liu, Xuanyu Liang, Shiqi Ding, Boyang Li, Zhiqiang Que, Jiayang Li, Guosheng Hu
arXiv:2605. 23055v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier language models sometimes recognize that they are being evaluated and adjust their behavior, undermining validity of benchmark results.
By Changling Li, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Jie Zhang, Zhijing Jin, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2606. 02739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and generation.
By Hui Li, Yangfan Gao, Junlin Shang, Changhao Jiang, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv:2606. 03493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks suffer from shortcut learning, where learned features generalize well to the training set but not to in-distribution (ID) or out-of-distribution (OOD) test sets.
By Utku \c{S}irin, Cathy Hou, David Alvarez-Melis, Stratos Idreos
arXiv:2502. 02748v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting properties of crystals from their structures is a fundamental yet challenging task in materials science.
By Jianan Nie, Peiyao Xiao, Kaiyi Ji, Peng Gao
arXiv:2512. 11213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling test-time computation has been shown to significantly improve large language model (LLM) performance without additional training.
By Dongwon Jung, Peng Shi, Muhao Chen, Yi Zhang
arXiv:2602. 16666v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed to execute important tasks.
By Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, Peter Kirgis, Kangheng Liu, Saiteja Utpala, Arvind Narayanan
arXiv:2605. 03644v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many-Shot In-Context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a promising paradigm, leveraging extensive examples to unlock the reasoning potential of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Jie Ou, Jinyu Guo, Shiyao Guo, Yuang Li, Ruiqi Wu, Zhaokun Wang, Wenyi Li, Wenhong Tian
arXiv:2512. 03019v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Thinking Large Language Models (LLMs) used as judges for pairwise preferences remain noisy at the single-sample level, and common aggregation rules (majority vote, soft self-consistency, or instruction-based self-aggregation) are inconsistent when ties are allowed.
By Hamid Dadkhahi, Firas Trabelsi, Parker Riley, Juraj Juraska, Mehdi Mirzazadeh
arXiv:2606. 02887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (Symmetric NMF) approximates a matrix as $WW^T$ with nonnegative rectangular factor $W$.
By Ryan Swart, Johannes Brust
arXiv:2606. 02785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large machine learning models benefit substantially from multimodal inputs that provide a complementary view of the same example.
By Aritra Bal, Michael Binder, Markus Klute, Benedikt Maier, Michael Spannowsky
arXiv:2603. 04956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper considers the problem of converting a given dense linear layer to low precision.
By Egor Lifar, Semyon Savkin, Or Ordentlich, Yury Polyanskiy